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I know. Total surprise! Nobody noticed until it was TOO LATE! Only those super-geniuses in Appalachia got it. It’s no wonder Chris Matthews is having panic attacks.
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['A black president named President Black in the Black House! RUN! RUN!']
honestly fell asleep last night around 9:30pm. It was in the bag for me, no need for reassurance. Then I woke up to let the cat out at 4:00AM and found myself standing in my living room staring at CNN. He pulled it off. O.K.. good then. Back to bed.
My wife half awake: “obamelohoney?”
Me: “uh….heh heh what?”
Wife: “blue money?”
Me: “haha.. are you talking in your sleep?”
Wife: “no.. who won??”
Me: “oh..Obama won.”
Wife: “ah.. Good then.. zzz”
She’s so cute.
I got up later, drove to work and just stared at all of the Obama signs on US19 during my 45 minute commute. It seemed that there was a giant Obama poster right in front of every closed business. As if to say “enough of this shit right here.”
At work my boss had a rather large McCain Palin sign mounted on my desk as a joke. I thanked him and put it on someone else’s desk. I realized that it wasn’t really hitting me. I had a sense of well.. hope. But not happiness. Relief but not joy. Then I had lunch with a republican co-worker. I never bring up politics with this woman because she uses the same talking points as Rush Limbaugh and I usually want to strangle her by the time she’s through. She started in on Jesse Jackson and how she saw him crying last night.. she had no point. She just hates Jesse Jackson and black people I guess. She actually said this to me once.. “I don’t know why the blacks don’t have any good leaders.”
I said (regrettfully): ….waddaya mean?
Her: “Like Martin Luther King-”
Me: “-pfft Well probably because some racist piece of shit killed him.”
She told me that she was a little depressed.. that McCain lost. Then she said that she’s worried her taxes will go up.
Me: “well.. do you guys pull in a quarter million a year?”
Her: “Oh no.. we’re middle class.”
Me: “Well then your taxes won’t go up.”
Her: “Well first they said it was 250k then 150k then 100k they keep moving that number down.”
Me: “Well no.. they haven’t moved the number, it’s always been the same on paper, you’re repeating some stuff from Fox News that they got from Joe Biden gaffes or something.”
Her: “Well I hope that he can handle the problems in Pakistan and India.. General Patraeus’s surge has gotten things working in Iraq and Afghanistan at least.”
I found it hard not to laugh at the stupidity of that sentence. The urge to strangle crept up for a second..
Me: “Well.. actually.. Iraq has been getting a little more violent in the recent days and the surge is over, the Awakening had quite a bit to do with violence levels dropping too y`know.”
And then I had to explain the Awakening to this fool, and Sunni’s, and Shia, and Iran, and Turkey and Kurds and Al Sadr and the whole mess.
Her: “I’m kinda suprised that there weren’t more riots last night.. I read in an e-mail that they were going riot whether they won or not.”
Right then it hit me. It was all very clear very suddenly. An immense glee just flowed through my brain when I realized it. I DON’T HAVE TO DO THIS SHIT ANYMORE. I don’t have to school republicans on how retarded their chosen leaders are. I don’t have to explain foreign policy to someone who is never going to give a damn about non-americans anyway. I don’t have to knock down every Ayers/Wright/Socialist/Muslim/Terrorist/Marxist regurgitated piece of mindless stupid bullshit thrown at me. For right now, it doesn’t matter what they think of him, it doesn’t matter if they believe Osama Bin Laden is going to be the next Secretary of State. It doesn’t matter if they never learn or if they teach their shittie little kids their own rascist ideologies, it doesn’t matter if they whine, it doesn’t matter if they complain about everything Obama does for the next four years. It doesn’t even matter if they don’t like me anymore. Why?
I WON. YOU WON. WE WON. THEY LOST.
Let them think Obama is a muslim with terrorist buddies who will raise your taxes, burn down your house and eat your children. Let them believe all of their own crazy, lies and let them lose sleep over it, because that monster is now the PRESIDENT.
Her: “Well John (husband) is really worried because of Obama, he said be prepared to move, now they’re gonna have unions at the factory and they’ll have to close down and go to another state now.”
Me: “yeah….. elections have consequences.”
The current spate of lizard-brained racists have a problem.
If all goes well, our kids will not.
Obama was “Black” when he was facing Sen. McCain. And “terrorist”, “Muslim”, “Arab”, elitist” and “socialist”. Now that he’s won, one would not believe the amount of comments on CNN and other message boards asking why people are celebrating and crying because he is the first (their words, not mine)”…African American president…”, when he is just as white as he is Black.
Oh- NOW, he’s white. I get it.
Lets not let the republicans and their sympathizers create the ‘frame’ of Obama. He is BLACK. And i’m proud to have helped elect a black man as president. I promise not to refer to him as our president: hes our BLACK president.
@Bijan: Trudeau nailed it yesterday.
I’ve heard Obama described as “half honky, all donkey”. I kinda like that.
I think a large part of Obama’s success is that he has been able to dodge labels so well. I think it’s a disservice to pigeonhole him solely as our black President, though it is important. But let’s not dwell. We got the best man for the job. Pigmentation is icing.
Yeah, ok, Milk Chocolate icing.
I’ve been on a work site all week. Tuesday night, there were six of us piled in a big pickup truck. The one black man on the team got a text message. He looked at it and started laughing, so we convinced him to share it with us. It said:
“White folks: Please report to the cotton field on Monday morning for orientation.”
Everyone took it in the right spirit and had a good laugh.
“Yeah, ok, Milk Chocolate icing.”
LOL!
SpiderJ, thanks for that link!
For years I’ve thought of myself as a cynical old sonofabitch. It has surprised me how often I’ve teared up with pride and patriotism in the last couple of days.
I guess I’m just a bleeding heart after all.
OT, but may I just say we really dodged a bullet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZHTJsR4Bc
She
Didn’t
Know
Africa
Was
A Continent.
“If all goes well, our kids will not.”
Amen. I can’t wait till the day where skin color won’t be an issue. For that matter, in one generation I don’t think being gay will be an issue either and gay marriage will be legal.
One thing for sure. He’s the President elect. Here’s a little tidbit I didn’t publish about 14 months ago and since I heard the New Thug Party is going after Palin critics as lepers, seems more relevant now than then:
We should point out at every opportunity how SHAMEFUL it is to be a Republican. Highlight the PARTY OF DEATH that invokes OUR peaceful Christ into an icon for THEIR wars. Repeat, ad nauseum, every awful, duplicitous and hateful statement they spew. Make THEM OWN IT. While the Republicans are focused on pointing the media’s attention to our candidates haircuts, I am focused, and suggest others also focus, on pointing out how SHAMEFUL, ANTICHRISTIAN, AUTHORATARIAN, ANTIDEMOCRATIC and HATEFUL the REPUBLICAN PARTY has become. By the end of the Bush term, it might end up becoming a public TABOO to admit YOU EVER supported them!! People at parties all over the country will be swearing to their friends and neighbors that they were never Republican. Highly prominent individuals will obviously have a harder time trying to distance themselves from das Fuhe…ahem….The Party ‘of which we shall not speak’. What sweet poetic justice if being or having been REPUBLICAN is as SHAMEFUL TO THEM as they perceive homosexuality to be for others (or intelligence for that matter, but let’s not split hairs)
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Enjoy.
wait he is….what the hell were we thinking
oh and by the by is anyone else as ammused as I am that President-elect Santos has picked Josh Lyman as his Chief of Staff…erm I mean Obama has picked Emanuel….damn you West Wing
“White folks: Please report to the cotton field on Monday morning for orientation.”
Priceless.
When my husband and I told our eleven year old son on Tuesday evening that Obama had won, his face lit up like a Kwanzaa kinara. “YESSS!” he exulted, practically dancing with glee. He knows enough history that when we took him to D.C. a few years ago, we went to the Lincoln Memorial, and I asked him if he knew who the statue was of. “Someone almost as great as Martin Luther King,” he promptly answered. It chokes me up to think that this moment – that so many of us have waited so very VERY long for – is happening in his childhood.
I was reading the bit about Palin not knowing that Africa was a continent…or what three nations comprised NAFTA…and I kept seeing her pushing a big button and saying “I’m Sarah Palin…and I’m NOT smarter than a fifth grader!”
“…I read in an e-mail that they were going riot whether they won or not.”
Classic example of lower-educated illogical regarding Black Americans. If we’re elated, we’re violent, if we’re incenses, we’re violent. In other words we’re just violent (read “reactionary”). Any opportunity will suffice. What gets us about bigotry, is that it is by definition impossible for a group to be at once:
docile and militant
have no regard for birth control, and abortion-happy
Muslim and “socialist”
“works like a n—-” and lazy
exotically sexy and physically repulsive
unpatriotic and a lackey
uppity (elitist) and thug
The idea that the Obama rally was going to be violent either way is sort of undermined by the deep and solemn respect the crowd gave not only to John McCain but to Governor Palin when Obama praised their service.
McCain, tragically, was still forced to deal with the idiots he’d recently stirred up…the ones who boo’d everytime he so much as said “Obama.” I say “tragically,” because his speech was very moving and noble, and he reclaimed much of his statesmanship in defeat.
Tmi Fuller: We should point out at every opportunity how SHAMEFUL it is to be a Republican.
I like this idea. Shame can be a powerful tool and I’m surprised it isn’t used more.
Don’t argue with them. Embarrass them.
I say “tragically,” because his speech was very moving and noble, and he reclaimed much of his statesmanship in defeat.
Too little, too late.
“Milk Chocolate icing”
I’m not expecting a [George] Clinton administration, but Chocolate City is sure a cool song. I’m all middle aged.
Bacon, you’re not wrong. But if the GOP wishes to join the nation the rest of us hope to create, they will learn something about how to exhibit grace in the face of adversity, not just confidence in the seat of power.
Otherwise, they will join the Whigs and the Free Soil parties in the dustbin of history, replaced by Libertarians who will be much warier of the thugs and zealots.
I said what I sad in anger because as I listened to his speech I was really moved at how gracious and warm it was. Then I felt tricked and became angry knowing that he ran such a sleazy campaign. It was quite scary at times, as you know.
That said, you are right to reach out in order to save your country and build your nation. I guess the winner must also exhibit grace in victory.
I pity McCain, in the end, because who we saw onstage that night was the McCain of old, the one who hadn’t been sold a pyramid scheme called Dirty Politics. He was convinced by advisors who didn’t have McCain’s interests in mind.
That said, his weakness in getting bamboozled by these hucksters only reaffirms my belief that the better man won the leadership job.
I’m not expecting a [George] Clinton administration, but Chocolate City is sure a cool song. I’m all middle aged.
I’m with ya.
George Clinton=Secretary of Funk.