Barack Obama: Confirmed to be 44th President of the United States

[SunfallE]

[COLOR="RoyalBlue"][FONT="Lucida Sans Unicode"]This whole thing has been very exciting, even if most of my neighbors are depressed. ^^

Ironically, while the US government has taken a serious swing into the Democrats favor, locally where I'm at, we didn't gain any ground at all. XP [/FONT][/COLOR]

[Guest Kaimaster]

I worry about the next Generation's furture. It's already look so awful.

[Lunar]

[quote name='Aaryanna'][COLOR="Sienna"][FONT="Tahoma"]

I'm [I]soooo[/I] in the minority here when it comes to being happy over the results. ^^[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]

[COLOR="Blue"]I guess I'm in the minority, too then. :catgirl:[/COLOR]

[Raiha]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Congratulations America. You did what you 'felt' was right. Now I'll just sit over here with the sane Independents, Libertarians, Republicans, and jilted Hillary supporters and sip my orange juice, hash browns, and coffee. I'm not depressed either.

Part of me is actually thrilled he's won. Now with the all Democratic branches of government, senate, house, etc, nothing can possibly be the fault of the Republicans. Nothing at all. [/FONT][/COLOR]

[Sangome]

[quote name='Raiha'][COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Congratulations America. You did what you 'felt' was right. Now I'll just sit over here with the sane Independents, Libertarians, Republicans, and jilted Hillary supporters and sip my orange juice, hash browns, and coffee. I'm not depressed either.

Part of me is actually thrilled he's won. Now with the all Democratic branches of government, senate, house, etc, nothing can possibly be the fault of the Republicans. Nothing at all. [/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]

[SIZE="1"]I'm joining you. I'll bring the cini-mini's.[/SIZE]

[Nerdsy]

[color=deeppink]I'm just glad that all the hubbub is over. The sidewalks on campus here have been a literal warzone. You can't walk a foot without seeing some attack ad written in chalk (or a more innocent "Vote so and so" ad that's been defaced).

I'm not usually one to chide one for immaturity (overrated!), but the way the College Republicans and Democrats have acted offends even my sensibilities.

I'm pretty apathetic about the results. I didn't care for either candidate, and when that happens it's real easy to get burned out on elections.[/color]

[Doublehex]

I found something I think you Obamaniacs will enjoy.

[youtube]IPiNIzSM3RQ[/youtube]

I just hope this is the truth. :)

If not...then I'm moving to England! Vicky, how are the fillets?

[Allamorph]

[QUOTE=Nerdsy][color=deeppink]I'm just glad that all the hubbub is over. The sidewalks on campus here have been a literal warzone. You can't walk a foot without seeing some attack ad written in chalk (or a more innocent "Vote so and so" ad that's been defaced).

I'm not usually one to chide one for immaturity (overrated!), but the way the College Republicans and Democrats have acted offends even my sensibilities.

I'm pretty apathetic about the results. I didn't care for either candidate, and when that happens it's real easy to get burned out on elections.[/color][/QUOTE]
[FONT=Arial]Amen, brotha', [I]preach[/I] it![/FONT]

[Doublehex]

[quote name='Allamorph'][FONT=Arial]Amen, brotha', [I]preach[/I] it![/FONT][/QUOTE]

Good God, you sound like my boss!

But seriously, it's nice to see all the hubub is over. Now, the real work begins.

[Raiha]

[quote name='Matt']Good God, you sound like my boss!

But seriously, it's nice to see all the hubub is over. Now, the real work begins.[/QUOTE]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Yes, keeping down our lunches.

Oh it's going to be such a challenge...[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Vicky]

[quote name='Matt']
If not...then I'm moving to England! Vicky, how are the fillets?[/QUOTE]

[size=1]Expensive. Credit crunch and all, plus the disregard for British citizens, means me and you will be camping in a cardboard box by Spring =).

I liked Obama, so I'm glad he won. That, and, McCain looks so old. I'd be rather afraid of voting for a president who might die next week =p.[/size]

[Mr. Blonde]

[quote name='Matt']
As for those of us who voted Independent or Republican, we can *****, moan, analyze, and criticize all we want. :D
[/QUOTE]

Just like the rest of us have been doing for the past eight years.

The thing that first brought me to Obama is that for a change I actually feel like he wants this country to succeed, and he's not just trying to obtain an elected office. First the first time in a long time I believe in a politician... and it feels good.

[TimeChaser]

It's nice not feeling as much stress now and not being physically ill at the thought of four more years of the same garbage again.

Plus this is my third election, so finally having my vote count feels great. Guess third time really is the charm.

I believe Obama when he says he'll reach out to everyone regardless of part affiliation, that he isn't just paying lip service. And I feel more motivated now to get out there and do my part, to find a job and work, because it'll take all of us working together to help pull the country out of this quagmire.

[Guest Kaimaster]

[quote name='Matt']I found something I think you Obamaniacs will enjoy.

[youtube]IPiNIzSM3RQ[/youtube]

I just hope this is the truth. :)

If not...then I'm moving to England! Vicky, how are the fillets?[/QUOTE]

I suggest you start packin' you stuff.

[eleanor]

[font=trebuchet ms] I'm really tired of this "I'm moving to _______ bitchbitchwhinemoan" (though it's amusing when the kids who call Obama a socialist say they'll move to Canada). And this isn't even directed at people here, it's all over Facebook statuses and I hear people saying it.

If you're so dreadfully afraid of Obama being president, and you're too much of a whiner to sit there and not do anything about it, then I'll gladly escort you out. I mean I know people say it "jokingly", but it's just really annoying. If you can't handle things going your way then leave.[/font]

[Mr. Blonde]

[quote name='Lunox'][font=trebuchet ms] I'm really tired of this "I'm moving to _______ bitchbitchwhinemoan" If you can't handle things going your way then leave.[/font][/QUOTE]

First of all... that was hilarious and true.

Second of all... Is this really what's it has come to? Americans clearly now have too much time on their hands and clearly nothing real to worry about if this is a talking point. Do you think the people in Kosovo or Bosnia were bitching and moaning about this kind of nonsense. No, when bombs were dropped on their homes and their entire country caught on fire they didn't threaten leaving the country, they picked their sh**t up and ran for their lives, because they had REAL problems.

Who are these "American Refugees" with their 401Ks, pension plans, and stock portfolios that can't bare to live in America for another second? It makes me sick.

[Raiha]

[quote name='Lunox'][font=trebuchet ms] I'm really tired of this "I'm moving to _______ bitchbitchwhinemoan" (though it's amusing when the kids who call Obama a socialist say they'll move to Canada). And this isn't even directed at people here, it's all over Facebook statuses and I hear people saying it.[/font][/QUOTE]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]I've discovered that people on facebook tend to run in a certain direction, which is to say to the far far far far left. My friends newsfeeds are awash with political rhetoric and whatnot, and all of it very dreary and inflammatory. But I honestly have difficulty believing that joining a facebook group and posting like the group itself makes CHANGE is legitimate political discourse.

I personally would rather move to Hong Kong and have a good time enjoying the capitalism except for the part where the heat would eventually drop me into a coma. Although if I were in a coma, it wouldn't matter where I was... I'd rather stay here and ride out the wave. It's far more thrilling to be close to the flow of political sea change, even if it isn't what I wanted.

Just for the record: Kosovo and Bosnia. Clinton. Oops.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Mr. Blonde]

[quote name='Raiha'][COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]
Just for the record: Kosovo and Bosnia. Clinton. Oops.[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]

I don't think I have the strength to get into a Kosovo or Bosnia conversation with you right now, but thats correct it was Clinton. Congratulations you paid attention in school and watched the news. You get a prize; oh wait... what was that other name that had ties to the terrorist group the KLA (the reason we were in Kosovo)?

Oh yeah thats right: Osama Bin Laden, but wait a minute that can't be the same organization that Bush tried to form a relationship with in 2000... oh wait it is.

[James]

[font=franklin gothic medium]Which underscores the idea that people can be anti-war when Bush is in power, but that this stance becomes more difficult when a Democrat makes necessary decisions relating to military intervention.

The same will be true with Obama. I mean, ideology aside for a moment, there are just certain physical realities in the world that have to be dealt with - I'm sure Obama will understand this just as Clinton and Bush did.

I just hope he's able to explain his reasoning better than Bush (and I'm sure he probably will be).[/font]

[Rachmaninoff]

[quote name='Aaryanna'][COLOR="Sienna"][FONT="Tahoma"]I guess it comes from being in a red state and based on the information... the area I'm actually in... that percentage is 78% So win or not...

I'm [I]soooo[/I] in the minority here when it comes to being happy over the results. ^^[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]Sounds like you and your mom need to move to the SLC area where it's evenly matched. They barely outnumber us in the capitol. The votes only swung in the Republican's favor for this county by about 1,800 votes.

Though it has made for an interesting day with those who are Democrats and those who are Republicans outright snipping and fighting one another. I had to kick two argumentative students out of class today since they couldn't stop arguing long enough for class. o_O

[DeathKnight]

[color=crimson]Thank **** Obama won. I voted early a couple of weeks ago, haha. Being a socialist in Texas kind of blows although the socialist part had a write-in. Bexar (San Antonio), Harris (Houston), Dallas (. . . Dallas), and Travis (Austin) counties were all painted blue along with the Hispanic areas along the border.

Unfortunately, the rural areas of Texas are overpopulated with rich Republican hicks so it will take more effort to paint the state blue. Here's hoping that happens in the next ten to twenty, haha.

However, I'm severely saddened by the rollback of civil rights that gays experienced on Nov. 4. Several states passed propositions against gay rights that dampened my good spirits for the positive and progressive victory that Obama secured.

Change we can believe in meets traditionalism we can oppress with.[/color]

[Raiha]

[quote name='DeathKnight'][color=crimson]Change we can believe in meets traditionalism we can oppress with.[/color][/QUOTE]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]This is the part where I do an angry little dance on a very narrow soap box. Not everyone who voted to uphold the legal definition of marriage [as flawed as it is] did it because they're oppressive bigots.

You know some of us, and by some I mean like 1% of voters, actually slogged through the propositions in question and found them to be a: horrifically open to completely subjective and unhealthy interpretation and b: badly written. Come up with a proposition that doesn't tell me what we can and can't say in the public schools about 'mother' and 'father' and I'll probably view it with a little more magnanimity. But automatically assuming that only oppressors vote down gay marriage legislation is both intellectually dishonest and oh so easy. So that's probably why so many people do it.

Hooray for California. Chickens now have more rights than gay people.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[DeathKnight]

[quote name='Raiha'][COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]You know some of us, and by some I mean like 1% of voters, actually slogged through the propositions in question and found them to be a: horrifically open to completely subjective and unhealthy interpretation and b: badly written. Come up with a proposition that doesn't tell me what we can and can't say in the public schools about 'mother' and 'father' and I'll probably view it with a little more magnanimity. But automatically assuming that only oppressors vote down gay marriage legislation is both intellectually dishonest and oh so easy. So that's probably why so many people do it.
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[color=crimson]No, haha, I think I am perfectly sound in saying what I did since you are, as written, part of a very small minority of intellectually gifted individuals who vote with that intellect.

It is strange to me though that, while all the anti-gay (for lack of a better term) propositions passed across the country, [b]none[/b] of the pro-life propositions did. What a weird combination.[/color]

[Mr. Blonde]

[quote name='Raiha'] Come up with a proposition that doesn't tell me what we can and can't say in the public schools about 'mother' and 'father' and I'll probably view it with a little more magnanimity. But automatically assuming that only oppressors vote down gay marriage legislation is both intellectually dishonest and oh so easy. So that's probably why so many people do it.[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]

Did you just disagree with yourself?

But I'd have to agree with you in part. Those Props are so lengthly and heavily worded that most people (unfortunately) won't put the time in to read them. They usually pick out a word or two and vote yes or no based upon that, or don't vote for them at all. The people who do vote are usually the ones who have received sample ballots in the mail, or are aware that the prop or amendment will be on the ballot. However it is and always will be that the people who are against something that come out in bigger numbers than those who are for it.

Though maybe this presidential election was an exception.

But I'm convinced America can only handle so much change at a time.

[pooperson]

[SIZE="1"][COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]While I waited to vote for an hour & 10 minutes, I was in line by a teacher from my school & his son, who is a senior this year. They, two very strong conservatives, hassled me about Obama & informed me of McCain's impending victory.

:D[/COLOR][/SIZE]