Obama wins!!!!!!! @ 11PM est - Election Night as it happened

5 minutes before and after 11PM Obama is projected to be the next president of the United States. Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, and Keith Olbermann comment.
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I figured out why I was so relieved tonight. It's because I have spent the last six years (that's when I realized how radical the Bush administration was) on pins and needles that we were going to lose America and do tremendous damage to the world. Bush could do something monumentally wrong at any moment. But even more important was that Cheney had so degraded the American system of government that for the first time in my life, I wondered if the idea of America would survive.

Would they fix the elections? Would they make up some fake emergency to stay in power? Would they find some nefarious way to make sure John McCain won the elections? Did the powers-that-be secretly control these things? Was our democracy real? These are all thoughts I would not have entertained eight years ago. I would have found them laughable. But after seeing what Cheney and Bush were willing to do in the last eight years, it seemed that nothing was beyond them.

But it didn't happen. What tremendous relief! And joy. America survives!

As Obama said in his victory speech, it's okay to dream again. For the rest of the world to believe again. The beacon of light is back. The shining city on the hill is back. We sent a loud and clear message to the rest of the world - you are all Americans again.

We docked the ship on shore. We're back to normal now. We can have our fights about domestic policy. We can disagree slightly on foreign policy. We can go back and forth on all the issues. But the constitution stands. Some crazy neo-cons won't convince an idiot president to start another reckless war. And we can all sleep well at night again.

The idea of a healthcare debate sounds so lovely to me. We have habeas corpus back. We have re-established the fundamental building blocks of Western civilization. We have our foundation underneath us. Now, let's go forward and fight, argue and disagree -- and be the country I know and love again.

America has come back home.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/what-a-relief----america_b_141290.html

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[OrangeCat274]

OBAMA 2012!!!

[kphoenix96]

I Feel That Compared To George Bush, Barack Obama Has Done Great Things For The Country So Far

OBAMA 2012 !!!!

[AsILayDyingOWNS77]

I was only relieved that night because McCain didn't win. Obama is still a bad president and in some cases, just like Bush. He kept us in Iraq until he pulled us out when election time was coming around. I'm voting for real change, liberty and property. I'm voting for Ron Paul!

[GeorgiaKev]

@okkervil18 Glad to hear it!

[bleachbred]

He will get ree-elcted

[Scallopshell98]

What a wonderful night :) 

[sfowatcher]

One big mistake, hopefully 2012 will be different.

[DesertScientist]

@MrWatsurname Yes, it takes time and I'm glad it's not McCain running the country now as the war in Iraq would have still be going on.

But Obama did made promises that he couldn't keep, such as closing Gitmo, and if the downgrading of the US's AAA rating is not "things going worse", I don't know how we can see that things are getting better.

[okkervil18]

In spite of everything and all the shit the Republicans have put him through, he has done very well in my opinion. I'll be old enough to vote this November. He definitely has my vote.

[MrWatsurname]

@KB24MVP4EVER Ask many economist and they will tell you that a systemic collapse in the financial system will take years to recover from rather than a typical recession. To expect everything to be right again within 4 years is crazy. No man has that power. I know he promised alot if president, but if anyone actually believed that the economy would get better instantly they are delusional. There is nothing more he can do. He must allow the recovery to take its course

[Kwandum1]

OBAMA 2012