YES! YES! YESSSS!!!!

[thatcrazycajun]

CNN and NBC have both just called the Presidential election, following the first results (at long last) from California. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America with 284 electoral college votes. And the color barrier to the White House has, after two and a quarter centuries, been broken.

Thank you, God under all Your many names. Now give him a filibuster-proof Democrat Congress to work with and we're in business. And we can finally, finally begin making it up to the rest of the world for the eight years of the Bush Régime.

UPDATE, 11:20 PM EST: John McCain is now giving his concession speech and says he called Obama to congratulate him. He had to quiet a roomful of booing conservatives, but he showed the class he once had in the past before this election. It's really real. It's actually happened.

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[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

UPDATE, 11:20 PM EST: John McCain is now giving his concession speech and says he called Obama to congratulate him. He had to quiet a roomful of booing conservatives, but he showed the class he once had in the past before this election. It's really real. It's actually happened.

I want to know where the McCain who gave THAT speech was during the campaign.

The McCain I saw there tonight was the one I wanted to vote for in 2000.

I should be in bed. But President-Elect Obama is going to give a speech in less than half an hour.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Where was the McCain with some class?

Wearing puppet strings, same as the wooden Al Gore I couldn't stomach voting for in 2000... (I voted for Browne.) But I noticed that once Gore cut his strings on 15 December, he was every inch the Senator that his daddy intended him to be... he ruled the Senate with class, humor, and the dignity it deserved. Granted, he was presiding over what turned out to be a freakin' debacle, but at least it wasn't a farce.

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

I went to bed as soon as Obama won Ohio. Shame I missed his victory speech.

Break out the bubbly!