Frank Rich - The morning after

Frank Rich, NY Times columnist wrote a very touching column, one of the best post election reviews.  

Here's the link to the column:Op-Ed Columnist - It Still Felt Good the Morning After - NYTimes.com

Our nation was still in the same ditch it had been the day before, but the atmosphere was giddy. We felt good not only because we had breached a racial barrier as old as the Republic. Dawn also brought the realization that we were at last emerging from an abusive relationship with our country’s 21st-century leaders. The festive scenes of liberation that Dick Cheney had once imagined for Iraq were finally taking place — in cities all over America.

Yes... I am still giddy.  Imagine, if McCain had won, how the world would look at America.  

He says this is the week Americans reclaimed their country........

So even as we celebrated our first black president, we looked around and rediscovered the nation that had elected him. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” Obama said in February, and indeed millions of such Americans were here all along, waiting for a leader. This was the week that they reclaimed their country.