Congratulations USA!

[mom'sfolly]

I think a bantam partridge cochin, and a blue silkie; just in case they need spare sofa cushions in the white house.

 

[kodiakchicken]

I think we should send them a rhode island red, a white silkie and a blue rock - that way their chickens are red, white and blue!!!

 

[jnjross]

white silkie

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

I'd have to say the right chickens for the White house would be um, American breeds folks! Like how about a nice Rhode Island Red or a Buckeye? Brahmas, Delawares, Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks, Jersey Giants, New Hampshire Reds, Dominiques.

 

[purr]

I have an idea, make sure the puppy they get is a GP and then the puppy will need a whole flock to guard.

 

[Trollkiller]

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Thank you for proving my point about each younger generation becoming more color blind than the older generation.

Understand half the voters did not vote for or against him because of his race. Realistically the percentage would be much lower, maybe 5% for both. (I hope that is a gross overestimation)

Half voted for him because he is a Democrat. Half voted for McCain because he is a Republican. People line themselves up with the party that expresses most of their views.

The tipping point for any Presidential candidate is the "undecided" voters. Those are the ones that do not blindly vote for a party. What you had in this election was undecided and those voting for the first time because there was a candidate that they felt represents them. Some were black, some were white, some were this and some where that.

Most of the new voters had one thing in common, they are young. Obama sold hope to the hopeful. The promise of hope and change were enough to tip the votes in his favor.

Understand this, a lot of people are happy a "black" man won, EVEN if he was not their candidate of choice. I voted McCain because he represented me more than Obama does, BUT I am happy that in my life time a minority won the Office of President. My landlady who is 70+ years old, black and a life long Democrat did not vote for Obama but she is happy a black man won.

I wish I would have been able to vote for the first minority to hold that office but I had to vote for who I thought would be the better President.

This was an historic election for America, but make no mistake Obama won on the basis of his promise and message, not for the color of his skin.

MLK would be proud.

 

[debilorrah]

Black, white or indifferent, I am dissapointed, but the world continues to revolve (what an improvement from last nights attitude!!) and we will all live to see another election and another bunch of posts about how we feel. And that just tickles me to the floor.

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

I am far from thrilled with the outcome but I'll get over it and my DH and I will sit by and see what happens.
I'm just thankful that we have the right to vote and we're not just told who is going to be president...

 

[SussexInSeattle]

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I'm sorry that you and others around you feel that Obama being voted into office was a way of beating racism, the truth is that those of us who are old enough to vote, voted in this way because our country is, and has been, falling apart at the seams for the past 8 years. We have people who have lost jobs, lost homes and lost entire retirement savings. We have lost tons of money and lives in a war that has dragged on and on when we can ill-afford to fund a big war. We have seen our US dollar drop below other countries money for the first time.

People in this country, REGARDLESS of race, are SCARED. We don't know what we will lose next and how close to 'home' the next loss will hit. Most of us know that we hold off homelessness just by ONE paycheck. People with money ridicule homeless people and call them bums who leach off the system but I believe that NO-ONE starts out their life aspiring to become homeless!

Try not to think that half the people who voted for him voted because of his color because you don't show faith in your country by thinking this. A good 1/2 of the country KNEW it was high time for a change and Barack Obama did NOT have to be 1/2 black to get my vote with the speeches that he made and good sense that he seems to bring with him. His voice speaks to me as an honest man and above everything, as a born leader! I feel if anyone could begin an attempt at fixing this huge mess we are in, thankfully we have someone that we can look up to, with no reference to color of skin at all. Obama just brought the right ideas at the right time. The fact that he is a black man has made some people very happy because it does help lower racism a bit, but looking at the states that voted against, it is obvious that it is still out there in the typical states that are known for it.

Try to read articles about him and his ideas in good magazines like TIME and there is a chance that you may find some of his proposals could possibly help us to recover the giant mess we are in, but read the stories without thinking of his color at all, read the articles thinking of him as just one man, who applied to our country to become it's president because he wanted to help fix this mess, and then maybe you will see why so many of us voted him in and were so very happy when we succeeded.

 

[Black Feather]

I think trying to define why people voted for a certain candidate can encompass as many reasons as there are people who voted. For some it's tradition, (we've always voted this way so we always will), for others it's platform and ideas, for yet others it's skin color, or ther message of the particular candidate. Maybe some were so disenfranchised by the Bush administration that they would vote for anyone in the opposite party no matter ho they were. To say that people did it for race, or any other singular reason I think is way oversimplifying.

The fact however is that record numbers of people went out and cast their vote. I think an important thing now is to keep the involvement high. Don't just sit back and watch what will happen. Continue to communicate with your elected officials so that when things crop up that do not appeal to you make sure they know. After all they are there to work for you, if you do not let them know what you want they can not represent you effectively.

Ok, on to more important things. You know, if Obama's family got some white silkies they could be dyed any color that they wanted

You know, like to do to cats now and then

Maybe even have little patterns included.

Urban Coyote