The next US president

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Permalink Reply by Katon on November 4, 2008 at 11:52pm

Did anyone else want to give McCain a big hug after his speech?

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Permalink Reply by Alex V. on November 5, 2008 at 2:49am

It was a very good speech indeed.

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Permalink Reply by Alex V. on November 5, 2008 at 3:20am

Breaking news!

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Permalink Reply by Richa on November 5, 2008 at 6:44am

Obama '08! =]

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Permalink Reply by RevisionRocker on November 5, 2008 at 7:05am

Yeah, no matter who won, it would be a historic event because either we would have a African-American President or a Woman Vice-President.

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Permalink Reply by Tsuko on November 5, 2008 at 9:32am

I don't think g.w.bush-in-heels as vice-president would be anything but nefarious, i mean, a woman against woman's rights and barfing sexist remarks just to get votes (not to mention her incredible ignorance) is not a good thing.

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Permalink Reply by Derek on November 5, 2008 at 9:54am

I'll say it - even though everyone is thinking it...
MILF!

She got all mavericky - and it didn't work.

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Permalink Reply by I'llturnnative on November 5, 2008 at 11:35am

haha I couldn't agree more. I think that she is drinking-the-coolaid crazy and I for one am glad that she did not get a chance to succeed. Although I don't think that we've seen the last of her yet. She has also mentioned that she has aspirations of running herself next time. That and the fact that she has motorized and polarized the Republican base means that she actually has a shot of getting a Republican nomination in 4 years.

Factor that, plus the fact that all US presidents are blamed for the misfortunes of the economy (whether it is their fault or not) and the very scary reality of our economy at the moment and if that is the case, President-elect Obama will have a much tougher time getting the vote the second time around. Means that the prospect of a comeback for her is frightening. As James Carville once said, "It's the economy, stupid"

Also, Just a historical fact that black men have always been ahead of women in the equality movement. Every gain or office that was fought for by the equality movement was won by Black men before women. That is why I never thought that Hilary was going to win her party's nomination. I just want to put that out there.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Gowdy on November 5, 2008 at 2:00pm

Turbulent times call for major changes. Hopefully that happens and the changes pan out well.

Best of luck to the new administration, take care not to fall into the traps of the old administration and with any luck, they won't screw this up. Going to be an interesting next 4 years.

Does anyone know how many votes Ron Paul got in this election?

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Permalink Reply by Langston Richardson on November 6, 2008 at 4:18pm

Interesting times indeed. In politics, there is the act for the masses... and the reality of what goes on behind the scenes. Barack Obama may be a tad bit before his time in such that much of today body politic are of the not-change variety. Then on the other hand, it would be a disaster for the inexperienced and naive reformers to think that "the bastards can all get thrown out." and keep the government together.

If Obama can truly surround himself with these old thinking experienced people YET be able to inspire them to rethink old prejudices and to truly engage even with so-called enemies such as Chavez, Castro, Putin, Syria, and even Ahmadinejad, then we won't be living in the potential of those END WAR and GEARS OF WAR games that always seem to come out before bad things happen.

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