It’s official, it’s historic, Barack Obama has just been officially declared the democratic nominee for the President of the United States.  In years to come, “This Day in History” will have Barack Obama’s name as the first African American to be nominated as Presidential candidate for the Democratic party, or any party for that matter.  What a moving moment for our black American brothers and sisters, whether or not they support Obama.  I am not sure what word to use, congratulations seems so small, but what a day, only in America, God bless America.

Am I voting for Obama? Probably not, but that doesn’t take away from the significance of this day.  In fact, I’m not going to go into what will be happening for the rest of the evening, or the things that lead up to it, lets just savor this, and be thankful that we live in America where anything is possible and attainable.

I just finished watching the video honoring Hillary preceding her speech, and wow, after the build up today, it really is all about her tonight. The video brought all the memories and feelings back of her campaign, I don’t know how those who voted for her, and still want her to be the Democratic Candidate can come away not being recharged. There’s Bill, in tears in the audience, and saying “I love you”, the applause is not stopping!

It’s a bit hard to read Michelle Obama, she stands to applaud each time the mention of uniting the party is given, but I haven’t seen a smile yet. Ah, there it is, she smiled at “Barack Obama is my candidate”. Now it’s back to “you and me”, focusing on herself. Oh my, is it ever about herself, all the “I will always remember…..” memories from her campaign. Then back to Barack. I guess you could say she’s flip-flopping back and forth between promoting Barack, and herself. Well I suppose she has a right, she did win many, many delegates, and even if I don’t agree with everything, she is a gifted speaker.

Well I’m going to take in the rest of the speech now, and we’ll see how tomorrow night goes…will the 100’s of Clinton supporters that are outside the Pepsi Center holding Hillary signs and saying vote McCain cause a little trouble during the delegate count? Stay tuned…this is getting fun! Oh, the hubby-into-politics I’m married to? He went to bed, has to get up early, and will listen to the details tomorrow on Rush Limbaugh.

One more thing, hubby had a few good laughs at the following video…lines from Hillary that just keep on giving if you’re a Republican:

I’ve just finished listening to Michelle Obama, and earlier, Ted Kennedy, and I can tell you, you don’t have to be a Democrat to have been moved by this evening…perhaps not as deeply moved as I expected to be, but moved none the less.

Michelle did a wonderful job, I can’t imagine, as a woman, standing up and speaking before so many. As Juan Williams of FOX news very emotionally expressed in his words after her speech, this was a historic moment. And it was, we have never had an African American candidate for the Presidency, and Juan’s emotion at seeing Michelle on the stage reminds us that there is still so much healing going on in the hearts of our black brothers and sisters.

“Daddy”, Barack Obama, came on for a bit after her speech via satellite, and I’m not sure whether he was prepared for all the questions by his adorable daughters were going to ask. There was a helpful question in the mix for him, by the way, as he stated that he was in St. Louis at first, and thanks to his daughters question was able to correct that and say he was in Kansas City.

So tonight was a “warm and fuzzy” night, maybe in the nights to come we’ll get to see what Barack Obama plans to do as President, tonight that was definitely not the focus.