Congrats to Pres to be Obama
Good luck to him, will be good luck for us. I'm just glad, its not me!!! Congrats Barack!!!!  |
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I agree!!! 
Here in the East I was so sick of the local fighting adds. There were so much cut throat that the ones that did it I would not vote for. Yes I am glad its over, Congrats to our new president.  |
| well run campaign and gracious in his victory - lets hope the new optimism and belief in the possibilities holds.
congradulations to the American people for voting in record numbers.
It was an uplifting experience to see so many people of all parties, all races and all ages out celebrating the victory and participating in the defeat in a (relatively) civil manner. Sometimes I do take great pride and satisfaction in being an American. |
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And as an added bonus they will be adopting that puppy he was talking about from a shelter 
Here's a flickr group with dogs that would be good for the white house, those of you in OES rescue should upload pics of your adoptable dogs!! I put 3 of my rescues dogs up! http://www.flickr.com/groups/767742@N25/ |
| Heather, did you go to Grant Park last night? |
| Unfortunately I didn't go. You had to have a ticket to get into the actual field he was speaking at, and they only gave away about 65,000. The rest of grant park was apparently also packed. We only live about 2 miles away so we were going to ride our bikes by, but we were told by some friends you couldn't see anything unless you got in. My sister got a ticket though and said it was fantastic! |
| I was born in Georgia and spent most of my "early years" in the deep south. I remember seperate drinking fountains for "whites" and "coloreds". My grade school was segregated as were the restaurants we went to and even the grocery stores we shopped at. In the town I grew up in, and where my Father still lives there was a "black" grocery store and a "white" grocery store as late as the 1990's. My uncle was a dentist in South Carolina, when we went to visit I never understood why he had a seperate waiting room for "Negros" (not quite as nice as the other) and one for "Whites".
I remember seeing signs that said "No Blacks allowed" on gas stations and stores. In the 1950's we had "hired help" that were black, they ate at our house but had to eat in the kitchen and there were seperate dishes for them to use. I am ashamed to admit that my family was very racist. My Grandmother (who was also deeply Southern) always called her "help" the yard boy and the kitchen girl. They were allowed to live in what amounted to a shack behind the house. She really believed that she was being charitable and benevolent. Racism doesn't get much worse than that found in the South Carolina Lowcountry in the 50's and 60's. Looking back I cannot believe the things I took for "normal" when I grew up. It wasn't until I was a teenager and my family moved to the North that I realized the unfairness of it all and have spent the rest of my life with guilt over my early "ignorance". So politics aside, when I got up this morning and heard that a Black man was elected President, I cried for how far we have come. |
Tasker's Mom wrote: So politics aside, when I got up this morning and heard that a Black man was elected President, I cried for how far we have come. Only those of us who have seen what it was like can really appreciate this moment. I was unexpectadly moved when I voted yesterday. |
| It's a beautiful thing.
I have never had more hope for our country overcoming... all the things we take for normal.
Congratulations, Barack!!  |
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