# You did it. Congratulations. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 5, 2008, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199 "2008-11-05T04:08:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/121 "2008-11-06T05:44:21Z")
This is who we really are. When differences come between us, let’s never forget it. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/122 "2008-11-06T06:14:15Z")
You are so right. I would never have imagined we would all be sitting around the campfire Kumbayah-ing like this after the election. I almost like it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/123 "2008-11-06T06:29:16Z")
I love you guys! :cries like the pansy that he is: ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/124 "2008-11-06T06:31:27Z")
Well said, **Shodan**. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/125 "2008-11-08T17:34:16Z")
Well, they locked the Election Results thread, so I’m bumping this one with the latest news. . . > [@](#): > > [Obama wins electoral vote in Nebraska](http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10481441%22') > > For the first time ever, a blue circle will appear in Nebraska on national electoral maps. > > Democrat Barack Obama won the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District on Friday, scooping up one of the state’s five electoral votes. > > . . . 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/126 "2008-11-08T17:38:59Z")
I knocked on 1293 doors in the Obama campaign. They owe me a pair of shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/127 "2008-11-08T17:44:31Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > Well, they locked the Election Results thread, so I’m bumping this one with the latest news. . . 🆒 [Repaired link.](http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10481441) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/128 "2008-11-08T17:44:31Z")
Oh, when I was in love with you Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by And nothing will remain, And miles around they’ll say that I Am quite myself again. A.E. Houseman from _A Shropshire Lad_ ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/129 "2008-11-08T17:50:43Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > [Repaired link.](http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10481441) Thanks, **Lib** (that’ll teach me not to double check my links, which I usually do. Guess I just got carried away with my excitement!). ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/130 "2008-11-08T18:06:08Z")
You realize that there’s an upcoming generation to whom a black President will be simply a fact of life? That gives me an odd feeling. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/131 "2008-11-08T18:14:56Z")
I have had an odd sensation as well, one largely absent for many a year. Upon research, it appears that it is generally known as “hope”. That rings a bell… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/132 "2008-11-08T18:46:18Z")
The Liberty Bell, maybe? Here it is Saturday afternoon, and I’m still smiling from Tuesday night’s big news. I haven’t been this optimistic and hopeful for my country in far too long. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/133 "2008-11-08T18:55:50Z")
\*\*Shakespeare \*\*is in Iraq this year, but wanted to drop in and say that even though we voted for different candidates, **Shodan** is a gentleman, and my fellow countryman. “We can work it out, we can work it out” ---
**Author:** ![geniios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@geniios](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geniios)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/134 "2008-11-08T18:57:33Z")
Lmfao > [@lissener](#): > > wacist! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/135 "2008-11-08T19:55:09Z")
I am glad some of you are forgiving of Shodan. I am not. Shodan plays politics on the lowest ,nastiest ,most insulting level possible. His keeping on Wright ,Ayers and socialist themes til the bitter end .is too much for me. Shodan revealed who he is, and it is not pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/136 "2008-11-08T21:14:06Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > vomits on world leaders I thought that was Papa Bush? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/137 "2008-11-08T22:10:24Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I am glad some of you are forgiving of Shodan. I am not. Shodan plays politics on the lowest ,nastiest ,most insulting level possible. His keeping on Wright ,Ayers and socialist themes til the bitter end .is too much for me. Shodan revealed who he is, and it is not pretty. **Moderator’s Warning:** **Gonzomax** , this is out of line for this forum. Please confine personal attacks on other posters to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/138 "2008-11-10T03:43:28Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > You realize that there’s an upcoming generation to whom a black President will be simply a fact of life? That gives me an odd feeling. As someone who is due a week after Inauguration Day, it blows my mind that my daughter may never know a world in which a black man had never been President. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/139 "2008-11-10T04:21:10Z")
Ditto. My 6 & 9 year old boys both voted for Obama in their class election- he won 16 to 6 over McCain. For them, it’s going to be no big deal- they might not even remember how happily shocked mommy was when she cried over it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199/140 "2008-11-10T05:17:18Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > You realize that there’s an upcoming generation to whom a black President will be simply a fact of life? That gives me an odd feeling. If it goes well, we may end up with legislation requiring _all_ future Presidents to be black. The electorate’s not very good at cause and effect. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-it-congratulations/471199.md?page=6)