Thank you, America! I am confident you made the right choice. I'd be lying if I said I am not getting a bit emotional right now... WOW.
You can watch Obama's victory speech on Election Night in Chicago here.
Oh, and yes, Obama's headline on NY Times hompage is 60px tall. SIXTY PIXELS TALL! When was the last time this happened!?
Obama Wins Election [NYTimes]
Obama Secures Historic Presidential Victory [WashingtonPost]
Barack Obama makes history [BostonGlobe]
Hard-Fought, Historic Contest Ends With Obama Victory [WSJ]
Obama inspires historic victory [CNN]
Barack Obama Wins Big: "Change Has Come to America" [Time]
President-Elect Obama [Newsweek]
Obama elected nation's 44th president [USAToday]
Obama's historic victory [SFChronicle]
Barack Obama elected president [LATimes]
Obama elected 44th president [NBC]
Obama's historic victory [Economist]
Obama captures White House win [Reuters]
Barack Obama to be America's first black president [Guardian]
Obama wins historic US election [BBC]
Obama elected US president [FinancialTimes]
Barack Obama elected next President of the United States after defeating John McCain [Telegraph]
Barack Obama je novym americkym prezidentom [SME.sk]
Obama zvolen prvnim cernym americkym prezidentem! [Blesk.cz]
Update: The New York Times has a great Op-Ed on Obama's victory and what it means for America:
This is one of those moments in history when it is worth pausing to reflect on the basic facts:An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white woman and a black man he barely knew, raised by his grandparents far outside the stream of American power and wealth, has been elected the 44th president of the United States.
Showing extraordinary focus and quiet certainty, Mr. Obama swept away one political presumption after another to defeat first Hillary Clinton, who wanted to be president so badly that she lost her bearings, and then John McCain, who forsook his principles for a campaign built on anger and fear. [...]
The Next President [NYTimes]
Update: Probably the greatest submission to Digg ever has received over 11,000 diggs and more than 1,200 comments so far. Please digg!!
Barack Obama wins the 2008 Presidential Election [Digg]
Update: SixApart, the developer of Movable Type, TypePad and Vox, wants at least some credit for Obama's victory:
[Via Twitter]
I really hope it will change the way America is seen all around the world.
I'm hoping for the best.
Speaking of Barack Obama:
Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
______________________
I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.