Flickr: Election Night Photo Album

Thanks Ande for sending this to Brook. You can feel the tension and the anticipation. What a beautiful family, what an amazing night.

You Know Your President Is Black When......

Coates:
...he paraphrases Sam Cooke in his acceptance speech, has an office of urban policy, and gives Ebony the first photo shoot.

I'm sure it also has something to do with the fact that Johnson publications, Ebony's parent, has deep ties in black Chicago. You know all them bougie South Side Negroes run together!

UPDATE: J Starr points us to this dope, dope cover from Ebony

www.godhatesfags.com: flyer to protest Obama's granmother's funeral

NICE.

What will be done about Lieberman?

I guess I missed this; but apparently Obama did an LBJ style corner-backing with Joe the Independent back in June.

How He Did It

Newsweek has their analysis.

And not to "belabor" the point, but Andrew posts this part again, which I have repeated on many occasions,

I wrote well over a year ago, when Obama was 20 points behind, and McCain written off:

Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.

We don't have to imagine any more. It's happening. And the forces for good in the world have been immeasurably strengthened as a consequence.

Obama's Chili Recipe

I made this last night for our very small Election Night get together. It was good enough that I've been asked to post the recipe. To save space, I've posted it as a comment, and provided the title link as well.

Side note: The Ciroc Obama was good, but as Brook says, I like any drinks that are blue. :)

This

Will Be

Our Future

Photos: Linda Turner, 12/30/07

White Racists and Anti-Semites for Obama

From the chairman of the American Nazi Party on Obama:
"White people are faced with either a negro or a total nutter who happens to have a pale face. Personally I'd prefer the negro."
But there's more....

Obama draws crowd of 25,000 in Des Moines today

"On the day of the Iowa caucuses, my faith in the American people was vindicated and what you started here in Iowa has swept the nation," Obama told a crowd his campaign said totaled about 25,000 in a downtown park under a warm fall sun.


"A couple of elections ago, there was a presidential candidate who decried this kind of politics and condemned these kinds of tactics. And I admired him for it. He said, 'I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land.' Those words were spoken eight years ago by my opponent, John McCain," he said. "But the high road didn't lead him to the White House then, so this time, he decided to take a different route."

Obama also criticized a new McCain ad that shows the Democratic nominee in the past praising McCain and Sen. Joseph Lieberman for their work on global warming.

"As if there's something wrong with acknowledging when an opponent has said or done something that makes sense," Obama said. "I do that all the time....I think we need more of that attitude in Washington. We need more civility in Washington. I don't disagree with Senator McCain on everything. I respect his occasional displays of independence."

Left two photos: Linda Turner, Right photo: Don Abbott

The Top Ten Reasons Conservatives Should Vote For Obama

No, Andrew Sullivan is not paying me under the table for linking to him. But in my opinion he consistently offers the most reasoned, non-inflammatory coherent point of view. He is committed to holding the next President accountable for his actions and promises; and while there are many things we may disagree on, my respect for him is profound.

10. A body blow to racial identity politics. An end to the era of Jesse Jackson in black America.

9. Less debt. Yes, Obama will raise taxes on those earning over a quarter of a million. And he will spend on healthcare, Iraq, Afghanistan and the environment. But so will McCain. He plans more spending on health, the environment and won't touch defense of entitlements. And his refusal to touch taxes means an extra $4 trillion in debt over the massive increase presided over by Bush. And the CBO estimates that McCain's plans will add more to the debt over four years than Obama's. Fiscal conservatives have a clear choice.

8. A return to realism and prudence in foreign policy. Obama has consistently cited the foreign policy of George H. W. Bush as his inspiration. McCain's knee-jerk reaction to the Georgian conflict, his commitment to stay in Iraq indefinitely, and his brinksmanship over Iran's nuclear ambitions make him a far riskier choice for conservatives. The choice between Obama and McCain is like the choice between George H.W. Bush's first term and George W.'s.

7. An ability to understand the difference between listening to generals and delegating foreign policy to them.

6. Temperament. Obama has the coolest, calmest demeanor of any president since Eisenhower. Conservatism values that kind of constancy, especially cmopared with the hot-headed, irrational impulsiveness of McCain.

5. Faith. Obama's fusion of Christianity and reason, his non-fundamentalist faith, is a critical bridge between the new atheism and the new Christianism.

CLICK HERE FOR THE REST:

Drudge Report: Wrong about Obama "Redistribution of Wealth" from 2001

Read Andrew Sullivan's post on this, it's about the civil rights movement, not socialism.

UPDATE:

FACTCHECKER JUST DEALT WITH THIS (QUICKLY, AS THE 2001 SUPREME COURT ISSUE JUST STARTED MAKING THE ROUNDS TODAY: THEIR CONCLUSION:
The Pinocchio Test

With very few exceptions, all American politicians, including both presidential candidates, are in favor of a progressive income tax system and welfare policies (such as Medicare and Social Security) that "redistribute wealth." Barack Obama is more enthusiastic about "spreading the wealth around" than his Republican rival. But that does not make him a "Socialist." The McCain camp is wrong to suggest that the Illinois senator advocated an "wealth redistribution" role for the Supreme Court in his 2001 interview.

TWO PINOCCHIOS

Amazon Had Obama Mask Listed As A "Terrorist Costume"

This was reported in the LA Times on Sunday; and Think Progress shows Top of the Ticket caught the image via screenshot.

Obama's Inaugural Speech Is Not Already Written

CBS News reported, a story that Barack Obama's inaugural speech has already been written.

CBS is now reporting that the Obama campaign says the charge is completely false. As Matthew Yglesias says, it's also true that the charge is completely false. Anyone who has heard Senator Obama speak in the last 2 weeks knows; he's not taking anything for granted.

ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS ENDORSES OBAMA
Sen. McCain describes himself as a maverick, by which he seems to mean that he spent 25 years trying unsuccessfully to persuade his own party to follow his bipartisan, centrist lead. Sadly, maverick John McCain didn't show up for the campaign. Instead we have candidate McCain, who embraces the extreme Republican orthodoxy he once resisted and cynically asks Americans to buy for another four years.

Yet despite her formidable gifts, few who have worked closely with the governor would argue she is truly ready to assume command of the most important, powerful nation on earth. To step in and juggle the demands of an economic meltdown, two deadly wars and a deteriorating climate crisis would stretch the governor beyond her range. Like picking Sen. McCain for president, putting her one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world is just too risky at this time.
Click here for full article.

How Do You Feel About This?

Taken from: www.fivethirtyeight.com On The Road: Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Last week, Julie Hensley made one of her thousands of phone calls on behalf of Barack Obama. A woman answered. As Hensley ran through her short script, the husband impatiently broke in.

"Ma'am, we're voting for the n***er." And hung up.

Hensley wasn't having it. "I went and made a couple other calls but chafed over this absurdity," she told us, "so I called them back, as I still had a couple questions for the wife." This time the man answered, asked pointedly who she was, and when she replied he hung up again.

As for Hensley, her story ended with a twist. A couple hours later during a pause in her dials, her phone rang. She recognized the number. "This is going to be good," she remembers thinking, getting ready to scrap.

It was the husband. He was calling for the woman on whom he'd hung up. She then got something she didn't expect -- an apology. Calmly, Hensley told the man she'd accept his apology on one condition -- he had to tell her who he was voting for.

"Oh, I don't normally talk about it but I feel like I owe you," the man said. "I am voting for Senator Obama." He asked if Hensley would like to speak to his wife, as he'd interrupted the original call. Hensley mentioned that she had been surprised when he'd called to apologize. Apparently the husband and wife had been talking the entire couple hours since the original call. "Did she get upset with you?" Hensley asked.

"What do you think?" the man replied.

Eleven days.

A Wonderful Collection of Campaign Photos

Make sure click "Show More Images" at the bottom of each page. One from Des Moines, one from Burlington IA!

What if the Tables Were Turned???

Thanks to Bev Vrooman for this insightful email. Click my comment, below, for full text.

Alamo chairwoman writes letter stating Obama is a Muslim socialist

Yeah, the Democrats are doing the same thing. Like calling John McCain a fascist, homophobic dictator. Really???????????????????????????? No wait.....THEY'RE NOT.

Another Pic

Don in my office thought the adult WAS Barack at first glance. Another photo of Barack Obama with his grandfather, Stanley Dunham. Amazing.

This Is What 100,000 Looks Like

Barack Obama draws record U.S. crowd
today in St. Louis, Mo.

Missouri is a hotly contested state, currently polling, according to RCP, polling +2.5 for Obama. Missouri has been the "bellwether" state in the US elections; choosing the winning candidate in every election since 1960. (Since 1904, the state's only miss was in 1956).