AMERICA!

[Sybil]

Regardless of what anyone may think of Jesse Jackson, or Barack Obama, seeing Jackson's face on my televison with tears streaming really brought home just how far we've come. All the ones who marched, preached, organized, struggled and even died - those are the shoulders upon which Barack Obama is standing today. You could see all those years right there on Jesse Jackson's face, you could hear it in the stifled tears of Juan Williams and the emotional reflections of Eugene Robinson. Even the token black Republican woman I saw on BET was visibly moved by the moment.

I know that Barack Obama appreciates the historic import of what's happened, and I hope everyone else does as well. Change has come, some will still fight it, but the rest of us can just take a moment, and exhale.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

Sybil

[mere1975]

You have no idea. I'm getting some of the craziest comments from family and friends.

The Antichrist? Really?

I am practicing MUCH restraint by not responding to a lot of facebook comments from people who believe we are doomed. I know how they feel, I guess - 2000 and 2004. And I don't want to seem like I am rubbing it in. . . but GOD, it feels great!!!!

- Mere "Obama IS a Christian, last time I checked" 1975

[Phyllis]

fuck restraint, man. i'm rubbing it in some people's faces. NYAH NYAH WE MOTHERFUCKIN' WOOOOOON. history has been made. this is something that, in a hundred generations, kids will still be learning about in school. and i still see people being pissed off about it. wtf.

someone i know posted a bulletin on myspace like I'M MOVING TO CANADA.
this makes no sense. republicans would be very unhappy in canada. it's like twenty times more liberal than the US will ever be.
not that that is a bad thing. i quite like that idea. but republicans who are unhappy now with our future "extreme liberal" president would not enjoy canada. omg socialism and gay marriage AGGHGHGHGH.

plus it's just annoying and cliche. stfu. you're not moving to canada. go cry in your beer and get over it, asswipe.

[Irock]

You guys should stop hanging out with Republicans. Here's what My bulletins looked like this morning:

the man who never was 8:00 AM "all you aspired to do was endure "
The Cure 7:00 AM "The Cure to headline Shockwaves NME Awards Big Gig 2009"
Roy 6:07 AM "Change"
Dye Anna 12:37 AM "MCCAIN"
Dio Yesterday "So the Polls are in..."
glenn Yesterday "WE GOT IT BITCHES!!!!! "
vik Yesterday "congratulations america! "

I did delete the one guy whose message wasn't really clear but who I thougth might be a Rebuplican.

i "yea insular politics!" rock


p.s. I also taunted the cars I saw this morning with McCain / Palin stickers. They couldn't hear me, but it felt good.

[Tracy]

I am practicing MUCH restraint by not responding to a lot of facebook comments from people who believe we are doomed. I know how they feel, I guess - 2000 and 2004. And I don't want to seem like I am rubbing it in. . . but GOD, it feels great!!!!

- Mere "Obama IS a Christian, last time I checked" 1975

The curse has been broken! I think I've mentioned that I've never voted for a Presidential candidate who won (except for Clinton's second term) but I voted for Obama and he WON!

I can't do the dance of joy though because my mil is here and well, she'd perceive it as gloating and since she has given us $$ to help pay for TCU, I don't want to appear ungrateful.

[mere1975]

A good 70% of my bulletins are about joy over the results. It's just those 30%. . .

- Mere "type, delete, type, delete" 1975

[Tracy]

p.s. I also taunted the cars I saw this morning with McCain / Palin stickers. They couldn't hear me, but it felt good.

The car two ahead of me at JITB this morning had a "Bush '04" sticker on his bumper and I SO wanted to yell something at him while his window was down but I didn't. I hoped that he'd bought the car used and just never looked at the bumper. I know I'm dreaming but I do try to look for the good in people.

I'll be watching to see how long those McCain/Palin signs stay in yards and stickers on cars. I know I'll be wearing my "Women for Obama" button for a while longer.

On the local side: Sad about Noriega but hopefully, Craddick will lose the Speaker's position anyway. VERY happy Wendy Davis beat Kim Brimer. He tried so hard to even keep her off the ballot and he's still fighting it. Give it up, Mr. Brimer.

[monet2u]

Regardless of what anyone may think of Jesse Jackson, or Barack Obama, seeing Jackson's face on my televison with tears streaming really brought home just how far we've come. All the ones who marched, preached, organized, struggled and even died - those are the shoulders upon which Barack Obama is standing today. You could see all those years right there on Jesse Jackson's face, you could hear it in the stifled tears of Juan Williams and the emotional reflections of Eugene Robinson. Even the token black Republican woman I saw on BET was visibly moved by the moment.

I know that Barack Obama appreciates the historic import of what's happened, and I hope everyone else does as well. Change has come, some will still fight it, but the rest of us can just take a moment, and exhale.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

Sybil

I noted that too Sybil. Even tho many wanted this to happen and thought "sure one day" in the back of minds...people really weren't certain that day would be now. But now it is and thank jebus! You could seriously feel the shift in the mind of this country (well many in this country)...to move foward and make changes happen. It's an amazing time to be an American.


Mere I'm sad for all those people you've heard from. I didn't experience the same thing. I know a couple people (count them on one hand) that didn't want Obama and actually it had nothing to do with his color, but more they thing dems are as evil as reps so they wan election and party reform. wacky liberals

[mere1975]

Well, I shouldn't be too surprised -- they're mostly Texans or grew up in Wheaton (home to super-Christian Wheaton College and the Billy Graham museum dedicated to the history of American evangelism.)

- Mere "wonder what it would have bene like to grow up in California, sigh" 1975

[Phyllis]

most of my friends are happy about obama.
it's just a select few who are like OMG I HATE LIFE MOVING TO CANADA NOW
ugh.

[sam]

someone i know posted a bulletin on myspace like I'M MOVING TO CANADA.

Seems like the right time for some "love it or leave" turn about.

[Rubbs]

A Country Reborn
11-5-08


There are things larger than myself. My placement in time and space may be beyond my own understanding, but it is not beyond my appreciation. Time and history march in unpredictable rhythms. Melody and chaos often become strange dance partners on the harrowing path towards justice. My days are often full of self. I am consumed with aches and pains, worries and fears, and a natural tendency to think of myself before others. But there are better angels singing a new song. There are greater thoughts once again breaking through clouds of doubt. We can take what is wrong and make it right again. We can love that is different. We can change our perception of reality. We can change our selves. We can change our attitudes about others. In short, we can.
Less than a year ago, I stood with a group of students in the National Archives building in Washington D.C. We stared underneath a panel of glass at ideas. “We the People.” This morning I watched a different student at a different school stand and say “Today we say the pledge for real.” There are words and then there are ideas. There are ideas and then there are beliefs. There are beliefs and then there are truths. Some truths are evident. But the evidence of those truths are found in our commitment to that which they represent.
My country is greater than its borders. My country is greater than its documents. My country exists in the fabrics of its promise. Today we are warm because we are wrapped in the security of one another. Our hope need not be based upon a dream, but a reality. Last night, we elected a president. Today, we continue to create a country that’s greatness has turned the world upside down. -Neal

[Dalya]

(Copied from my blog)

My dad grew up in Dallas. He knew there was a sign in Dallas Country Club that said "No Blacks, Dogs, or Jews allowed." (We're Jewish.) He also grew up learning about the Holocaust, which most of our family died in, and watching the continuous turmoil in Israel, where we have family. He got expelled for a day for punching a boy that called him a kike.

He was 14 years old, sitting in class in St. Marks, when they announced Kennedy had been shot--and some of his classmates cheered.

He worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign in LA while he was in college at Occidental. He was driving home alone through the desert when he heard on the radio that Bobby had been killed.

He was among the students who rushed the '68 convention in protest of their refusal to nominate an anti-war candidate. And he was in Grant Park during the riots.

And now he got to vote for a young, black, pseudo-anti-war candidate and see him become the president-elect. I can't even imagine how he feels.

It doesn't even matter what Obama is like as a president. The symbol can mean more than the reality. This election has created a mood of unity that I haven't felt since right after 9/11 and a mood of optimism that I have NEVER felt, but have only read about in books about the civil rights and anti-war movements. I am really amazed and grateful today and I feel like a little kid again.

Last night was amazing.

[Dalya]

This morning I watched a different student at a different school stand and say “Today we say the pledge for real.”

That is fucking awesome.

[ChrisLovesYou]

most of my friends are happy about obama.
it's just a select few who are like OMG I HATE LIFE MOVING TO CANADA NOW
ugh.

WARNING: abortions and gay marriage are free and legal for all Canadians, not to mention our Conservative party that is currently in power is farther left than the democrats. Canada is for experts only.