NEWS TODAY - WASHINGTON - "At Last" may be just what the president has been Barack Obama and his wife Michelle was thinking Tuesday night as it glided through the first of their dance to the Etta James classic.
The Obamas stars are prime attractions at the 10 they attend the celebration on Wednesday early morning. By the end of the long day of official events and two-year campaign that put them in the White House.
President taken his wife and close their slow dance, two steps dignity while, offstage, Beyonce singing. Spun president first lady Michelle Obama in a half turn once.
Obama cut loose in the faster flow of a few minutes later, as Shakira, Mary J. Blige, Faith Hill and Mariah Carey singing along with Stevie Wonder to "Signed, Sealed, Delivered." The song is played in almost all of Obama's rallies throughout the campaign.
"You can tell a black president of the way he moves," joked comedian Jamie Foxx to dance.
President white cravat, while Michelle shimmered in the white, one-humped, floor gown. It was embellished from top to bottom with details of white flowers and carried out by the 26-year-old New York designer Jason Wu.
"First of all, look how good is my wife?" Obama request from the crowd and celebrity supporters.
Home on the Obama ball States, the president's first lady taken far closer than he was in their first dance. At one point, he wrapped both arms around her waist and locked it together in the small of the back of the fingers.
"Hello, everybody. Aloha. What happened?" Obama said in the dialect of Hawaii and Illinois contingents, and said they reflected the root. "So you get more involved not only in our campaign, but in our lives."
Vice President Obama and Joe Biden each saluted the nation's military men and women in the Commander in Chief Ball via satellite. Biden said he does not look to the future to time in the spotlight - the dancing, that is.
"The thing that frightens me the most (is) I'm going to have to stand in a circle and dance in a minute." At that time, he was laughing and making a quick sign of the cross.
The Obamas more vibrant, diverting up to dance with the Marine Sgt. Elidio Guillen from Madera, California - that is shorter than dance partner Michelle - and Army Sgt. Margaret H. Herrera San Antonio, Texas, who cried at the president's arm.
Although the formal clothing and entertainment celebrities, like the ball does not matter too. A long line to enter often, going to the bathroom or the coat check, food and heavy on vegetables with dip and cheese cubes.
In a sign, perhaps, the difficult economic times, guests who have paid anywhere from $ 75 for a ticket to thousands for a package deal to purchase their own drinks served in small plastic cups. Beer goes for $ 6, $ 9 for cocktails and champagne for $ 12.
The people stood in line outside the entrance to Union Station in eastern Ball States and one half hours after starting. Because seating is very limited in the Western football, a number of long Attendees Gowns in fancy dress and plopped cross-legged on the floor.
"This is what happens under the economy. There are no chairs, no highboys - from the floor and plastic cups," commented ballgoer Brig Lawson, 38, of Las Vegas.
Director Ron Howard said he sympathized with the long day Obama has.
"I feel bad for him," Howard said in an interview with The Associated Press in West Ball. "He has long days and now he has conducted seven dances. This can be very exhausting for the First Family."
Home on the Obama ball States, the dance floor is dominated by two small girls who skipped and twirled in matching red dresses while growing-up is still standing, crowded around the stage waiting for Obama to appear.
Singer Sheryl Crow, to check for Midwestern Ball, said he wanted to go home.
"I do not see my child in four days. I'm miserable," she told her band between songs.
But there is still a lot of fun to be had in the official balls and dozens of others in the vicinity of Washington.
Crow has been greeted with a cheering crowd later he was right to strike, "A Change Is You Good." When hip-hop star Wyclef Jean asked people in the Mid-Atlantic Ball to pull their tuxedo jackets and swaying in the air to show their support for Barack Obama, thousands do.
Youth in Ball, Kid Rock also belted out songs dresed-20-somethings about the mix. One of them run up to bartender, gave him a high five and said, "Barack Obama is president!"
The Obamas, following Kid Rock and Kanye West, got the real rock-star reception and launched into a strange dance, laugh because it rocked. When they finished, the president grabbed the mic and said, "That is what is called the old school."
In the Midwestern Ball, joked that he was time to "dance with the one that brung me, all except that I do and back heels."
And although the mood was celebratory, the fact that the state of war still hung over the events in the Commander in Chief of the ball and separate Heroes Red White & Blue Ball.
"Remember that you are in the thoughts and our prayers this day, every day, forever," Obama said to the army commander in Chief of the ball. "Tonight, we celebrate. Tomorrow, the work begins. ... Together, I am sure we will write the next chapter in America's big story."
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Associated Press writers nedra Pickler, Erica Werner, Suzanne Gamboa, Laurie Kellman, Kimberly Hefling, Sam Hananel, Samantha Critchell, Ben Feller, Philip Elliott and Ann Sanner contributed to this report.
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