Barack Obama makes history

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Crowds, excitement and landslide

President-elect Obama has his hands full.

There is an economy hurting on all levels, an international community wearily looking towards America as a leader as a victory is slowly pulled out of Iraq and an American assault is started anew in Afghanistan.

Then, there are millions facing foreclosure or already suffering through it. The stock market is acting like a yo-yo and corporate bailouts are haunting the electorate. Yet, amongst all this down news, tens of thousands, in same cases hundreds of thousands, of people flocked to witness history in Obama.

Whether it St. Louis weeks prior to the election that saw crowds over 100,000 or the 200,000-person three-day rally run through Ohio last week that ultimately saw a victory in that state, America came to see Obama.

When it comes to the future, with President Obama at the wheel, from the election returns it appears that America is comfortable with the ride even though currently the road is quite bumpy.

How Obama will govern

Obama's top priority, as he has said in the last week, is energy independence. Watch for the candidate Obama to make good on a promise to make the country free from the need of foreign oil imports.

With limited funds due to the economic crisis, Obama believes that science and American ingenuity is set for a triumph that will show the world how to move, operate and jet towards the future without draining the earth of its natural resources.

Obama's belief is that if America harnesses the technology and know-how to produce alternative forms of energy that will power the planet, the U.S. will once again be the dominant leader in the world. In that effort, the country will also serve as the model for the truest hope for spreading its virtues of striving to build the more perfect union.

The President-elect also firmly believes in a woman's right to choose and with as many as three Supreme Court justices expected to retire in the next four years, that right appears safe for the next four years.

President-elect Obama's November 4 victory speech

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