This is starting to look like a mandate....

Let's hope that this is a change for the better... But all life is change, and America is not exempt. The dejection on Fox news is palatable.

If you are in the Obama is Socialist camp, then Socialism must have been in the cards.

Get used to it.

To those who felt it was no real change to elect Obama, I guess an African-American in office is not change enough (it is change enough for me).

To those who voted for Prop. 2... BOO!

I guess equality is only on your terms, and this election of a black man is some sort of aberration. It was not long ago that blacks were NOT equal to the rest of "us."

I would pray for you, if it wasn't a fruitless exercise for an athiest like me. We are all equal, and must strive for peace.

This election can be good, you know. It might be a good thing for the world for a progressive America, since that is the definition of the term "progressive." Did you think of that, that you might be wrong thinking Obama is wrong for America? You could be wrong ("God" forbid)!

I have seen enough politics where I am convinced, at least for now, electing a black man is the coolest thing America has ever done!

Now that there is no hanging chads to argue about, and it is pretty clear how America thinks, lets really work to understand the universiality of mankind. Peace to all.

One last thought... America is more than economics! It is leadership, where cooler heads might have a chance to prevail.

To those who won tonight.....

I'm still in office for two months! Bwahahahaaa!

peace out, boy scouts...

Some More Random Thoughts...

I want to remind people how cool how an Obama win is.

Today, every first grader from every inner-city school is saying: hey, I can be president of the United States. Is that not America, or what?

And the world is saying; "there is hope for America". Remember, we just elected someone to run the country, by the highest vote count ever, who could not even piss in the same bathroom as the whites a generation ago. That was not bullshit, it was the LAW. Is it not a good thing to give a whole generation of Americans the goal of POTUS? Instead of success equating rap stars and sports fame?

My senior year of high school (1979), also the highest recorded marijuana use by seniors, had a SWAT team on the roof of the school. As a result race riots. Blacks agains Italians, and it was about something pretty stupid, in retrospect. (hint: it was about pot!) Doesn't it seem petty now, when equality for all is an achievable goal?

Do you hear the rumbling? It is the collective generations of people spinning in their graves. I am so proud. It is a genuine rebellion.

Never mind the economic policies of Obama, the rebellion envisioned by the 60', 70's and 80's have begun to rear its head!

It is not an economic thing, for those who want to narrow it in purely economic terms. That idea is self centered!

We are seeing social change at is most base.

A person of color to reach the top of the American political structure is something pretty damn special. If you want to call it Socialism, so be it. If you think that Obama will not bring any change, and that the whole system needs a reset, get real! A black man is in charge, is that not change?

A real change has come, and if that is not enough for you, so what? Let's get a dose of reality, the American people will only accept a change on their own terms, and this is it!

So you label President Obama a "Socialist." Do you think any person of the age of the Civil Rights movement would be called anything else? Any notion of equality and fairness, especially in the framework of race, can be decried as socialist.

It is a charge bordering on racism.

The redistribution of wealth is an attractive notion to a class of people who have been denied real wealth their entire lives. As Chris Rock once said; a basketball player is rich, the owner of the team is wealthy! The equality of race, when you reflect, screams of socialism.

Who cares?

This is the change America needs, and Obama is intelligent enough to rise to the challenge.

The saving grace is that a mandate has been an achieved. A decisive victory which will quash any discussion of voter fraud and hanging chads. Thankfully ACORN is history.

If it was even close, we would be arguing this election for months. The election will put to rest any doubt, and any opportunity for the Supreme Court to decide this election.

One last thought... leave it to a black man to clean up the mess of the rich white guy! Good luck President Obama.

Gooooo USA!