The Moment

11pm: The western states come in for Barack Obama and he becomes our President-elect. This is a moment in time of which you cannot say enough—this is history, a moment many Americans never believed they would live to see. We are all lucky to have witnessed it.

After all the talk of Florida and Virginia and Pennsylvania and Missouri, it was once again Ohio that put a president in office. I’ve been surprised a few times tonight, but none more so than when Ohio went blue.

Here’s to Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the 44th President of these United States. You were the best choice. All of America should be proud of that. All of us. There is something beautiful about this man being selected to lead us all. A black son of a single mother with an exotic name is about to become leader of the free world—and the American voter is the reason why.