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  • Posted By: Aleisha24 @ 11/05/2008 3:08:37 PM

    They didin't want to give us 40 acres of land and a mute. So we took 50 states and the White House. We love you Obama!!!!!

    • Posted By: Transcending @ 11/05/2008 3:26:11 PM

      When you say we, I hope you mean blacks and whites since Obama is both. Thanks for the comment.

    • Posted By: carobe0007 @ 11/05/2008 3:18:41 PM

      No, but you get everything else for free and don't have to work to boot.

  • Posted By: Arganosh @ 11/05/2008 3:25:36 PM

    Hey, Whiteandproudofit, You talk about ignorance but cannot even spell the word Four? It???s the next FOUR years, not the next FOR years. So please shut your racist mouth, you embarrass the rest of us white folks.

  • Posted By: Arganosh @ 11/05/2008 3:25:32 PM

    Hey, Whiteandproudofit, You talk about ignorance but cannot even spell the word Four? It???s the next FOUR years, not the next FOR years. So please shut your racist mouth, you embarrass the rest of us white folks.

  • Posted By: steve8714 @ 11/05/2008 3:24:49 PM

    The Republicans did get what they deserved because they forgot the lesson of the Dixie Chicks, which is "Always respect your market". This election was lost in the amnesty debate when Lindsay Graham called those against the "Comprehensive" immigration "reform" were racists. Lindsay is well known to be Howdy to McCain's Buffalo Bob, so....

  • Posted By: Kim @ 11/05/2008 12:47:20 PM

    I think people of both races need to stop and consider that Obama IS half white. His mother was a white woman and he was raised by his white grandmother. In my opinion there are people of both races now making themselves look really ignorant, so I have to get this off my chest. To the whites who are slamming Obama because he's HALF black, remember that. He is HALF black. He is also HALF white and was raised by white people. So when you call him racist names remember that he is HALF white and you are sounding really ignorant. Now, to the blacks who sound ignorant, instead of crowing how a black man is now President perhaps you should all remember that he is HALF white, so there is actually the first biracial man to become President. So, lets all of us of both races (and I am white) step back and think before we speak lest we sound as ignorant as some of these people. Lets be open to change. Obama couldn't do any worse of a job than Bush has done and I personally think it was time for a Democrat regardless of what race they are or aren't.

    • Posted By: VAreader @ 11/05/2008 3:24:07 PM

      I am a white, middle of the road, conservative. I agree whole heartedly with your comments. The election is over, the people have spoken. Now it is the time remember that we are all Americans, and that Mr. Obama is the President Elect. We need to stop this stupid partisanship, and racial one-upsmanship now, and support the AMERICAN President.

    • Posted By: chelsea1955 @ 11/05/2008 12:59:05 PM

      My niece and nephew are biracial; actually if you count 'hispanic' as a race, so are my own daughters. I entirely agree with your point of Obama's biracial background. I know it's hard to find an identity with things so polarized-'is he 'black' enough? is he 'white'enough?' Truly Americans need to move beyond this. Breeds are for dogs, not humans.

      • Posted By: Kim @ 11/05/2008 1:09:03 PM

        I guess we have the same opinion because of our similarities. I too have black nieces and nephews (five to be exact) and two of my three children are also part Hispanic. This shouldn't even be about race, but as usual people on both sides will take that card and run with it!

    • Posted By: Transcending @ 11/05/2008 1:01:30 PM

      I couldn't have said it any better myself.
      This is not a black or white issue, red, purple, etc. Obama is bi-racial and he is for the people not a color. If he is for a color than he is in denial of his own heritage regardless of which side it be!!!!

    • Posted By: IamnotanAmericanbutluvdaUS @ 11/05/2008 12:55:42 PM

      Well said Kim. He couldn't do worse of a job than what Bush did.

  • Posted By: mmateo @ 11/05/2008 11:04:44 AM

    We now have a muslim president who refuses to place his hand over his heart when our national anthem is played. Has plans to change the anthen, change the flag. Has no respect for what it means or what this nation stands for. Will he swear in on the Quran??? Taliban standing in lines at the airports waiting for there free ride into US soil. America as a free nation will come to an end under OBAMA!!!

    • Posted By: gigglinggirl @ 11/05/2008 3:23:43 PM

      Geez Mateo - If I were you, I would be careful, or people might think you are ignorant! ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: Brooklyn Gurl @ 11/05/2008 11:44:54 AM

      Wow mmateo.....and just to think that I thought it all came to an end when George Bush was elected for his 2nd Term.
      America is at a bad time in her life, George Bush has had his run now it is time for him to get out of the way and get ready for change because it is coming!

    • Posted By: donkayp @ 11/05/2008 11:31:03 AM

      We are not filled with hate, we are filled with FEAR. Sometimes they look the same.

  • Posted By: sankbob @ 11/05/2008 3:23:34 PM

    No campaign strategy or vice presidential choice could overcome the damage inflicted on the Republican Party by the presidency of George Bush. The GOP will be years recovering.

  • Posted By: An american nightmare = Obama @ 11/05/2008 12:51:12 PM

    Comment:BLACK PEOPLE turned this election into a race issue, like they do with everything else------ and then call white people racists! HA!

    30 seconds-
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI


    --

    • Posted By: The Skye Is Blue @ 11/05/2008 1:20:15 PM

      Many different races did help elect Barack Obama president, no one is denying that. In order for anyone to understand the magnitude of this win you would have to be of color. You would have to had experience bullying at the polls, and prejudice at school. It has always surprised me how shocked white people are when Black people call you prejudice. ( I realize without the Caucasian support as well as many other cultures his win would have been impossible.) Many caucasians have fought beside us so Black people could have equal rights. You have no idea what oppresion feels like. So if you come across a Black person who doesn't like you because of the color of your skin, you now have a slight inkling of what ignorance and prejudice feels like., welcome to our nightmate.

      • Posted By: atcrayons @ 11/05/2008 1:47:24 PM

        ...Or a woman. Many of us know repression. No one should be repressed. We need to fight prejudice on all fronts and be open enough to teach each other how to learn not to be prejudiced.

        • Posted By: inletlass @ 11/05/2008 3:22:48 PM

          Comment: You also feel repression if you're a religious minority or even a liberal living in the deep South. But none of this is the real reason for my support of Barack Obama. When you looked at the totality of the rhetoric of John McCain's campaign, he really was just promising the "same old same old." When the presidential campaign started a couple of years ago, I saw a country with a lot of heartaches and troubles and I felt deeply that not only did we need some new answers but that we needed to be asking the questions differently than we did before. Barack Obama embodies that fresh perspective that we need as a nation to begin the huge jop of turning things around.

      • Posted By: AllenWH @ 11/05/2008 2:23:36 PM

        Living here in Hawaii (where everyone is a minority!) as I do, I have occasionally experienced some subtly expressed hostility from some persons of color, not for anything I have done, but because I am white, and an available personification of an outdated stereotype of whites as plantation owners, as rich folks, who looked down their noses at their workers (who happened to be Hawaiian, or Asian, or Portuguese (believe it!)) and as outsiders (never mind that the Asians, e.g,, were outsiders as well). Still for all that, I cannot claim to have experienced discrimination at the level that many African-Americans experience it, even today. It's wrong, and it's past time for those who practice it to get over it. We can do a lot more good looking for things that unite us than for differences that divide us.

  • Posted By: TripMoon @ 11/05/2008 3:22:11 PM

    @Bush: Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

  • Posted By: heyjamieboy @ 11/05/2008 3:22:06 PM

    Our esteemed writer left out one key factor- THE MEDIA is not reporting equally- where in recent life has a man just spouted off we need a civilian army, funded and as strong as the military-Ask how Obama got his house or if Rev Wright was an anti-semite- this is an affirmative action candidate.. How can he have all this money when everyone is broke?? where did it come from and lastly-Why would he a Harvard Graduate say Iran is just a small country? His buddy Bill Ayers wished 9-11 has been more severe-

    Michelle Obama callesd Amercia a mean country--

    If you want to see hypocrites look at how they live in their million dollars house and how the people of IL are struggling- no one will talk about this guy- his papers, his law clients, his state voting record- He also said he wanted an Afircan American to take his Senate seat
    Shouldn't we want the best candidate , chinese, black , brown purple-??

    I have never seen someone say so much with out saying anything--Look at how he lives
    and then you might better understand. The economy tanked case closed-
    Now socialist are being quoted and Mark Levin has a tape whereby Obama states we are living with some BNazi doctrines here..





    It does not add up

  • Posted By: steve8714 @ 11/05/2008 3:21:49 PM

    The Republicans did get what they deserved, because they didn't learn the lesson of the Dixie Chicks, which was "always respect your market". The big diss by way of scandals, pork, avarice, and the arrogant assumption that social cons would vote McCain by default and 7 million of us stayed home.

  • Posted By: ruttle2008 @ 11/05/2008 3:20:24 PM

    "The campaign got so out of control that a man at one Palin rally yelled "Kill him!".

    Still can't tell the truth on this lie huh Julian. You should be ashamed

  • Posted By: m_rice27 @ 11/05/2008 3:10:10 PM

    Although I'm not a big McCain fan, I wouldn't exactly call his campaign a complete failure. He did after all win 20 states, (some of which were by a margin of 30% or more) and bear in mind that three states never have given their totals. He did make a mistake by choosing Sarah Palin. Her energy was refreshing at first but was a slap in the face to those women voters who would have voted for Hillary Clinton to be presented with this "consolation prize" I felt that if he had chosen Joe Lieberman that he would have drawn more votes from both the right and left. I am ok with Obama as President...but just ok. Not excited. Truly there was no one on either ticket I could honestly support 100%. Until we start giving some respect to the office and candidates HONESTLY do their homework before the election, we will get the same old results.

    • Posted By: Benji Bell @ 11/05/2008 3:20:20 PM

      Enjoyed that very much.

  • Posted By: ruttle2008 @ 11/05/2008 3:20:12 PM

    "The campaign got so out of control that a man at one Palin rally yelled "Kill him!".

    Still can't tell the truth on this lie huh Julian. You should be ashamed

  • Posted By: Stay Focused @ 11/05/2008 3:19:54 PM

    McCain's campaign was not on message until the last couple of weeks when he spoke of re-distribution of wealth. All in all, he is an American hero with tenacity and guts, but he was too old school and too frenetic. He didn't know who he was and who he wanted to be when he grew up.

  • Posted By: svede1212 @ 11/05/2008 3:19:05 PM

    The biggest fault of the campaign wasn't picking Palin it was picking McCain. McCain was not cut out to do battle with a figure like Obama. To combat "change" it doesn't help to be long entrenched in the establishment. He also tried too hard to "reach across the isle" even after having his arm broken for doing it. . . and "campaign finance reform". Ha! Did that bite him in the butt or what?

  • Posted By: bethbe784 @ 11/05/2008 3:18:56 PM

    What I learned from this campaign is that one can't 'hire' volunteers who average about 23 y/o and expect to get work done. Also, there was no theme to McCain's campaign. I never understood that. He had several chances to take the momentum from Obama, but no one 'at the top' listened. I know. I was a proud volunteer for Senator McCain in national headquarters. And a generation older than most working there. If one has no experience in politics, then don't hire them in very high positions in a Presidential campaign.

  • Posted By: IamnotanAmericanbutluvdaUS @ 11/05/2008 11:46:43 AM

    Find something better to complain about than Obama not wearing a pin on his lapel. America finally has someone brilliant at the helm after eight years of the puppeteering of George Bush. Rejoice!!! I heard commentators on Fox NEWs this morning joking over who is going to pay Obama's mortgage now that he is going to the White House and how his little girls worked hard to get those puppies he promised them. Gosh....did Fox News ask who was going to pay alllll of the Bush presidents' mortgages when they came to office....come on...today is a new day...celebrate!!!! Fox News, that is none of your business!!!!!

    • Posted By: IndianaChris @ 11/05/2008 11:51:45 AM

      .... the point isn't a lapel pin. The point is that he is now COMMANDER of all U.S. military forces. All military personnel are subject to the USMJ. They do not even get the Rights from the Constitution that they are willing to defend and die for. They must salute, or place a hand over the heart for the flag raising, and National Anthem. Why should ANY President not fall under the same rules and regulations of the military personnel that he or she commands?

      • Posted By: ktaylor914 @ 11/05/2008 11:58:42 AM

        he urks me, I can't believe the people of this United States even voted him in. Everyone wants something for nothing, well you got it, president nothing

        • Posted By: IamnotanAmericanbutluvdaUS @ 11/05/2008 3:18:40 PM

          Apparently, McCain urked a lot more people than Obama did.

      • Posted By: pb_dc @ 11/05/2008 12:26:58 PM

        22 month campaign, thousands of speeches, 3 debates, a hundred important issues and you focus on this. Nice priority setting...

      • Posted By: IamnotanAmericanbutluvdaUS @ 11/05/2008 12:04:56 PM

        Is this the only reason he should not have been chosen as President? Is this the very worst possible thing about his character that makes him unworthy of victory? All I am saying is, lay that aside for now. He is the new President. It's not time to be picking, picking, picking on every little thing about this man so soon after he's gotten nearly 350 electoral votes. It's time to support him. He's yours and whatever he does from January onward, you will be affected! America cannot afford to be responding in this way when there are so many people who've lost their homes and jobs because of the economic crisis...and what happened in the U.S. has had a global effect. Time to turn things around and be optimistic not pessimistic. It is not going to do the country any good to be complaining about these frivolous things when there are people who can't even afford to buy food for their children to eat or put roofs over their heads. This is not the time for all of this. There is too much at stake!!!! America was always the greatest country in the world and today it maintains that legacy. As someone looking from the outside in, I am prouder of you than I am of my own country who is still stuck in the old regime of politics. You've shown many nations that sometimes change can be a good thing!!!!!

  • Posted By: An american nightmare = Obama @ 11/05/2008 12:38:31 PM

    Sure there are educated black people out there that voted for Obama. But FACT is MILLIONS of black people that had NO business voting (ACORN) registered and voted (many for the first time ever) Just because Obama was black. You can not argue that.

    • Posted By: everconsideryoumightbewrong @ 11/05/2008 2:28:11 PM

      NO BUSINESS VOTING??? ALL American citizens have a right, obligation and a responsibity to vote.

      Do you get to decide who is "qualified" to vote? Based on your high intelligence level, I suppose??

      • Posted By: RXBERN @ 11/05/2008 3:18:18 PM

        NO BUT IT WOULD BE NICE TO KNOW THAT PEOPLE VOTED BASED ON SOME SORT OF FACTS NOT JUST THE COLOR OF ONES SKIN

    • Posted By: missconservative @ 11/05/2008 1:03:28 PM

      Your comment reeks of ignorance. ACORN suffered from voter REGISTRATION fraud, but if a legitimate person also signed up to vote they are required by law to be accommodated to cast their vote. Had those people voted under "Daffy Duck" and "Mickey Mouse" then clearly there is VOTER FRAUD. How many DMVs do you know of who print IDs for Daffy Duck and Mickey Mouse? You're seeking any conspiracy theory to justify why McCain lost.

  • Posted By: mmateo @ 11/05/2008 3:17:45 PM

    Obama spits in the face of our fallen soldiers as he disrepects our flag and country.

    All hail ALAH Obama will swear in with one hand on the Quran
    NEW WORLD ORDER MUSLIM-AMERICA

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