Yes We Can!!!

This day, November 4, 2008 shall be a day to remember throughout history. Today, America voted to turn a new leaf, we voted to start new and begin to live life the way so many of our Fathers had always dreamed we may. Today, we elected Barack Hussein Obama to be our leader and to steer us in a new direction, to get us out of this dark hole that we have slowly plummeted into, and to be our first leader who is not an elderly white man.
It is time for a change, not only economically or politically but it's time we changed the way we saw each other. It's time we saw each other as equals and Barack Obama is a great step in this direction. I have faith in this competent man and I believe he is the best choice for America and the change we so desperately need.
Through Obama's speeches of wisdom, he seems to be fully capable of taking on the responsibilities of our nation, but words mean nothing is what most of us are thinking. I will not doubt a respectable scholarly man such as Obama, and I am not. I'm simply saying that he can talk the talk, now he must prove to America that he can walk the walk.
His speech tonight was remarkable and honest and I am ecstatic to see that someone is finally seeing America through not just the fortunate's eyes but also seeing how us not so fortunate are living too. Obama has not only realized but pointed out the flaws in how America has recently treated our employed, and he has offered his views the Democratic way.

"We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off and look after a sick kid without losing her job, an economy that honors the dignity of work."

An economy that honors the dignity of work, that's something I can look forward to. It's something that we should all be proud to have and should of had all along.

"What is that American promise? It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have obligations to treat each other with dignity and respect."

This is one of the many parts of Obama's speech from tonight that spoke out to me and told me that he, like so many of us, is ready to see America change, to come together instead of being parted. To come together as people, soldiers of our own lives, the American family that we were meant to become. We may not always like each other, but he speaks the truth when he says we are obligated to treat each other with respect.

"Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves: protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools, and new roads, and science, and technology."

Government can't solve all of our problems, he is right. But they can do at least this for us as he mentioned. He can see these problems, and the first step in solving any problem is to first be able to point out the problem and then map out a plan to fix them.

I am proud of our decision today America, and I have complete and utter faith in the decisions that our newest leader might make for our nation, though I understand that not all of his decisions will be agreed with. May the four years following January twentieth two thousand and nine be blessed with new starts, open minds, and careful and beneficial decisions for and from our people.