freeztar Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 Apparently Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are hosting a live election special in about 10 minutes. :rolleyes: Comedy Central Official Site - Your Source for Comedians, Funny Video Clips, TV Shows, Games, Jokes, & Ringtones | Comedy Central
Buffy Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Posted November 5, 2008 Yes, the horridly misnamed "Indecision 2008" and its looking like it might be all "decided" by the time they come on the air. I'm going to be able to watch 90210:TNG without skipping back to MSNBC! A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last, :rolleyes:Buffy
modest Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 Humm... Olberman and Rove or Stewart and Colbert... I'm gonna have to weigh my options on this one :rolleyes:
Tormod Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 4:15am here and it seems the thriller moment has passed. :rolleyes:
Buffy Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Posted November 5, 2008 4:15am here and it seems the thriller moment has passed. :phones:Nah. None of the networks have had the guts to actually call the election yet. Too many memories of Florida in 2000.... How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! :rolleyes:Buffy
modest Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 I miss Russert and his whiteboard :rolleyes:
modest Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 The major networks have called it. Barack Obama is the president elect of the United States of America. :rolleyes:
Buffy Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Posted November 5, 2008 8PM on the West Coast, so everyone calls California, Oregon and Washington and pronounces it all over.... Long night of talking heads overanalyzing it yet to come though! Oh and the total wingnuts earlier this week predicted widespread riots from the ni.. Obama Supporters... Time for 90210:TNG! I want more than your applause. I won't be gone forever, Dylan. Give me something to come back to, :rolleyes:Buffy
freeztar Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 Good news. The possibility of Palin was very frightening. Time for 90210:TNG! Or not. :rolleyes:
Buffy Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Posted November 5, 2008 Fabulous concession speech by McCain...I'll post some excerpts later...all about working together....he did have to shut up some yahoos in the crowd at the beginning though.... If he'd just talked like this for the last 2 months he might have won! We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems, :rolleyes:Buffy
Donk Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 Fabulous concession speech by McCain...I'll post some excerpts later...all about working together....he did have to shut up some yahoos in the crowd at the beginning though.... If he'd just talked like this for the last 2 months he might have won!That's what I thought. Why did he save his best speech until after he'd lost? If his handlers had set him free, he might have got closer, at least.
modest Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 The possibility of Palin was very frightening My local radio station has been playing calls from the public; where you're from, who you're voting for and the like. A few days ago a random caller left the message "My name's Josh. I'm frum Independence, Missouruh, and I'm votin' fer Barack Hussein Obama, cuz Sarah Palin scares the bejeezers outta me." I thought it was funny, but you probably had to hear it. Fabulous concession speech by McCain... I wonder if there's an exit poll asking "Was your vote against McCain?". Because, I get the sense nobody really was. People were voting against Bush and against Palin and most certainly for Obama, but not against McCain. Considering what he's done all his life for the US, it seems a bit lamentable that he (personally) had to loose. :rolleyes:
Racoon Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 This election was over a long time ago... Whats also important is the Dems should land a majority of house and senate seats as well..And hopefully steer the country back on course. (But NOT like Jimmy Carter) I Voted for Obama. :rolleyes:Becuz' he Sounds like a leader. I want to listen to him. Awesome public speaking will get you everywhere,Rac.
Donk Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 I've just talked to a friend of mine, an african-american:I didn't think I'd feel like this, Today the American people have said that they accept my people as true Americans. Suddenly I have an insane hope that that feeling might trickle down to some of the youngsters - maybe they'll start acting like Americans!
Buffy Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Posted November 5, 2008 I Voted for Obama. :phones:Becuz' he Sounds like a leader. I want to listen to him."Yes we can!" Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek, :rolleyes:Buffy
Buffy Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Posted November 5, 2008 From McCain's concession speech:My friends, we have -- we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him. (BOOING) Please. To congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving....But we both recognize that, though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound. A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States....Senator Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer him my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day. Though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise. Senator Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain. These are difficult times for our country. And I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face. I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited. Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that....I don't know -- I don't know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I'll leave that to others to determine. Every candidate makes mistakes, and I'm sure I made my share of them. But I won't spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been. This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life, and my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Senator Obama and my old friend Senator Joe Biden should have the honor of leading us for the next four years. (BOOING) Please. Please.....Tonight -- tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Senator Obama -- whether they supported me or Senator Obama. I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender....(transcript from Fox News) In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility, :rolleyes:Buffy
Zythryn Posted November 5, 2008 Report Posted November 5, 2008 McCain's concession speech was wonderful. It showed that he really does want what is best for the country and hopefully will go a long way towards unifying the country.Obama's speech was sensational!I am pround to have a president-elect that is inspirational and can pronounce nuclear;)
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