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- creez0
obama is a good man
- tasty0
there were 2 point in his speech last night that made me feel moved.
1) when he spoke about Ann-Nixon Cooper, the woman who had seen the country meet so many milestones with her own two eyes from 1 generation past slavery to the election of a man who is mixed.
It shows we have progressed as a nation - beyond color and are reaching toward improvement with the candidate that the majority of America believed in.
2) (and this excerpt) Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House - a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, We are not enemies, but friends...though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn - I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.
- I was moved by the whole thing.hallelujah
- not surprisingly, I wepthallelujah
- CALLES0
BREAKING NEWS!
I HEard Oliver Stone Is Already Working On The Script For His Next Movie
B.O.
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- _salisae_0
when i was beginning my middle school years my family's residence was such that we were situated just across the school district line from my friends. i heard story after frightening story about the mostly black school i was scheduled to attend. i was so worried i made my mom lie about my address and drive me to a bus stop near my dad's work that shuttled me to the 'white' school.
my plan went well except i forgot to memorize the falsified address and when the teacher passed around a card for us to write down our info i got so nervous i wrote a probably very strange address. i was called to the dean's office where they asked me plainly .. 'what is your address?'. my bottom lip started to shake and i just broke down in tears.
i had been in the middle of a math test but they went ahead and shipped me off to the other school that very day.
i thought i'd be locked up in a locker by crazy rednecks. intimidated by blacks, etc etc. but what i actually found was that these people knew how to have a good time. they didn't look me up and down to determine how much my parents had spent on my clothes .. they had no concern for that kind of status whatsoever and i was able to just be myself. which, at that age was a tremendous gift.
when i see black people, who have been subjected to being treated as sub-humans rejoicing for obama's win it makes me cry from a very deep place in my heart.
- Helluva story, salisae. :)
Truth will always bubble to the top.harlequino
- Helluva story, salisae. :)
- tasty0
There was a family in my 99.9% white town who lived next to a vacant house - in 1998 when a african american family was planning on purchasing it and the news leaked they bought it out from under them...
Also the middle school faced the start of Amityville (a mixed neighborhood...there is rumor that the border between amityville and massapequa was pushed to keep black families out of our school district.
My neighborhood was fucked up. Massapequa, NY (long island). A bunch of white kids who glorify the "hip hop lifestyle" and then are afraid to cross a town border because there are black kids in it.
- Llyod0
We'll still be in iraq for the next 50 years
- gramme0
Change is coming, that's for sure. But will it be out of the frying pan into the fire? Only time will tell. I for one am rather nauseated by the repeated mantra of change without hearing much about specific ways that things will supposedly change. I'm all for change, I'd just rather hear something a bit more concrete and less ideological.
I find it alarming that such a huge number of Americans believe Obama (or any other president for that matter) can have a substantial effect on our economy. I think politicians have very little power in that regard. The stock market does what it does for a variety of reasons. The biggest economic factor seems to be businesses, and in particular the people that run them. The effect politicians have on our local and global economies is relatively miniscule.
- Bingo on paragraph #1.404NotFound
- So does declaring war on other countries and deficit spending factor into you assessment?Mimio
- I was thinking more about the proactive things presidents do for the economy, rather than the ways they unintentionally damage it.gramme
- damage it. I should have made that clear in my post.gramme
- Unintended consequences are the hobgoblin of small minds. Ask Bush.Mimio
- Of course. Know that I share your disdain for Bush, except on the subject of abortion.gramme
- gramme and i have a very similar perspective :)sputnik2
- rafalski0
Since many QBNers (if not most) work in advertising, it might be a good time to congratulate whomever run this campaign.
It was absolutely brilliant propaganda. A proper logo. The choice and timing of changing taglines (did I say CHANGING? see?). Getting influential artists to produce posters (and blog about it). The brand is so strong, people have to be aware of it when choosing Gotham a.k.a. "the Obama font", he owns it now.
It was amazing how his middle name was smoothly avoided in the campaign - you won't even learn it from the bio on his website!Just so that it would be clear - I don't believe in Obama's proposed policies and his actions so far seem to confirm my worries (take his support for the Paulson scam). If I voted for him, it would be on a "lesser evil" principle.
Having said that I'm amazed with how this winning seems to have raised American spirit, at least from what I can see from here online.
It shouldn't be underestimated what it has suddenly done for the US worldwide, public relations - wise either.
Americans are no longer the baddies and I bet they're getting welcome back drinks in pubs around the world. That is probably good..
- gramme0
I still love Gotham in spite of Obama.
- I still like you in spite of some of your opinionshallelujah
- same to you sir :)gramme
- I also share your constant love of this typeface. I am still floored by its rhythm and poise, it's powerful yetmikotondria3
- effortless command of the space around it, and they way it gets away with that quirky x-height. Perfect for Obama.mikotondria3
- and be condemned who say it is just Avenir with the ascender trimmed down!rafalski
- What unreconstructed whelp of a whore said that?gramme
- ukit0
Despite Obama, I'm starting to get a bit sick of it.
- mikotondria30
Honestly, Im so proud of them all.
As a foreign national living here I oftentimes shake my head in disbelief at things like my neighbors who have 2 hummers, of the constant presence of Ranch Dressing and syrup near food and domestic beers, but I'm seriously delighted that in a country where this man couldn't sit at the front of the bus 2 generations ago can now embody the dream that seemed for so long to be a cruel hoax, now reclaimed.
Even if he is technically a useless president, the popularity of his victory and what it represents is something that cannot ever now be lost. As Oblermann stuttered last night - politically, this is man-on-the-moon stuff, and it really is, and I feel like I'm watching it from the kennedy space center, wearing a thin tie.
- studderine0
my gf works for a screen printer and one of the designers there made a run of 200 shirts to go and sell at grant park. obama with the ziggy stardust lighting bolt w/ changes as the text. i got me a free shirt!
- gramme0
I agree miko, it's a beautiful thing for black people and our nation as a whole, to be able to see past color. Even if I think many of Obama's policies are bunk.
- redant0
Political thread?
- someone was smoking in there, and I've got my kid with me.mikotondria3
- Jimbo820
This thread was started to talk about how Obama is portrayed as a black man by the media, himself and his team when really he is mixed race. And why that is so.
- gramme0
The blinding optimism and CHANGE motto have an eerily Bolshevik-esque tone to me. The Fairey posters didn't help in that regard; though well-illustrated and designed they smack of Eastern European socialism to me, at least on a gut level.
- gramme0
Don't tell anyone in my church that the Gotham was my choice for their secondary typeface. The primary one is Mercury. Like peas and carrots.
- redant0
He is half white and half Kenyan. I don't think he had a typical American Black upbringing but he looks the part and this brings hope to alot of Black Americans. Which is a great thing.