Barack Obama-44th President of the United States of America

By now you know that Sen. Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America.

As I listened to Charlie Gibson on ABC announce Obama's landslide victory, I remembered a scene from the second edition of the Matrix trilogy. Shortly before the "keymaker" died he gave Neo a key to a room. Inside of that room Neo met the architect of "The Matrix." Much to Neo's dismay the architect of the matrix began to intimate to Neo that though he was "The One" he has not been the only one and even though he may succeed now, eventually things will snap back like a rubber band into the hands of those in powerful, namely the architect and his cohorts.

He gives Neo two choices; save the city of Zion or save the love of his life, Trinity. Neo of course is moved by love (don't miss that) and choose Trinity. However, before he walks out of the door he looks at the architect and he says, "You better hope we never see each other again."

The imagery is powerful. As I started to think about the architect's words when he said, "There have been five versions before you and you're no different", my mind went back to Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Medgar Evers, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, and now Barack Obama. What the architect didn't understand is that though many had came before Neo, things would now be different and it was in his best interests that they didn't meet again under the same circumstances. Obviously, in the final episode Neo did conquer the matrix by giving himself.

The way was paved for Barack Obama. Many tears were cried, much blood was shed, and many lives prematurely taken, but it proved to be worth it. You may not have voted for him, but just as social conservatives encouraged liberals to accept and pray for George Bush and invoke Romans 13, now I ask those same liberals to do the same for Barack Obama. Whether we like it or not, God chose him. We may not know for what purpose he chose him, but time will reveal that mystery.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new President, Barack Obama. He needs our prayers.