Obama elected president

Approval Rate: 65%

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    gregg85

    Sat Mar 05 2011

    Worst day in our history.. he's going to ruin( sorry 'HAS' ruined the country.. ;)

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    pcpeter774

    Sat Aug 21 2010

    The united states first african american president, historic. Arguably the united states most liberal president, an other benchmark. Whether or not him being arguably the most liberal president is purely subjective at this point, becuase it is going to be a few years before the effects of his presidency will be felt. And this true of any one holding that particular office in the united states government.

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    lisa_693

    Tue Jul 28 2009

    I am totally against it, did not vote for him, will never support him, but it was still very significant.

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    xcuses

    Mon Jul 27 2009

    I'm not really optimistic or excited about this. I've been living in the US for nearly 20 years, and as far as I can tell, things have remained basically the same for the middle class for a long time, regardless of who is president. I don't think his race should be such a big deal, either. What's important is how he does his job, not how much melanin he produces.

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    whatsername733

    Sun May 03 2009

    whether you like the fact that Obama won the presidency or not, you have to acknowledge the fact that it was a pivotal moment in American history.

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    blondie

    Sun Apr 26 2009

    I wanted obama 2 win.And i would vote yes on prop 8.

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    nancy186

    Thu Apr 09 2009

    It is most signigicant... one more moment of oh holy hell! for the US

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    genghisthehun

    Sat Apr 04 2009

    Bad choice. I didn't vote for him. On the other hand, I didn't vote for McCain, either.

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    rliles

    Fri Mar 27 2009

    He's horrible. Definitely the worst president ever.

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    angelique_249

    Fri Mar 20 2009

    He wasn't elected, he was placed... Just like the guy before him and so on...

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    jglscd35

    Mon Feb 16 2009

    I think it is more significant that the American people have elected the most liberal President in American history than electing the first black president. I am concerned that his youth and inexperience will not serve him well in the next four years.

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    zach_249

    Fri Feb 06 2009

    GO MCCAIN

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    princess_249

    Tue Jan 27 2009

    cant do any worse than what everybody else has done.

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    earthbound

    Sat Jan 24 2009

    Absolutely the event of the year. The drama and suspense of the last days of the campaign were one of the central themes in 2008 for me and my family. I arrived in the USA at the end of 2000, the last days of the Clinton administration, pretty clueless regarding US politics. The level of animosity towards Clinton surprised me, after the peace and prosperity of his two terms, as did the morbid fixation on his sex life. That piqued my interest in the dynamics of politics over here. However, it was the election of George W Bush that truly politicized me. I was dumbfounded that the American people would actually fall for (what was to me) such a load of crap, this phony backslapping bonhomie, the disregard for science, the pandering to, and manipulation of the radical Christian elements in society, the dumbing down of history and the subtleties of international relationships to a simplistic binary code of 'good' and 'evil' or 'freedom loving', 'freedom hating', etc. This feeling was compo... Read more

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    lovers_nd_friends

    Sat Jan 24 2009

    yes we r counting on him 2 change our life for the better of america

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    astromike

    Thu Jan 15 2009

    OK, we got the changed we asked for, lets hope its a good change tho.

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    raise_awareness_of_poverty_hunger_in_america

    Sun Jan 11 2009

    Best thing our country has seen in decades.

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    qwertymnbvcx

    Tue Jan 06 2009

    i HATE obama

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    jesse_and_jacelyn

    Fri Jan 02 2009

    DONT LIKE HIM B/C HE IS UNDERCOVER MUSLIM!!! AND THEY DONT BELIEVE IN GOD!!!

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    scarletfeather

    Wed Dec 31 2008

    One of the few good things that happened in a crappy year. I was so relieved when he won.

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    x_factor_z

    Wed Dec 31 2008

    He needs a good cabinet to try to fix the disaster that Bush has brought to the US and the world.

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    michael853

    Tue Dec 30 2008

    In all the wrong ways.....

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    magellan

    Wed Dec 10 2008

    In a year with a lot of news, this is the story of the year.  As the Onion says (paraphrasing) - "Black man just given the world's worst job - still can't catch a break." He's going to need a lot of help and a lot of luck - there are big forces wreaking havoc on the world right now.

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    ladyjesusfan77_7

    Wed Dec 10 2008

    Obama will be in as of January 20, and he has to be given a chance to clean up the years of incompetence of the last administration that was in. It is going to take a while to see any kind of a significant change.

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    carrollcountyk_id

    Sat Nov 29 2008

    I guess Obama won, Running over that poodle didn't hurt him as much as I thought it would.

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    kate3716

    Wed Nov 26 2008

    Boo

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    chalky

    Thu Nov 20 2008

    Obama's election is making a lot of people feel better and more optimistic, which is good. Even though I personally wouldn't care if it were McCain or Obama.

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    abichara

    Wed Nov 19 2008

    This was a huge story. It is remarkable that an African American can be elected President of the United States only 40 years removed from the original Civil Rights struggles. He didn't do particularly well in the deep South, but he won with surprisingly strong margins elsewhere. Much of that can be attributed to voter dissatisfaction with the current trajectory of events along with weak Republican opposition. On substance however, given some of his appointments along with his stated positions, I think that Obama is business as usual. He might be an upgrade over George W. Bush, but that's not really saying much. Some are expecting him to walk on water and be able to solve all of this nations pressing needs, but even he says himself that such expectations will be impossible to meet. We are about to find out if he is up to the job or not. For all of our sakes, we better hope that he is.

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    guy_dc1b

    Wed Nov 19 2008

    No question that Obama over sold the people on hope and change, he's spent time recently trying to lower expectations. Supporters are saying sorry, you better deliver.

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    marilynmonroeb_ot

    Tue Nov 18 2008

    WHOOOOOOOO!!! that's what i did when the results came in

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    twansalem

    Wed Nov 12 2008

    A new president is always one of the most significant news stories you can have in a year, so by default this deserves five stars. Now as to what "change" actually happens, I guess we just have to wait and see.

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    puszaeac

    Fri Nov 07 2008

    fuck off u christian capitalist fucks

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    irishgit

    Wed Nov 05 2008

    A huge story, and regardless of one's opinion of the man, it is impossible to deny the historical importance of his election. I worked in politics a goodly while, and had I been asked a decade ago when a black man might be elected president, I would have answered "Not in my lifetime." Frankly, I'm glad to be wrong. Not because I have great faith in Obama, because I don't, but because I think it is an undeniably important step forward in the political imagination.

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    zuchinibut

    Wed Nov 05 2008

    American Presidential elections are always huge stories, but this one takes on greater significance because Barack Obama is the first President of African descent, and only the second non-WASP.

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    fitman

    Wed Nov 05 2008

    Extremely important social advance for America.Politics as usual.