Slideshow Nov 4 2008 Barack Obama 44th president of the United States

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/the-significance-of-presi_n_141427.html

Slide Show of Crowds From Around The World

Nearly two years after he announced his intentions to run for the White House, Barack Obama returned to Chicago on Tuesday night, triumphant in his quest for the presidency.

The president-elect -- the first African American to assume the post in American history -- achieved the task with a mandate to proclaim. As of Wednesday morning he had won 349 Electoral College votes, poaching traditionally Republicans states like Indiana and Virginia as well as bitterly-fought battlegrounds like Ohio and Florida. Of the estimated 133 million votes cast (62 percent of eligible voters went to the polls), he had received 52 percent to John McCain's 46 percent -- the first Democrat to earn a majority since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

More importantly, he recruited to his candidacy voters of all stripes: black, white, and Hispanic, southerners and northerners, educated and non-educated, the politically engaged and those who had previously stayed on the sidelines.

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," Obama triumphantly declared. "It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference."

Democrats, after eight years of frustrations and ideological setbacks during the Bush years, where given the permission to peak at the road ahead. What would this mean for Iraq? For global warming? For America's image around the world?

Obama, too, was making plans for the future. Not content to be caught flat-footed, he offered the post of White House Chief of Staff to Rep. Rahm Emanuel. Similar preparations were being made for other cabinet positions. His campaign had been a well-oiled machine; his transition promised to operate the same way.

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[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

Obama the first half-caste biracial mixed-race president.

[mikefly562]

Excellent video...pretty much sums up the amazing, incredible worldwide reation to this historic election. It's so nice to have pride in America again. He is more than just the president of the USA...he is the President of the world, and he could end up being one of the world's greaters leaders that generations for hundreds of years will remember. God Speed Obama!!!

[frankodelic]

thanks for putting this together... very moving :)

YES WE DID!!!