Sen. Obama's victory

On Nov. 4th, 2008, history has been made. The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, will become the nation's first African-American president. This presidential race featured junior Sen. Obama of Illinois vs. Sen. John McCain of Arizona. At the beginning of this election, both John McCain and Barack Obama were underdogs, below other prominent Democratic and Republicans such as Sen. Hilary Clinton of the Democrats and Mitt Romney and Rudy Juliani (NYC mayor during 9/11). Sen. McCain easily triumphed over his opponents in the Republican Party, with the only real opponent as Mike Huckabee. However, Sen. Obama had to fight his way through a series of tough primaries, becoming the official Democratic nominee at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. After winning the primaries, Sen. Obama fought a long, hard battle with Sen. McCain. He earned the 54% of the popular vote and won a massive landslide in the electoral college. Sen. Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009. He had ended his campaign road on the doorstep to the victory, becoming the first African-American to become the President of the United States.
I think this is a huge victory for African-Americans and the majority for Americans. It shows that they also dserve the equality promised to every American citizen. African-Africans have always been mistreated throughout American history, starting as the Declaration of Independence was written to the slavery crisis throughout the 19th century to the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Africans-Americans have been mistreated throughout American history, and now they have proven that they are equal to whites. Now, they have won the rights they have tried to earn for centuries.
I personally believe that electing Obama is good for the US economy. As Sen. McCain stated himself, he does not really know how to work with the economy, as his main point was national security. However, the basis of national security is so simple even a 8th-grader cna work through this- ists are angry that the US has bases around the world, especially Muslim nations, and wants the US to pull back out. Being the world's most prominent superpower, the US is unlikely to do so, but it seems pretty simple to me for the US to negotiate better terms with the Islamic extremists. The US has lost much of it's "good neighbor" image around the world, most notably in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. It is smart for Obama to talk about pulling out of Iraq as soon as possible; this reflects the popular opinion and what many world leaders would like. Many foreign heads of state has stated that they are happy that Obama, not John McCain, who to them is a warmonger similiar to George Bush, won the election. I hope Americans have chose a right president.

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