I noted with interest, the morning after the vote, that here at work even those who had supported Barak Obama most passionately during the battle were not whooping it up after the election was over. Their battle won, they were not acting like football fans whose team had won a game, but more like courafeous, dignified troops who were glad to learn they had made a beachhead, and instead of a drunken or bacchanalian attitudem what permeated the halls was a quiet, intense, responsible happiness, of people shouldering their responsibilities with pleasure and satisfaction that they were free to do so.

It was an unusual feeling, but a deep and honest one.


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