Thank you, America, thank you!!!!

[WillyWonka]

Short of a MAJOR voting scandal, you are making lots of people in this small island across the pond* very happy

• and fewer people in your huge neighbour to the north (as my Canadian in laws and husband's extended family will testify!)

I'm glad I've not been the one sobbing all the time.

What a day

sorry only one

the tears on Jesse Jackson's face did it for me...

Yes, congratulations people on doing the right thing.

I had tears in my eyes all the way in to work.

Plenty of time for scepticism - today is for hope, I think.

A wonderful day, well done America!!!!!! Champagne is chilling in the fridge for tonight!!!!

well done - and thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, america

Well done American. Look forward to the future. Well Done John McCain the way he accepted defeat was eloquent he
showed to be a greats tatesman and a gentleman. Big mistake with Palin TG.
Congratulation USA.

Palin can go back to shooting moose. Let's hope your new president can live up to his rhetoric for a better world. We will watch with hope.

Oh, holy hell. Can someone please find a way to get Alaska to secede from the union? First they elect Palin, and now this.

I keep watching, Cali. Why can't California be like everywhere else, and require a 2/3 majority to amend their constitution? There is a lot of talk that the court system will declare Prop. 8 unconstitutional, though.

America done good, there's no denying. I'm v tired from the emotion and lack of sleep, though. Hope lovely Barack can cope with the strain of having to walk on water but even if he wobbles sometimes or even does a B Clinton and fails to do much with the mandate, he's done symbolic and actual wonders just by getting to be president. Unthinkable fantasticness in that act from an African-American. Psychological scars running through generations of black and white people have a chance to start healing from here, I think and hope.

expat, hearty congrats!

did you get my email?

Thanks and congratulations here from the lentileaters, too.