Now for the Governing

Every morning the news in inidated with Obama and his win. They only inview black people and young enthusiastic individuals. They never show a hispanic or white person much less an Indian. I wonder who is really talking. Bashing older generations of presidents does not set well with the middle aged people of this country.

I AGREE. RACE SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO OUR POLITICS. CHOOSE THE CANIDATE FOR WHAT HE OR SHE STANDS FOR AND TO MAKE THIS A GREAT NATION AGAIN. GOOD LUCK TO PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA FOR THERE ARE GREAT CHALLENGES AHEAD. LETS NOT JUDGE HIM BY COLOR BUT WHAT HE CAN AND WILL DO FOR THIS COUNTRY.

brentcole, you really should look at the starting point of your views. Your thinking is very insular, a closed mind that is illogical in its fundamental starting point--that you know the mind of this God you speak of, and that nature as it exists is flawed. What difference in the world does it matter to you whether two gay people are married or not? They could care less about what you do with your life, so why pontificate to them about their lives. Your God is a little creature of a small mind, only if we create God in our own image rather than the other way around as your good book says.

This was an ok article that has some bias of course. Everyone says he is a black man, but half of him is white. Obama is a man of color and an American. Race should never become an issue or the days that stand behind our history as a nation concerning slavery.
Being half white and half black can lean towards either race and should never be determined to be one or the other.
The man won the election in a country that is divided within. Republican and democrats alike are guilty of fueling this divide. We are Americans first. Party allegiance is not what we Americans need during these trying times. The media, politicians and the misguided have always looked into this divide and have been satisfied to remain there. Every great nation in the world has fallen because of division and corruption within its society. America is not immune to this fall, but if we continue traveling on this road of party divide, white or black, we will fall like every other great nation has. Obama is our president elect; we must support him for who he represents???.AMERICA.
Keep race, party, color, religion out of the equation. Let???s get serious and look into getting America out of the slump we are in right now. Stop blaming whoever and get to work fixing that which is broken. We all have much to loose if we don???t stop the divide.

The moochers and freeloaders are already lining up at Obama's smorgasbord table of goodies. They are demanding free gas and paid mortgages, literally expecting the "guvment" to produce. What a bunch of fools. The last thing we need is another "economic stimulus package". It didn't work the first time, and it will surely fail this time. I invested mine in the stock market, and it is now gone forever. Four years from now, unemployment will be greater than 10% and Obama and Rahm Emmanuel will be searching for ways to fund the "soup lines". Democrats as well as Republicans will rue the day Obama was elected. I did not vote for McCain, I voted against Obama. We are indeed involved in a culture war, and I am not in Obama's army. I have seen the enemy and he is us.

Great article... every individual has a personal plan for Obvama as to how he can transform their life. It won't be that way and he will suffer in the media for that. Instad we should concentrate on what he is doing for our country and celebrate our successes as a collective. He won by his ability to appeal to large sub populations as a whole, not by appealing just to one or two. His governance shoudl reflect the same thing.

I believe that what the author was trying to portray is what this election represents. Yes america is still in all of its glory a country of all to common racism and bigatry but in past years would have ever expected to have an african american elected for president? I agree with the author in saying that this is a representation of what america can become and the extreme diversity in the country as whole and not just the ideas and beliefs of its people. It shows how one american regardless of what color or race you are that you can strive to become something great. I believe that this is what the american dream, Martin Luther King's Dream was all about. As far as the comments of the "wearing off" of the election I do believe that a lot of people are expecting the president elect to do miraculous things when first getting in office. He is receiving the country in complete turmoil which will require him to take steps over time in order for the country to become right again. How many people do you know will support him once they realize their dreams won't come true of a "miracle president". People are making this a racial things when mixing politics and race are very common in amerca, in this case it just makes the situation unneccesarily ignorant and biased.

Good article/ These issues are critical for Obama. We need to get his first "toe stubbing" out of the way and it wasn't the appointment of Rahm Emanuel. Should he follw through with his pragmattic and measured approach taken throughout the long election cycle, he will do well. He is not our saviour, however, he is our servant. You can please some of the people some of the time.....Therefore, he will please some and disappoint, or even anger, others. If he is communicative and tells we the people what is happening and why, as he satated oduring the campaign, it will serve him well. And, in turn, we need to stand with him and do what we can to move this country forward into the 21st century and become once again that beacon on the hill that heretofor in the past couple decades has been just words.

Good article/ These issues are critical for Obama. We need to get his first "toe stubbing" out of the way and it wasn't the appointment of Rahm Emanuel. Should he follw through with his pragmattic and measured approach taken throughout the long election cycle, he will do well. He is not our saviour, however, he is our servant. You can please some of the people some of the time.....Therefore, he will please some and disappoint, or even anger, others. If he is communicative and tells we the people what is happening and why, as he satated oduring the campaign, it will serve him well. And, in turn, we need to stand with him and do what we can to move this country forward into the 21st century and become once again that beacon on the hill that heretofor in the past couple decades has been just words.

I agree with most that this was an historic election.However,we are not giving President Elect Obama or his family proper credit on his ethnicity.Why is it fair to say he is the first african american president when his mother who bore him was a white american?Dosint that make him our first Bi-racial president?Obama himself has said time and time again he is proud of both sides of his heritage,and his white grandmother who helped raise him , passed a day before the election ,should be recognized for her strong roll in making him the man he is today.

it took 8 years of a self serving administration to bring the economy to the brink of complete colapse.
to the mrdia give President Obama a chance. the coutry is very fortunate to have such a man as Obama.
Hope will replace fear the americans will regain confidence.There no better man for tremendous taskahead.

In the never-ending argument over personhood in America not everyone has accepted the idea that humanity has nothing to do with skin color. Its safe to assume even though we don't know how many opposing votes or persons that stayed away from the polls because they refused to vote for an African American. And certainly its not suddenly that this notion has otherwise sounded and looks ridiculous, Banishing of the old ghosts is like exorcising an empirical temple of its legions. And you can't run those demons out of a nation through pure emotion either. Soon enough???I'd give it until spring???the novelty and the sociological victory will wear off, and we will be back to the dreary, realities of living and governing by racism. You see Mr Finegold, I used many of your statements to illustrate that its not what you say but what you didn't say by implication.

It took 8 years of a self serving administration to bring the economy to the brink of complete colapse.
Let the hungry media for sensational headlines take it easy,I THE COUNTRY IS EXTREMLY LUCKY:
mimirose 12@11/08 6:44 am

I am very proud of Barack Obama. It was a very historical day in the US. But I want to bring to the attention of the race factor. Be it known that Obama is not just for the African-Amerian culture, he is for the people (in general) of the United States of America. Many were upset at his victory but fail to realize that he is a very educated man with intelligence and wisdom. He will be fair and balanced (unlike fox news) and fight for the good of the US. His campaign was not one of retoric, but one of compassion for hurting humanity. As one gets older, one should get wiser. Sometimes we have to put all prejudices behind and come to a common ground for the good of all people. Obama has a long road ahead of him but with the right company and people around him with sound wisdom, he will succeed. Obama, you are a breath of fresh air that will allow minorities as well as others to breath again.