Congratulations USA!

[Black Feather]

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I agree! The world is not as big as we once believed it to be, and we all have to share the space. I've heard nothing but good things about the US election and I've been listening to the local news all day. I hear that countries around the world are congratulating you guys on the election and how it's given those in countries not as lucky as our own hope for a better future for themselves. Lets face it, we're very lucky even in this difficult financial crisis.

Urban Coyote

P.S: I sooooo want to see chooks in the White House!!

 

[freshegg]

8 years ago I told hubby if bush gets in watch gas triple and then go down to the double mark right before he leaves office kinda a no brainer but people voted him in twice so all that voted him in made history voting in the worst president ever (thats what they are saying his legacy in the history books will be) so obama has to be better I like him and hope he makes us proud.
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[Backyard Buddies]

It does give hope. I think much of the world had been dismayed with the turn our country took in recent years. Most of the world wants to look to American for leadership and most of the world wants America to continue to reach for the ideals on which she was founded. By our election of Obama yesterday, the world sees an America that continues to grow toward those ideals. I realize for nearly half of our citizenry, they can't see that yet and I have empathy for them and the for sadness they're feeling today. I hope that we can come together and be one as we move forward.

So, should we be petitioning for Sasha and Malia to get a couple of pet chickens rather than a new puppy?

 

[Black Feather]

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Absolutely...I'm thinking a nice buff silkie, and a blue cochin, complete with harnesses and leashes so they can walk them!!

 

[mjdtexan]

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Ummm...That's Abraham Lincoln. First inaugural address. Definitely not any German politician of any kind at all. Just sayin', before you make any assertions or repeat any rumors, I believe it was St. Augustine who said in his Literal Interpretation of Genesis that it was important not to repeat or preach things which can, by simple observation, be known by any common person as plainly false, lest one's entire socioeconomic group be thought fools.

Ouch.

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

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Wow, I'm Canadian and I don't think I'm related to that many of them!

Chooks in the White House, send them an e-mail! Maybe they will!

 

[Guitartists]

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Absolutely...I'm thinking a nice buff silkie, and a blue cochin, complete with harnesses and leashes so they can walk them!!

How GREAT would that be!!!!! I'd love to see chickens in the White House! Surely Presidents of the past have had them.

 

[freshegg]

I am the grandmother of a biracial baby girl and am very aware of this mentallity as Im married to a man that thinks like this but he was open minded enough to know obama needed to win to hopefully fix this economy even though we dont agree with 100 % of either party and problely never will,
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[Backyard Buddies]

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Complete with diapers so that they can safely go on Air Force One.

 

[Timmo]

I don't know if it's worth anything, but I'd like to add this.

The Lincoln address, quoted earlier, reminded me of something. Change, and not just the Dem's campaign slogan, but how the Republican party itself has changed.

If you read through the address, you are reminded of the fact that the GOP used to be the progressive party in the US. Not so much from the words (as it was 1861), but from the knowledge of what Lincoln (the first Republican president) accomplished just a short time later, and then all the way through Teddy Roosevelt's presidency. TR himself started a party named 'The Progressive Party', after deciding he didn't really want to resign from politics after all.

My, how things have changed. I wonder what Lincoln would think of the party flip-flop that has occured in the past century. "Change" was pretty much the definition of Lincoln's party at the time.

Interesting food for thought, no?