It adds to our joy and excitement to hear and see some people from around the globe celebrating Barack Obama's victory.

His victory says so much about what most Americans want their country to be: Not that Obama was black, BTW, but that his being black made no difference. That America is truly a land of equality and opportunity that most of us want it to be...a core, a central idea from the very first words that began our nation: "...that all men were created equal."

Of course, all major Western nations that existed at that time had slavery, had restrictions on woman...so it took time to work all those bad things out. (Freeing slaves, BTW, was in America's first document: The Declaration of Independence, but it was deleted when the majority at that time would not vote for it)

We're happy that others in other countries can see and feel what this means for us....and also what it means for them: The nightmare of the last eight years is over.

Amen.