America has become, again, a beacon, a light that illuminates and energizes the hopes of humanity, making what is best in us shine brighter.

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I couldn't believe how many people told me I wasn't the only one waking up in the middle of the night last night, unable to sleep.

It's not that big a stretch to speculate that all over the world, billions of people who were walking on eggshells worrying about the outcome of the election are now celebrating. Billions!

While America faces tough times economically, the world will embrace us, with billions of people with tears in their eyes, for bestowing upon a black man one of the greatest honors humanity can bestow upon a person – leadership of the most powerful nation.

America has become, again, a beacon, a light that illuminates and energizes the hopes of humanity, making what is best in us shine brighter.

Looking at the faces of the people in the crowd, as Barack Obama gives his first speech as president-elect, I see a hope that beams bright, a hope that does not stop at red or blue state borders or the border of the United States. The whole of humanity is sharing in this moment of hope. We had a moment of connection after 9/11. It was thrown away. But we have another chance now.

I get an instant message from a friend in Waziristan. He usually tells me about the latest bombings and US drone missile firings. He's thrilled that Obama has been elected-- believing there is new hope for democracy and an end to the terrorism he lives with every day. A message comes from Australia titled Delirium in Sydney, and one from Riyad Saudi Arabia, saying "God Bless America."

Obama talks about bottom-up solutions to the economy, to democracy. Echoing that vision, he says tonight, "Let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where we work harder and look after each other . . . In this country we rise and fall as one nation, as one people."

He says, "The new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To all those who have wondered whether America's beacon still burns bright . . ."

And you see the sea of happy faces and know that all around the world, hearts are a little lighter.

A smart man, a man who chose helping the poor instead of becoming a wealthy lawyer, a man who has a vision of bringing people together will soon be leading America. He advises us to put our "hands on the arc of history and bend it once more to the hope for a better day."

David Axelrod related how, when Obama was considering running for president, he was asked what he could do to make a difference as president. Obama replied, "When I take the oath of office, the world will look at us differently and millions of kids will look at themselves differently."

There are hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of people who suddenly can believe that they can do anything . . . anything.

We can't bask in the glow of this victory tonight without appreciating the fact that the White House will again welcome a strong, brilliant, accomplished, powerful woman. This will also change the way hundreds of millions think about themselves. Michelle Obama brings so much to the White House.

And it seems so true, what Obama said, so modestly, yet so accurately, "I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you."

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

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Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.

Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.

To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.

For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.

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Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

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