Release Date: January 20th 2009

Author of Release: Alexander Robinson III

Press Release Summary: Barack H. Obama was officially the 43rd President of the United States to take the sacrad oath.

Barack Hussain Obama is officially the First black President of the United States.

Barack Hussain Obama has officially been sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, and the 43rd President to take the sacred oath. With the world of his shoulders, and literally making American History, America’s first black President remains calm and enthusiastic in these dismal times.

1,400,000 people from the United States and around the world flooded the nations capitol today to witness and be apart of possibly the most important inauguration this country will ever host. So many of the African-American community felt surreal and relieved as their eyes gazed upon an event that they thought of as a dream or impossible.

Our newly sworn in President of the United States stated that we need to pick ourselves up and be apart of the reconstruction and healing of our wounded country and economy. He also touched on the progress of our country knowing 45 years ago blacks could not sit at the counter to eat and risked arrest if they showed any act of defiance.

People from all over the globe tuned in to witness America finally grow up and look past certain negative overtones. There was no bigger anticipated Presidential election since former African President Nelson Mandela.

President Obama laid out harsh realities and tough times ahead for this powerful nation. With nearly 11 million Americans currently unemployed, Obama urged the nation to choose hope over fear to overcome the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

As a message to the leaders of other nations who seek to blame the West for their society’s ills, he voiced that their people will judge their actions on what they can build, and not what they can destroy. President Obama also called for unity among Democrats and Republicans in Washington and to end “the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.”

He stated that all Americans have a major roll in rebuilding our fine nation with the tradition of hard work, loyalty, and patriotism.

“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility, a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.”

In these tough times, President Barack Obama will only have a chance to enjoy this momentous event in a small window of time. Tomorrow he will awaken his eyes a global leader and the have hopes and dreams of millions in America and around the world in his hands. The tears of joy and cries of change are the sounds he must acknowledge and now act on.