The Historic Victory of Barack Obama

After many months of campaign, Obama finally winns the election of 2008. Obama is the first black president of United States and hopefully not the last one. It looks like it isn't just the residents of the United States that are excited about Barack Obama's electoral victory. Celebrations are erupting across the globe, as people are looking forward to the end of US hostility and aggression. World leaders rushed to congratulate Barack Obama today, basking in the reflected glory of his election as America's first black president and looking forward to a new, less confrontational era in US foreign policy. There had never been any doubt that if the outside world had been eligible to vote in the US presidential election, Mr Obama's victory would have been virtually absolute. But electoral etiquette prevented foreign leaders from getting caught up in the fever until the ballots were in and it became clear that the young Illinois senator had sold his message of change to voters back home. His mixed-race families, his childhood exposure to plurality and the hard life of people in Jakarta, combined with his intelligence and compassionate feelings toward common people will make him a great president who respects differences, cares for the needy and loves peace.
When he has accomplished all of this, which I believe he can, it will be a victory for me and the world