Obama!
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- 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.
- creative-0
I'm mixed race. More people have labeled me black than have labeled me mixed. No-one has ever labeled me white. I see myself as mixed as to say I am black effectively disregards a hugely important part of my heritage. This should also apply to Barack and Lewis etc.
- blacktino?robotron3k
- thats exactly what i was trying to say above
tedismyfav
- 7point340
arguing politics with JazX seems to equal beating your head against concrete.
pointless, and at the end of the day you'll have a splitting headache.
- mimeartist_com0
I wish it wasn't so focussed on what colour he is or isn't... as zaq said, he seems like a bloke who wants to get it right for the people, rather than an ego trip, help out his mates, or that he doesn't really need to work, so he thought he'd go for presidency
- janne760
^ meaning there can't be any vespa's in those states.. well not born before 1967. ;)
- JazX0
You're all still very cranky about Bush, it does seem so, dudn't it? Oh and the fact that there's a helluva lot of people who could give a rat's @ss about BO.
- But more people who could give a rats ass about McCain right?tommyo
- still a minority, LOSER!!
*points and laughsjanne76 - HAHAHA HAHA PUH JAZX IS THE LOSER WAAWAAHHHjanne76
- 'clink!janne76
- Not many, population wise, actually.JazX
- janne, you just wish you had a vote and couldn't. stick to socialistic Europe and you're liberal fiefdomsJazX
- how's the large Muslim population treating you guys in the NE?JazX
- yeah, I thought so... anytime it's personal skinny janne runs away and hides in a tulip fieldJazX
- vespa0
i'm mixed race. white people call me asian and asian people call me white! ah well. everyone will look like me one day!
- that wouldn't be a bad thing ;Dkelpie
- yay!vespa
- agreed.janne76
- +1 :Pkezza_2
- plus several million.paraselene
- NT'rs call you vespa!!!e-pill
- And some of us just call you Australianthebottlerocket
- Could be worse, Vespa - you could be a ginger - we're pretty much universally reviled/feared by all races.Nairn
- aw youse guys... *sniff*vespa
- i used to get loads of racist names growing up in australia bottlerocket!vespa
- Revered not reviled nairn!vespa
- that would be hothallelujah
- Tell me who said those things and I will go round and beat them up for you.thebottlerocket
- aw fanks bottlerocket. don't worry i beat them up myself...vespa
- anxiousarms0
well, they have to give a rat's ass now.
- not at allJazX
- *scrambles to find an extra rat's ass to give away7point34
- sore loser. you do your party a disservice sir. all your ranting just pushed the rest of us to want you beaten, and we won.anxiousarms
- The only thing that is sore is this thread as in open sore.JazX
- good come back. http://www.qbn.com/t…anxiousarms
- and what the f*ck does that mean exactly? sh*t comebackJazX
- i think you know.anxiousarms
- Uhmm.. you probably stumbled on this site 4 years after meJazX
- congrats, you know about websites. you're awesome.anxiousarms
- hahahahaDrBombay
- no, it's just you don't know me, so don't f*cking judge meJazX
- i didn't judge you. i disagreed with you and you most obviously have a problem with anyone who does so.anxiousarms
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- mg330
Here's the thing:
If a president can assist in putting us in the proverbial shitter in less than 8 years, then it's within Obama's ability to use the next 4, and God willing, 8 years to reverse this. Even greater though, is the ability to do so in a way that will change things for decades to come.
It will not happen overnight. We didn't fall this far overnight. But the hope and inspiration and togetherness that President Obama will bring is something for the common man, something that we can all rally behind and join in. I will be smiling because of that for a long time.
It's interesting to think... here's a president who's not financially wealthy, who has one house, who doesn't have a vacation house, who feels as close to many of us as we may ever have someone feel. We're getting a president who absolutely understands and relates to the common man and isn't motivated by wealth and personal achievement. A selfless person. Clinton, while a great president, can't even lay claim to that.
The world is rejoicing because we have elected a remarkable and real person to be our president. What a day this is.
- Sorry mg33, I think you're giving the Bush too much credit here. This mess started 16 years ago. And it will need to betommyo
- fixed in Congress, not the presidency. Here's to crossing some fingers and hoping these politicians figure it out.tommyo
- yeh, fuck clinton waggling his cock about and being a smarmy bastard, I can't stand him, or his wife. Fuck them.mikotondria3
- you are right, two words
" Executive Order"BattleAxe
- kelpie0
this notion that governments cannot make policy to improve an economic system is only a very sad piece of evidence that a lot of the rubbish spouted by Bush and his crew has sunk in and become gospel when really its just ideology. Good stewardship will see the situation improve, after all its a lack of government in these things that's allowed it to go to hell.
- Matter of ideology here but imo, It's actually too much government that's allowed it to go to hell.tommyo
- haha tomato/tomato :)
regulation doesn't mean communism is all I'm sayingkelpie - No you're right it doesnt. But there is good regulation and bad regulation you know? We've just got WAY too muchtommyo
- bureaucracy involved in many of our gov programs. Tons of waste that we all pay for daily.tommyo
- Llyod0
We'll still be in iraq for the next 50 years
- skt0
was there an election or something? must have missed it.
- yeah some skinny cunt with a nice logo got in or somethingkelpie
- actually, it was pretty mental being in the states as it happened. the girlfriend cried when he made his speach.skt
- I was chatting to a pal of mine who moved over about 10 years ago the other day, he was blown away by the whole thingkelpie
- it was like watching a football final in the bar, with all the cheering and singing.skt
- and there was a boy in a hoops top sitting at the bar too.skt
- there's always at least one of them, no matter where you are in the worldkelpie
- this is true, it's when you see a dons top that you really freak out.skt
- ukit0
I hope that Obama uses the grassroots, web-based networking he has built through his campaign to help him govern. If so, that could be a major break with previous governments.
- I really wish these campaigns would move more to the web and cost a lot less to run. A lot of the candidates did really welltommyo
- with the use of web. They produced commercials literally on the fly. Was pretty interesting.tommyo
- you mean, like taking a web survey to see where people stand on what he should do? truly by the people... :)mg33
- spent less!?! yeah like the 30 minute infomercial, get the f*ck out of hereJazX
- something like this http://www.govit.com…BattleAxe
- 7point340
i never got the impression that he was running for the title of "first black president" unlike clinton who gave me the impression everyday that she was running for "first woman president"
the right candidate won.
good on him.
- 7point340
vespa,
i have a friend who has/had that problem too. it really bothered him because he felt he didn't fit in anywhere. he was obviously asian, and that hertitage was incredibly important to him, but a lot of his asian friends said he looked white.
- 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