Man, we had it good back then huh? When you could actually think about and choose a candidate that both had different things to offer. Now I feel like my choice was made way before any ads or speeches because both sides are at odds. We've strayed so far from even 10 years ago :(
I'm not a Republican by any means but he really did screw it with Palin, didn't he? Still think Obama would've won, but damn... Also it has gotten so ugly. I think social media is really destroying democracy thanks to Facebook and the spread of disinformation. Zuckerberg has a lot to answer for.
@@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
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.
@ 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.
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
@@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.
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.
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 👏🏽❤️🇺🇸🌹
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.
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.
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 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
Před 3 lety+1
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
"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.
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
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 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 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.
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
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.
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
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!!
@@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.
Back when i really didn't care who won, because both candidates had something positive to offer
Man, we had it good back then huh? When you could actually think about and choose a candidate that both had different things to offer. Now I feel like my choice was made way before any ads or speeches because both sides are at odds. We've strayed so far from even 10 years ago :(
I'm not a Republican by any means but he really did screw it with Palin, didn't he? Still think Obama would've won, but damn...
Also it has gotten so ugly. I think social media is really destroying democracy thanks to Facebook and the spread of disinformation. Zuckerberg has a lot to answer for.
It’s now the opposite lol
Jesus I never realized how bad McCain got spanked.
@@Michael-xi9nb This is not a democracy
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 👏🏽❤️🇺🇸🌹
tell you what i watched every minute of this live . still brings a tear to my eye
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
glory hallelujah, glory hallelujah...
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
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
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
We fell from the elegance of McCain to the disgrace of today
My fave ever live political moment... the Obama family walking up on stage.
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 remember how optimistic everyone was !
It’s crazy how different the video quality seems it’s only been 12 years
@Benjamin Williams 😂😂😂😂😂
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
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?
This was my favorite episode of “the election”
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
cool video. I still get chills
0:05 That Intel Mug Tho
"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.
Love the background music.
im not even american but how i wish this was what today would look like
where you from?
@@kdeez4971 The Netherlands
mccain shutting down a boo was one of the best things ever
What a night that was.
katie you did a excellent job that night !!!!!
got chills man. absolutely insane
Cool highlight reel. Although, I must say that music got to be a bit too repetitive!
Love ya, Katie!
Gives me chills every fuckin time the moment on the news that showed he won
sweet recap!!!
Ok boomer
@@sankalanghosh5503 nigga what you called him boomer cuz he liked the recap tf
I will forever love John McCain, he truly was a man of honor!
Every time I watch this i cry. This is a honor to all POCs everywhere.
Watching this right before 2020 election also the John McCain dude seems really nice
As great a night it was for America and especially the Democratic Party, the happiness was greatly tempered by the economic crisis.
very moving.
When elections were fun to watch
Wow what a moment
8 years ago 🇺🇸
12 years ago 👌👌
@@georgesbendaly805216 Years Ago 👌👌
Its been best moment of 2008.Never forget that day.
Watching this just to feel something
lol
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
I was 12 years old. How times change.
I was 2 💀
We did it again!
Thank you oll my peole I love oll of you ❤
What class late Sen McCain had during that campaign. True American hero.
that was a good time to be in 2008 obama is a leader..i wish that he was still our president
You're probably right. I'm sure after Palin's disasterous interview with Katie Couric, McCain couldn't count on Couric's vote. lol
@ThreeLions89 You are so RIGHT:) Thank you for your comment!!!
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!!
I remember when this watching this when I was younger, I had no idea what was going on
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 keep watching President Obama videos. I look back now and wonder what happened. He was the last compassionate president
everyone was united thats crazy
Great highlights! Obama 2012!!!
11 years ago ;(
@@maui2745 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
"In this moment, change has come to America".
Can't believe I ate that shit up in 2008 and asked for seconds.
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.
You're my Favorite!!
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.
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
06:08 When Obama said "All things are possible" I wasn't expecting Trump to win..
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.
Greetings from the late 90s...
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
2008 was a great year !!
Envoie toujours des frissons le long de la colonne vertébrale.
Oui, c’est vrai!
I wish we can repeat the history 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙💙💙
We did
And keep the Taliban in the world. Yep you guys did;)
@@blankblank5409trump won
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.
Obama is one of my favourite people.
@aj71792 That's exactly when I thought Obama had it in the bag when OH went for him...it was priceless!
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!!
haha Katie Couric is cool, such a shame she is not the CBS news anchor anymore
Anyone here to revive themselves of better times lost?
What a magical evening. Electoral Landslide.
What do you have a intel?
i wish i could go back in time when life was easier
That was the only election results I watched all the way and I'm 67
3:38
I love thows words
nice!
😢😢😢😢😢good times
Time will tell!!
gregjones7 yes lol
It went well
Ah the real president 😌😌
Yay ❤
Its November 3rd 2020 :D
Obama trounced Mccain, and remember, it was the WEST COAST that gave him the victory!!!!
West coast baby!!!!
Wtf the 2008 intel sound reminds me of childhood
Ahhh the good old days 😅
5:21 pure class from McCain
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
Yeah, I like Katie's haircut in this video better.
I’m here on election night of 2020. help
November 7, 2020 11:30 AM Eastern Standard time. He made it we made it
Powerful night. I still have my Obama mug and Ebony magazine. Obama winning Ohio and Pennsylvania was huge!!!