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Goodbye, Farewell and at long last, AMEN. Our long national nightmare is over
It is time to believe again. It is time to speak without fear of retribution from the "dark". It is time to once again really have some HOPE that America will once again be America, The United States of America.
This is gonna sound kinda corny but I have goosebumps and am kinda misty a happy misty mind you, but misty none the less.
It has been said over and over but today America renews itself in what is truly something that could only happen in America.
Today I am proud to be proud to be a citizen of America. With all her problems no country on earth transfers power like "US".
Please add your feelings to this thread.
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You said it. I suppose I should feel some shame, but a huge number of people were booing w as he showed up on the screens on the plaza. The band immediately started to play to get the mood changed.
Seconds ago.
January 20, 2009 11:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just a slight critisim with your title, for those of us abroad, it's Our long global nightmare is over.
January 20, 2009 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tears all morning. Great heaving tears. Held in for 8 years finally gone. The nation rebounds after being under the weight of such incompetence and corruption.
But the scar remains and will remain forever on this country. Why were these criminals let go? Why weren't they held accountable by a Democratically led Congress? Yes, we are crying with joy and disbelief but the dark undercurrent of it all is the men and women that plunged this country into suck darkness from which we arise were NEVER held accountable for their actions so like a latent disease, it festers underneath the history of this country for all time.
January 20, 2009 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am so moved by each new thing that Obama does for the first time. The significance of each activity, no matter how small, because it's one more proof that he's really president, one more way for it all to sink in.
I just find every small thing so moving. So moving. Tears again and again.
I feel such pride to be an American. I really can't recall such pride for so many years, going back to JFK really.
What a great day! So long awaited. So much shame leaving along with bush in that helicopter. Like Nixon.. but much better, because replaced by a man of our choosing, a man of our hearts.
January 20, 2009 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
as appropriate now as when first said by that human being, Jerry Ford:
January 20, 2009 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
exactly my thoughts..
January 20, 2009 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I meant to say by that good human being.
And I certainly didn't need to repeat your well chosen quote . Somehow I don't seem to be functioning all that well today. For some reason.
January 20, 2009 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Boyd's post posed the suggestion that we may have NEEDED to go through the last 8 years to make this renewal possible...
If Obama is able to get us turned around, to get people "owning" their government again, engaged again, to get health care for all, to clean up Congress, make our government operations transparent, equality for ALL our citizens, and all the other things I now feel are actually possible, the last eight years might end up having been worthwhile. I'm hoping that we will be so proud of ourselves and how far we've come as a nation as we look backwards at the next 8 years, that we'll be able to say they were.
January 20, 2009 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
You people are truly deranged. Your worship of Obama, who has as yet accomplished nothing, borders on the fanatical. I can't see how you won't end up disappointed, you have made him a god, and he is just a man. For all you rants against Bush, what did he do that was so terrible? Deposed a dictator? Prevented terrorism for 7 years?
January 21, 2009 2:21 PM | Reply | Permalink