Black President In The Usa? Are We Ready?

[GlorytoGod]

just an after thought, if only he was gay as well.

I have been waiting for America's first Black and Gay President

[seattlegal]

Originally Posted by GlorytoGod

just an after thought, if only he was gay as well.

I have been waiting for America's first Black and Gay President

So instead of writing in Ron Paul, I should have written in Ru Paul?

[Tao_Equus]

I am impressed with the US electorate for the first time in my life. The first Obama speech I have watched in full has been his victory speech. After 8 years of a barely literate buffoon you now have a President that looks like a president, sounds like a president and I can only hope that he gets the support form Senate and House to be the president the people want him to be.

I am stunned, really I am, at the landslide victory this was. And I am happy, very happy, that the American people have the opportunity now to be a Great Nation for all the right definitions of Great.

tao

[YO-ELEVEN-11]

Originally Posted by path_of_one

I cried. There is so much that was unprecedented in this election that gives me hope. America overcame its racism enough to have a mixed race President. America's youth overcame our cynicism enough to be a voice for change.

I realize the limits of a President's power and the enormity of the problems facing Obama.

But I still count this election as a huge stand for HOPE. At the heart of it, this is the first election that I've come out of it more hopeful than I went in. And the efforts of both parties to be at least civil and bipartisan, to encourage Americans in cooperative effort to fix our problems... this is amazing.

Tonight, I mostly raised a glass to my grandfather who passed away last year. He worked for years and years to end racism in the South. And as Obama won, I knew my grandfather is cheering where ever he is. He may not have lived to see this night, but I know in his small way, his work, like so many Americans', was instrumental in leading us to this moment.

Now you can talk trash at work...

[YO-ELEVEN-11]

Originally Posted by GlorytoGod

Obama is mixed race his mother is white so he is just as much white as he is black, not that it matters.

Who ever said that America was a racists country...
BITE YOUR TOUNGE!!

[Ciel]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

I am impressed with the US electorate for the first time in my life. The first Obama speech I have watched in full has been his victory speech. After 8 years of a barely literate buffoon you now have a President that looks like a president, sounds like a president and I can only hope that he gets the support form Senate and House to be the president the people want him to be.

I am stunned, really I am, at the landslide victory this was. And I am happy, very happy, that the American people have the opportunity now to be a Great Nation for all the right definitions of Great.

tao

Tao,
In this instance your words are my words too.

I watched and saw the honest emotions on the faces and saw real hope and inspiration coming through. The sighn of a great man is one who inspires the light to once more return to the eyes of his people, and it has.

- c -

[Tao_Equus]

!! Did you not know that everybody agrees with me ?? Just some of you do not realise it yet

ta

[17th Angel]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

I am impressed with the US electorate for the first time in my life. The first Obama speech I have watched in full has been his victory speech. After 8 years of a barely literate buffoon you now have a President that looks like a president, sounds like a president and I can only hope that he gets the support form Senate and House to be the president the people want him to be.

I am stunned, really I am, at the landslide victory this was. And I am happy, very happy, that the American people have the opportunity now to be a Great Nation for all the right definitions of Great.

tao

Could you come back and give us your thoughts this time next year

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Alex P

Could you come back and give us your thoughts this time next year

No doubt I will. The next year, the next 4 years are very hard to predict. We can but hope they are better than the last 8 though.

tao

[Ciel]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

!! Did you not know that everybody agrees with me ?? Just some of you do not realise it yet

ta

Did Obama say that..............

- c -

[Saltmeister]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

!! Did you not know that everybody agrees with me ?? Just some of you do not realise it yet

ta

You'd have to be Barack Obama for that to happen.

Originally Posted by GlorytoGod

Obama is mixed race his mother is white so he is just as much white as he is black, not that it matters.

It's not really a black President. It's a grey President. It's America's first grey President. I wonder when America is going to have a blue and red President. It would be a really nice way of showing the country's true colours.

[Paladin]

This is so friggin awesome, it feels like I can take a deep breath for the first time in eight long years. And the gravy is that my beloved Colorado is now a blue state!

[YO-ELEVEN-11]

Originally Posted by Paladin

This is so friggin awesome, it feels like I can take a deep breath for the first time in eight long years. And the gravy is that my beloved Colorado is now a blue state!

I have not felt this good since.

Daniel-son in the movie The Karate Kid won his karate competition.

[Dogbrain]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

I am stunned, really I am, at the landslide victory this was.

52% of the vote is not a landslide.

Estimates are that Obama got 52% of the popular vote while McCain got 46%. The remaining 2% went to various silly parties.

[Dogbrain]

Originally Posted by Ciel

I watched and saw the honest emotions on the faces and saw real hope and inspiration coming through. The sighn of a great man is one who inspires the light to once more return to the eyes of his people, and it has.

So, you're saying that Obama is another Reagan.