No turning back, Obama is elected
The votes are in. Enough have been counted. Barack Obama keeps raking in the electoral votes and has surpassed the minimum of 270 needed to become the next President of the United States. At the Democratic National Convention in August of this year, then-Senator Barack Obama, now-President-Elect Barack Obama gave an uplifting, informative, and emotional riveting speech. He concluded with this thought:
America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.
There is a lot of work to be done and I am hopeful that we are on the right track, a better track. I don’t expect him to achieve all of his goals immediately and some probably not at all but I am pleased and humbled that we have elected a new president who is intelligent, informed, inspiring and worthy of being a leader. I trust that he will represent those who have gone unnoticed for so long.
Winning a ridiculous amount of battleground states Obama clinched the election and will be the next President of the United States of America. It is on this night, Tuesday November 4, 2008 that this country has elected a new president, an African American to the highest office. He will be our 44th president. He will take office on January 20th, 2009 when he is sworn in at the Inauguration in Washington, DC.
To read Barack Obama’s nomination speech in full, click here.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:41 am
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