It changed me. This election has shown me who I am and what I want to happen in politics.
The politics of division and intense partisanship is no longer apparent to me. I don't know why it happened; maybe it was the incredible slap in the face I received when Obama won an electoral college landslide. Maybe it was just that I see uselessness in bickering. I don't know.
All I know is that there is a prevailing national feeling coming about, and this feeling is good. Conservative commentators, Joe Scarborough in particular, have decided to take the high road and be proud of all that Senator Barack Obama has acheived: winning the hearts and minds of countless Americans; transcending history and society; and of course, winning the presidency of the United States of America, an accomplishment we should all stand in awe of.
We are slowly, but surely, putting America on a course of renewed purpose and globally-envied success, not by having a certain party in power, but by uniting behind a leader and supporting him as such. My friends, we all will have our disagreements with the new president, but that does not remove him from his position, and does not give a reason to be less courteous to him as we are to anyone else. He is the president, our president. We owe him just as much respect as we have given President Bush or President Reagan.
He may not represent our ideological values, but he does represent our American values. Let's all put "country first" instead of "party first," that would be what Senator McCain would want us to do. That is what our founding fathers need us to do.
Thank you.
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