I am SO. DAMN. PROUD. of our president and first lady.

And I've waited SO long to be able to say that.

Just saying...

:-)

I am just one of them.

Gawd we all love our First Family! They are so perfect for the world, and to think, America produced them, between 1960 and now, from common ordinary Americans. How wonderful this nation is..when Kennedy was President, these two people were born here.......think about it.

We must have thousands of people like Obama in our nation........we must!

... and then remember this moment.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCDxXJSucF4

And then use those feelings to fuel us three years from now.

We are not done.

who had no manners, no integrity, was a complete uneducated buffoon who should've believed in evolution cuz he was only one genetic marker from the missing link, a dude who talked smack to Tony Blair while he masticated a piece of bread and spit crumbs everywhere. An idiot who drooled on about pigs and touched up Angela without her permission. A white boy who had everything handed to him and turned into a drunken, moronic idiot.

So now we have an African American, a man 10 times the human that Dim Son ever was, a man of dignity, compassion, maturity, charisma--a man who can articulate a message with calm and confidence, but who had to work every day and fight racism and earned everything himself.

What the hell is wrong with this society?

what?

his great-grandparents all worked for oil corps. One set had a Standard Oil lease in El Dorado Kansas during the Depression; i.e. S.O. was pumping oil off their land in the most productive continental US field. And the g-parents were in the oil biz *before* that strike.

Grandma a banker, mother worked for USAID/Ford Foundation, both father & stepfather had oil/big politics connections. Obama never went to a public school & got his Ivy League Education paid for. His political career in Chicago backed by Crowns & Pritzkers.

I think both O. & his wife in their public personas represent the office more credibly than the Bushes, but c'mon. Horatio Alger he ain't. Not compared to most of the US population, at least.

a bit different than I remember reading...
where'd you get your info?

http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5339728


i looked at the genealogy, census data, published accounts, read up on the towns & historical backgrounds of the people.

What is your point? Did he get in them schools with poor grades or was he an A student?

(shakes head) You guys kill me.

came of age after the big battles of the Civil Rights movement were long over. He turned 19 in 1980. He's not in any sense someone who worked his way up from poverty or even the ordinary middle class, nor did he "fight racism every day".

That's *my* point, what's yours?

The newscasters were positively giddy!

I couldn't be prouder. :)

Those of us who were too young to experience the Kennedys are getting a taste of it now. President and First Lady Obama are as close to my dream President/First Lady as anyone is ever going to get. What a magical couple.

We were inspired daily by the president. We did things that we thought he wanted us to do. Get it while you can. Very few have that personality, and they usually don't become president.

--imm

between the Chinese and French, I got tears in my eyes. I felt like I did in November. I have hope.

be proud.

separately, an easy smile comes across my face. They make me feel so confident in the future of our country. :applause:

at the school and we heard part of her message and then she started hugging the girls. The SS was having fits over the close contact, but Michelle gave those girls a beautiful, smart, kind, compassionate role model to follow for the rest of their lives. She is awesome. My hero for the day.

a better relationship between the United States and the rest of the world.