I was proud of McCain when he gave that concession speech. I was profoundly disturbed at the reaction of his crowd to his re-becoming a man with that speech.

I was happy that Obama gave the speech he did, really wasn't what the youngsters in the crowd wanted to hear. I think they wanted to hear that this was it and they could go back to whatever it was they were doing before.

So on balance I am happy for the win and happy he was the guy but the country has much to learn still. I agree that it is an historic occasion.

I am not going to strain myself trying to pat myself on the back for making what should have been an obvious choice here.

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"This day I shall have to do with an idle curious vain man, with an unthankful man, with a talkative railer, a crafty, false or an envious man. An unsociable sarcastic man. A greedy man. A deceiver. Such is the way of the world, and I shall be no more affected by it than I am about changes in the weather." - Marcus Aurelius (translation from Latin by Jacob A. Stein)