Today is a wonderful day for left-handed people everywhere. Barack Obama is now President of the Free World. This is awesome, because we can officially stop calling Obama President-Elect and start calling that other idiot the former President.

The Times made sure to point out that Obama is only the President of Black people:

Mr. Obama, the first African American to serve as president, spoke to a sea of cheering people, hundreds of thousands of Americans packed on the National Mall from the Capitol to beyond the Washington monument. The multitude was filled with black Americans and Mr. Obama’s triumph was a special and emotional moment for them. [New York Times]

A quick glance at Obama’s journey from Michael Jordan wannabe to Abraham Lincoln wannabe.

2/10/07 — Barack Obama throws his hat in the ring
3/16/07 — Fox News attacks Obama for being clean and articulate
4/10/07 — Obama tells Letterman, “You don’t run for 2nd”
7/31/07 — Obama covers VIBE magazine
11/7/07 — Obama’s earliest hip-hop supporter Common drops a “Vote Hope” PSA
1/4/08 — Obama gets the oh so elusive “white endorsement” in Iowa
1/14/08 — Bob Johnson says Obama was smoking weed while Clinton was emancipating slaves
2/4/08 — Will.i.am drops “Yes, We Can” on the eve of Super Tuesday
3/15/08 — DMX endorses Stephen Baldwin for President
3/18/08 – Obama delivers his best speech ever
5/24/08 — Hillary announces her plans to assassinate Obama in June a la Kennedy
6/4/08 — Obama seals Democratic nomination
8/23/08 — Obama picks Jumpoff Joey as his running mate
10/14/08 — Rizoh officially crowns Obama the first Internet President
11/4/08 — Obama wins the Presidency