“Whose House? Obama’s House!”
From UPI:
A crowd estimated at about 1,000 people celebrated in front of the White House Tuesday night after Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election…Some people in the crowd at the White House chanted “O-bam-ma!” and “Whose house? Obama’s house!” The report said strangers embraced one another and people danced on bus shelters.
From CNN:
At least 1,000 people gathered on Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House late Tuesday night, shouting “Obama! Obama!” and “Yes we can!” Uniformed Secret Service officers were overheard, saying they’d never seen anything like it.**
Last night, only Fox News had video of this. It was pretty wild with Brit Hume reporting that the Secret Service detail at the gates were grinning at the crowd, taking cellphone pictures while the crowd totally freaked out in joy. It was mostly a young crowd. Just before Fox cut away from the scene, the camera panned over a celebrant who hoisted a sign that read “Evict Bush Now!” Huffed Hume (paraphrasing), “Now, now, there’ll be plenty of time for Bush to pack up his stuff and leave…”
**Probably the last time the White House saw a demonstration of joy like this was the night Harry Truman returned to the White House after the campaign of 1948 — you know, “Dewey beats Truman.”
