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Brendan

Brendan

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According to Bill Hicks won?t it be about now that the captains of US industry have BO sat in a little room, showing him their own private and unreleased film of the Kennedy assassination and posing the question, ?So Mr President, what are your policies going to be then??


Sorry if your clip says something similar Sean but I can't watch it right now.

Sue

Sue

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bignumber5 Wrote:

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> > Sounds corny but never thought I'd see the day...

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xxxxx


Nor me, still can't quite believe it :)


Feels a bit like when the Berlin Wall came down - only different, obviously - or peace in Northern Ireland.


:)-D

bignumber5

bignumber5

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Feels a bit like when the Berlin Wall came down - only different, obviously - or peace in Northern Ireland.



not quite in the same ball-park just yet, but let's wait and see if he follows thru.


Because, as Mrs number5 has just said to me, what it feels a bit like is May 97 when Blair got number 10 - and we all know how that initial bit of hope panned out... Good luck Obama! ;-)

Ted Max

Ted Max

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I've just read Obama's full speech and my eyes appear to be a little moist. Dear oh dear. Must have been incredible to feel part of it if you were watching him in Grant Park last night.


McCain's was nice too.


Re 1997: I don't know, these bastards suck us in every time, don't they? Maybe this guy will be different. 97 was a relief all right but it was somehow more certain. Or maybe that's just with hindsight.


Weird haired dickwad John Bolton was simply not getting it on the BBC coverage last night. It was reminiscent of the Tories after 97. "The Repubs lost because they failed to drive hard enough right". "Palin was a good idea because she connected with the core vote." Tories drove deeper and deeper into the night before realising that mistake, and that elections are won in the middle. Let's hope a good old Republican tear up is in the offing as they repeat that error.

PeckhamRose

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I am SO proud. I know the person responsible for Obama's election. She is a friend of mine in California. She ran the volunteer's office for 6 weeks, and JUSt before the official announcement was made Obama emailed her * with her name at the top of the email "Dear Lynne" even spelt right, and said he "could not have done it without you".


All down to her. Well okay and a few hundred thousand other volunteers. But he spelt her name right. Him. personally. Him. Wow.


*and probably EVERY volunteer's office in the country with the names of everyone at the top of the email but don't ruin my pride here, okay?

mockney piers

mockney piers

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I have to say I wasn't fooled by TB for even a split second, and I don't see BO being anywhere near as bad.

Having said that I'm not going to be naive about this. He needed to capture the centre ground, and has been moving steadily rightwards for a good 18 months, courted the banks and big business in order to fund his campaign.


That said he's espoused multilateralism, has stuck to his guns on eliminating those tax breaks for the super-rich, ain't in hock to any lobby groups, and seems unconcerned with basically being an ingrate or a celebrity, so my outlook remains optimistic; but they do so love to disappoint.

microbite

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Have to say, my eyes were moist, history in the making, although Obama is in fact half white as well, a lot of the tv this morning were all about "America's first black President", he is America's first President of colour and explaining the significance of that to my 9 year old nephew this morning was quite moving, did it alongside the Martin Luther King "I have a dream" explanation.
Jah Lush

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Very pleased that Barack Obama won and the very best of luck to him. He's going to need it. He's got a very tough job on his hands following the incompetence of the last administration. I'm still amazed that the fuckwits in America voted for Bush not once but twice. No more Neo-cons supporting a puppet and sucking up to big business. No more war pigs.

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