I voted for that dude. I’m still crying and still happy. I thought people — whosoebers you voted for — might want a, um, forum, as they say, to spill their guts, talk about their reaction(s) to the winner being announced, make kissy faces or razberries on your screen. So here it is! Go! Talk! Did you cry? Are you hiding your money from the Reds? Are you hiding your daughters from the blacks? Did you get the same shitty e-mail I did about “those ones” bullying a white-Porsche driver in Fla.? What will That One do besides keep being all hopey and buying a puppy for his adorable girls? What did you think about John McCain’s speech? Will you continue boycotting Nieman Marcus? If so, why? [Also: If I delete the C*rriE ////Underw00d shit from my embryo’s iPod, is it (a) taking a fork out of a socket, or (b) a good idea?]
What about 1,240 cupcakes of HOPE?!
Barry-O, Barry-O baby
I read a story by SI journalist Rick Reilly. He invited both candidates to join him in a fantasy football league. Obama was the only one who responded. Reilly met him and they spent time picking their team. Obama was really into it–even e-mailed Reilly later to tell him "man, we should have really picked Drew Brees… I told you Clinton Portis was going to wreak havoc last Sunday". They corresponded back and forth about their team. I told this story to my mom and she said : "How can he be so… normal?". Indeed. I don’t know about anyone else, but that kind of story comforts me. So does knowing that he meets his crew weekly at the gym to play pick up basketball. Those are the kind of things I do. I feel better knowing we have a brilliant, steady, self-assured, NORMAL (in the best possible sense) man in charge.
Plus, he’s only a couple of years older than me. We probably have a lot of the same records.
I shouldn’t have left the party so early on Tuesday. I missed all the jumping up and down and hugging and kissing and crying.
Puppy
I misheard part of the speech because of the noise and carrying on, but I thought for a second that he was going to get us all a new puppy.
I need to see it completed. We were talking about the possibility of getting to Washington on Jan. 20.For more thoughts, go here.
hey good lookin
I’ll be back to pick this thread up later!
Dylan
I really didn’t think it
I really didn’t think it would happen. Mainly, because I wrongly assusmed that when things are going bad and people have the opportunity to choose something new then they were going to go with what’s familiar. And by familiar, John McCain epitomizes The White Man.
I ended up voting for Obama this election whereas I voted Independent in the last 2 presidential elections. The main reasons I went with Obama this year is that I was far more impressed with Obama (despite his views on Afghanistan and gay marriage) than those dunderheads Kerry and Gore. I actually could hear what Obama was saying whereas Kerry and Gore sounded like (as Arthur once wrote) "hamina hamina hamina" Once McCain picked Palin and her fake-ass, race-baiting cheerleader schtick came to the fore, that cinched that I needed to vote for Obama.
Miss Info and I went down to the Esquire Lounge here in Champaign which is not too different from the pre-meth Hooters waitress Corner Bar to watch what went down. There was a lot of excited people there. The sound was turned off on the TVs prior to the McCain and Obama speeches which I was really grateful for (and actually I need to thank my buddy Preston who works there for doing that). Everybody was quiet during McCain’s speech, then they got pretty exctied and rowdy during Obama’s speech. I was shocked when it occured. Like Useless wrote, I couldn’t help feel that something fishy was going on with how quickly McCain conceded.
The next day at work, I was expecting hushed conversations and low level grumblings. Most of the people I work with live outside the city in farm towns. Like the John Cougar small towns, seriously. In the past I’ve heard lowered voiced conversations when the subjects of the bad part of Champiagn (which there is not one) and shhhhhh…black people come up. I didn’t hear anything of the sort which made me feel really relieved.
Outside of the work place, I’ve picked up a general excitement from people. I’ll probably go down to the Esquire again tonight just to see what’s going on since a couple days have passed. Also to do some drinking.
My new favorite flickr friend:
http://flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/sets/72157608716313371/
You can cry all over again!
Anyone else notice a tone of
Anyone else notice a tone of relief in McCain’s voice duirng his concession speech? As if he were saying: "I wish I could have done it my way, but you right wing turds arm-barred me into picking Palin… I know I’m not the healthiest chap and I don’t want that cow anywhere near the oval office…"
Me and some of the brothers
Me and some of the brothers have been talking about this at work and at the risk of me getting yelled at by someone I am going to tell yall what we have been saying.
One brother was saying that six months from now Barak and Michelle will have the white house on MTV cribs.
Also we all agree the place has to get painted, its the black house now.
Ready for this one:
Another brother was saying we have to change the name of the country. Its no longer the United States of America, but its now Nigga Nation.
Just thought I would share those here.
Now all that was in fun and if anybody here took that the wrong way or got offended by it. let me apologize now.
huh
I hope this presidency will help people to stop reducing everything to the lowest common denominator. Including themselves.
Amen. I have already
Amen. I have already written and not posted two responses to that one. Probably better if I just keep my mouth shut.
I don't think he wanted the job.
McCain, that is. I think this race exhausted him — much more than he ever imagined it would have. And I think by the end (I did think I heard relief in his voice during the concession speech), he didn’t even want to be President for the next four years. He wanted to have WON, yes. But then go home and go to bed and forget about that nutty Caribou Barbie. I have been thinking that McCain might not have wanted to win because he knew Palin shouldn’t be V.P. I know we all felt that wash of relief when McCain conceeded — "Dear GAWD, she lost, thank ya Jebus!" McCain’s a smart dude; he had to have realized what a bad (dangerous) choice she was.
I’m still so fucking HAPPY that I can’t think straight. Still just bursting into tears seemingly at random. Jools has a couple pictures of me freaking out on election night at her flickr site. For me, that says about everything I could say, but then maybe only I see it. When I finally understood that Obama was in fact officially and undoubtedly our next president, I experienced some combination of emotions, and turned up to 11 at that, that I’ve never felt before in my life. I just can’t describe it. It felt like I was at a concert and the band hit the happyjoylovehope note rather than the brown note. Some lady walking by saw me — and I don’t know exactly what she saw to affect her this way — when I was watching the teevee people say it was honest-to-god true, and I was just crying and probably doing something vocally as I’m starting to let it sink in, I don’t really remember, and this women stops right in front of me and turns and just grabs me and HOLDS me and lets me hang on to her and cry into her shirt for as long as I wanted to or needed to hold on to her (probably longer than she tohught it would be, but she didn’t let on). Now that is what I’m talkin’ about.
It IS nice, really really nice, to be out in the world these days following the election and noticing a subtle change in the atmosphere, in mannerisms of strangers, in the tone of everything. It’s like we all just servived a plane crash together. Or a train wreck.
bomb parts of virginia please
crazy woman in earshot of me at work, has been going on and on about how he’s not technically the first black president cuz he ain’t all black, etc, etc. I bit my lip, cuz this woman is apeshit crazy and is already on the verge of being fired for harrassing others… but, jeez, I guess that’s your ignorant Virginian right there.
I don’t exactly dig Obama 100%, but I voted him in. if I had my way, Wright and Ayers would have been the ideal team to elect.
I hope that the next election no one will even notice anyone’s race.
the sad reality is that Obama ain’t changing half of the shit he promised. it’s just not logical. too many deep-rooted obstacles. BUT, he has already set us down a new path… and that will lead us somewhere other than the turdfest Bushie has landed us in.
and that can’t be all bad.
Mutts
At the end of his first press conference, he was asked about the dog issue. What kind of puppy for the girls?
He went on about prefferences, said he was leaning toward a shelter dog, because "they’re mutts like me."
Best president ever, so far.
—your radio friend, Bat Guano
Not just Wright and Ayers
Not just Wright and Ayers but lets put Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, and Kathleen Cleaver on there too, and maybe we can get Obama to spring Leonard Peltier.
onward
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Not just Wright and Ayers but lets put Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, and Kathleen Cleaver on there too, and maybe we can get Obama to spring Leonard Peltier.
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amen to that. and, while we’re on a roll, why not he use some of that kenyan voodoo to make huey newton, jimi hendrix, malcolm x, mlk, and groucho marx (hail marxism!) come back? let’s get this party started.
Emptiness
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
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Sounds like Dylan was better
found Obama college photos
“In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack, who asked him if he would be willing to pose for some black and white photographs that she could use in her portfolio.” …. “Jack never realized her dream of becoming a photographer and is now a psychologist.”
Judging from the look in his
"He's going in the archive."
“We’re not taking him back here,” said museum spokeswoman Annemick Dolfin of the Bush figure. “He’s going in the archive.”