YES.
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.
OH MY GOD. I was rehearsing with Maggie and we just happened to look up at the television at the moment John McCain was giving his concession speech.
And I literally cried, except, like, without tears because I was laughing too hard.
I love him for this:
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...and for so much more that makes him the unbelievable man I voted for. I can trust in America again. I can feel hope, I can feel pride, I can feel a future. I'm sick of feeling the despair that I felt for the past 8 years, despair that caused me so many times to want to leave. Now I don't, because I have the certainty that one day this country can be great again.
"But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It’s about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect.”
Thank you, Barack Obama. Thank you for giving me my nation back.