I would just like to post a historic comment in this historic thread.

Historic 4:20

historic trolls are on their way...

I hope the media keeps up the historic thing. Even if a regular white guy is elected next, I hope they say things like

"Our historic FIRST 45th President of the United States"

because you see

there were a few before Washington

But he's not very courageous...

Butt-hurt republicans butt-hurting during butt-hurty inauguration and getting more butt-hurt in the butt-hurting process.

/Grabs historic popcorn.

Spending a historic amount of money on a historic waste of time during a historically bad economy.

Grats to you politicians, you know how to make us despise you even more than we already do.

/not a knock on Obama as McCain would have done the same thing
//please kick all Democrats and Republicans out of office

Everyone agrees that this is a special moment in history for our country and we should feel a sense of pride. Right?

I only posted to be part of this historic thread.

This is a historic post.

I didn't vote for him because he was black. I could give a shiat, I just want him to do a good job.

Has anyone mentioned how historic this is yet?

/Historic slash

AspectRatio: Butt-hurt republicans butt-hurting during butt-hurty inauguration and getting more butt-hurt in the butt-hurting process.

historically butthurt?

bartink: Everyone agrees that this is a special moment in history for our country and we should feel a sense of pride. Right?

The grownups do.
The whiny-ass titty babies of the Right Wing American Taliban? Not so much.

SeismicJizzer: AspectRatio: Butt-hurt republicans butt-hurting during butt-hurty inauguration and getting more butt-hurt in the butt-hurting process.

historically butthurt?

Histrionically butthurt.

Did something historic happen last November?

Oh Obama was elected... Oh he will be inaugurated Tuesday? WHY HASN'T THE MEDIA COVERED THIS?!?

/Wives anticipating historic Ravens victory

Yo, subby, you left out the historic Bible.

/oh, and CNN, a 147 mile train trip that takes three days and stops at every station is NOT an express

I voted for Obama, and I'm cautiously optimistic that he will do some good for the next several years.

But I'm also getting sick of the historic crap. I can't wait until Wednesday, when the media starts crawling into his colon looking for polyps.

Today Obama... Tomorrow the AFC Championship Trophy.

/Historic

bartink: Everyone agrees that this is a special moment in history for our country and we should feel a sense of pride. Right?

That depends. If you can honestly tell me that you'd have the same since of pride if Obama had an R in front of his name instead of a D, then feel free to be proud of the moment. However if you're one of the people who has been referring to Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele and other black conservatives as uncle toms or otherwise belittling their accomplishments because they dared to leave your plantation, then I'm not buying what you're selling.

Personally the only way I'd have pride in Obama today, no matter what party he belonged to, is if he said, "You know what? I don't think spending over a hundred million dollars on this thing is such a good idea given the current economic situation in the US. Let's tone it down a few notches."

I'd applaud that coming from any politician at this point.

If you can honestly tell me that you'd have the same since sense of pride

FTFM

Simpsons did it.

I will be pleased when this "butthurt" thing runs its course. It's silly.

Enjoy the train trip Mr. President-Elect. In between his "holy shiat, this job is going to be really hard" moments, he's got to be having a lot of "holy shiat, I'm fixin to be President of the United Freakin States" moments. It would be very cool.

I'll be taking a seat on the sidelines waiting for the historic backtracking (already started) and historic failure which will be accompanied by historic blame being continually placed on the preceeding administration as the primary excuse for said historic failures.

/ I really do hope his ideas are successful, particularly where the economy is concerned - for the good of all. I just don't think they will be.
// I'll happily admit if I'm wrong.

moothemagiccow: I didn't vote for him because he was black.

Do tell.

moothemagiccow: I didn't vote for him because he was black.

This sentence is awesomely ambiguous.

"Hey, lets vote for the black guy!"

This is history! I'm in history right now!

Brubold:
That depends. If you can honestly tell me that you'd have the same since of pride if Obama had an R in front of his name instead of a D, then feel free to be proud of the moment. However if you're one of the people who has been referring to Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele and other black conservatives as uncle toms or otherwise belittling their accomplishments because they dared to leave your plantation, then I'm not buying what you're selling.



Personally, I knock on Condi and Clarence Thomas because their philosophies are wrong headed and they've done damage to the country.

I'm not sure if you guys heard, but Barack Obama (the man who was elected in November) will be America's first black president.

jcooli09: Brubold:
That depends. If you can honestly tell me that you'd have the same since of pride if Obama had an R in front of his name instead of a D, then feel free to be proud of the moment. However if you're one of the people who has been referring to Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele and other black conservatives as uncle toms or otherwise belittling their accomplishments because they dared to leave your plantation, then I'm not buying what you're selling.



Personally, I knock on Condi and Clarence Thomas because their philosophies are wrong headed and they've done damage to the country.

If you disagree with their politics then that's cool. I'm referring to the people who've been calling Condi "brown sugar" and that sort of thing over the past 8 years. Like her or not, she was the first black woman to serve as Secretary of State and didn't receive even a hint of the 'historic' recognition that Obama is getting. And neither did Powell come to think of it.

Mr. Slippyfist: I'm not sure if you guys heard, but Barack Obama (the man who was elected in November) will be America's first black president.

Which sadly means nothing on how he'll handle the country. He could be great, he could be awful, he could even be average. Color of his skin has no bearing on how well he'll do.

// Tired of the historic shiat

Mr. Slippyfist: I'm not sure if you guys heard, but Barack Obama (the man who was elected in November) will be America's first black president.

What a historic occasion!

Brubold: jcooli09: Brubold:
That depends. If you can honestly tell me that you'd have the same since of pride if Obama had an R in front of his name instead of a D, then feel free to be proud of the moment. However if you're one of the people who has been referring to Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele and other black conservatives as uncle toms or otherwise belittling their accomplishments because they dared to leave your plantation, then I'm not buying what you're selling.



Personally, I knock on Condi and Clarence Thomas because their philosophies are wrong headed and they've done damage to the country.

If you disagree with their politics then that's cool. I'm referring to the people who've been calling Condi "brown sugar" and that sort of thing over the past 8 years. Like her or not, she was the first black woman to serve as Secretary of State and didn't receive even a hint of the 'historic' recognition that Obama is getting. And neither did Powell come to think of it.

I believe you mean things like this.

Uncle Tom Powell Stumps for Massah Bush (new window)

// From a little known website called the daily kos

Wait wait wait, everyone's forgotten Warren G. Harding. Call off the parties.

Tag for headline?

"Obama takes train trip to give speech during inauguration of this candidate for his victory in this election"

Engrish?

Brubold:

"That depends. If you can honestly tell me that you'd have the same since of pride if Obama had an R in front of his name instead of a D, then feel free to be proud of the moment. However if you're one of the people who has been referring to Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele and other black conservatives as uncle toms or otherwise belittling their accomplishments because they dared to leave your plantation, then I'm not buying what you're selling."

I'm very proud of our nation for overcoming one of the more detestable aspects of its past, and the (D) or (R) is irrelevant in that aspect. I do wish we could elect a politician that could balance a checkbook, but that may be asking for too much.

/Why do we keep electing attorneys?

Brubold: bartink: Everyone agrees that this is a special moment in history for our country and we should feel a sense of pride. Right?

That depends. If you can honestly tell me that you'd have the same since of pride if Obama had an R in front of his name instead of a D, then feel free to be proud of the moment. However if you're one of the people who has been referring to Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele and other black conservatives as uncle toms or otherwise belittling their accomplishments because they dared to leave your plantation, then I'm not buying what you're selling.

Personally the only way I'd have pride in Obama today, no matter what party he belonged to, is if he said, "You know what? I don't think spending over a hundred million dollars on this thing is such a good idea given the current economic situation in the US. Let's tone it down a few notches."

I'd applaud that coming from any politician at this point.

The fact is that most of the money for all the events (except security) is being paid through donations. Trust me, I was on the email list and got at least 10 emails after the election asking for more donations. The security cost to the government is around 45-50 million dollars, if I recall correctly. The rest (such as the umpteen Inaugural Balls) is being paid by donors who want their money to be paid this way. If you are a fiscal conservative, you want people to spend their money the way they want to, and that is what is being done now...

/Spending like this will give a boom to the District's economy

For crissakes, the mans a mulatto. (new window) Will we have to do this all over again when a black man gets elected president?

I bet we will be hearing crickets from the media when the first asian gets elected.

So something that hasn't happened yet is historical?

/Epic

MyRandomName: Which sadly means nothing on how he'll handle the country

That's not the point of the celebration, just less than forty years ago Obama would have had to eat or take a piss in a colored only facility. The celebrations is a noteworthy take on how culturally Americans have changed and rather than looking at his skin, the voted on his ideas.

I wonder what his first meal will be in the White House?

Mr. Slippyfist: I'm not sure if you guys heard, but Barack Obama (the man who was elected in November) will be America's first black president.

first mixed race President. And probably not actually the first.

GoodasGold: For crissakes, the mans a mulatto. (new window) Will we have to do this all over again when a black man gets elected president?

I bet we will be hearing crickets from the media when the first asian gets elected.

In the Jim Crow Era he would be considered "black". I mean Ferguson, the same as Plessy v. Ferguson was only 1/8th African American and was forced to the "Colored" section of the rail car...

Brubold: If you disagree with their politics then that's cool. I'm referring to the people who've been calling Condi "brown sugar" and that sort of thing over the past 8 years. Like her or not, she was the first black woman to serve as Secretary of State and didn't receive even a hint of the 'historic' recognition that Obama is getting. And neither did Powell come to think of it.

It slips my mind at the moment but I seem to recall there were some other events of the last 8 years that may have overshadowed Powell and Rice's service. Maybe it'll come to me.

I just killed some historic kittens.

/now I'm off to smack the historic bishop

Jonny Chimpo: GoodasGold: For crissakes, the mans a mulatto. (new window) Will we have to do this all over again when a black man gets elected president?

I bet we will be hearing crickets from the media when the first asian gets elected.

In the Jim Crow Era he would be considered "black". I mean Ferguson, the same as Plessy v. Ferguson was only 1/8th African American and was forced to the "Colored" section of the rail car...

duh