Change in 2008

I have kept an eye on both parties' candidates and I can't say that I had deeply researched any of them until recently. I have yet to fully support any one of the candidates yet but Senator Barack Obama's victory speech at the Iowa Caucus last night has given me hope for America's future. 

Leaving you with an excerpt from last night's rousing speech given by Senator Barack Obama:  

"But on this January night - at this defining moment in history - you
have done what the cynics said we couldn't do. You have done what the
state of New Hampshire can do in five days. You have done what America
can do in this New Year, 2008. In lines that stretched around schools
and churches; in small towns and big cities; you came together as
Democrats, Republicans and Independents to stand up and say that we are
one nation; we are one people; and our time for change has come.

You said the time has come to move beyond the bitterness and
pettiness and anger that's consumed Washington; to end the political
strategy that's been all about division and instead make it about
addition - to build a coalition for change that stretches through Red
States and Blue States. Because that's how we'll win in November, and
that's how we'll finally meet the challenges that we face as a nation.

We are choosing hope over fear. We're choosing unity over division,
and sending a powerful message that change is coming to America.

You said the time has come to tell the lobbyists who think their
money and their influence speak louder than our voices that they don't
own this government, we do; and we are here to take it back."