As exciting as Barack Obama's win this week has been for black America, it has to be especially exciting for black politicians (well, the ones who haven't been actively campaigning for HRC all this time), who might have experienced the glass ceiling in Washington first hand. Politico rounded up some pro-Obama black congressman to see how they were feeling after Obama snagged the nomination. Clearly, they were elated. Maybe unbelievably elated — Jesse Jackson, Jr., is ready to add another chapter to the Bible.

• Former Clinton supporter, Rep. John Lewis: “If someone had told me this would be happening now, I would have told them they were crazy, out of their mind, they didn’t know what they were talking about,” said Lewis, who was president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee when he stood with King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. “I just wish the others were around to see this day. … To the people who were beaten, put in jail, were asked questions they could never answer to register to vote, it’s amazing.”

• House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn: “I thought this day would come, but I didn’t think I’d live to see it,” Clyburn said. “I got home, and I was so emotional I couldn’t feel myself. I was numb.”

• Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.: “I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years. What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. … The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance… [But race] should be downplayed in the campaign. … We’ll have to leave that to the historians to consider, because we have an election to win. I hope the least historical thing about Barack Obama is his being black and the most historical is that he solved our health care problems, ended the war in Iraq and made life better for Americans.”

• Rep. William Lacy Clay: “It’s a good day in America."