Obama's friends and relatives react to his unlikely ascendancy to the presidency of the USA...probably rivals the disbelief George W's friends and relatives felt on that fateful day in 2000...

Voices from Obama's past

Many Kenyans are viewing Obama's election victory as their own [AFP] Kenyans and Indonesians have greeted news of Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential election with celebrations and street parties. The Illinois senator's late father was born in Kogelo, a village in Kisumu, in eastern Kenya. Obama also attended primary school in Indonesia as a child. Obama's former classmates in Indonesia reacted with pride and amazement as the chubby little boy they knew as Barry made history. "It's just amazing. I mean we're so proud of him," said Dewi Asmara Oetojo, a legislator in Indonesia's parliament who was a school friend of Obama at a primary school in the 1960s. "He was a very easy-going person and also very wise. At that time we were so small we never thought he had the qualities of a  leader. He said 'I want to be president' and we all thought that was so funny." Indonesians excited Oetojo said classmates were excited about having the president of the US show up to their next three-monthly reunion, but understood that Obama might be a little busy.   Obama's Indonesian classmates said he had the potential to become a US president [EPA] "A reunion in the White House is not our target. Our task as classmates is to support him, but if we have the chance, why not?" she said. "It's great, it's great. Our prayers have been answered," said Sonny Imam Sukarso, a lawyer who admitted he was still "astonished" a black man could rise to become US president. "We're proud a friend of ours from primary school became president. Maybe he'll remember us and we hope he'll remember his debt to Indonesia and help Indonesia develop.    "When he was small, he was already the right kind of person to  become president. He had the spirit of inquiry but he wasn't  arrogant, he would mingle with everyone." Kenyans celebrate Yvonne Ngege, reporting for Al Jazeera from Kogelo, said: "Kenya is on fire today. Every street, every village, every town will be taking in the news and there is an eruption of joy, excitement and utter disbelief." She said the "the real party starts today and it is likely to go on for weeks, if not months". Hundreds of residents of Kogelo erupted into song and dance at the news that the nation's favourite son had won the poll. Swinging twigs and chairs in the air, men cheered and clapped while women ululated and shouted "Obama! Obama!" in Kogelo, where his grandmother lives.    "Senator Obama is our new president. God has answered our prayer," said Washington Obonyo, a pastor who had prayed for an Obama victory on Tuesday and through much of the night. "I am very happy. I have not slept the whole night, even my wife slept alone as I waited for the results," Joseph Otieno, a jubilant Kogelo resident, said. "Because Obama has won, we will have a change in the whole world. And for that I will slaughter a cockrel to celebrate with my family." Mwai Kibaki, Kenya's president, described Obama's victory as a "momentous" day for Kenya and declared Thursday a public holiday. He urged Kenyans to "celebrate the historic achievement by Senator Obama and our country".

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Obama gets 77 percent of Jewish vote

Barack Obama received more than three-quarters of the Jewish vote, according to exit polling.

A preliminary exit poll found Obama receiving 77 percent of the Jewish vote, to just 22 percent for Republican John McCain. That’s more than the 74 percent Democrat John Kerry garnered in 2004, and close to Al Gore’s 79 percent of the Jewish vote eight years ago—when Gore had the first Jewish vice presidential nominee of a major party joining him on the ticket. The Jewish vote was 2 percent of the poll sample.

The 77 percent figure is a significant rise from the 60 percent range that Obama was hovering around in polls of Jewish voters over the summer.

Let's hope Jesse Jackson was right.

"On foreign policy, Obama would mean the return to a normal imperialism from a mad dog imperialism. That's a marginal improvement, but no one with his or her head screwed on straight expects anything more." - Doug Henwood, LBO-Talk

Obama might of won, but the BITCH, Pelosi, won by a landslide.

The war criminal is now free to ignore Americans for another term.

Charlotte Dennett, the Vermont AG candidate that promised to prosecute Bush for murder, got clobbered, as this shows:

Sorrell, William Dem/D 75510 75.9%
Kerin, Karen Rep/R 17253 17.3%
Dennett, Charlotte Pro/P 5007 5%
Jackowski, R. LU /LU 1753 1.8%

Is the 8 year long nightmare over?

fuck all if i know, but i'm damn glad to see Bush and Cheney gone.
(Isn't it amazing what science can do now days? I mean they were able to take a couple hundred pounds of shorn foreskins and shape and mold them into a human like figure and give it the name "Cheney.")

And Elliiot Abrams, the Israeli spy lurking and working in and around the Pentagon, will have to find somewhere else to leave his droppings.

The Senate didn't get a fuck proof majority, so that means "Traitor Joe," Lieberman, will still get to crawl around, sniffing first Democratic buttocks, then Republican to see which one smells the tastiest before deciding which one to lick in this or that vote.

In the weeks and months to follow, I bet we start hearing horror stories about how votes were stolen by a variety of ways or switched, to the tune of nearly 5 MILLION votes shredded.

cmon, jesse jackson was tryin 2 damage obama

Not likely. I saw a close-up of him in the audience at Obama's victory speech, weeping tears of joy. Surely you all saw the same footage in America.

This article mentions it:

Also in the park crowd, the Rev. Jesse Jackson had tears streaming down his face as he heard the news. Jackson had to apologize earlier in the campaign for crude remarks he made about Obama that were caught by an open microphone.

His son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., called the election "a peaceful revolution."

"Tonight is an extraordinary celebration of an American story," the younger Jackson said at the rally. The Chicago Democrat won re-election Tuesday. "Barack Obama has obviously engaged the American people."

Obviously he knew that, exactly to the extent they were taken seriously, his remarks about how Obama would take a new line with the zionists would hurt him.

Fortunately, they weren't taken seriously, even by the Drudge Report etc. level of the media, because Jackson had already made a spectacle of himself with obscene remarks on the subject of Obama a few months previously.

Interesting question "And now what?"

Its funny to notice in headlines here at wufys one minor US ethnic group has record of congressman vooted in and that coupled with another ethnic minority presidente...hmmm...accidental? Perhaps, yet it rings alarm bells in my gut for some ominous reason still clouded with euphoria of relief from Mad W Bush and his gang...I see this as macro version of bad cop good cop strategy exercised over the world population...however this has happend lots of times in US history with little or no change in objectives and I predict that promised CHANGE will only be visible in methodology of achieving same old objectives that are never ever decided by voters in any country...why do you think we did not have BUsh impeached nor US army withdrawn from Iraq though voters gave clear message in the last elections that they had enough of this global cop business wasting their sons and taxes for the megalomanic wet dreams of their "elected" leaders....

Noow back to race and significance of this half black presidente in this crucial time of global economic and political crisis...I have premonition glimpses from all recent news and events that we are set on some very rough timeline which will have this "historic" 44th presidente as some kind of fall guy for what is to come...why in hell would so many zionists vote for him while he was termed as muslim, terrorist and black racist...hmmm....I guess they have planned something really horryfing for our world that no white person would agree to be associated with...don't you know that he as a black person must do much more than a white person to show that he is not racist, he has to be more harsh on muslims to show that he is not one of them, he has to hit harder in pursuit of "terrorism" than Bush to show that he is able to be a MAN and commander in chief, he has to appease white men more than a Bush to show that he is not a racist agent from Nation of Islam....etc....he is very ambitious person and quite headstrong and I am sure that he will not sit idle in waiting for others to do his job like little monkey from Texas...he will come strong and determined in his plans yet all will be in vain as the empyre given to him is not different as the one given to "Dick and Jane", auditors are in the car park already and with congress that he has there is no way he can change anything that neocons have ushered in since the nineties. For that task you really need a messiah with major miracles and trust me world at the moment has none. Possible scenario, he is sworn in office while in the background war is initiated by the unelected goverment spooks who have their own chain of command...this guy is a bit hot headed like a Kennedy and would not back up from confrotation no matter who is on the other side. His utter personal need to prove himself capable will be his own doom and he will be played big time by those who put him in this presidental race...is he better than Mc? sure but for what? the next phase of global reshuffling needs someone much more inteligent than your average Tx monkey...everyone's attention is diverted to election and CHANGE BS while the carpet is being pulled underneath the feet of the world with the economic robbery of the millenium. what good is a black president if his country is bankrupted and hated by the rest of the world...what good is black president if the lawmakers are sold out fifth collumn that cares more about little tiny shit hole in TelAviv than about people and country that feeds them...I am sorry that there is no democracy in the world, I am sorry that we are all slaves of our corporate masters and pseudo religious ideals set on mutual destruction whichever way you look at it, nothing good will come out of next 4 years of new white house because nothing in US is left to chance and same applies to the rest of the world even if it does not look so...you thought 911, Afghanistan and Iraq was horrible but you have not seen anything for what is coming our way and when you see it all three together will seem as christmas party in comparison...don't think so, wait and see....black presidente is set for really dark times...and that post about Leabanon war is shocking to most but they have much worse prepared and already in a motion...

"Let there be Light!"

Although, you raise some salient concerns G.  Revealer nevertheless, your assessment of Obama having to try harder and be more belligerent than "normal" executives to prove his validity is way off base. He has no intrinsic drive to "get the Muslims"--evident by his stance of negotiations first with all contentious parties without pre-conditions. There is a quiet humility and a sense of fairness in that stance--contravening decades of a US foreign policy, which told the world: You either do what we say and maybe we'll talk to you.

Barack Obama is no cretin. He is intelligent and engages subjects with method, curiosity and scholarship. He is a constitutional scholar, was first in his law class at Harvard law school and editor of the law review--clerked for one of the country's top judges. This is not some "wishy-washy" person looking for hollow confirmation and ceremonial adoration -- he has always been confident precisely because he has always had the talent to excel in life.

The sources of the obstacles that may face Obama and which might effect the world adversely will more likely come from without (reactionary forcers) and not within himself or develop as a result of a flawed character. I will take another oppotunity to comment on the other good points you outlined.

One love,

At least take some solace in the fact that Lady Lynn Rothschilds temper tantrum didn't work when she withdrew her support from Obama for whatever reason, maybe he was being too "uppity."

The Rothschilds started pouring money into McCain's campaign and lost their bet.

And money.

We'll have to wait and see what Obama's reaction to the next MOSSAD/CIA false-flag against America is.

"Barack Obama's Kenyan family to celebrate by slaughtering bulls, chicken and goats"

By contrast, President-elect Obama plans to celebrate by slaughtering more Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, and perhaps Iranians.

Just another day in the world's largest prison, known as Gaza.

Using some phony excuse, Israel launched some missiles and "smart" bombs on Gaza, just to let the oppressed know who's large and in charge.

Between now and January 20, Israel will continue to amp up the attacks on Gaza and southern Lebanon, all in an effort to get the Palestinians and Lebanese to respond and defend themselves, making sure Obama's painted into a corner before he takes office.

The ZHID hive isn't completely sure about Obama, so it's time to stack the deck, again, in their favor.

screen names alaways confuse me :)

As I've said elsewhere, Obama's victory represents some of pillars of the myth forming ideals of capitalism. Obama is more of a victory for America's elite than it is for working class whites and blacks in general. Although, the symbolism will belong to these sectors in the historical context.

It would seem that Obama and his administration will try a dual prompt policy in Afghanistan involving including the opposition Taliban forces with infusing money and arms to different tribes and clans to try and deflate their unity--a la Iraq. As long as the bombs stop and innocent people are not being murdered anymore by missiles from thousands of feets in the air, I'll sleep better. This policy, otherwise known as the surge will continue in Iraq. We'll have a draw down of our forces and eventually, withdraw in the next couple of years but will maintain a sizeable force there under the guise of training and advising.

We must remain vigilant and use this example of the ascent of Obama--a relative unknown--as guide for further agitation and maybe, just possibly we as the working people of this country can arise some people into government who will uphold justice and economic justice come what may. Obviously, fifty dollar donations from tens of millions can get the job done--but if we do decide to take this path it will take decades to overhaul a decrepit system bought and sold to the corporations. Moreover, don't you believe the hype and buy into the idea that racism is over in America because my friends it just aint so--this is not a post racial world.

John Laughland is a British historian and political scientist:

The election of a Democrat as US president means that it is the US-EU relationship which will now be reinvigorated, not the relationship between Europe and Russia. The Bush years have been exceptionally difficult for the pro-American elite which governs Europe. All the major players in European politics are viscerally pro-US (and concomitantly anti-Russian) but their basic desire to like America - and to be like America, for instance by creating a United States of Europe - has been thwarted by the contempt in which George Bush is held around the world (and indeed in his own country) and by the evident stupidity of his foreign policy.

In contrast to a Bush who revels in his reputation as a redneck, Barack Obama embodies all the values with which European leaders are themselves infatuated – left-liberalism, youth, dynamism, change, even ethnic diversity. In the run-up to the poll, they have hardly been able to contain their excitement at the prospect of his election. Why, Obama even writes books. Years of pent-up pro-Americanism will therefore now flood out as soon as the mood music of multilateralism starts to be played once more in the White House. EU leaders will again be able to identify “America” with “progress,” just as they did when they were young, and they will swoon with delight whenever President Obama proposes some new international (i.e. trans-Atlantic) plan to spread Western political values around the world (and to augment the power of the West over it).

Mark my word. Not much different from Neoconservativism.

I thought about writing the letter to Obama and mail it just a few days prior to his inauguration, to list the points what I would like for him to fulfill.

Not the typical kooky bullshit, but what I would like to see accomplished such as backing away from gun control (this is why I get NRA fear-mongering propaganda letters), investing in renewable energy, reasonable regulation of Wall Street to prevent financial meltdown, corruption and fraud, improve race relations and paying down the national and fiscal trade debts without dipping into Social Security trust fund. And of course, tell him to focus on U.S, instead of kissing ass with Israel.

Thomas Jefferson said, "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them."

I am glad McCain lost, because he would be a terrible president with a nasty temper and a totally unqualified VP dumbo.

I hope Obama's "Change" and "Hope" slogans aren't empty -- that he will institute positive changes without resorting to oppression and 'communistic' methods.

Barack Obama should know that kissing Israel's ass is critical to sparing his life, because JFK turned his back on Israel over Dimona and got removed as the result. LBJ replaced him and he was an Israeli lover like...Joseph Biden.

Nader wrote a brilliant "rebuttal" letter to Obama "Between Hope and Reality" noting change doesn't mean shit. Ron Paul said the same as well.

Mike Gravel should have been nominated. He was a good man. Unfortunately, they fell for Obama and Hillary's charm hook, line and sinker. They prefer polished public imagery.

McCain Takes Shot at Obama for Hamas Support

John McCain taunted Barack Obama Friday for his recent "endorsement" from a Hamas adviser, wearing his own apparent rejection by the terrorist group as a badge of honor and saying that if elected he would be "Hamas' worst nightmare."

McCain spoke openly about the touchy subject on a conference call with bloggers Friday morning, even as he was fighting with a local Republican Party to take down an ad critical of Obama that he said was harmful to the "respectful" spirit of the race.

"I think it is very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States ... I think that the people should understand that I will be Hamas' worst nightmare," McCain said when asked about the group's recent statements about Obama.

Campaign spokesman Brian Rogers said the Hamas support "is a legitimate issue for the American people to think about."

Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said two weeks ago in an interview with WABC radio and WorldNetDaily that the terrorist group supports Obama's foreign policy vision.

"Actually, we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will [win] the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle," he said.

McCain suggested that support stems from Obama's willingness to have diplomatic talks with nations like Iran. "I never expect for the leader of Hamas ... to say that he wants me as president of the United States," McCain said. "I think it is very clear ... why they would not want me to be president of the United States, so if Sen. Obama is favored by Hamas, I think people can make judgments accordingly."

Rogers said plainly that "the reason for Hamas' praise of Senator Obama's foreign policy is his commitment to meet unconditionally with Iran ... It is not only responsible to raise these critical issues in this election, but it would be the height of irresponsibility not to have this discussion with the American people." He called Obama's foreign policy a "radical departure" from current standards of dealing with "rogue regimes." ...

You might think there were only 2 candidates,
by the media and results.

Or it is the usual dog and pony show; destination: hell.

The day after Obama wins the presidency, "Fuck you Obama, You sellout Piece of shit" is the next most popular page at WUFYS, getting hundreds of hits via google.

Second only to "meet the next president of the United States of America" which is a year old post about Mike Gravel that people are also being wrongly directed to via google, the 'Fuck Obama' post most likely is being mistaken for a white supremacist tirade against Obama, the president elect.

Ironically, in reality, it's a piece venting against Obama for selling out to hate-filled and murderous zionist israelis - themselves a group of white supremacists - only the Jewish kind.

This says alot about the hatred and racism Obama is up against after winning this election.

I don't envy his wife and family for a second.

If nothing else, he and  his wife both are very courageous.

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Monica testified that Clinton told her that the phone lines might be tapped by a foreign power , we'll AMDOCS (directory assistance )and another Israeli owned company had the movtive, the history and means and ask Cynthia Mckinney what happens when your dad mentions the Israeli lobby , you get attacked w/ no mercy .

Israeli influence is unmatched and power is well entrenched in American politics and they will viscously go after aNYBODY that is even a 90% supporter of Israel , ask Howard Dean .

And with obama's attendence at the AIPAC convention , he showed he's a loyal follower of their blood thirsty agenda and what will he get for defending Palestinians , the REAL victims , you know what .

Nepos, that was a good summation of the state of affairs.

We need to remember the assorted clowns and ogres that we interviewed for the job of CEO of Corporate U.S. Remember that the CEO only does what the Board directs and functions at the whim of the Board. He executes their plan, nothing more. He has no policy power.

Obama was the least inflammatory of the bunch, and will probably go a long way in recovering America's reputation as the assholes of the universe. Obama projects the image of a fair minded America where anyone can achieve greatness. His familiarity with Islamic culture will go a long way in cooling hatred. Obama is level headed, unlike that seething ball of anger the Republicans ran.

Most of all, Obama represents that the American people rejected the policies and lies of the Cheney / Bush administration. They showed that they reject the false scenario that started on 911 and resulted in the destruction of two innocent countries.

If how a campaign is run is any indication of a CEO's ability to run the Corporaton (and it is a Corporation), then we should have great confidence in Obama's organizational skills. His campaign was one of the best examples of tactical organization that I've seen in American politics.

So there you have it - my hopeful evaluation of the Obama election.

America is not that far removed from the lynching's of blacks in the South in the 1950's and early '60's for being too "uppity."

The majority said they'd prefer a black man over a white guy with the credentials of being a former POW and fighter pilot.

Even a majority of whites said this in their voting.

Plus, the election momentarily stunted the growth of the Evangelical Christian movement and their obscene grasps at power.
If McCain, who they voted for, had won, this country would have taken a big step towards being a theocracy.

All of this pissing and moaning about Obama must mean the ones bitching the most were secretly hoping and voting for four more years of Bush, thru McCain.

Is that much different from the KKK, who like to hide behind hoods?

Decades of voter apathy and ignorance isn't going to be changed overnight.

There's some momentum in the wind and we need to take it to our advantage and work together to fix Lady Liberty....

Or not.

We could just say "Fuck it" and keep in the shadows, pissing and moaning about what might have been.

But what might have been is going to take work, lots and lots of work.

If you want a Ralph Nader or McKinney to win some time in the future, you're going to have to work for it, it's not going to be handed to you on a silver platter.

Maybe take some lessons from the campaign of Obama, who seemed to be out in the hinterlands over the years, working and scraping to making to make their dream come true.

Are you ready to work for that possibility or are you just going to hide behind your keyboards and bitch?

Obama asked Rahm Emmanual to be his Chief of Staff - a zostaniac son of Irgun murderers. Not a good omen.

All of this pissing and moaning about Obama must mean the ones bitching the most were secretly hoping and voting for four more years of Bush, thru McCain.

Instead of dragging Obama to the nearest oak tree, we'll drag him electronically thru the void and hang him with our computer keyboards.

Yeah Greg, that describes Larry Pinkney,  a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to a tee. Your attempt at silencing dissent by pointing the finger o racism are falling flat, take a look at the FOX clip just posted here.

Fashion critics are already commenting on Michelle Obama's Black Widow dress that she wore at the election victory party.