It’s for real: Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States, putting an end to eight horrible years of neoconservative Republican misrule and giving African Americans a long dreamed of day in the sun.
MSNBC called the election won at a point when Obama had racked up 284 electoral votes to Republican Sen. John McCain’s 146.
Shortly after, the network announced Obama had won Florida — one of many states President Bush won just four years ago — part of a political map transformed in historical proportions.
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in a historic triumph that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself.
The 47-year-old Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his victory by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Iowa.
A huge crowd thronged Grant Park in Chicago to cheer his improbable triumph and await his first public speech as president-elect.
As a gigantic crowd celebrated the news in Chicago’s Grant Park — the overflow is said to be more than 100,000 — McCain stepped up at his election-night headquarters in a Phoenix hotel to make a gracious and thoughtful concession speech. It was reported McCain had already called Obama to congratulate him for his victory.
No squeaker this time. There will be no fighting over hanging chads, no high-powered lawyering, no judge-made president. Obama won big and clean.
God bless Obama. God bless all the people who worked, contributed, put in a good word, hoped and prayed. God bless all those who registered and who voted.
Most of all, God bless this great land of liberty, soon to be in the hands of those who love and respect her Constitution, history and tradition of enlightened leadership.
YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!
And, yes we did, AP.
“Most of all, God bless this great land of liberty, soon to be in the hands of those who love and respect her Constitution, history and tradition of enlightened leadership.” Very well said SW!
Hard not to smile … so why even try
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God bless Obama. God bless all the people who worked, contributed, put in a good word, hoped and prayed. God bless all those who registered and who voted.
Most of all, God bless this great land of liberty, soon to be in the hands of those who love and respect her Constitution, history and tradition of enlightened leadership.”
Even though I’m basically an agnostic, I couldn’t have said it better myself, S.W.! Let’s help get it started!!
It’s that “enlightened leadership” part I most want to see.
There will be plenty of militaristic neoconservative religious kookbait knuckledragger types trying to sabotage things, but we will know who they are, and we will welcome them with open arms. And I will try to stop calling them names. (At least for a little while!)
CHEERS!!!
Don’t worry snave, I’ll still call them names.
LT, snave, Randal, thanks for commenting. Rick, good to see you stop by; don’t be a stranger.
snave rightly predicts ” militaristic neoconservative religious kookbait knuckledragger” types will try to gum up the works. Let’s not forget our “friends” in the corporate suites, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce crowd and, most of all, those great Americans in the financial industry. Talk about an unholy alliance.
Amen, Brother SW. The speech brought moisture to my eyes.
How wonderful to have an inspiring President again.
Amen. Celebrate (while watching our backs of course). We’ve earned it.