mockney piers Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 "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!?! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 You're all so... Un American! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I imagine a few people might be digging this one out todayBill Hicks - Republican Elephant is Dead Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodie Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 YAY!!!!:)-D Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Ladygooner wrote: I wonder if anyone has thought if he will change the name of the "White" House?!Brownish house? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladygooner Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 How about the African American House? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145212 Share on other sites More sharing options...
karter Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 great result, hopefully the world will be safe now. I think he should change the name to 'the safe house' . Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcedOut Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 History in the making.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignumber5 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Oh say! Can you see...Sounds corny but never thought I'd see the day... new era of hope... etc etcWell done yanks. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 bignumber5 Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> > Sounds corny but never thought I'd see the day...>xxxxxNor 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignumber5 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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! ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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 ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Cross post there BN5, but yeah, what you & the missus said! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeckhamRose Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Agree with Ted that McCain also made a bloody nice speech, that is how to lose with dignity! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
microbite Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I have to say I wasn't fooled by TB for even a split secondI've always been quite proud of the fact I never voted for him! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 All is lost. He supports West Ham. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3465-obama-rocks/page/3/#findComment-145337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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