This is who we really are. When differences come between us, let’s never forget it.
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.
I love you guys!
:cries like the pansy that he is:
Well said, Shodan.
Well, they locked the Election Results thread, so I’m bumping this one with the latest news. . .
I knocked on 1293 doors in the Obama campaign. They owe me a pair of shoes.
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
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!).
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.
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…
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.
**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”
Lmfao
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.
I thought that was Papa Bush?
Moderator’s Warning: Gonzomax, this is out of line for this forum. Please confine personal attacks on other posters to the Pit.
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.
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.
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. 