YES. WE. DID.

This is probably one of the only times where I will not use an original picture. Because unfortunately, I don't have one. (http://campaignwindow.com/georgiastudentsforbarackobama/uploads/georgiastudentsforbarackobama/060922_BarackObama_Xtrawide.jpg)
I cannot believe it. This day that so many people felt would never come has finally come! Barack Obama has been elected as the 44th president of the United States. I am looking forward to the new direction that he will take this country. Ugh, I just can't believe it. When those polls closed at 11:00 pm est, I couldn't believe my eyes. Sure, the polls had been suggesting it for a while now, but polls are always just polls. This is real. It's real! 

Also, I must say, as a black individual, I know that this is a very historic event for all of the African Americans throughout this country. It's somewhat funny to see the generation gap between my grandmother and my mother, and the gap between my mother and I. Back when Obama first announced his candidacy for president, my grandmother was very skeptical that he would get very far. My mother thought it could happen, though it was unlikely. And I remember sitting there looking at my mom while she talked on the phone to my grandmother with my jaw wide open screaming, "Why the hell not?". I admire Obama, not because our skin colors match, but instead because of his amazing sense of what is important to the people he will be representing. At the same time though, for the first time, I started to really understand what it means for America to have a black president. We've gone into a new age! We've finally gone past a lot of the hatred and tensions between the different people that create the America we live in! We've made it! I understand that this doesn't mean that all tensions are officially dissolved, but this is a huge huge HUUGEE step towards the "ideal" America that we've always learned about in elementary school, with our patriotic songs and poems. It is these moments that make me proud to be an American. When so many people can come together, and consider something like race to be insignificant. And instead really focus on the issues at hand. I am just so happy.

I wish this were all more eloquently written, but considering the fact that I am completely speechless, I think I've said enough.

  YES WE CAN has now become YES WE DID

Congratulations to Barack Obama

& Congratulations to the United States of America.

BISOUBISOUBISOU!!!!!

Fréd