Energized Nation

Before midnight on Election Day, Tuesday, November 4, a concession call from Arizona Senator John McCain placed the 2008 presidential race in the history books forever. Hundreds of thousands Americans danced in the streets across the country. They cried for joy, they wept for the emotion of the moment and they beamed with pride.
Yes, the American public had elected the first African-American candidate in history to lead our nation at perhaps one of the darkest moments we have experienced in our 232 years as a country.
Illinois Senator Barack Obama had run an energetic, high-pressure campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe - immigrants, new Americans, older citizens - but especially the youth of our country.
The students and young adults picked up Obama’s message of hope and the need for change. They embraced his visions for an America where all things are possible, and that awakens the dream of our founders.
We saw this enthusiasm in our own families. Not since John F. Kennedy had a politician managed to capture the spirit of our polyglot nation with all its diversity.
Despite all of our economic woes and the worldwide financial crisis of the moment, we are sure that President-elect Obama will ultimately persevere and our nation will come out of the recession a better place to live and work for the multitudes.
We applaud his willingness to hit the ground running and make use of this valuable time between the ballots and the Bible on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009.
The “Energizer Bunny” of battery fame has nothing on Obama. We say good luck to you and thank you for such a loving “First Family.”
Grand Marshal Maloney