A Change is Gonna Come
 

This song by the late Sam Cooke captures the emotions I felt when Barack was announced as President-elect. I felt melancholy, but most of all... hopeful.

It is one of my all time favorite songs. It used to remind me of death and dispair until I realized I was listening to it wrong.

The title of this song is perfect for this historical moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUT1WgHat6I

Just thought I'd share.

Post a pic of your shrine, already.......jeez:rolleyes:

I see nothing wrong with what Krimson is posting. He is proud of Obama and Obama won. Nothing wrong with praising a victory. You'd better buckle down GmX5..you're in for about 9-10 months of this :) Personally I'm hoping for the best in Obama's cabinet picks.

Things I'm HAPPY about with Obama being POTUS:

- Finally show the benefits/losses of socialism
- Finally prove why you don't simply sit back and play defense in the DoD game
- Learn how wrong Bush was in foreign policy
- Find out how bad or good DEMs can run the economy when they are in full instead of 2/3 control
- Get to drop the whole "US is a huge racist" tag, though I'm sure it will still be used
- Get to see if the media has any nuts left and if they will actually criticize Obama as they have the last POTUS for 8 years
- I'm encouraged by Obama's Chief of Staff pick.
- I'm curious if he will start paying back the people that sponsored his nearly 1B campaign run

Bad things if McCain won:

- All of US would have been labeled a racist
- Would have heard media chatter about how "we've stepped back today, instead of stepping up"
- Foreign policy would have stayed pretty much the same for better and worse

Things that disgusted me about the campaigns:

- First and foremost the way Sarah Palin was treated. Unbelievable. If my wife was that disrespected, I'd kill people and be in jail now.
- No definition of what "Change" is and no media delving into anything on Obama
- McCain's inability to actually "do" anything aside from simply rely on past performance

Things that make me happy about the whole situation:

- US again shows that you can completely change your direction of power with out death and fraud.

Thing that I'm sad about:

- Why out of the majority of media interviews I'm seeing are blacks the primary interviewee. Last I checked nearly 50% of white voters voted for Obama :tsk: There may be a racial divide somewhere but IMO it isn't on the white side of the stick.

Sorry to derail the thread.

Just FYI, the story behind what Sam Cooke was going through at the time is the real interesting story...My brother was/is his biggest fan by far..I had to listen to that stuff my whole childhood...:rolleyes:

This was actually brought up by some local DJs on one of the ATL's "urban" stations. They said they were very dissappointed at all the media coverage on Tuesday night after Obama was elected and all the coverage was of black Americans celebrating, even though over 50% of white America voted for him. They said it was the media being very stereotypical with their coverage - it almost gave you the feeling of it was "them" against "us".

:thumbup: Wagner is gonna get some today. ;) :)

when less than 10% of black America votes for Mccain there is a race issue

:wow: You didn't say that out loud did you?????? :D

I tried. The jpeg file is too big to post.

And who are you, again? I could understand the criticism if it were coming from some of the regular posters on the board.