Is there a way to stop hating long enough to appreciate that Obama is WINNING?

[BrainStorm]

And he is winning because many, many white people are voting for him. If all whites were racist, he's have never made it through the primaries. Guess what? Many, many whites AREN'T racist and are voting for a black president. Isn't that a cause to celebrate? This could never have happened 40 years ago.

The GOP may or may not be voting based on race. Some of them may be voting on that weird ass "Christianity" they espouse and some of them are scared of terra, terra, terra!!

And some of it is race.

But can we celebrate instead of separating with hatred?

[BlooInBloo]

1. Get your head out of the sand and stop marching in lockstep!

ITSAROVIANTRICKWEREALLDOOMED!!!!

[BrainStorm]

17. WTF?

:wtf:

[Cha]

29. No worries..Bloo doesn't

use the :sarcasm: as a matter of course ..but from reading his posts I think he likes your OP.:P

[phleshdef]

24. Careful, I am finding that some posters here need a sarcasm smiley, even when its painfully obvious.

[BrainStorm]

27. Well, how about you enlighten me and tell me what the post means.

Would love to hear your take.

[phleshdef]

31. Bloo is making fun of the "sky is falling" type posts we see around here quite a bit

Basically mocking them

[bluestateguy]

2. I actually think Obama will win a few votes from the racists

Why? So they can pat themselves on the back and tell all of their friends that they are not racist because they voted for Obama.

[BrainStorm]

22. A real racist would just vote for McCain and (if he worried about his image) would lie about it.

Racists will not vote Obama.

[Tigress DEM]

3. If someone is mad at someone for being racist and you aren't being racist..

then TRY not to take the conversation personally.

YOU are right. That *ushit that White Women don't support Obama is another load of crap just like the Obama is going to raise your taxes. PUUULEESE! Spare me.

I've been voting issues from the beginning of the campaign and Obama is closest to the approach Edwards had and he was my first choice.

It isn't anything about race for anyone using the god-given brain cells we were issued at birth and have been supposed to be breaking in for at least 18 years.

[JeffR]

4. If America is smart enough to make this man the next President...

... and America is, and it will... maybe there's hope yet. I'm sick of being from a country that most of the world thinks kinda sux; especially living abroad. It's mortifying. It shames me. Enough.

[Waiting For Everyman]

14. Encouragement to you JeffR.

Don't let it get to you. We didn't get this far by being wrong all the time. We've done a few things right once in a while.

I'm sure you know what I'm going to say, but I will anyway, just to share what I'm thinking...

I can understand that people in other countries must be frustrated. We are too. We're working on it. We have a lot of brainwashed people here who gained power and are "driving the car". We're trying to get back control of it. I realize how much damage the US does around the world at the behest of the corporate behemoths, and I fervently hope that we can put an end to that. People here forget that we bear an awesome responsibility for what our government does around the world (a lot of it unreported or underreported), and I wish more people here would learn to consider the responsibility we have for all that when they vote. We are the ones who can control this country, and we must, b/c of its power - for good, but also for bad. This is no game, as it's taken to be by too many.

But if those in other countries would express opinions more through whatever access they may have (by writing or music or whatever), encouraging people in the RIGHT DIRECTION (pro Obama for instance), then some here might hear that and be influenced by it. That's what it's all about. You never know, it might help.

[Middle finga]

5. Barack has made it farther than any minority in a western country

that has a majority of whites. Even though Europe and Canada seems to be more libral and tolerant, they haven't had a minority in the position that Barack is in. We also celebrate Kings birthday, I can't think of another western nation that has a holiday for a minority. So America has come a long ways. Now what I would like to see is the ultra conservatives drop their resistance to Obama and let History take it's course and it will be good for the nation. Then we could look at the rest of the world and say America has matured and overcame BITCHES!!!!

[BrainStorm]

20. Why does America need to overcome "bitches"? Or is it ok to be sexist?

And don't wait around for the conservatives. It ain't happenin.

[Norrin Radd]

33. You misunderstood the post. Imagine a comma before, "Bitches."

[patomime]

6. Why are you upset?

The "white racist" mantra is the call to the GOP base.

I'm a white woman who supports Obama. I have a brain. A lot of people do, no matter what they're race.

Who is hating, people on DU or reporters spewing venom?

Please advise -- I don't think it's gonna make a difference in this election. Obama has done well - John McCain has not passed the basic temperament test.

Obama is going to win - repeat this to yourself.
Now please don't be upset anymore.

[Binka]

7. The OP Is Kind Of All Over The Place

My hackles are raised.

[patomime]

8. ...OK.... eom

[Binka]

9. So You Joined In 2004 But NOW Come To Play? Sock puppet.

You and the OP are full of rice cakes.

[patomime]

13. What?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. Waiting for Translation.

Only cure for hate is love,
& there aint no cure for love. :*

[BrainStorm]

18. Obama gagne, soyons heureux!

:D

[Essene]

11. Until he's actually won the election, i am NOT celebrating =\

[alphafemale]

12. Wait a minute??....He's BLACK??!!!! Oh...FFFuuu...

:sarcasm:


:rofl:


Yeah. It probably wouldn't have happened forty years ago.
And I guess that IS a good thing.

I guess there ARE still some dinosaurs that see race as a consideration but that is a minority.

And most of them would never vote for a Democrat anyway.

[Waiting For Everyman]

15. ccckkk

:rofl:

Seriously though... If we were drowning, would we care what color the guy who's throwing us a life-preserver, was? Well that's where we're at now. That makes about as much sense.

I'm for enjoying doing well too, OP. Hope it continues.

[specialed]

16. Stop for one second, slip an inch...

and the GOP / Freeper base will still act like Piranha. So no you can't stop.

[BrainStorm]

19. You can't live your life in hate. It's bad for the soul and bad for the country.

I think Obama's very candidacy shatters the racist past. It's something to celebrate.

[Raineyb]

30. I think that's a bit naive

It may ameliorate the future but it does not nullify this country's racist past.

And frankly I'm not too sure about the ameliorate part of my statement.

:shrug:

I shall wait until November before I break out the champagne thank you very much.

Regards

[DevonRex]

21. Huh?

[BrainStorm]

23. There were a bunch of threads talking about white people being racist again

I just think it's time to acknowledge all the white people who are voting for Obama and who are not racist.

[Cosmic Charlie]

25. and he is winning despite Bill's best efforts to push Clinton 2012

Bill isn't going to stop anything except the respect he once received from alot of Democrats.

[BrainStorm]

26. This is not a thread to slam Bill Clinton.

Keep the Clinton bashing to yourself please.

[ClarkUSA]

28. Yup.

And yup.

[seabeyond]

32. yes.... i think it iw wonderfully joyous that he is gonna landslide it and pick up states in south

that even white dems cant pick up. makes me chuckle.

i dont like the focus on the few when the many are doing something huge here that will collectively help heal our hearts of hate. you just wait and see

yes i can celebrate... i do i will

[Viking12]

34. We should be pleased with where we're at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7252890&mesg_id=7252890