Kiana Cornish
November 9, 2008
Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th president of the United States of America. As a supporter of Obama, personally I was very excited that he won the presidential race. While watching the news, there were a variety of different reactions. Obama supporters were excited, and McCain supporters were booing Obama because they did not believe he should have won. This shows although Barack has won the race, there is still a percentage of people in the world who see him as a bad representative for America, they also view him as a terrorist, and a horrible threat to Americans. Many people believe that just because Obama has won the election, that Americas issues will now disappear...but the truth is they wont. Being that America is going through one of its worst financial crisis, Obama will not be able to resolve all of the issues that we face as a country. People expect so much from Barack, that when he isn’t able to turn everyone’s life around, he than will be looked at as another president who promised Americans a better life, but didn’t live up to his promises. This will serve as a good chance for republicans to say that America made a big mistake, and should have voted for McCain, although that would not have been the right answer to the problem. This will also make democrats look as if they don’t have much control over political and social issues. Overall Obama will have a lot of pressure on him as the new president, and that pressure will come from a variety of people in various situations.
In the neighborhood where I grew up, this is the first time in any election that I have witnessed hundreds of people going out of their way to make sure they voted on November 4th. I went with members of my family to vote, around 9:00a.m, and when I entered the voting site there were people there who I know, that I wouldn’t have expected to be voting. Many people from my neighborhood went to support Barack Obama, and to play a part in this election. It was very inspiring because some people who were 40, 50, or even 60 years old were voting for the first time in their life. Many of them had not payed attention to any election, in all their years of living, but this election interested them because it stood for change in America. During the 2004 election, when I went to the voting polls with my family, there were little to no people there voting. That election didn’t matter much to them because they didn’t have hope that they would benefit from having Bush or Kerry in office. This shocked me because it showed that Obama has really inspired different individuals to take a stand for what they believe in, and that every ones vote can actually make a difference. The part entire election that stood as the biggest influence, was when Barack actually won. This gave people hope they can be what ever they want to be in life, even if it seems out of their reach. Young African American men now have hope that their skin color wont limit them from doing certain things, and trying to make something of themselves in life. It gives African Americans hope that race will one day not be seen as something that matters in life, and it gives America belief that there is a change along the way.
