Obama Wins!

[Fifteen]

tupac were ready to see a black president now
xo

[Rafiki]

im so pleased he won

YAY

[Earthquake]

I wonder what hes going to do :S there really isn't much imo to do, well free health care, and better schooling in some parts of the country yes, but what else? someone educate me with american problems!

[ExtraKen]

Im so happy bout this

He really deserved it

[Soka]

I wonder what hes going to do :S there really isn't much imo to do, well free health care, and better schooling in some parts of the country yes, but what else? someone educate me with american problems!

- economy, perhaps - as this was most important thing to vote on according to polls..

- terrorism
- iraq
- and healthcare which you've mentioned

[Earthquake]

- economy, perhaps - as this was most important thing to vote on according to polls..

- terrorism
- iraq
- and healthcare which you've mentioned

Yay CAN'T WAIT TO MOVE TO AMERICA WHEN IM 19

[Pyroka]

All states aint announced their results, but McCain has officially lost. It's by how much though, Missouri and South Carolina haven't annouced their results. Obama will make a great president.

[le harry]

Yayyyyyyyyyyy

[le harry]

maybe he'll be the next celeb on habbo.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tasav]

er... could i see some proof that backs all that up? cause ive never heard any of that.

Oh, well thats just me speaking from what I see at school, and what I see on myspace, and what I see on forums. There are plenty of educated young people who voted for him on his political stances.

One thing I saw when I was watching the news yesterday was a reporter went up to a black lady and asked "Did race play a factor in why you voted for Obama?" and she said "Yes. It was actually one of the key factors." And she went on to say that she thinks it's important that he represents the diversity in this country, while really, Obama's decisions in office are not going to benefit just the diverse people in the country, but instead, the country as a whole. So that's proof that there are some black people out there who voted for him mainly because he's black. Not saying that's true for all black people, but it's totally unfortunate that race had to play such a big factor in the election instead of where he stands on certain things.

And I don't know one gay person who voted for McCain. Why would a gay person vote for someone who is against what they are? It's true that McCain is not for gay marriage at all. So basically all the gay people voted for Obama because he isn't against gay rights. That's not an issue that is relevant to the election, really. Obama has other things on his plate that need to be taken care of first. Even then, he'll probably never get around to promoting gay rights because theres so many things wrong with this country.

Yesterday I also conducted my own "poll" because I was curious what other people my age were thinking. So I asked a lot of people who they would vote for and why, and apart from maybe one or two educated answers, I got a lot of "I don't know"s and "Just because he's awesome and John McCain is old" and you know, just ignorant stuff like that. I even got one person saying "I voted for Obama because McCain is ugly" :| And the state I live in ended up voting for McCain over Obama. Maybe thats just the young people who live around me who are stupid enough to say those kinds of things, but I feel like that's enough to speak for a large amount of young people spread across America.

I have full and total respect for everyone who voted with an educated reason to back up their decision. But if race and irrelevant topics like gay marriage and abortion are things that people voted for him for (which theres no denying that those things WERE key factors for some people) then I think they shouldn't have voted at all.


Whatever.
Obama will probably do good, and I'm proud of America's decision.
I just know I'm going to go to school today and there are going to be tons of gay people running rampid yelling about how excited they are that Obama won without a stable reason to back it up.


EDIT (sorry this post is so long ): I just got on myspace, and to further back up my point of ignorant teenagers who don't know what they're talking about, here's a few bulletins that were posted by people my own age:

" It's great that the president of the United States has contact with the terrorist. Everybody who voted for Obama just sold everybody's soul to the Anti-Christ. Thanks. Americans are great at looking out for their country.


The U.S.A is going to go straight to hell."

and

" One small step for Obama,
one huge step for communism!
"

see? Kids who are ignorant enough to say those kinds of things seem rather uneducated on the more important things.
Or maybe it just proves that I know too many stupid, ignorant people