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I was talking about it with my wife and I used the Robinson analogy also. And the Little Rock Nine. Completely forgot about Joe Louis until one of the commentators brought it up. It had to feel like one of those events to people like my parents and my grandmother.

Course we were also asking so how come if that was the case, why wasn't I running around the house like a madman?

Partly cause I was dazed. I mean NBC said stay tuned, went to break and about 30 seconds later came back with a graphic on the screen Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America! Dude I didn't even get a "and we have breaking news!" :)

But I think it was also because as historic and improbable of an event this was, I was pretty sure by 9:30 that the impossible dream was about to come true. This election of all time was shaping up to be like that college "game of the century" a few months ago, you know OSU-USC. And that was a blowout, too (at least on the scoreboard).

This is a wild, crazy, "praise the Lord!!" kind of day. And let's do as our President elect said, work with him to make this country better.

I think the most grateful people should be the citizens of Missouri who do not have to suffer the nationwide media scrutiny of Florida and Ohio.

In my own brand of observance, I wore my big, siver, O-shaped earrings to work on Wednesday.  There was one woman who stared at me for a few seconds and said, "They're so big".  Gotta love that big corporate culture.  Note to self:  consider braided styles after inauguration.

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>>> Note to self:  consider braided styles after inauguration.<<<

Of course if you really want to freak out your colleagues you must add the dashiki to your ensemble.  ;-)

“D00d this is like...I don't know, a man landing on the moon for me.  There was no build up to this.  We were never the speaker or the Vice president or anything like that.”

What, [i]two[/i] recent Secretaries of State (the current one being a Black [i]woman![/i]), [i]and[/i] a long-time Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, isn’t enough of a built-up for ya?

How many Secretaries of State or Supreme Court Justices have later become President? I can't think of any. 

yeah tehy aren't really on a track to be president.  you die from one and retire fromt he other.  besides let women have Condi since they graciously gave up the Presidency this year.

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Well, Thomas Jefferson.  Which isn't a very recent precedent.

Good call, though.

“Which isn't a very recent precedent.”

Not a very recent president, either.  ;-)

(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

IIRC, Taft went the other way: from President to Chief Justice, the only person ever to hold the highest offices of both the Executive and Judicial Branches.

Arguably, the Chief Justice is more powerful than the President.

“besides let women have Condi since they graciously gave up the Presidency this year.”

Not so graciously, as I recall. Wasn’t there more than a little anti-Obama venom from Hillary and her supporters prior to the DNC Convention? Not to mention the bait-and-switch re: states that flouted the DNC’s early primary rules.

Hypothetical: what if McCain and the RNC had chosen Condoleeza Rice instead of Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate? I for one would’ve been sorely tempted to vote for that ticket. Indeed, as I stated before, I voted less for Obama as against Palin.

Imagine if they had won, and (God forbid) anything happened to 72+-year-old relapsing melanoma-afflicted McCain. It would go down in history forever that the first ever Black President, the first-ever Female President, and the first-ever Black Female President, was a Republican! The Democrats would never live that down!