Quotes from Obama's Election Night Remarks.

I just want to highlight some comments from the speech last night. If you believe Obama's rhetoric is empty, I submit these quotes for your consideration. The bully pulpit will have an occupant worthy of the title.

"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there."

Sorry, but this is not empty. This is an honest promise of struggle. His eyes are wide open and he has an understanding of our challenges.

"... I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."

"It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other."

Are we looking at the return of big government liberalism. Sorry, Bush has already made big government trendy. Big government was a product of a large industrial economy. Will we rebuild our government for our post industrial and global world? We can hope.

"In this country, we rise or fall as one nations, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long."

Some have asked how will Obama show respect for the other side. Well first off he won't call you names or even un-American.

"Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope."

"That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow."

A weakness of the Democrats since the 60's is that they where open to the charge that they did not love their country. The new left especially was not comfortable with the rhetoric of the American revolution. Obama is helping them to overcome that.