#44 - barack obama
4/11/2008john mccain has conceded the american election, meaning that barack obama becomes america’s 44th president and the first non-white american president.
at the time of this post, obama had 333 points (needing 270 to win) to mccain’s 156 points. the democrats won 56 senate seats (needing 51 for control of the senate) and 235 house of representatives seats (needing 218 seats). this represents a landslide victory for obama and the democrats.
congratulations to barack obama on his amazing and historic win.
i think this is kind of appropriate, and funny!
btw, i don’t really like referring to obama as the first african american president. i think this type of language creates binaries and opposites, kind of us and them. while white and non-white are also opposites, i think it’s a lot less divisive.
here’s hoping that he puts america back on the path of being a truly great, free and democratic country … not the country of warfare and cronyism that it has been for the last eight years.