The Aftermath of Obama’s Victory: Celebration, Cautious Optimism, and Concerns (2008)

anything and tv show our listeners for joining us for this edition of the year we're shall america has selected a new president elect a rock obama he touted change and apparently a lot of people were looking for change he said yes we can in america did and the president elect obama will not take the oath of office until january twentieth many wells have already been raised for the night we would talk about that including the historical significance of this election reflecting on the past and looking ahead to the future also go into the political arena and talk about what this means for america and how our country will be viewed around the world leslie he would talk about the work ahead for president elect obama especially on the economic front where our nation is on the verge of a crisis literally hundreds of billions of dollars are needed to bail out everything including banks mortgage companies businesses and yes the auto industry russell talk about obama's cabinet and preparation to take his seat as commander in chief our we are red nation a nation or one nation

after all we'll find out what our palace after say when a welcome a well known face now an unnamed in our community everybody knows this with reverend a state matthys lucy was made history himself on the front lines of the civil rights movement next we have the honorable dr joseph mitchell a number of the alabama house of representatives were also joined by mike gilbert a pga see political science professor and analysts mike is often called on by the media to provide commentary during election cycles and alaska's certainly not least we have work harper he's a professor of economics and the director of the uaw's how center hello everyone and thank you so much for joining us for this deal where shell has all right this is an exciting time for america because you you know we were going to make history either way we went with this summer star within each day because you are our son the whites personally living legend here with us for the pallid discussion tonight we'll talk about the historical significance of president elect obama and on either side of this

growing sarah palin the governor from alaska you the way we when we would've either had her being the first female vice president or him the first president elect yeah he's ready at the way it would've gone eleven ish part of the cost had the mccain ticket one who had the first female vice rather than the lake and with him going in the other direction in obama's favor we have the first african american president elect which is quite significant and especially for those of us who've been in the heat of battle and umpire talk about me but i also can't talk about your mitchell who has also been in the heat of battle and of course that means it means a lot to me as a person as an individual i'll support obama hope is when not based on his pigmentation that based on his profile as don the campaign so you see this is the

black eyed blonde all and i hope we don't get bogged down in that that this is a bright victory i think this is a victory falk of the american people but i think that men have a pratfall that he put out there that people could see plainly in the direction that he wanted to take this country and an aha would suggest to african americans that we not become cocky and not look at this as having been a bright battle out even a bright victory possible costs if they had ninety five percent of the african american vote had he got a hundred percent of the african american vote that filament manila not elected presidents of the human shakes he got home people who voted for him people all stripes so i think we need to recognize that and appreciate that and then we we certainly need to cherish the role of the old people who came out and supported him unless absolutely we don't want to discount that let's talk about that that isn't all about the historical point of this

i think some of it was lost with our younger generation a generation or two gap here with some of our young folks and joe i know that might eat you walk into any in the meantime and then talk with me about this some of our youngsters come to get carried away with as i think that they didn't really understand what it meant to have rock obama become the first black president and what it really meant they took it for just that black on the black power the black victory when we have to say about it as well it's important because miles on point are the athens of moms just as significant as a pretzel market so we have now in this job of a mile all from the forum to call for tickets i what it looks like now to see how you behave now he performs so we can expect some change a second narrative that but i don't necessarily know that his race is going to be significant in terms of how young people view what they can do outside of the notion that

what we share his message because that was so delicious away from in the current generation those young people who said oh we're black and proud of things of that type it is not necessarily significant i admit that i was a sick says the commitment that because otto and says is that happen so let's look at the significance for the world of the book some years ago called live in america or not we have a population of people are going to compensate were invited to be president and only gain about like the lessons they should they mean that there's a possibility for me as well and then went through with it because performance as he bent over the last twenty years is what counts as my cousins about this nothing