Holding my breath! Wow…just wow.

WOOO HOOOOOO!!!

DANCING IN THE STREETS

WE FUCKING WIN

Yes we did!!

NBC just called it

Can I breathe now?

all year long

I never, ever thought the day would come when we could wrest power from the evil coup leaders.

And it has.

I look up to the sky, I say hi and give thanks

woot

Fan-tastic!!!!!

(((((((((((Jane)))))))))))))

woohoo – happy dances all around pups

yes we did!

I will remember this the rest of my life!

GOODBYE LIEBERMAN!!

Hell Ya!

They said this day would never come.

((((((((emptywheel))))))))

The nightmare is over

Hallelujah!

America we all won tonight.

((((( )))))

((((((((Christy))))))))

Well Done Hamsher

Yes We Can!!!

Yeehaa!

President Elect Barack Obama we love you.

This is a Great Day to be an American!

American’s I am proud of you/us!

FUCKIN’ A

Kudos folks, what a moment, never thought it would happen in my times.

Grant Park sure is different in 2008 than it was in 1968! Couldn’t be happier!

OH. I’ll fucking drink to that!

((((((((Back at ya))))))

I’m in tears.

I just … can’t … believe it.

Yes. He. Did.

Thanks Jane.
Its been a long run.

Maybe now we can start on the big list.

Firedoglake! Jane!!!!

((((({{{{{RRRAAAWWW!!!1111}}}}})))))

I’m crying and laughing all at once, and lifting my glass of bubbly to President Obama and to everyone here at FDL!

((((((((FIREDOGLAKE))))))))

I think I’ll go dance in the street…

SNOOPY DANCE

Snoopy Dance

mmm, Did McCain concede?

The Color Barrier is Broken at the White House!!!!!!!

Wow. Such a great week leading up to a great night.

Just finished this photoshop while watching the results come in:

http://sleepingdonkey.wordpress.com

Larger version

Congratulations Obama, Jane, FDL and everyone.

My shoulders just released.

-Monk

It feels so good to feel so good about my country.

In which We Fucking Win!!

Wow, tears of joy…THANK-YOU AMERICA :)

Signed Sealed Delivered

That’s great the host on the BBC just told Ted Koppel so shove his pessimism he was spewing.

President Obama. Love you!

Congratulations, President-elect Obama. May your Presidency be the dawning of a new day in America.
And thanks, Jane, for helping in the struggle. Best regards to all firedogs.

Fuckin’ A!!

Everybody feel like they’re in Grant Park right now?

Wahoo!

Whoa.

Tomorrow might be rainy here but it will be a brighter day.
Finally, an end to the horrors of the Bush administration.

Jane, one thousand thanks for keeping me going during the tough times over the last 8 years. You, Christy, and all the Firedoglake folks kept the flames of hope burning and your vision for a better future kept me fighting. Blessings and a toast of celebration!

I wish I would have seen that. Can’t wait to see it on youtube.

I fucking hate Ted Koppel.

yes yes yes yes yes yes

did I mention yes?

A repudiation of the Christain Reich, Trickle Down, Supply Side, and Reagonomics. Hope triumphant over hate.

and reporting that mccain just called to concede

Heh. Call him Prez Hussein. F^ck the Rs.

The last time I cried this much, it was becauase I was so scared. We had just been attacked on 9/11. I was angry. I was afraid of what would come next. Now, these are tears of joy, hope, and excitement for what this country has done, and for what we will do. Thank you all for giving me a place to so that I know I’m not crazy. YES WE DID!

We still have a lot of work to do but today we took a giant step toward redeeming America in the eyes of the world.

Well said.

McCain called Obama to concede!

Mass. ballot questions: No, Yes, Yes
by: David
Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 22:58:02 PM EST
Boston.com:
Q1: 30% Yes, 70% No re does MA reduce the state income tax.
Q2: 65% Yes, 35% No re decriminalizing small amts of weed,
Q3: 56% Yes, 44% No re medical marijuana
67% reporting

The tides of history will overwhelm the small minded pundits and newsreaders of America’s pathetic corporate media.

Now we need to change! The work begins tomorrow! Party hearty tonight!

props to all for your hard work!

A great day for humanity.

Let the hearings and the payback begin!

I’ve been joking at work what we’re going to have the first black muslim marxist president.

oops – from Blue Mass Group

232 years of white men holding the Presidency of the United States is over. A black man is my President and I am proud to be a part of this historic day!

YES!!! F*#k every last one of them!

Congratulations everyone! This is just about the best night ever!

Forty eight years is a long fucking time, From JFK to BHO.

Finally. We have an intelligent person for president!

Unbelievable!

From the darkest days when Bush was ascendant to now has been sooooo long.

Thanks to all the hard work from coast to coast and from north to south and from our friends abroad.

It’s a beautiful day.

-G

Huh?

Oh yeah!

Purge the pundits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Out with the slackers and lobbyists.

I couldn’t agree more. This is just so amazing.

Hooray!

Now the question I have to ask: do I break out the champagne bottle I was saving for Rove’s indictment or keep that one safe and celebrate with a new bottle?

Living history. Live and in living colour.

((((Dirty Fucking Hippies))))

Thank you Jane.

A rare comment from me… how proud I am at this moment…defies comment…thank you all for helping to make this possible.

YES WE DID!!!

Hot Damn…President Of The United States, Barack Obama!!!!!

With many tears of joy…

Dave

Yes, we did!

lmao, but that might makes regan zombietize!

#s up to 306

OK…What’s next??? (ala Jed Bartlet)

How about Ned Lamont???

PEACE!

Anyone hear about KKKKarl Rove chartering a private flight out of the U.S.?

BBC:

Democratic Senator Barack Obama has been elected the first black president of the United States, according to projected results.

Colorado for Obama too!

how did other referenda go?

Do you beleive this shit? George will on ABC saying that Obama’s win is bad for Democrats!! What a flaming ass!

Now we can start rebuilding all that the rethuglians and the Bush’s destroyed in all that once made this country great. We can now proclaim that the shining beacon has been relit!! Fuck Nixon, ford Regan, Bush1 and Bush2 may they all rot in hell for how they sullied the good name that the United states has stood for for hundreds of years. No more economics in the name of GREED! Hopefully now we will have an economic policy that works for all citizens not just for the rich and powerful!!

Obama is even leading here in Montana (still early and could change). Dems also leading down ticket here (except our useless Rethug US Rep).

So, can Obama start tomorrow?

Hallelujah!

Saw a great sign from Atlanta

Bush: You’re FIRED!

His daughter Andrea is hawt.

Sh*t! I am still grinning from ear to ear!!!!!

306 and counting, McCain has already called Barack to concede, the smartest thing he has done his whole campaign.

*clink*

definitely! Senator Ned Lamont!

This calls for champagne.

For future reference, keeps two kinds on tap: cheap & expensive. Then let your emotions decide in the moment which cork you’re going to pop.

Florida for Obama!!!!

Florida and Virginia for Obama!

Heard it on MSNBC.

Florida for Obama!!!!

If it wasn’t noted before, Colorado goes Obama per NBC.

Michigan will allow stem cell research to find cures for disease and suffering.

I second that emotion!

All the right wingers are saying the same thing. Karen Hughes said more or less the same thing on the BBC.

The guy from the BBC said to her that this election would be do more for the standing of the US in the world then she ever did as her job.

We have SO earned this moment. REJOICE!!!!

ballot measure results:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/20……measures/

congratulations President-elect Obama!

…now, how do we stop shrub from totally trashing the republic in the next 2 1/2 months?

Hallelujuh!

I hope that’s acceptable from a certified compassionate heathen.

I’m about to short out the keyboard with happy tears of relief.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Let us begin rebuilding our country, and regaining the trust and respect of the rest of the world’s inhabitants.

O. M. G.!!!

((((Jane)))) and all the Pups, big and small. We salute you. I doubt they could have done this without you folks.

Thank you. I shall sleep in peace tonight.

Tomorrow, I’ll wear my Obama t-shirt in celebration, everywhere I go.

Subdued crowd at the Biltmore in Phoenix. I think this would be as good a time as any for Cindy to hand John the divorce papers.

Okay, can they get the fuck out of Iraq now???

This is a day of thanksgiving, a night of celebration. It’s unbelievable that we have come this great distance in this short a time.

Rep. John Lewis

Whatever happened to Michele Bachmann????

McCain concedes? and Rove projected an Obama win? Well, then! we can breathe again!

McCain about to concede

Probably off to Paraguay to live in exile for the rest of his life.

Steve Gilliard. We gotta drink a toast to Steve. In our darkest hour in 2004, when thoughts of Canada tempted us, he said “stay and fight” Look what has happened. Steve, this swig of champagne is for you.

Fuck the fucking Yankees.

And I am seriously, seriously misty-eyed.

True nuff. I got no problem with Andrea. Thank goodness she doesn’t look like Alfred E. Newman, as her dad does.

A complete and utter repudiation of supply side, reagonomics,trickle down, the Republicon revolution! Mandate, Mandate, Mandate!!!!!!

they don’t take office until January

McCain conceding!

It’s a new day.

;>)

McCain concedes. Duh.

Lovely! Already signs of mercy and caring.

o dam, lol

Mc Cain trying to be stand up guy and the fucking morons in the crowd won’t let him.

Sarah WHO???
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Who cares?

McCain’s crowd is nasty.

Tacky crowd boos when McLoser says Obama…they don’t know any better

AWESOME!

McCain is being gracious.

McCain’s supporters are being…not so gracious.

Cheers. And I didn’t kknow Steve at the time.

Republicons booing at mention of President Obama during McCain’s concession speech. They are always a class act.

MCCAIN CONCEEDS

http://www.cnn.com/video/live/…..am=stream2

Love the happy face smilios!

Woo-hoo!

Raises high!

VERY classy concession speech.

McSFB crowd boos. Lotta class in that crowd.

McSlime supporters still booing Obama at the concession speech.

Stay classy, motherfuckers. You are so yesterday.

Amazing. Barack Obama. I have been waiting for this moment for eight years.

BTW. Chris Shays was really, really short with a local reporter. “I don’t know. The point is I thought we’d win. We didn’t. I haven’t looked at hte numbers, Okay!?!?” Shay’s is crazy. They’re saying on local tv that Shay’s “loss is sad. he was the last of a breed. a moderate New England repub, like Nancy Johnson.” I almost regurgitated my drink at the moderate part, and Nancy Johnson.

You rawk, db! That is teh awesome!

If he’d have talked like this during the campaign, he might have won.

they seem to be coming around

If McCain had been this gracious all along the outcome might have been a lot closer…

new McLame loses thread up top…

Right.
Here’s to Gilly! Salud.

Night all!

I believe you misconstrued my meaning. By THEY, I meant the troops.

333 Baby!!! (So far…)

Owe you a soda…

Mccain is being very gracious

McCain making a gracious concession speech. So sad for McCain the man that he allowed himself to fall under the spell of the Rovians.

((((Dirty Fucking Hippies))))

you called ???
I resemble that!!

McCane being nice about grandma now. He assures us that he will work well with Obama and encourages Americans to help him. What t f ?

G’night.

Yes, he is being very gracious. Had he been this way, and not picked Sarah Pukin it might have been closer. But the result would have been the same.

Is she so Yesterday!! Even she wanted to get out of DC and the loser W. Her opinions don’t count; probably in league with the rest of the war criminals.

wooooohooooo

love ya pups

obama is up to 333 electoral votes

That was to reply about Karen Hughes…left out the Reply.

McCain: We must come together, must work together

But I’m a maverick and don’t even work “with” my own party

You betcha!!!

Palin is counting the votes already for 2012… you can see it on her face. But the fractured party, and the disappointed fundies will not be her bestest friends. Bye-bye Sarah, baby Bye-bye!

I have seen a few concesion speeches and this one looks the least emotional

mccain does not look the least disapointed

True. Will open the good stuff tonight.

Congrats to all you posters here in the progressive blogosphere.
Big win was important.

Soon we will need to hold our new, better statesmen and stateswomen’s feet to the fire. We have a US Constitution to piece back together.

Palin is very teary eyed. You betcha.

I just was hoping her challenger bested her…

It was so good to see her get smacked down.

McCain:

My friends we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken clearly. I have called Barack Obama to congratulate him on being elected President of the country we both love. That he did so by inspiring so many is something I admire. I appreciate the special significance this holds for African Americans. I have always believed that America offers opportunity to those who will seize it. A century ago Roosevelt’s invitation to Booker T Washington to dine at the White House was an offense in many quarters. Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in the greatest country on earth.

Offers condolences on Obama’s grandmother’s death. These are difficult times, pledges to assist in these times. Urges all to offer our next president our good will to offer compromises and bridge our differences.

Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans, and no association has ever meant more to me than that. It is natural tonight to feel disappointment, but tomorrow we must get beyond it to move our country forward. The failure is mine, not yours. [Crowd chants John Mac-Cain]

Thanks crowd for their support. Thanks Cindy, kids, mom and his friends. Campaigns are harder on the families than on the candidate. Offers Cindy more peaceful years ahead, expresses gratitude to Palin for being one of the best campaigners he’s ever seen [huh??? I want some of what McCain’s on] We can look forward to Palin’s future service to Alaska, the GOP and the country.

Thanks campaign senior staff.

and mccain stumps for palin in 012

Crowd at McCain speech lowest of low.

I am really so happy we do not have to keep listening to Mc. Crowd boos Biden. Stuff like that why he lost.

Time for McNothing to stop talking.

I’m proud to be identified as a Dirty Fucking Hippie.

Backatcha!

I would be too. Ive never understood what gave her so much clout.

Didn’t become a DFH until age 60+.

They trully are a small people. Greatfully they will no longer make the United States a small people.

Pleeaase. Wadda buncha a&&holes.

This victory was truly a Movement! It can’t stop here. There is so much work to be done.

I’m 54, didn’t realize I was identified as a DFH until recently.

The rest of the work begins tomorrow, Bluetoe. It will be the work of the remainder of my life.

Have I mentioned lately that I hate George Walker Bush for what he’s done to my country?

Crowds at the gates of the WH on Pennsylvania Ave. Brian Williams assures America it’s not “an angry crowd” just happy. These corporate celebrity pundits are so yesterday. The tide of history will hopefully sweep these jag offs out to sea. They are already in way over their heads.

Thank God for this tidal wave of repudiation. And complete overshadowing by a Black intelligent rock star. What wonderful justice…Let Justice roll down…

Maybe we can send ‘em to Arkansas, or sumthin…

;~P

Thanks to Jane, Christy, Marcy, and all of you at FDL who write day after day, night after night. And the many commenters, FDL is truly a community of moral and intelligent people. Let us bask in the glow tonight, and perhaps tomorrow, but there is much work to be done.

We have to begin the process of rooting all the rat-bastards out of every government agency, those rats that have been eating away at everything that the founding fathers established. I pledge to put my heart, my mind, my energy, and whatever resources I can spare, towards that end.

It’s time for them to pay for their crimes. Don’t be surprised to see some of them start to sneak out of the country. America will not forget and they may run but they cannot hide.

Ya know… the state of inbreds…

What’s a DFH?

Arkansas is too good for those corporate f*ck wads.

add my thanks to jane and crew for making this community!

amazing moment, as I’m typing this, I’m hearing talking heads spout about people feeling that it’s a moment to change the world. wow …

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=DFH

The rest of the work begins tomorrow

2010 comin’ right up. Plus keepin’ a tight rein on the critters we just sent to DecadentCity. Phase I complete, start Phase II.

Dirty Fuckin’ Hippie.

DrBong, the problem with Arkansas is they haven’t heard that the Civil War (not the War Between the States) has been over for 143 years. When the good citizens of Arkansas join the common Union and step into the 21st Century then perhaps they won’t be the object of derision.

Steady there, with the generalities.

LITERALLY. We are at the AFL-CIO Election Night Watch Party, across from Lafayette Park and the White House.

Cars are streaming down the street–honking, people yelling, cheering loud enough to wake W.

Wake up, W! It’s all over for you and your thugs.

Lookin’ at that map there’s a lot more states than Arkansas that needs to leave the battlefields of the Second War of Independence and climb, however sluggishly, into the modern era.

I understand the problem here, as with other areas of the country, but as a resident, I don’t appreciated being lumped in with the riff-raff.

;~P

capisce?

Many thanks to all you blolggers and posters.
It’s been a long run.
It’s a relief for the campaign to be over, exausting at times.
But what a great feeling tonight.

And we are not a country that believes in torture

Dr, we’re all in this together and I have no doubt that no matter what part of the country we are from we will come together and work for the common good of all our citizens from Arkansas to Alaska and from Maryland to Montana and all points in between.

Thank you, FDL for keeping me sane until this day.

Congratulations!