Jack & Jill Politics

OK....its 7:30 and Georgia still hasn't counted the early votes from the two counties with the most in the state, Dekalb and Fulton. I get the feeling that Georgia was probably blue y'all!!!! I really wanted that Senate seat to go BLUE!!!!! They still haven't counted 300,000 votes in the two counties that are overwhelmingly democratic! They don't want to give up that GOP seat!!! But I just KNOW ITS OURS.

Thank you so much for keeping tabs on the Obama campaign. I came to your site every day to read your posts which I found more to the point and more informative than New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Though I am not African American, I am a person of color. Obama's win embraces all of us who have for many many years have been praying for the right to be treated equal.

My son who is African American/ Native Hawaiian, whom I have always told "to dream big son, nothing is beyond your reach" .........now has a priceless African American role model, Obama, who truly reached what once was said to be unreachable.

Mahalo nui loa.

rikyrah: PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!! TRUST!!!

HAIL TO THE CHIEF!!

THANK YOU GOD!!

THANK YOU!

Obama-Biden '08 - '12! TRUST!! :>) :>)

Whooo! Hoooooo! :>) :>)


O HAPPY DAY!!!

O HAPPY DAY! (Aretha Franklin - Old School!! :>)

ENJOY!!!! :>) :>)

I was hoping that tonight was going to be the end of Michelle Bachman, but she won her race in Minn.

The Obamas are matching! Michelle's dress is evokative as usual. I'm not sure red is her color.

It's a shame that I'm probably the same height as Melia (smirk-5'4").

That is our First Family.

I just found out I get to go to the Inaugural Ball.

I'm going to die now.

I just found out I get to go to the Inaugural Ball.

Craig!

*cheering*

!!!

Beautiful.

This is great news! You have worked so hard and this evening wasn't easy for you.

I am disappointed I didn't travel east to party at you B&B tonight. Oh well. Next term!

Congratulations, you deserve it.

I'm available if you need a date, Craig - but if you have a spouse, she might kick my ass for asking. LOL

You are so, so deserving! Congrats!

OMG get outta here!!! You are so lucky! We're definitely going to want all the DETAILS!! I hope my brother gets to go.

And just when I thought I had gained control of my emotions MSNBC switches to the party in Kenya.

Why are the pundits @ CNN so effing somber? What the hell. the ony one who has been somewhat upbeat is Jeff Toobin.

Soon enough I will be going thru campaign withdrawls. Maybe I should go cold turkey. I think I'll text David Plooufe, and Joe Biden, and David Axelrod, and Michelle, and....

I want my congressional health care now.

I just got up off the floor again.

Get up offa that thing, and dance and you'll feel better. James Brown

LOL.

The DC Crowd getting their Party on in front of the White House.

Bush congratulated Obama and his "good bride" Michelle? I would say "W-T-F" but I'm so happy, I'll overlook Bush's continued mangling of the English language.

And Gore Vidal busted the whole GOP on the BBC America Channel.

Here's some international photos.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/electi...

Good concession speech. The rethugs had their game faces on. The best (hu)man won.

Here comes President Obama!

Oh dang Palin lost again to another Black Person. Second Place. Ms Vice Congeniality for you.

And her look said the same thing "Dammit, I'm tired of losing to N-ggers!"

She'll have plenty of time to contemplate back in Alaska, where she can stand on the deck in her backyard and look at Russia, while hoping the Mudflats won't be waiting with pitchforks for her and First Dude.

Will Bristol go through with her wedding now? And will we ever find out the truth about Trig?

Doesn't matter - the Beverly Hillbillies go home to Alaska.

She was clearly not happy. She really thought they were going to win.

Yep, thats a weird thing about them. They truly live in a parallel universe. I guess they live in a bubble. Maybe their handlers limit their intake of information or something. You'd think They'd have more of a clue.

Wow! The street in front of the White House is Packed. That is a weird thing about DC. In the hood, people like to hang out in large groups. What are they doing? Nothing-Just loitering en masse, hundreds at a time-congregating. Tonight they took it to 1600 Pennsylvania Av.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! OK?!!

lol

Love and congratulations to you all from Scotland!

"Barack Obama sweeps to historic victory in US election" - Glasgow Herald

http://www.theherald.co.uk/

Ta!

McCain really seems relieved that he didn't win. The Palins are crying. They are visably sad.

Cause they get to go home to Alaska where those in the MudFlats are waiting to get in that ass for corruption.

I will personally lend financial support whoever wants to grind her semi-literate ass into a powder.

and you know this.

Jesse Jackson is crying like a baby! Here comes the concession speech! Later Losers! Don't let the door knob hit yah in the....

Sarah Palin cannot conceal that she's pissed at these results. That smile is fake and she's not winking. She almost wouldn't shake McCain's hand or embrace him.

A gracious loser, she ain't.

Those were heartfelt tears. They made me boo hoo even more.

cry me a river Lilytiger. That woman made some hateful statements.

Val, my post was on Jesse's tears. I could give a flying f*ck about Barbie.

LOL, this is an emotional time for us all.

:-)

me, wife, and the kids are all crying tears of joy

Le Monde announces Barack. The world IS watching. http://www.lemonde.fr/

Why is Tara Wall acting sad? Wtf? Maybe it's just a front for "the man."

They are showing a literal sea of multiculturalism in Chicago, and these lame ass pundits are stalking about how happy "Black people" are? They are killing my buzz.

She wound up on the wrong side of history. And she knows we don't like her.

Her hateration days are coming to a close? She is one self-hating slave catcher.

Anyone got video of the reaction of Juan Williams?

ROTFLMAOCTHU and LMAO!!!

Revenge is a dish best served cold. I may watch FOX just to see Klannity's fat face. SCHENDENFRAUDE

Juan Williams is drinking straight up haterade on Fox.

I'm only watching it to watch Brit Hume choke on his words as he has to refer to Obama as "President-Elect Obama".

I turned to see how they were taking it. The whole panel was looking like they need to give up their ties, belt, and shoestrings and be put on suicide watch because they were so melancholy. It was pretty funny.

I may actually watch the hate fest known as "Hannity and Colmes" or O'Reilly tomorrow...just to see them choke.

"Morning Joke" should be very interesting in the morning. If anyone's looking like they need to be on suicide watch, it's Joe Scar and Willie Geist.

I will definitely be watching the morning hos in the a.m. Joe the biggest ho couldn't even keep his seat in congress. Lets see if they suspend the hatefest for a day or not.

Note to Joe: PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA-GET USE TO IT!

why do you contribute any ratings to Fox by watching that drivel?

Cut Frankenstein some slack...traditional English is hard for him.

Oh CPL,

I thought he'd be human..you're tellig me, he's cooning?

Rikyrah, I guess he couldn't help it with the cooning, but yeah, he was, BIG TIME.

Eugene,



sob.

Thanks for keeping it together to say your words.

Did you see the fun at Spelman?

wsj calling florida for BO

Ya'll, if you weren't just watching CBS, Byron Pitts just emotionally laid it down what tonights win means, talking about a call he got from his mother and a picture he keeps in his office. I couldn't do it justice trying to explain it, I just hope TPM or Veracifier has it up on YouTube later.

the difference between obama and mc cain, he make this look good yahhhhhhhhhhhhhh man omg cant beleive it

It is a beautiful thing.

Blessings All!

I'm crying.

crying

Bring on the concession speech!!!!!

Yesterday they called him a "socialist"....

Today he is the PRESIDENT-ELECT

HISTORY IN THE MAKING!!

PRESIDENT HUSSEIN BOYEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

FOX NEWS just called it.........BARACK OBAMA is the President of the United States of America!!!


I AM BARACK OBAMA

IT'S OVER!!!!!!! Boy do I wish I could be in Chicago right now

CBS has just called it for BHO.

Yes we can...and yes we did.

nbc news says Barack Obama is the next POTUS

DAYUM!!!

FOX JUST CALLED CALIFORNIA FOR OBAMA AND HAS OFFICIALLY CALLED HIM "PRESIDENT-ELECT" OBAMA!

HELL just turned into an Ice Skating Rink

Congrats all! HE DID IT!!!!!

Seal - A Change Is Gonna Come
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XjLafQUyUY

They've called it for Obama!!!!

VIRGINIA!!!! goes to Obama.

WSJ! SAYS BARACK OBAMA IS ABOUT TO WIN!!

PRAISE JESUS!!

I'm here. I have a lot of guests.

And I'm getting drunk as a skunk.

I can hardly breathe.

Sober up so you can REALLY CELEBRATE, MAN! LOL

Well he just won Virginia so you can relax now.

I can't explain my joy, optism, hope, pride, unity.

Here's a poem my mom told me

Rosa Sat So Martin Could March
Martin Marched So Barack Could Run
Barack Ran So We All Could Fly

We did it. The bloggers did it. The ball-players did it. The bus drivers did it. We did it. And I might drop a link: http://newsone.blackplanet.com/nation/ricketts-...

Thanks JJP for all the news, support and insight. Real talk.

Anderson Cooper is interviewing a hologram of will.i.am on CNN. It looks freaky. Nice technology, but...um...what's the point?

They've paid millions for all of their top notch computers and graphics. The hologram feature was probably a bonus for buying two. Let em' have their fun with it.

I LOVE it! It's so Star Wars!

Will.I.Am, as a hologram. On CNN now.

(I posted that just for the rhyme.)

LOL - great minds think alike!

hey if you are looking for international stuff you should go to newsy.com they combine news stories from around the world
http://www.newsy.com/videos/daily_political_run...

Where's Pat???

Where's Caribou Barbie? We know Pat's hiding under a rock.

She, Todd and Cindy were looking awkward and stiff at the concession speech. I kinda felt sorry for McCain.

Someone may have already posted this - but I hear that Rahm Emanuel is mulling over the chief of staff position? Interesting...!

Why not? Obama needs a Cutthroat at Chief of Staff, and no one's better at being a cutthroat than Rahm Emmanuel.

Although I was thinking Jesse Jackson, Jr. would have been considered for that slot.

Don't you think Rahm is a little Dick Cheney-esque? My advice to O is to vet him 3 times. He strikes me as the type who would set up an alternative government. That said, he could match Carl Rove blow for blow. He might be Rove's worse nightmare.

oh no they didn't.

NBC didn't put the map of the US in the ice at Rockefeller Plaza. they are crazy.

I'm going to say it. I miss Tim Russert

Man, Juan Williams on Fox is sounding all chokey and shyt.

The significance of Obama's win is not lost on him, slave-catcher that he is.

Your eyes do not deceive you, Rikyrah. I miss Russert too.

Obama keeping the money in the political family...

Hotel HQ - The Hyatt....owned by who?
Finance Chairman Penny Pritzker's family...LOL

They still have money after baby girl Pritzker sued them for about a billion for mismanaging her inheritance when she was 17? I think she got $500M (one of two grandkids or something like that).

David Frum just slung McCain under the bus on BBC America. LOL

What happened, CPL?

He said McCain ran a piss-poor campaign and if McCain campaigned on the issues, instead of engaging in attacks on Obama, he might have pulled it off.

He also criticized McCain for not running far enough away from Bush. They have a sista on who also said that McCain couldn't advertised as a "Maverick" when his voting record showed he voted in lockstep with Bush 90% of the time.

A true MasterCard Moment.

Thanks. I'm sorry I missed that...

finally someone said it. I couldn't believe how these people on CNN, MSNBC etc were trying to spin the McCain loss. ie. there was nothing else McCain could have done, he gave it his all . . . . blah blah blah

I know picking on BET is like tipping over a blind bovine with mad cow disease, but I can't help but point out that their live coverage looks very amateurish. As someone who started out wanting to work in the media, the set looks like it was thrown together last minute.

I know I'm unfairly comparing it all to the newschannels with the million dollar toys and graphics. And let me be fair, there are some things they're doing okay: The host (Cousin Jeff), the guests and the commentators aren't that bad. And they're probably smart to keep their focus more light hearted for younger viewers and less 'inside baseball'. But come on, a bulletin board with cutouts? No large projector screens or LCD monitors they could have put a electoral map on? I know BET isn't that arsed-out.

CNN's moved onto holograms... It might be too late for BET to catch up.

Okay, I didn't even know BET was doing a live show... LOL. At least they're trying. They're always trying...

I think TVOne's is better

1. Why is TD Jakes on MSNBC? WHY is he so popular tonight?

2. There's Claire McCaskill - surrogate #1 , IMO, from ' back in the day' for Obama.

Claire was there always for Barack! Love her dearly.

lol I was wondering the same thing.

Damn...I was just scratching my head over the same thing. He's made a point of being a-political, why would they tap him of all people on this night???

Jakes knows he's on the outside looking IN - just like major-league hater Tavis Smiley.

These brothas are upset that Obama didn't kiss their asses to get the White House and they know that Obama will not have time for their asses once he's sworn in.

That's what they get for tying their coattails to Bush (Jakes) and Clinton (Smiley).

Jakes was pro-Bush????!!

NO WAY!!! Plus, Jakes loves Obama.

Sorry, Teacher, but before Jakes fell in love with Obama, he was firmly in the Bush camp:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/19/politics/19le...

Jake was a Bush supporter in 2004, but he may have 'flipped'. The last time I remember seeing him on TV talking on religious issues in the election, he seemed very favorable to BHO. IIRC, he also defended Rev. Wright to some extent.

All of that could've been for the cameras, the face time, and to sort of 'make good' with his black parishioners, of course.

Can you say "Faith-Based Policies"?

They also used Jakes to tote Bush's water on Katrina relief until Jakes realized he was being pimped.

I am watching Fox. It is nice listening to them squirm and try to make sense of this....

My husband was watching it earlier to get their take on things, but I can't watch their programming for too long or I will scream!!

I have waited for this day for so long. I feel like I have watched 10 hours of MSNBC and CNN every day for the last two years. I've changed my political party from Republican to Independent. I've argued, I've supported, I've accepted, I've been engrossed, I've fallen in love with a candidate and his ideas and his hope for the future. And now that moment is here. And as much as I want to run out in the streets and scream and party I have an undeniable feeling inside. I'm tired. I'm spent. I am very, very happy. And for the first time in a long time I am at peace. I know when my head hits the pillow tonight I will have a restful sleep. And when I wake up tomorrow I will actually see a whole new world.

I know what you mean.

Dancing to Erasure's - A Little Respect right now

I have that on vinal!

The BBCAmerica Channel is projecting it for Obama.

As soon as California checks in, this shyt's over.

During my class, my instructor asked to boot up the laptops to keep track of the evening. Around 9:30, I announced to the class that Obama had 200 electoral votes to McCain's then 85 electoral votes.

One of my classmates, a staunch ReThug; I kid you not - he pulled out a fifth of Maker's Mark Southern Whisky, and proceeded to pour himself a slug - RIGHT THERE IN CLASS! Couldn't wait for it to be called before drowning himself in his sorrows.

My instructor cracked up - he's from Chicago and you KNOW who he VOTED FOR.

I hope he won't be public enemy #1 on the highway driving home. Stay off the streets, CPL!

CNN finally called it for Obama! I wish they would stop calling him the 1st African American President. It is really getting tired. They just won't drop the racial meme for nothing.

Teacher, I am safely at my house, cause I know there will be crazies on the streets, one way or the other. LOL

LOL

CPL,

that IS HILARIOUS!

BWA HA HA HA HA

Shoot, if I wasn't driving, I would have handed over my iced tea bottle and asked homie to lace it for me in CELEBRATION!

33 minutes before the west coast polls close.

Obama won 92% of Black Voters in Virginia.

What I want to know is who are the lousy Slave-Catching 8% that voted for McCain?

Armstrong Williams is from that area, isn't he?

j/k

Him & his family (lol).

No, you might be right, Nate.

Where is the faithful troll named "S"? I think she's from Virginia as well.

I don't like a lot of people on CNN. John King's map is better than Chucky T's, but Chucky T is a math stud

I prefer Chucky too. He much less bias than John King.

My thoughts exactly! Love Chucky T, but John King knows how to work that map.

Obama holding razor thin leads in NC and VA. I want O to take away ALL their marbles, and send the GOP home crying!

Re the Bradley effect, on exit polls, Obama WON among whites who said race WAS a factor.

Fox already called VA for Barack. On HuffPo already

There's no more vote for McCain to win in Virginia. All of the Republican areas have reported. Big chunks of Fake Virginia have yet to report their totals and they are going to be favorable to Obama (seriously McCain got smoked 70-O, 30-M in Alexandria). The state board of elections website just has Obama at 50% and McCain at 48%. Virginia is a wrap for Obama. Good night and good luck.

I know, Town, cause I had my happy ass out at Northern Virginia Community College at 6:15 am, standing in a mile long line waiting to vote.

My area hasn't checked in yet and we're historically slow (Alexandria and Fairfax)

Huffington Post, Salon.com, and Slate have ALREADY DECLARED OBAMA THE WINNER!

Anyone watching Fox?

I can't.

Obama's 50 electoral votes away from the White House. I can't believe I'm actually able to watch that fat slug, Karl Rove, on my TV and not be tempted to throw my shoe at the screen.

Brit Hume and Chris Wallace look like they're heading to a funeral, and trying their best to sound "pro-Obama".

Why the HELL is Harold Ford, Jr. being allowed to say ANYTHING?

This bastard is IRRELEVANT. ON ALL COUNTS.

You need to turn on to Fox Noise right now, they are all sad and sorrowful over there. LOL!!

Fox just called Virginia for OBAMA.

Hell has OFFICIALLY FROZEN OVER!

I live on the top floor of a sixteen-story apartment complex, and there's a woman next door to me screaming. Either she's excited about Obama, or getting ready to jump because McCain's not going to pull this off.

Anderson said someone contacted him and said she looked out her window and saw Fed Ex employees across the street throwing up their hats in the air.

Only if Sean Hannity Starts CRYING....

I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't turn in for that.

me too. that would be an endless youtube moment for me.

Champaign is on the ice as this comes to a close