Stunning Photos Showing the True Meaning of November 4

meh

Cute kids.

It'd mean more to me if one were holding a McCain/Palin sign and thier father's reached out.

Looks staged to me; look at all the other folks standing around taking pics.

Yeah it does look very staged.

Not to mention both the kids looking right into the camera - definitely staged Not to mention that those kids aren't old enough to know the significance of any of it

my heart bleeds

But "yay propaganda!" 

Zubaz, you're the second person I know who voted for McCain... lol

i got everyone i know to vote mccain, something big, considering I live in

the socialist republic of Illinois

It is really going to suck for all those people who didn't vote for Obama when their grandchildren ask about them this historic election that they read about in their history book years from now.

Like saying you voted for Hoover in '32, or or perhaps Douglas over Lincoln.

I would rather tell my grandgchildren I did what I thought was right.  And let's judge Obama's presidency in about 20 years when we have some perspective.

It's not even January yet.  Aren't you getting a little ahead of yourself?

ZubaZ, I appreciate the fact that you managed to tell peleprodigy he's an idiot (if you'll allow me to interpret your words into the ones I would have used) without bringing political views into it.

I just felt the need to comment that as someone on the other side of this coin (read: I voted for Obama) I agree with that characterization of his statement, and I agree with your post as well.

I feel in my gut that people wont be so happy with Obama in a few years. Is it great that an African American got elected? Yes. Do I think it was great that it was Obama? No.

 Oh and I also voted for Bob Barr for the same reason..I thought it was the right choice.

The pictures in this post remind me of the whole Obama campaign . . staged, heart-string pulling, marketing.  I think that one can sell cotton and fabric softener and presidents that way but I doubt a presidency can last.

I'm not a right-wing crazy.  I don't hate Obama as a man or a politician.  I just personally don't believe that he is the right man for the country.

You want to know  my real worry (and this may be the topic of another post). He's got four years.  If he doesn't totally tank it he'll have four more. Then what?  They guy is young and charsmatic and had been a political climber for a very long time.  What's next for Obama?

I didn't and couldn't vote (not american) but it was very interesting to watch over the last few months and i am most interested in seeing how Obama's presidency will turn out.

GOOD LUCK

I really don't see anything particularly heart-warming about these photos either.  Nothing wrong with them, but I find neither kids with Obama signs, nor multi-racial friend groups to be either remarkable or unusual.

I still say the country is doomed

USSA here we come

So long USA

Just strengthens my resolve to get out.

These photos were most certainly not staged. This was a spontaneous celebration of hope and life, by those who haven't been taught the politics of hatred and prejudice. I *suppose* that you could call the last photo 'staged', in the same way that you would 'stage' a photo of a family picnic when you ask Aunt Millie to put down the potato salad for a moment and smile for the camera.

Look at the faces in the crowd. There are whites, blacks, hispanics, and Muslims. You wouldn't see this at a McCain rally. If McCain would have won, then both of those kids would have been white, they probably would have been dressed in camouflage, and they wouldn't have been passing an Obama sign; they would have been passing an Obama doll...most likely with a noose around it's neck, and they both would have been flashing the 'one fingered' sign.

He's only one man. There are ~300 million of us. It's up to US to make this happen.

"And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it would be right, it would work, and no one would have to be nailed to anything."  Douglas Adams

The problem with bad people is that they always assume everyone else is just as bad.

Obama won't be the massive change everyone expects. The power of the president is actually a lot less than many believe, including mr GWB, but imo, he was much more suited for our country than McCain was. We need a better economy and better foreign relations are what we need for the short term. Fiscal Conservatives have tanked our economy. Go figure.... And foreign relations, well, he wins that hands down for obvious reasons. For the long term, he'll let us keep the freedoms we have and we'll get back the ones we lost under GWB, hopefully.

I'm just glad that America voted for Hope instead of Fear.

And so VERY thankful that Palin never made it near the presidency. Anyone who's remotely intelligent who has done proper research on her should be appalled at her nomination. Which has nothing to do with her being a woman, but with her ruling, rational, and deductive reasoning abilities.

Nobama.

Sorry had to, a shame it was.

Sorry but, isn't that the whole point? If it's "spontaneous", that means the photographer takes pictures without coaching anyone.

This obviously isn't the case in these pictures, since it doesn't take much to know that the two kids wouldn't know what they were doing much less flashing signs to the camera while looking straight at it.

It's staged. The crowd is irrelevant. It's like going out in the street, stopping a random person and asking him to make a sign for the camera then claiming it was spontaneous because the other people walking on the street didn't know what was going on. It doesn't work that way.

my heart bleeds more

Mistralok - The Douglas Adams quote deserved karma - the rest of that deserved a massive karma loss. Assuming all McCain supporters are racist morons puts you squarely in the "just as bad as them" category. I'm truly sick and tired of people bitching that anyone who didn't vote for Obama must belong to the KKK, or that anyone who voted against Clinton was a sexist pig, or whatever other bullshit anyone claims. Yes, some of the people who supported him are like that, but not the vast majority.

I have serious problems with some of his plans. His healthcare plan will be a disaster. His tax plans are idiotic. His plans for Iraq are shortsighted, and have the potential to turn the place into another Darfur. It has nothing at all to do with him being black.

That being said, I still didn't vote for McCain. I preferred his policies, but I judged the probability of him completing his first term to be essentially zero, and a Palin presidency would be at least as bad as keeping Bush on for a third term. The only real hope Obama brings me is that Congress and the courts can restrain the stupid stuff and let him change the stuff that needs to be changed. Of course, my vote mattered not at all; I'm from Illinois. Even without Obama being from here, the north end of the state is enough to force our vote democratic even if Satan himself was on the ticket.