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President Elect - Barack Obama
Everybody in camp watched the results as they were posted.
As of Wednesday morning, Obama had 349 electoral votes compared to 173 for McCain, with only North Carolina left to declare. The Democrat won 52 percent of the popular vote, while John McCain garnered 46 percent
President-elect Barack Obama stood before tens of thousands jammed into Chicago's Grant Park Tuesday night and told them: "Change has come to America."
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.
“Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,” he said. “We have been and always will be the United States of America".
Now it's time to stand together as one Nation. Let's not make this more of a racial moment than it already is. He is not black. He is not white. He is a man we elected as our next President. Respect that. He may not be a perfect leader, or he may just end up being the best leader this country has ever seen. He now deserves the chance to lead this country. We deserve the chance to be lead. We all come from diverse backgrounds. The only thing "common" in this country is our ability to stand united. Let's stand united.
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As of Wednesday morning, Obama had 349 electoral votes compared to 173 for McCain, with only North Carolina left to declare. The Democrat won 52 percent of the popular vote, while John McCain garnered 46 percent
President-elect Barack Obama stood before tens of thousands jammed into Chicago's Grant Park Tuesday night and told them: "Change has come to America."
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.
“Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,” he said. “We have been and always will be the United States of America".
Now it's time to stand together as one Nation. Let's not make this more of a racial moment than it already is. He is not black. He is not white. He is a man we elected as our next President. Respect that. He may not be a perfect leader, or he may just end up being the best leader this country has ever seen. He now deserves the chance to lead this country. We deserve the chance to be lead. We all come from diverse backgrounds. The only thing "common" in this country is our ability to stand united. Let's stand united.
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Amen Papa--
Of course your incredibly liberal college student daughter was insanely excited about the victory for Obama. :) I was really sad when I heard some people (Mostly McCain supporters) say some terribly racist and rude things about Obama...
We are, all of us, links in a chain of humanity. One life is never any more valuable than any other – not because its owner is a certain color, a certain ethnicity, has a certain amount of money, drives a certain car, owns certain things, does a certain job, lives in a certain place, wears a certain brand of clothes, worships a certain deity or has an iron grip on a sunny personality all the time.
The human experience is a complex one: a diorama of emotions, some exhilarating, some humbling, some heartbreaking. What binds us together – or should bind us together – is the care we have for each other. Our differences should enrich us, not divide us.
If there is shame here, the only place it belongs is at our own feet, for ignoring the needs of those among us who are suffering, usually desperately and in silence.
The biggest part of that illness is prejudice.
LOVE, AMY