It is difficult to overstate the significance of Barack Obama's win in the amazing, historic presidential race. He was the right person with the right message as well as with the right narrative story and the right vision for these times to become the 44th President of the United States of America. Among many turning events and people he needs to thank for his victory, particular indebtedness must be granted to Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, the morally bankrupt conservative majority of the last 30 years, his own campaign discipline and strategy and his own boldness of character.
His improbable rise in national politics began when Obama had accurately read the mood of the Democratic primary voters better than anyone in a very long time. Before Obama, the Democratic Party leaders had the dysfunctional habit of pandering and adjusting to the conservative Republican Party pillars of the social contract and never successfully challenged the Republicans on any major issues such as Iraq and taxes, for fear of losing at the polls. They preferred to duck and avoid taking principled stands; ironically, it showed by losing one election after another. The Democrats played on a political field delineated and established by the Republicans and ran the most recent elections on the conservative terms of debate, not their own. This way the Republicans managed to successfully set the policy agenda of the country for more than 30 years.
Obama is our 44th President. THAT is something that will take eight years to get old. Maybe longer.
We did it, we voted him in. And now finally, after 8 years, we will get what we deserve. Change.
We voted for freedom.
Our ancestors.
Our friends.
Our family.
Everyone that means something to us.
For hope.
For integrity.
For America.
Yes we did!