McCain & Obama Capture the Historical Moment with Grace in Defeat, Magnanimity in Victory

John McCain's election capitulation speech deserves to be among the great speeches of the United States.

It should be placed in an anthology of the great world speeches for his gracious words and for his capture of this moment in history.

Both should be remembered for the historical landmarks they will become.

His and Mr. Obama's attitudes were those most becoming of a public servant - grace in defeat and magnanimity in victory.

Watching Reverend Jesse Jackson's tears at this historical juncture brought to all of us the memory of him as a young man on a motel balcony with the gunned-down Dr. Martin Luther King at his feet, bleeding and dying. It was a horrible moment in U.S. history.

And now for Rev. Jackson to be standing at the feet of President-elect Barak Obama, was a moving sight.

For while many do not agree with the Leftist positions of either man, at that moment, after the argument and debate of the past four years, after the belligerance and bickering, Mr Obama became my President!

Yes, young man - Mr. President-elect - you will have to earn my respect.

However, know this, that already in the historical significance of this moment, in the weighted bearing you already had as you walked onstage last night with your beautiful family; that in the noticeable lack of your usual swagger, you showed, to all watching, a humbled, confident bearing of a young man who needed no pretentious gait.

You will now be in all our prayers.