"Change has come to America" - Barack Obama Sweeps to Victory In History-Making Election
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I watched Barack Obama's acceptance speech with tears in my eyes. No election in my lifetime has been this emotional. John McCain said that he “recognized the special significance” Obama’s victory had for African-Americans but I think he underestimates the significance of the event. It is an encouraging win for all people who have ever felt oppressed, for all immigrants and all people of color, that they really can do what they never dared dream of in what has always been known as the land of opportunity. This is a huge step in returning the United States to its true values.
Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States.
A crowd of 125,000 people jammed Grant Park in Chicago, where Obama addressed the nation for the first time as its president-elect at midnight ET. Hundreds of thousands more — Mayor Richard Daley said he would not be surprised if a million Chicagoans jammed the streets — watched on a large television screen outside the park.
“If there is anyone out there who doubts that America is a place where anything is possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Obama declared.
“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.
“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America,” he said to a long roar.
I watched Barack Obama's acceptance speech with tears in my eyes. No election in my lifetime has been this emotional. John McCain said that he “recognized the special significance” Obama’s victory had for African-Americans but I think he underestimates the significance of the event. It is an encouraging win for all people who have ever felt oppressed, for all immigrants and all people of color, that they really can do what they never dared dream of in what has always been known as the land of opportunity. This is a huge step in returning the United States to its true values.
Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States.
A crowd of 125,000 people jammed Grant Park in Chicago, where Obama addressed the nation for the first time as its president-elect at midnight ET. Hundreds of thousands more — Mayor Richard Daley said he would not be surprised if a million Chicagoans jammed the streets — watched on a large television screen outside the park.
“If there is anyone out there who doubts that America is a place where anything is possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Obama declared.
“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.
“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America,” he said to a long roar.