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sorry i'll stop now-- i just hadnt posted to this thread in like 29 hours

guys every time i hear someone on the news say "President Elect Barack Obama" i cant help smiling ear to ear

ha, exactly. the guardian e-mail roundup today began with the words "America's next president,
Barack Obama" and i punched the air. it's still such a fucking joy to see.

BARACK.

OBAMA.

"list of names that probably belong to people i do not want to fuck with"

i haven't personally admired and felt proud of a president in my entire life until now - my dad says the last time he felt this way was with jfk

I would like the proper internet so I can look for flights from pittsburgh to dc for innauguration day. I'd like to be there and I have my schedules and I have that afternoon free possibly the whole day if I fail to get onto this hard to get onto course.

Headline from one of the german papers:

'Yes We Can Freunde Sein'

my mom said the same thing tracer

guys every time i hear someone on the news say "President Elect Barack Obama" i cant help smiling ear to ear

― ♪☺♫☻ USA (gr8080), Thursday, November 6, 2008 10:59 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^

^

and quite often i cry a little bit as well from joy.

barack obama.

What happens now?
How long before we actually see him on the steps of the WH?
And what will the CIA be telling BO in the meeting he's having with them (that's got to be a meeting worth bing in on, right?).

being

do you mean when is he officially sworn in or when can we expect a sitdown with bush??

And what will the CIA be telling BO in the meeting he's having with them (that's got to be a meeting worth bing in on, right?).

also the US pres and vice pres get CIA intelligence briefings every
morning until they leave office. today was the first day oabama and biden got them. nothing really special except that its the first of about 1,400.

bush kept his intelligence briefings as brief as possible amirite

A common satire, but I like to think that the cia used sock puppets from behind the oval office sofa for bush's briefings.

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someone should make a mock daily intelligence briefing app for iphone

I'm pretty sure that, some time after several drinks last night, I uttered the words "I feel magical".

― d-_-b (The Reverend), Thursday, November 6, 2008 3:58 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

XD

BARAK OBAMA IN YR FACE !

do you mean when is he officially sworn in or when can we expect a sitdown with bush??

Yes, the second bit. I want to see him with the WH in the background. I can;t wait till January.

I'm a bit dissappointed about the CIA briefing bit. I thought this was when they hand over the files on aliens and who killed Kennedy. That's the only reason for becoming President surely?

HE KNOWS LINCOLN'S TREASURE NOWWWW

(IT'S 200-YEAR-OLD HOOCH)

President Barack Obama

what a bro president elect

What is the order of play for an innauguration?

More McCain/Palin laundry airing -- nothing much new, but an odd detail:

Advisers in the McCain campaign, in suggesting that Palin advisers had been leaking damaging information about the McCain campaign to the news media, said they were particularly suspicious of Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s top foreign policy aide who had a central role in preparing Ms. Palin for the vice-presidential debate.

As a result, two senior members of the McCain campaign said on Wednesday that Mr. Scheunemann had been fired from the campaign in its final days. But Rick Davis, the McCain campaign manager, and Mr. Salter, one of Mr. McCain’s closest advisers, said Wednesday that Mr. Scheunemann had in fact not been dismissed. Mr. Scheunemann, who picked up the phone in his office at McCain campaign headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, responded that “anybody who says I was fired is either lying or delusional or a whack job.”

Mr. Scheunemann was referring to widely disseminated criticism by Mr. McCain’s advisers in the final days of the campaign that Ms. Palin, as first reported in Politico, was a “whack job.”

Whatever the permutations, the advisers said they strongly believed that Mr. Scheunemann was disclosing, as one put it, “a constant stream of poison” to William Kristol, the editor of the conservative Weekly Standard and a columnist for The New York Times.

Mr. Kristol, who wrote a column on Oct. 13 calling on Mr. McCain to fire his campaign because it was “close to being out-and-out dysfunctional,” said in a telephone interview on Wednesday that the campaign advisers were paranoid. Mr. Kristol has been a strong supporter of Ms. Palin.

“I wasn’t writing poison,” Mr. Kristol said. He added: “Randy Scheunemann is a friend of mine and I think he did a good job. I talked to him, but I talked to a lot of people at the campaign.”

“I wasn’t writing poison,” Mr. Kristol said

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

William Kristol's sweet nectar.

(IIRC his contract with the NYT is up in two months and he's being replaced by Bono.)

I just want to reiterate this:

SUCK ON SOME SHIT YOU BITCHASS 700 CLUB MOTHER FUCKERS
WE JUST ELECTED A BLACK DUDE FROM SPACE
GET TO THE CHOPPA

― El Tomboto

best haiku ever

U2's Bono is the latest columnist to be hired by New York's esteemed newspaper. Editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal announced the decision at Columbia's School of Journalism this week, saying that the former Nobel Peace Prize nominee will pen between six and 10 articles over the course of 2009.

^^^ this is not the kind of change we need

maybe he'll write about the hot chicks from the pic on would smash

Totally ridic but cool in its implication that Kristol's column belongs to some "amateur hour" Op-Ed category.

this obama just won cause the economy tanked lookit what the polls did when lehman went under meme is stupid - havent any of u fuckrs heard of a convention bounce

holy shit

http://i38.tinypic.com/2hwg2o2.jpg

How long is it cool to leave yard signs up? I'm thinking inauguration day. Guy across the street took his down already. Maybe he just put it up in response to peer pressure.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California voters are green-lighting the nation's most ambitious high-speed rail system, approving a nearly $10 billion bond to put speeding bullet trains capable of topping 200 mph between the state's major metropolitan areas. The measure, which passed with 52 percent support Tuesday, will fund the first phase of what is projected to be a $45 billion, 800-mile project built with state, federal, local and private money.

sweet :)

Meanwhile, it begins:

Transition efforts are also underway in the other most pressing arenas -- national security and foreign policy -- that Obama will soon control. The Pentagon has begun a robust political transition effort, seeking to minimize disruptions during the first wartime presidential turnover in 40 years, senior Pentagon officials said.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates met with the senior Pentagon leadership and "charged everyone to make sure we don't drop the baton, and to be as collaborative and helpful as possible," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

Pentagon officials have cleared office space with computers and phones for dozens of Obama transition team members, anticipating that as many as 50 aides will soon arrive and, in the words of one officer, "occupy the building."

Gates conducted an inventory of the roughly 250 political appointees at the Pentagon to see who would be willing to stay in their jobs if asked.

The Bush foreign policy team also moved quickly to try to ensure Obama a smooth transition. In a letter to CIA employees, Director Michael V. Hayden wrote that the agency has "two sets of consumers" -- the Bush administration and Obama.

"Through expanded access, greater than what he had in his briefings as a candidate or as a Senator, he will see the full range of capabilities we deploy for the United States," Hayden wrote to his staff. Those briefings will begin today when Obama receives a briefing from Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell.

McConnell said the president-elect's advisers probably will set up a temporary office at the DNI's headquarters. "We are prepared to brief the team on the [intelligence community's] capabilities as well as on significant intelligence issues," he said in a note sent late Tuesday to employees.

After eight years of having Republicans call me an un-American troop-hating fag-loving socialist, after months of John McCain embracing the hate to a level where his own supporters were calling out for Barack Obama to be assassinated, no one is going to be permitted to tell me with a straight face that "oh you know, both sides do it."

Your side was abominable. Your side was hateful. Your side race-baited. Your side gay-baited. Your side lied like we've never seen in recent presidential campaign history. Your side used a tax-cheat who would do better under Obama's tax proposal to be your everyman on the issue of taxes. Your side, in a veiled effort at race-baiting, said Obama doesn't put his country first. Your side had the audacity to call Obama a socialist. Your side suggested he was a Muslim. Your side suggested he was a terrorist. Your side suggested he was Osama bin Laden.

Spare me the crap about how both sides do it. You people are a disgrace, you've been a disgrace for eight long years, and all your hate and lying and venom and vitriol finally bit you in your collective fat ass.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/11/magnanimity-is-nice-but-lets-not-forget.html

http://i38.tinypic.com/2e6fr7c.jpg

I'm reading through the so-far-pretty-awesome Newsweek "How He Did It" thing, now up to Chapter 3, which begins with this:

In the days after his wife's back- from-the-brink victory in New Hampshire, Bill Clinton was full of righteous indignation. The former president had amassed an 81-page list of all the unfair and nasty things the Obama campaign had said, or was alleged to have said, about Hillary Clinton.

OMG Bill got OCD with his new heart valve surgery/personality shift!

Sen. Edward Kennedy had a difficult phone conversation with Bill Clinton about his divisive campaigning. "Well, they started it," Clinton told Kennedy. "I don't think that's true," said Kennedy.

omg they started it r u serious bill clinton!

friend of mine used to live in kenya, and received this email from a friend

Hello,

Congratulations to you all for electing President Obama. It was nice to see that the state of Minnesota went to Obama.
Great Works of God Right there.
I love to hear this again and again. Republicans (MacCain) cenceded defeat vey fast.

Already President of Kenya (Kibaki) has declared 6th November a public holiday to join in the celebrations. I wish Kenyan leaders would learn from MacCain to concede defeat quickly and thus avoid any future post election violence in Kenya.

May God bless America. Thanks

Regards,
Ondigo