My wife just said, "Oh my God, we have a SMART President!" How nice is that?
ScootFL
· 1 year ago
Just as I was thinking too this whole election cycle. I have an IQ over 130. I couldn't dare to vote for someone who was clearly dumber than me AND hateful to boot (McCain/Palin was just that). I cringe whenever I hear a Bushism because I think of what it sounds like to the rest of the world. We will finally have an incoming President who knows his stuff and who's a good person too. Good news for America :o)
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Obama is an awesome, charismatic man, an incredible inspiration. But, let's give credit where credit is due. Bush won this one for Obama. Without that ass in Oval Office, it would have been another 100 years before any Black man, even one as awesome as Obama would have even had a chance to win the White House. If you want to know who did it all, who made the whole world root for Obama, and give him a landslide victory, there is only one who deserves the full credit. This will be Bush's legacy more than all his fuckups, crimes, hatred, bigotry, etc. He made it possible for a Black man to become president. We were very fortunate to have a man of Obama's caliber and intelligence, but Bush did this, since Sarah Palin could have run as Democratic candidate and at the least made a reasonable showing, probably even won overwhelmingly. Don't know if it was worth the hell of the last 8 years, but now it is up to us to make sure that Obama lives up to his vast, tremendous potential and becomes a truly great president, the greatest of all our presidents if he restores us to the greatness that should be and was America.
So, Bush, I salute you. You made America into a truly liberal, progressive nation. <g>
henrythefifth
· 1 year ago
How could anyone not have voted for him?
ScootFL
· 1 year ago
ignorance, bigotry, racism, and just plain idiocy. Thank goodness that the goodness of people won out over the hatefulness and stupidity of others.
canuck55
· 1 year ago
Children in school years from now will learn of the Gettysburg Address, I have a Dream and the Yes We Can speech. I am sobbing.
henrythefifth
· 1 year ago
No doubt.
songbird5391
· 1 year ago
I am crying with you... I am listening to Dr. King tell the crowd in front of the Lincoln Memorial... "I Have a Dream" Obama was so eloquent tonight... I watched Rev. Jackson cry... I watch a diverse group of individuals look to Obama with eyes of hope... It was wonderful... He is Dr. King's dream realized... http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkiha... I just finished listening to it...
driver1076
· 1 year ago
I cant stop blubbering Im so proud of this amazing moment the divide is bridged amazing day in history and we were part of it
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
That speech was incredible.
Savage8862
· 1 year ago
Great change for everyone but the gay and lesbian community who lost big time this election day. Gays and lesbians are still considered second class citizens. I am proud that Obama won but I am not proud for those who voted change in but still excluded the GLBT community.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
No President mentioned the gay folk like Obama did in his speech... I think he is on the gay folk side....
kh7463
· 1 year ago
I loved hearing the crowd chant back "Yes We Can!" each time he said it.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
My favorite part:
"It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled – Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America."
Think a Republican President elect, like John McCain, would have uttered those inclusive words in an acceptance speech?
RIPWAMU
· 1 year ago
My heart flows every time I hear him say that. It means even more that it actually comes from his heart. If only those same sentiments were felt by the people voting against gay marriage in California.
RIPWAMU
· 1 year ago
As usual, a truly inspiring speech. I feel a huge sense of relief and hope, something I have never felt in my adult life. I moved from Arizona to Chicago this year and have never looked back and we were joking about how we have rose out of the ashes of Hell (Arizona). I feel so proud to live in Illinois and embrace the Midwest values I was raised with (born and raised in Michigan). My grandmother, a Czech immigrant, always taught me to judge a person by their personal character not their ethnicity or orientation. When she was at the end of her life in the late 1970's she had wonderful Iranian neighbors who looked after her when we couldn't be there and she spent much of her life in Detroit embracing her African American neighbors. She is looking down on us tonight, probably shedding the same tears of joy that I am.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Well, get ready for this. MSNBC is reporting that Proposition 8 is winning in California. An existing right for gay Americans that DID NOT cause the sky to fall is up for election and the people right now are voting to remove that right for gay Americans. Wow, that certainly tempers my celebration tonight. 22% of the vote is in.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
let us hope that President Obama takes the lead and says no to this bullshit....
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
He really can't do much about this. Its a state constitutional matter. He can weigh in on our side, but I don't see how that would benefit him at this point. He is too busy trying to move in as President Elect to have to weigh in on a cultural issue right now.
I do expect Obama to integrate the military with gays and lesbians. The American public is MORE THAN READY for gays and lesbians in the military and we have the polls to prove it!
MNUSA
· 1 year ago
We have a long way to go to make us whole again, but tonight we've taken the first step. May God bless President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden. For the first time in a long time, I have hope that we will be led out of the wilderness of war, torture, global warming, financial crisis, fear, hate, distrust and inequality.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
with all due respect, MNUSA - god had nothing to do with this election....
minik
· 1 year ago
Boy did we all dodge a bullet tonight. Thank goodness for Obama.
I can sleep peacefully knowing I'm safe from the tyranny of Palin and McCain.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
That speech made me cry.....
President Obama....
Now lets starts some criminal proceedings...
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
BTW i had a huge fight with a political neophite tonight, he was trying to shush me when mccfool was blabbering... suffice it to say, people got mad at me.... who cares.... anyway, did anyone listen to mccain's speech tonight? did you listen to his words, his inflection, his nuance? he threw sarah under the bus.... it was hilarious. if you listen well and the context in which he said it. he just blew her chances for 2012.....
We'll get our Supreme Court Justices now, baby. WOOH WOOOOOOH!!!!!
It's a great day to be alive.
Screw Prop 8 - I have to believe that all such nonsense will be HISTORY once the Supreme Court gets put on the correct track.
davidinchelseama
· 1 year ago
PALIN CAN SEE DEFEAT FROM HER HOUSE.
WELL, ACTUALLY, SHE CAN SEE IT ON HER FRONT LAWN NOW.
catschloss
· 1 year ago
I am very, very pleased with the results of the election . But I have one question.....Did I miss Obama's thanks to the Clinton's ? I think he should have thanked them profusley and by name.
oh_yeah
· 1 year ago
The speech was great. I watched it on C-Span this morning, and noticed that when he talked about Michelle and the girls, and remembered his grandmother, he also thanked his sister (Maya), and then words like "and my other sisters and brothers."
That part differs from the prepared text. It seems that he was giving a shout out to relatives in Kenya.
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So, Bush, I salute you. You made America into a truly liberal, progressive nation. <g>
I am sobbing.
I just finished listening to it...
"It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled – Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America."
Think a Republican President elect, like John McCain, would have uttered those inclusive words in an acceptance speech?
I do expect Obama to integrate the military with gays and lesbians. The American public is MORE THAN READY for gays and lesbians in the military and we have the polls to prove it!
I can sleep peacefully knowing I'm safe from the tyranny of Palin and McCain.
President Obama....
Now lets starts some criminal proceedings...
Snoblesse oblige?MCCAIN CONCEDES GRACEFULLY... sorta
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It's a great day to be alive.
Screw Prop 8 - I have to believe that all such nonsense will be HISTORY once the Supreme Court gets put on the correct track.
WELL, ACTUALLY, SHE CAN SEE IT ON HER FRONT LAWN NOW.
But I have one question.....Did I miss Obama's thanks to the Clinton's ?
I think he should have thanked them profusley and by name.
That part differs from the prepared text. It seems that he was giving a shout out to relatives in Kenya.