Behind the scenes of Chicago's Grant Park, there was excited mayhem.
More than 5000 reporters had requested access. There were 50 satellite trucks. When journalists were talking live, what you couldn't see on television were the other reporters often kneeling around their feet waiting their turn.
For most of us there it was a 18-20 hour day but no one was complaining.
These are the stories that are the dream of even the most seasoned journalists.
When word spread that Obama was about to being declared the winner, dozens of TV crews rushed to watch the crowd reaction. Their screams of joy echoed around the world.
It was hard not to get caught up in Barack Obama's message of hope. Having travelled around most of the battleground states for the past two weeks, you could see the inspiration on the faces of those who are normally uninspired.
Not since perhaps the election of Nelson Mandela has there been such a pivotal moment in the history of race.
Obama never ran as an African American. Just a man who wanted to be president.
But the fact that the colour of his skin in the end helped him, and was not a disadvantage, says a lot about the giant step forward this country has just taken.
I grew up in regional Australia and cannot truly understand the long civil rights struggle.
But as the father of an African American son, I will be excited to tell him that I was there.
He can now truly grow up knowing anything is possible.
Plus President Addison Amor has a ring to it!
Comments
Congrats Obama! - now lets see if you can turn back USA's downward slide into destruction as God has promised he would allow, for all nations (including Australia, UK etc) who pretend to follow HIM, but are doing hypocritical acts like MURDERING BABIES, SUPPORTING HOMOSEXUALITY, POISONING the sick with TOXINS, and not removing poisons from foodstuff (art. preservatives). etc...
Jan 23 08:49 pmCongrats Obama! - now lets see if you can turn back USA's downward slide into destruction as God has promised he would allow, for all nations (including Australia, UK etc) who pretend to follow HIM, but are doing hypocritical acts like MURDERING BABIES, SUPPORTING HOMOSEXUALITY, POISONING the sick with TOXINS, and not removing poisons from foodstuff (art. preservatives). etc...
Jan 23 08:50 pmWhat is popular politics. Band aid politics. Reactionary politics
Mar 31 12:04 amWe treat the effect, not the cause. And this sort of garbage is fed by the newspapers and TV. They live on it.
In Australia where is the future planning to cope with living in the 25th century.
Educational systems, universities, public health, wealth sharing.
If you are not a billionaire, you are a slave to the capitalist system.
Wake up to world. Start a freedom party based on shared resources FINANCIAl PRISONERS
Lets start the FREEDOM PARTY IN AUSATRALIA
Mar 31 12:09 amGeorge Bush is menatlity retarded and criminaly insane! Anyone that feels GB was a hero is another coward hding behind his PC screen and fantasizeing about how much cruler and lawless they could be had they a chance to be President. But worse still are the total idiots in Amrerica that gave their votes to a refarl animal.
Apr 25 06:04 am