After 18 hours of live blogging, I literally have nothing else to say. Maybe I will later, but I need to shake this Red Bull bender first.
Question: What are you thinking in the wake of this history-making event?
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Yes. We Did.
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*tears*
EG
I'm in shock. I'm thinking do I not know my own country? We have just elected a Black man as President of The United States? Really? Wow.....
Congrats, folks. Enjoy the moment! You earned it.
This feels so good! My heart hurts!!!
Everything just changed. Forever.
It was wonderful doing the live blogging on this historical night. We got you past 100...see how family do for you?!
Seriously, I'm so glad that I got to share this moment everyone.
Cabbage Patching out....
I'm on the phone with my father. He's in tears talking to me about demonstrating for MLK 40 years ago.
The folks in the projects next to us are screaming their fool heads off.
America has truly arrived.
EG
Relief...tears...joy...This is just the beginning folks!! It ain't over! O's got a long "to do" list.
Thanks for a great time tonight!! Hope to see y'all on the flip side...you too Spool.
I have always seen America as my house, never my home.
Tonight, I'm proud to call America home.
Not only yes we A-me-ri-CAN, we A-me-ri-HAVE!
I'm so happy, I'm actually clapping at McCain's gracious concession speech.
Whoooooohooooo!!!!!! Sweeeep!!!!
I've always been a patriotic American but even more so today.
Yes Mc Cain Pslin Barbie was your fault. Pinch me. Pinch me. I am having a Matrix Reloaded moment- We are here. I feel that our ancestors are all present right now.
I'd like to toss you guys a quote from a writer at the very Conservative National Review:
From Jonah Goldberg: "It is a wonderful thing to have the first African-American president. It is a wonderful thing that in a country where feelings are so intense that power can be transferred so peacefully. Let us hope that the Obama his most dedicated — and most sensible! — fans see turns out to be the real Obama. Let us hope that Obama succeeds and becomes a great president, for all the right reasons."
*pops champagne*
AB and Spool, my fellow Americans, get over here! May I be gracious enough to pour you the first drinks.
Everybody else get in line and don't touch my tip jar!!!!
EG
I know when Obama gives his speech I'm gonna cry. Straight up. I was almost crying during McCain's speech.
Break out the grill--the fam is having an Obama-que @ my house this weekend!
What a moment!
I'm overwhelmed.
But I will say Sen. McCain was gracious, moving and be appeared to express these feelings genuinely.
Ok yall...it's starting to hit me hard. I think back to going to Alabama to the Civil Rights Museum across the street from the church that was bombed. To think about what they went through for this very moment. It's so much bigger than whatever party won. No matter who you voted for, you are a part of HISTORY.
FOLKS ARE RUSHING THE WHITE HOUSE GATES!!!!
How in the world can G-Dub be sleeping with all of that noise???
EG
i can FINALLY comment!!! been reading your blog for awhile from my phone (which doesn't let me comment on blogger) and i absolutely LOVE it!!!
now then... i'm STUNNED, excited, nervous... NO MORE MCBUSH!!!
I'm just glad it was decisive. The last thing in the world that this nation needed was repeat of 2000, this time with race being the centerpiece of an elongated contested result.
Good reporting and analysis, AB. I think today became a defining one for your blog. You had a personal best in both comments and sustained live blogging, with the backdrop of perhaps the most historic night of our lifetime.
G-Dub is up. He called Obama awhile ago.
Yeah. Props to AB, it was a top-shelf night for your blog.
Thanks AB!
I especially enjoyed reading about Averagetoddlers antics today.
K, gotta go the tears are coming!
YES WE CAN!
I only got misty when I saw him lift the younger daughter and give her a kiss and get one back. A little black girl being held by her daddy the president. Aww..
This is AMAZING. My President is Black!
My last scripture for you on these early minutes of November 5th, 2008:
Psalm 24:7
7 "Lift up your heads, O, you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty, The
Lord mighty in battle."
God bless us all. God bless America.
AB, thanks and good night. We got work to do in the morning!
EG
How surreal the moment. It's the stuff of fiction, the stuff of dreams.
This presidential race has all the production quality of a first-rate movie, one that ends on a high note--the hero achieving his goal after overcoming all obstacles and defeating the villain.
It's gonna take me a few days to digest it all.
All I can say is:
Home at last! Home at last! Home at last!
Wow. I can't even imagine how you guys are feeling right now.
I was at a little election watch party in Manhattan, and left for home at about 11:00. However, the subway service was halted on account of some stupid, unclear incident (welcome to New York), and I found myself temporarily stranded in, of all places, Harlem.
Lemme tell ya---I am so glad I ended up there. Wow. Hundreds of people out in the street, cheering, laughing, hugging, dancing to beats being pounded on trash cans----black, white, green, purple...
Savor this, I told myself. You will most likely never see this many people in New York smiling at the same time ever again. XD
Wow. Just wow.
Usually I'm pretty wordy...this morning I have nothing to say. This country...it's people... while far from perfect has proven me wrong time and time again and I love it! Congratulations President Obama.
Meh...
Perhaps its my own hangups, but I'm just trying to keep my emotions in check. I didn't do well last night watching Roland Martin bawl like a baby and I more or less let a tear flow when David Gergen quoted MLK saying "I've been to the moutaintop. I've been to the Promised Land. Ì may not get there with you....Mine eyes have seen the glory..."
I couldn't type no more on my blog.
And here at this seminary we we circled up and my God we prayed and more tears flowed as I watched the yellow check next to Obama's name and just couldn't take my eyes off it.
So, this morning, I still woke up getting shivers from the testimony of Ann Nixon Cooper and as a preacher, Obama was KILLING when he tuned up off of YES WE CAN. And then to read her story (although Barack about did the whole story) its truly a testimony.
OMG....
I'm in class writing this and someone just busted out reciting the close of MLK's "I Have A Dream."
Only black folk...
Anywho, I just personally feel that not much has changed in our day to day grind. But, our professor just said "Well, at least the journey just got a lil easier."
That's about all. We finally just got a little help.
Can't. Stop. Crying.
Oh, and yesterday was my mother's birthday. My mom was in one of the first, if not THE first, desegregation classes in her town, bussed to a white school. My mother got fired from a job after being called the n-word and assaulted by a customer. She had the audacity to defend herself. My mother, who's first paid job, was on an antebellum plantation... Yesterday, on her birthday, my mother watched this country elect a black president.
Can't. Stop. Crying.
I'm so proud Indiana turned Blue. Lake county turned up and voted in record numbers. GO GI!!!!! I really don't know what to say, I can't stop praising God, this is great. Bible study will be hype tonight!!!
I'm still checking to make sure no votes all of a sudden went McCain's way, but I am rejoicing (and have been) for the fact that we have a Black President, but more so that we have a capable person in the White House (soon) to clean up this mess from the last 8 years. Once you get past his skin color, you can see that President (Elect) Obama may be able to fix what's wrong with this country.
The biggest thing that I thought showed why this election went the way it did is the number of white people in Grant Park last night that were crying and rejoicing as if he were their own. This shows how far our society has come (although we still have a ways to go). Reverend Wright is somewhere in tears this morning.
@i.l.l.
You about to make me cry. Thank God your mother was able to see that and on her birthday. What a wonderful birthday present!
Wherever Rev. Wright is today... I hope he stays there.
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In the spirit of the moment, more quotes from prominent conservatives. This is the face of the party I belong to... pay no attention to the trash from the fringe.
From the Prince of Darkness himself, Robert Novak:
I will never forget the moment in January 1961, when John F. Kennedy was sworn in as president. I was watching his inaugural address in the cafeteria of the Harvard Law School, when I was startled by feeling warm tears streak down my cheeks. I was caught by surprise; I had not expected that. Yet it was so astonishing to witness a Roman Catholic becoming the public face of our nation, as presidents always do. It had seemed impossible to imagine, in this very Protestant country. In the Harvard graduate schools, a Catholic felt like a man with green hair—an oddity. But not any more, not after John F. Kennedy became president.
Thus, it is easy for me to imagine the immense jubilation in the hearts of America’s African-American population. Many eyes will be shining with joy tomorrow. Many will feel arise in their breasts a great new sense of pride, accomplishment, and public dignity. They will feel validated as never before.
That is one great blessing of this election.
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Yet now is not the time to rehearse the grave doubts about Obama that were part of the partisan battle of the last two years. Barack Obama is now the president-elect of all of us. Now is the time to praise the brilliant, audacious, and wonderfully surprising campaign that President-elect Obama conducted. He overcame many obstacles. He held up better under fire than many of us expected him to do. He deserves much praise.
My sincere congratulations to Barack Obama.
Today is truely a historic day.
After the years of (real) struggle after slavery, in less than 200 years a man of African descent is president of the United States.
People the world over are celebrating this positive event.
The dreams of MLK have been realized. Robert F. Kennedy was right when he said (and I'll paraphrase) "A negro will be president someday".
With African Americans ascending to the Supreme Court, the helm of major corportions, governorships and now the White House itself we can say that with perserverance, all doors are truely open to us.
The ultimate glass celing has been broken.
With that in mind lets take a moment to really understand what all of this means to us.
There is hope for our people. Our children who will witness this historic time will be energized. People in Africa are chanting his name.
For this moment in time, there is world peace. There is hope where there is doubt. There is unity as all attention turns to Barack Obama, a man who has acheived what many thought was impossible.
Lauren London is still not impressed with him. (rolls eyes)
So much for that. (shrug)
@ Daedulus
Very classy. Very.
Hope you stick around now. We're goin' apolitical again.
"Dont call it a comeback, I've been here for years..." This morning I delivered a pretty large project (425,000 lines of code) and was putting in 17 hour days for the last three weeks.
Yet another successful campaign.
Im going to sleep... Soon.
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