Well, of course. But voter turnout and actual voting results represent a sea change in our collective society. I don't believe that this country stood for anything that Bush did with it - which is why I wasn't proud of my association when them: those things were un-American. I certainly don't think good stuff goes away under bad leadership, or bad stuff goes away under good leadership - that's way over-simplistic thinking, which I'm not doing here. I think the distinction between love and pride is an important one. I love my country - and as a child of parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents in the military, that means something different to me than it perhaps does to many of my fellow liberals. I certainly didn't stick my head in the sand for the last eight years and pretend I wasn't a part of this country's bad and good together, which is precisely why I'm proud of us. I'm proud of us taking a stand, regaining a sense of hope, and making a conscious choice to break with the trends of the past eight years and try something new. I never stopped loving America, which is why I am so proud of it now.