As A White Male, I'm BEAMING With Happiness Tonight

[matcom]

but I'm not holding my breath. I am a cynic and do NOT believe this country will elect a black man come November.

I hope to HELL I am wrong. I hope to HELL.

BUT..

Tonight, I may cry a few VERY happy tears.

PEACE

[NightWatcher]

1. Get your ass out in the streets and get out the vote. Make it happen

this honky's gonna do it

[stillcool]

23. I agree. Make it happen.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.--Bob Dylan

[flor de jasmim]

2. yes we can!

[IndyOp]

3. Yep - what NightWatcher said - whenever you start to make predictions

about what the country will or won't do, GET OUT IN THE STREETS and register voters and GOTV and...

Peace.

:hi:

[Cant trust em]

9. Voter registration is going to be my thing.

Obama aside, I don't usually get that excited about a particular candidate. I'm going to make voter registration the focal point of my activism.

[IndyOp]

21. Me too - registering voters - and working in my local Voter Registration Office -

I've discovered that my county -- along with virtually all other counties - is overloaded and then some from the increased registrations so I've been volunteering in the office. I alphabetize voter reg forms and file them and update addresses on the cards - not so exciting but hopefully helpful so that the staff can keep loading in the new registrations.

:hi:

[Cant trust em]

24. I live in a big city, so political participation here is strange

I feel like doing yeoman's work is best for me since there are so many voices. I'm fine with being an indian to everyone else's chief.

[snappyturtle]

4. I think you're wrong.....GObama! n/t

[Gore1FL]

5. I was considering Jim Beaming with happiness tonight

but I went with sparkling wine instead.

[Aloha Spirit]

14. lol...make sure you choose something that pairs nicely with victory.

[Coexist]

6. a friend of mine made me cry about a month ago,

he said "I thought Obama was great and inspiring, but I didn't figure he'd go far. Then I saw, I mean it was amazing, all these WHITE PEOPLE voting for a black man. It really gave me hope, that he really had a chance, and it inspired me to donate and volunteer. I never thought I'd see the day so many white people would be cheering at an Obama rally like that."

(I'm white, he's black, btw... that may provide a little context)

It makes me so proud that all the kids in this country are changing our world! Look what they've done! Look what WE'VE done!

[Pale Blue Dot]

7. I plan to write on my board tomorrow, in big block letters,

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAJOR PARTY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. My Hartford students are going to eat this up.... :woohoo:

[LSparkle]

8. Have faith -- younger voters are the key

They see the world as the "United Colors of Benetton" -- not in
racial terms as many older people do. I remember the '60s -- I
remember losing Bobby and Martin and Malcolm and so many dreams
of REAL change coming to this country -- but I'm placing my
hopes on the younger people who may FINALLY get it right this
time ...

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

40. You are so right: "Have faith -- younger voters are the key "

I see it in the younger voters too; even the nieces and nephews of my very conservative in-laws. I am so hopeful for the younger generation and their dreams. I too think they may get it right.

[knixphan]

10. accept a hug from a brotha!

:hug:

Yes we f'ing can!

Register all your lazy unregistered friends! It's on!

[uppityperson]

11. As a middle aged white female, I am also.

And I agree with the rest of your post also. I hope to HELL we do.

[LaurenG]

12. Keep the faith Matcom

he's going to win. It's a good night for right now though, a really good night.

[Gato Moteado]

13. it's not the country i'm worried about as much as the chicanery and the rigged machinery....

...remember, the country elected al gore 8 years ago....but the voting machines and the feloniuos five over-ruled the will of the voters.

it will come down to this....OH or FL. i think obama can win all the states gore or kerry did. he'll need one of those two big states to put him over the top. OH or FL. pick one. that's all he needs.

[Catherina]

15. Believe

Ichingcarpenter posted this photo. It's perfect for today. Just believe.

[Coexist]

18. stop with the emotional stuff... I'm already a mess!

[Catherina]

38. Ok.

Imagine then ;)

:hug:

[Coexist]

42. that photo was so amazing.

::sigh:: this is really happening!

[Catherina]

43. If I pinch you, will you pinch me?

It still hasn't sunk in!

[BeatleBoot]

16. From One Cynic to Another

I agree.

I hope I am wrong, too.

But I agree.

And there is a fine line between Cynic and Realist.

Never confuse the two.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

17. We should put signs in our yards...

"Come in, have a cup of coffee, and let's talk about Obama."

Maybe in a perfect world, but I may try this.

[Doityourself]

19. ...I'm gonna get to cry before tonight.. here ya go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SIaixH2ccU

[TahitiNut]

20. Yes we can.

:patriot:

[NatBurner]

22. man, my cynicism is hard-earned and well-deserved

i think he can do it tho

i've embraced the motto: not this time

[FrenchieCat]

25. I disagree strongly with you.......Obama is twice the person that McCain is.....

and at the end of the day, you are only talking about Melanin. That is not a reason to elect or not to elect a leader.

The world will laugh at us if we are incapabable of getting past melanin.

[matcom]

28. Hope you are right

but Obama is now running against BOTH McCain's AND Clinton's Machines

:scared:

[malaise]

26. This is really an historic event

No one could have convinced me that Obama would have have this nomination six months ago.

[niceypoo]

27. Obama supporters are still attacking Hillary and her supporters

So, when does the hate end, or does it? Most likely when the Admins start banning people, I suppose, as happened when Kerry won the nomination. All people who continued the negativity got banned. I cannot wait, this whole board has degenerated into a shithole.

[NatBurner]

31. namaste

[EFerrari]

32. We'll put you on the "I'm not beaming" list. n/t

[Coexist]

35. Good catch!

I had them listed as a 'beamer'.

[matcom]

33. yeah, I'm full of HATE in my post

:eyes:

with your post, I hope YOU are first on the list

[uppityperson]

34. "this whole board"? have you checked out any of the other forums or groups?

There are lots of places that aren't shitholes on DU.

[KAZ]

41. Oh STFU already. You're spamming evey thread with this.

Shit stirrer.

[RaleighNCDUer]

44. When she concedes and her supporters stop acting like trolls.

Obama supports just keep on keeping on. It's the Clinton supporters that have to move.

[slinkerwink]

29. that's why we have to work hard to overcome our fears with the hope it can happen

[VolcanoJen]

30. It's been a beautiful day, it's shaping up to be an historic night...

... and I am quite overwhelmed and emotional over it.

We have much to be proud of. And matcom... you're wrong about November. :-)

[Bolo Boffin]

36. Yes, we can.

From one very happy white male to another one -- yes, we can.

I've been choking up myself all day.

America has needed a rebrand in the worst possible way. There are many reasons to vote for Barack Obama. He will be capable and exciting as a leader. He will bring a new energy to Washington. He will make a few mistakes. He will learn from them. He will have the material and opportunity to become one of our nation's greatest presidents.

But side by side with all of this is that we will show the world another marvelous thing about America -- we can go back to what this country is all about. A bunch of white men realized that the revolution they fought against their oppressor would be fought against them one day. So they built revolution into this country's being. Government derives its authority from the consent of the governed. And the governed include us all -- white, black, yellow, red; male, female; old, young.

America is the kind of place that seven years after 9/11 and five years after the invasion of Iraq, we are seriously contemplating and, I think, shall elect a man named Barack Hussein Obama to be our President. We have in the first years of this new millennium demonstrated our weakness, our might, and now, at last our true character steps forward.

And let's face it. If Barack could wrestle the nomination away from the brilliant and phenomenal Hillary Clinton, he's going to have no trouble with Mr. Magoo in November.

[GoesTo11]

37. This country is full of surprises.

Elected a wastrel, twice, after all.

[AtomicKitten]

39. Finally we can look at the magnitude of this win and appreciate it.

Barack's campaign so far has been breathtaking.

We are pivoting to the general election, and I'm beyond verklempt. I am so glad and amazed the Democrats had the good sense to nominate this guy.

Hey Democrats. We're nominating the first African-American President of the United States of America. We are going to change the world.

:patriot:

:party:

[Blue_Roses]

45. let's look back a five months ago...

Hillary Clinton was expected to be the nominee. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!:D

One step at a time. One step at a time...

[union_maid]

46. As an aging white female

I couldn't be happier. And I'm truly proud of my country for the first time in a long, long time. No matter what happens with the GE this is history.

[Historic NY]

47. Hey I don't care if he is purple as long as he does the job.........

when people start that black crap, I remind him that he is half white, its stops them in their tracks. I also remind them the CW ended in April 1865.

[msallied]

48. The hell we won't elect a black man. It's called progress, and it's for real.

[kenny blankenship]

49. I had that thought early on, but then some things happened in this country I didn't expect

and I realized that I am not infrequently full of shit.