Gracious Concessions
Well, by John McCain as well, but by prominent conservative bloggers and personalities, too. No moves to France contemplated here.
- Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs.
- Scott Ott, Christian, satirist at ScrappleFace, but serious blogger on his TownHall blog. Excerpt:
After George W. Bush defeated Al Gore, and later John Kerry, for the presidency, countless Democrat-owned cars bore bumper stickers with clever phrases like ‘Not My President’ or ‘Don’t Blame Me I Voted for Kerry’.
As a conservative evangelical Christian who voted for McCain-Palin, and for every other Republican on the ballot yesterday, let me say for the record: Barack Obama is my president.
I stayed up past midnight to watch his victory speech. I wept (a little less than Jesse Jackson) because the moment stirred me with gratitude for how God has thus far corrected America’s most crippling birth defect — racist discrimination.
- The entire panel of Directors at Redstate.
- Jonah Goldberg at National Review.
- Hugh Hewitt, conservative radio talk show host.
- Chuck Colson, Watergate convict and Christian writer and speaker.
And a guest blogger at Patterico’s Pontifications, along with congratulating him, lists what President-elect Obama can do to keep his campaign promises, and offers his own promises in return.
Congratulations again, to our first black President. We’ve lived through a point in history that will be talked about for a long time to come.
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