Instead of being rude to each other, we should have been more than willing to help each other out. I expected much more from the American people.

The papers on January 21 all had similar lines. “The Press Enterprise” stated: “A jubilant crowd of more than a million…stood for hours in frigid temperatures Tuesday to witness a young black man with a foreign-sounding name take command of a nation founded by slaveholders.” It later said “He had a message for the world: ‘We are ready to lead.’ Meaning that he, the young African American, was ready to lead.”

These students were a part of the “Leadership in a New Era” program with the Osgood Center for International Studies, located only a few blocks from the Capital building where the events were held.

Check out MSNBC’s footage from the Inaugural ceremony, as well as the full transcript from Obama’s speech.

Also preventing disaster today was the overall patience displayed by the crowd while maneuvering throughout D.C. Ann Parker and her husband, who traveled from Berkley, California, said that people were jammed up in the metro stops, but never expressed any frustration. “There are incredible people [here] who just want to talk to everybody. People are just so joyful,” said Parker while waiting in a long line to enter the ticketed area on the Mall.

The crowds, security, vendors, and the glory of D.C. captured…

Shannon Hoffman describes her expectations for crowds and security before heading out onto the National Mall herself.

It was difficult finding an open path through the city, and I had to slow my pace considerably while rounding the Capitol building and heading toward the Washington Monument – all the more time to take in the sites. Yesterday’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial was being replayed on the jumbo-trons in the National Mall, and every corner was manned by vendors selling Obama pins, t-shirts, pictures, and calendars. I was enchanted by the angelic voices of a choir on the steps of the Capitol building, and touched by the hundred or so army soldiers who posed in front of the Washington Monument for pictures. It was amazing to me that a city, packed with so many people, could be in such harmony.

With the election of Barack Obama and Joe Biden to Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States on Nov. 4, many feel that they are now the new men who will change how we deal with the economy, Iraq and Afghanistan, foriegn policy, education, social security, the enviorment, energy, ect.
However, there is something else behind the Obama-Biden combo that many men and women of our generation have noticed.  As students, we view Barack Obama and Joe Biden as a combination that has both the experience and the new views …

With 20 minutes left until her first class, Emily Brown rushed out of her Main Street apartment on Nov. 4 with one arm in her jacket, her breakfast still in her hand, and her book bag half unzipped.
“I wanted to wake up early this morning but I hit the snooze button a few too many times,” she said. Brown has class from 11 a.m. until 4:45 p.m. and wanted to vote before her day began.
“My professor said that it would be OK if we were a little late because …

This was supposed to be the big one. Four years of a new president. Voter turnout among young people was at an all time high, the candidates were taking notice of what we had to say. We were an influential force in the election at long last. Throughout it all the only thing I could think was: So what?
Even when the future of the country was on hand I still couldn’t bring myself to become extremely interested in what was happening globally. While two men gave speeches about the economy, …

Another word for this is called ‘bullying.’ Dictionary.com defines a bully as, “A blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.”

Hundreds of Bloomsburg students filled the streets of Bloomsburg and gathered on the steps of Carver after Senator Barack Obama was elected the next President of the United States this past Tuesday night.  BU Now asked the ecstatic Obama supporters what they believe he will do for the country.  Over and over again, the group mentioned healthcare, school tuition and the war in Iraq. The crowd, a majority being African American, also voiced their excitement about the county’s first Black president, and their belief in him to make our country …

Waking up on that cloudy but comfortable day, I could feel the energy of the campus before even looking out the window. Tuesday, nothing could stop the masses of students and professors of Bloomsburg University from voting in the 2008 Presidential Election.
Looking at my phone for missed calls and messages all I saw was, “Vote Obama,” or “Did you vote?” or “When are you goin’ to vote?” The excitement of the students made me want to get more into the heads of those that were voting on that historic day.
Walking …

Last night at approximately 11:30 p.m., Senator Barack Obama was declared the next president of the United States. He will be inaugurated, along side Senator Joe Biden as Vice President, on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009.

When Obama reached the required 270 electoral votes for the win, hundreds of Bloomsburg students came teeming from dorms and gathered in front of Elwell. The crowd marched downtown and past the Democratic headquarters. They were dancing and cheering in the streets, ecstatic about Obama’s victory. The crowd then traveled back to Carver Hall and gathered on the steps there, chanting and waving signs.