Yes We Can!!!
“We know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century… There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there.
- Barack Obama
Incase you missed it, Senator Barack Obama spoke at a rally in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, after winning the race for the White House Tuesday night, now 44th president of the United States. Obama won 53 percent of the nation's popular vote, and had a 349 – 163 advantage in electoral votes Wednesday morning, thanks to victories in several swing and traditionally Republican states. These included Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida according to CNN.
The results are a stunning and hard won victory for a candidate who began the race as a relative newcomer to the national political stage, and ended it as first African-American to win the White House. So congratulations Barack Obama; I tip my hat to you!
