I've just realized what we've done!! I've been waiting and working to SaveAmerica..

[SaveAmerica]

are we closer to it? I chose this username in desperation after the 2004 election and instead of leaving this Godforsaken red area of America stayed so I could do what I could to make a difference in 2008. It's here, we did it!! Every time W did something stupid and I thought I couldn't take another day of it, I looked forward to this time. I envisioned us a better America and finally out from under the tentacles of hate and destruction this administration has wrought.

We did it, guys. Thanks for hanging in there and Never Giving Up!!!!!! (Where's Bleever!!!???)

[PATRICK]

1. Can't get my mind around it

The vastness is too much, so much we may miss the implications forever.

What we don't have is a solidifying concrete of tyranny and fixed elections, that already had cause despair and hopeless notions of armed revolt, "uprisings" or for the fainter of heart- immigration to Utopia. Defeat has measured the evil and shown its failing proportions without ever really confronting it totally and truthfully(which, in the murk of these years is a big reason we cannot grasp the extent of this peaceful victory).

What we do have is something the "wiser" Dems had presumed for this year if we just avoided the daylight of too much truth. That makes the success also murky and leaves the problem of the self-justifying DLC. I say a little because we, and this election is miraculously a "WE" did not follow their game plan. They followed ours even to, with incredible reluctance, ditching the GOP dream candidate Hillary- who indeed it might be argued would have won this race as well- though arguably by a much thinner margin.

It is hard to realize because only Obama was articulating the movement for change and generally the populace is repressed and distracted from getting a decent act together on an agenda. Though he articulated it and led, it has become much vaster, a newborn(born again?) democracy through overwhelming a much corrupted and threatened routine process.

We have won the chance to save America and many many people's survival- if not humanity itself. We have won back the power to get to work. Evil cannot succeed because it already gave up on doing the right thing. That contradiction is eventual death. Its raw power is always a cheat. The shame of the Bush Captivity has been repudiated but we have a lot to prove to ourselves as the price of allowing it.

In short though, yeah, we did it.

[SaveAmerica]

3. I hadn't thought of that point - Obama narrowed down all of the issues we could choose from into

"Change" which would take care of all of them. One of Kerry's problems in '04 was not being able to come up with a theme that dems could get behind. There were just too many to choose from so he tried to cover them all. Obama took all of the choices, wrapped them under 'change' which would show he plans on attempting to help in as many areas as possible and he went forward with his theme.

I love all that you wrote (and your 3rd paragraph especially speaks to me) but this thought stood out the most for me.

[Egnever]

2. Not yet

Theres a ton of work to be done we haven't even started yet. They are already trying to tear our guy down.

We are going to have some real fights on our hands very shortly.

[SaveAmerica]

4. We'll have to continue to stand with him, the more they act like this, the tighter we should get...