Celebrity Reactions: To Barack Obama Being Elected President
Many celebrities have been vocal about their choice for President throughout the campaigning process and now that history has been made with the first African-American President, Barack Obama, the stars speak their minds.
Oprah Winfrey was a face in the crowd last night at Chicago’s Grant Park to hear Obama speak and she has been behind him the whole way.
“It feels like hope won,” the TV icon told Britain’s BBC. “It feels like there’s a shift in consciousness. It feels like something really big and bold has happened here, like nothing ever in our lifetimes did we expect this to happen.”
Courteney Cox and hubby David Arquette invited friends like Jennifer Aniston, Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher to their Obama victory party.
• Actor George Clooney: “I congratulate President-elect Obama on his historic victory, and now it’s time to begin unifying the country so we can take on the extraordinary challenges that this generation faces.”
• Singer Usher: “This will go down in history, in black history, for all of the sacrifices that the great Joseph Lowery and Martin Luther King made, this actually pays off for their sacrifice. … I’m speechless. I don’t even know what to say.”
• Music mogul Diddy: “I felt like my vote was the vote that put him into office. … And that may not be true but that’s how much power it felt like I had.”
• Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz to People Magazine: “My parents met working for [Obama's running mate on one of his early campaigns]. If it weren’t for Joe Biden, I would not exist as a human being. … I am proud to be a part of history in the making.”
• Former Secretary of State Colin Powell: “We’re very, very proud to have a new American President who also happens to be African-American … As I watched [the news anchors call the election] – pretty moving moment. Everybody cried … I am overjoyed.”
• Film Director Spike Lee: “It’s a great day, it’s a beautiful morning, a new dawn, a new beginning - not just in America but the world over.
“I think race has always been interwoven in the fabric of America but, in this referendum of the American people, there’s been a seismic movement as far as American views on race in this country. “
• Madonna: “I’m so f—ing happy right now.”
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