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Today was the big day! Joe Biden has been sworn in as our vice president. Barack Obama is now our forty fourth president. I watched this historic inauguration at home. I felt so relieved when he finally took office. The inauguration is simply a formality because at noon the president elect becomes president anyway. President Bush is finally gone. He left Andrew’s Air Force base and is headed to Midland,Texas. Many people went to the inauguration. I doubt there will ever be that many people at an inauguration  ever again. Today begins a new chapter in the lives of all Americans. Hopefully, our problems will be solved. I know it will take years to repair the damage that was done during the last eight years. I am hopeful though. Today, we all feel like anything is truly possible. How did you feel about the inauguration? I thought that the new President gave a great speech.

Today, I watched some of the coverage of President Elect Barck Obama, his wife Michelle, Vice President Elect Joe Biden , his wife Jill and their guests go on their train tour. The train tour started in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and ended in Washington, D.C. MSNBC, CNN, and even Fox News covered the train tour. Many people flocked to the stops that the train would make. They wanted to just get a glimpse of Barack Obama. Barack Obama and Joe Biden both made remarks. As we all know, Joe Biden has taken the Amtrak train from Delaware to Washington every day for years. It was a great send off for the man. I really thought that the train tour was a great idea.Many people are so involved in this election and they want to be a part of history. What did you think of the train tour today? Did you like it?

Joe Biden seems like such a great gentleman, He still takes the Amtrak train home to Delaware. He is such a breath of fresh air to the post of vice president. He seems like a people person whereas Dick Cheney seemed to be secretive and closed off. I feel like we can all trust Joe Biden. He has years of experience in politics but can have fun and laugh. He seems like a very intelligent person, and really shows that he wants to be in public service for all the right reasons. I saw him on Larry King Live and I have to say that I was impressed. He answered the questions eloquently and he seems like he enjoys talking to people, even the media. His daughter and his wife were killed in an accident many years ago but you can still tell that the man is still hurting from his loss. He has a wife named Jill, who is a teacher. He always talks about her so you can tell that he is a family man and loves his wife and family. His son Beau is even serving in Iraq. I think that the changing of the guard at the vice president’s office will be a smooth transition. Joe Biden is a great man and will be a great vice president.

I heard today that Vice President Elect Joseph Biden will not be allowed to attend democratic caucus meetings. The democrats want to bar the vice president from sitting in on their internal deliberations. This is because of Vice President Dick Cheney who expanded the role of the vice president when he was not supposed to. According to reports,Vice President Elect Biden agrees that there needs to be balance. There needs to be more balance in the United States senate. The only reason that Biden should be involved in senate deliberations in my opinion is when the senators cannot come to a consensus. I think this can be a good thing because the senators would vote the way that they want. Many republicans felt pressured to vote with Dick Cheney and the White House because he was alloed to be in the senate’s interal delberations. It is time to undo what went wrong and rectify the situation.

President Elect Barack Obama will name more of his cabinet members soon. He is working very fast and making very good selections as far as I can tell. We all know that he has picked Senator Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state and Bill Richardson as his commerce secretary. He has picked Susan Rice who was his foreign affairs adviser to be his United Nations ambassador.President Elect Barack Obama has decided that Eric Holder will be his attorney general. Eric Holder had helped him with his search for a vice presidential running mate. Janet Napolitano who is an Arizona governor has been selected to be President Elect Obama’s homeland security secretary. This cabinet has really taken shape. One person I would like to see included is Colin Powell. He is such a great man, he really needs to be included in President Elect Obama’s cabinet.What do you think of all of these picks?

Okay, as we all know, the GOP or the Republican party was not happy on Election night. They lost house and senate seats and now Barack Obama who is a democrat is president. I think that the real problem that lead to the party’s undoing was the fact that they had no real leader. Now, George Bush is a Republican but he is not the leader of the Republican party, they all voted and said no to president Bush literally and figuratively. There are no real stars in the Republican party at all. Sarah Palin is a conservative and does speak to her base but her qualifications or lack of qualifications were her downfall. Mitt Romney is a well spoken man, he knows a lot about economics and he was the governor of Massachussetts. However, the likeability factor is not there at all. Even John McCain dd not like Mitt Romney enough to pick him as his vice presidential running mate. Rudy Giuliani has been married three times and Catholics do not like him, he could never be the leader of the Republican party because of religious aspects and the fact that he was just a mayor. So, who will run the Republican party? I mean maybe they need to start looking for a new leader with a fresh face because no one seems to have that magic spark that inspires people. Who do you think should run the Republican party now that the party is in such turmoil?

Last night was a historic night in the history of the United States. Barack Obama, a senator from Chicago, Illinois became our country’s first African American president. Mwai Kibaki, the president of Kenya declared today a public holiday in Barack Obama’s father’s native country of Kenya. I was amazed that the election was over by eleven o’clock. This country finally did what I never thought they would ever do- put aside its racist prejudices and elect an Afrcian American to the highest office in the land. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech was so well-written and eloquent. I also thought that John McCain tried to reach out his hand to help his supporters deal with the fact that John McCain and Sarah Palin were not elected to public office last night. I hope that Barack Obama can bring everyone in the country together- democrats, republicans, and independents. It is crucial to our country’s success that we all work together and change the attitude of our country. Everyone seems like a weight has been lifted off of their shoulders, they know that the world change last night. I saw people in front of the White House yesterday with signs saying why can’t we evict Bush now? I guess change cannot come soon enough for everyone. I will always remember the day that an African American became president. I saw Oprah and Jesse Jackson cry in the crowd, that is how moving this historical event is. What did you all think of yesterday’s victory for Barack Obama?

Today is Election Day in the United States. As you all know, I am happy and bouncing off of the walls because today we will have our answer as to who will be taking office in January of 2009. I wonder if President Bush will call Barack Obama if he wins the election. I mean Barack Obama and John McCain have spent this entire election season trying to distance themselves from George W. Bush. Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Bob Barr and other candidates are on the ballot but we have yet to really see them on any political news shows such as Hardball, Countdown, and the Rachel Maddow Show. I mean I think everyone who is put on the ballot should be allowed to debate not just John McCain and Barack Obama but it is too late to do anything about that now since today is the day that we have all waited for. Please everyone vote today, it is so important. I know some people will say that they won’t vote because they do not like either candidate but when you need surgery that will save your life you have to make two choices to have the surgery or not, you don’t like the idea but you still have to make a choice in order to protect your life. I am excited that a new president will be elected today. How about you?

Yay! Let’s get out our party hats and whistles because tomorrow is the day that we have all been waiting for. I am sort of dreading Election Day because I am afraid that McCain will steal the election. Election Day is tomorrow, I am literally jumping for joy. I am surprised that it has come down to Barack Obama versus John McCain. I would have thought that Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney would have been the Republican nominee for president of the United States. I also thought that Hillary was a shoo in because of her political connections and the fact that she is so well known for being Bill Clinton’s wife and a former first lady of the United States. I have to give Hillary credit forrunning a strong campaign, it really did come down to the end. I think that her vote for the Iraq war really did her in. As for Rudy Giuliani, well he skipped many states during primary season and thought that having been a mayor on September eleventh would automatically make him president. He showed his true colors at the Republican National Convention by bashing Obama and community organizers. I am pretty sure that Rudy Giuliani’s hopes of being president ever are pretty well gone. I am surprised that he even calls himself a Republcian especially having been a New York City mayor but who knows? I just cannot wait for tomorrow. I am beaming ear to ear. How about you?

Election Day is Tuesday and I am so incredibly happy to have this election finally come to a close. My wife voted by absentee ballot, she hates to stand in long lines especially since we have a toddler. Everyone should vote if they want to make their voices heard. Some people decide to not vote, which is fine but just do not complain about who the president is when you did not even want to cast your ballot for a particular presidential candidate. I hope that this election is not like the Al Gore/ George Bush election where there is a notion that the election had been stolen from Al Gore due to Florida ballot recounts. I want this election to go down well with there being a clear winner so that our country can move on from the George W. Bush eight years that have not been good or productive for our country. I have no more patience for hearing about this election after November 5th. I just want closure and I know that you all do to. I wonder what we will be talking about since for the last eighteen months we have been discussing this upcoming election.