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TUESDAY WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF BLACKS IN AMERICA.
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Also one of the important days in the history of non-blacks in America.
I could not agree with you more, Michael. Globally, the significant impact of this is insurmountable and deserves to be written in history as the day America took a step away from her bloody past.
Who will be the first ‘winger to complain about Barack and Michelle’s fist bump? I put $5 on Malkin.
Quaker:
I’ll take any one of the NRO crowd.
Just to freak people out, they should have done one of those complicated handshakes.
that pic rules.
One glass ceiling down, and the biggest one of them all breaks in five months.
Great picture! Great day!
I predict a long post on No Quarter saying that this picture prooooooves Obama hits his wife. Because she got caught on tape saying “Whitey.”
TUESDAY WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF
BLACKS INAMERICA.Period.
And he’s going to wipe the floor with McCain.
“Complicated handshake”? How ’bout the salute from the old “Flip Wilson Show”?
DAMN, am I PROUD to be an American today! My mother missed seeing this by less than six months, though; hopefully, whereever she is, she knows about it.
Markman and ryptide stole my line.
Consider the caliber of the nominee. Sixteen months under the 24/7 news microscope and Obama still emerges as breathtakingly honest, a candidate who speaks to the American people as though they’re adults, a nuanced and cultivated mind in the service of the commonweal, a natural “executive personality” whose bid for the White House seems no less than destiny fulfilled. In a heretofore all-white arena, a black person needs the forbearance of a saint to allay all the little xenophobic fears of whites (think Jackie Robinson, Marian Anderson), and I say Obama is close to one only because I don’t want to be accused of hyperbole in saying he IS one. But his gracious and generous demeanor seems to be a natural part of him, not an ideologically-driven code of conduct.
Scrutinizing him through print and television over these past months inclines me to use the word “awesome.” Even Gore would have had peevish moments, petty episodes. Kennedy never had such scrutiny.
If Americans can distinguish between diamonds and sludge (and I want to be convinced that, this time, we can), we’re going to be very lucky in November. Individuals like Obama enter the political sphere only very, very rarely. And maybe he is a singularity, transformational, as they say.
I used to think Nelson Mandela as the tallest man on the planet. The tests of this primary may not be comparable to years in a South African prison, but I’m prepared to revisit that judgment in the future; Obama may be his equal.
While watching in our house, after we saw the fist-bump, my family agreed with me, “Blackness confirmed – you’ve got soul.”
last night was amazing.
did anyone catch the line from McCain’s speech where he said, “that’s why I support BIG BUSINESS, and not the small family farmer”
perhaps i wasn’t paying enough attention, or maybe Mr. McCain just flubbed his lines, but SOMEBODY has to create a PAC commercial with that quote front and center.
“Obama is ahead in [...] the non-Puerto Rico popular vote by 158,155 (17,449,889 to 17,291,734). Two notes: 1) we’re not including Texas in this contest count, given that Clinton won the primary but Obama won the caucus and netted the most total Texas delegates, and 2) after Saturday’s DNC decision, we’re now counting Florida and Michigan as wins for Clinton — but, per guidance from the DNC, we’re including Florida’s popular vote but not Michigan’s. More on the popular vote… If you count Puerto Rico, Obama still leads by 16,493 votes (17,571,347 to 17,554,854). The only measure in which Clinton leads in the popular vote is if you include Michigan. When you add those results and don’t give Obama ‘Uncommitted,’ Clinton’s lead increases to 311,658 (17,883,005 to 17,571,347). Of course, none of our popular vote counts includes votes in the Dems Abroad primary, Guam, Virgin Islands, Maine, or Washington State.” Chuck Todd
Obama definitely has a seat at my fantasy dinner party. Along with Ben Franklin and Charlie Watts.
I do prefer the fist-bump to the Al & Tipper Makeout Session.
I just want it to be remembered that, at one point, there were people (including African-Americans) who were insinuating the crazy notion that Barack Obama “wasn’t black enough.” Remember that bit of lunacy? Times sure have changed, and for the better!
Correction. This was an important day for all of America. Not to disagree completely with your sentiments. It’s just that, in terms of reasons to be excited about what Obama is doing politically, the package is just awesome. That he’s also helping move America one step further from its awful past is just icing on the cake.
Yesterday was the first good day for my country in a long time. It felt GOOD.
MLK’s dream has become a reality.
Okay, the high is coming down. Back to work. There’s still five months before I’m willing to say that the Dream is reality, especially when so many out there would rather see it deferred.
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QiaB: Here’s the first winger freakout.
Description: Hezbollah-style.
I saw Ironman yesterday (what fun!) and had to laugh when I saw the Head Scary Arab Terrorist Guy was wearing a keffeiya. And a black and white one at that. I simply cannot wait for the “BLARGH! SPUTTER!!! MALKIN WAS RIGHT!” reaction when greater wingnnuttia notices.
And, oh, yes, great day for our nation, and great picture of Obama & Michelle.
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Finally found a shorthand way to make the point I was after.
If most successful presidential candidates = 10
and if one’s being African-American is a political detriment to the equivalent of about -5,
Then Obama is about a 15.
THAT’S what’s most historic to me: we got ourselves a 15!
Time, as you say, to get to work…
I love the pic.
Bones it.
How come they both fist-bump like girls?