Tears

At around 11pm last night, CNN flashed something to the effect of "Breaking News: Barack Obama is President-Elect of the United States." I nearly cried, but didn't because I was surrounded by people. I mean, I don't think I'll cry at my wedding (I'm happy to be wrong on that though), but if I cried over the election? I'd never live that down.

What irks me, though, is that when Obama's name was mentioned in the McCain concession speech, there were boos. When McCain's name was mentioned in the Obama acceptance speech, there were cheers. Had the victory gone to the Republicans, I'm pretty sure that would still have been the case.

Even if he does nothing else in office, nothing is ever going to take away from the fact that we elected a black president named Barack Hussein Obama.

Twenty years from now, my children will ask me what the big deal was that we elected a black president in 2008. And that's beautiful.

I may name one of my children Hussein.