Transcript: Obama's acceptance speech
... this is your victory. I know you didn't do this just to win an election and I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
- As a foreigner from the outside looking in, and as a concerned citizen, I found the above paragraph the most meaningful in the acceptance speech. Congratulations to Barack Obama for winning the 2008 US Election. Now as to the challenges ahead, just a small sampling of some of the issues that need to be tackled going forward :
See also :
1. Wave of job cuts across corporate America, mass layoffs well beyond Wall Street
2. New York may lose 165000 jobs on mass layoffs due to credit crisis
3. Housing slowdown may claim 800000 jobs
4. Slow Down For Peak Oil : Airplanes, ships, cars ease off throttle to save fuel
5. The peak oil crisis: We are starting to dim
6. Global warming could bring hunger, melt Himalayas
7. Global food crisis looms as Asia's rice bowl empties and world price soars
8. NYMEX crude oil drops below $80 as financial market meltdown continues
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