Obama campaign volunteers celebrate in Tampa

[JOSEPH GARNETT JR. | Times]

Volunteers and supporters of the Barack Obama presidential campaign celebrate President-elect Obama's victory over Sen. John McCain.

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Comments

[Mrs. Tonya M. Lewis]

What a joy! Thank God, and "CHANGE" has come. A time of joy in this nation. I'm a African American young lady, and I'm glad to see all COLOR come together. Cry, Smile, Hug, and share a special, historical moment.

Thank you, Communities around the nation.

Not only has Obama crossed a threshold in American politics, his supporters have demonstrated the power of hope. Although Obama's support was far and wide, many of his campaign volunteers were African American. They worked their butts off!

No more hurtful stereotypes of late, slow and lazy blacks please.

Disenfranchised people do not feel obligated to support leadership that denies them the full benefits of American citizenship.

The tide is just beginning to turn. As hope swells, all people will rise with the tide.

Video at 2:24- May your knees never again weaken and may your heart never again grow weary. For you know have hope and faith in human kind.

May you walk with your head held high, your spirit empowered and your heart open. Know that the majority of Americans love and respect their fellow citizens.

[John]

Absolutely pathetic. I can appreciate the enthusiasm of volunteers for a cause, but this is too much. Guess that makes me a 'hater' & 'divisive'?

No John, you're not a divisive hater. You just haven't had the same life experience.

This election is an achievement of what was once an impossible dream.

John, I think you simply need help understanding. What's your boundary when enthusiasm goes from acceptable to "too much"? Listen again to the words that these people spoke. Consider the accumulated life-long frustrations for some of them. Consider the effects of the past eight years of divisive national politics. Consider the personal efforts of hundreds of thousands of volunteers to make a difference. e.g., A friend knocked on over 500 doors in the past week for an "unlikely candidate" who won against huge odds.

[Susan]

I'm a white woman and I cried and couldn't stop for a long time. For those of you who don't feel anything, you haven't felt the pain of that many of us - black and white - have gone through for many years. Good riddance to Bush/Cheney - the worst administration in the history of this country.

[Holly]

Obama's win reminds me of some of the silly reasons why I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1980. 1) He was a Nuclear Physicist. 2) He was from a poor family. 3) He was NOT a beltway politican. And what really happened to my dream...poor Jimmy Carter, with all his superior intelligence, got thrown into the government machine, he got spun around, chewed up, and spit out. History is repeating itself. Shameful.

[oscobravo]

Well I'm a white man, and I say GOOD RIDDENCE TO GEORGE DUBYA AND HIS INEPT, "CATER TO THE RICH" GARBAGE POLITICS. Now I can breath a little easier. I won't lose my job or my health insurance, or have my health insurance benifits taxed out from under me while the oil companies who charged us 4 bucks a gallen get their taxes cut.

YEAH OBAMA!!!!

[Tom]

What a sickening display of misguided joy. Things are about to get worse, not better. Obama was voted in because he's a Dem, not named, Bush, and a whole lot of clueless people casting votes for him(even people who were dead or made up out of thin air). The past few months have been a mere formality. He already had the White House months ago. No way was this biased, Left slanted society being steered by the scrupulous Leftist whackjob media gonna allow him NOT to win.

On a side note, the Repubs deserved to lose. They put the wrong horse in the race, and Palin backfired. Perhaps electing this stealth Socialist will give the Repubs the long overdue kick in the pants and allow them to bounce back in 2012; I really don't want two terms with this guy.

"Change" - it's just a another word for Socialism.

[Fred]

This election is a clear mandate for liberals. "We now have political capital and we intend to use it!" This is payback for the words used by Dick Cheney after the 2004 election.

It is time for right wingers to join America. We won't put up with your hate America attitudes. Love this country or leave it!

That rhetoric stings doesn't it? It's payback for all of the years of criticizing liberals for speaking up.

We'll forgive you for all of the years of calling us "un-American" for speaking up. But now it's time for you to join a new progressive movement. A new America!!!!

[voxy]

he's a man like any other man.

Let's hope he does as well as our hopes allow us to believe.
And, remember if not for JFK, RFK, Martin and FDR this would not be happening today. Even WITH oprah's millions.
He stood on the shoulders of GIANTS

[Blacks show their Racist side...]

Overall, Obama drew the votes of more than half of women, two-thirds of Hispanic voters and nearly all blacks who went to the polls. Obama was winning the under-30 vote by a 2-1 ratio.
NEARLY ALL BLACKS..? Obviously it's about skin color...

[bill]

Four words: Star Wars Bar Scene

What a pathetic display by individuals that are extremely wrapped up in one man. People, people, Barry puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. The guy cannot part the Red Sea, nor can he deliver on 1/3 of the giveways he promised in the last two years. You folks will wake up in the next few weeks & months with the cold hard reality that NOTHING is going to change. Obama nor the government are going to make you wealthy, successful or fulfilled, only your individual actions, choices & hard work. I did not need the election on one man(regardless of skin color) to prove that anything is possible in America.
Remember this you misguided minions, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

[Tony]

OK. . .so now that we have a half black President and a black First Lady. . . .can blacks now stop playing the race card, and can they now stop thinking that America is so racist that their skin color holds them back when they're doing a good enough job of holding themselves back?

Many of them stupidly believe that he's gonna give blacks special treatment; he's not, he did just like Bill Cosby did, he stood in front of blacks and more or less said to them, "Get your s___t together."

[oscobravo]

That's exactly right. And incidently, Obama HAD TO get the majority of the WHITE registerd voters to vote for him in order to be elected, so I guess we're not as stupid or as bigoted as one may think.

As for "socialism," if a progressive energy program, that will end our dependece on inported oil, clean up the environment and put an end to the vast fortunes heaped up by the oil companies, is "socialism," then call me a "socialist."