The Significance of Today

[sheepshead]

I always thought the first minority president would be a republican. Shows what I know. The significance of today should not be lost on anyone. I am whiter then white. There is no way I can walk a mile in the shoes of anyone of color and appreciate what is it to be treated differently just due to the color of your skin. While a liberal with no experience at anything taking the oath of office today, frightens me greatly, there is hopefully something to be gained in the way we treat each other. Also, President Obama will be an inspiration for kids of all backgrounds and colors. While they will not all become president, there will be many who will strive to work hard and achieve something with their lives that was not necessarily handed to them. His own story and upbringing shows a path void of a silver spoon.

I hope when he has to make a decision, one without complete information at hand, he seeks the advice of the gray hairs around him. Also, if half of what comes out of his mouth is in his heart, then I think he is a good man and will have the best interest of all of us when choices confront him. I didn’t vote for him. I do not want any liberal agenda to succeed (it never has), but I want the best for this country.


Having said all this, the media is making me sick. I have never watched an inauguration and I wont watch this one. The love fest is embarrassing and could prove to be harmful as every administration needs the checks and balances the press provides.

[retailguy]

You should re-title your thread "Dear World - The other perspective".

[MJZiggy]

It was a nice sentiment. Why'd you have to go and get nasty about it?

[SkinBasket]

Who said anything nasty? All I see is some levity and truth.

[MJZiggy]

You guys are never going to allow anything fun to ever happen in the Romper Room without a bunch of attacking sarcastic bullshit again, are you. The camaraderie of this room is gone and it's a shame because it used to be such fun.

[LL2]

I didn't vote for Obama, but I will say this day will have a lot of significance for this country. I will probably not agree with half of what Obama says or wants to do, but for today that is besides the point. Minorities and black people do have a lot do be proud about in seeing Obama become president. As mentioned yesterday many many black people still remember being mistreated, segregated, lynched, beaten, and so on, and never thought they would ever see a black person become a president. Yes, Obama is half white. My younger adopted brother is half white and half black too, but he relates with black people more than he does white people. A new chapter will start today, and hopefully race relations will improve in this country.

[digitaldean]

Yes, it is a momentous day for our nation.

That being said, HIGHLY doubt MSNBC, CNN, etc. would be fawning over like this if a GOP president Michael Steele or J.C. Watts was taking the oath today. Steele was called an Oreo in Maryland as well as them being called Uncle Toms because they're not Dems.

The next thing I'm waiting for is a report that Obama parted the Potomac on his way to the swearing in.

I hope he does succeed, because we as a nation need it. I just wish that the Dems in power would work with the GOP. It won't happen because Pelosi is already altering the rules in the House to squelch debate on legislation.

Until I'm proven wrong, I think it's going to be same old, same old.

[mraynrand]

I didn't vote for Obama, but I will say this day will have a lot of significance for this country. I will probably not agree with half of what Obama says or wants to do, but for today that is besides the point. Minorities and black people do have a lot do be proud about in seeing Obama become president. As mentioned yesterday many many black people still remember being mistreated, segregated, lynched, beaten, and so on, and never thought they would ever see a black person become a president. Yes, Obama is half white. My younger adopted brother is half white and half black too, but he relates with black people more than he does white people. A new chapter will start today, and hopefully race relations will improve in this country.

Good posts Sheep and LL. And yes, politics aside, Obama provides a very positive role model. Although it should already have been known, It's an affirmation that nothing in this country is impossible to someone with the drive and talent to achieve it.


P.S. I doubt there is anyone out there who remembers being lynched.

[mraynrand]

You guys are never going to allow anything fun to ever happen in the Romper Room without a bunch of attacking sarcastic bullshit again, are you. The camaraderie of this room is gone and it's a shame because it used to be such fun.

I tried to see the fun in your post above. Perhaps I missed it somehow. But I included sarcasm, since you seem to expect it.

[retailguy]

It was a nice sentiment. Why'd you have to go and get nasty about it?

Nasty? Oh, please.

I was contrasting the sentiment, from this thread to the other.

If you can't see the difference, I cannot help you. I personally believe that anything "NASTY" was expressed in the other thread under the "guise" of a joke, or under the "false impression" of levity.

I took it as CRUEL.

That man was our President for 8 years. If you didn't like him, FINE, but those statements shouldn't have been made about EITHER man.

I applaud Sheeps, and I agree, largely. When you look in the mirror what you should see is someone WHO CANNOT AGREE if you apply similar sentiments to the occupant of the office for the past 8 years.

We've dealt with THAT unfair bullshit for the past 8 years. Look in the mirror and leave me alone. When you find ONE THING that I've said bad about our new President since he was elected, then make the comparison. I can find PLENTY you said about Bush WHILE he was the occupant.

[retailguy]

You guys are never going to allow anything fun to ever happen in the Romper Room without a bunch of attacking sarcastic bullshit again, are you. The camaraderie of this room is gone and it's a shame because it used to be such fun.

Would you please look closely at the three fingers pointing back at you as you point at me?

Thank you.

[red]

You guys are never going to allow anything fun to ever happen in the Romper Room without a bunch of attacking sarcastic bullshit again, are you. The camaraderie of this room is gone and it's a shame because it used to be such fun.

well said zig. the fun has been taken away

on another note, holy hell thats a lot of people

oh, and BTW. as someone who voted for the guy. i'm also getting sick of the media. its a big moment, but they're going way overboard

[SkinBasket]

You guys are never going to allow anything fun to ever happen in the Romper Room without a bunch of attacking sarcastic bullshit again, are you. The camaraderie of this room is gone and it's a shame because it used to be such fun.

Apparently we didn't get the new administration's memo about fun reclassification, Comrade.

[Kiwon]

Re: The Significance of Today

I always thought the first minority president would be a republican.

I hoped the same, especially since Lincoln, who freed the slaves, was a Republican and it was Republicans that pushed back against the racist Democrats in the South and helped to end the Jim Crow laws.

But I knew the Dems and the media would not allow a Black Republican or a Black conservative to succeed after watching the Clarence Thomas hearings. That scumbag, Biden, was such a jerk. The feminist nazis came with lie after lie. It was obvious that Anita Hill was nothing but a puppet.

The way that Thomas, Condi Rice, Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell, Janice Rodgers Brown and other Black conservatives have been treated by the "enlightened" and "tolerant" Left is criminal.

Oh, but it's okay because they are not authentically "black" according to the orthodoxy of liberals. Therefore, anything goes, no matter how hypocritical it is.

[texaspackerbacker]

Yes, it is a momentous day for our nation.

That being said, HIGHLY doubt MSNBC, CNN, etc. would be fawning over like this if a GOP president Michael Steele or J.C. Watts was taking the oath today. Steele was called an Oreo in Maryland as well as them being called Uncle Toms because they're not Dems.

The next thing I'm waiting for is a report that Obama parted the Potomac on his way to the swearing in.

I hope he does succeed, because we as a nation need it. I just wish that the Dems in power would work with the GOP. It won't happen because Pelosi is already altering the rules in the House to squelch debate on legislation.

Until I'm proven wrong, I think it's going to be same old, same old.

All true, and all significant.

Like Sheepshead, I, too, always thought the first black president and the first woman president would be Republicans--despite the sick and horrendous double standard of the media. You could have also mentioned how they--the LIBERAL media called Condoleeza Rice a "pickininny"--which is about as racist as you can get. She has more intellect in her little finger than Obama will ever have.

It also would have been far better for America in general to have a black conservative Republican rise to the top. The exploitation of the black population to where 90% + votes for the party of abortion, the party of the gay agenda, the party of anti-American/anti-Christian/anti-capitalist positions and sentiments is an all out travesty/tragedy--considering that so many blacks are a least as decent on those issues as most whites. An Obama presidency is going to increase the bad feelings between the races, whereas having a decent black president would have helped that situation considerably.

One silver lining in this whole dark cloud, though is this: Obama out of political necessity will have to carry himself much like a white man as president. He obviously will serve as a role model to millions of young blacks. The instances of blacks "being black" or "acting black" will undoubtedly decrease as a result of Obama's presidency. Ultimately, that will be a good thing for the country.