I am breaking habit of years and watching wall-to-wall tv tomorrow to see Obama and all things Obama related.Hell,Ive even booked a day off work.

[moondog]

And yes I know there is already another thread but I want my own.

I thank yew.

As long as ur happy hun.
Happy mum, happy baby

{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}

Oh and dw is great isn't she?

Moony, if that Really??? was at me, then yes.

My DH is very interested in US politics, did it at Uni 20 yrs ago and has been obsessed interested ever since. He works out there 50% of the time, mostly in Chicago which is where he met him at some business thing.

He said, "I've met a future president of America." He waxed lyrical about his amazine energy, oration, motivation etc.

Even my DH, as passionately pro him as he is, is amazed at the speed in which it happened - he thought the American people would need a little longer to get used to the concept of a mixed race President.

Oh dear

Y'ss, what I never got about Americky, 9land of the fecking free, cradle of democracy and all that) is how come it has been sewn up by dynasties for generations??

Kennedys
Bushes
Clintons (nearly-God I despised Hillary's cold eyed sense of entitlement)

I love it that in Britain the GBs, Maggies and John Majors have a fighting chance.

Yes, Marm it was.
How interesting and exciting for your dh.
Talking to some American friends I phoned on day he was elected and they told me how they had queued for 8 hours to see him in Charlotte NC and how electric it was.

Yes, but we have the Royals for an unjustifiable entitlement to power. The Americans look for it elsewhere. Quite why, I don't know.

True Hassled.

Today is the day!

I shall join you moondog, I am off work due to the inability to walk from one end of the room to teh other without wheezing and coughing.

I'm excited by it and have told the Dses, DS2 in particular "I don't care which episode of Hannah Montana, Zac and thingy or whatever is on you are not watching them"
My friend, who lives in DC, and is a die hard George Bush fan (has led to few differences of opinion) from Texas, is even excited and is going to watch, although I think it might be more of a "line-the-streets- kind of watching.

Oh poor you.
Sofa day!

Indeed
It is so huge that it is unreal really.

I'm just hoping that the secret services/security bods are up to the job - if it were me I'd put him in a bullet-proof glass bubble (think giant hamster ball thing) every time he was in the open air.

And is it really the start of a whole new era (as I and so many others would like to think) or will it end up being same old same old.

How depressing that at one corner of the globe you have this, just over 50 years after enforced segregation in that high school in Little Rock where those children went to school each day to be kicked and spat upon and abused.

In aonther, the Israleis continue to blow Palestinians to shit and if anything, the situatiion there is now worse than it ever was.

lol at hamster ball. Probably prudent though.
I've done the whole civil rights trail in the States (bridge in Selma and so on) and seeing the room (untouched) that MLK occupied in the Lorraine motel moments before being murdered, is seared on my memory.

Well in my all white, middle-class male environment at work (I'm black and female), the guys are currently discussing leaving work early to watch the proceedings on TV. I feel so proud of and inspired by Obama and for the first time, I feel really optimistic for the future of the human race when in my little corner, the guys I work with see Obama as a man who can effect change and not just as some black guy who is good at sport or a bling-bling rapper.

Sam Cooke sang "A change is going to come". That change has come and I and all my friends and family never, ever believed that we would witness the day when a black man would be elected as President of the USA (for the pedants, I know he is mixed race but even Obama classifies himself as black because in America, the one drop rule still persists!)

Go Obamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

If you have not already, please read his memoirs, "Dreams from my Father: A story of Race and Inheritance". I find it incredulous that he wrote this whilst in his 30s after being elected as the first black President of the Harvard Law Review and before he had countenance a political career! The man is truly blessed and IMHO, represents a pivotal and unifying force in the USA as well as in the world.

Just finished talking about him on the Wright Stuff, about all that he now has to live up to. But let's face it after GWB anything he does will look good.

It's so exciting for this to be happening, especially in the US with its civil rights history but I'm nervous for him too. I'm sure his security will be unparalled, but I hope to god he remains safe. Will be gripped today!

It is bloody depressing though that even though we have this glimmer of hope and progress for the US, at the same time Palestinians are needlessly dying. Will us humans ever get it right?

True about the one drop rule Spokette, tried to explain it to DH, he just doesn't get it,bless him

The excitement builds and I have listened to "A Change Is Gonna Come" far too many times already. And the sun is shining in Washington!

I've cancelled chilminder.Will get the kids myself and come straight home.

I could not of said it better Spokette

BREAKING NEWS

A threat, unspecified, has been made to the inaugaration.

Blinking kids want CBeebies!