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"I know you didn't do this just to win an election and I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime – two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you – we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."
Barack Obama
In case you've been in hibernation over the last day or so, Democratic Senator Barack Obama has been elected the first black president of the United States of America.
Congratulations are definitely in order for Obama making history. In 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated for a dream that his descendants could live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Forty years later America has elected their first black President, and there feels a sense of hope and optimism probably not felt since JFK.
I hope President-Elect Obama understands that the hopes of a nation wanting change now rests on his shoulders. Now is the time to make those hopes reality.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you – we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."
Barack Obama
In case you've been in hibernation over the last day or so, Democratic Senator Barack Obama has been elected the first black president of the United States of America.
Congratulations are definitely in order for Obama making history. In 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated for a dream that his descendants could live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Forty years later America has elected their first black President, and there feels a sense of hope and optimism probably not felt since JFK.
I hope President-Elect Obama understands that the hopes of a nation wanting change now rests on his shoulders. Now is the time to make those hopes reality.
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