After 221 years, history was made as Barack Obama not only became the 44th President of the United States, but the first black President elected to office. He won the popular vote 52% to 46% and won the electoral votes by a landslide 349 to 162. Missouri and North Carolina are still being decided at the moment. Obama was clearly the better debater and campaigner throughout this election. He had to prove everybody that he was worthy of getting the Democratic nominees and becoming President. From graduating in the top half of his class at Columbia College and Harvard Law School, being a Illinois state senator working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state, and expanding early childhood education, to now becoming the President of the United States. It is official, but the bad news is that we all have to wait two and a half more months until Bush is out of the White House for good. I'm glad America woke up and realized that we have had a enough of broken policies for the last eight years. It's time for this country to get back on its feet. I voted for Obama not because of a silly celebrity, not because of him getting endorsed and promoted by sports, not because of his race, but because of his policies. Obama clearly had the edge on McCain when it comes to the economy, health care, education, national security, the war, and other subjects. True that both agreed on a few issues such as gay marriage and abortion, but overall, Obama has a better plan that suits best for America. I like his health care plan making it affordable fore everybody by lowering premiums, co-pays and deductibles. His economic plan make more sense by taxing only the wealthy and giving the hard working middle-class the benefit of tax cuts. Bill Clinton tried something similar to this when he was in office and look what happened to the economy. It was stabilized and national debt was not as bad like it is now. His education plan of giving $4,000 to any college student who does at least 100 hours of community service per year. There could possibly be other requirements, but it is a good start for making college affordable. I could use $4,000 right now to help continue my education. I like his war strategy on sending more troops to Afghanistan and focus more out there than in Iraq. Afghanistan started 9/11 and its time to settle the war out there and finally capture Bin Laden before he plans another terrorist attack. He's probably planning one right now seeing that he hasn't been on camera in a while. The War in Iraq should not have happened in the first place. Weapons of Mass Destruction...Where are they?
John McCain and Sarah Palin showing some class
John McCain went out gracefully in his losing effort. He actually took the blame for his loss. What put the icing on the cake, was when he had no idea at first on how to restore the economy when Wall Street nearly crashed. He said that the economy is still stable at first. He changed his statement later, but it was too little too late. When the subject was brought up again, he said he didn't fully understand the economics as well as he should. His best debate was the final debate, but he was in too big of a hole to even get close to a comeback. Another mistake he made was having Sarah Palin as his running mate. His loss was even greater when Sarah made a statement about why the troops are fighting the war in Iraq. She said America was fighting for its right to "free speech." You hear me? LOL McCain also voted 9 out of 10 times on most of Bush's policies. Mainly, his tax cuts and war strategy. He couldn't avoid the fact that his campaign was influenced by former lobbyists and Washington insiders. McCain also got desperate in trying to attack Obama with his false political ads. The ad that sealed his fate was when he did his quote on quote, "Lipstick on a Pig" ad. Him and Palin clearly misunderstood what Obama said about that. Saying that he made a racist and sexist remark towards Palin. NO. At first Palin said, "You what the difference is between a Hockey Mom and a Pitbull? Lipstick." Obama said, "If you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig." Referencing to McCain's political views. Another ad falsely accused Obama of supporting "Comprehensive Sex Education" for Kindergartners. Does that sound like some bullsh*t to you? Finally, he banned reporters from his campaign bus, knowing that he was going to screw up at some point again and again. I have to give McCain some credit for not giving up and throwing everything he could at Obama, but unfortunately for him, he could not shake the Obama/Biden campaign and as a result he lost by a big margin in electoral votes.
They said a black man couldn't do "this.....or that"
It's funny how some people say that African-Americans can't accomplish what whites have already done. People said blacks are not good enough to play Major League Baseball. Jackie Robinson changed all of that when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers starting in 1947. People said that blacks can't play golf. Look at Tiger Woods, he's the face of the sport now. Some of the white golfers get mad when they lose to him by big strokes or when he makes a miraculous comeback to win a tournament or major. People said that blacks can't have equal rights. Martin Luther King Jr. had a say-so to that statement. He fought hard to give African-Americans civil rights, liberty, and freedom so that blacks can succeed and be whatever they want to be. People said blacks couldn't be appointed to the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall was the first black man to accomplish this feat in 1967 and he helped outlaw segregation in Public Schools. There have been many things that people said about blacks! "Blacks won't be able to accomplish something in life!" "You niggers don't belong here!" and just other foolishness that have came out of people's mouths. The most famous statement of all of them was blacks are not good enough to ever become President. I'm laughing at that statement right now. Barack Obama shows us all that you can definitely be anything you want to be last night when got elected to become the first black President of the United States. Isn't that something?
Lastly, ignorant, racist, or assinine comments after the election for your fun and pleasure:
I don't know if I will be able to put all of them up, but this is hilarious. Shows how some people just have no brains.
"I realize some people are idiots and only vote because he's different."
"Bill Clinton did not spread the wealth around, he raised taxes for the wealthy...which honestly isn't a bad idea." Isn't that what Obama is pretty much doing? So Obama's plan is not a bad idea. lol
"When Bill Clinton was in office, he allowed the rise of terrorism. His inaction is the reason we even had a 9/11..." Explain what the inaction was? and How did he allow the rise of terrorism if he was out of office almost two years before it happened?
"As for Palin, yeah she has zero foreign policy experience, but what about Obama? What experience does he have?? It's a double-edged sword, you offer attacks at the republicans, yet have no alternative by the democrats. very hypocritical."
My response: *Since you want to talk about double-edged swords.......
From yahoo.com on What went wrong for the McCain Campaign: Yet it was during town halls that McCain committed gaffes that would come back to haunt him. One occurred in December, when he said economics was "not something I've understood as well as I should.'' The Democrats used that moment of candor against him for months.
"The town halls were a double-edged sword,'' Reed said. "They allowed him to come back in New Hampshire, but after he became the nominee, he often went off-script and off-message. And that confused voters.''
"The town halls were a double-edged sword,'' Reed said. "They allowed him to come back in New Hampshire, but after he became the nominee, he often went off-script and off-message. And that confused voters.''
"Bush wasn't a horrible President. Sure, a lot of bad things happened during his presidency, but you can't just point your finger at him and say that it was all his fault. Like I mentioned earlier, 9/11 was a pot-head, liberal, big government, democratic asshole's fault, not Bush's."
Too bad the Republicans were still controlling most of the White House when this happened. The Democrats took over in 2002.
"Oh, so we need to send more troops to a less violent region just because they started it? That makes no sense. You send troops to the place with the highest amount of violence. Common sense..." Common sense? Hmmm....That may be true, but Afghanistan has plotted more terrorist activity than Iraq and they were the cause of 9/11. Just because Afghanistan is a less violent region doesn't mean they are still not violent. They could possibly be planning another attack as we speak.
"Well at least he won't be President for long. When he gets assassinated you're going to feel stupid for electing Biden. I'm not saying Obama deserves to die, and I'll support him as our new President, but he's not going to last long. There have already been attempts on his life and he's not even in office."
Complete ignorance. First of all, Obama is going to have the best secret service in the history of the U.S., so that won't happen. Second of all, like Barbie Girl Sarah Palin would have done any better if G.I. Joe McCain would have passed away? lol
"Obama the antichrist, Oprah the prophet."
"McCain voted democratic 50.4% of the time. Meanwhile, Obama is the leftest of the left. He is more left than Bush was right."
FALSE! How can you be more Democratic, if you voted 90% on Bush's policies? Sounds like a full Republican to me. Evidence from http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000303/: John McCain has voted with a majority of his Republican colleagues 88.1% of the time during the current Congress. This percentage does not include votes in which McCain did not vote. Voted Democratic huh?
"Communism here we come."
"Yea sure bring up his campaign....I'm not talking about Obama's campaign because it was brilliant...bc all of the people out there that are ignorant believe his empty promises."
"You'd be a sore loser if that Sand nigger lost." WHAT?
"Yet another black person who just voted for Osama for being black." Can we say irrelevant?
Finally, the infamous Hitler comparison.....*yawn*
Hitler: a smooth talker who won over just about the entire country and preached a different direction
Obama: a smooth talker who won over just about the entire country preaching change.
They both took over when there countries were at low points.
Both are socialists.
Obama is no where near a Nazi! This a bad comparison between the two. I need to see more. For the record, if Obama is a socialist, then McCain is a fascist. McCain has some similarities to Mussolini and Stalin. They are in the same boat as Hitler.
As I close, what happened yesterday, happened. Everybody needs to move on and face the fact that Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States. I'm going to be real, I have a few concerns about him, but I think he can get this country where it needs to go. Let's see if he sticks to his word. In the meantime, HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE! YES WE DID!
"My President is Black. My KC Fitted is Blue......."
Message to all black people (especially the youth): I know you all are happy that this historic event happened, but just because we have a black man in office, does not mean you start having a "NIGGA MOMENT." It's bad enough that some black people already have "ignorance" in their blood. Celebrate responsibly.
