My wife and I watched the live feed of President Elect Obama's speech last night.  We appreciated Obama's realism about the road ahead, his call for unity and his references to history.  The anecdotes regarding the 106 year old woman were a nice touch.  Overall his speech was very gracious (as many here have already noted) and very comprehensive in his list of people: young/old, gay/straight, disabled/not disabled, etc.  Obama looked very tired before and after his speech.  But during the speech, one could sense the passion, conviction and adrenalin as he rose to the occasion to praise the American people for speaking on this historic occcasion. 

In terms of his comprehensiveness, I would have enjoyed hearing Obama reference America's religious communities, i.e. Jews, Muslims, Christians, etc.  I do hope that as Obama promised to listen, that he will listen to those of faith.  I'll assume hIs "God Bless America" at the end of his speech provides an inclusiveness to the religious people of America. 

My biggest hope for Obama, more than anything, is that he will successfully finish his term (one, or even two) with integrity.  It would be great to see him stay faithful to his wife and family, to uphold his promises, and in all things tell the truth.  Or to say it simply, not lie.  I have no reason to doubt Obama's integrity.  I expect and trust him to be a man of his word.  However, when one man leads a country as diverse as ours, it is overwhelmingly challenging to stay a course and to maintain integrity, both publicly and privately.  He has my prayers (1 Tim. 2:1-2) and support in the days ahead.  I do not envy him.  We live in trying times.  I am glad that Mr. Obama has so much hope.  We don't know what the world will "throw at him/us" in the days/years ahead.  I hope that he and our country can enjoy a time of peace and prosperity in the days ahead !

Bob Simko:

I was lucky enough to get a ticket for the event, and get into the staging area, which was impressive enough.  When I left the event and saw the sea of people outside that area, it was something else.

I thought I saw somebody at the rally with his pants off . . . .

Ted Stevens may win. It'll be fun watching the Senate expel him.

I suspect you may see "Draft Sarah" signs in Alaska.

Wow Geoff thanks for being a buzz kill LOL

Well, based on how she thought the VP help shape legislation if she were named Senator in Steven's spot maybe she'd show up at the Pentagon for the first day of work . . . .

I wanted to thank our worldwide Byrne members, for their well wishes. If Obama runs his presidency the way he has ran this campaign and his life, we will see better days ahead.

Oh, come on. I think you see that at every concession speech, it's nothing new. Certainly there were boos when Kerry conceded in 2004. When you have a group of people there who have given there all for a candidate, and they lose, some will always express sour grapes.

Exactly.  And McCain did a good job of quelling those boos.  Did my ears fail me or did I hear boos for Palin?