America has elected a President, and people are celebrating in Kenya, Indonesia, Hawaii, and Harlem. These are groups related to the new President.
There's even a few who claim to be related in Ireland!
Parties are erupting across the US, France and Germany.
It's wonderful to see.
There is a sense of something lifted from one, something to smile about, all across the world.
When I was a child, I'd never see a black President in my lifetime. They also told me I'd never live to see the end of the Soviet Union too...
The ironies of life will never cease to amaze me.
America the Great Satan, commonly dismissed as incurably racist, still apparently ruled by fear and loathing of all things Islam or Muslim because of the fear of terrorism, -- has elected the son of a Muslim whose middle name is ... Hussein.
I don't know whether to cry or sing. Or both.
People are celebrating Obama's victory in many ways.
A man from Belfast living in Australia is roaming the streets telling everyone he meets that this is a victory for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and citing the US Constituion: "Government for the People; of the People and by the People."
He says the whole thing send chills up his spine.
The same man showed his bullet wounds to a young man saying, "I took those for this day."
We spent a couple of hours telling the young man about the silent, unsung heroes of past wars. Not many will remember the Murmansk run. His father was one of the few sailors who survived.
The old man would have been proud of America today.
Another man went to see his 4-year old grandson for the first time. He thinks his daughter has never been better. - To him, that 4-year old cuddling close to his neck is far more important.
But he's still glad Obama won.
This is something too long coming. America has shown itself again as a light to the World. A light of Hope.
Obama has so much Hope to live up to. All we can do is pray, and offer what we can of ourselves to help and support, that he is able to live up to half of what's expected of him.
You have our prayers, Mr Obama. You have our Hope, and Faith.
May God bless you and keep you. And all who are there with you.
The NYTimes put together a list of the top 25 blogs about the election. Click the slideshow link and drink it all in.
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