how will Democratic Underground be different if we actually win this thing?

To me, anyway, Democratic Underground has always been largely about venting and yelling and screaming about the outrageous crimes and abuses of the Bush administration.

If we actually see Senator Obama elected and sworn in as president, along with fortified majorities in the House and Senate, how will this web community be changed?

I recall that this website was founded in response to an illegitimately seated administration. Will DU become a different kind of place if we witness the seating of a New American President that actually has the best interests of our citizens at heart?

I guess this is almost more of a philosophical question than anything else. It's just something I was thinking about.

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I am sure KO will keep going after the republicans, but he will surely have to retool his show.

sort of vibe.

(God, I am so old.)

trolls and freeps with sticks for the first few weeks

:D

There is always something to complain about, and I dont let people get off that easily just because they have a (D) by their name.

Don't we get to use that response for everything for eight years, now? What's good for the goose............

We don't just criticize Republicans because they're Republicans. We criticize them because they're *wrong*.

On occasion, Democrats can be wrong too. But we will be here to call them on it, and provide some accountability.

I also think we'll move more toward issue-based advocacy and debate, rather than focusing so much on parties. This is a good thing, I think. There are a lot of important issues that get buried because we have "bigger fish to fry" with trying to win elections. Once we win, I fully expect that DU will turn its attention to issues--like gay marriage--that are often neglected for the sake of electability.

i hate the infighting that happens during that.

I'm sure Obama will get his share.
It will start with his cabinet picks. They won't be suitable to many I predict.
Later, we aren't out of Iraq fast enough. Oh, and of course Congress will get it's share too.
Hopefully the rule about calling for the defeat of Democrats will still be in place.

the Republican freakazoids.

The DUZYs will continue, I am very certain......also!

At first a euphoria over anticipation of the Democratic social dream about to be realized. Then the letdown of reality. What Congress gives, will probably not be what we want. What President Obama does is not necissarly what we want.

keeping them honest and doing the right thing.

Remember Obama voted for FISA and the Wall Street bailout bill. We will have to remind him who volunteered and fought for him. We will have to remind them ALL that We the People are in charge.

why the President isn't being impeached, we will want to know why the ex-President isn't in jail.

and see how many of them have managed to put their lives back together, once they learned to become assertive and positive again.

who voted for him by moving closer to the middle; and between those who want immediate gratification of every progressive dream (particularly if we have a filibuster-proof majority) and those who already have their attention focused on his getting reelected in 2012.

Very interesting. Thanks! :hi:

They're not going anywhere, after all, and some of them will hang onto elected office. Like rust, fascists never sleep, so they most definitely bear watching - constantly! Can you think of a better place to compile data on them than DU?

solutions to our domestic/international issues. Obama won't get a free pass here, but we will have his back. There won't be another Clinton Inquisition from the Right this time around.

will continue as always with a week or so hiatus after Nov. 4.

If you care about this country, you will always be here.

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by:
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©2008

I want a president who knows where I live

I have been to the White House

Turnabout is fair play

I want a president who has driven a truck for a living

I want a president with splinters in his fingers, calluses on his hands and blisters on his feet

I want a president who has lived in a mobile home

I want a president who has been divorced at least once, and has paid child support, and/or missed a payment and spent a night in jail

I want the president who rigged the elections in 2000 and 2004 to go to prison

I want a president who has been homeless

I want a president who has been to a rock show and can’t remember a majority of it

I want a president who has had a DUI

I want a president who smokes too much

I want a president with AIDS

I want a president who has been in a mental institution

I want a president who knows where I live

There's more than a few congressional incumbents that need to be removed in the primaries. If we have to suffer them another term, they need to be removed from policy making positions. A couple of majority leaders come to mind.

We can comment on the the Dem.s annual congressional production of "The Flight of the Pink Tutu's." We can spearhead investigations into the crimes of the last 8 years. We have plenty to do.

they'll be criticizing everything PO does...... :puke: :puke: :puke:

Some will want to go this way while will want to go that way.

The ranting against the right will continue because you KNOW they won't be calming down any, but the internecine fighting could get worse than during the primaries.

as the occasion(s) warrant(s).

We need to stay vigilant.

Once we purge the repubs of any control, we own the ship, and blaming the other party is
not only wrong but it is the same whining we have laughed at them for eight years now.

as he will undoubtedly do once he's president. Remember FISA?

Limballs and the other rightwingnuts will have a Full Employment Plan for the duration.

While Jon and KO will have to scramble for material, the freepoids will need their daily fix of hate more than ever.

On DU, we'll probably act like Dems have always acted... we'll go at each other with meat-axes over the finer points of issues. Better that than marching lockstep into the void like the Repubs.

I'll be pushing that the US return to its Constitution and also for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Much like what happened after 2006.

People will always find something to bitch about, myself included.