Barack Hussein Obama, he who will be the 44th President of the United States, has done what many would have thought impossible in less than a generation since the epic speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.. It has been less than a generation since segregation was ended, a handful of generations since the American Civil War, and we have gone from a nation whose honor was stained by the inhuman act of owning a person to a nation where we have elected an African-American man to the highest office in the land.
It is an amazing day, a future fill with hope, wonderful, joyous hope, and the world now sees that the American dream is so much more than it was just one day before. We have elected the son of a first generation emigrant as our President, how much of a epoch changing event is that?
Not only did I vote for Barack Obama, but I donated money and time toward his campaign and I've never been more proud to be an American than I am right now. The stain on our national honor is a little bit less today, our image in the national eye is a little bit brighter today, and the words against us are a little quieter today, and that is a good thing.
We've gone from yes we can, to yes we have, and that is a powerful thing to have done.
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