Originally Posted by BYU71 (Post 290140)

While I still don't like the policies Obama espouses, I can grasp the significance of the moment and hope he has success as the President. It does me no good to wish for his failure just so the repubs can get back in.

Interestingly enough the first negative spin I saw on it came from Tavis Smiley, and African American talk show host. The gist of what he said is he fears Obama's election will make people think we aren't still a very racist society with a lot of inequities to cure.

I suppose you will hear this from Jackson and Reverend Al at some point. I assume they don't want to lose that card they play so well.

Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death (Post 290284)

For the past several months I have been told by several people that this country was too racist to vote in an African American for President. I don't live or work in Utah (I'm in the midwest) and have heard this view constantly. A lot of people I work with have expressed that their were so many americans who would say they would vote for an African American but when at the polls do the opposite. Its at least refreshing to know that this subtle racism didn't happen.

Originally Posted by TheSizzle36 (Post 290138)

I wish Collin Powell would have been the first African American president.

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute (Post 290292)

I'd have preferred JC Watts.

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon (Post 290297)

A Sooner in the Oval Office. I like it.

Originally Posted by Cali Coug (Post 289978)

Regardless of how you feel about Obama, today is one of the most remarkable and moving moments in American history. To think that at the founding of this great nation, Obama would have been 3/5ths of a person. To think of all those who have bled and died for equal rights for minorities, whose greatest aspiration would have been freedom for them and others, never even contemplating the possibility of a black president. To think that a mere 50 years ago, this nation was debating the merits of permitting blacks to eat in the same restaurant and drink from the same water fountain, and that an act as simple as sitting in the front of a bus would take courage and fortitude unlike anything most of us will ever experience.

Today is indeed one of the single greatest moments in American history. God bless America.

Now let's get started.

Originally Posted by cougarobgon (Post 290513)

While last night was a great moment, were not there yet. I am looking forward to when someone with a last name like Sanchez, Hernandez, Lopez, Gonzalez, Perez, or Rodriguez gets that opportunity as well. There was a rising star from San Antonio during the Clinton years who was a cabinet member, but, he got caught with his pants down with a woman other than his wife and has since faded away. Given the number of Hispanics continues to rise in the US, that opportunity will come sooner rather than later.