One thing I noticed during Obama's speech last night...

[BanzaiBonnie]

When he mentioned McCain's name, there was no booing.

Unlike when McCain spoke of Barack Obama, his people booed. Are they poor losers?


What they don't understand is that this whole country won last night. We elected a man who will stand on principle, get us back to the Constitution and will be inclusive of everyone.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I noticed that too

and was proud of our side.

[ikojo]

15. Another thing I noticed is that when the

wing nuts at the McCain rally booed, McCain said nothing. Anytime there were boos at an Obama rally he said "we don't need to do that we need to get out and vote."

Therein lies the difference.

[poverlay]

2. That is the primary reason that I became a lib. The right needs that hate to sustain them. Love is

like water on the wicked witch to them...

[opihimoimoi]

3. The Man has Class....it will rub off on some...hopefully ...many....

enough to reduce the Ignorance Level

[Clio the Leo]

4. We don't need to boo ...... we just need to get to work!

He has taught us well!

[lonestarnot]

5. Well can we have a little pie first?

:evilgrin:

[Clio the Leo]

8. lol where have you been? Pie's already in the tummy!

Tummy says "thank you!"

[yourguide]

6. I also noticed he looked so damn serious last night...

I was a little stressed by it, I was dying for a smile.

[chappydog26]

11. I think he looked exhausted

Unfortunately he won't be able to have a proper grieving period for his grandmother, and he needs that. I noticed a bitter-sweet expression on his face. But he is strong, Michelle is strong, and they will get through it.

[Tansy_Gold]

13. I noticed it too, and I think THAT is when it finally became real for me

I could tell he was dealing with the reality, with a reality that was no longer just a hope or an aspiration or a dream. He now had the weight of the world on his shoulders.

Before that moment, he was part of the team. Everyone was campaigning, strategizing, hoping, voting, working and dreaming and waiting. But then it was real. He was the President of the United States -- and I left off the "Elect" intentionally -- and no one else was.

"Be careful what you wish for" is all too often true. Maybe he was thinking about that, or maybe about Toot and his mother and his father and all people who had gone before him, black, white, brown, Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant, men and women and children, who had brought this moment to him and to us.

Now, my friends, the real work begins.

Yes we can.


Tansy Gold

[FatDave]

19. I didn't see that.

I thought he looked remarkably relaxed. Maybe even a bit relieved.

[TornadoTN]

7. Obama would have shut down anyone had they booed

McCain just kept talking.

People are too forgiving of the guy. He had plenty of chances to set his hate mongererers straight, but he has repeatedly refused to do so - including last night.

[Higher Standard]

9. It's all about how they portrayed their opponents

Obama presented McCain as an honorable man who was simply out of touch with the middle class and too married to the philosophical ideas of George W. Bush. McCain presented Obama as a mysterious, possibly anti-American person with questionable, perhaps dangerous, associations.

Obama's supporters have a dislike of McCain's politics. McCain's supporters, thanks to McCain, Palin and their surrogates, have a strong personal distaste for Obama himself.

[monmouth]

10. I noticed McCain put his hands up to stop the booing, which

proves he knows how to do it. Too bad he didn't do that during his nasty rhetoric and divisive speeches. As another poster put it, I hope the press doesn't think they can rehabilitate this man. He said what he said and his followers did what they did. We won't forget.

[stuntcat]

12. for their booing they get public worldwide shame

it was just pathetic.. embarrassing to watch.

[Maine-ah]

14. nope

just plain old losers.

[beachmom]

16. Exactly. And in '04 -- they booed John Kerry at the Inauguration, so

this has nothing to do with the disappointment of losing. These jerks simply have a hate and contempt for Democrats that is difficult to fathom.

[Spangle]

17. Thanks for the reminder

[cjsmom44]

18. I Noticed

...John McCain had a part in causing the hatred in the form of boos....which was displayed last night and last night he tried his best to reverse course...But unfortunately he and Sarah Palin were the ones who fanned the flames of hatred and division...I am glad he said the words he said last night...but will it help? Time will tell....
Hatred and division does not give up it's grip easily....