Why He Had to Win: Obama as Prozac for the Nation.

I am young, black, and I did not vote.

But Wednesday November 5, 2008 was a great day. I woke up in the morning and it hit me all over again. How great it was to see the Obamas walk across the stage, hand in hand, beaming from a victory! Did it really happen this soon? The word "change" kept spinning around my head. Is this what we wanted? Is this what change really feels like? I never bought into it before, but what a change is it regardless. Thank you Obama for being the Prozac needed for a depressed and deflated nation.

Obama had to win. He won the presidency because people were tired of it. After 8 years of all the bad news, they wanted to feel something other than dissapointment. They made the right choice. It was amazing to witness the huge shift of consciousness from uninterested citizen to active participant. Hilary could not have riled up enough inner city voters to stand in line for hours on end. And Palin was too much of a one-trick pony for any real woman to relate to.

He had to win because the entire world was watching, waiting and hoping. It would have been near to the last nail in the coffin on our international image if we had yet another four years of tyranny. Whether or not our so-called enemies were hoping for the most inexperienced candidate came second to the fact that the global community really wanted to like America again. And this makes Obama the Prozac for the entire world.

Wednesday felt like the day before Christmas. Subways, workplaces, delis, coffeeshops--all were buzzing from this historic event. "We changed the world," I overheard a vendor say to a customer, "and I never thought it would happen!" He seemed to be foreign but this was his victory too. I wept when he was announced president elect because I felt proud that a eloquent, upstanding, intelligent citizen will now represent and lead my country. Oh yeah, and he's African-American. And to those who are just waiting for him to screw something up, I say that this presidency is unlike any other because now we are ALL take part in the future of our country.

Let us mark this one in the history books as Our First Presidency.