Obama is our new president

[COCODRILO]

The best country in the world has a new president today!

Some are happy some are not so whats your beef?

[Skeeterman]

I have to admit im not happy.We just have to wait and see what happens.You never know he mite be the best President that evey happen witch I dought.

[FishaHallic]

I'm happy. You gotta give Obama credit. A black man with a muslim sounding name, growing up with a single parent without a lot of the financial backing other people had. Graduates Harvard law school, becomes a U.S senator and now this. I don't know how anyone could listen to his speech tonight and not think that this man just gets it. He realizes the problems this country faces, of which there are many, and he also realizes that it will be a uphill battle for yrs to come

I gotta think if he was not black it would have been more of a landslide then it already was.

The next 4 yrs can't be any worse than the last 8.

[Cooch]

He'll git assasinated and become a Martyr, you watch!

Two really poor choices this year. We're screwed as a country when a Senator get's elected as Presiddent! Our best presidents, over the years, have always been Govenr's that stepped into that position.

[Greg_Cornish]

That's not true Cooch. Exactly the opposite.

[drrakruz]

Good call Cooch. Lincoln, Kennedy, assassinated. Over time, the "real" HUSSEIN Obama colors will be revealed.

[Skeeterman]

Cooch mite be right cause even the black people at work say its going to be another JFK.

[Greg_Cornish]

Well it would be one of the worst and most divisive things to every happen.

[ONTHETHING !!!]

Greg I gotta agree with you on that . We would have the 60s again ten times worse. ONTHETHING !!!

[Tobe]

Two really poor choices this year. We're screwed as a country when a Senator get's elected as Presiddent! Our best presidents, over the years, have always been Govenr's that stepped into that position.

Cooch is right, with the exception of Jimmy Carter our better presidents have came from governors.

[Tobe]

I seriously doubt Obama will be assassinated however, I believe his past will catch up with him.
There are just too many corrupt and radical associations connected with this politician, when they are fully discovered I trust the people will speak.

[jcruz]

The 8 year nightmare is finally over. Not a huge fan of Obama, but welcome the change - with change comes new opportunity. Only time will tell - but it was obvious by yesterday's results that the American people are tired of "business as usual" politics.

[Dan McKenzie]

what a moron.

[gabuelhaj]

HUSSEIN

Something wrong with that name?

A lot of new babies will be carrying that name so get used to it!

[Guy Kelley]

Got to admit, I was on the fence even as I was in the voting booth, I saved the presidential vote for last and filled out the rest of my ballet !

As I was looking at the Obama / MCain spots, a family of about 10 Hispanic people came in and asked for an interpreter, which they got, it was not a quiet conversation at all, but a very loud one with a lot of arguing back and forth between the registrar and the various Latinos who had come into the voting place as well as some of the other people who were already there !

Then i noticed how all of the ballets and instructions were in English/
Spanish as well as all of the sighs in the room.

Then It hit me, 35 million Illegal Aliens in our country all hoping for Obama to get the vote, a democrat house and a democrat senate Majority all hoping for a Obama win.

When Obama was asked in a interview By Wolf Blitzer about the our countries boarders, and illegal population and the problems associated with them, He side stepped the question and did not answer !

Then it hit me again about all of the hard working blue collier people un-employed, and the working class men and women who are out of a job, being replaced by a people who are happy to work for far less in wages with no benefits, by a Nation of small business and contractors who are happy to take advantage of it, as in slaughter houses, sweat shops, building contractors, part time jobs at 8 bucks and hr with no benefits etc.

Then to me it all became a issue of Borders/Language & Culture, 3000 people killed in 9/11 and the dead soldiers in Iraq and Afganistan.

Will our Military come home from Iraq/Afganistan with its tail tucked between its legs like in Vietnam ? Only time will tell !

Will Obama be the President we all hope he is ? Lets see who he appoints as his staff !? that could be a good indicator !

I personally HOPE for all of us he is the JFK/Regan we are wishing he is

[TWinger]

I too agree with Cooch, if they could get to the Kennedy's, He does not have a chance, and with the allignment of other simularities that others are now beginning to bring on with him and JFK and him and Lincoln, he is not going to have a chance. So Biden will soon be the president elect.

[Greg_Cornish]

So will you guys be grumpy if your dream don't come true?

[Greg_Cornish]

I too agree with Cooch, if they could get to the Kennedy's, He does not have a chance, and with the allignment of other simularities that others are now beginning to bring on with him and JFK and him and Lincoln, he is not going to have a chance. So Biden will soon be the president elect.

If you Republicans start a pool, count me out.

[Cooch]

Well it would be one of the worst and most divisive things to every happen.

I doubt that, Obama is a nobody, lame duck, that the Demo's tossed into the frey cause they had nobody else who would take the job. That man is nowhere near as important, nor does he have the historical value of a Lincoln or a Kennedy to this country!

Obama ain't done shat for the people of this country to date as president nor as a senator. Oh but he has become the first black president. Whooopdee do! Him becoming president, has become a bigger devisive "thing" than what we've seen since slavory. Just look at how folks are bangin' heads in this particular forum now and the past two months!

This is America, where ALL men are equal. Yet I am already sick and ****ing tired of the black this, black that flavor this whole POS campaign and election has put upon the American people. It ain't about being black, white or otherwise, it's about righting this country. Yet way too much of this campaign has been about race for my comfort zone.

I wish Obama the best, simpley for my sake, and all the hard working Americans, who have struggled day in and day out to survive where we're at today. I still say, some white supremist, is gonna whack that man!

[bass_turd]

it's so sad that you think that...

[TWinger]

Funny how things can change so quickly. We heard in the past,

Run Forest run

We heard

drill baby drill

Now we will be back to

Run Obama Run

[StockOption]

This is America, where ALL men are equal. Yet I am already sick and ****ing tired of the black this, black that flavor this whole POS campaign and election has put upon the American people. It ain't about being black, white or otherwise, it's about righting this country. Yet way too much of this campaign has been about race for my comfort zone.

I agree with this sentiment. As of today no longer do we need to discuss, supression, affirmative action and the "man". Those days ended very historically last night. Good riddance, I am glad to see them gone forever. I would expect to see and hear of many epiphanies in the not too distant future when the masses suddenly realize their new "man" is the same as the old "man".

Cooch I certainly hope you are wrong on what may become of Obama. I sincerely hope and pray you are wrong, that would be tragic.

[Greg_Cornish]

it's so sad that you think that...

It's much worse than so sad.

[g-man]

I hate to be the one to break it to you guys, but Racism is still very strong in this country. Just because a black man becomes President does not mean it no longer exists. As a matter a fact I'm sure it had a lot to do with the outcome, and results of this last election on both sides! I would never wish anything bad to happen to any president, but they better keep Bama in a bullet proof bubble when hes in public. There are so many white groups out there that will want him to be killed. For that matter hispanics too.

[Greg_Cornish]

As a matter a fact I'm sure it had a lot to do with the outcome,

If he was white and that smart he'd have gotten 400 electoral votes.

[g-man]

As a matter a fact I'm sure it had a lot to do with the outcome,

If he was white and that smart he'd have gotten 400 electoral votes.

exactly what I'm trying to say. Ya see some idiots voted for McCain simply because Obama was Black. And we all know that a lot of blacks voted for Obama simply because he was Black!

[Bison]

Greg, If he were white no one would know his name.

[FishaHallic]

I think if he were white it would have been more of a landslide then it was. This election should not have been this close. Anyone in there right mind would not have voted republican after the last 8 yrs except hard core republicans and there are not enough of them to make it as close as it was even though Obama beat McCain soundly. The only thing that even kept it a little close was Obamas race, like it or not that's how it is.

Like someone else said, if you look back at what this guy did it is truly amazing. A black man with a muslim sounding name beating the republican "war hero". A black man that the right tried to say was the most liberal in congress, the black man that was a socialist, the black man that hung out with terrorist and the black man that is a closet muslim. After all these and many more accusations and that black man still beat the republicans "war hero" has to tell you something. It says that black man is a very intelligent man and has a grasp of the issues that the "war hero" could only dream about and that this country did not like the direction the republicans took it and that direction was down.

[TWinger]

Now that it is over and the mighty media starts to look for headlines, they will start pounding the bushes and that is when the Obama Snakes will come out. Time will tell. FishaHallic could have not presented the Republican case any better. With all the past we will witness the old saying in the future,

If it walks like a Duck and Quacks like a Duck, It is a Duck

[StockOption]

I think if he were white it would have been more of a landslide then it was.

If he were white he would have never even come close to winning the party's nomination. Hillary wins going away against a white, junior senator with that level of experience - easily.

[TWinger]

OBAMA'S 'CHANGE': BACK TO THE DEMOCRATIC WASHINGTON INSIDERS

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on DickMorris.com on November 7, 2008
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What's with Obama's choice of old-time Clinton cronies and recycled Washington insiders to run the transition to his new politics of change?

Can't the anti-Washington insiders President-elect find anyone who isn't a Beltway has-been?

Judging by the appointments to his transition committee and leaks about possible top staff and Cabinet choices, Obama appears to be practicing the politics of status quo, not the politics of change.

Obama based his innovative campaign on an emphatic and convincing commitment to change the culture of Washington and bring in new people, new ideas, and new ways of doing business.
But now, Obama has definitely changed his tune. As president-elect, he's brought back the old Washington hacks, party regulars, and Clinton sycophants that he so frequently disparaged. Like Jimmy Carter, the last President who ran as an outsider, Obama has reached out to the same old folks who dominate the Democratic Party and represent the status quo.

His Transition Committee looks like a reunion of the Clinton Administration. No new ideas of how to reform the system there. The Chairman, John Podesta, was Clinton's Chief of Staff. He presided over the outrageous last minute pardons and his style is strictly inside-the-beltway and make-no-waves.


Then there's Carol Browner, Clinton's competent former EPA Administrator who became the consummate Washington insider. She's Madeline Albright's partner and recently married mega-lobbyist and former Congressman Tom Downey. During the uproar over Dubai taking over U.S. ports, Browner brought Downey to meet with Senator Chuck Schumer to plead Dubai's case. Downey was paid half a million dollars to push Dubai's position. He's also a lobbyist for Fannie Mae, paid half a million to try to cover their rears on the subprime mortgage mess. Is his change?

Federico Pena was Clinton's Secretary of Transportation and of Energy. The President felt he was unduly soft on Air Florida after their crash and lost confidence in him. Now he's back as a Transition Committee member.

Bill Daley, Clinton's former Secretary of Commerce and the brother of the Mayor of Chicago, is the epitome of the old Democratic establishment. Clinton appointed him to the Fannie Mae Board and his son worked as a lobbyist for the agency. Aren't these the kind of folks that Obama ran against?

Larry Summers, President of Harvard and former Clinton Secretary of the Treasury is not exactly an outsider either. He's also alienated more than a few with his bizarre suggestion that women may be genetically inferior to men in math and science.

Susan Rice, Assistant Secretary of State under Clinton advised John Kerry and Mike Dukakis. Does that tell you enough?

Obama has named one of his big bundlers - Michael Froman, an executive at Citigroup. Is this supposed to symbolize change?

Obama's choice of a spokesperson for the transition is also surprising; hers' is definitely not the face of reason and new politics. Stephanie Cutter is the brash and combative former Clinton, Kerry, and Ted Kennedy mouthpiece. The liberal DailyKos.com once described Cutter as "a moron to the nth degree" when she tried unsuccessfully to force the New York Times' Adam Nagourney to treat her unsolicited email criticizing Howard Dean as "background" without mentioning her name.

Speaking of brash, Rahm Emmanuel, the new White House Chief of Staff, makes Cutter look timid. Rahm is also a former Clinton White House staffer - and a very obnoxious one. He spent his White House years leaking to the Washington Post whenever he didn't like what the President was doing. Even Bill Clinton stopped trusting him. Any hopes of Obama keeping his commitment to reach across the aisle would go right out the window with Rahm's appointment. Instead of extending a hand to the opposition, it would be like raising just one finger. And Rahm's strident demeanor laced with the 'f' word in every sentence will do little to elevate the bipartisan dialogue in Washington.

Christopher Edley, another member of the transition team, is Dean of the Berkeley Law School. He's a former member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under Clinton and his wife, Maria Echaveste was Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff.

Transition committee staffer Christine Varney was a Federal Trade Commissioner under Clinton and worked in the White House.

Throughout the early debates, Obama criticized Hillary as part of the inside-the beltway establishment that needed to go. But now he's reaching out to these exact same folks. Some change.

[FishaHallic]

I think if he were white it would have been more of a landslide then it was.

If he were white he would have never even come close to winning the party's nomination. Hillary wins going away against a white, junior senator with that level of experience - easily.

Well, I was talking about the presidential election