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...Washington bureau chief David Bohrman admits the "hologram" didn't have a great deal of journalistic importance other than that it allowed Blitzer to talk to Yellin without the commotion and noise of the 240,000-strong crowd gathered in Grant Park in Chicago. "I'm not sure the point was terribly deep," he says. "But I do think that if you look 20 years into the future, television will do something like this routinely...
After having the House and Senate wrested from its clutching hands in 2006, on Tuesday night, the GOP was forced to watch its control of the executive branch evaporate as well, as a triumphant Barack Obama stood before thousands of jubilant supporters in Grant Park and proclaimed that change had come...
Meanwhile, Barbara Gray, 65, a retiree who is also from Gary, said she voted for Obama partly because she hoped he would take interest in improving conditions in urban areas - like Obama's adopted hometown neighborhood, Hyde Park, a leafy Chicago enclave surrounded by some of the city's bleakest communities. She said Obama may be the first President with a firsthand understanding of life in neighborhoods like hers. Gray said she wants the basics: cracked sidewalks repaved, enough funding so that largely black and Latino urban public schools can compete with the predominately white schools in affluent suburbs. "Just...
...Obama himself acknowledged the international impact of the poll in his acceptance speech at Chicago's Grant Park, referring to "all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces [and] those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world." He could safely assume that the overwhelming majority of his international audience would be cheering his victory. Respect and admiration for his country slumped during President George W. Bush's years in office. Surveys conducted during the campaign showed that if non-Americans were allowed to vote in the U.S. election, Obama would score...
...suggest he could romp into Downing Street without breaking a sweat. In the green room of a London TV studio, David Lammy, Minister for Higher Education and one of Britain's most prominent black politicians, watched mute and damp-eyed as Obama's family joined him onstage at Grant Park. "There are two families: the royal family and this one," said Lammy finally. "This is going to transform the world's perceptions of America...