I can happily claim to be born a Hoosier again. Indiana going Democrat gave me a big happy.

AMEN, Cashmere, AMEN. I'm still so disappointed about Prop 8, but I'm trying to hold on to some happy things!

Also now I'm really sad I didn't go party down on Broadway in the streets! People had sparklers?? That's so cool!

Morning, guys. Pretty good morning, huh?

Now I just want people to stop comparing Obama to JFK. That did not end well!

One of the pundits on CNN last night said to Anderson Cooper how Obama's acceptance speech significantly borrowed from Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech made on the eve of his assassination, and I swear, my heart just plummeted down to my boots. (I was all, "aaarrrghhh, she said the "A" word! Undo it, undo it!)

Remember this? Sorry Everybody

(I was all, "aaarrrghhh, she said the "A" word! Undo it, undo it!)

Vonnie, its possible we just did.

I keep feeling like the country was derailed by assassinations forty years ago and we might just be getting back on track now. Of course we can never get those people back and so much has been lost... but their passion and vigor are coming back to us if we just have the nerve to take hold of them.

My upstate NY county is blue completely surrounded on all sides by red. Our county government is Republican, and the city, Democrat. I seriously think we went blue because we are the only county in the area with any significan number of African Americans, or minorities at all. Growing up in the largest town of the county south of us, I went to school with 5 black students that I can think of and three of them were underpriviledged foster children.

Um....

Palin Once Greeted McCain Staff Wearing Only A Towel

Also, she spent way-more on clothes than has been reported. And,

McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign, and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech Tuesday night, but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.

Steve Schmidt was one who originally advocated Palin to McCain. Yesterday (before the results were known) he refused to say whether Palin had been a benefit to McCain's campaign.

PopWatch presents the best election night soundbites: [link]

From BBC America:

8:18 p.m.

David Dimbelby [To a Republican strategist] "Strategist is a very curious job. What did you do for the Republican party that's led them to the pickle they're in?"

MSNBC

8:55 p.m.

Chris Matthews, speaking to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay: "It looks like the whole House of Representatives, the Republican caucus, has gone to hell since you left."

Weird - I just read two different foreign accounts comparing Obama winning to the fall of the Berlin wall. (One said Obama's win was "ten times more significant" or somesuch.)

Anyway, here's the other account:

Quote of the day: "We are all Americans"

"Sorry. No column today. The keyboard is not responding. History is a page being turned. Three words on the screen: 'Yes we can.' While it is impossible to joke with genocide or disaster, it is equally impossible to joke with an event that makes you weep for joy. The first worldwide good news since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 needs more than a pirouette or an amused wink. At this moment -- but for how long ? -- we can say with far more conviction than on 11 September 2001: we are all Americans."

-- Robert Solé, an editorial writer for Le Monde, writing in English in an apology titled "Sorry we can't, par Robert Solé."

Other things I learned today from Le Monde: Michael Crichton died?