Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. “Change has come,” he told a huge throng of jubilant supporters. The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Iowa and more. He captured Virginia, too, the first candidate of his party in 40 years to do so. On a night for Democrats to savor, they not only elected Obama the nation’s 44th president but padded their majorities in the House and Senate, and in January will control both the White House and Congress for the first time since 1994.

Good Luck to President Elect Obama. Since he has a limited public career it is difficult to see how his presidency will affect the military. He has said that he wants to cut funding to several key projects, while at the same time wanting to increase the size of the military. It will be a challenging road ahead especially with the anti war congress that has stood against the troops time and time again. After they voted to send them into battle. Will Obama be a good Commander in Chief?

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