Comments | liberalrage: Barack Obama is the new President!

bailunrui in liberalrage

Barack Obama is the new President!

Nov 04, 2008 23:17

Around 11:00pm, it was called.

BARACK OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT!!

OPEN CELEBRATORY THREAD!

ETA (11:51pm ET):: I'm going to bed, but feel free to squee in my absence.

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Comments 43

patrickdean November 5 2008, 04:46:05 UTC

I sobbed a little bit when they called it an hour ago. I couldn't help it. Red states going blue, right pundits throwing their hands up in defeat, footage of Obama crowds going apeshit crazy...

It just feels like the good guys won this time.

thisficklemob November 5 2008, 05:55:58 UTC

I sobbed a little during Obama's speech.

bloodypoetry November 5 2008, 04:53:09 UTC

OMG I didn't believe it until I turned on the news and watch McCain's concession speech. He did an awesome job on that speech, and a commend the man.

But OMG! I am so overjoyed! WE WON!

thisficklemob November 5 2008, 05:55:33 UTC

I know. It's hard to process. I kept being hesitant. And it was a gracious speech on his part, though some of it rang hollow after the campaign he chose to run. But, if he follows it going forward, then good for him.

I'm still in shock.

jennifer19 November 5 2008, 05:35:49 UTC

*runs around like crazy person* AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

SO EXCITED!!!!!!

thisficklemob November 5 2008, 05:56:16 UTC

My throat hurts I screamed so much.

thisficklemob November 5 2008, 05:44:54 UTC

FUCK YEAH!

Best line of the night at the party: "I can get married, smoke a joint, and have a black president. I'm done."

(We had a ballot question to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.)

Giddy rambling... moondustwolf November 5 2008, 05:45:35 UTC

God, YES. After spending part of the day at a sort-of Obama headquarters on campus that was giving away stuff, and then driving around our city putting doorhangers telling people where to vote, we went to the local UAW, where a major Democratic party was. We got there after he won Pennsylvania, I think, because the first real screaming we heard was for Ohio. And then it died down for quite a while. We had a whole ton of local candidates; most of them won, but there were just smatterings of applause.
But then just about 11 o clock. The people at the tv behind us saw Virginia first. So we all went over there, screaming. And then Flordia, and then there it was: Obama elected. The screaming was like nothing I've ever heard. We were jumping, hugging, running around like mad. I've never felt like this. Never. I turned 18 three weeks too late to vote against Bush's second term. This night finally made up for that.
YES WE DID.

Re: Giddy rambling... thisficklemob November 5 2008, 06:00:51 UTC

The campaign party I was at, the place played "Another One Bites the Dust" when it was called. And we spent one commercial chanting drumming to O-BA-MA.