President-elect Obama, of course. :D
They haven't actually called it yet, but there's no way McCain can win after losing Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Comrade Shampanyov wrote: He did it, he really did it...
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:D
Dead inside a year. Some Jesustard will do it cos "the lowahd hates neeeegras"
Representative Barbara Jordan once said that the Constitution did not include her-a Black woman. Dr. King spoke of peering over the mountaintop to the promised land.
For the longest time. a black child who said he or she wanted to be US President was dismissed. Not anymore.
Will it cure our economy tomorrow? No. But it is hope.
Doctor? wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov wrote: He did it, he really did it...
Dead inside a year. Some Jesustard will do it cos "the lowahd hates neeeegras"
I fear you might be correct. Some idiot will try to take him out. Let's hope the Secret Service does it's job.
Well, definately an impressively run campaign. Disappointed, but yet its been setting up for awhile. Hope he'll be a good president... and there is good possiblity that the Dems might have so much in-fighting, like under Carter, to get any of his large ticket items completed.... one can only hope.
Hopefully it is the start of the end of the cynical bullshit of the Sean Hannity/Rush Limbaugh/worship of the dumb white male demographic, turning it into a bitter minority that will fade into it's diminishing core of dumb rednecks and lower middle class white cliches, just like the KKK faded into a joke after WW2.
A new face for the world, a welcome change.
And maybe it sounds trite, but it is so cool how happy "black people" in my city acted today, how they felt like they finally counted as citizens for the first time in an election in their lives.
WASHINGTON — President Bush has called Barack Obama to congratulate him on winning the presidency.
The two-term Republican president told the Illinois senator upon his historic win: "What an awesome night for you, your family and your supporters."
Awesome.
Finally white trash and capitalists lost! Heil Obama! I really changed my opinion about this country, which I bemusedly found ultraracist (unless Bush made it so unbearable that any Dem would win).
30 years after hip hop culture sprang up, we got first hip-hopper in da House.
bamatown...that is great. Now I can tell you I was afraid of this election; it was hard for me to believe Obama can win, I thought some invisible hand could kick him out. I always find american administration as a too fookin conservative. I was wrong. Obama will be a fresh breath for many people on this crazy planet for sure 
:) .
I don't believe for a second that the Grand Ol' Party didn't chuck this election deliberately. What was that campaign all about? An old man and a lunatic were never going to beat Obama's campaign. Why didn't they put forward a credible candidate? Why didn't they campaign properly?
My theory is that they knew they would struggle to win this time, even by cheating again, so they went all out to post the biggest loss possible in the hope that they can sufficiently undermine BO during his first term to secure a landslide in four years. The Americans will see such Obama's huge majority as a mandate for radical change and the backlash when not-much-changes-at-all when he runs up against the combined powers of big oil and construction, the two houses and the Pentagon as the financial crisis worsens will be very damaging for Obama.
For sure, it was Nice To See the candidate with the most votes win for a change, and very nice to see the Texan wanker with the loud voice who was sitting next to me at breakfast this morning drunkenly crying into his bacon about the end of civilisation as we know it, the collapse of the world economy (no prizes for guessing what industry was paying for his bacon!)
I have no doubt that the best man won, but I have doubts about why it was allowed to happen so convincingly and without a credible fight.
My money's still on a bullet before Easter, but I can see that the so-called Left may be behind one if left to the second half of the term. He's got a lot of credibility to lose, he's made a lot of difficult promises and a lot of people are banking on him to succeed.
More than anyone else before him, Obama will be seen as a president of the people. Massive amounts of campaign money that donated by ordinary citizens, which gives each of them a feeling that they can now expect something in return. The pressure to deliver is crushing and there will be little sympathy for failure.
The only sure thing is that the Republicans will not fall quietly into the role of fair and honest opposition party - the impeachments, dirty tricks and assassination plots will be in full swing before the 70 days are up.
America is a rotten country. Rocking the vote and putting a changeling in the big house won't change that any time soon.
My American work colleague has brought in loads of Krispy Kreme doughnuts for us all to celebrate! Yee-ha!
Watching the news though first thing - why the fcuk did the Germans and French have all-night street parties to celebrate? Aren't we the 51st State anymore? :(
Diamond 383 wrote:
America is a rotten country. Rocking the vote and putting a changeling in the big house won't change that any time soon.
can we just enjoy this for one moment - please?
obama has his work cut out all right, he has been lumberd with sorting out georges dirty work, iraq and afganistan are both going to be very difficult for him to sort out,and thats before he gets stuck into sorting out the isreal/palestine poison chalice that is the bugbear of american presidents. the fall out of the credit crunch will affect his spending plans as well as any feel good factor. this is all without the very probable threat of assasination.
well done to america by the way, thank you for showing us that your not ALL complete fuck ups (usual suspects from both sides excluded)
Firt thing was to have a look at the news today…
Bravo !
(I had croissants for breakfast to celebrate… we do what we can)
Doctor? wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov wrote: He did it, he really did it...
Dead inside a year. Some Jesustard will do it cos "the lowahd hates neeeegras"
B. Hussein is a "Jesustard".
El Jarvo wrote: Watching the news though first thing - why the fcuk did the Germans and French have all-night street parties to celebrate? Aren't we the 51st State anymore? :(
You have Gordon Brown who is from the Labour Party. We, with the Germans, have Angela Merkel (CDU) and Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP), who are conservatives. Obama as President is a hope for us...
Mind, Nicolas Sarkozy is/was W's European best friend when Tony Blair left. And Sarkozy sent most of his campaign staff to learn within the Obama staff how to win an election - true fact.
That said, in my small village, it has been raining for days, it still rains, and nobody celebrated Obama'a victory.
I wish good luck to the man.
A black man in the White House. It makes me think of the white little boy who messed up everything with the good ol'black servant required to put everything in order before grand white man comes back.
I said it, I repeat it: good luck.
And I have a thought for Bin Laden who lost one of his best playground friend...
I would not be surprised if some people call him back to get the White House in four years...
Diamond 383 wrote: I don't believe for a second that the Grand Ol' Party didn't chuck this election deliberately. What was that campaign all about? An old man and a lunatic were never going to beat Obama's campaign. Why didn't they put forward a credible candidate? Why didn't they campaign properly?
My theory is that they knew they would struggle to win this time, even by cheating again, so they went all out to post the biggest loss possible in the hope that they can sufficiently undermine BO during his first term to secure a landslide in four years. The Americans will see such Obama's huge majority as a mandate for radical change and the backlash when not-much-changes-at-all when he runs up against the combined powers of big oil and construction, the two houses and the Pentagon as the financial crisis worsens will be very damaging for Obama.
For sure, it was Nice To See the candidate with the most votes win for a change, and very nice to see the Texan wanker with the loud voice who was sitting next to me at breakfast this morning drunkenly crying into his bacon about the end of civilisation as we know it, the collapse of the world economy (no prizes for guessing what industry was paying for his bacon!)
I have no doubt that the best man won, but I have doubts about why it was allowed to happen so convincingly and without a credible fight.
My money's still on a bullet before Easter, but I can see that the so-called Left may be behind one if left to the second half of the term. He's got a lot of credibility to lose, he's made a lot of difficult promises and a lot of people are banking on him to succeed.
More than anyone else before him, Obama will be seen as a president of the people. Massive amounts of campaign money that donated by ordinary citizens, which gives each of them a feeling that they can now expect something in return. The pressure to deliver is crushing and there will be little sympathy for failure.
The only sure thing is that the Republicans will not fall quietly into the role of fair and honest opposition party - the impeachments, dirty tricks and assassination plots will be in full swing before the 70 days are up.
America is a rotten country. Rocking the vote and putting a changeling in the big house won't change that any time soon.
Its a shame you feel that way as everything really points away from what you are saying. McCain was the most viable candidate to run when the Republican title was dispised so much because of Bush. He was neck and neck up until the moment the economy took its downturn, to which he never recovered. Plus McCain received 47% of the popular vote, regardless of the hate and disapproval rating for Bush and the Republican name (not bad considering over 50% of the country is registered Democrat). Elections weren't "stolen" in the past, the main problem Democrates have is that thier base tends to be very unreliable to show up at the polls to vote (young and minority voters). That is where Gore and Kerry really failed and Obama succeeded... getting the unreliables to actually vote and wait in line. All politics are ugly, regardless of country.
