I told ya so (the good kind)

This is what a statesman, patriot and public servant sounds like. Working without notes, here is the tail end of the speech he just gave. Wow.

Hope is the bedrock of this nation, the belief that our destiny will not be written for us but by us. By all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, but have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

That’s what we started in Iowa.

That is the message we now carry to New Hampshire and beyond. The same message that we had when we were up and when we were down. The one that can change this country brick by brick, block by block, calloused hand by calloused hand - that together ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Because we are not a collection of blue states and red states, we are the United States of America and we are ready to believe again.

Senator Barack Obama. Future President of the United States. I'm still for a 3rd party or strong independent movement, but this makes me hopeful that change is coming. Watch this turn into a wave. 57% of young voters went to Sen. Obama compared to John Kerry's 35%.

MLK said that the white man has to forgive the black man his anger and the black man has to forgive the white man his fear. Sen. Obama's victory is going to be a sign for black Americans to start getting involved, that their vote counts, and NH, SC and NV are going to show it.