Jack & Jill Politics

Who is missing from the pictures of past presidents? Obama is 44 and I count only 42 pictures before him. ????

rikyrah: I need ta make a large copy of this map:

Obama (D)
|
McCain (R)
349
162

27 undecided - 270 votes needed


Welllll, the MAP di'int show. I guess I lost it!! :>) AGAIN! :>)

tikyrah: Some poignant words from Mr. Roland:

http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/11/sen-bar...
Sen. Barack Obama is the president-elect of the United States



As I write this, I fight back the tears that are falling down my cheeks. I think of the countless men who were hung from trees. I think of the many African American children who sat in one-room schoolhouses, desperately trying to get an education.

I think of the black soldiers who fought Hitler and Mussolini, but were treated as second-class citizens in their own country. I think about the fact that in 2009, the NAACP will celebrate its 100th anniversary. The same NAACP that was launched due to a race riot in Springfield, Illinois.

How fitting that a man who cut his teeth politically in Springfield, Illinois, and who launched his career in that same city, would rise to the presidency in the centennial year of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Now, I can tell my nieces with certainty, that yes, even you can grow up to be president of the United States.

Sen. Barack Obama, thank you. The ancestors thank you. America thanks you.

God Bless the Obamas!!

rikyrah: He moves FAST!: :>)

OBAMA INAUGURATION THEME: " A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM"

Can't wait to see this played out!! Whoooo! Hooooo! :>)

Barack Obama will be sworn in as president just days before the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, and his inauguration theme will reflect the timing: "A New Birth Of Freedom," a phrase from the Gettysburg Address.

From Lincoln's speech:

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

From the press release announcing the theme from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies:

"A New Birth of Freedom" commemorates the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The words come from the Gettysburg address, and express Lincoln's hope that the sacrifice of those who died to preserve the nation shall lead to "a new birth of freedom" for our nation.


The inaugural theme, which was selected by Senator Feinstein and the members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, will be woven through the inaugural ceremonies. The theme is traditionally linked to a major anniversary, and in her announcement Senator Feinstein spoke of the appropriateness of the chosen theme to our present day circumstances, particularly in light of the historic election of Senator Barack Obama.

THERE IS MORE.


President-Elect Obama! YES HE DID!! :>)

I'm glad Obama won the presidency, both because of his policies, which I do believe is better and why I voted him, but also because hopefully his presidency will encourage not just other African-Americans but other types of Americans, such as more women, Latinos, Asians, queer people, etc etc to take on the challenge to run for national office. That would be what I want to see come about from this culturally more than anything else.

rikyrah: McAncient asked in his CONCESSION SPEECH, "What ELSE could I have done?"

Oh! I have some recommendations! You betcha!! **WINK**

YOU COULDA:

1. NOT used the Rove Handbook in your campaign. His strategies WERE your DOWNFALL!

2. NOT IMITATED/COPIED your "RIVAL's Theme of CHANGE!" TACKY!! :>)

3. HAD solid, working policies!!

4. NOT CHOSEN the UN-VETTED ONE as a VP nominee! Geeesh! :>)

5. DUMPED HER when you found out that she WAS a "pitbull with 'lipstick'!"

6. NOT used "billary's" UNSUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES! Didn't you SEE that they DID NOT WORK?? Geesh!! :>)

7. NOT been a LIAR!! Annnnnnd, a CONFUSED ONE AT THAT!!

8. REMEMBERED the PUNCHLINES to your failed jokes!

9. HAD ANY CHARACTER!!

10. HAD the SUPPORT of the party that you purport to lead! Geesh!! :>)

ENOUGH!! :>)


President-Elect Obama! YES! HE! DID!! :>)

From Thomas Friedman:

And so it came to pass that on Nov. 4, 2008, shortly after 11 p.m. Eastern time, the American Civil War ended, as a black man — Barack Hussein Obama — won enough electoral votes to become president of the United States.

A civil war that, in many ways, began at Bull Run, Virginia, on July 21, 1861, ended 147 years later via a ballot box in the very same state. For nothing more symbolically illustrated the final chapter of America’s Civil War than the fact that the Commonwealth of Virginia — the state that once exalted slavery and whose secession from the Union in 1861 gave the Confederacy both strategic weight and its commanding general — voted Democratic, thus assuring that Barack Obama would become the 44th president of the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/opinion/05fri...

this is great! i'm excited about how diverse that collage is about to get 8 years from now..

I'm sure black people solely voted for Obama based on his policy positions (Yeah, right). If white people voted that strongly for McCain, I am sure that "movement" would be called something else. I am sure white people who propped up the black vote did so, not to be "part of history" and to exorcise the inheritance of a post-colonial guilt complex. You cannot honestly believe that if it were a white man with Obama's complete lack of accomplishment (and was a member of a racist church and had the associations he had), he would have made it through the primaries. To be FAIR, a three-legged dog could have defeated the Republicans this year. You only had to look at the news anchors and pundits blubbering in their tears to know that America became a far sadder place. A place where AN INDIVIDUAL (not a black man) cannot be judged based on his merits for the position, but only chosen for his genetic ancestry. You people do not see him as a man, who began backpedalling (aka "lying") in his victory speech about how he'll need two terms to accomplish what he promised during his campaign would be done with the first 100 days of his presidency. But you'll give him a pass. John McCain was a poor candidate as well, but at least he sacrificed himself for his country and knew the true meaning of "honor", something Obama could never hope to understand. Again, you all voted against Bush as a symbol, and rightfully so. But most people did not register a protest vote against McCain the individual as much as they registered a vote symbolically against the Republican party and Bush. People could not see McCain for the INDIVIDUAL he was, and his record of working across party lines. They were too caught up in the symbolism of Obama. Obama himself even said "t I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripe project their own views". Become a symbol and you become EVERYTHING to Americans. Well when it comes to the next four years- prepare to be at best, disappointed, and at worst, have your lives fall further into ruin.

Black people have been voting over 90% for white democrats for years. The fact that we voted for Obama 95% means that his race only wonhim an additional 3% of the black vote. Hardly an indication of folks voting purely on race.

Obama is 44. Deal with it.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

Troll, regardless of how you feel, it is too late now to complain, or as you seem to be trying to do prove a point. Barack Obama will soon be YOUR president and yes this has been the most racially motivated election (for both blacks and whites). Get over it and go check your 401k if you have one.

This morning I woke up and realized that what I saw last night was not a dream and it really hit me and it hit me hard. I thought about my grandmother in Mississippi who picked cotton and worked in white folks houses and my mother who as a baby sat in those fields while her mother worked and later picked cotton and worked in white folks houses herself, my mother who attended segregated schools, my mother the first of all her 7 siblings to attend college. I thought about myself who grew up in the former capital of the Confederacy, but never picked cotton, never went to segregated schools, who was repaid Sally Hemmings' debt by Mr. Jefferson's University , and who has only been to white folks house as a guest.

I thought about Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evars, Martin Luther King and the countless number of nameless people who are at the bottom of lakes, rivers, and swamps stretching across this land simply because they wanted to be considered a whole person and not property and they wanted the right to vote.

I thought about my grandmother who only a week ago was lying in a hospital bed recovering from a stroke but by the grace of God under her own power went to the polls and pressed a button on a computer screen, no less, to vote in the state of Mississippi for the first African-American President of the United States.

I thought about all this and I lost it. All the tears that didn't come last night came in an uncontrollable wave.

I realized I woke up in a new time, in a new era. I woke up in A.B. - After Barack. I did not wake up on the mountain top or in the promised land - there was still a line this morning at the methadone clinic up the street, there is still a functioning shanty town around the corner from my apartment, the wheelchair bound heroin addict was posted up in front of the furniture store on 125th slumped over as he is on most days, there are too many of my brothers in jail, 70% of black children are born out of wedlock, and too many of my people have HIV. Nothing has changed, yet EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED.

This was not the beginning and this it not the end but it is a marker of how far and how fast we have come to this point.


YES WE CAN!
YES WE DID!
YES WE WILL!

THEY TRIED TO KILL THE DREAM, BUT THEY COULDN'T STOP HOPE!

Dr. Boyce Watkins gives Soulja Boy the verbal switch he needs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaCP9Ey7EqE

I told y'all when I'd tune in to watch Sean Klannity - when he starts bawling on the air.

And I'm talking about the type of crying you do when your mama got in your ass so hard, she took a break to drink some kool-aid, and resumed getting back in your ass to the point you had to hiccup while crying.

That's what I want to see - although it was nice to see Brit Hume choke on the words, "President-Elect Obama". LOL

Maybe she is in mourning along with the rest of McCain supporters.

Is it just me or do some in the MSM seem to be trying to piss on President elect Obama's win by focusing his "failure" to carry the white vote? I was watching CNN, and one of the correspondents actually said President elect Obama's "struggled" with the white vote. COMPARED TO WHOM?! Certainly not the last two Democratic presidents, both from the south I might add. In 1976, Jimmy Carter got 47% of the white vote, compared to 44% for President elect Obama. In 1992 and 1996 Bill Clinton got 39% and 43% of the white vote respectively, both lower than President elect Obama's share.

Some are saying that his margin of victory is not that impressive. Really?! Not since Lyndon Johnson has a Democrat received a clear majority of the vote. In 1976, Carter received 50.1%. Bill Clinton never got a majority, getting 43% in 1992 and 49.24% in 1996. Even Ronald Reagan who trounced Jimmy Carter in 1980 winning a vast majority of the states and electoral votes, received just over a majority at 50.7%. It wasn't until 1984 that he received a clear majority with 58.8% of the vote. So, President elect Obama received 6.4% less than the great white conservative hope.

Even if you just compare the overall popular vote, his win is damn impressive. President elect Obama received the highest percentage of the vote of any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson and the 3rd highest in the last 32 years, following on Reagan in 1984 and George Bush Sr in 1988. AND he's garnered more actual votes than any presidential candidate in history.

Yeah, that's real "struggle".

I can already see that he's going to be held to a double standard, but that's to be expected.

Yes, they have already pulled out the long list of demands and broke down his victory so it won't look so impressive.

it's pathetic, isn't it?

he was declared President of the United States

WITHOUT

Indiana
Missouti
North Carolina
Virginia
Florida

being called

think on that.

I still have no words about this election. I just don't.

Me either. Not as many as I would like to have, anyways.

They'll come.

I hear ya.

I'm still trying to collect my thoughts

Maybe it will sink in tomorrow

Ann Nixon Cooper basks in Obama tribute

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081105/ap_on_re_us...

Honoring her last night really illuminated the start differences between the campaigns. President elect Obama honored someone who truly represents the fabric of America in all its complexities, a witness to history through joy and pain. Senator McCain honored an arrogant and ignorant fake plumber.

They're all jumping on the Obama-wagon NOW. As soon as it's convenient to do so they'll start tearing him down again. It won't take long.

Right, right....

The media is good for building someone up just so they can tear them down.

I'm surprised they haven't started on Sister Sarah yet.

Ahem....

Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-...

Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-...

TruthSeeker: Yet, she received support from some Repugs! What does that say ABOUT THEM?? WE KNOW!!

President-Elect Obama! YES HE DID!! :>)

On second thought, I'll SAY IT: They must also be: DUMB! UN-intellectuals! Lovers of STUPIDITY!! O.K.!!

At some point after the celebrations have diminished (and this may take a while) we all do need to start thinking about: 1. How we continue to participate in the movement and 2. What common ground can we find with non far right republicans. There is much talk about the republican party going through this soul searching and I think with this is an opportunity for the party to move more to the center. What would help this along is democrats willingness to reach out to the non pitchfork republicans

I agree we need to keep the movement going. This is not about Barack Obama. This is about us. Barack just initiated the next step.

I think it will be truly sad if the collective "we" make this all about Barack Obama. In my enthusiasm I have thought about this movement and my heart keeps going back to the "corridor of shame."

“CORRIDOR OF SHAME: the neglect of South Carolina's rural schools"

Why can't "we" who have gathered on this great website take on a cause that could truly show that we are more than people give us credit for. Why can't we find a way to show the world that we can conquer the "corridor of shame."

Hey, I'm a a volunteer, gave money to President Elect Obama, traveled to states for him....can't we do this project and show the country we can and will do something amazing. Let us rename the corridor of shame to the "corridor of pride."

I think it is important to volunteer in our communities take all that inspiration that Obama has fostered in us all and gather groups together and volunteer. Go to schools, senior citizen centers, veteran's hospitals. Learn about local politics; what is happening on the school boards in your community? What new initiatives are they considering? Educate ourselves to keep our politicians in check, we put them there let's make sure they are actually keeping our best interest at heart. It won't be easy but complacency is a step backwards.

My concern is that if we don't do something that the human eye can see, will we make a difference? President Elect Obama is showing all of us that we as "individuals" make a difference. We have to step up to the plate and let our "children" know they have no excuses for failure.

What I am calling for and willing to participate in is, a community that unites and proves our President Elects' message. We can and will do our part !

I have said it before and say it again.

Let some of us take on a cause and make it happen and make it visible. Can we PLEASE start with ridding our country with the "Corridor of Shame? and make it th "Corridor or ALL that is Possible."

I believe it was shortly before Sen. Ted Kennedy endorsed Sen. Obama that I wrote a letter to Sen. Kennedy asking him to endorse Sen. Obama. My concern at the time was that it seemed Sen. Clinton was gaining steam on "trashing" Sen. Obama in very a very serious way.

I wrote a letter to Sen. Kennedy to plead for him to endorse Sen. Obama before Clinton succeeded in her damage and copied that letter to jjp.

A few days after I wrote my letter to Sen. Kennedy, he endorsed Sen. Obama. I believe my letter was a fluke of time and was not a factor in Kennedy's endorsement. But I do believe my letter expressed serious concerns that we of "color" were fearing.

What I feel proud about is that in my letter I wrote that if Sen. Obama was elected, children would see his picture in their history books and "get" in seconds that people have spent their lives trying to teach.

In fact, I copied my letter to Sen. Kennedy to jack and jill politics and if they have kept records they can reprint my letter in full.

This reinforces the dream I have had for children who are disadvantaged for my whole lifetime.

I am not black, I am a Native American and female. I have known the bias of both color and gender. But, bias of color came first...I don't say it is worse or more wrong. It is just what I experienced.

My open letter to Ted Kennedy and jack and jill in early 2008 expressed my experiences.

God Bless,
Angela

I have to confess I sent him an email to Senator Kennedy begging him to endorse Senator Obama. If nothing else, I knew it would stop the bleeding going into Super Tuesday, and it did. I even wrote a personal letter to Colin Powell begging him to endorse Obama when it seemed that McCain was gaining traction. Again, I didn't know if he could bring voters to Senator Obama, but I knew it would deflate McCain and stop whatever gains he was making.

Be proud that you did your part. Collectively, it made a difference.

great...now we need to move on and make a difference for our children and
others who need a helping hand. we need to impress on all of our leaders,
including jjp people that our voices can change some of the world.


my passion is changing the "corridor of shame" into the "corridor of all
that is possible" Will all of you help me in a writing campaign to
President Elect Obama and others as I get their names listed.

I am serious about this....I truly believe we can and will make a difference
beyond being cheerleaders for President Elect Obama.

Are the enough lawyers reading this message who can aid in starting a
non-profit group who will prove to the world that we will take care of our
own people?

This is not a joke. If I can give thousands to help elect Barack Hussein
Obama, I and others can donate to erase us of the "corridor of shame."

Ted Kennedy is looking major smart to have endorsed Obama as early as he did in the game. He's got some serious clout.

I expect a few Cabinet members with the last name of "Kennedy" in Obama's Administration. Starting with RFK, Jr. over EPA, and maybe Caroline over Education or as an Assistant AG in the Justice Department.

I heard last night that Caroline is being considered for Ambassador to the United Nations.

thank you, angela.

So nice to have a President who's brilliant, eloquent, handsome, witty and wise for a change. And to think we're also getting an equally beautiful and brilliant First Lady in Michelle Obama...America is truly blessed!

Can someone explain to me this whole "well the country is still center-right" memo that the Rethuglikkkans are running with today?? Are they actually saying that the center-right country voted for a socialist to be President of the US?? They really confuse me with the talking points....its like they don't discuss them first to make sure it doesn't contradict what they've said the day before.

They can't get used to having to address a brotha as "Mr. President", so they're engaging in the last vestiges of hateration before Obama restores the Fairness Doctrine and put all of them on the unemployment line.

Morning Joke was the worst.

CPL: TRUE DAT!! BUT, it don't matta!! HE IS ------

Mr. President-Elect Obama!! YES HE DID!!! :>)

Noah Washington, 9, of New Haven, a volunteer worker at the Obama headquarters in New Haven on Chapel Street, phones voters in the Woodbridge voting district in New Haven Tuesday night to remind them to get out to vote in the presidential election

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-ctelex-...

Amazing

Oh..what a cutie. Wish I was on the other end of his phone call.

There was a 15 year old canvassing with me in Nevada. It was her 3rd trip and she knew her stuff. I was impressed!

Oh he's too cute!! (Image 18 y'all!!)

Reid To Meet With Lieberman

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said he plans to meet with Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman later this week to discuss the situation regarding Lieberman in the Senate.

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hcu-lieber...

Not to be nasty, but I am sick of watching the folks that supported Hillary talking about how they cried at the sight of the first black president when they worked so hard to keep him out of office.

msmartin: Co-signing with you! Annnnnnd, I'm INTENDING to be NASTY!!

President-Elect Obama!! YES HE DID! :>)

They climbing on the bandwagon as it rolls out of the station.

They also know they have major ass-kissing they have to do to get past Rahm "The Enforcer" Emmanuel in January if they want Obama to hear them out on issues.

LOL! I truly rolled my eyes at Maya Angelou on CBS this morning. Not to mention Vernon Jordan on the View today, "I went to 3 black churches in Columbus for him last Sunday..." I wanna throw the hell up! Vernon actually told him when he sought advice about running that he could not support him if HRC was in the race...At least John Lewis checked his conscience early.

T.

Yeah I did a post about this in fact. I should add video from Jordan then. I stopped watching to View for my sanity.

http://tinyurl.com/6nb7b9

I just saw Magic Johnson on LK Live talking about it. I was think negro please. Larry even asked "weren't you a Hillary supporter?

Magic was the first Negro Hillary Rented:

http://getridofthedlc.blogspot.com/2007/12/borg...

Glad Larry asked him about supporting Hillary. Too bad I missed him choking on his response.

CPL: I'm sure that he got his "theatre" franchises through bill/billary's money!

Can we say ""film-watching house Negro?" YES WE CAN!!! :>)

President-Elect Obama!! YES HE DID! :>)

I didn't see Maya Angelou on CBS but I read what she had to say about Barack winning the presidency! Uh huh, Maya. I remember......

Justice58: In protest, I'm NOT reading her poem - "Ain't I A Woman? anymore! :>)

ain't that the truth......

This campaign will haunt McCain the rest of his life

Yes. He ruined his whole legacy in a short time with this campaign...

NO more MAVERICK.

Sister Sara should take her two mules and get on back to Alaska before she pisses off Clint Eastwood:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065134/

Ha, I remember that movie!

rikyrah: Watching and WAITING for the "TIME" Commemorative Issue:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/emtime...
Time Publishing a Commemorative Issue About Obama's VICTORY!!

This week's Time magazine is going to be special commemorative issue celebrating Barack Obama's election victory. It will be hitting newsstands a day early, on Thursday. Check out the magazine's cover below.


I CHECKED! I PASSED OUT!! :>) :>)

Looks like I'll be making a lunchtime run to Borders and/or Barnes & Noble.

rikyrah: More pics:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/the-si...
The SIGNIFICANCE of The MOMENT

Nearly two years after he announced his intentions to run for the White House, Barack Obama returned to Chicago on Tuesday night, triumphant in his quest for the presidency.

The president-elect -- the first African American to assume the post in American history -- achieved the task with a mandate to proclaim. As of Wednesday morning he had won 349 Electoral College votes, poaching traditionally Republicans states like Indiana and Virginia as well as bitterly-fought battlegrounds like Ohio and Florida. Of the estimated 133 million votes cast (62 percent of eligible voters went to the polls), he had received 52 percent to John McCain's 46 percent -- the first Democrat to earn a majority since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

More importantly, he recruited to his candidacy voters of all stripes: black, white, and Hispanic, southerners and northerners, educated and non-educated, the politically engaged and those who had previously stayed on the sidelines.

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," Obama triumphantly declared. "It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference."

SKIP

"There will be setbacks and false starts," he told the crowd last night. "There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years - block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."

THERE IS A LOT AFTER THE SKIP.

THERE IS A SLIDE SHOW!! :>) :>)

President-Elect Obama!! YES HE DID!!

ONE MOMENT IN TIME

ENJOY!!! [the passion; the excitement of THIS MOMENT!!]

rikyrah: GREAT pic!!

President-Elect Obama IS THE MAN!!

God Bless him for his courage and strength!

He is a TRUE LEADER!! :>)

This. Image. Is. Awesome.

I have marveled in so many ways today about how magnificent Obama's victory is, but this juxtaposition of Obama with these other photos and pictures of the previous presidents - all white, all men, and some like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln are so iconic that it really hits you all at once. Obama is in the big leagues now! And it isn't as if he has suddenly been made "worthy" by this success, or worthy enough to stand beside them, because he - and we - have been worthy all along. What a great picture. I'm so proud of him!!!!

There is a President missing from that picture.

I like the last one though

Grover Cleveland was both the 22nd and the 24th president, so he takes up two spots. That's why it looks like one is missing.

Cheri: ***APPLAUDING WILDLY!!***

U go Ms. "HISTORIAN!" Nice catch! :>)

I am a repository for what some think are useless facts. However I am happy when it comes in handy every once in a while!

LOL

LOL @ Dick Morris's blubbering on O'Lielly........this has been FUN. I haven't watched this much of FoxNews since Obama clinched the nomination. They're freaking out! LOL

LOL...I'll catch the repeat...

though, I might tune in to hear Hannity

I know!