So now we start fixing all the shit Bush broke.  Superglue anyone?

 (CNN) – John McCain admitted defeat in the race for the White House Tuesday, saying: "The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly."

McCain said he had called Barack Obama to offer his congratulations shortly after 11 p.m., when polls closing on the West coast gave Obama the electoral votes to become the nation's first black president.

"Sen. Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and his country," he said, calling Obama a "good man."

I wrote on my facebook:

 

...but as for me...well...

 

...I'm singing the "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy" song, myself.

 

I sincerely hope that I still feel like singing it four years hence.

 

Conor

I'd like to know how fundie Americans are reacting. Is there sackcloth and wailing at having a black 'muslim' president? I saw one of the fundies on my Facebook saying America has made their worst mistake ever and just rolled my eyes.

I honestly feel happier about this than anything that's happened in my country. Obama really is more of a global candidate.I couldn't wait to get the results and now I'm almost giddy with relief and happiness.

 

Now we have a chance.  Now we can smile.  Now we can get back to progress.  Now we don't have to be ashamed to be American.

 

Eloquently put. A new quote for my Facebook perhaps.

I see the markets have already reacted positively to this event.

"Superglue" is like that camilian in that old cartoon who jumps in front of the plad screen and then slams himself onto the floor pounding it shouting, "I CANT DO IT, I JUST CANT DO IT"

I wouldn't place blame on Obama if things don't get fixed over night, he has a giant turd Bush left behind to clean up.

Does this mean we have to pick cotton now?

I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW ..........Take it in the Spirit of South Park.

 

IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, this is the greatest moment in my life. We defeated the right wing fearmongers and we can finely focus on what should have been on the front burner in the first place.

I've kept a step back, encouraging American friends & colleagues to vote, but not for a particular candidate - it would be wrong of me to do that as someone who is not a US citizen, or resident there

I am ecstatic at the news that Obama won. Today has been a very good day. However, the man has some serious work to do and if he screws it up, the backlash will be massive. The expectations placed upon him are off the scale. One of the British tabloids headlined with the story that by voting Obama in, America just saved a million UK jobs. Hyperbole, I know, but it highlights the expectation of the world. Thanks, BTW.

As for the dumbasses out there who bought the bullshit as regards his being a Muslim, an Antichrist etc... Education is on Obama's list for change, right?

 

The election of Obama reassured my faith in humanity. Perhaps we're not destined to extinct yet. The president of USA is less or more president of Earth, and as such it must be a man (or woman) who acts on behalf of the whole world. What Bush did? He ambushed and robbed the world. Now his rampage is over, and hopefully there will be steps to stop the civil war. What civil war? Practically all wars today are civil wars, at least one side is made of civilians, suffering under an opression of superior states and desperately holding onto their kalashnikovs.

You mean joining the Kyoto protocol finally?

What I would emphasize, is to understand the irrationality of economic competition. People in charge of finances must finally realize, that the competition, living at the expense of others, following of market forces and so on, is irrational and in long-termed worldview it's doomed. Indeed, we have a generations of foolish economists, who can't imagine any alternative to pursuing the imaginary capital for all costs. (costs like an inevitable economic recessions and immeasurable human suffering) The long promised lesson to them already started. They can try to bail out the banks and corporations, merge them together to make them stronger, but what they do is actually making all the system very interconnected and vulnerable. This will only make the fall much faster and a nicer spectacle. Maybe not all economy will crash, but surely enough for everyone to see, that it is not a viable system, and that it needs a radical change.
Sharing, people, sharing!!! Return to the nursery school, learn to share your toys with other kids!

I've been really happy all day. Even though I had to work all day, and even though Man United only drew to Glasgow Celtic this evening, I've still been really happy. Why? Because I think Barrack Obama is the best US President a leftist could possibly hope for. That and the fact that Palin won't come anywhere near the Presidency ever. I can't imagine the Republicans would want to select her for anything ever again.

Sure, there are issues I disagree with Obama on, particularly his support for Israel. However, by and large I think this is the step in the right direction the world needs. I was discussing it with my Grampa earlier, and we agreed it was refeshing how virtually all Obama's campaign money came from donations by the public and not from corporate elites, and as a result he doesn't owe any political blow jobs to any corporate elites; probably the first time this has happened in many many years. Also, I think his class is more important than his race. Obama doesn't come from the corporate elite class but from the ordinary middle classes. He understands people's needs, how ordinary people think. He is a man of the people who seemingly intends to govern for the people.

 

I think McCain's final speech was very eloquent. He can go back to being senator and accept Obama as his president without complaint, something everyone should be doing within reason.

What I don't like is all of the bashing and animosity on both sides. It's completely immature to yell "Fuck you!" to McCain supporters and put people down over who they voted for. Please. People can be so trashy. Obama wouldn't approve.

Yes... and all the yelled death threats, screams of hatred and obnoxious booing speaks volumes about McSame's fan base. In their minds, no doubt, the battle has just begun.

Am I the only one that noticed that some users on this site bashed McCain/Palin for a good portion of the election? (Ironically it includes certain users that are complaining about people bashing Obama..)

 

 

 

Can anyone please tell me what has Obama to do with Israel? I know that he chose an israeli White House staff chief or someone like that, but nothing else. It's quite disturbing, the relationship between USA and Israel.

After WW2, the Jews sought for their homeland, a state of their own. This is, as you know, supposed to be Jerusalem and the land around. This land was already kept by someone else (Palestinians). Washington sniffed an opportunity. From that moment, America pays billions of dollars per year to Israeli army. Israeli army is the third most powerful in the world, in the middle of nowhere, desert and camels. No-one can match it, not Iran, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, nobody really. And specially not Palestinians themselves.
From the beginning, Israelis made a settlements in their land, fortified and heavily guarded settlements must say, connected by roads, cutting their territory in half. Palestinians were cut from their orchards and necessary means of living and earning money by Israeli military force. Do you know from where the term Terrorism came from? Israelis invented it. Israeli gangs, for example the Stern gang and the Irgun Zeva'i Le'umi, fought as terrorists against the British and Palestinians and "won" the land. Gradually, Palestinians were pushed away from their homeland. There were offers to Yasir Arafat, but those always meant a ridiculously small portion of a land which was taken from Palestinians by terrorism. No sane person hoping for justice would accept them. And guess who paid for it. Behind all this was and still is a great power of american dollar and army! USA is the greatest direct supporter of terrorism in the world, and the originator of it.
Why the Jews does that? They feel that they're:
a) Nation directly chosen by God, as Old Testament says.
b) They suffered the most of all during WW2. Poles, Romes, Romanians, Slovaks, Czechs, Russians, they have no right to complain, though were killed in concentration camps too.
c) Allowed to do the same kind of genocide to Palestinians as Nazis tried on them. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, no matter if it's someone else's tooth and eye, and that it's whole generations after the war, and that they're just doing the dirty work for Americans, so the White House can remain white. Just kill kill kill the Kanaanite heathens!
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...uhm...and with such a nation Obama sympathizes?

He's basically pledged his allegiance to Israel, probably to help secure a Jewish vote. It means that he might be too one sided in dealing with the conflict in Israel-Palestine.

 

 

Ironically it's that kind of attidude that leads to conflict.

 

 

 

 

Maybe if people stopped trying to kill them you know.

 

 

That's what I like about Obama's foriegn policy. He seems to understand that maybe hey, they don't like getting bombed to shit, that they don't like the U.S interfering.

 

 

Israel is way too overly aggressive. Kind of like if in the 1960s the US would have started killing every black person the police or military spotted - they would have continued to do this until no black person violated any law for an entire year. In some ways I'd like to see the Moslems win with how neocon aggressive Israel is. And any of them moving into those settlements in Palestinian land deserve to die. Anyway the entire idea of taking their land for Israel was bad. They should have taken part of Germany to punish them for the holocaust. But then that wasn't based on the Buybull. I hope if Israel keeps being so aggressive one of them does manage to detonate a nuke inside there.

For fuck's sake, let's get this straight right Goddamn now:

There is no state of Palestine. The Palestinians never owned the land, were never granted the land, butt fuck nothing. It's not their land, it's not being occupied.

The fucking muslims just didn't like it that they weren't awarded the land on the basis of their 'holy rock' being situated on it. So they refused to surrender it to the Jews.

 

Anyone who asserts anything about the Israelis being on Palestinian land from here is a ignorant chump.

They only lived there for like 800 years. More than anyone in the Western Hemisphere ever lived here, but hey, I guess if someone decided to give the entire Western Hemisphere to the Scientologists and force the rest of us into refugee camps you'd be cool with that. I think the US should refuse to support Israel at all until they withdrawl to Israel itself and stop the aggressiveness. If that doesn't work we should give military support to the Palestinians.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority

 

 

 

 

And how could that possibly make them mad at us?

 

It's this kind of attitudes that LEAD to terrorism.

 

I had no idea you supported Mccain's foriegn policy.

 

 

 

As for your beloved PLO:

 

I have to admit that's a good point and I'm sure the world's Muslims will praise your decision to commit the biggest act of genocide this milenuem. I'm sure the millions of innocent Muslims who just so happened to be born in that region will be thrilled by your ethical decision.

 

And yet you have the balls to ask why they hate us?

 

 

So you disagree with Obama on withdrawing U.S troops and reducing our presence in the Mid-East?

 

 

 

 

*Sigh*

And another sheeple has been claimed by the propaganda equating muslim with a type of ethnicity.

It would be theocide, actually, Pineapple. I have no problem with Arabs who aren't muslims. The rest? If they want to stay coiled around their ancient and disgusting traditions, you bet I'd be happy to see them finally 'sent to paradise' as martyrs by the world that's actually managed to progress forward.

I have no time for mysogyny, occultism, public beheading and (especially) censorship.

Hilarious.

So all of the people killed in the WTC were supporting the Jewish agenda, were they?