It has felt to me for some time like the White House had been taken over by a band of corrupt, stupid, frat boys bent on sacking the Treasury and rubbing everyone’s nose in it for fun. Well, we can count the days now until they are gone. They could do a lot more damage in the two and a half months they have left, but frat-boy-cheerleader-in-chief seems inclined to keep a low profile and just slink out of town. Good riddance.If nothing else, it will be great to have a President who can stand up and make a speech like the one President-elect Obama made last night in Chicago. It was genuinely inspiring, and I think we’re going to need lots of inspiration in the coming years. At least we won’t have to cringe with embarrassment every time our nation’s leader opens his mouth to speak. No one will “misunderestimate” Obama.
At the risk of being schmaltzy, this really only could happen in America and I feel a lot of pride in my country this morning for showing the world we have not forgotten our ideals.
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Kaz wins the “prize of marginal value” with the closest guess to Obama’s Electoral College total of 338. Kaz had the highest guess in the pack at 344. rsb was second at 319. jb was last, guessing McCain with 275. I’ll report later this week on the prize once I figure out what it is.
Kaz wins the “prize of marginal value” with the closest guess to Obama’s Electoral College total of 338. Kaz had the highest guess in the pack at 344. rsb was second at 319. jb was last, guessing McCain with 275. I’ll report later this week on the prize once I figure out what it is.
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History says, Don't hope
on this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
attributed to Seamus Heaney
from "Voices from Lemnos"
It's a new day. Hooray.
One caveat: "There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."
-Saint Theresa of Jesus
And one rabbit punch, as one who has borne the burden for almost 8 years: will the time come for GWB and Dick Cheney to assume the position?
This has been the longest gestation period for a president.
Thanks to DB for making it a lot more interesting.
Now let's pray that Obama & Co. can get us on the mend.
I really wanted that dumb prize!
I still can't get myself away from the television. I sobbed when they called PA and NH as it gave me a glimmer of hope. I couldn't stop smiling during BHO's acceptance speech. I actually believe him. I saw the odious GWB shortly ago congratulate Obama/Biden and (rightly) praise McCain. Not a word about the lipstick-wearing pig. My hope is BHO hires a "Team of Rivals" to help guide him. Yeah! What a day.
If Jobama does nothing, nothing at all, I thank him for these momonts. I'm very proud of & for us. For just abit we can feel that "everythings gonna be alright." I only wish I could have been @ the party outside the White House,taunting & spiking the ball. F^*#! them.
As far as the black & white stuff "its been a long time comin." We'v taken a big step,but its not like we elected Malcolm. In the words of my boy Chris Rock,"good luck getting someone to carry your bags @ the airport
today."
As far as ballot issues go,in Colorado we were asked to define what "person" meant. Pro Life thing.
It's a VERY good day.
I'm a VERY happy boy.
On that matter of how many electoral votes he'd get and despite my originally perceived high ball on the number of votes Obama would get, I'm happy my guess of 344 came in a little under the actual number (at this writing of 349). I take delight in this because had we been playing the Price is Right, I'd have won too!
As a guy who self identifies in a big way as a Democrat, I don't ever remember any victory even remotely providing such satisfaction as this. Now, can he govern? Let's hope he's a politician for the ages!
As a Tennessean/Virginian who grew up in the segregated south. I have never been happier about a Presidential election.
When I was in the Marine Corps in southeast asia, my best friend was a black guy. We went out getting stoned and laid in the great tradition of the Corps. We came back to Camp LeJeune. We drank at the NCO club but going out to Jacksonville NC together was a problem in 1967. We began to drift apart. I'm sure he missed my dancing and I missed his jumpshot.
We could be Marines together in war but not off base in the US. I don't know where he is, or even if he is still alive, but Raymond I couldn't be happier that one of your bros is our President. I'll drink one for you tonight.
I'll have one tonight for Raymond too KG -- but i'll bet he's been telling his pals funny stories about your dancing for the past 40 years.
Gaga will join us. G -- watta ya say, one for Tony Capers too?
Hankster -- please tell me you aren't searching for the cloud inside this silver lining?
It is true that as the lone redhaired white guy in a tent full of brothers working out our Temps dance routines, I am probably a legend to Raymond's friends back in Memphis.
This is a great moment. But you know it took a lot more factors for a black man to get this far than a white man of similar stature. I think we all remember the old saw that you never saw a black baseball pitcher because they weren't smart enough.
Right now I am upset because the new black man is the atheist. Just see how both sides of Dole and Hagan played the issue. My take is that god has nothing to do with morality.
Today the west side of Warren was anesthetized with the rhetoric of a notion salesman.The same folks who were last week the most impatient,bosterous folks with a bad sense of entitlement were today holding thier heads high and being respectful. It was truly something to see. Any bets on what Al Sharpton and the rev Jackson are going to do? There still is some racism in this country, but gone is the blanket statement that implies to the whole country. I'm anxiously awaiting on the New Deal 2. Come to think of it my uncles were quite prosperous in the 30's and 40's under FDR. Maybe an opportunity lurks ahead...
This is the largest group outpouring of emotions since the kennedy murders. The weight of hundreds of year of abuse being lifted from black faces. I'm proud of us. I'l be lifting a glass to my grandaughters future. She now has a president that looks like her & now her dreams get just alittle more possible.
Nice picture D. Hoist one for Big Daddy TC. He deserves one as does Raymond (I've seen KG dance and beleive me, Raymond is still laughing). Also, raise a glass to John Brooks. A Morehouse grad that I did basic and Medic training in the Army. It was a tremendous eye opener for me and I'm eternally grateful.
While we're at it here's to Sam White and Alvin Parker as well.
With the addition of NC to the Obama column perhaps there's a new winner of the mediocre prize?
No new winner Fenway. Kaz had the highest guess. BTW, Kaz has won a 1-year subscription to Golf magazine, so eat your hearts out losers.
Kaz, You should expect to receive 12 issues, slightly used, of Golf Magazine year 2005.
Woody -- i gave those to the Salvation Army. Kaz is getting my 2007 issues.
Counting the days?
To what?
To the hour a spindly community organizer, who’s never had his nose bloodied, squares off with the likes of Vladimir Putin?
To watching a fraud who’s never run a business or even held a job attempt to fix a broken economy?
To read his memoirs – ghost written -- as were his earlier tomes?
Is the idea of having still more income repurposed into socialist programs keeping the giddy grins on their faces?
BHO fans seem to perversely savor IRS shakedowns, airport wandings, and personal searches at Disneyland.
They relinquish their first amendment rights with every politically correct, “sensitive” lie they tell.
They love to comply, obey and be commanded.
When that government boot really bears down on their necks -- when the pressure pinches off windpipes faces turns cyanotic, they may climax.
Change is a’ cummin’. You betcha.
fistinyouface: a drowning man will grasp at straws. The forced choice was 2 illusions. More people chose not to get into the life raft that they perceived to have more leaks. There has been plenty of time to stare at each man behind their curtain. If you think BHO is green, did you feel comfortable with the judgement of JM with the looming potential of Palin as POTUS? I may be an east coast, egg-sucking jewboy liberal, but BHO is the American Idol after besting HC & JM. That has to count for something. And so far, he has kept his pants on.
We are all going to get wet, some of us will drown. There is no promised land, just another boat, at best.
As best I remember it was our noble ruler, W, who initiated new airport security rules, warrentless wiretaps, collecting of all phone records without bothering with FISA, the Patriot Act and Gitmo.
It is hard to believe that raising the tax rate from 35% to 39% on highest earners has Karl Marx cooing in his grave over the great socialist state of the USA. We have had two democratic presidents with democratic congresses in the last 32 years. I will be thrilled to listen to the main three pieces of socialist legislation that they passed. Clinton is noted for welfare reform and free trade, hardly staples of the radical left. Carter gave us superfund and deregulation of planes, trains and trucks.
Hank -- I take exception to your self description. You are certainly not an egg sucker.
I am on the cusp of becoming a vegan but for the threat of divorce by Georiga.
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