Hi Allen, fantastic posting and great feelings, we over her in germany are proud of you americans too.
Alot of germans stood up the hole night to see the pols and the results too, their where even election partys in same towns too!!!

greetings jasper

: With Jeff's indulgence, I'll take this to make a non-partisan
: political post. I've been happy on the morning after election
: day, and more often sad, and even thoroughly confused. But this
: time, it really is different.

: Last night was a great American moment. A moment when the
: Presidency of these United States was transferred from a man who
: father was President to a man whose mother had to make ends meet
: on food stamps. A man who, only a half century ago, would have
: been denied the right to vote in many parts of this country.
: America feels like a bigger place today, and a better one.

: I think John McCain recognized that and last night we saw a good
: man who loves his country more than he hates losing. That was
: the speech of an American hero.

: John McCain's is a great American story, but it's a story that's
: been told before.

: Barack Obama's is a new and different story, and I think it's a
: story that Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and John
: Winthrop and Martin Luther King would have embraced because it
: is a story of opportunity and hope, a story about change and
: redemption, a story about how we rise above our differences and
: reinvent ourselves even in our most trying hours.

: And what could be more American than that?

: I have never been more proud to be an American than I am this
: morning.

: allen