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A message to my fellow American Autopuzzlers:

I woke up at 5 a.m. this morning, european time, and went down and turned on my TV set and listened to both speeches, first John McCain's, then Barack Obama's acceptance speech. Great speeches. It's no small thing what happened yesterday.
As an European, I guess this is no surprise to you that I favored Obama's candidacy. But if I love american cars, you must also guess that I have a special fondness for America. And I felt proud of these two speeches and thought "yes they did!", and I think you should be proud too. Whatever your personnal choice was, you can be.
I turned 20 in 1967, so naturally the sixties, California, had a great part in my interest for America. But Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, all of them states who gave a majority to McCain, are the states I know best in the USA. I liked the people I met there. I resent the opposition nurtured between "rednecks" and "liberals" or "intellectuals", and I was thrilled to hear both candidates call for unity.

It's my personnal opinion that you've elected a man who can more rightly meet today's  challenges, for his country and for the world as a whole. The fact that this has been made possible is something I feel indebted for to the American idea. And I'm not alone by far.

My neice is attending undergraduate school in San Francisco.  We had a live message going on when the results for the presidency were announced.  I told her to remember the excitement that I could overhear in her dorm, that this is a day for the history books, indeed, it would have been a day for history had McCain won, as that would have meant a woman was the first Vice-President.


I was born in 1967 into a political family, this has been a vote for the ages.  My only regret is that the system does not allow for more voices (ie the "other" parties).  The lack of standing for 'alternative" views is a disservice to our country.  Elimination of the Electoral College is also a downbeat to this historical moment. 

Nice post.