America elects first black President

Jesse Jackson openly weeping (after a few months ago saying he wanted to cut Obama's balls off).

I wonder what Dave Chappelle thinks.

How fascinating and historic that the same communities that were the most pissed off and tragically heartbroken at the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.... now... 40 years later they are the most joyful and energetic areas in American tonight.

Harlem, South Central Los Angeles, south Chicago, Washington D.C., Atlanta, etc etc

For me personally, Tennessee voted %60 for McCain (i.e. against Obama). That makes this Presidency the most unpopular ever in my home state.

ITS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

This is it.

I've been pulling for Obama since January/February of 2007. This will be the fourth semester of law school when the Obama possible victory was probably the most interesting sub-plot of my life (besides UT football of course).

1. The black turnout has been as high as 99% in some early voting in North Carolina. The effect this Obama presidency will have on black people will truly be historic. It will create a divide between those who realize and admit Obama's election has turned a new page in African history in America, and those that do not. The latter group will be those either stuck in the past, or who simply refuse to shed off the "victim-martyr" cloak. The latter group, IMHO, will have lost a great deal of credibility.

2. I hope there are not riots or looting in black areas. We've seen in many cases where a sports team wins (Chicago, Los Angeles) there will actually be rioting/looting in some of the poorest urban, mostly black areas of the city. I just hope that doesn't happen here.

3. Will McCain somehow steal this election? This time, the outrage will simply be unbelievable. If McCain somehow wins Pennsylvania (barely, just like W. won Florida in 2000, and Ohio in 2004), then I can completely understand rioting, burning and looting in the streets. That would be the THIRD time in as many Presidential elections when the dirty bastard lying rotten GOP has STOLE an election. People should riot because at that point, with the polls in PA showing a 10 pt lead, if McCain somehow won, in my mind, it COULD ONLY be because of something illegal. And that is just cause for rioting. A founding father of this nation said it better than I ever could, "When in the course of human events...."

4. Will Obama help me personally? Will he give more options to people who can't find work and are stuck with 50,000 plus student loans? Will he help people who work at small law firms that don't have a health care plan? Will his plan of allowing everyone to join the Federal Employees health care plan go through? Will Obama create more legal services jobs, governmental jobs, adminstrative agency jobs, that will help young lawyers find jobs? Will he lower the standard for forgiveness of debt, or create new programs to help people in non-profits get forbearance?
I don't know, but I know he's more likely to do any of those things than McCain.

God bless Barack Hussein Obama and God bless the United States of America.