I don't think anyone has said it quite like that. I think, regardless of who you voted for, it's a huge step in our country. I have mostly McCain supporters for friends and a lot of them teared up at seeing Obama's speech. Not because they liked him, but the milestone his win represents. I am sure on January 21st, they will be right back to disliking him as usual.

I called her a Socialist slut for the whole day on November fourth!!!

As An American patriot I am willing to give this man my support and not instantly hate him like many of the liberals hated Bush before he even took office.

You know MM.  Something else that I am seeing here is that an Obama election may also show the selfishness of Americans.  When you think about all the rhetoric that Obama proclaimed.  Tax Cuts for the poor and middle class, Universal Healthcare, Trickle up economics (take money from the rich, give to the poor), etc.

Looking at the exit polls the lower classes are the one's that primarily voted for Obama.  Based upon Obama's policies can we say that in this case the lower class are the ones that are selfish and greedy?

I thought I did when I said:

I don't think we are going to see eye to eye on this -- and that's okay.  I'm sure you (the collective you who doesn't support Obama) will have many reasons to complain over the next 4 years, just as I hope that I, as an Obama supporter, will have many reasons to be grateful for the choices I made that helped, even in a small way, Virginia go blue.

In the meantime -- I'm just glad you're back.

Isn't it interesting how addicting begging can be?  I see it all over the world.

I will get to this ling ASAP it will either prove or disprove my point. I will get back to you on this.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-steele5-2008nov05,0,6553798.story

i STRONGLY suggest this article link that  pictoratus so graciously provided be followed and take the time to read.

I thank you pictoratus for posting this very informative article!!!!!

Glad to contribute!

An eye-opener, is it not?

minorities lack the gene causing racism, it is a proven fact! only white people can be racist.

I know it's easier to believe that Obama won based on race than to believe that the country rejected your philosophy, but frankly I don't think Obama could have won just for being a black man. Jesse Jackson wasn't ever able to even become the Democrats' Candidate. And I doubt if the same people who voted for Obama would have voted for Colin Powell. While I was very pleased and excited at first to see that the Dems had chosen a black man, by the end, I was simply desparetaly praying that for the sake of my own stocks and shares that Americans would turn their backs on the neo-con philosophy that has caused this financial crisis. I know many of you on JU will disagree with the idea that Bush's economic policies have been the problem, but I'm sorry I don't buy your idea that you were the victims of racism. Obama's colour may have inspired people more than if Obama had had white skin (which was a genetic possibility of course given the colour of his mother's family), but they chose him because they didn't believe that America was headed in the right direction any more. Obama came across as one of the most intelligent, confident and competent people to run for office. He reminds me a lot of our PM, Kevin Rudd, though Obama is a better public speaker. People said that Rudd was too inexperienced, though they couldn't use the excuse that he won just because he was black, because of course he is white.

This is rare for me to say of an American President, but if he ran for office here and if he had 2 white parents, I'd vote for him. Pure and simple. Particularly if was running against McCain and palin, who I have to be frank with you are some of the worst candidates ever put up by the Right wing. I know you guys probably still iked them. But even my hard core right wing friends said they couldn't believe what bad candidates McCain and Palin were

Your economy is affecting us a lot atm. We could argue til the cows came home about what caused the crisis and I doubt you or I would be convinced of each other's economic arguments, but my main point is that no matter whether you believe they're right, American voters voted for the reasons I stated above and the Republicans were not the victims oif racism

What gets me is the LIBERALS have no problem with wites NOT voting for Omama because he is black but refuse to accept Blacks voting for him because he is black... now there is some serious denial.