President-elect Barack Obama and vice president-elect Joe Biden meet with the Transition Economic Advisory Board in Chicago. (Getty Images / November 7, 2008.
For millions of Americans, 11:01 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Tuesday, Nov. 4, marked a moment of unbridled joy and disbelief that American history had brought the nation to this night. Barack Obama became the first black candidate elected to the nation's highest office.
Across the country, millions of Americans cheered in their homes, ran out into streets, honked horns and openly wept. Tens of thousands filled a Chicago park to hear Obama speak. Television pundits spoke of a country that had long wrestled with race knocking down a high wall.
To many, it was moment they thought they'd never see.
Senator John McCain astonished the political world on Friday by naming Sarah Palin, a little-known governor of Alaska and self-described “hockey mom” with almost no foreign policy experience, as his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
Senator Barack Obama accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in front of 80,000 people Thursday night at Invesco Field in Denver.
The speech by Mr. Obama loomed as arguably the most important of his campaign to date. It was an opportunity to present himself to Americans who were just now beginning to tune in on this campaign, to make the case against Mr. McCain and to offer what many Democrat said he has failed to offer to date: a idea of what Mr. Obama stood for, beyond a promise of change.
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06/02/2008
I'm not drinking this year, taking sometime to get this carcass back into great shape. Work is work and the family is fine. I need more time to get back to the thing the I enjoy; entertaining at home, trips to the city just to check things out ......