I stayed up to watch it all go down last night, and I can tell you I didn't think I'd be sitting here typing in the dark and saying we have a new president already.
But we do. It was over so fast last night I didn't have time to process it. Our new president is Barack Obama.
I watched Jesse Jackson in the crowds in Chicago last night, crying because a black man had won. It's never been done before and Obama steamrollered McCain right into conceding.
He's got a lot of work to do. He doesn't get time to sit on his laurels. But I have to say, I'm really glad it was him that won. McCain supporters were still booing Obama even during the concession speech. Obama's supporters cheered when McCain's name went up (even if it was kind of quiet).
1968 was the year Martin Luther King, Jr. died, so it seems fitting that 40 years later a black man would win the race to the White House. If King were still around, he would be crying tears of joy.
I can only hope now that the man I and a lot of other people elected can do the job we hired him for, that his inexperience will turn into wisdom and that his work will start to turn things around for everyone.
God bless the new president. I will be watching on Inauguration Day, and praying that he does a good and fair job for all of us.
Bec Koshak
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