I am happy and proud of Obama. This is truely a milestone moment for america. I hope he does a good job fixing america’s problems in the future.
I’d like to congratulate Barrack on his historic win. I hope he leads the country in freedom and economic progress.
Congratulations to Barack Obama, the next President of the United States!!
I’m so happy! 
I am american, so this is HUGE for me. I got to say, I was hoping for Mccain.
Congratulations to Barack Obama for becoming our next current President!
Today is very much so a momentous and joyous and historical and wondrous and fabulous and everything in between day.
Congratulations to Barack Hussein Obama on gaining the US Presidency and to his Vice Presidential running mate, Joe Biden.
Dear USA,
We love you again!
Best Wishes,
The World
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Wow. America is back!
First of all, thanks Al-Bob for posting stuff in real-time. I wasn’t around a computer.
As of now, in the electoral college, Obama is beating McCain more than 2:1 (338 to 141). In popular vote, it’s currently 4 points different (51/47). This in a country that is usually so close, the 2000 election was decided by 537 votes in Flordia. But this time, states that haven’t gone blue (Democratic) in a generation backed Obama. States like Colorado. New Mexico. Flordia. VIRGINIA! Also with big gains in Congress.
Congratulations to President Obama!
And kudos to John McCain… who made a very gracious speech.
Some thoughts on the election…
Unfortunately for liberals, Obama is not anywhere near as liberal as Republicans have made him out to be. He is cautious, and I’ll bet you more than anything, the Democratic base is going to want him to do things that he’s going to resist. He is definitely center-left, but he’s not out in left field. He has history constantly looking over his shoulder, and he’s going to be closer to the center than anywhere else. As someone proud to call himself a liberal, I know I’m not going to get all that I want. As someone who watched the Bush administration purposefully lie us into a war of choice, gut this country’s laws and constitution and turn our Justice Department into their own political hit squad, I would love to see justice finally catch up with those who have done so. But I fear it will not happen. On one level you could say that in order to move forward you need to put the sins of the past behind us. On another level you could say not prosecuting those who broke the law just shows whoever’s in power in the future that they can break our laws and not suffer any consequences. I’ll be willing to bet no one from the Bush administration will ever get to trial.
A few comments:
(1) Huge win for Obama. Large shift away from the Republican party. Forget the rabid Republicans and rabid Democrats. The other 80% of the population who aren’t staunchly one way or the other (many of whom switched to being Republicans with Reagan) have had a chance to see and judge Republican policies over the last 20 years. And they’ve made their choice. This isn’t just an election going to a Democrat (that was Bill Clinton). This is the country going Democratic – with Obama carrying states that haven’t gone blue in 50 years.
(2) Obama’s supporters and those hoping for help, recovery, and a miracle, have put him on a pedestal. Obama is just a man. Smart, intellegent and competent yes, but he’s just a man. There are things over the coming 4 (hopefully eight) years that will disappoint us. It’s always dangerous (with either party) when someone is put on a pedestal, because there’s only one direction to go from that point. Let’s give him and his team a chance and see what he can do. On that subject, I hope Republicans in Congress will give our new President the standard “honeymoon” new Presidents receive for a few months. Especially now with the problems we face. No matter what party the new President has been, there’s always been a “honeymoon” period where the opposition goes easy on the new guy for his first few months before digging in. Let’s see if the tradition continues.
(3) The problems facing this country (and the world) now are enormous. It didn’t matter who was elected, these problems aren’t going to be fixed overnight. I hope those in this country though, will have the foresight to realize that sometimes the things that are the best at helping are often costly at first and you don’t see the results until years later. I have no idea what Obama has planned to get this country back on track again, but I have confidence in his judgement, the people he will surround himself with, and his ability to listen especially to those who disagree with him, unlike our current President, who made it very clear he didn’t want to hear from those who disagreed with him.
(4) With apologies to my Republican friends here on Pixar Planet, I believe the election went the way it did was because for a rare change, Americans were forced to pay attention to real issues for a change. Statistically, there are more Democrats in the US than Republicans, and a majority of voters over the last 10 years have consistently stated they agree with Democrats on issues more than Republicans, but Republicans were getting elected because they managed to distract voters with ideology, smoke, symbols, bluster, and anything else they could. They’ve been very effective at it for a long time – and if the economy hadn’t tanked a month ago, they very well could have been sucessful again. Remember where we were before all this? An entire week was devoted to “lipstick on a pig.” If the election was about “lipstick on a pig”, I’d be willing to bet McCain would have won this time. I honestly believe that. Instead, the economy crashed so hard that “lipstick on a pig” or “he pals around with terrorists” or “he’s a celebrity” just rang hollow. The usual distractions couldn’t work this time. Ironically, if Obama and his team ARE able to fix the economy and things in 4 years somehow get “back to normal”, then Republicans have a chance to bring back their old playbook. What’s funny is that there are a few Republicans (like Geroge Will) who I always disagree with, but totally, absolutely respect. Because they’ll cut through the BS and argue their case on actual issues that matter. I usually disagree, but at least it’s about real stuff they’re trying to convince me of. What really irks me though, has been seeing the way the Republican Party has managed to get their candidates elected over the past 20 years – by knowing they lose on the issues, and sucessfully managing to distract voters with everything else under the sun. If Obama DOES manage to fix the economy, four years from now will we find ourselves in the same old ritual again? With Americans driving 10mpg SUVs, and worrying about “mascara on a chicken” or whatever it’ll be in 2012? Let’s face it, folks. We have a terribly short attention span and have never historically cared about real issues. Only when we get our pink slips, have our house foreclosed, and see our retirement savings evaporate do we really say “whoa… maybe I should actually take a second away from Dancing with the Stars and look at what’s going on.” But as soon as things fix itself, I have no doubt we’ll be back to doing the same old things. I hope I’m proved wrong.
(5) To the rest of the world: we’re back to the America the world has known and loved. Sorry for all the dark days the last eight years. What can I say? We’re back. Thanks for all the fish.
OMG! I was just informed by my bro while I was playing McCain vs Obama boxing games on Miniclips.
This is incredible! The first black President in the White House!
Congrats Mr Barrack! America has come a long way, and the future’s only gonna get better!
Anybody spare some change? 
I’ve been up all night to see the results, and when at 5 a.m. it was official that Obama had won, I had tears of joy in my eyes.
Words can’t describe how good this feels.
Today, America can be proud of itself. It just showed to the world that the American dream is still alive.
Congratulations to Barack Obama
Yep, Congrats Mr. Barrack !
I’m not sure, but I hope Obama will make a good president. At least I’m sure that I never ever wanted to see McCain become president!
I’m really, really pleased that Barack Obama will be the next President of the USA. I don’t know much about politics, but it seems that he has got what it takes to move America into a new era of positive change. So, congratulations to Mr. Obama! Bet he’s looking forward to moving into the White House in a couple of months.
The only slightly disappointing thing was something I heard on the news about Proposition 8, something to do with gay marriages being banned in California now. Was this part of the voting that was done all together? Sort of ironic how, on the one hand, there’s a new coloured President, demonstrating how equal rights for everyone is becoming more of a reality, but on the other hand, something like that happens.
Yes Prop 8 was passed as I believe it was all on the same ballot or something like that, just like senators were being voted in and out at the same time.
Although it is ironic, Barack Obama did mention in his speech about gays so hopefully we have progress there in gay rights and removing marriage in the religious sense from the law and having the law only recognize a civil union between two people, and let local priests, ministers etc. perform “marriages”.
no, last election £35m was spent, and we do have party polictical broadcasts.
There’s a diffrence the color of your skin is something your’e born with and it’s not morally gross,gay marrage is.But I still think all people should be treated equal.But gay marrage isn’t a matter of equality, it’s a matter of morality.
HOORAH!!!
When I went into Drama practice today, they were plaing ‘If I ruled the World’ and everyone was cheering & celebrating, & I was happy as could be!!!
OBAMA WON, Y’ALL!!!
(sorry 4 all the !s, but I’m super-happy right now!!!)
Well, congrats. Hopefully he’ll listen to others around him and make good decisions.
What I’m mostly worried about is 1. Spreading the wealth and 2. pulling out of Iraq. Though they may patch things up for a bit, I’m convinced they will have very negative long term affects.
Still, it may be nice to have some new ideas.
Man, I can’t believe after all of the debating, it’s finally over. It’s funny, I was so emotionally, I dunno, dedicated to this election that I feel like I’m the one who lost it. Isn’t that weird? I really wanted to see Palin in the white house. Oh well, maybe in four years.
Whats weirdest for me is the fact I was so young when Bush was elected, I barley remember what it’s like to not have him as President. I’m gonna miss that accent 
lol. But really, it’s going to be weird hearing Mr.President and not see him.
Hah, yeah. I think he was the easiest president to make fun of. I mean, in every stand up show I’ve seen, there’s at least a couple jokes devoted to him.
And TS2, it’s funny that you mention that because over here, someone was running around the campus holding a boom box playing “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” by REM!
LightningandSally- Well, I’d argue that in both cases, you’re born with it, but that’s for another thread.
That’s a good point, Rac_Rules. People of our sort of age are so used to certain people being in power, that it’s weird when it changes. I can definitely see myself making some Freudian slips and accidentally calling George Bush President.
That’s another thing- what happens to George Bush now? Does he retain some sort of power? Or does he just live the rest of his life out in peace?