I Think America Deserves Some Credit

[DemocratSinceBirth]

We are the first western industrialized nation to elect a black president...We fought a war to end slavery...And good people of all colors joined together to petition Congress to end slavery's bastard brother-Jim Crow...

I was watching the returns with my best friend and surrogate dad Nate...He's not really my surrogate dad but Nate and his wife have "kind of" adopted me since my dear mom passed...He introduces me to his/our neighbors as his "white son"... He was born in 1938 in Selma, Alabama, went to segregated schools, drank from "colored only" water fountains, couldn't eat at most restaurants or lodge at most hotels so you know he has saw some real pain...He also is career military with Bronze Stars from Viet Nam and Korea... I asked him when he was a boy in Selma did he ever expect to see an African American president...His answer surprised me a little...He told me he had served his country all his life and knew a day like this would one day come...

I feel so blessed to have such friends...

May God bless and watch over my dear friends, Nate and Mary, and bless and watch over the United States Of America...

It's time to back the flag...You don't have to be a right winger to love America...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUT1WgHat6I

[SnohoDem]

1. I could not agree more.

(I live outside the country, and this is from an email I sent to a friend.)

America has done a fantastic thing, even if Obama isn't a great president (I hope he will be, we need one now). After four hundred years of racism and eight years of intense anti-Muslim propaganda, we elected a black man with a Muslim name (he's NOT a Muslim). I am more proud of my country than I have been in many, many years. Of course it says a lot about his charisma and intelligence as a candidate, and the strategies Howard Dean started four years ago, but it says something wonderful about our country, too!