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At 4AM GMT on the 5th of November 2008, CNN projected that Barack Obama will be the next elected president of the USA. I always knew that at some point in time there would be a black US president. But if someone would've asked me a few years ago when that was going to happen, I would've said something like 2024. And yet, here we are in 2008, McCain is just making a speech admitting defeat, and the next US president will be of African descent. Whatever happens next, this is truly an historic day. Well done, America.

What are your thoughts?

Tags: mccain, next, obama, president, us

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

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It was a very good speech indeed.

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Breaking news!

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Obama '08! =]

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

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

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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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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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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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