My favorite part of Barack Obama's election as the next president? The emotion. The wavering voices of leaders like Colin Powell and Condaleeza Rice. The speechlessness of regular supporters. The tears streaming down Jesse Jackson's face. The tears breaking children--children!--down in classrooms. And not one person is ashamed to show these tears.

My favorite video, which I haven't been able to find online, is a boy from the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta talking about how if Obama can win, then....He never finishes his sentence because he's too overwrought with emotion. The point gets across nonetheless.

Given everything about Obama's election, I am stunned by the emotion from children regarding this election. These students are at least a decade younger then me...and I'm only 22. It amazes me that students this young, people who have only been interacting with society for barely a decade, have grown to feel so disadvantaged, or seen the world as so unjust, that at such a young age this election can be so symbolic.