Three days after the election I have to say my main emotion is still relief that it's over. Not that some of the robocalls weren't funny. One of them, which I heard via my answering machine on election day, featured a guy with a creepy voice and tone of speaking you usually hear in the previews for horror movies saying "The Democrats are flooding the polls right now ...." and I didn't hear the rest. But I did laugh. I mean, really? Now you're going to scare me into voting by mentioning Democrats? You're going to have to come up with something a lot more terrifying than that.

With that said, I didn't vote for Obama. But I'm not going around in sackcloth and ashes over his election either, and I'm fully prepared to respect him as president for the next four years and keep an open mind about what he will do. I also think we've come a long way as a country to elect an African American man to the presidency, and that is more progress than I would have credited us with before this.

A few people around the blogosphere who I gather also didn't vote for Obama have said things in recent days that I think are very insightful. In order to qualify for this post, they also didn't involve the phrase "liberal media." So I will give them props here via linkage. A couple of these people don't know I read their blogs, because I am a world-class lurker. So, umm, hello to Half Pint House and My Life in Sweatpants. I hereby delurk and declare my love of your blogs. Sorry to have been stalking you.

Tim of The Wrestling Mat, who knows me in real life, on what Obama's background could mean for interracial families.

Megan of Half Pint House on the fact that the world, if you notice, has continued to turn.

Leura of My Life in Sweatpants with some great thoughts, election or not, on what the pro-life movement might look like in an inhospitable political environment. Or what it should look like in the lives of Christians no matter who is in office.

And Ligon Duncan on praying for our new president and his family. I have always thought that it must be extraordinarily difficult to move your family into the White House, with all the scrutiny and stress that entails, and I think this family, especially because they have two young daughters who will do a lot of their growing up in the public eye, will need those prayers.

Food for thought. Thus end my political musings. Like Megan, I have laundry to do.