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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm sitting here watching MSNBC The Obama Years
I'm crying like a baby at the man we had and lost. Thinking about this man being succeeded by a person as disgusting Trump is sickening. I don't know how this has happened.
skylucy
(3,738 posts)GP6971
(31,133 posts)nevergiveup
(4,759 posts)The hope, the inspiration and the patriotism I felt in 2008 added 10 years to my life. I am not sure where to go from here but I am going to hang on to some of that hope. We as liberals and progressives and sane folk must pull together and I think we will. I believe we are a sleeping giant and much like 2008 we are going to surprise a lot of people. There is something happening out there. I feel it in my bones.
Silver Gaia
(4,542 posts)lostnfound
(16,170 posts)Be grateful that we have had eight long years of such grace.
Be grateful that he is leaving the White House as a healthy man with his soul intact.
Say a prayer: that he and his family will live long and productive lives.
Silver Gaia
(4,542 posts)They are mixed with tears of gratitude for having been blessed to live in an era when I could bear witness to the unprecedented leadership of this man and his wife.
3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)I would have rather have had Lawrence O'Donnell do it, and could certainly have done without that whiner Eric Cantor.
spanone
(135,816 posts)Silver Gaia
(4,542 posts)I decided there was no use in trying to wipe away the tears. They just kept coming...
forgotmylogin
(7,524 posts)Despite reports to the contrary, the Republicans are not going to lash him to the next Mars rover...
Raine
(30,540 posts)they are more then ready to start a new life away from all the ugliness they've endured for 8yrs.