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Having assiduously avoided using this blog as a forum for my political leanings, I must now say that, for the first time in a very long time, it feels great to be an American. Yes, we can!!
The Day After
05 Wednesday Nov 2008
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An Ex-Expatriate 
We went to Grant Park—it was amazing. The crowd (with all degrees of tan: you gotta be kidding!?) was very young, 16-26, and ADORABLE . . . so excited, so earnest, so dedicated, so invested, so gentle. Tiny woman and her two daughters in their 20s couldn’t see the screen and 100,000 people parted to let them go to the front. Same with the pregnant woman who had to get through. Hugging everywhere. And kids saying, “We made HISTORY” and believing it. Democracy, in my lifetime, has never ever smelled so sweet.
“Young, handsome and suntanned…” is how Berlusconi summed up Obama, and Italy is in an uproar about it (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/world/europe/08italy.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss) . Berlusconi prides himself on saying what he thinks, but we have to wonder if he doesn’t frequently speak without thinking at all. Sometimes described as ‘the clown of Europe’, “Berlusconi never fails to live up to our worst expectations,” according to the journalist Curzio Maltese, writting in the center-left La Repubblica.
Ditto that. And as to what Berlusconi said in regards to Obama’s “suntan” (he said that??) – yes he DID!
This is a joyous day for all Americans!
Audacious hope triumphs!
I, too, can now say that I am proud to be American – and it’s been a very long time since I felt that way.
I know *exactly* how you feel. 🙂 Change has finally come to America!