In your darkest hour, you chose hope over fear, light over darkness, the future over the past. You turned out in numbers too large to ignore or suppress or steal. You saw the importance of this moment and did what so many have failed to do in the past - show up and vote.
America has turned a page to a new chapter in this infancy of our third millennium. It's the morning after in America. The hurricane of the last 8 years is moving on and the sun is shining. There's a lot of damage to clean up, but like the good people in the small towns across America, we offer each other our hands and our sweat and whatever else we may have to give to help our neighbors in need. The sparks we've created together will shine a light down the hallways of the next century.
Thank-you Obama for seeing the responsibility we're asking you to accept, and - knowing the enormity of the weight - willingly hoist it upon your shoulders and ask for our help to share the burden.
Thank-you to all of you on this blog. You've helped keep me sane, let me spew my turgid prose upon this electronic page... You are all important nodes in this vast electronic web, spreading the message in all directions. Although it may feel this way at times, we are not an echo chamber... we are a way station on the information superhighway, and our voices are carried on by all those we contact on a daily basis. We are a voice in the crowd, but it is all those voices in the crowd together that have brought us to this momentous occasion:
Random is more than just a little out of it at the moment.
Comment byGrumpymann on 11/05/2008 12:46:10
The Campaign was nothing it was a cake walk.
Now the REAL work will begin soon.
We need to clean out the filth and muck, now only to defend ourselves against the most sleazy shit slinging RightWingNutJobs this country has ever seen.
On a personal note my thanks you YOU Bob. You gave me a place to vent my bile. My thanks to Raine for ... well keeping me as civil as I managed to be. To WP for making me smile with kind words. Tri for his calm intelligence and reminding me of my proud scouting past. Liv for being Liv. Shaneo for making me laugh. Mondo for his quiet strength. Star for shinning. Velveeta for for her calming affect on my often volcanic moods. Random for being ... well random. Scoop, Clint, Ibitsy, Will, M you were not forgotten. Thank you all for being here and a part of my life.
Now that the group hug is done and gone "Lets get to work!" Real work not "Hard work."
Comment byRandom on 11/05/2008 12:59:18
Random would hope besides being...random, Random would be funny.
Comment byRandom on 11/05/2008 13:15:28
Franken down 700 votes.
Comment byTriSec on 11/05/2008 13:16:23
Morning, Comrades!
My face hurts.
Seriously....I was standing in the shower this morning, still tasting the cigar I smoked at midnight last night, wondering if it was all for real.
Then I got that silly grin again, and my face hurt. Really.
Has it been that long since we could smile and be happy that those all-important "smile" muscles have atrophied?
Well....we made the hurdle. Like our ticker says, Bush will leave office in 76 days.
Back in July, I rolled the dice and made a reservation at a motel in Greenbelt, Maryland. I'm going to be on the mall January 20 to see history with my own eyes.
I can hardly believe it's true.
:danke:
<-- this belongs to all of us again!
Comment bywickedpam on 11/05/2008 13:26:25
Morning :hug:
Comment byRandom on 11/05/2008 13:33:34
Quote by wickedpam:
Morning :hug:
OBaMa! OBaMa! OBaMa!
Comment bywickedpam on 11/05/2008 13:35:44
Quote by Random:
Quote by wickedpam:
Morning :hug:
OBaMa! OBaMa! OBaMa!
Yeah!
It's day 3 of goofy tired too
Comment byRandom on 11/05/2008 13:42:11
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Random:
Quote by wickedpam:
Morning :hug:
OBaMa! OBaMa! OBaMa!
Yeah!
It's day 3 of goofy tired too
Right now. Random wants to hear the new Theme song.
Comment bywickedpam on 11/05/2008 13:45:58
Me too. Only 20 minutes til new theme :D
Comment byRandom on 11/05/2008 13:50:43
lol, Random is happy.
Comment byBobR on 11/05/2008 13:56:36
Comment byShane-O on 11/05/2008 14:04:29
I'm Walkin' On Sunshine... YAY Obama!
Comment byMondobubba on 11/05/2008 14:06:21
Morning all. I didn't get much sleep. I was too excited! I got sleep about 3:30, woke up about 5:30. decided to go deal with the ticket I got for my not suspended license. Long story short, I go my new license for 10 bucks not for 150.00.
It looks like we may have a runoff in GA for Chambliss's seat. :pray:
Comment bywickedpam on 11/05/2008 14:11:58
I noticed that but when Obama mentioned McCain there was polite and respectful apalause.
Comment bywickedpam on 11/05/2008 14:12:13
Comment bywickedpam on 11/05/2008 14:14:02
I was too!!!
Comment byMondobubba on 11/05/2008 14:14:04
Caller is well, damn onions!
Comment byTriSec on 11/05/2008 14:15:57
A brief TriSec vignette.
The scene: Javi is upstairs watching our little TV. TriSec climbs the stairs to get my keys and head out to the office.
TS: Hi Javi. Did you hear the news?
Javi: Yes, Obama won!
TS: You did too, Javi.
Javi: Why would you say that?
TS: ...
Comment byBobR on 11/05/2008 14:16:20
Please - no more Grampy or Palin sound drops. My ears have heard them enough.
Comment byBobR on 11/05/2008 14:17:45
Comment byMondobubba on 11/05/2008 14:17:55
Quote by TriSec:
A brief TriSec vignette.
The scene: Javi is upstairs watching our little TV. TriSec climbs the stairs to get my keys and head out to the office.
TS: Hi Javi. Did you hear the news?
Javi: Yes, Obama won!
TS: You did too, Javi.
Javi: Why would you say that?
TS: ...
Damn onions!
Comment byTriSec on 11/05/2008 14:17:57
Comment bywickedpam on 11/05/2008 14:18:57
I actually thought the concession speech was rather gracious
Comment bym-hadley on 11/05/2008 14:20:22
Whoo Hoo Good Mornin" Everybody :coffee:
President Obama!!! Thank goodness our long national nightmare is over :D
Whoo Hoo, Whooo Hooo!
Cheers,
mfaye
:gobama:
Comment byBobR on 11/05/2008 14:22:46
Weird number thing:
Obama will be the 44th president...
44 is half of 88, which is a number significant to nazis (racists)
Obama is half black, half white.
:foil: Just a strange coincidence...
Comment byShane-O on 11/05/2008 14:23:02
Quote by BobR:
Please - no more Grampy or Palin sound drops. My ears have heard them enough.
Oh C'mon Bobber -- it's like ripping off a band-aid. Hurts like hell for a second - but then it's ALL OVER!!!!
Comment byBobR on 11/05/2008 14:23:54
Quote by wickedpam:
I actually thought the concession speech was rather gracious
I did too... and a lot more gracious than McCain's obnoxious supporters...
Comment byGrumpymann on 11/05/2008 14:24:58
Sarah Palin for RNC chairman !
Comment byvelveeta jones on 11/05/2008 14:25:48
Hello my fellow Obamettes!! (Sorry, I'm giddy this morning).
My home state, VA, is now........... a BLUE state!!!!! Wow!!! Jerry Falwell is spinning in his grave sending large seismic waves across the state!!!!
Comment byvelveeta jones on 11/05/2008 14:26:46
Quote by Grumpymann:
Sarah Palin for RNC chairman !
YES!!! :lol:
Comment byvelveeta jones on 11/05/2008 14:28:23
Somewhere, there is a sad puppy in a pound whose about to be one freakin' lucky dog!!
*sniff* damn allergies.............
Comment bywickedpam on 11/05/2008 14:28:25
I laughed so hard when he mentioned the puppy.
Comment byvelveeta jones on 11/05/2008 14:30:13
Hey Mondo, you live in a blue state. Hard to get used to, ain't it?
Comment byMondobubba on 11/05/2008 14:30:42
Quote by velveeta jones:
Hello my fellow Obamettes!! (Sorry, I'm giddy this morning).
My home state, VA, is now........... a BLUE state!!!!! Wow!!! Jerry Falwell is spinning in his grave sending large seismic waves across the state!!!!
Nya nya nya nya! My adopted home state. I don't claim Florida. Maryland, then VA those are my states! Weeeeeee. I need to call my cousin Eyore later. Obama won't win Virginia people here are racist and stupid. I"m gonna eat some worms!
Comment byGrumpymann on 11/05/2008 14:31:41
Quote by velveeta jones:
Quote by Grumpymann:
Sarah Palin for RNC chairman !
YES!!! :lol:
It's not a joke on my part.
I want the rest of the the Republicans to see what WingNuts the Rethugs are really like.
Comment byMondobubba on 11/05/2008 14:32:32
Quote by velveeta jones:
Hey Mondo, you live in a blue state. Hard to get used to, ain't it?
Umm Florida was blue state in 2000 until the idiot man child's brother stole an election for him. Blue I say BLUUUUE!
Oh sorry for the bitterness. I am giddy with fatigue and deelite!
Comment byGrumpymann on 11/05/2008 14:32:55
Quote by velveeta jones:
Somewhere, there is a sad puppy in a pound whose about to be one freakin' lucky dog!!
*sniff* damn allergies.............
He can have the stoopid dog we have here.
Comment byMondobubba on 11/05/2008 14:33:51
Quote by BobR:
Weird number thing:
Obama will be the 44th president...
44 is half of 88, which is a number significant to nazis (racists)
Obama is half black, half white.
:foil: Just a strange coincidence...
Your just sayin...:shrug:
Comment byMondobubba on 11/05/2008 14:37:38
Bobber, sent you a PM.
Comment bywickedpam on 11/05/2008 14:38:30
Quote by BobR:
Quote by wickedpam:
I actually thought the concession speech was rather gracious
I did too... and a lot more gracious than McCain's obnoxious supporters...
In the last 3 days I've had to wonder why the sudden resurgance of the "old" McCain?
Comment byBobR on 11/05/2008 14:38:52
Quote by Mondobubba:
Your just sayin...:shrug:
The skinheads' heads will explode if they ponder on THAT one..
Comment byBobR on 11/05/2008 14:40:22
Quote by Mondobubba:
Bobber, sent you a PM.
responded
Comment byScoopster on 11/05/2008 14:40:56
Morning all.. :coffee:
I talked to my friend out in San Fran earlier.. He's absolutely livid about Prop 8.
Comment bywickedpam on 11/05/2008 14:47:16
Quote by velveeta jones:
Hello my fellow Obamettes!! (Sorry, I'm giddy this morning).
My home state, VA, is now........... a BLUE state!!!!! Wow!!! Jerry Falwell is spinning in his grave sending large seismic waves across the state!!!!
My county went Blue! I'm stunned! Prince William/Manassa/Manassas Park was one of the last 2 counties they were waiting on to call the state.
Comment byBobR on 11/05/2008 14:47:32
Voting results of the 4 closest-to-Atlanta counties:
The still uncounted precincts are largely because of the count of early votes (from what I've read). This means that Saxby's numbers will likely go further down... not enough to lose, but a runoff looks like a certainty. I only hope that we get the turnout for that...