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Wednesday night at a small college group gathering that has been taking place long before election night, we gathered and talked about the election, and more specifically: What exactly does “change” mean? That was never clear to me throughout Barack Obama’s campaign, to be 100% honest. But, hearing his victory speech, this segment stuck out to me the most:

Yes we can. In the wake of election night, I find myself a mixture of joyous and somber — two feelings that admittedly don’t “go together.” And I feel the first thing I should address is my somber emotion. I am somber because I am sorry. Sorry for how rash I was the day after Bush Jr’s re-election four years ago. I realize now, I like to think mostly because of my age, that insulting a president-elect in the days immediately following an election does not insult the man so much as it insults his supporters, and, more importantly — your fellow citizens. I am sorry for doing my part in that terribly immature practice four years ago, and I just hope that we are better than that today.