amazingly historical

Obama becomes first African-American nominee for President.

The AP reports that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has officially become the presidential nominee of the Democratic party. “I have been asked to inform you that Senator Obama accepts the nomination and will deliver his acceptance speech tomorrow night at the fourth night of the convention to be held at Invesco field,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced today. Obama is the first African-American nominee of a major political party and will accept the nomination on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

(Think Progress)
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We've known this would happen for a while and it's easy to almost take it for granted, but this is pretty phenomenal. I really didn't know if even I would live to see this happen.

Obama really does symbolize what America is supposed to be about - as opposed to bush, who symbolizes (and has mostly realized) the destruction of all that America stands for.