Since coming to the United States Senate, I have worked to grow jobs, protect consumers in the state of Ohio and reform our tax code. One way in which job growth is harmed in our country is by illegal trade practices.

I’ve lived through a lot of interesting elections but never one more interesting than the one we just had that will put Barack Obama in the White House.

I am sometimes irritated by our loud-mouthed insistence that we’re the greatest nation in the world because there are a lot of great nations. However, the fact that the citizens of this country, the majority of whom are white, freely chose to elect a black man as their leader simply because they thought he was the best choice, makes me think Americans have great reason to be proud of themselves. They didn’t elect Barack Obama to be their next President because he’s black, or in spite of the fact that he’s black. They elected Obama because they liked him and thought he’d do the best job as President. Pretty good thinking.