11/5/2008 12:11:34 AM

11/5/2008 12:13:07 AM

yes we can...












stop showing crying people, great win for the dems... lets hope there is substance behind the rehtoric, not just happy feel good speeches.


I hope so.

11/5/2008 12:15:31 AM

YES WE DID

11/5/2008 12:16:31 AM

great speech

11/5/2008 12:16:55 AM

was not even close to an obama supporter but i do have to say that i did like that speech.

i hope he is as serious as he says he is about staying on the terrorist fight and working to destroy terrorism like he made it sound. this is still by far the most important topic for me in this election; we can not be seen as anything less than willing to keep fighting during our time of change

11/5/2008 12:18:40 AM

President Obama- the first of hopefully many minority Presidents.

America never ceases to amaze the world.

Now I look to this new leader, and the conservative minority, to hold in check the anti-individual agenda of a strengthened democratic majority.

I wish our new President the best of luck.. we're all gonna need it.

11/5/2008 12:21:02 AM

that speech was nothing but a rehash of every single stump speech he's ever given.
and like most of his speeches, it sounded good but wasn't memorable.
Aside from "Yes We Can", I couldn't quote a single word of it.

11/5/2008 12:23:40 AM

^A good speech requires quotable soundbytes?

11/5/2008 12:24:41 AM

Quote :

"that speech was nothing but a rehash of every single stump speech he's ever given. and like most of his speeches, it sounded good but wasn't memorable. Aside from "Yes We Can", I couldn't quote a single word of it."

you can be bitter tonight, but tomorrow morning, it's time to buck up and quit the whining.

11/5/2008 12:26:52 AM

...and clean up all the campaing signs!

11/5/2008 12:28:06 AM

An OK speech. I've never seen so many crying black women in my life.

11/5/2008 12:28:43 AM

He's one of the only politicians I think I've voted against purely on ideological grounds. The man seems pretty solid as an individual and I think if nothing else he'll represent us well. He has tremendous potential and very many conservatives have seen that; I hope for our sake we're all right.

11/5/2008 12:32:07 AM

I'd bet the house that he leads to the left of center, not left like they have been talking about all night. If you have read about the man and not just the republican talking points, you would agree.

I do agree and hope there is substance behind the rhetoric but I am confident he will be fine.

I thought it was one hell of a speech.

11/5/2008 12:39:24 AM

lol 'an OK speech'

Because you've seen so many fucking great speeches in the last 20 years.

11/5/2008 12:41:23 AM

I've listened to a lot of his speeches and found this one less exciting compared to the DNC speech.

11/5/2008 12:42:01 AM

Everyone please, enough with all the hate and talk about assassination. Obama won and that is that. Give the guy a chance and hopefully he will do a good job. If not, he will be voted out. He sure as hell can't do any worse than Bush.


No, I did not vote for Obama, but I am not sad he won.

11/5/2008 12:43:23 AM

Awesome speech. Thought he dead an excellent job and really kept it simple yet elegant as to the occasion.


III

11/5/2008 12:44:13 AM

Speech wasn't that exciting but it got the job done. I've already talked to several people who didn't vote for the guy who said they were impressed. He needed to appeal to the people who didn't vote for him, and I think he did (well as much as he could in 15 minutes)....point being...its a good start to reach across to his critics.

11/5/2008 12:47:21 AM

It was simply OK. I thought that his previous speech on race was far better. So suck it.

11/5/2008 12:47:42 AM

As a grown man, I'm not ashamed to admit that there's been tears in my eyes for the past two hours. I've been waiting for this moment since I started voting in 2000, and to say it's a dream come true is a gross understatement.

Congratulations to Obama, to the Democrat party, and to myself. All I have left to hope for is that NC turns blue when the last 1% of precincts report.

Seriously, I'm so fucking happy that words only begin to describe it.

11/5/2008 12:50:03 AM

My first reaction was hope that maybe America actually learned something in the last 8 years.

I will be the first to admit, the fact that Obama is black is one of the things that made me vote for him. I think Obama being black is going to do a great deal of good for America, regarding the world community of nations.

11/5/2008 12:59:05 AM

wow man, you must be under 23 ^^

[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 12:59 AM. Reason : c]

11/5/2008 12:59:07 AM

It's ironic because 4 years ago I told my wife that I thought that the Republicans would be the first party to have a black man as president (Powell was my thought process).


Boy was I wrong.

11/5/2008 1:07:13 AM

Honestly - a bit emotional.

I'm in a Marriott in Connecticutt - I wish I was with my family and friends. I've been calling and texting for the last hour.

I knew we would get a great centrist in either McCain or Obama. Both have brass balls, are incredibly intelligent, and know what they are doing.

At the same time, I took a gigantic sigh of relief that someone of Palin's Dan Quayle caliber is far far away from the executive branch (atleast for the next 8 years) - that's right, 8.

11/5/2008 1:10:49 AM

honestly, I got a chubby

11/5/2008 1:16:43 AM

Quote :

"Both have brass balls"

I'd agree after Mccain's service that his balls are steely, but Obama is yet to be determined. Great speaker, but great leader? Remains to be seen...as he is pretty untested

11/5/2008 1:17:47 AM

That was a great speech. I felt a little emotional myself. I think i just had my first period...

11/5/2008 1:51:29 AM

I'm ready to see what the Obama administration and democratic congress can get done, but I'm not expecting much.

I've been saying for a while that Republicans need to suffer a devastating loss during this cycle. The party has been going in the wrong direction for too long now. I'm hoping that some kind of substantial change takes place within the party, and that a truly conservative core can emerge - hopefully one that doesn't take orders from the religious right. Wishful thinking, I know.

11/5/2008 2:18:30 AM

Quote :

"we're fucked. thats my thought. i pray i'm wrong."

11/5/2008 2:19:59 AM

im pretty damn happy right now. there is renewed faith that SREL will not meet its demise, and since that's where i'll be employed for the next year, that's some great fuckin news.

im honestly kinda having fun at the reactions of some of the die-hard republicans that still cant accept the fact that change is coming. big change. with the changes in seats shifting more towards the democrats, some shit is finally gonna start getting done.

now all i can do is cross my fingers and hope our lame ducks dont sneak in shitty legislation on their way out.

as obama said in his response to mccain's concession speech, he's surely not going to be able to make everyone happy, but he'll do whats best for the country. it'll just take time for the nay-sayers to accept that, and some probably never will.

[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 2:31 AM. Reason : 's]

11/5/2008 2:30:26 AM

Well, we'll see how many of the promises he made to who knows how many single-issue groups will be kept.

My opinion? He's already won the presidency, why would he want to reach across the aisle? And what in his slim and unaccomplished record is proof that he will reach across the aisle?

I'm particularly looking forward to seeing Senate Rule 22 in action over the next two years.

11/5/2008 2:31:20 AM

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"im honestly kinda having fun at the reactions of some of the die-hard republicans that still cant accept the fact that change is coming. big change. with the changes in seats shifting more towards the democrats, some shit is finally gonna start getting done."

Yeah...'cuz, MAN, the democrats did SO much over the last two years that they were in power!





























(funniest quote on this thread)

11/5/2008 2:38:40 AM

His first response:



Wait...we won?! Aww....crap...now I gotta be that one's VP?

[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 2:43 AM. Reason : y]

11/5/2008 2:42:03 AM

I wish him the best of luck.

We'll need it.

11/5/2008 3:06:37 AM

Quote :

"Dear Senator Obama: In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your political character that succumbs to contrary centers of power that want not "hope and change" but the continuation of the power-entrenched status quo. Far more than Senator McCain, you have received enormous, unprecedented contributions from corporate interests, Wall Street interests and, most interestingly, big corporate law firm attorneys. Never before has a Democratic nominee for President achieved this supremacy over his Republican counterpart. Why, apart from your unconditional vote for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, are these large corporate interests investing so much in Senator Obama? Could it be that in your state Senate record, your U.S. Senate record and your presidential campaign record (favoring nuclear power, coal plants, offshore oil drilling, corporate subsidies including the 1872 Mining Act and avoiding any comprehensive program to crack down on the corporate crime wave and the bloated, wasteful military budget, for example) you have shown that you are their man?"

http://www.votenader.org/media/2008/11/03/lettertoobama/

Is Nader citing this information from inidividual contributions? If there is concrete evidence of some type of association between Obama and these corporate ties, I would be interested in seeing it.

[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 3:19 AM. Reason : ]

11/5/2008 3:18:58 AM

Dude, are you that naive? You don't think Obama has scored bank from large corporations? Both sides get most of their money from those type of sources. lol, Change baby!

11/5/2008 3:22:23 AM

My biggest reaction was to exit polling which showed the >$200,000 crowd went to Obama. That seems like a mandate for a tax increase.

Oh well, glad I don't have to care about that anymore!

11/5/2008 3:25:15 AM

^^

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"If there is concrete evidence of some type of association between Obama and these corporate ties, I would be interested in seeing it."

Aren't campaign funds raised mostly from individual contributions capped at lower than $2500? Where is the scored bank from these large corporations, other than the substantively small donations made by individual contributors?

11/5/2008 3:38:50 AM

Of course the first 3 years of Obama's Presidency will be cleaning up all of the fucking mess Bush left for him.

We wont see dramatic change until his last year in office and the most change if he gets re-elected for a 2nd term....the war, economy, bringing jobs back to the US, improving foreign relations, increasing our level of exports....it's going to take atleast 3 years for Obama to clean up Bush's shit.....but the country has moved in the right direction.

OBAMA Biden 2008 AND 2012!!!!

11/5/2008 4:44:20 AM

did someone just TRIPLE post up in this bitch? wtf

11/5/2008 5:22:03 AM

did someone just TRIPLE post up in this bitch? wtf

11/5/2008 6:16:25 AM

my bad

[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 6:23 AM. Reason : ]

11/5/2008 6:21:53 AM

yeah....I did...I live in Hawaii, so I'm a little behind you guys as far as posting

and my thoughts are a dime a dozen

11/5/2008 6:24:55 AM

her thoughts:

"shhhhiii....now I can't run until 2016!!!!"

11/5/2008 6:27:22 AM

good luck, buddy.....he he he

(that's right...I did it again)

11/5/2008 6:29:29 AM

My first main thought was to note how gracefully republicans lose...democrats should really learn a lesson from that...

OMGVOTERFRAUDDIEBOLD!!!!

11/5/2008 6:34:46 AM

Riiight, so that would explain the booing at McCain's concession when he mentioned Obama's name. But I guess that's as classy as you can expect from his supporters.

[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 6:53 AM. Reason : .]

11/5/2008 6:47:47 AM

Quote :

"booing at McCain's concession when he mentioned Obama's name. But I guess that's as classy as you can suspect from his supporters."

11/5/2008 6:53:04 AM

^^ don't be fucking obtuse.

he was referring to McCain's and probably McCrory's concession speeches.

11/5/2008 7:12:14 AM