History has been made

[SeaCat]

According to CNN and MSNBC we now have a Black President of the Untied States. History has been made.

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

According to CNN and MSNBC we now have a Black President of the Untied States. History has been made.

Cat

Based purely on estimates. I'm waiting for the hard data before I break out the champagne.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

McCain is conceding.

People booing.

It's really true.

 

[SeaCat]

Based purely on estimates. I'm waiting for the hard data before I break out the champagne.

McCain is now conceding defeat on National TV. His Speach so far is quite good. His followers there on the other hand,,,,,,,

Cat

 

[fieryjen]

McCain is now conceding defeat on National TV. His Speach so far is quite good. His followers there on the other hand,,,,,,,

Cat

Ugh. I feel terrible listening to them.

 

[SeaCat]

Ugh. I feel terrible listening to them.

Listening to them is one thing, but listen to what he is saying. I may not agree with his politics but this speech so far has class.

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Unlike many of his supporters, McCain is an officer and a gentleman. Thank-you Senator McCain.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Listening to them is one thing, but listen to what he is saying. I may not agree with his politics but this speech so far has class.

Cat

Yes. THIS guy could have won the election, if he'd shown THIS side of himself throughout.

 

[fieryjen]

Listening to them is one thing, but listen to what he is saying. I may not agree with his politics but this speech so far has class.

Cat

Yes. I already said in another thread, the speech itself is making me tear up. He's doing a very good job with it.

 

[shereads]

He conceded with dignity and I wish him well. His running mate, I just wish back to Alaska.

 

[Guest]

He conceded with dignity and I wish him well. His running mate, I just wish back to Alaska.

I'm not certain she wishes to go.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I'm not certain she wishes to go.

I'm hoping the America we're about to help recreate isn't going to have room for her anywhere except Alaska...

 

[sr71plt]

I'm hoping the America we're about to help recreate isn't going to have room for her anywhere except Alaska...

Oh, is it time to recreate now (as opposed to re-create)? I'm game.

 

[SeaCat]

I can only hope that now that the United States has decided to take the first step on the road of change that it keeps going. We can only hope that the level of prejudice drops on all fronts. Let's see if it happens.

Cat

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Oh, is it time to recreate now (as opposed to re-create)? I'm game.

Both

Finally!

 

[Darkniciad]

I voted for McCain, but my congratulations to Obama on his win. We'd all do well to get behind him when we believe he's right, and make our voice ( respectfully ) heard when we think he's off the tracks. We have a bumpy, winding road ahead of us.

Looks like McCain didn't let the people that took his campaign off-course touch his concession speech. If we'd seen more of this -- the real McCain -- during the campaign, things might have turned out different.

Here comes Obama to the stage.

 

[xssve]

Nobody has listened to McCain, his party ignores him, he's just in the way. He'll be persona non grata after this, nothing he does or says will matter now, or probably ever again, a voice of reason in the party of unreason, it's the end of an era. I wish him well, he regained a large measure of my respect when he stood up against Palin's rabble rousing.

Palin will run against Obama in four years, on wings of sheer invidious malevolence and unconcealed hatred.

Give the people what they want, they're trained to salivate at the sound of fatuous, vituperative hostility - it took work to get them to this stage, their fear and hatred carefully cozened and nurtured. They need each other, they feed off of each others sickness, it's the only way they feel normal - the pure, naked will to power is all that animates their now lifeless shells.

Good news for Obama though, lol. Got his work cut out for him, that's for sure.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

BHO, the President-elect of the United States, has just begun to make his acceptance speech.

Ain't that a kick in the ass?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[xssve]

I'm celebrating with a New Belgium 1554 Black Ale. Cheers.

 

[Guest]

McCain's speech was very polite and gracious.

I will totally agree with that.

Nothing will take away from the feeling that I have tonight.

 

[3113]

A brief moment on the soapbox

Watched Obama's acceptance speech. The man has such a way about him. He's got that "it" factor that, to me at least, makes even familiar phrases sound new and exciting. Charisma I guess we'd call it. Which is to say I recognized elements in his speech--and I'm sure others did, too--of Kennedy, of MLK, of his own past speeches, and he even brought in Abe Lincoln and the call-response of a preacher in church. But he still made me want to listen, still hit that spot which made me believe.

The funny thing is, people keep sneering at me and others who are wowed by Obama as mindless followers of a "Messiah." I hope you'll indulge me a moment, as I've something I've been wanting to say for a while on this score: I can't speak for others, but I, myself, am too old to be mindless. I know full well that there's no expecting miracles, and I know as well that there are those who do expect miracles who might be disappointed. But here's the thing I also know: Obama's rock star quality, that "Messiah" quality which made people burst into tears tonight when he won is nothing to sneer about, mock, distain or fear. You're right. There are many who see him exactly that way. And it's a good thing.

Why? Because we're entering hard times. Maybe even terrible times. And the one thing we need is a President who people will follow...with no need of a 9/11 to get them behind him. That quality that a Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy all had to motivate the best and brightest to serve their country. To fight a civil war, get us through a depression, or fly us to the moon.

And no, I don't think he's going to lead us in a wrong direction, not even by accident. At worst, he may, as he said tonight paraphrasing MLK, not get us as far as we'd like into recovery. But I do think he'll find a right direction. Maybe not your favorite direction, but right enough; what matters is this: he is a man who can get people to go in that direction. Happily, enthusiastically, and willingly. And keep them going even when times get tough. And this is why I'm very glad that he's going to be our new president.

Getting off the soapbox now.

 

[slyc_willie]

And no, I don't think he's going to lead us in a wrong direction, not even by accident. At worst, he may, as he said tonight paraphrasing MLK, not get us as far as we'd like into recovery. But I do think he'll find a right direction. Maybe not your favorite direction, but right enough; what matters is this: he is a man who can get people to go in that direction. Happily, enthusiastically, and willingly. And keep them going even when times get tough. And this is why I'm very glad that he's going to be our new president.

Getting off the soapbox now.

I, too, liked that part of his speech. On the cynical side of the coin, he was laying down his insurance card in preparation for a malpractice lawsuit. But on the practical side, he was conceding that no single administration could give every American what they want.

The gist of his address, I believe, was to warn the country that it is not going to be an easy time ahead, and there are no easy quick fixes. Americans are big on easy fixes. Americans are big on "what have you done for me lately" promises. But there's no way to deliver on such.

I'm reminded of JFK's venerable speech. We've taken the self-indulgence begun in the eighties (Reagan, I love you, old man, and I'm sure you're rolling in your grave) and stretched it way too far. No nation has become great by focusing on individual needs over the needs of the many. It's time for America to be less selfish.

I only hope that the Obama I helped elect into office is the same man that stood on that podium in Chicago tonight.

 

[starrkers]

McCain's concession speech was very dignified, AND he managed to raise applause (brief though it was) out of boos for Obama. Well said.

Obama has a mess ahead of him, and he knows it. Some people won't be even a little bit happy about what needs to happen to fix things. Let us hope they don't forget it wasn't Obama that got them into the mess, he just got the job of trying to fix it.

I've never cared so much about the outcome of a US election. Nor been so relieved at the result.

 

[DeeZire]

History has been made.Cat

And I have a five inch magnetic Obama-Biden sign stuck to my refrigerator - which I will cherish forever, or put up on ebay if it ever becomes valuable. (I may be a liberal, but I still believe in capitalism.)

The post in another thread about church bells ringing in a small town in England blew my mind. This is, indeed, a historic moment. Congrats, everyone.

 

[Belegon]

And I have a five inch magnetic Obama-Biden sign stuck to my refrigerator - which I will cherish forever, or put up on ebay if it ever becomes valuable. (I may be a liberal, but I still believe in capitalism.)

The post in another thread about church bells ringing in a small town in England blew my mind. This is, indeed, a historic moment. Congrats, everyone.

I have three magnets and had another one stolen.

I have always resisted putting stickers on my vehicle... but I even broke that rule this time. There is a bumper sticker on the back and magnets on the sides.