Reaction From an American Expat in Canada
Posted by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
A Canadian friend sent this to me. I’ll find my own words sometime soon.
Proud to be American once again
I don’t know what kind of president Barack Obama will be, but I know this: He has made me proud of America again. And also of Americans.
Today, they are turning out in record numbers to repudiate the leaders who disgraced and failed them. Today, they’re doing what no one would have dared imagine a few years ago: electing a biracial president with a foreign-sounding name who self-identifies as black. They are taking a courageous leap of faith, because they’re disgusted with what’s happened to their country.
Read the rest at the Globe and Mail….
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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