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I am going to give the non-political (and for me, very personal) answer. As I write this, I am 66. I grew up in an America that was still segregated, where black people were not treated as equals; many colleges would not accept even the most highly qualified black students, and many occupations were closed to them. During my lifetime, Martin Luther King was assassinated, and in some parts of the south, white people vehemently protested the idea of having their schools integrated. But during my lifetime, I also saw segregation end and attitudes gradually begin to change, and I saw new opportunities making themselves available to minority children. Today, there are more black doctors, black lawyers, black scientists, and yes, more black politicians in both political parties than when I was growing up.

For me (and truth be told, even for some of my friends who did not vote for him), the election of Barack Obama was an amazing symbol of how far we have come as a nation. And I also think it sent a positive message to the entire world: whether or not you agree with Mr. Obama's politics, his life is a very inspiring story. He is a man who was born to a biracial couple, his father abandoned the family, he was not raised in luxury, and yet, he was able to work his way up, graduate from an excellent college and law school, become an attorney and a professor, get elected to the state senate in Illinois three times, become a US senator, and then be elected president by a majority of the American people.

As Mr. Obama has said, only in America is a story such as his possible, since many countries still do not have this kind of social mobility. Thus, I think without Barack Obama, we in this country would still be waiting for a day when a person's race was not as important as the message his (or her) candidacy conveyed. And other countries that see us as a role model would still be wondering when we were going to elect someone who did not come from the dominant group; Mr. Obama's election thus gives hope that even a difficult start in life does not mean you cannot rise to the highest position in the country.

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America would be prosperous, the debt would nearly vanish, the budget would be balanced, unemployment would be at an all-time low, businesses would be hiring, and some Americans working in Benghazi would still be alive.

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His two daughters would not exist.

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