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Couldn’t agree more.
Seriously.
Yep.
Word.
Amen.
Yeah.
Yes We Can (has)
It is our time now.
Seconded.
Damn Skippy 😛
President Obama!
I’m hip to what you’re layin’ down, brotha.
And I love the design of this poster…it hearkens back to the great Streamline Moderne works of the WPA. Awesomesauce.
(One of these days I really need to stop and count all the words you’ve added to my personal lexicon, Wil.)
Wil,
Long time reader first time poster. Just my opinion, before philly Barack was simply the lesser of the evils. Then he made that speech and he wrote it. I was. I am inspired. Thanks for keeping the word out yo.
p.s you should totally be in vegas with pauly!
Oh happy happy joy joy! I haven’t been this excited about an election in… ever. Go Obama!
I’ll buy THAT for a dollar.
Er, I mean, yes. We can. And we did.
Hear, hear. I’m so happy.
Si se puede.
Giving that speech in Minnesota, at the exact venue where the GOP will have their convention this fall….Obama was all “im in ur hows killin ur doods” on McCain.
Yesss!
And have you seen the awesome Cinema-Display-sized desktop backgrounds on his site? So much of the goodness.
I know who I’m voting for, and I share the excitement…
but…
I have this ph3@r. Because I remember the last time I felt this way about a presidential candidate. His name was Bill. He managed to do some really great things, but then he totally f’in blew it for the sake of some skanky nookie.
I’m still a little sore at him about that.
I’m waiting for Hillary to concede, so I can start pumping money into the Obama campaign and the DNC.
Yeah, he’ll win. Scary.
But Dude, Don’t be a hater if Clinton gets the VP nod.
THE MOST important thing is that the Dem win in November. McCain will keep us in Iraq for years.
yes! Socialism here we come!
You know, Barack winning is not only so exciting for Americans, but for the world. We know how much your country affects the world as a whole, and I only wish I was American for voting day so I could help you guys get this guy into office!
Obama Nation FTW!
I can haz civil liberties now?
Right. Change. Uh huh.
Change because he supported a racist for 20 years and called him not only his friend but spiritual advisor.
Change because he has no experience at anything.
Change because he has a wife that is bitter, racist and is not proud of America.
Obama = Jimmy Carter 2, and remember how well that travesty worked out.
Our enemies will be dancing in the street when this clown is elected.
Remember, 80% of us Canadians agree, and are we ever wrong?
On another topic quickly, have you played the new Portal maps from the guys that did the flash Portal game? Try them if you haven’t. They are great. http://www.wecreatestuff.com
Indeed. The speech last night gave be chills, and gave me hope. No other presidential candidate has ever done that.
I weep for the Democratic party.
I’m voting with a write in.
Maybe Ralph Nader…
My only problem is with the whole ‘change’ mantra. Incumbents run on their record, challengers run on ‘change’ – what is so new about that? It is almost as if the Obama campaign decided to satirize political campaigns by using the word ‘change’ as their central focus. Remember, Bush was promising a lot of ‘change’ when he ran for office and look where that got us.
Having said that, I hope Obama wins. The only motivator that might actually get me back to the polls is the probability of keeping us out of war. Obama is the most likely candidate there for me.
Gobama!!
This is the first time in 22 years of elections that I haven’t felt like I was casting my vote for the lesser of the evils. What a wonderful feeling!
Cheney 08!
It’s your blog of course, but I’m not sure why you post things like this. Either people will say “Right on!” or fill comments with right wing bile. There’s win in this kind of thread. Or, in Fark terms, it’s destined to be full of fail.
Damn, no editing ability. I meant to say “There’s NO win in this kind of thread”.
I am curious, what is this change? And why have we not seen any examples of it during the last three years the Obamasiah has been in the Senate?
I’m just sayin….
This is a guy who thinks “tax breaks” are equivalent to government “spending.”
WORD. I am so ready. Let’s do it.
At Chris Kessel,
Maybe he posts it as a way to celebrate a historical day for America. Of course it’s not supposed to create wonderful dialogue, but neither are a lot of the posts, like pictures of him and his wife or whatever. It’s perfectly alright to celebrate wonderful things.
Agreed.
Buildersent,
I’m not going to get into a flame war on Wil’s board here, so this is all I’ll say on this matter. Get a better grasp on the facts of all this before you write things like this. Pay attention to the actual context of a given statement or situation. Look up the whole speech or history and then decide, as opposed to just hearing a 30 second news bite (or, in the case of Fox, news manipulation), and letting any of the pundits dictate your feelings for you.
Maybe Obama won’t be the motivator for change that I, and many others, are hoping for, but at least I can say that my decision to support him was based on looking at the whole picture available, reading all of that speech, or trying to empathize with the people involved and understand their motivations. Whereas, I can see from these comments, that you haven’t looked any further than the out of context statements repeated over and over on the news. Inform your ideas and thoughts with context and facts. Please.
Ken
I really wish I could be excited about him. I really do. I just can’t get behind his socialist policies, and his claims that he’s the one that can change Washington and bring the parties together are laughable, considering he’s NEVER co-sponsored a bill and NEVER voted anything other than ultra-left wing. McCain comes closer to being a “uniter” than he does, politically. He just knows how to give a damn good speech.
Wish I could like him.
Ken,
Don’t be too quick to jumo to conclusions.
Until recently I was on the Obama mail list and have read all they sent out, examined his record, and looked at what he belives in. My conclusion, he’s an empty shirt.
He has no policy that he has spearheaded, he has no real record on anything other than saying he wants change – yet he has yet to offer specifics.
He would have been smart to wait 4 years and actually accomplish something in the senate.
If Obama had been a white guy, he would have been been gone months ago but the novelty of a person of color (1/2) is what kept the campaign alive.
Feel free to drop me an email to discuss.
I was in the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul last night for Obama’s speech. It was an incredible night to be an American.
It’s being televised.
Therefore it is NOT actually the revolution.
Fun to watch though.
I don’t really know what to think about the guy (Obama), mostly because I haven’t heard anything of substance in his speeches, except for “Change” Being primarily a chemist, I’m always obsessed with the details…and I haven’t gotten any specifics. But, one thing he said that I agree with is, is having it one on one with Iranian and N. Korean Presidents, kind of Reganesque or Nixonesque, in the way we as a country dealt with the Soviet’s and China. One could argue the results they garnered. I think there’s a very stark contrast in which we dealt with the USSR and China, and that had to do with differing ideologies of both Regan and Nixon. Some of you may remember growing during the Reagan years, as I recall from my teachers, he was a crazy old man with his finger on the button, but he turned out to be a pretty nice old guy, and severely ill, though nobody knew at the time. As for Nixon, oh boy. Hindsight is always 20/20, what seemed like wisdom at the time sure seems like a fleecing today. I’m referring to the mass exportation of American companies to China, why pay an American 15.00 bucks an hour when you can pay a Chinaman less than 2.00? And to add insult to injury, import those slave labor goods back into America almost tariff free. You know, the right thing to do is always the hardest thing to do, unfortunately I don’t believe there is a politician in this country with the intestinal fortitude to do it.
I am so tired of hearing “not proud of America” in the same light as “zomg, NOT A PATRIOT!!11!!one”
Look around. Our president trumped up excuses and started an unjust war, and we didn’t impeach him. We allowed our civil liberties to be cut and cut again, we let him get away with all the crap he’s done and we’ve done NOTHING to stop him. We re-elected him.
I’ve been pretty disgusted with my country for a while now. And don’t give me that “if you don’t like it, leave.” It’s written right in the Constitution–I have a right to not like it. And I believe it’s my duty as an American to try to change it.
Yes, this is a great country, founded on important and shining principles. But it’s not like we’re living up to them.
Does anyone else look at that and think… “Change… that looks kind of like a penny!”
@ jenny ZZZ
use a little google. I did. took me all of two minutes to find this.
S.1033
Title: A bill to improve border security and immigration.
Sponsor: Sen McCain, John [AZ] (introduced 5/12/2005) Cosponsors (9)
COSPONSORS(9), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] – 5/12/2005
Sen Chafee, Lincoln [RI] – 3/27/2006
Sen Graham, Lindsey [SC] – 5/12/2005
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] – 5/12/2005
Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] – 3/27/2006
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] – 5/12/2005
Sen Martinez, Mel [FL] – 12/14/2005
Sen Obama, Barack [IL] – 12/14/2005
Sen Salazar, Ken [CO] – 5/12/2005
also, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act S.2590
(R) Tom Coburn’s bill, and he himself referred to it as the “Coburn-Obama bill”.
and, lifted from media matters:
“Obama also worked with Republican Sen. Richard Lugar (IN) to produce the “Lugar-Obama proliferation and threat reduction initiative,” which President Bush signed into law on January 11, 2007, and which received funding on June 28 of that year. The initiative, according to Obama’s Senate website, “expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department’s ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction.”
In addition, four of the 12 co-sponsors of Obama’s bill (S.2125) to “promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo” were Republicans: Sam Brownback (KS), Susan Collins (ME), Mike DeWine (OH), and James Inhofe (OK). President Bush signed the bill into law on December 22, 2006.”
KD,
I hear ya…but Congress didn’t have to go along with Bush, so I score it 50/50, they’re all a bunch of asswipes. 🙂 You know, I think future historians can make a comparison to Bush’s Patriot Act, and Lincoln’s Martial Law and suspension of Habeas Corpus…but I think Lincoln will win hands down, for his round up of Americans, a couple of Senators and some of the press…and if I remember correctly, he had some of them executed. Karma dude, he took a bullet in the end. Do you think someone will make Bush play naked pyramid and stand like a X-Mas tree while electrodes are strapped to his nads?
Sayin’ WHAT, exactly?
I’m going to vote for Obama, so I’m not arguing against the candidate.
But this naivete that seems to be surrounding him bothers me. It’s the line of thinking that just because we may elect Barack Obama the 44th President of the US that everything will “magically change”. Obama will definitely give people something to believe in, but I have a seriously hard time in bowing down and worshiping the word “Change” just because it’s Mr. Obama behind the microphone, as opposed to Hillary Clinton, or John McCain, or anyone else like Donald Duck.
I listened to one of his speeches last night on TV, and it was the same old crap you hear from every politician at this level of government.
Don’t get me wrong, I will vote for him. I like him. I just don’t buy into the automatic “It’s Obama, game over – everything’s fine again!”
As America’s credibility goes further down the toilet.
In other questions, Does any other country have to put up with election hype this long?
Couldn’t agree more.
Seriously.
Yep.
Word.
Amen.
Yeah.
Yes We Can (has)
It is our time now.
Seconded.
Damn Skippy 😛
President Obama!
I’m hip to what you’re layin’ down, brotha.
And I love the design of this poster…it hearkens back to the great Streamline Moderne works of the WPA. Awesomesauce.
(One of these days I really need to stop and count all the words you’ve added to my personal lexicon, Wil.)
Wil,
Long time reader first time poster. Just my opinion, before philly Barack was simply the lesser of the evils. Then he made that speech and he wrote it. I was. I am inspired. Thanks for keeping the word out yo.
p.s you should totally be in vegas with pauly!
Oh happy happy joy joy! I haven’t been this excited about an election in… ever. Go Obama!
I’ll buy THAT for a dollar.
Er, I mean, yes. We can. And we did.
Hear, hear. I’m so happy.
Si se puede.
Giving that speech in Minnesota, at the exact venue where the GOP will have their convention this fall….Obama was all “im in ur hows killin ur doods” on McCain.
Yesss!
And have you seen the awesome Cinema-Display-sized desktop backgrounds on his site? So much of the goodness.
I know who I’m voting for, and I share the excitement…
but…
I have this ph3@r. Because I remember the last time I felt this way about a presidential candidate. His name was Bill. He managed to do some really great things, but then he totally f’in blew it for the sake of some skanky nookie.
I’m still a little sore at him about that.
I’m waiting for Hillary to concede, so I can start pumping money into the Obama campaign and the DNC.
Yeah, he’ll win. Scary.
But Dude, Don’t be a hater if Clinton gets the VP nod.
THE MOST important thing is that the Dem win in November. McCain will keep us in Iraq for years.
yes! Socialism here we come!
You know, Barack winning is not only so exciting for Americans, but for the world. We know how much your country affects the world as a whole, and I only wish I was American for voting day so I could help you guys get this guy into office!
Obama Nation FTW!
I can haz civil liberties now?
Right. Change. Uh huh.
Change because he supported a racist for 20 years and called him not only his friend but spiritual advisor.
Change because he has no experience at anything.
Change because he has a wife that is bitter, racist and is not proud of America.
Obama = Jimmy Carter 2, and remember how well that travesty worked out.
Our enemies will be dancing in the street when this clown is elected.
Remember, 80% of us Canadians agree, and are we ever wrong?
On another topic quickly, have you played the new Portal maps from the guys that did the flash Portal game? Try them if you haven’t. They are great.
http://www.wecreatestuff.com
Indeed. The speech last night gave be chills, and gave me hope. No other presidential candidate has ever done that.
I weep for the Democratic party.
I’m voting with a write in.
Maybe Ralph Nader…
My only problem is with the whole ‘change’ mantra. Incumbents run on their record, challengers run on ‘change’ – what is so new about that? It is almost as if the Obama campaign decided to satirize political campaigns by using the word ‘change’ as their central focus. Remember, Bush was promising a lot of ‘change’ when he ran for office and look where that got us.
Having said that, I hope Obama wins. The only motivator that might actually get me back to the polls is the probability of keeping us out of war. Obama is the most likely candidate there for me.
Gobama!!
This is the first time in 22 years of elections that I haven’t felt like I was casting my vote for the lesser of the evils. What a wonderful feeling!
Cheney 08!
It’s your blog of course, but I’m not sure why you post things like this. Either people will say “Right on!” or fill comments with right wing bile. There’s win in this kind of thread. Or, in Fark terms, it’s destined to be full of fail.
Damn, no editing ability. I meant to say “There’s NO win in this kind of thread”.
I am curious, what is this change? And why have we not seen any examples of it during the last three years the Obamasiah has been in the Senate?
I’m just sayin….
This is a guy who thinks “tax breaks” are equivalent to government “spending.”
WORD. I am so ready. Let’s do it.
At Chris Kessel,
Maybe he posts it as a way to celebrate a historical day for America. Of course it’s not supposed to create wonderful dialogue, but neither are a lot of the posts, like pictures of him and his wife or whatever. It’s perfectly alright to celebrate wonderful things.
Agreed.
Buildersent,
I’m not going to get into a flame war on Wil’s board here, so this is all I’ll say on this matter. Get a better grasp on the facts of all this before you write things like this. Pay attention to the actual context of a given statement or situation. Look up the whole speech or history and then decide, as opposed to just hearing a 30 second news bite (or, in the case of Fox, news manipulation), and letting any of the pundits dictate your feelings for you.
Maybe Obama won’t be the motivator for change that I, and many others, are hoping for, but at least I can say that my decision to support him was based on looking at the whole picture available, reading all of that speech, or trying to empathize with the people involved and understand their motivations. Whereas, I can see from these comments, that you haven’t looked any further than the out of context statements repeated over and over on the news. Inform your ideas and thoughts with context and facts. Please.
Ken
I really wish I could be excited about him. I really do. I just can’t get behind his socialist policies, and his claims that he’s the one that can change Washington and bring the parties together are laughable, considering he’s NEVER co-sponsored a bill and NEVER voted anything other than ultra-left wing. McCain comes closer to being a “uniter” than he does, politically. He just knows how to give a damn good speech.
Wish I could like him.
Ken,
Don’t be too quick to jumo to conclusions.
Until recently I was on the Obama mail list and have read all they sent out, examined his record, and looked at what he belives in. My conclusion, he’s an empty shirt.
He has no policy that he has spearheaded, he has no real record on anything other than saying he wants change – yet he has yet to offer specifics.
He would have been smart to wait 4 years and actually accomplish something in the senate.
If Obama had been a white guy, he would have been been gone months ago but the novelty of a person of color (1/2) is what kept the campaign alive.
Feel free to drop me an email to discuss.
I was in the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul last night for Obama’s speech. It was an incredible night to be an American.
It’s being televised.
Therefore it is NOT actually the revolution.
Fun to watch though.
I don’t really know what to think about the guy (Obama), mostly because I haven’t heard anything of substance in his speeches, except for “Change” Being primarily a chemist, I’m always obsessed with the details…and I haven’t gotten any specifics. But, one thing he said that I agree with is, is having it one on one with Iranian and N. Korean Presidents, kind of Reganesque or Nixonesque, in the way we as a country dealt with the Soviet’s and China. One could argue the results they garnered. I think there’s a very stark contrast in which we dealt with the USSR and China, and that had to do with differing ideologies of both Regan and Nixon. Some of you may remember growing during the Reagan years, as I recall from my teachers, he was a crazy old man with his finger on the button, but he turned out to be a pretty nice old guy, and severely ill, though nobody knew at the time. As for Nixon, oh boy. Hindsight is always 20/20, what seemed like wisdom at the time sure seems like a fleecing today. I’m referring to the mass exportation of American companies to China, why pay an American 15.00 bucks an hour when you can pay a Chinaman less than 2.00? And to add insult to injury, import those slave labor goods back into America almost tariff free. You know, the right thing to do is always the hardest thing to do, unfortunately I don’t believe there is a politician in this country with the intestinal fortitude to do it.
I am so tired of hearing “not proud of America” in the same light as “zomg, NOT A PATRIOT!!11!!one”
Look around. Our president trumped up excuses and started an unjust war, and we didn’t impeach him. We allowed our civil liberties to be cut and cut again, we let him get away with all the crap he’s done and we’ve done NOTHING to stop him. We re-elected him.
I’ve been pretty disgusted with my country for a while now. And don’t give me that “if you don’t like it, leave.” It’s written right in the Constitution–I have a right to not like it. And I believe it’s my duty as an American to try to change it.
Yes, this is a great country, founded on important and shining principles. But it’s not like we’re living up to them.
Does anyone else look at that and think… “Change… that looks kind of like a penny!”
@ jenny ZZZ
use a little google. I did. took me all of two minutes to find this.
S.1033
Title: A bill to improve border security and immigration.
Sponsor: Sen McCain, John [AZ] (introduced 5/12/2005) Cosponsors (9)
COSPONSORS(9), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] – 5/12/2005
Sen Chafee, Lincoln [RI] – 3/27/2006
Sen Graham, Lindsey [SC] – 5/12/2005
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] – 5/12/2005
Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] – 3/27/2006
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] – 5/12/2005
Sen Martinez, Mel [FL] – 12/14/2005
Sen Obama, Barack [IL] – 12/14/2005
Sen Salazar, Ken [CO] – 5/12/2005
also, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act S.2590
(R) Tom Coburn’s bill, and he himself referred to it as the “Coburn-Obama bill”.
and, lifted from media matters:
“Obama also worked with Republican Sen. Richard Lugar (IN) to produce the “Lugar-Obama proliferation and threat reduction initiative,” which President Bush signed into law on January 11, 2007, and which received funding on June 28 of that year. The initiative, according to Obama’s Senate website, “expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department’s ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction.”
In addition, four of the 12 co-sponsors of Obama’s bill (S.2125) to “promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo” were Republicans: Sam Brownback (KS), Susan Collins (ME), Mike DeWine (OH), and James Inhofe (OK). President Bush signed the bill into law on December 22, 2006.”
KD,
I hear ya…but Congress didn’t have to go along with Bush, so I score it 50/50, they’re all a bunch of asswipes. 🙂 You know, I think future historians can make a comparison to Bush’s Patriot Act, and Lincoln’s Martial Law and suspension of Habeas Corpus…but I think Lincoln will win hands down, for his round up of Americans, a couple of Senators and some of the press…and if I remember correctly, he had some of them executed. Karma dude, he took a bullet in the end. Do you think someone will make Bush play naked pyramid and stand like a X-Mas tree while electrodes are strapped to his nads?
Sayin’ WHAT, exactly?
I’m going to vote for Obama, so I’m not arguing against the candidate.
But this naivete that seems to be surrounding him bothers me. It’s the line of thinking that just because we may elect Barack Obama the 44th President of the US that everything will “magically change”. Obama will definitely give people something to believe in, but I have a seriously hard time in bowing down and worshiping the word “Change” just because it’s Mr. Obama behind the microphone, as opposed to Hillary Clinton, or John McCain, or anyone else like Donald Duck.
I listened to one of his speeches last night on TV, and it was the same old crap you hear from every politician at this level of government.
Don’t get me wrong, I will vote for him. I like him. I just don’t buy into the automatic “It’s Obama, game over – everything’s fine again!”
As America’s credibility goes further down the toilet.
In other questions, Does any other country have to put up with election hype this long?