Obama!!!!

Well, needless to say I am estatically (is that how you spell it?) happy about Obama winning.

Since I had class on Tuesday night, I listened to NPR and CNN on satelllite radio on my way to and back from school. On my way to school, which was about 5:30, one of the CNN newscasters was talking about how hard it would be to wait until ALL polls closed. He said there was no way that the media would wait until west coast polls closed to reveal some of the results--and that is true. Once Obama won Ohio and PA. it was all over, even though polls hadn't closed yet on the west coast. Also interesting, was the fact that CNN made quite a few statements implying that McCain really didn't have a chance to win with the way the polls were looking (this was about 9:30 p.m.). I think after he won Ohio and PA., two key states, the outlooks were in his favor and no one could deny that.

In some ways I relate this election to that of when Kennedy won. He too was young and fresh, and truly motivated all crowds of people, especially younger just like I think Obama did. He gives off that same kind of energy and compassionate air that was so loved by Kennedy.

I think this article in the Nation is worth reading. Here is one part of it:

For others of us at an advanced age, Obama's success is more shocking. We can see it as a monumental rebuke to tragic history--the ultimate defeat of "white supremacy." That vile phrase was embedded in American society (even the Constitution) from the outset and still in common usage when some of us were young. Now it is officially obsolete. Racism will not disappear entirely, but the Republican "Southern strategy" that marketed racism has been smashed. Americans will now be able to see themselves differently, North and South, white and black. The changes will spread through American life in ways we cannot yet fully imagine. Let us congratulate ourselves on being alive at such a promising moment.

I think it does say how far our nation has come to have elected a African American President, and I am hopeful that there will be many more nationalities represented in the future, however I'm not sure that I believe this will completely change the minds of those embedded in racism. It's a step, a promising one as the Nation states, but we have a ways to go yet!