DISQUS

Jack and Jill Politics: January 3, 2008 - A Dream Forms Real Roots

  • justice58 · 1 year ago
    I remember hearing Iowa being called for Barack Obama & I stood in the middle of my living room stunned with amazement! When I could finally pick my jaw from the floor, I said...Iowa!


    Oh My God!
  • Kat · 1 year ago
    I remember coming home, vaguely aware that the Iowa primary was that night (which is funny now since I have followed every other one). I turned on my laptop to check my email, and there, right there on the yahoo homepage....Obama wins Iowa.


    I still get chills thinking about it. I got a chill then. It was the first time that I ever entertained the thought that he might have a shot. I called my mom. I called my grandmother. I went to the Obama homepage and donated money. I will never forget that night.
  • miss-opinion · 1 year ago
    I recall my brother and father thinking that Senator Obama was a "distraction", that he would not win the nomination.


    Then, THEN! came Iowa and everything changed. I stayed up most of the night just watching everything on television. And of course we know what followed that. Senator Clinton decided to have a nervous breakdown because she didn't win one, ONE, contest like she thought she would. I'm still amazed that no one in the mainstream understood that moment. Senator Clinton felt so entitled that she couldn't do anything but cry.



    Please don't pick her as your VP Obama. We're free of the Clintons for the first time in 8 years. Lets make it a clean break.
  • The Christian Progressive Libe · 1 year ago
    I remember thinking like Eddie Murphy said in "Delirious" when Harold Washington won as Mayor of Chi-Town:


    "He really won the M-F-!" ROFL



    For those of you who remember when Eddie Murphy used to tell dirty jokes, ROFL.
  • khal02 · 1 year ago
    I remember the look on my parents face when I told them and the loud "What?!?" that came out my dad's mouth.
  • Kitty · 1 year ago
    I was in Fez, Morocco when my sister called me with the news in the middle of the night. I was shocked. The next day the other guests at the place I was staying peppered me with all sorts of questions (I was the only American there). I do remember telling them even back then that Hillary was a snake in the grass and that people would be shocked by her true nature. I can attest that the world is watching this election closely.
  • KHusseininMA · 1 year ago
    I was filled with joy. I'd lived in Iowa for 9 years, and that experience had shown me that people in the "heartland" were much, much smarter, and more sensible and thoughtful and in touch with reality, than the MSM would have you believe. It was incredibly sweet to see that they had come through for this extraordinary man.
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    I was one of those people in Iowa who voted Obama, sitting with my girlfriend in a packed room where we OBVIOUSLY outnumbered the Clinton and Edwards people... I talked my old Republican-voting dad into caucusing for him, and my buddy who'd been for Edwards. I cried a bit when I heard his speech that night. I've had a sign in my window that reads HOPE with the Obama logo in it ever since. I may have that sign in my window for a long time.
  • Caribbean Lionesse · 1 year ago
    I remember feeling that night that I just HAD to watch the results as they came in. I just ...had a feeling, even though my boyfriend thought I was nuts. I'm a politics junkie and follow the American elections pretty closely anyhow but even I was surprised at my intensity.


    Every single time more numbers came in and that pie chart got a little bigger for Obama, I pumped my fists and told my boyfriend 'believe!'



    Michelle got me since November last year in that interview with Brzezinksi when she spoke so empathetically about our 'natural fear of possibility' and how we needed to let that go. And I decided to let go and believe.



    And that night in Iowa...IOWA of all places was my first vindication. That was a great night.
  • Villager · 1 year ago
    I was in Los Angeles visiting with my Mom. I had my laptop and watched a live-stream show where they were giving a minute-by-minute update of the caucus votes as they came in. I remember getting giddy as Obama finally broke through into first place ... and when it was obvious he won, I remember getting my Mom from her room and turning on network TV (she doesn't have cable) to watch his victory speech.


    We were both had tears in our eyes with happiness, pride and joy that night...



    peace, Villager