The race was being called before all of the polls had even closed. As people cried tears of joy, Barack Obama accepted the office of Presidency last night. His speech, while powerful and moving, reminded the nation that this election is not the end of the process. There remains skeptisism on both sides of the isles, but for today hope reigns.
- “One of the undercurrents driving the movement that led to Obama’s landslide victory is that people have finally started to reject en masse a public policy that by and large conceived of them only in the most limited, reductionist, and anemic way possible: as private, rational actors, pursuing primarily their own (usually material) advantage. Yesterday, people asserted their roles as citoyens, as political beings concerned not only with themselves but also with the public good. One of the hallmarks of Obama’s campaign was to ask people to do something, to get involved.” – from The Resurgence of the Idea of the Public Good, at Antitrust Review
- “Barack Obama just became President of the world – but it is Americans of all shades and backgrounds and stories who are the proudest ones of all. In one instant America and the world has changed forever and all of us Americans who proudly voted – for the first time with a real sense of support for the candidate, rather than the intention of stopping the other man from ruining our livelihoods – we are brimming with hope and history.” – from The United World of Obama: The Future is Now, at Huffington Post
- “Obviously, I am disappointed in last night’s outcome. Nevertheless, I am not going to join the chorus of conservatives who claim that the election of Barack Obama as our next president is the end of the world as we know it. It isn’t. America is bigger than one man, even the president of the United States. And the truth is that we have no idea what kind of president Obama will be.” – from Keeping Things in Perspective, at Southern Appeal
- “With the stunning election of Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency, change has officially arrived. Even if he is a complete failure as a president, or if tragedy strikes. Change is here because even more important than the policy differences with Sen. John McCain is the fact that Americans actually elected him to begin with. Martin Luther King famously said, had a dream that his children would one day live in a nation “where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”” – from President-Elect Obama – Change Has Officially Arrived, at New York Personal Injury Law Blog
- “While support for presidential candidates varied, I have never been prouder to be a part of the blawgosphere based upon its reaction to the election of our 44th President, Barack Obama. The reaction has been uplifting, in the belief that regardless of who, and how strongly, one thought would make a better president, so many have put that aside and noted two critically important things: That we have broken a barrier by electing a black man to be President, not because he is black but because we believe that he is the right man for the job, and that we will now go beyond partisanship to work together to overcome our nation’s problems.” – from The Blawgosphere, At Its Best: Congratulations, Barack Obama, at Simple Justice
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