President Barack Obama

Today was a great day in American history.  Something that many thought they'd never see.  A black man on the steps of the Capitol taking the oath to become the leader of the United States.  It is an incredible story.  Only a few decades ago, everything was divided by white and color.  For someone that grew up in the MTV and Nickeloden generation of everyone could be whatever they wanted to be, it's no surprise to me that this happened.  But I am sure for all those people today that were affected by the racial wars, this day was for them.  Something they'd never thought would happen.  

Today was special as it united everyone no matter what color, religion, democrat/republican, everyone was united together for the celebration of Barack Obama becoming President.  It was nice to watch two million people come out to watch him speak and to watch him parade down to the White House, everyone coming out to the inaugural balls, everyone was there to celebrate this time in American history.  When kids read the history books, and they read about the first decade of the new century of the new millenium, it will seem like there was no positive with 9/11, Iraq, an economy in turmoil.  The end of this decade brings the 44th President, the 1st to be an African American.  A special day for him, for America, for the world.

As fate would have it, today was a beautiful day, the sun was shining, although it was cold.  President Obama and First Lady Michelle got out of their limosine to wave to the people that were gathered to see them.  Screams that made it sound like the first time The Beatles arrived in America.  Go back to 2001 when Bush had his inauguration.  It was a rainy, brutally cold day. They were no screams of joy, but shouts of protests, they did not get out to walk.  The point of it all is today, the country was united behind one man, his lady, and their two darling kids.  For the youth right now, we learned about the Kennedy family, young, Camelot, fashion statements, hope.  This is our Kennedy family, the modern day, MTV generation Obama family.  We all have hope for the next four years.  We hope that Obama will bring change and he promises to do so.  But he tells us all that we have to help bring change to ourselves as well.  To have a President have faith in the American people, to have  a President talking to everyone.  It is something that many of us growing up are not used to.  Our minds were still growing when Clinton was President.  Many of us just remember him most for the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment.  We all know all to well living with George W. Bush as President.  Obama is our man.  We brought change and now he must help bring change.

President Obama will wake up tomorrow as President for the first time.  I wish him luck.  I hope that he will bring the changes that he promised he would.  He wanted to unite the people and to give them all hope.  He has done that and it showed on Inauguration Day.  But tomorrow is Day One of his Presidency, where there is no more campaigning, no more promises, only actions.  I just hope that he is able to deliver.  It will be a hard task, and it may take some time.  Obama has brought hope to me and to many that there will be a better day, hope for a better tomorrow.  Yes We Can elect him, and hopefully we'll be able to say Yes He Did change America and the world.  Here's the famous moment, and of course the botched oath