Obama president of the US.

52-46%

 

PPl were shooting off fireworks at my apartment complex when the news came out.

 

<3 Samakar.

It's pretty clear at this point it's going to get passed. That means legal limbo for a bunch of my peeps.

It's a significant setback, but nothing is ever permanent. This constitutional amendment can always be repealed by another amendment.

8 years ago Californians voted yes on Prop 22 (a yes vote was anti gay marriage) by a margin of 61.4% to 38.6%.

The vote for Prop 8 shows a distinctive shift in thinking, in less than a decade: only 52% in favor of eliminating same-sex marriage, to 48% against the proposition.

In another 8 years? Who knows!

 

Thing is, I've been reading that because the California constitution forbids changes which treat groups differently, the only way for prop 8 to be enforceable is if they also ban heterosexual marriage.

I'll get some more details posted after my exam today.

 

While i'm excited that Obama won, i'm pissed that Florida passed prop 2. It looks like while racism is on its way to defeat, the bigotry towards gays still has a ways to go.

 

Yeah, it's going to be interesting...

The latest is that there are 3-4 million absentee ballots that still need to be counted, and there's only 400,000 votes separating the yeses and nos on Prop 8. I know a lot of the people I talked to here in the Bay Area voted absentee, and voted no on 8, so this could still change. Crazy.

@DC at Florida passing Prop 2. It was passed in pretty much a landslide, wasn't it?

 

I wont even post my thoughts, grats obama and no to samakar - democrats have held congress now for 2 years, also having a Demo in the white house and Senate, things are gonna get rough for big business and the rich, oh and I know of a great Youtube thing with the question is race a major player in this election? Ill post it later when i find it, just really interesting.

What really bothers me is that why is the rest of the world so happy obama won? I would like to know why? do they think hes just gonna there countries just run all over us? TBH when watching the debates I never noticed anything besides the War in Iraq that was different than McCain's.

It just really interests me, all I know is that America is in for some hard times, no matter who got elected, ez as that; and even in Obama's words -it might take a term or two to fix everything, and even if that can be done right now.

Just some food for thought, grats obama; lead the people well.

 

The general perception by the rest of the world is that the USA has acted unilaterally and without their cooperation or input for the past eight years. America's reputation has diminished considerably during this time. Obama has shown that he is more open to working with the rest of the global community, and many believe this will be the case during his term. The rest of the world likes it when the U.S. pays attention to them.

 

I also doubt it was the color of his skin, but the fact that McCain made some big mistakes in his campaign, said some dumb things and just didn't seem as stable.

Also, many people were very tired of the Bush administration, especialy over the last 8 years and wanted to change it. This was shown by the total numbers that went out to vote.

So I think the idea of change was more important than the color of his skin. I personally think no matter if Obama or Clinton ran, they would have won, though I did want Bill back in the office, lol.

 

haha i chuckled at the last part, so true.

 

Weird whenever I see on the headlines that america tries to do something for them, they want us out. TBH i wish we would mainly focus on the people in home more than the people outside of this great country.

 

And that's the greatest irony of all...

 

I'm glad.

By the way, anyone else notice that Obama is basically tom from boondocks?

 

im from ohio (even though i could care less what people say).

 

actually if you ever spoke to me in vent....I don't get mad. GG

 

The game was you understanding what he was saying, that's how conversations work. Debating what he was saying instead of what he was meaning is not a game Jeb plays, but I invite you to troll him into it and see how much rep that gains you in this community.

 

It's more along the lines of we go fuck up their country without their consent. We go places without asking(and researching), create lists of evil doers without consulting, and then we tell the U.N. to fuck off. That's a huge problem imo.

I think that those problems are what the world is hating on and hopes will change.

 

"woo saaaaa" Lev, "Woo saaaaaaa".