Amerikaners is ongetwyfeld die wereld se grootmoedigste verloorders. Dit tref telkens met ‘n presidentsverkiesing met watter grasie die verloorder ‘n buiging na die wenner maak. John McCain was geen uitsondering nie. Trouens, sy beskaafde gelukwensing aan die seevierende Obama was waarlik ‘n getuigskrif vir die man se ordentlikheid.
Hier is die ewe grootmoedige kommentaar van ‘n Amerikaanse vriend – ook ‘n Republikein: “He was not my choice, but my fellow Americans have spoken unequivocally and President-Elect Obama is now my President. A new generation has prevailed, and with Tennyson I muse:
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfuls himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”
— Alfred Tennyson in The Passing of Arthur
How true,
Regards, and to the justifiably jubilant: Hearty Congratulations,”
Vir iemand wat ‘n pak met soveel styl vat (en Tennyson so vanpas kan aanhaal), haal ek my hoed af.
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