Barack Obama Wins US Presidency 3709
Last night, around 11pm, all the major networks announced that Senator Barack Obama had won the election. Soon after, Senator McCain conceded. There were no crazy partisan court hearings, just a simple election. This is your chance to talk about it and what it means for the future of our nation.
Drunk wisdom (Score:5, Funny)
A fellow bar patron put it best:
"BLUE TEAM WINS"
Fallout from the election (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, wait. My copy of Fallout 3 arrived yesterday and that's all I can think about.
Deck chairs on the Titanic (Score:5, Funny)
Thoroughly, and decisively, re-arranged.
Re:Two words (Score:5, Funny)
Why? Did he vote?
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! (Score:5, Funny)
What? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Two words (Score:2, Funny)
Democrats believe in God?
Strange no one has mentioned this but.. (Score:5, Funny)
It's not over yet (Score:2, Funny)
Save the good booze for January 20th, until then, who knows, maybe the GOP has a larger then expected "October surprise" that's running a little late.
Re:Two words (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Birth pangs of our great socialism (Score:3, Funny)
You're most welcome.
Re:Obligatory! (Score:3, Funny)
Ron Paul (Score:5, Funny)
This was easily the best election I ever participated in. Mostly because of Ron Paul. He opened my eyes to real liberty and true freedoms, and I've been a changed person man ever since. I'm not going to take crap from the two parties sitting down anymore, and I have real hope for this country, that someday we all might really be free from the federal government. I was also exposed to Ayn Rand and read her fiction, and really enjoyed it.
I wrote Ron Paul in, and I was beyond happy the rest of the day. It honestly felt awesome to vote for someone that I honestly believe in, an opportunity I've never taken before.
I recorded.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! (Score:5, Funny)
For some reason that picture makes me hungry for some KFC.
Re:All I can say now is... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First thing I thought about... (Score:5, Funny)
Skim MLK?
Re:Congratulations on making a historic event happ (Score:5, Funny)
Oh goshdarnit! That other guy git in (Score:5, Funny)
Congratulations from Europe (Score:3, Funny)
I think I'm actually proud of you, America. Not just for electing Obama over McCain; but for producing *two* sensible candidates and then choosing the one who makes history. I'm glad I stayed up to watch it live.
Obligitory Simpsons (Score:5, Funny)
Kent Brockman: I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work.
Re:question (Score:3, Funny)
24
Like Jack Bauer.
I was worried, even after they called it (Score:3, Funny)
At the time they called Obama as the president, there was still a lot to be counted. Between the 11 PM call and when I went to bed at 12:30, the entire time all of Obama's important leads were shrinking. 10%...8%...6%...5%, some even down to 2%-3%. I was honestly worried about a premature call, and wondering what would happen if I woke up and things had flipped. McCain: "yeah....ummmm....about that concession..."
Re:Ron Paul (Score:5, Funny)
Please report immediately to decontamination area 4. Remember to burn all your clothes. Exposed items you wish to decontaminate must be collected in a sealed, transparent plastic bag and handed in to the paramedical personnel at your decontamination area.
Re:First thing I thought about... (Score:2, Funny)
As such I am hereby starting a new internet meme
Memes do not work that way.
Re:Two words (Score:4, Funny)
Well, I don't wanna' get all "tit-for-tat" here with that "love it or leave it" crap *I've* had to listen to for far too long. Oh, wait. Yes I do.
Think GW Bu$h ever DREAMED he'd be THIS much of a uniter? Mwahahahahahahahaha!
Re:Two words (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'll Tell You What It Means (Score:5, Funny)
Lagom? lol, first time ever I've seen the word spread outside of Sweden :D
It's finally happening! After hundreds of years borrowing english, latin, german and french words our time has come! If only we built some new castles to! (On that topic, how nice to know we are shutting down all our military really fast nowadays while the russians are mobilising [jamestown.org] (though probably not to invade us :D))
Somewhat off-topic I know, but I can handle the negative moderation for spreading this awesome news about how we'll take over the world thru lagom!
Re:W00t! Welfare for all! (Score:2, Funny)
Hard work is penalized, and laziness will be rewarded.
For hard working citizens such as yourself this cloud has a silver lining!
Take the next 4 years off, don't work, drink beer all day. You'll be better off than if you had a job! That is, if you really believe what you just wrote.
Re:I'll Tell You What It Means (Score:1, Funny)
I'm not "insane" or "clueless" and I read both sides of the issues.
Obama is a leftist, bordering on marxist (in fact, if you had read his autobiography, you'd know he sought out marxist friends quite frequently).
But since you can't be bothered to pay attention to facts, here's a few more places on his record:
Votesmart [votesmart.org]
Washington Post [washingtonpost.com]
Also, you attack National Journal without ever bothering to pay attention to facts (in fact, I doubt you've ever read it). IF you'd bothered to even look it up, you'd find it's nothing like you portray it as [wikipedia.org].
Re:Thank God (Score:4, Funny)
Hmm, I thought cow orkers tended toward the Republicans more?
Re:Two words (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, we may have just elected the 3rd incarnation of the antichrist.
(first 2 being Napoleon and Hitler)
That is of course if Maitreya is not the antichrist.
It all depends on if we are the new Babylon or if Iraq is the new incarnation of Babylon. According to most conjecture on the timeline of this subject, we should know by fall of next year if Obama is the latest incarnation of the antichrist. Lets see if he ends up with control of the world.
I for one... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Drunk wisdom (Score:5, Funny)
"Red Warrior needs food... Badly"
Let me be the first to day that, I for one... (Score:5, Funny)
...welcome our new black, arab, muslim, atheist, socialist, communist, not-born-in-america, terrorist, redistributionist-in-chief overlord.
LOL!
Seriously, from all of us in fake America to all of you in real America, thanks for the laughs...and the winks. Let's not forget the winks.
Go Obama!
The Fairness Doctrine in Play: He won, he won! (Score:1, Funny)
OK, so you got to make fun of McCain supporters. Here's the otherside in all fairness.
Oh ... my ... gosh! Did you hear, like, he really won! Obama .. the One ... He won!
I can't believe it. Obama's going take care of my mortgage, my car, my credit cards, my kids school lunches, my cable bill, my trips to Whole Foods, my hair care bill, my ... my ... my ... OOOOOOOHOOHOOHOHO! (Pant, pant). The Big O just gave me a Big O!
Re:Two words (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, it does.
Re:Two words (Score:5, Funny)
My favorite thing to hear on Fox was a discussion going on to do with the state of the economy, and how "we are only now seeing the full effects of the Clinton presidency". I about fell out of my chair.
I do realize that change cannot be immediate, but there are limits. Considering how long we've had a Bush for president, continuing to blame the past just flies in the face of all reason.
Now it still concerns me to stand by and watch just how much more damage the Lame Duck can do before the clean-up crew moves in.
Re:Two words (Score:1, Funny)
I thought Obama was the antichrist?
"someone who will come out of nowhere into the world of politics in the guise of change and peace"
We'll find out when the world ends in 2012 after his re-election.
Re:Prediction (Score:3, Funny)
[foil hat mode] Accidentally, you mean? None. *taps nose* [/fhm]
Re:Drunk wisdom (Score:5, Funny)
Green Elf shot the food!
Re:Congratulations on making a historic event happ (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Two words (Score:5, Funny)
Now it still concerns me to stand by and watch just how much more damage the Lame Duck can do before the clean-up crew moves in.
I have this image in my mind of Dubya, on January 19th, starting "police actions" in about 20 countries, and saying, "Let's see him fix this!"
Re:First thing I thought about... (Score:1, Funny)
Or maybe you shouldn't be using a dead person's hypothetical opinions to promote your own agenda.
Christians did that already very successfully and profitably... :-)
Re:Two words (Score:5, Funny)
God? God had nothing to do with it. Thank Bush.
Re:Two words (Score:5, Funny)
It's funny, though... Obama is quite possibly the biggest con man I've ever seen. I have great admiration for his skills at deceiving people, even as I'm disgusted with my fellow countrymen for being taken in by a swindler so easily. Truly an exemplary politician, even if he is a bad statesman.
Why would you be surprised? Weren't we taken by Clinton just as easily in the 90's?
Yeah, and look how bad the Clinton years were for this country...
Oh, wait...
Re:Two words (Score:1, Funny)
Iron my shirt.
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Re:Let me be the first to day that, I for one... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Two words (Score:5, Funny)
Cool, who is it? ;)
Re:probably not break 175 (Score:5, Funny)
Wow. Racism, sexism, class warfare, and teen parenthood. All in two and a half paragraphs.
You are some kind of trolling GOD.
Re:I'll Tell You What It Means (Score:3, Funny)
Go on, I'm riveted.
Re:Oh goshdarnit! That other guy git in (Score:1, Funny)
that is the most ignorant bullsh*t i have ever read, you sir are a pathetic moron. i dont care if your being sarcastic, people like you make me sick.
i have a great idea what you could do, but id get banned or something. i surely hope karma smacks your little d*ck in the dirt.
Re:Congratulations on making a historic event happ (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah years from now someone needs to ask Obama what he was doing when Rogerborg was writing joystick handling code on a Ubuntu install running under VMware.
Re:First thing I thought about... (Score:3, Funny)
I am hereby starting a new internet meme, [...] if the person you say this to is intelligent,
Memes definitely do not work that way.
Re:Two words (Score:4, Funny)
More importantly, a vote for McCain was a vote for Rove and friends. Rewarding them with another four years would have been interesting in a Chinese curse kind of way.
Oh son of a bitch, I can't believe this shit. Now we're even outsourcing our curses?!
Re:Two words (Score:4, Funny)
These guys are Aryan nation kind of folks... I am dead serious here. Check out the number of women that are blond. You can't get away from it. Kind of scary actually...
Oh shit! 99% of my porn collection is white supremacist?
Re:Drunk wisdom (Score:3, Funny)
Gold Five: Stay off topic.
Gold Leader: It's too close!
Gold Five: Stay off topic!
Gold Leader: Loosen up!
Gold Five: Gold Five to Red Leader, lost House, lost Senate.
From the definition police (Score:3, Funny)
I think you mean, "sheer luck."
Only in the US (Score:4, Funny)
The US is so right-wing-conservative that a self called "internationalist, socially leftist" can be so to the right! I hope Obama is a step towards fixing that for them...
Re:Two words (Score:3, Funny)
It is juvenile to think someone is evil because they use a different text editor
Even if they use notepad?
Re:Two words (Score:3, Funny)
She has daddy issues.
You can tell this because her name is Megyn.
Obviously her parents are left wing nutjobs with little to no respect for spelling, and something happened to form a huge rift between her and her parents.
This is why she now is a spokesperson for a political philosophy which wants to know why she isn't in the kitchen making me a sammich.
Money well spent (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ron Paul (Score:2, Funny)
This is what people should be doing. I doubt anyone here can honestly say they trust Barack Obama as much as this guy can trust Ron Paul.
Re:Agreed. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Two words (Score:3, Funny)
Blaming Bush will only work for so long.
Want to bet?
Blaming Hoover worked for FDR's entire reign.
-jcr
And the republicans are still blaming FDR!
Re:Two words (Score:3, Funny)
I love the BBC becasue the women have British accents..mmmm I'll believe anything they say.
Dear Rest of the World, (Score:5, Funny)
See? We aren't ALL cross burning rednecks!
However if you think we are going to start using less oil, stop polluting, pay off our credit cards, learn French, and stop bombing smaller nations, think again.
Oh yeah, we could use about $700,000,000,000 right about now.... I won't bother to convert that figure to yen or euro.
Re:Two words (Score:5, Funny)
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