Looks like we have our first black president.

I will give him my support and prayers as the new president.

I will also refrain from speculating how bad he will run things barring any major screw ups ( like picking Kerry for Sec State ) until he gets his decisions implemented.

I'm glad I'm in a country where I don't have to fear for my life ( just my money) when the other guy wins

I'm also glad the COMMERCIALS ARE OVER

I'm equally glad the phone calls will stop telling me why I need to give money to stop the liberal agenda that threatens to destroy this country. ( I bet some of you got the same phone call except you were needed to stop the religious right )

And I've had a good time with many of you who even though I disagree with, I've admired your ability to defend your ideas. Some of you of course are just idiots, but many of you are fine examples of how being wrong, doesn't make you bad.

Now maybe we can all sit back, watch George W. Bush show the kind of class that a fine man can show and hand over the reigns of power to Obama.

May God grant Obama wisdom to make the best decisions for this country and may he lead our country into peace and prosperity, and may God protect him and his family during the next 4 years.

Very well put, for what its worth had a great time reading your posts.

...says the guy from Canada.

Totally agree with everything, especially the bolded.

Classy as always BG - I'll just copy your phrase since you said it so well.

May God grant Obama wisdom to make the best decisions for this country and may he lead our country into peace and prosperity, and may God protect him and his family during the next 4 years.

Obama looks genuinely happy in that picture; very different from the traditional "smile and say cheese" handshake line snapshot. Maybe a bit 'more' of a poker player than we knew?

Here here! I have every confidence that America, and the rest of the world, is now in safe hands!

The Democrats have really gotten everything they wanted. President. With a decent voter mandate it looks like. Bunch of pickups in house and senate. More governors. More state legislature. (They can gerrymander in 2010 if they wish)

Now, is the Dems one big chance to show what they can do. Be careful what you wish for.....if they blow it the GOP will have a field day for decades.

I gotta say, it's gonna be nice going to work in the morning knowing that I have a new boss.

The gravest mistake they could possibly make is to delude themselves into believing that this was a mandate on leftist politics and that they now have political capital to "Roosevelt up" America. This was unquestionably a vote AGAINST a total disgrace of a Republican party that has been ****ing up America for the past 6 years. It was not a vote "for" traditional Democratic politics.

True just gotta hope the Dems can take it in the right direction

probably.

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!

WHOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOO!


This is unlike any election day I've ever seen in my lifetime. People packing Times Square just to watch CNN on the video display, a million people expected in Grant Park in Chicago and even here in my small town, a sense of hope and excitement and involvement I've truly never seen before.

And in other "news"... I'm back, babies!

Nothing kept me away, really, just a lot of reading, editing my book, watching debates and news obsessively, and, oh yeah, playing my very first ever game of poker! I'll post a little story about that in GenPo soon. I've been learning it and watching it for a while and finally decided I needed to put my money down on the table.

Well said, BG. It's in God's hands now.

I love this country. Hopefully God still does as well.

You are a classy guy BG, nice post.

and this

Obama won, but this isn't the end, of course, it's the beginning. The ball is in his court now. The hard part's just beginning. He made the hype. Now he has to live up to the hype. I think he has a good chance to be a great president, but only he can step up and be that man. For all of our sake and for the sake of our country, I hope he is as good a president as many believe he can be.

God Bless America.

gonna say the same thing about al franken?

Well looks like Dems don't get the filibusterer, so that's something.

60 Senate seats was always a pipe dream. I was really hoping McConnell or Inhofe would get das boot. Oh well, nothing's perfect.

I love that all I have to do is simply quote and paste.

this too...^

Edited because I shamed him into changing his sig, so my post is now nonsensical.

A lot may disagree, but I've always viewed Obama as a centrist in many ways. I have always tended toward Democrats, but the reason that I became excited about Obama was because I perceived him to be a very rational and thoughtful man. I believe, and now it is up to him to prove to me one way or another, that he will use his wisdom and reason to make the best decisions for America, and not for some abstract concept of liberalism.

I agree. He is far more rational and thoughtful a man than most candidates in recent memory. Still, there is no escaping the fact that his philosophical framework is hard, hard left and even though he may pay lip service to "centrism", there's pretty much no argument about what kind of leopard lies beneath his carefully tailored spots.

LOL, I was gonna say something like that too.

Reverend Wright wanted it, now he's got it. God has damned America.

Let the 2012 Presidential campaign begin. As the move to the left inevitably crashes and burns the economy, we can look forward to a proper Republican candidate in 2012 or perhaps even 2016. One who espouses proper laissez-faire capitalism and removal of an oppressive government from our daily lives.

But until then: A societal cancer has metastasized this evening.

We can only watch in horror as the train leaves the tracks and careens and cascades down the mountainside, rewarding the lazy and the mediocre at the expense of those with talent and drive. Who will now, by necessity, waste valuable time focusing their energies on protecting what is rightfully theirs through creative legal and economic means. I'm already devising my own personal strategies.

To all the Republicans who allowed rampant statism and big government at the expense of abandoned and forgotten philosophical principles: The chickens are home, roosting all over the place and defecating in every nook and cranny of the homestead. You tried to imitate the Democrats, but the REAL collectivists are now here and they have the power and you DO NOT.

Such is the fate of those who forget their mandate and neglect the principles that makes them genuinely different than the opposition. The "me-too" Democratic Republicans are TRASHED, and I for one will enjoy the writhing corpse over the next few days.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

I took it down.

But only because the wife gave me shit.



But look at you guys, the gloating, the slobbering. Kicking a guy when he's down. That's real dignified.








You better pray he doesn't screw it up.


We will be watching every step of the way.

Speaking of losing with dignity....

I haven't seen any gloating, only bitching and complaining from the other side.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/usstates?a...il=on&ny=on

reds under the bed much??

lol at Jesse Jackson crying.




Didn't he say he wanted to cut off Obama's nuts a while back?

lol

They were not tears of joy.

You ain't seen nothin' yet...




enjoy your Hollywood fantasy while it lasts my friend.

Kicking? believe me, when I kick you'll know. I'm not a partisan hack like many (on both sides, btw) who frequent this forum, and I am only in very lukewarm support of Barrak Obama and would have only been mildly annoyed if McCain won.

I learned one thing, after the bitter 2000 election, and that I don't really give a damn who's president any more. After that bitter, bitter battle, and after bush was finally declared winner, and finally elected, after me and my liberal ( and radical) friends wrung our hands and panicked and made semi-serious inquires about moving to canada.. I found out the most fascinating thing... my life went on, same as before. I still had the same bills, drove the same car, lived in the same house, failed to pray to the same nonexistant god, my life was extremely similar. And even, after all the things radical liberals blame bush for, after all the liberities he's taken with executive power, all the war's he's fought.. the amount him being president actually, directly effected my life was almost non-existent. So I don't get fired up for these things any more. I enjoy taking the piss out of people who do, how ever. I cared more about the cubs play off appearance than I did this election.


and of course he's going to screw up. They all do. Since we can't elect saviors or robots, we're stuck with what we have, humans.

You make it sound like he's gonna be worse than Bush.

Lets not forget, nobody has ever been that bad, ever.

So I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy the change, and so will you.

I swear to god, the next time I hear a black guy cry racism over some stupid shit that has nothing to do AT ALL with race, I'm just gonna lose it.

EVERY CONSERVATIVE LISTEN CLOSELY.

The keeping the 60% major majority out of the hands of the democrats is larger than losing the general election.

This will hopefully keep any radical socialist programs at bay.

Of all the things that Obama has said publicly, by far the scariest is his citizen brigade that will be as well armed, manned and funded as our military.

This is how Adolf Hitler took power with his SA that overtook the military. I don't say this lightly. I am not throwing out hyperbole. I am not saying that is what is going to happen here, but the similarities in ideals is frightening. I can't help repeating the same cliche':

"Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it"

LOL

I'm still seeing it as 40/56.

I think there are 2 floater independants, so the dems can only get 58 total, I believe.. but those two floaters generally vote Dem.

You laugh big d, but it can be a slippery slope. The fact that over half of our country have ignored the socialist voting record, extremist associates and fascists rants is beyond me.

I am not saying that Obama = Hitler. I am saying that policies that he could put in motion could start taking away rights, that if a party grabs a hold of, over the course of a few elections could really gain momentum. Obama is on record as saying the constitution is an imperfect document and that he wants to make changes to it.

hate to break it to you but there's no such thing as the tooth fairy, santa claus, or radical socialist agendas.

Ok then.

But why is it that 60% matters and not 51%?

at least not in the good ol' US of A

You really don't think a few hundred years later that maybe it's a little outdated?