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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:15 AM Original message |
Who of us old hippies would have thought that our first black President would be in our lifetimes |
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Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
1. Not me! |
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democrank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
2. It`s really something, isn`t it? |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Isn't it though |
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mattvermont (428 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
3. I have been thinking the same thing |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
4. Old hippie checkin' in here: I've always been optimistic about us. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
6. It never even was mentioned as a possibility -- just the possibility of |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
7. To be completely honest I would have thought it would have happened much earlier |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:24 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Hey, things cycle back. We created this backlash and now we can make a comeback. n/t |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
27. I think it would have if we didn't have to live through a Reagan presidency |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:52 AM Response to Reply #27 |
32. that's a good way to put it: |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:03 AM Response to Reply #7 |
46. Nothing really changed????? |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:59 AM Response to Reply #46 |
60. A couple of quibbles |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 12:18 PM Response to Reply #60 |
79. It is against the LAW to discriminate |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 01:41 PM Response to Reply #79 |
83. With all due respect |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
8. It will take me a while to get my head around that |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #8 |
33. lol |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
9. This 60 year old has renewed hope today |
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xochi (191 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
10. Until recently, I'd been thinking that it's the end of the world... |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
11. Not me, either |
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Lebam in LA (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
12. A dream come true |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:54 AM Response to Reply #12 |
38. i'm the same damn way! |
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Lebam in LA (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 12:45 PM Response to Reply #38 |
82. I should have bought stock in tissues |
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Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
13. When I think about it my heart races. |
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Papagoose (361 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
15. I'm not old |
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Phentex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:50 AM Original message |
Same here. We tried to explain to our kids what we witnessed |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
16. I literally feel my heart swell and my breath catching in my throat |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
17. I had my hopes that MLK would have been, but we know how that ended. |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:33 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. But MLK opened the door. Without |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
19. In 1970, I expected it to happen. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
20. I didn't. And I get slammed for saying it, but one of the reasons I am voting for Obama |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
21. Not I. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:42 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. LBJ and Jimmy Carter were both Southerners.. n/t |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 06:57 PM Response to Reply #23 |
88. Uh...Yes, I KNEW that. |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
22. KnR Nearly 70.....not I.....never thought it would be so soon. |
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ramapo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
24. Our reward for the past 40 years |
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Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
25. I have been waiting for this day since Shirley Chisholm ran |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:56 AM Response to Reply #25 |
40. I love getting old |
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Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:20 AM Response to Reply #40 |
49. I know what you mean |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:05 AM Response to Reply #25 |
47. Shirley Chisolm was 40 years ahead of her time. |
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Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:26 AM Response to Reply #47 |
51. Shirley, Ann, Molly and so many countless other women over the years |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:39 AM Response to Reply #47 |
54. Shirley Chisholm stands tall among the public figures making an Obama possible. |
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JimboBillyBubbaBob (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 02:16 PM Response to Reply #47 |
86. And |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
26. I had always pictured that President as 100% black and descended from American slaves |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
28. And 1/2 Irish can't hurt either! |
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
29. I don't even think about Obama's race. |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
30. i remember rooting for |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
31. Not me. Not after the last 8 years. |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
34. The Woodstock moment |
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Highway61 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
35. I never really thought about it... |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:13 AM Response to Reply #35 |
67. And I would like to think we've been a part of making it happen too |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
36. I remember as a teenager reading a book "The Man." |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
37. I expected it would happen in my lifetime. Just not this soon. |
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Brazenly Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
39. Not me. And I've never been so thrilled to be wrong! |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
41. We have black generals, admirals, head coaches in the NFL, Secs of State, Chair of the JCS... |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
42. I voted for the best plan and person to lead us..And I also got to vote |
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JohnnyRingo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
43. Never in a million and 55 years. |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
44. Way back when, I knew. |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
45. As a child of the 60's I can tell you ... |
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WheelWalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
48. This jungle remnant of the hippie counterculture is a closet optimist... |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
50. a m a z i n g |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
52. You can thank the Internet and YouTube |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
53. I didn't wear my ponytail to vote this AM I wore my old headband. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
55. So many things I never thought I'd see |
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1776Forever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
56. I would have, in the early 60's our High School Class President was a great young black man. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
57. Obama's BLACK!?!?!? Crap, next thing you'll be telling me Mccain was a POW or something. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:21 AM Response to Reply #57 |
69. Hell ... and I just thought that was a Hawaiian tan. (I get darker than that. Wanna compare?) |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
58. Not me |
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SweetStephanie (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
59. he's the chosen one |
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Irishonly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
61. I Didn't |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
62. Not remotely |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
63. yes, i was speaking of this to my son the other day |
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Shardik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
64. I have always been hoping. |
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vanlassie (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
65. IT'S TRIPPIN' ME OUT, MAN! |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:16 AM Response to Reply #65 |
68. I haven't heard that phrase in a while |
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vanlassie (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:48 AM Response to Reply #68 |
75. Fer sure....! |
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LiberalPersona (679 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
66. We certainly have come a long way since Lincoln's time n/t |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
70. Old hippie here and honestly, I could never understand why race should have been an issue to anyone. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
71. Never in a million years |
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Kip Humphrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
72. I'm sooo glad to pass the reigns away from our schizophrenic generation! GOBAMA! |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
73. I hoped it would happen. |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
74. Not me.....I didn't think it would EVER happne in my lifetime. |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:51 AM Response to Reply #74 |
77. I thought it was possible but not probable- But some may call me a dreamer |
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SalviaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
76. Never... Its FAR OUT MAN!! |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
78. I had my doubts and thought it might come late in life |
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BobTheSubgenius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
80. Even back then, I didn't believe I'd see it. |
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tilsammans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
81. Back in the 60s, I honestly . . . |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
84. Not an old hippie, but I thought Colin Powell would have won in 2000 |
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mentalsolstice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
85. I'm just 8 months older than Obama |
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msedano (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-08 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
87. shirley chisholm |
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