@@spencersavage92 yup lol and still a wayy better time then today. I mean I have things today that I didnt have then and would never trade to go back in time but would just like to go visit for maybe a day lol
I am Japanese and born in Japan but raised up in Houston, Texas in my childhood. In this 2008 election, I was 12 years old. As a Japanese, this election taught me how great the democracy of USA was and how respectful american people were towards war-veteran John McCain.Also, I am impressed by decency of two candidates. 12 years later, I currently live in Japan. Regardless of your political position and result of next week election, USA will continue to be my second home country and I will continue to respect the American people. I love USA. God bless you.
This time felt like a completely different era despite it only being 12 years ago. Everything was less fast paced, less charged up with anger, hate and division, and there was a general felt sense of unity between people despite differing political opinions. Now, its just hate, division, violence, propaganda. We're on the precipice of the degradation of general human morality. Everyone feels so disconnected from reality. I feel like this country is crumbling away
William Bilyeu I cried to. In 2008 the economy was absolutely booming and the Iraq and Afghanistan war were going great until that dude came in and ruined everything
Bum Face you’re joking right? The Great Recession began in December 2007, during the time bush was president and over a year before Obama became president
Max C No I was not joking. I was just saying how great the world was doing before Obama came in. We had trillion dollar deficits, a failing financial system, 200,000 troops in 2 pointless wars, and a war criminal in office. Are you saying you didn’t like George Bush? He was a truly good president, but unfortunately that idiot Obama had to go and give 20 million people healthcare and do shitty things like invest in science and infrastructure.
McCain sucks. He has Palin as his vp. He no plans you can easily tell in debates. Just because he didn’t mean tweets doesn’t mean he was greAt. Stop this “atleast he didn’t mean tweets” bull crap.
@ divided only for racists. Everyone was united and were all working together towards a greater America, You see how country is divided on almost all issues since trump? If you dont have this much of understanding and you get carried away by so called political influencers words then I cant help you.
Wow, 8 years ago. Blackberry was still relevant. IPhone didn't exist. Tablets were something that characters on Star Trek carried around. Just think where we will be 8 years from now.
Besides political beliefs, late John McCain, you are the most greatest veteran hero, I have a lot of respect for you and your character, may you Rest In Peace Sir 👏🏽❤️🇺🇸🌹
@@Packers4life1512 he did ObamaCare, got us out of a recession, and made it legal to have gay people get married, I don’t remember other stuff because I was like 0-8 during his presidency but I’m sure there’s more.
YSV Rao Yes, i know racism and birtherism and every vile and ugly prejudice he played on and how he motivated bitter bigots to vote for him. I also know how little he knows and cares about his supporters. He used people's prejudices and stupidity to his own advantage seeking power at any cost. I don't think Trump is a true racist, but he very well may be. At any rate, he capitalized on ignorance and fear and people who voted for him were conned, robbed, and ripped off. So because a bunch of bigots were offended by Barack Obama, we have Donald "grab em by the pussy" Trump-the billionaire champion of everyday working people who cares so much.... but he lost popular vote by 2,000.000 and counting and has no mandate and will preside over a country where a majority of people rejected him.
Trump actually grabbed some of Obama's key coalition voters. He reached out and spoke to the White Working Class and they resonated with his message and showed up in droves. U know they r the majority of voters? The ones Hillary alienated
When Obama won Ohio, I looked over to my family, and said, "The election is over. Obama has won. Obama was leading in all the Kerry states, and Kerry had 252=20 for OH is 272. Boom. Obama wins!"
@@meljohnson5116 The 2020 elections is also the first election where most notable bellwether counties such as Vigo County, IN (which voted right since 1956) and Valencia County, NM (which voted right since 1952) voted wrong on the presidency, breaking a massive bellwether record. Very tragic.
I was 18, and it was my first election, and this still brings a tear to my eye both because of how historic it was but because of how our country elected a man based on hate to succeed him as president.
"CBS Projects that Senator Barack Obama of Illinois will be the next President of United States"- the line which still echoes in my brain since that night. I was fortunate to watch that live.
I so enjoy looking at these clips as a reminder of what it was like and can be again we need to put our shoulders to the wheel and do this for 2020. Yes we can
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Obama divided the country. Even before 2016 the country was completely split
Tea Party, which led to Trump, but this was 50 years in the making, from '64 with Goldwater to the Reaganites taking over in '80 then the Contract with America in '94, the, to the 2000s with the "Family Values and National Defense" coalition of W, after '08 the GOP was determined that losses like that would never happen again
The idea that America is this progressive nation with conservatives and just the ordinary American who cannot tolerate leftism being mocked and silenced by pop cultural. 2016 was a widespread backlash against liberalism and the establishment while normally it would be the Republicans trying to just counter or unseat their opponents
For me this is my Camelot!! I was living in Italy , military base, and this gave me hope, peace. I never been more proud of United States and the beautiful part Italians congratulate us . Bene, bene
As a 10 year old boy at the time I fondly remember this as a momentous and ground-breaking chapter in the political history of the USA. A well deserved victory for President Obama that evening in his hometown Illinois, Chicago back in November 2008. Barack Obama In my opinion was one of the most diplomatic, humble and reliable leaders of our time during his eight year stint in the Oval Office. Also, Massive respect to the late John McCain for being graceful in defeat. God rest his beautiful soul. #POTUS44
Obama is one of the greatest politicians in history, the amount of charisma that guy had was insane. He walked on that stage so suave and he had a crowd only comparable to a U2 stadium concert. Such an incredible time for American politics. Not to mention McCain’s class and dignity, such an honorable man. Now enthusiasm has been replaced with hatred and dignity is replaced by cynicism. I hope our nation arises from this time and finds a new sense of national identity, one that is less divided.
2008 really seems like the absolute peak of American Democracy No anger, division, arguments or violence Just people voting for the people they like most The election of more than 300Million people took just one night And everyone respected the other party
Omg I still choke up when I recall that night, indeed it’s the power of democracy respect to late Mr John McCain how he defended Mr President elect vs how the orange guy and his deplorable have always insulated.😢
I voted for Someone who wasn’t associated with Bush, and can help the economy because that was necessary for me and young candidate that could relate to young first time voters of 2008 like myself, in college at the time...see it wasn’t just because of Race.
This night was the best night ever my entire life other than my birth-day. I voted our president who will do a great job; I'm so greatfull to our beloved nation how they voted Nov 4,2008 which was awasome night I'll will never forget that we finaly have in the White House an intellectual man well done!!
I was in Swindon Wiltshire at work Tyco Electronics i was following the election on my phone against company policy......Tell you what it was electrifying!!! History Was Made!!
They mention Ebenezer Baptist Church a lot, which made a lot of sense then, but you look at it now and realize that the man who was senior pastor at that church when this happened is now one of Georgia's US Senators.
@@pixeled9683 biden2020 does indeed = dementia2020. Just give us a working president. I wouldn't mind Trump again because he actually did keep the country afloat. Only a few policies I disagree with.
It was one night the South Louisiana girl who heard her teacher tell her cousin. You can’t be President He asked why not and we were in 2nd grade. She said because you’re black be like George Washington Carver….Because of President Obama our Son can be what they want to be!!!
You have to respect McCain. Even if you disagree with him about something you have to honor him for admitting defeat and being nice to Obama.
Yeah I'm having trouble imagining how Trump is going to do. Being honest here.
and they started booing him, so classes.
ex6
Sup, can a loo come up in yo crib?
@@somerandomasshole4561 Man, fuck you, I'll see you at work.
People who are here in 2020 are the best
why thank you
thank u
t h a n k s
Thank u
Joe Biden will win this time around. Don't worry Republicans, you'll be back in the Oval Office soon.
If only there was a time machine. Just to go visit easier times.
Fr😪
remember this was in the middle of the worst recession in 90 years but I feel ya haha
@@spencersavage92 yup lol and still a wayy better time then today. I mean I have things today that I didnt have then and would never trade to go back in time but would just like to go visit for maybe a day lol
Very ignorant comment
@Scott there is,it's called LSD.
I am Japanese and born in Japan but raised up in Houston, Texas in my childhood. In this 2008 election, I was 12 years old.
As a Japanese, this election taught me how great the democracy of USA was and how respectful american people were towards war-veteran John McCain.Also, I am impressed by decency of two candidates.
12 years later, I currently live in Japan.
Regardless of your political position and result of next week election, USA will continue to be my second home country and I will continue to respect the American people.
I love USA. God bless you.
Thank you 🙏🏻. I can happily say the same for Japan as well, as I’ve been there as well. Lovely country with strong culture and pride. I’m from NY btw
I love Japan too I hope I visit there one day
Democracy?? It's an indirect election system. Usa electoral system is one of the leat democratic on the world
This time felt like a completely different era despite it only being 12 years ago. Everything was less fast paced, less charged up with anger, hate and division, and there was a general felt sense of unity between people despite differing political opinions. Now, its just hate, division, violence, propaganda. We're on the precipice of the degradation of general human morality. Everyone feels so disconnected from reality. I feel like this country is crumbling away
Exactly. I completely agree. Beautifully articulated!
Feels like a curse
The world's more connected since '08, but it feels like we're further apart from each other now more than ever.
I was in england and I stayed up all night to watch him elected.......I'm not even American and I cried!!!!!!!!
I cried too. Maybe for not the same reasons.
William Bilyeu I cried to. In 2008 the economy was absolutely booming and the Iraq and Afghanistan war were going great until that dude came in and ruined everything
Bum Face you’re joking right? The Great Recession began in December 2007, during the time bush was president and over a year before Obama became president
Max C No I was not joking. I was just saying how great the world was doing before Obama came in. We had trillion dollar deficits, a failing financial system, 200,000 troops in 2 pointless wars, and a war criminal in office. Are you saying you didn’t like George Bush? He was a truly good president, but unfortunately that idiot Obama had to go and give 20 million people healthcare and do shitty things like invest in science and infrastructure.
Bum Face ahah! Get better on your sarcasm
How could we go from McCain, a man who defended Obama when his supporters insulted Obama, to Trump who is the one starting the insults
Yeah and did u also notice how mccain got COMPLETELY FUCKING SHAFTED because of that
McCain is a bitch lol
@@rodster5978 very funny making fun of a dead war veteran
The nice guy never wins🤷🏻♂️
McCain sucks. He has Palin as his vp. He no plans you can easily tell in debates. Just because he didn’t mean tweets doesn’t mean he was greAt. Stop this “atleast he didn’t mean tweets” bull crap.
this is how a united country looks like.
Rip
Obama entered the presidency with a united country, and left it with a divided country in turmoil.
@@richarda.w.4562 The only people who felt divided where racists who couldn't Belize that a black person succeeded to become the president.
Second clue: No the country was united before Obama took office. By the beginning of that Simp's last yr the country was divided
@ divided only for racists. Everyone was united and were all working together towards a greater America, You see how country is divided on almost all issues since trump? If you dont have this much of understanding and you get carried away by so called political influencers words then I cant help you.
Wow, 8 years ago. Blackberry was still relevant. IPhone didn't exist. Tablets were something that characters on Star Trek carried around.
Just think where we will be 8 years from now.
Zoomer30 ah yeah the iPhone came out in 07
We’re in hell 3/8 of the way
Pandemic
4 years since your comment and we are doing work and school from our homes
With the current president? ..... I don't want to image where the US will be
Besides political beliefs, late John McCain, you are the most greatest veteran hero, I have a lot of respect for you and your character, may you Rest In Peace Sir 👏🏽❤️🇺🇸🌹
I come here once in a while to remember better times... 😢
same
Yeah u mean when a man sat in office for 8 years and didn't do shit except raise my fucking taxes
@@Packers4life1512 he did ObamaCare, got us out of a recession, and made it legal to have gay people get married, I don’t remember other stuff because I was like 0-8 during his presidency but I’m sure there’s more.
@@Packers4life1512 just be happy you're rich because Obama never raised taxes on the middle class, fool.
So young and full of hope.. and RIP McCain, a true Patriot.
John McCain is a bitch lol
@@dbleo_ no, if you count his concession speech
How could we go from this to Trump??
YSV Rao Yes, i know racism and birtherism and every vile and ugly prejudice he played on and how he motivated bitter bigots to vote for him. I also know how little he knows and cares about his supporters. He used people's prejudices and stupidity to his own advantage seeking power at any cost. I don't think Trump is a true racist, but he very well may be. At any rate, he capitalized on ignorance and fear and people who voted for him were conned, robbed, and ripped off. So because a bunch of bigots were offended by Barack Obama, we have Donald "grab em by the pussy" Trump-the billionaire champion of everyday working people who cares so much.... but he lost popular vote by 2,000.000 and counting and has no mandate and will preside over a country where a majority of people rejected him.
fuck TRUMP
Brandon Harris God you’re fucking pathetic, The same “stupid whites people” who voted Obama in?
Trump actually grabbed some of Obama's key coalition voters. He reached out and spoke to the White Working Class and they resonated with his message and showed up in droves. U know they r the majority of voters? The ones Hillary alienated
Because dumbass like you
tell you what i watched every minute of this live . still brings a tear to my eye
epic music though
+mohamed Rayes It sounds like the song that would play when everyone thought the world was going to end but then it didn't.
When Obama won Ohio, I looked over to my family, and said, "The election is over. Obama has won. Obama was leading in all the Kerry states, and Kerry had 252=20 for OH is 272. Boom. Obama wins!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@The Byzantinian I guess it’s a catholic/ Democratic thing then, Biden didn’t win Ohio & he won the presidency. Go Biden-Harris.
@The Byzantinian not this year
@@meljohnson5116 The 2020 elections is also the first election where most notable bellwether counties such as Vigo County, IN (which voted right since 1956) and Valencia County, NM (which voted right since 1952) voted wrong on the presidency, breaking a massive bellwether record. Very tragic.
@@blazoraptor3392 it’s called fraud
I was 18, and it was my first election, and this still brings a tear to my eye both because of how historic it was but because of how our country elected a man based on hate to succeed him as president.
Mine too. I went out the next day and they joy everywhere was palpable.
We changed the world friend!
@@nfullenwider what joy? obama sucks
@@danielplayz4421 k
glory hallelujah, glory hallelujah...
My fave ever live political moment... the Obama family walking up on stage.
We fell from the elegance of McCain to the disgrace of today
"CBS Projects that Senator Barack Obama of Illinois will be the next President of United States"- the line which still echoes in my brain since that night. I was fortunate to watch that live.
Here in 2024. This gives me hope that we aren’t a broken country and that we’ve just lost our way. It’s up to us to put America back on track.
It’s crazy how different the video quality seems it’s only been 12 years
@Benjamin Williams 😂😂😂😂😂
A blissful, wondrous night. Eight years later a nightmare of undreamed of proportions. President Obama was the last President of the United States.
Biden be the last. I think biden is final 4 years of enjoyment
I so enjoy looking at these clips as a reminder of what it was like and can be again we need to put our shoulders to the wheel and do this for 2020. Yes we can
Obama divided the country. Even before 2016 the country was completely split
I remember how optimistic everyone was !
McCain was such a good man 😭
How did we go from him to Trump?
Tea Party, which led to Trump, but this was 50 years in the making, from '64 with Goldwater to the Reaganites taking over in '80 then the Contract with America in '94, the, to the 2000s with the "Family Values and National Defense" coalition of W, after '08 the GOP was determined that losses like that would never happen again
The idea that America is this progressive nation with conservatives and just the ordinary American who cannot tolerate leftism being mocked and silenced by pop cultural. 2016 was a widespread backlash against liberalism and the establishment while normally it would be the Republicans trying to just counter or unseat their opponents
@@sherriffwiggles4515 What exactly do you mean by "liberalism" here? Economic liberalism, or social liberalism?
For me this is my Camelot!! I was living in Italy , military base, and this gave me hope, peace. I never been more proud of United States and the beautiful part Italians congratulate us . Bene, bene
As a 10 year old boy at the time I fondly remember this as a momentous and ground-breaking chapter in the political history of the USA. A well deserved victory for President Obama that evening in his hometown Illinois, Chicago back in November 2008. Barack Obama In my opinion was one of the most diplomatic, humble and reliable leaders of our time during his eight year stint in the Oval Office. Also, Massive respect to the late John McCain for being graceful in defeat. God rest his beautiful soul. #POTUS44
im not even american but how i wish this was what today would look like
where you from?
@@kdeez4971 The Netherlands
that was a good time to be in 2008 obama is a leader..i wish that he was still our president
Every time I watch this i cry. This is a honor to all POCs everywhere.
Gives me chills every fuckin time the moment on the news that showed he won
Watching this just to feel something again
Literally 😢
0:05 That Intel Mug Tho
mccain shutting down a boo was one of the best things ever
Obama is one of the greatest politicians in history, the amount of charisma that guy had was insane. He walked on that stage so suave and he had a crowd only comparable to a U2 stadium concert. Such an incredible time for American politics. Not to mention McCain’s class and dignity, such an honorable man. Now enthusiasm has been replaced with hatred and dignity is replaced by cynicism. I hope our nation arises from this time and finds a new sense of national identity, one that is less divided.
I will forever love John McCain, he truly was a man of honor!
This was my favorite episode of “the election”
As great a night it was for America and especially the Democratic Party, the happiness was greatly tempered by the economic crisis.
Cool highlight reel. Although, I must say that music got to be a bit too repetitive!
Love ya, Katie!
Watching this just to feel something
lol
I'm here after a 2nd Trump election.
2008 really seems like the absolute peak of American Democracy
No anger, division, arguments or violence
Just people voting for the people they like most
The election of more than 300Million people took just one night
And everyone respected the other party
8 years ago 🇺🇸
12 years ago 👌👌
@@georgesbendaly805216 Years Ago 👌👌
John McCain, the last great Republican politician. ❤
Trump*
Romney was alright too, especially compared to Trump.
You're probably right. I'm sure after Palin's disasterous interview with Katie Couric, McCain couldn't count on Couric's vote. lol
What a night that was.
got chills man. absolutely insane
What class late Sen McCain had during that campaign. True American hero.
katie you did a excellent job that night !!!!!
I keep watching President Obama videos. I look back now and wonder what happened. He was the last compassionate president
@aj71792 That's exactly when I thought Obama had it in the bag when OH went for him...it was priceless!
Wow!! We've come from this level of respect and civility to Trump!!! Very sad.
I know it’s sad Trump is literally an embarrassment
@@cinder2085 Trump 2020!! 🇺🇸
@@fathergabrielstokes4706 HELL NO. I cant do another four years of orange is the new black.
cool video. I still get chills
Omg I still choke up when I recall that night, indeed it’s the power of democracy respect to late Mr John McCain how he defended Mr President elect vs how the orange guy and his deplorable have always insulated.😢
I voted for Someone who wasn’t associated with Bush, and can help the economy because that was necessary for me and young candidate that could relate to young first time voters of 2008 like myself, in college at the time...see it wasn’t just because of Race.
I was 12 years old. How times change.
I was 2 💀
This night was the best night ever my entire life other than my birth-day. I voted our president who will do a great job; I'm so greatfull to our beloved nation how they voted Nov 4,2008 which was awasome night I'll will never forget that we finaly have in the White House an intellectual man well done!!
We did it again!
Its been best moment of 2008.Never forget that day.
Obama is one of my favourite people.
Love the background music.
Watching this right before 2020 election also the John McCain dude seems really nice
Great highlights! Obama 2012!!!
11 years ago ;(
@@mauiss 11 years later the United States has 120,000 dead due to the disastrous management of a nefarious president
Now, Biden 2020!
2012ခုသြားခ်ဳပ္ေနတာေလ အဂၤါဇာတ္အရင္ကရိွေသးတယ္ ဗမားလုပ္ၾကံေနတာအခုအယးလုံးသိေနၿပီဟုတ္
ႏိုင္ငံတကာကလူႀကီးေတြ အေမရိကန္ကိုအႏူ႔က်မ္းစိတ္ပါေအာင္မၾကံနဲ႔ေတာ့
က်မအဂၤါဇာတ္ေရာင္းရတဲ့ပိုက္ဆံအားလုံး ျပန္ေပး
တကမာၻလုံးအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနတဲ့အာဏာပိုင္လူႀကီးမင္းအေမရိကန္ကိုဆက္ၿပီးျမဴမဆြယ္နဲ႔ေတာ့ အမွန္တရားကိုရပ္လက္ခံစမ္း
I was in Swindon Wiltshire at work Tyco Electronics i was following the election on my phone against company policy......Tell you what it was electrifying!!! History Was Made!!
Obama trounced Mccain, and remember, it was the WEST COAST that gave him the victory!!!!
West coast baby!!!!
When elections were fun to watch
06:08 When Obama said "All things are possible" I wasn't expecting Trump to win..
🤣🤣🤣 Twice. Just unbelievable.
Watching this on Election Day. I love Obama but I must admit McCain is the best republican.
why? he is a establishment neocon, I am a strong trump supporter and even I would not have voted for mccain in 2008
mccain was the only republican who I would ever respect and potentially vote for.
Thank you oll my peole I love oll of you ❤
Anyone here to revive themselves of better times lost?
One of America's greatest moments and America's Greatest Presidents in history ❤❤
They mention Ebenezer Baptist Church a lot, which made a lot of sense then, but you look at it now and realize that the man who was senior pastor at that church when this happened is now one of Georgia's US Senators.
This was very special news coverage. I just love Katie she's amazing.
McCain was such a class act and hero!
haha Katie Couric is cool, such a shame she is not the CBS news anchor anymore
I wish we can repeat the history 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙💙💙
We did
And keep the Taliban in the world. Yep you guys did;)
@@blankblank5409trump won
I remember my mother crying tears of joy. She was born in 1945.... so she grew up during very racist time periods and lived to see a black president.
Envoie toujours des frissons le long de la colonne vertébrale.
Oui, c’est vrai!
That was the only election results I watched all the way and I'm 67
12 years later the Vice President on that ticket would be elected president of the united states
sadly
due to fraud
@@danielplayz4421😂
2008: 0% Obama win
2020: 99,9% to early to call
The Intel sponsor… the hope… the happiness… the easy concession. We had a beautiful thing.
sweet recap!!!
Ok boomer
@@sankalanghosh5503 nigga what you called him boomer cuz he liked the recap tf
Greetings from the late 90s...
i wish i could go back in time when life was easier
I remember when this watching this when I was younger, I had no idea what was going on
What do you have a intel?
Hard to believe this was almost 16 years ago. NOW, we MUST Elect out 1st Woman President, Kamala Harris.
Lol, ik ur dreams pmao
How’d that work out for you? 😂
bruh i'm SOBBING I WANT OBAMA BACK
BIDEN2020
dementia 2020?
@@pixeled9683 biden2020 does indeed = dementia2020. Just give us a working president. I wouldn't mind Trump again because he actually did keep the country afloat. Only a few policies I disagree with.
lol Biden is not Obama
Ah the real president 😌😌
What happened to us?
5:21 pure class from McCain
I’m here on election night of 2020. help
November 7, 2020 11:30 AM Eastern Standard time. He made it we made it
2008 was a great year !!
@ThreeLions89 You are so RIGHT:) Thank you for your comment!!!
Thanks obama.
😂😂😂
for what?
@Ahmad Hijaz like what? oDumbocare?
Powerful night. I still have my Obama mug and Ebony magazine. Obama winning Ohio and Pennsylvania was huge!!!
😢😢😢😢😢good times
It was one night the South Louisiana girl who heard her teacher tell her cousin. You can’t be President He asked why not and we were in 2nd grade. She said because you’re black be like George Washington Carver….Because of President Obama our Son can be what they want to be!!!