Rhapsody in Blue

I wasn’t supposed to be home tonight.  If all had gone as planned I would have been on the road on the way back from California, sandwiched into the front of a truck with two guys and all of us stinking like fish.

It didn’t work out that way.

Instead I watched the election returns.  I watched the numbers turn overwhelmingly in favor of Barak Obama.  I watched John McCain concede the election as graciously as we have seem him in a very long time, even if his audience was not as gracious.  I watched my home state, Nevada, turn blue.  I watched the next President of the United States take the podium with a dignity and grace we have not seen in a President in too many years.  I listened to him speak with a power and conviction such that we have not heard from a President in too many years.

Finally.  Today marks an historic moment in time.  Today the voices of the American people resonated across the country.  Today we elected a President of whom we can be proud.  Today America grew up.