Today has been a long time coming and I'm so ready. This nation, collectively, is so, so ready.
May we all be as happy with President Obama in 8 years as we are today, if not more so. He will not be a perfect president. He will make decisions with which I, and many of you, may disagree. But I do trust that he will be a wise leader, that his decisions will be driven by a respect for the rights of the American people, that he will be right far more than he is wrong. I believe that he will seek out advice rather than blazing a stubborn path of going it alone. I'm looking forward to seeing what he makes of his administration and feel as though we all have a stake in it.
Last night, I went to the Planned Parenthood Bon Voyage, Bush! party and signed up to be on the Activist Council. It felt really good to be in a room with such intense energy and optimism for the future, where speakers were proud to be community organizers and ready for change. We were asked how many of us had volunteered for the campaign and over half of the hands in the room went up.
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