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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 4, 2008 - 11:01pm PT
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It's time for a change long overdue
I believe this is the first time since JFK that there's been a Democrat president, serving over a Democratic majority in the House & Senate.
YESSSSS!!!!
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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STFU, non-voting Locker!
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Condolences to Juan...
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Holee Wow - People are IN the streets here in NYC whooping it up for the last 10 minutes straight! Shouting "OBAMA!" Cars honking.
History in the Making.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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So Juan De Fuca, I hope you are going to make good on your word and go into exile...preferably to someplace without internet access :-)
ps. please take fattrad with you!
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Roughster
Sport climber
Vacaville, CA
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I just don't think most of us realize what a momentous occasion this is. I have actually had a little bit of faith restored in the politics of America. Moving into this week, my wife and I both just had a nagging feeling that the Bradley effect would show it's ugly face. I am so happy it did not.
Perhaps this can be used as a stepping stone to what this country REALLY needs, a viable 3rd party. Don't get me wrong, Obama is going to be a great president, and I am glad to say that I could witness this country taking a huge step forward.
Signed by someones who taxes will go up, but still voted for Obama :)
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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That is a gracious concession speech that McCain is giving. Well done!
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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We should enjoy the moment as the honeymoon will be very very short. The Dems now have everything to loose. And unless they show a very large amount of restraint and very careful forward thinking it will be a short 4 years.
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jstan
climber
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SS:
When the Berlin wall went down we had a chance to take the world in a new direction.
We didn't.
Tonight you have the chance to take the US in a new direction.
The things we used to do no longer work.
Think about it.
Edit:
Read Obama's acceptance speech on the live thread.
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east side underground
Trad climber
crowley ca
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now we can all get back to climbing and SKIING!!! ( its was good today,sliding down in some soft freshies, high country got quite a nice coating.)
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Non-partisan aspect: don't forget the snowboarders!
;-)
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east side underground
Trad climber
crowley ca
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I was snowboarding today. I should have said sliding was good since It's all good!
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graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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Best McCain speech I've heard the whole race
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Got up at the crack of dawn to get to our polling place at 7 am. Waited in line for 45 minutes - unreal even in the Peoples' Republic of Santa Monica...waited with baited breath until 4:00 pm when maybe we'd finally start hearing some news...slowly it started coming in, beginning with Vermont. Total butterflies in the stomach time. Boss was calling in from out of town "what's happening?!".
Heard that PA was won. Ohio was close. Florida was close! Heard New Mexico turned blue (early - at 6:15 pm)! Went to a party which erupted in cheer when Virginia was won and the TV pronounced President-Elect Obama.
Drove home seeing people all over outside in a major clearing wind storm, screaming, hooting, holding signs, cheering and happy. It's 10:40 pm now and we can still hear screaming and cheering all over the neighborhood.
It's nice to feel hopeful again after 8 long, bleak, anxiety - ridden years.
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WBraun
climber
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McCain's first words tonight should have been; "Does this mean I'm the water boy now?"
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malabarista
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Watching Obama tonight, I couldn't help but feel that this is one of the greatest moments in American history. I didn't get to watch the moon landing, but I imagine a similar sense of awe and improbable amazement. Obama said that in his speech that nothing has yet been accomplished, that we still need to make it all happen, but I disagree in part. The symbolism embodied by his victory has already changed the world forever.
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malabarista
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Obama has a hard road to walk, an exhausting road. I can't imagine wanting to be president.
There is no way I could have maintained the positivity, the energy, and coolness under fire that he has displayed during his campaign. He earned this victory and has my full support.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Obama has taken a very great burden on himself, and I hope he has the wisdom to choose capable, honest advisors.
The events tonight do remind me a little of other "world-historical" events I've witnessed, such as the moon landing in 1969. Something where you are certain of the importance of what you are seeing, at the time.
We didn't have a TV for much of the 1960s and 1970s, but I remember bits from the assassinations of the Kennedys and King, Churchill's funeral, and seeing the Beatles live on the Ed Sullivan show. (Had to add the latter - not everything is serious.) The fall of the Berlin Wall was another such event - tremendous historical symbolism.
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Chaz
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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Levy, where have you been?
Read your history book if you don't have a memory that goes back more than a few years.
This is not "...the first time since JFK that there's been a Democrat president, serving over a Democratic majority in the House & Senate".
Johnson, Carter, and Clinton are three Democrat Presidents who enjoyed Democrat majorities in the House and Senate (in Clinton's case for his first two years).
These Presidents all came after JFK.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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fatty, leb, juan Etc, had McCain spoken in his campain the way he spoke at his concession speach he may have won last night. Instead he has sounded like the typical republican hate monger for the last 3 months... As long as you are selling hate and sarcasim you will lose because we the people are sick of that crap!
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