WHAT A FANTASTIC DAY!! YES WE DID!!

It's a bright and shining 1st day in a new America!! President Barack Obama took the official oath of office yesterday and the country, some say the world, changed forever. We will remember this moment as period in time when we as an American people banded together to reach out and helped each other do something truly historic. We are in the toughest economic climate of any era since the Great Depression. The number of Americans that have lost their jobs is both staggering and sobering. It is with the spirit of our forebears of that resourceful generation, that we begin a fantastic trek into the beyond, daring to leave our own indelible mark on the fabric of this nation.

Unfortunately, I did not get to attend the inaugural celebration in Washington D. C. no, I spent my morning re-registering for spring classes at Richland College. The significance of the moment permeated the atmosphere of the entire campus. Every person that wanted to ceremony was able to witness to the greatest triumph for American race relations since the demolition of Jim Crow. As I waited patiently in line to pay my tuition for my classes, President Obama was sworn in and then he took the podium as President of the United States, for the first time. He then proceeded to talk to the nation and the world, delivering his most profound declaration that "change" has finally come to America. From on that moment and throughout his inaugural address, the silence that surrounded the registration office inside Thunderduck Hall was unmistakable. The nation stood still as he spoke about the amazingly challenging job we are all beginning together. With President Obama's inspirational words engulfing my entity, I was moved to capture some of the day with my hand cam to share my experience on the day a black man became president.

CHANGE HAS COME AMERICA!!!



After leaving campus the magnitude of the moment continued to build up inside of me so, I turned on the cam again while I drove to share my message of hope for the future for myself and this transcendent country .
Yes we can!!

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THERE AINT NO FUTURE IN YA FRONTIN!! OBAMA 338- McCAIN155

DALLAS- At precisely 11 pm eastern time it was announced to the world that Democratic nominee Barack Obama would be the winner of the 2008 United States presidential election. For the first time in modern American history, an African-American (bi-racial, whatever we know what colors the coffee) will take the highest office in the land. The face of America has changed forever.

Mama, we made it!!

Everyone in the world take notice, the world is not coming to an end

CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA!!!!

His opponent Republican nominee Senator John McCain had just finished up his concession speech to a live Republican audience when the feelings of being a part of something truly historic struck me. Not since the re-election of Bill Clinton in 1996 have I been so involved and personally connected to a presidential election. Euphoria is the best way to describe the compulsive emotion that is driving my fingers in their fevered typing spree. The next chapters of this country's majestic fantasy of the American dream will be lived out in live and living color.

"YES WE CAN!!"

A black man is going to lead the United States of America the leader of the free world. He will face enormous pressures starting first with the bleak economy. We will all be watching with so many watchful and hopeful eyes as he takes the reins of the country on inauguration day. In what has been depicted by many noted economists as the worst economic period since the Great Depression (remember "when America sneezes the world gets a cold") we will send in the youngest American president to bring about the promise of change that got him elected. But we must practice patience. Rome wasn't built in day. Only burnt in one day!!


YES WE DID!!Going against the grain won't be easy. Together, we will take many steps as a society over the next few years as the barriers of color, race, religion, and sex all began to break and be reborn. This pleasant sensation that is overwhelmingly swinging throughout me is fantastically significant as President-elect Obama, prepares to lead the greatest country in the world.


YES WE DID!!The reaction and emotion to this historic night will last a lifetime and will be written by many for ages the to come. This feeling of pride will be felt by the greater many of us Americans great and small, as we begin the real transition forward into the future. The "city on the hill" that Ronald Reagan spoke so eloquently about in the past has returned to it's greater history and chosen this time to be a "maverick".

YES WE DID!!The chains of slavery have officially been broken and the sourness of Jim Crow turned bittersweet. No longer will those old hateful images which portrayed an America, still in it's infancy during the turbulent 1960s, define this country. On this historic night, I am the proudest that I have ever been of my country. Get ready world, at this very moment we all are confidently stepping into the next millennium of life.


President-elect Barack Obama addresses the nation:

The Closing Argument.

Barack Obama takes the stage with former President Bill Clinton at a campaign rally in Kissimmee, Florida. (Reuters Graphic / Jason Reed)

FLORIDA - Democratic nominee Barack Obama "palled around with a President" last night after he delivered what some of his campaign staff have dubbed "The Closing Argument" to America. The night definitely belonged to the Democratic nominee. With his opponent reeling due to a poor stance on the economy, a cash strapped campaign and infighting among members of the rank and file of the Republican party, Sen Obama went on a full press the attack with former President Bill Clinton at his side in the battle ground state of Florida.

Some say that the nationally televised ad, had the production value of a major motion picture and did little to show that he is ready to be president. To those people I can only ask them,"just what in the world were you watching last night?"

Admittedly, I must note that the televised ad was visual masterpiece. The warmth and patriotic symbolism could not have been more professionally orchestrated and sincere. Featuring several touching life accounts from real Americans, like Rebecca Johnston whose middle class family is finding harder and harder to make ends meet because of rising healthcare and food costs. Or Larry and Juanita Stuart, a retired family in Ohio who have had to take a loan on their home to their pay medial bills. Their stories helped him to reaffirm his plans to revitalize the economy by putting the working middle-class first and fixing the broken healthcare system.

Sen Obama's Republican adversary, Sen John McCain was expectedly critical of Obama reminding all of the broken promise to use only public financing to fund his campagin. "When you're watching this gauzy, feel-good commercial, just remember that it was paid for with broken promises," said McCain. (Boston Globe)

There are only 5 days left until the election and early voting ends this Friday on Halloween. I don't know if he closed the deal last night but, he definitely provided a beacon of hope to those of us in this country that really want change!!

The chance of a lifetime...

ATLANTA, Georgia - Ann Nixon Cooper, 106 years old, lived during a time when blacks and women did not have the right to vote. Now she relishes the opportunity to vote for the first African American presidential nominee, Barack Obama. She proudly boasts that she is ready to see the first black president. "I ain't got time to die," she said.

Ms. Cooper and her late husband Dr. Albert Cooper have always been involved in the black social movements of the time. "Our days and nights were just social affairs," she said. The home was a center of Atlanta's black society and the scene of many parties. Celebrities, including the late singer Nat King Cole, dropped in to visit.

The road to the White House is still a long winding perilous journey filled with uncertainty and Ms. Cooper was poignant in pointing out the significance of the Obama nomination. "Even if he didn't win, I was happy for him just to be nominated," said the former socialite. "

With her usual eloquence and grace she gleefully voted early this year for her candidate. She offers to young people some very sound advice for happy living.

"Keep smiling. No matter what, you get out and vote. Vote your choice."


Read the full story at: Cnn.com

15 days to go.... Obama gets Colin Powell's endorsement

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Once thought by many as the odds on favorite to become the first African American president of the United States former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell crosses party lines and officially endorsed Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama for president on Meet the Press Sunday morning.

Gen Powell's endorsement is a major coup for Sen. Obama's campaign and another tough blow to Sen. McCain's. The former Secretary of State gave a very loquacious tongue lashing to the Republican party over the negative tone of the McCain campaign and he was also very disapproving of the choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for vice-president.

PERFECTLY SYMMETRIC

DENVER - On August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his memorable "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Washington Monument and he proclaimed that one day, we would live in a world where we would be judged not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character.




"I accept your nomination for presidency of the United States."

Fast forward to August 28, 2008, 45 years later Dr. King's vision has taken form in a way that many Americans young and old never could have imagined seeing in this country. A black man has accepted the nomination for President of a major American political party. The history of tonight's nomination by the Democratic party has penned a mighty stroke toward fulfilling once and for all the promise that we are all equal, regardless of our race.

"ENOUGH"

"This moment, this election is our chance to keep (in the 21st Century) the American promise alive. On Nov 4, we must stand up and say that eight is enough" Obama says to thunderous applause.

How can we elect John McCain who said, "We've become a nation of whiners"? He has voted with President Bush 90 % of the time. This man a POW and Vietnam veteran, if elected would continue the failed Bush tax cuts and continue the war in Iraq for an indefinite time. As an Army veteran I am strongly against the war in Iraq and liken it to the Vietnam failure but I am encouraged that Barrack as President, will bring our troops home and before we face the same failure in Iraq. There is no reason we should have our service members endure unnecessary harm and separation from their families for a war on terrorism, in a country that did nothing to harm America.

Let's get real people we need, no we yearn and thirst for change.

"CHANGE"

"We can't meet 21st century challenges with 20th century bureaucracy."

Barack quoted his grandfather comment after seeing astronauts go to the moon and returned back to earth. He said "Americans, we can do anything if we put our minds to it" and if elected Barack Obama promises he will do just that. He says, "I will stop giving tax credits to companies that send jobs away from America and start giving them to companies that create jobs in our country and I will lower the taxes of middle-class Americans by 75%, create 5 million new jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced, to invest in early child hood education and recruit an army of new teachers and pay them higher wages."

I don't know about you but that is what I call change for the better.



I'm overjoyed to have had the opportunity to witness such grand black American history in my lifetime with my children. Their America, thankfully has been much different than the America of the turbulent 1960's when Dr. King gave his famous speech. But the profoundness of this occasion was too important to me to let them to miss it and I had them sit and bear witness to the symmetry of this evening with me. Their appreciation of the history was low despite my explanations of Dr. King's dream speech and Barack's accepting the nomination on the anniversary of the speech given 45 years ago. Still it gives me such a feeling of pride to see my country grow and finally begin to tear down the racism of our society and our past. Now we are seizing the moment to change Washington by bringing change to Washington, a black man. Although the prospect of it all seems like I'm dreaming but Martin, I know you're up there in heaven smiling down on us tonight as your dream inspired the people of this country to dream and tonight we took a major step toward realizing your dream of equality.