{"id":10248,"date":"2008-11-04T23:27:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T04:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/?p=10248"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:17","slug":"thank-you-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/11\/04\/thank-you-america\/","title":{"rendered":"thank you, America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/11\/2308ld1_2_2_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10250\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/11\/2308ld1_2_2_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a> ..\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><em>T<\/em><\/strong>hank you, America, for choosing hope over fear, unity over division, and our values over our resentments.\u00a0 Thank you for voting Barack Obama to be President of the United States. \u00a0 He will be President <em>of<\/em> all <em>of <\/em>us and <em>for<\/em> all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s work together to make America all it can be. \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/11\/2308ld1_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;padding-left: 60px\"><strong><em>afterwords<\/em><\/strong> (Nov. 5, 2008): A special thankyou to John McCain for a most gracious and inspiring <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hmJfimrZW3jBur_BmaFtqj7mfFgQD948JFJG5\">concession speech<\/a> &#8212; with words and tone worthy of his best self.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;padding-left: 90px\"><em><strong>update<\/strong><\/em> (Nov. 5, 2008): Scott Greenfield, at <em>Simple Justice<\/em>, is proud that the reactions of lawyer webloggers to the election show &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2008\/11\/05\/the-blawgosphere-at-its-best-congratulations-barack-obama.aspx?ref=rss\">The Blawgoshpere at its best<\/a>:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;padding-left: 120px\">&#8220;The reaction has been uplifting, in the belief that regardless of who, and how strongly, one thought would make a better president, so many have put that aside and noted two critically important things:\u00a0 That we have broken a barrier by electing a black man to be President, not because he is black but because we believe that he is the right man for the job, and that we will now go beyond partisanship to work together to overcome our nation&#8217;s problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 30px\"><strong><em>p.s.<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/11\/055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10251\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/11\/055-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a> .. Laurice and Ed Markowski&#8217;s grandson Nicholas Landry is an Obama Baby.\u00a0 He&#8217;s an excellent reason for us to hope, and to act together to make a better nation and a better world. Some of Nick&#8217;s friends and admirers have left haiku and senryu in our comment section, joining in the celebration of our new Obama Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you, America, for choosing hope over fear, unity over division, and our values over our resentments.\u00a0 Thank you for voting Barack Obama to be President of the United States. \u00a0 He will be President of all of us and for all of us. Let&#8217;s work together to make America all it can be. 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