G. Frink's

Republican Sen. John McCain spoke honorably to the magnitude of President-elect Barack Obama's accomplishment last night and to the importance working with him.

Restive McCain supporters must have noticed that McCain was gracious to Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin without promoting her as a future candidate for national office and some were certainly dissatisfied. They knew he could have said more. They knew he could have given her the microphone for a moment if he truly wished to lift her political fortunes.

Sen. Barack Obama was elected the 44th president and first black chief executive in our history Tuesday night.

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," said Mr. Obama in his Chicago acceptance speech.

With the biggest turnout since women won the right to vote in 1920, we repudiated economic pillage that has plunged the nation into deepening recession, embraced a future of caring health and education policies, affirmed out commitment to the shared freedoms which are our heritage, demanded sound foreign policy and triumphed over the racial division which has dogged us since the end of the Civil War.

"Change has come to America," reshaping the political landscape as thoroughly as any election since since Franklin D. Roosevelt won at the depths of the Great Depression in 1932, and the challenges are in some ways the equal of those faced 76 years ago.