Tuesday night was like New Year's Eve in my neighborhood in San Francisco. Packs of young people crawled the city sidewalks all night long, hollering, baiting cars to honk their horns, jumping up and down in exuberant glee. Barack Obama is president-elect of our country. All over the city people wandered down into the streets with a mixture of elation. Change is coming to Washington. Change is coming to our economy. Change is coming to our 7% unemployment rate. Change is coming to Iraq. In an eerie echo of George W. Bush's 2004 campaign slogan, Barack Obama led a sea of supporters in call and response to herald in his victory. "Yes we can," he called out into the midnight air. "Yes we can," the collected mass of supporters shouted back, many in tears.
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