Obama Rocks

[mockney piers]

"We can ignore the Bush hawks and the neocons for the next four years"

Does this mean I never have to listen to Richard Perle's poison ever again..please oh please!?!

[Brendan]

You're all so... Un American!

[SeanMacGabhann]

I imagine a few people might be digging this one out today

Bill Hicks - Republican Elephant is Dead

[Brendan]

According to Bill Hicks won?t it be about now that the captains of US industry have BO sat in a little room, showing him their own private and unreleased film of the Kennedy assassination and posing the question, ?So Mr President, what are your policies going to be then??

Sorry if your clip says something similar Sean but I can't watch it right now.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I can't watch the clip either Brendan (I'm trusting google) , but you are spot on about Hicks doing that routine as well. And it's probably true

[woodie]

amazing result. my friend just showed me some footage from outside his window 9.30pm yesterday. was a massive party. cops hi5 ing poeple, people dancing on moving buses.looked like whole town on streets going mad. that was berekely SF.

[Sue]

YAY!!!!

:)-D

[SteveT]

Ladygooner wrote: I wonder if anyone has thought if he will change the name of the "White" House?!

Brownish house?

[Ladygooner]

How about the African American House?

[karter]

great result, hopefully the world will be safe now. I think he should change the name to 'the safe house' .

[AcedOut]

History in the making....

[bignumber5]

Oh say! Can you see...

Sounds corny but never thought I'd see the day... new era of hope... etc etc

Well done yanks.

[Sue]

bignumber5 Wrote:

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> > Sounds corny but never thought I'd see the day...

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xxxxx

Nor me, still can't quite believe it :)

Feels a bit like when the Berlin Wall came down - only different, obviously - or peace in Northern Ireland.

:)-D

[bignumber5]

Feels a bit like when the Berlin Wall came down - only different, obviously - or peace in Northern Ireland.

not quite in the same ball-park just yet, but let's wait and see if he follows thru.

Because, as Mrs number5 has just said to me, what it feels a bit like is May 97 when Blair got number 10 - and we all know how that initial bit of hope panned out... Good luck Obama! ;-)

[Keef]

Great stuff. Just hope he doesn't turn out to be a total knob... Certainly talks the talk though.

Well done America, we're proud of you. Like watching a child take it's first steps ;-)

[Keef]

Cross post there BN5, but yeah, what you & the missus said!

[Ted Max]

I've just read Obama's full speech and my eyes appear to be a little moist. Dear oh dear. Must have been incredible to feel part of it if you were watching him in Grant Park last night.

McCain's was nice too.

Re 1997: I don't know, these bastards suck us in every time, don't they? Maybe this guy will be different. 97 was a relief all right but it was somehow more certain. Or maybe that's just with hindsight.

Weird haired dickwad John Bolton was simply not getting it on the BBC coverage last night. It was reminiscent of the Tories after 97. "The Repubs lost because they failed to drive hard enough right". "Palin was a good idea because she connected with the core vote." Tories drove deeper and deeper into the night before realising that mistake, and that elections are won in the middle. Let's hope a good old Republican tear up is in the offing as they repeat that error.

[PeckhamRose]

I am SO proud. I know the person responsible for Obama's election. She is a friend of mine in California. She ran the volunteer's office for 6 weeks, and JUSt before the official announcement was made Obama emailed her * with her name at the top of the email "Dear Lynne" even spelt right, and said he "could not have done it without you".

All down to her. Well okay and a few hundred thousand other volunteers. But he spelt her name right. Him. personally. Him. Wow.

*and probably EVERY volunteer's office in the country with the names of everyone at the top of the email but don't ruin my pride here, okay?

[Keef]

Agree with Ted that McCain also made a bloody nice speech, that is how to lose with dignity!

[mockney piers]

I have to say I wasn't fooled by TB for even a split second, and I don't see BO being anywhere near as bad.

Having said that I'm not going to be naive about this. He needed to capture the centre ground, and has been moving steadily rightwards for a good 18 months, courted the banks and big business in order to fund his campaign.

That said he's espoused multilateralism, has stuck to his guns on eliminating those tax breaks for the super-rich, ain't in hock to any lobby groups, and seems unconcerned with basically being an ingrate or a celebrity, so my outlook remains optimistic; but they do so love to disappoint.

[giggirl]

I'm conflicted. Really glad that Obama got the nod and a large part of me wants to jump up and down and shout and sing. But that's what I did when Tony Blair got in and look how that turned out. I want to believe and I despise myself for being this cynical.

[microbite]

Have to say, my eyes were moist, history in the making, although Obama is in fact half white as well, a lot of the tv this morning were all about "America's first black President", he is America's first President of colour and explaining the significance of that to my 9 year old nephew this morning was quite moving, did it alongside the Martin Luther King "I have a dream" explanation.

[Jah Lush]

Very pleased that Barack Obama won and the very best of luck to him. He's going to need it. He's got a very tough job on his hands following the incompetence of the last administration. I'm still amazed that the fuckwits in America voted for Bush not once but twice. No more Neo-cons supporting a puppet and sucking up to big business. No more war pigs.

[Keef]

I have to say I wasn't fooled by TB for even a split second

I've always been quite proud of the fact I never voted for him!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

All is lost. He supports West Ham.