He was referencing the Pennsylvania and North Carolina primaries and made the following distinction:

Pennsylvania was an election of people thinking about yesterday, North Carolina was sort of a future vote, that that is a vote for the future, you know a tomorrow type vote, a tomorrow type electorate.

That's exactly how I feel. To vote for Obama is a vote for the future of this country. And the fact that my state, North Carolina, the home of Jesse Helms no less, is willing to get past the history of racism, bigotry, and entrenched status quo politics makes me very proud to call North Carolina home. As a country, we need to let go of the past. It's very easy to look back at certain times and remember them wistfully. Especially compared to the last 7 years of the Bush Administration. But we can never recapture the past as it was. We have got to look forward to tomorrow. And hopefully in November, the country will vote to move this country forward.

And I want to close this with a quote from John Cole at Balloon Juice. In a post yesterday, he says what I've been feeling about Obama in a way I could never articulate.

And don’t get me wrong- I am not for Obama because of what I am against. I am for Obama because he is a decent man, a break from the past, and really a once in a lifetime opportunity. He has treated us like adults throughout this primary, and it is time to act like adults. There will be times we feel he lets us all down, but we are not electing a diety. We are electing a leader, and Obama is that leader. It is time to get past the bullshit of the last 20 years, the battles I am really tired of fighting, and time to turn our attention to the really important issues of the day- the economy, the budget, our international presence, our crumbling infrastructure, our military, medicare and medicaid and social security, and on and on and on.