This is unbelievable! After all these years of being so disappointed, Finally we won! And North Carolina voters finally can make a difference. After voting here for 35 years, my vote finally counts.

We can now re-join the world with our heads held high.

Welcome back, USA! So exciting!

SWEET JUSTICE!

A welcome change after 8 years of crooked, arrogant, corrupt 'leadership"! Let us all hope that this is the end of the dominance of America by greedy, rich white men!

After the dirty tricks of the past two elektions and expectations built by the polls, I couldn't watch the returns on TV. I sat here and watched an old movie. I checked my email and saw the news. What a relief!

WE HAVE OVERCOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All my life I have wanted to vote for a true and decent leader. Now, our work truly begins.

This wonderful victory has come about because we the people of this country have begun to wake up and realize the democracy is a participatory government and for what we have been dreaming about an Obama presidency will come about only with our continued diligence and pressure on all lawmakers to bring about a government of, for and by the people. No longer can we be fearful of our leaders but it's time that we put fear of the people in the hearts of our leaders.

Please remember to say thank you to the unseen powers of Spirit, and God's Love and Grace that made all of this possible, even tho' in so many ways the opinion of the world said it could not be done. With God, with Spirit, all things are made possible. God Bless President Obama, God Bless America. Thank you Lord for this great Blessing you have helped us to manifest.

This man has been a class act since day one. I am prouder of my country than I have been for a very, very long time.

As an expartriate living in Bangkok, I can assure you we Americans here are sighing with great relief. The Bush nightmare will end and there will not be another Republican nightmare to replace it. Now, Pelosi, the feckless, virtually useless Speaker of the House had better put impeachment on the table. We need to impeach Bush and Cheney as soon as possible. That wimp Pelosi shouldn't be afraid any onger of her covert, special-interest handlers. Now she should be afraid of her fellow Democrats who will hopefully dethrone her in January. One does worry about the madness of W and Cheney. Very evil and sick people who know they are in for many criminal indictments and civil suits as soon as they leave office. One worries what such desperate people will do.

I once believed a Democrat elected after an abysmal Republican dynasty (Reagan-Reagan-Bush I) would lead to substantially more change that would fundamentally switch the course of the country. But years and years of research, reading alternative media like Truthout and others and watching the results of planning and policy demonstrate that anything goes. There are no guarantees regarding campaign promises, there are no major course changes, and setbacks are harder to overcome and even rarer to progress beyond. As President-Elect Barack Obama speaks to the hundreds of thousands gathered in Chicago's Grant Park, I am reminded that for every hope for change we have twice as many experiences that entrenched power will continue to serve power - fundamentally unchanged - absolutely. I wish us all the best of education and action, for it is only our action and voice that will continue to evaluate and apply the pressure that is the will of popular sovereignty. All power to all the peoples!

Hope reigns eternal.

From a small trade school in Lancaster Pa (early in the Campaign) Through all the great States of this Union, To the White House! I can once again believe in the power of the vote! No keating 5 !, The dirty tricks did not prevail! America has made it's voice heard! We want integrity, and a fair chance at the American Dream! A Country we can again be Proud of! and be a part of! htnusa

Yea!!!! Finally Great Joy!!!! YEAAAAAA!!!!!

Yes, we can! Yes, we did! And now the work of patriotic courage by all of us begins in a very different way. I have always believed Barack Obama would be the best choice; I feared for him, but I never, ever stopped fighting for him. What an impeccable campaign and honest and hard fought win. I wish he grandmother had been able to see this day...I'm thrilled that I have. Onward!

Now my friends here in my country, Australia will understand why I have always had affection for America. Whew! I am so impressed with this beginning,as are, according to the polls here last week, 80% of my fellow Australians. Welcome back!

I guess its true: God looks after children, drunks, simpletons and the United States of America.

In the immortal words of Grace Slick, "It's a new dawn."

My joy knows no bounds. To see that lovely family, victorious, on stage in Chicago brought me to tears. As an immigrant to this country 45 years ago, all I can say is THANK YOU to all the brave, loyal Americans who BELIEVED in President Obama and helped us to reclaim our country and our democracy! You are absolutely AMAZING! I have never been so proud. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

The whole world is watching. Truth, honesty and decency prevailed. For many months, myself and many many volunteers spread the word and the TRUTH. We talked to anybody and everybody who would listen in person, on the phone and over the internet. We showed the country that he could win a state like NC in the primary. On this important day I stood at the polls in western NC for six hours enduring the lies and filth that came out of the mouths of the McCain voters with dignity. One old man refused a sample democratic ballot saying, "I'm not a muslim". He and Palin encouraged that hatred and vitriol. I hope that she gets what she deserves from the Alaska voters. NC proudly elected these truly qualified women: We have a new Democratic Senator: Kay Hagan who defeated Bush rubber stamper Elizabeth Dole and Democrat Beverly Perdue will become North Carolina's first female governor . ...

Congratulations to President Obama, congratulations to all those who worked so hard for this day. WHAT A RELIEF!!!!

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!!!!!! NO, NO, NO McPALIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I AM OVERJOYED THAT WE FINALLY HAVE AN INTELLIGENT, PEACEMAKER TO HELP BRING THE UNITED STATES TO A BETTER. MORE EVOLVED PLACE IN SO MANY AREAS. THANK ALL OF YOU WHO WORKED HARD TO HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN. THANK YOU OPRAH, GAYLE, MARIANNE WILLIAMSON. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE YOU.

Am an American Expat living abroad who has been too afraid to return to my country ruled by the Bush despot fascist dictatorship. Now, finally, after more than 8 years, I can come home again! FINALLY! Hurrah! Congratulations, Obama! Congratulations, freedom and democracy! No more waterboarding! No more police state! No more "no fly" lists, and no more stupid "Homeland Security". FINALLY a country I can once again recognize as approaching the one I grew up in.

This has to be one of the most satisfying days of my long life. Over the past Eight years..and specifically the last Four years.. I am sure that I have made quite a number of my friends and acquaintances most unhappy with me for my determined and unrelenting support of a young black man for President of these USA. I may have even helped some of them to see the light..even if they are too proud to ever admit it. But this man, named Barack Obama, is now Our President. He will never know how hard I have worked for him in the quiet of the day and night, even when my back hurt and my eyes refused to stay open. It has been worth it for now I have a President that I can be proud of. I will not have to cringe every time he opens his mouth to speak in our name. We finally have a President that the whole world can have trust in his word. A President that we can all Respect. We now have a President that will not Threaten the world with the power of our Arms. We now have a man that respects the peoples of every nation.

Actual dancing in the streets happened in Seattle outside Cafe Racer in the U-District! Free at last! HOPE for the first time in eight looooong years!

This has to be one of the most satisfying days of my long life. Over the past Eight years..and specifically the last Four years.. I am sure that I have made quite a number of my friends and acquaintances most unhappy with me for my determined and unrelenting support of a young black man for President of the USA. I may have even helped some of them to see the light..even if they are too proud to ever admit it. But this man, named Barack Obama, is now Our President. He will never know how hard I have worked for him in the quiet of the day and night, even when my back hurt and my eyes refused to stay open. It has been worth it for now I have a President that I can be proud of. I will not have to cringe every time he opens his mouth to speak in our name. We finally have a President that the whole world can respect and whose word we can all trust. We now have a President that will not Threaten the world with the power of our Arms. We now have a man that respects the peoples of every nation. It is now time to put aside our differences and stand behind President-elect Obama. We must not let him down. I am sure that he will never let us down.

Finally we can look forward into the light and have some hope for the future. i am less scared and more hopeful. the crowd in chicago looks amazing too every color every person unique, history has never looked so good well maybe since JFK. let's hope he does not have any negativity directed toward him. one of the happiest days of my life!

Tonight that shining light on the hill burns brighter than ever.

The fight will never end, of course, but tonight our democracy has been pulled back from the brink of disaster. A big thank you to everyone out there who voted for Obama and worked so hard to assure his victory! Yes we can!!

The greatest political moment I have witnessed in my life.

Congratulations to ALL of the US citizens from Germany! We are truly fascinated with this turn of events! Everybody over here is happy like the proverbial pig in the mud. Finally, we can listen to a speech of the american president again without cringing in embarrassment! Welcome back to the world! To all those who have concerns about a possible coup d’état involving the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team: my son currently serves in this unit as master sarge. He's finally back home in Ft. Stewart, Ga. after doing 2 tours of duty in Iraq and he tells me he hasn't heard anything odd that would indicate such acts of treason currently being planned or implemented. Yes, it's true: the dirty movers and shakers behind the scenes wouldn't really discuss such acts of treason with a lowly non-comm –– but at the same time his job assignment puts him in a position to know ahead of all large scale deployments and major logistic events. While there has indeed been a training for parts of his unit involving non-lethal weaponry, crowd control tactics, and disaster relief work that isn't normally considered part of the duties of an Infantry unit (but rather that of the National Guard) it still looks like the next stop for the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team will be Afghanistan in early 2009.

Words cannot adequately express my deepest thanks to all who worked so hard for making this message of real hope and necessary change to be the leading force for our nation. Please also take a quiet moment to remember those who paid dearly during these long, painful, horrible past eight years.

We've lived with a dunce in the White House for eight long years. A man who had every opportunity to enrich his life with trips to museums, opera houses, concert halls, musical theatre venues, great sport events, travel opportunities, etc. But his poor undeveloped brain would not call him to take the opportunities to enlighten himself. He instead high-tailed it back to God-awful Crawford as often as he could. Imagine that we have lived under this kind of "leadership" for ninety-six months. Now imagine the next four (or eight) years under the leadership of a man who pulled himself up from the most humble beginnings to become President of the Harvard Law Review, learned to speak so well that he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand, who became a constitutional law professor at the prestigious Univ. of Chicago, and who put together what many consider the best organized political campaign in U. S. history. This country will get it all back together now.

I think this is a victory for Democracy, a big one at that. I didn't believe that Obama can win in USA. There is hope and hopefully some future. - Ram, India

I continue to be surprised by the fact that many people still believe that Bush was the one calling the shots during the last 8 years. He was most certainly not the "decider" - that was all being done for him by his puppetmasters. Now with Obama, we can only hope that he pulls his own strings.

Now it is "Yes we did".. where were you on this day,at this time? I was in a taxi in Melbourne Australia an d I shall never forget the moment when I thought "Thank God". Best Rick

Only the beginning. May the real work begin.

The crowd surged on to Cedar Avenue in the West Bank area of Minneapolis tonight. Somali women in flowing scarves, white guys with dreadlocks pushed up into knit caps, young guys with neat beards and pork pie hats, a woman drummed on an overturned plastic bucket and a skinny fellow played the yellow plastic newspaper kiosk, hundreds dancing shouting laughing. The cops kept people out of the middle of the street, and the crowd cooperated by letting traffic pass and waiting for the walk light to cross. What a change from the RNC when they hide between ninja turtle suits, arrested and charged people with felony riot for dancing in the streets. Inside Palmer’s Bar, ancient Cornbread Harris jammed with Cadillac Kolstad sang, there’s a Riot Goin’ On.. The air was soft and warm, the sky full of stars. What a difference a day makes.

My faith in humanity and democracy is restored! Congratulations America on making the right decision. You have no idea how much it means to the rest of the world.

Congratulations to President-elect Obama's millions of volunteers who got him to this point Also, applause to McCain for an exceptionally gracious concession speech.

I remember the hope that I felt when Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, hope that soon turned into abject disappointment and that led me to vote against him in 1996, against his minion, Al Gore in 2000, and against his wife, Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential primary elections. While Obama was clearly a better choice than McCain (in the same way that Clinton was a better choice than Bush back in 1992) I don't have very high expectations for Obama and doubt he'll accomplish very much. I expect he'll throw away his opportunities to affect positive change, damage the Democratic Party, and break my heart the way that Bill Clinton did.

Actually, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Last night, God Blessed America

Congratulation America, enjoy, enjoy- and wake up! The great leader has done his job, now it is our task to change the things.

Change for a better world he will deliver!

When Jimmy Carter became President I was worried because he had come from nowhere. And - to paraphrase Gertrude Stein - in American politics there is no nowhere there. Like Carter, Obama got an enormous amount of corporate money and was backed by some of the most repressive elements in the world. This is not the time to sit back and wait ... this is the time to help create a genuinely participatory democracy. -- Hey, America it's time to leave the couches behind [ie., move your behinds off the couches] and get it done. The fate of the world is really in our hands. I genuinely believe that this is a guy who can listen. SO COMMUNICATE!

The interesting thing to me is that 131 million registered voters actualluy activated thier right to vote. This is about 65 per cent of the voting public. Now, the work begins. We shall see what the Senate and the Congress does and hopefully, they will follow thier constituency. And don't forget the Supreme Court and the newly elected state representatives - they too must keep the higher law of a democratic value in heart and mind - which comes from us - the population: " ...of the people, for the people and by the people."

He is a phenomenon. I could not help but shed tears when I listen to this victory speech. God bless America!

Our world WILL BE a safer place because we now have a President who has the qualities of leadership like no other before him. I know he will bring relief to many who have suffered and will bring promise to our land and abroad. His leadership and friendship with our foes will melt their hearts and save us All.

This is our wake up call! This is our chance to be heard! This is our chance to roll up our sleeves and do something good for our country! This election signals the demand for participation. There is no room for complacency. We elected Barack, now let's get behind him and make this great nation great once more, from the ground up, like he taught us!

Now we must work together to restore what has been stolen from us and stop the last ditch effort by the Bush administration and the corporatocracy to install a police state and eviscerate what is left of our constitution. We must be vigilant over these next few months until inauguration day and forever afterward. Let's work together to restore the constitution and bill of rights. Let's never go down this path again – never, ever, again!!! See Bush’s final agenda: http://www.truthout.org/103108A See links below: First Australia, now the EU and US Internet Censorship to follow: Ralph Nader said millions of dollars were given to Microsoft in the Wall Street Bailout bill. See why below: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5006025.ece Australia, now the EU moves toward Chinese model of Internet censorship: http://oldthinkernews.com/Articles/oldthinker%20news/eu_set_to_move.htm

This not only a repudiation of 8 years of failure but also the so-called Reagan Revolution and the administrations that followed. Take it a couple of steps even further: The promise set forth by Senator Robert Kennedy's 68' campaign is once again on track. Liberalism seemingly could not recover following an assassin's bullet and Nixon gang... But liberalism has found new life in 2008. We are back and must stay resilient . The Right must never take our American identity from us again

The post that said, simply: "I awoke to a Black president; he, too sings America" put so succinctly exactly what I felt today, November 5th, 2008. I'm a middle-aged white woman who has almost completely calcified into a Cynic; for decades I've watched the greedy neo-cons take and kill and destroy. Hope was almost entirely gone when Barack ran for President. Many times I considered running away - France, Canada, anyplace where basic decency is still practiced . . . Now, America becomes that place again. My Lord! What a morning!

Now, for the first time since 2000, I can feel proud to be an American again. Thanks to all who got involved, to those who voted their hopes and not their fears.

Good show for Obama winning the election. This is clearly better for America than an election won by McCain. But lets take the rose-colored glasses off and look at some sobering realities and possibilities. As the famous quote says - "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance". We must continue our vigilance focused on the NeoCONs, who are in fact America's most dangerous enemy. We cannot rule out a NeoCON engineered event that might allow Bush/Cheney to declare martial law prior to Obama's inauguration. We also cannot rule out an attempt at a coup d'etat like that which was attempted on FDR many years ago. The Democrats must maintain vigilance against enemies within its own ranks (Pelosi, Reid, etc.). Once in power, Obama must immediately initiate a radical purge of all NeoCONs within our Government. He must also eliminate all influence from religious fundamentalists in our Government, particularly DOD (religious fundamentalists are tools of the NeoCONs). Energy independence is a goal worthy of pursuing, but if this is done without the energy majors being involved, then this will be tantamount to declaring open war on the NeoCONs/Fascists/Corporatists, with unpredictable results. NeoCON involvement also exists within the framework of the two wars (occupations) we are currently embroiled in, the Global War on Terror (GWOT), and the current financial crisis. Solving these major problems will unavoidably mean having to bang heads with the NeoCONs. This is why the NeoCONs must be removed from all positions of influence. Obama had to make deals with interests in order to even have a shot at the presidency (just like any other president). We need to determine who those deals were made with, and how this will affect his policies once in office. If he made deals that he goes back on once in office, then we could see another repeat of what happened to JFK, and most of us don't want that.

Neo-cons, liberals, religious right.....the task before President elect Barack Obama is to eliminate the opportunity men who operate within the ranks of both parties and all ideologies to take America back. The outsourcing of our intelligence to organized crime, foreign intelligence services, and the incompetent and unsupervised military industrial complex has allowed the erosion of our Constitution and democracy. If Americans take a hard look at the way we have been subverted, it was done in the same way syndicated organized crime takes over a city: from law enforcement services on up, and UP is where these guys have risen. The CIA and FBI, once agencies of integrity are corrupted to the point of being totally ineffective if not incompetent: one need look no further than 911 for confirmation of that fact. Congress has allowed the "intelligence community's" to operate with no oversight, which has allowed and expanded corrupt relationships among opportunity peddlers to thrive - to the detriment of our national security, but not to worry, the same who caused the problem will head the investigations and information will be withheld from the people so they are not embarrassed or held accountable. The CIA needs to get out of our states, get out of the drug business, get out of the business of overthrowing regimes that displease one particular man at one particular point in time only to replace him with someone even worse and get back into the business of intelligence gathering. Our courts need to get back to the business of administering justice, even when it is unpleasant and politically inconvenient because the truth does matter. Until we have leaders who are not so beholden to the "Safari Club" type intelligence apparatus's of the world, nothing will change for the better. The President cannot effect this on his own, but needs Congress and needs the people. If we do not remain engaged in the process but continue to allow our Congressional leaders to lie, cheat, steal, and cover up for their pals who lie, cheat, steal.... we'll lose everything. It takes several generations to build a democracy, but only one generation to destroy one. We're at a crossroads here and democracy is in the crosshairs. The question is not what President Obama will do, but is "What will you/we do?"

Barack Obama deserves celebration for managing to become the first man of color elected President. I unhesitatingly congratulate him too. But Barack Obama did not simply become President because he is a skilled orator who exudes leadership. He has been vetted and contributed to by those whose stranglehold on the money-power of America could decide who was elected. Moreover, his views had consistently moved rightward as the campaign unfolded, gathering in undecideds and independents along the way. No loose cannon was he, and the rock star productioneering gave him a winning mantle, except for the presumptuous new, light blue, "presidential" seal that was designed for him on the campaign trail. And his vote for one $700 billion giveaway to corrupt financial institutions, his vote to damage the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, his commitment to stand by Israel no matter what terror they rained down on neighboring lands, his oft-ridiculed position that he would incur on Pakistani soveriegnty if he felt like it, to attack terrorists, all add up to a one-upped Clinton "liberalism" that isn't liberal at all. Of course Barack Obama has an opportunity here now that the campaign is over. When Barack Obama decides, under weight of all manner of politically motivated advisers who are triangulating and parsing words, whether to be expeditious or whether to do what is right by Americans who populate this nation not as voters, "occupants", or taxpayers, but as owners, facilitators, empowerers, supporters, cultivators, and educators, let Barack Obama remember that he was once an acorn, and was brought up by the Americans he will soon serve as President. Anything less from this front page celebrity of state will label him as complicit in the continued downward spiral which marks our current path. When is being positive a negative? When it is in denial of the truth.

We all have to be grateful to a nation that gave us the opportunity for life, liberty and happiness. But our host is now in trouble and it is payback time. Most Americans have always had a decent standard of living and should patriotically accept a raise in taxes. Those who never paid taxes can also have a chance to help the nation. Working as a community service worker would be the payback. Some of their many tasks would be to place the homeless and other unfortunates in millions of empty bedrooms. Our nation has many problems but together we shall overcome, and give back to a nation that gave us so much.