BARACK OBAMA…THE FIRST BLACK AMERICAN PRESIDENT
POST by NVus
While I was watching the numbers start to roll in during the night I already knew that this was going to be a landslide. Congrats to Barack and Hell of a speach afterwords….YES WE CAN. I pray he can lead us and make us a better nation. I mean I know a lot of people went out and voted because he was black or because people were just fed up with REPUBLICANS but I hope you realize what you voted and know the issues he will face these next four years. Also realize that some things can be changed over night…Have some patience.
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. “Change has come,” he declared to a huge throng of cheering supporters.
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Iowa and more.
On a night for Democrats to savor, they not only elected Obama the nation’s 44th president but padded their majorities in the House and Senate, and come January will control both the White House and Congress for the first time since 1994.
Obama’s election capped a meteoric rise — from mere state senator to president-elect in four years.
In his first speech as victor, Obama catalogued the challenges ahead. “The greatest of a lifetime,” he said, “two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.”
VIA YAHOO
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