"I watched (Obama) give that speech at Grant Park, and he's a lot darker than I realized," said University of Minnesota student Trevor Baldwin. "I mean, he's black. For some reason, that didn't occur to me when I voted for him."

Barack Obama's Presidential election win officially surpassed the number of jubilant celebrations following O.J. Simpson's acquittal of double murder during his landmark trial in 1995.

"Whether we're walking the streets of Phnom Penh or on stage in Stockholm, Bono will look around him and say, 'Yeah, this would be a good place for it to happen.' It's really creepy."

"Give me some credit," Slater said. "I made it there alive, and more importantly, I made it the whole way without touching him."