Yes We Can!

I was really pleased that Barack Obama won the Presidential Election, I watched the results as they came in online and then on TV. It was such an exciting time to be in America, and his speech was impeccable, I knew as I watched that history was being made and it would be one of those 'where were you when..?' moments.

So America has its first black president. Doesn't it?

No...it doesn't. Barack Obama is bi-racial, born to a white mother and black father. He's just as black as he is white but people fail to see past his darker exterior and for ease it seems, call him black. I'm not bothered, I just wanted to point it out :)

I wish him the best of luck and really hope he can turn things around for the US, these were some of my favourite parts of his acceptance speech:

As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, "We are not enemies, but friends…though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection." And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn -- I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time -- to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth -- that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can