We did it. I’m relieved. I think Obama will be an excellent President — maybe the best President in a long time. Hopefully he will bring us together and cast a much needed vision for these troubled times. He’s the man we need.
To those who voted for Obama, congratulations and good work!
To you racist hicks who thought Obama was a Muslim and a terrorist and a communist, you just got what you deserve. Hopefully you’ll come to your ignorant senses.
And to those who only had ideological disagreement with Obama and voted for McCain, I hope you’ll be pleasantly surprised in the coming years. It’s time to work together for a better future.
Change is coming!
I’m excited to see what’s coming around the bend. I didn’t vote for him primarily because I’m not a fan of big government. But I do think he has the ability to inspire a new generation. In any case, I’m just looking forward to a hopeful end to status quo.
I didn’t vote for Obama. I didn’t vote for McCain either. (Yes, I did vote – straight Libertarian ticket :p) I guess commie pinko welfare kings need their day in the oval office too ;-)
He seems like a good man, even though I strongly disagree with his economic ideas. I hope he has what it takes to bring the country together. FSM knows, we need it.
Well, I didn’t vote for either McCain or Obama. I ended up voting for Barr. However, I feel really happy today with the way things have turned out.
When Clinton was first elected back in ’92, I ran around like the sky was falling, along with all of the other “faith filled” Christians I knew. It feels sooo much better to choose optimism and to truly be happy on this very historic occasion. Obama won’t be perfect–no one ever is, but I like his sincerity, and just feel like giving him the benefit of the doubt. This is America, and as the old saying goes–we may not have it all together, but together we have it all!!! :D For all of those who feel the need to move, don’t let the door hit you on the way out! Good luck finding anywhere else better. We have a self correcting system, and a great, brilliant foundation–so much for which to celebrate!! It’s a beautiful day.
Well, I hope that this country will be safe. That’s first and foremost.
2nd, I hope we don’t tax ourselves into a depression.
I know it seems like there’s a lot of hope out there, but my hope is that those that voted for Obama don’t turn out to be like the person who wakes up with the ugliest person from the bar the night before and asks “what happened”?
For all of those who feel the need to move, don’t let the door hit you on the way out! Good luck finding anywhere else better.
Um…Canada? ;-) However, I don’t think we want the kind of nutters who would be emigrating just to get away from Obama (and I doubt they would like it here, either).
My prediction for the Obama presidency. I hope I’m wrong. But whatever the future brings, congratulations for now on overcoming one of the ugliest historical faults of your great nation.
Oh, i didn’t know that communism was similar to terrorism, or that it was even bad. Now i know, :]
I think “I hope you McCain supporters are pleasantly surprised in the coming years” is a rather nice sentiment. I will have to start using it. Thanks!
Yes we did.
And I, for one, am thoroughly relieved.
@Eamon:
Oh I don’t know … I reckon some US conservatives might just feel very comfortable living in a nation whose delegated head of state is a staunch damn-near-neo-conservative whilst undeniably NOT being the awful Mr. Bush.
Just don’t tell ‘em the place is a monarchy!
Racism is precisely why Obama got elected. Think of all of the people who voted for him based on the color of his skin and not the content of his character. He is, of course, a substance-less fraud with no meaningful experience whatsoever. Makes sense, though, that a nation who’s favorite show is American Idol would vote in a man base on outward appearance and personality rather than his ideas.
Socialism always brings change—the more equal distribution of suffering and misery. If you want to follow in the footsteps of an atheist you should probably go with Ayn Rand or von Mises rather that Marx, Lenin, and Stalin.
I’m not a McCain fan, either, by way—neo-cons are merely socialist lite.
@Keith
You believe Obama is a socialist?
You believe neo-cons are socialists?
And you believe racism got Obama in?
What colour is the sky in Keithworld?
Don’t you believe he’s a socialist? Isn’t someone who believes in redistribution of wealth a socialist? Obama and the neo-cons both believe in RoW, no?
If racism can included judging someone on the color of their skin or attributes of black persons rather than on the content of their character then yes I would say that Obama was elected due to racism. After all, if a loquacious white guy with no experience ran against McCain with all of Obama’s anti-American, pro-socialism baggage he would have lost easily, no?
Depends on what you consider “redistribution”. Neo-cons redistribute wealth to a small circle of friends and benefactors, calling this redistribution by other names, such as “closed bid process”. This leads to the conflation of state and corporation, which may be considered fascism, rather than socialism.
“Socialism”, as practiced in most countries, simply takes the form of taxation for the purposes of supporting those services that the citizenry feels are right and necessary in a civilization, such as health care and welfare. Do you feel that taxes are inherently and always wrong?
Obama hasn’t offered anything in his economic plan to make anyone claim he’s a socialist except a 2.5% tax increase on the wealthiest ten percent or so. In fact, he’s less socialist than Bush because his tax plan allows the vast majority of Americans to keep more of their earned money, rather than being a benefit targeted to the top 2.5%, as the Bush cuts were.
Quite frankly, McCain couldn’t have won the election even if his pack of Rovian advisors had picked someone less foamingly crazy, better experienced, and less plutocratic than Palin to run him with.
The public was tired of Bush. McCain came offering four more years of Bush. He was visibly aged by the campaign, and his health became an issue when his team picked Palin. And before September this year he’d repudiated every position that once gave him maverick status. Those are the things that cost him the election, not skin colour.
I believe anyone offering the Obama package of youth, hope, change and a return to lawful governance would have won. If he’d been white, he’d have won the popular vote by fifteen percent instead of five.
@Keith:
Aren’t taxes by definition redistribution of wealth? Does that mean all democratic nations by your definition are socialist? Most Republicans are for Social Security — that’s redistribution of wealth. Are they socialists, too?
@Daniel:
Nah–just old.
Metro, I think we agree on a lot—I echo much of what you said. I think your being a bit optimistic regarding Obama’s socialist tendencies. Don’t you remember what he said to Joe the Plumber? :)
And, as I said before, I’m not pro-McCain. I actually voted for Ron Paul in the primaries. I voted for McCain in the general mainly as a vote against Obama.
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Dan: no, I don’t think that all taxation requires redist. of wealth. Social justice requires it, however.
@Keith: You’re right it doesn’t require it — it is redistribution of wealth. It’s taking money from citizens (mostly the rich) and creating services that benefit everyone. That’s redistributing wealth.