In an historic moment that none of us will ever forget, Barack Obama won the 2008 election and will become the first black president in US history. He won the national popular vote by a solid margin of six percent and whooped ass on the electoral college.
T.i. ushers in of a new era in American politics, a liberal movement in a once conservative America. Along with a Democrat landslide victory in both houses of Congress, there will indeed be massive changes in the way things are done for the next 8 years.
The celebration in Obama's home town of Chicago ran long into the night brought in an estimated 200,000 people. Talk-show host and close friend Oprah Winfrey was in attendance and she had this to say: "It feels like hope won. It feels like it's not just victory for ... Barack Obama. It feels like America did the right thing.
"It feels like there's a shift in consciousness. It feels like something really big and bold has happened here -- like nothing ever in our lifetimes did we expect this to happen. It feels like anything is now possible."
Around the world, people also celebrated the election of the first black US president. In Obama's relatives' village in Kenya, people celebrated by slaughtering a bull. They danced in the street in Indonesia. In Russia, President Medvedev welcomes Obama's election by deploying missiles to the Polish border. And in the middle east, Hamas launched 24 celebratory missiles into Israel last night.
Congrats again to Barack Obama, the future 44th President of the US.
