Great change

By; Sarah Keller

Ever since Obama was announced to be Americas next president I have been hearing great news. Of course there are still some people out there who are not very happy with the outcome and are more than willing to tell you how disappointed they are, but I must say that the news is doing a great job of showing their support toward Obama and speaking about how happy others are that he won and what good he is already doing for our country.

According to an article from the New York Times, Obama’s win was not a blow out, but it was a clearly cut win, so people can not try to argue the fact that he won the 2008 election. This was an election that many feel will change our country forever. According to an article from ABC.com “African Americans across the country are pinning their hopes on an Obama administration, seeing his victory as the ultimate fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King's ‘dream’ .” Many prominent African American leaders could not be happier about the outcome of our election, the article went on to discuss. I have read many articles that help to show how important the election was to different individuals, showing the emotional side of reporting, drawing me into the articles and making me want to read more.

An article in the Chicago sun times talked about how Oprah Winfrey announced that "It was the best paper of all the papers in the world”; referring to the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper the day after Obama was elected. The paper had to make 350,000 extra copies of the paper due to the overwhelming requests for extra papers. Obviously the Sun-Times paper was doing a great job of reporting and covering the big story making it so many wanted a copy of the phenomenal announcement.

Not only is it a big deal in America that Obama was announced the next president of the United States, but other countries are jumping on bored with celebrating the wonderful announcement.
An article from AOL news.com discussed how people in other countries are accepting Americans more, how it is now considered “cool” to be an American because of our new president. The article told a compelling story about a girl who was a stranger in Australia, but once people found out that she was American this last week, they started excepting her and showering her with kisses on the cheek.

All of these articles just go to show that a huge part of history was made last week, and that things are in for a change. The articles I talked about reported really well on the emotions of the readers and showed great support for our next president of the United States.