Obama for the Win!

At 2:30 this morning I was awake and couldn't sleep! I needed to know what was going on at home. I turned on my computer and found that CNN had the electoral votes at 175 for Obama and 68 for McCain and Obama winning the popular vote, but with 270 electoral votes needed I wasn't about to stay up and nervously watch the numbers come in.

At 4:30 this morning I woke up again, sure that some preliminary results would be up. I waited for my computer to find a wireless signal so I could search the internet and hopefully see the result I has been waiting for. I was a little scared that McCain would be the winner and in the process of 2 hours he would have taken over in a come back... But he didn't! The results were 338 OBAMA and 160 for McCain. OBAMA WON?!?!?!?! I saw what was in front of me but needed more confirmation. Aim, Facebook, anything to get me a connection to anyone I knew in the states. Thankfully there were tons of people online, watching the history that was happening around us. With confirmation that Obama was indeed the President Elect, I felt so excited and SO glad that I voted before I left for the UK. To miss being a part of something so huge would have been shameful. Imagine telling my children or grandchildren that I didn't vote in the biggest election in US history! Yikes!

At 5:00 this morning I watched President Elect Barack Obama deliver his speech to the US and it was chilling. He just has a way about him that makes you want to stand up and do something, believe that there is good out there and that the president of the United States CAN be a good, stable and SMART person. He's so aware of what's going on, so real about the situation and not afraid to tell you exactly what's going on. That's why I voted for him and that's why he'll be good for our country. Change is GOOD you just have to embrace it!

"This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can."

- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America