President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama embrace Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden moments after the television networks called the election in their favor, while watching election returns at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park in Chicago, Ill., Nov. 6, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Down to calling Ann the “love of his life” which I think President Obama recently said about Michelle. I had to come downstairs, watched the concession speech with hubby upstairs, the pundits (Rachel, Ed, and company) had sugar leaking out their pores afterwards; I could not take it; made hubby mad cause I was yelling at them.
Romney couldn’t even stay with the truth at the end. I’m sure Romney was the one who held out for 2 hours. Miss Ann must have told him it was over.
I love that the pundits are shown to be liars and enablers – I love that it was shown money can’t buy an election – AND if PBO was the color of his white mother – he would have won over 400 EVs
Congratulations everyone! WELL DONE OUR CHIPSTICKS! Even those who were faint of heart at times can soar with the feelings of what has happened tonight! The ship has been turned, thanks to the will and determination of one Barack Hussein Obama, whose vision never wavered in the face of a terrible foe. He could not have done it without us all, each and every one. He knows it. We know it. We are the ones we have been waiting for. And our Chipsticks? ~ there are no words gracious enough to envelope her dedication… I suggest she shall dance with the President AND the First Lady at the Inaugural Ball! And I shall recommend this to OFA! Brace yourself, Chips, and start looking for a gown!
Thanks Pamela for this beautiful comment. I am proud of the President, the Vice President and their incredible partners, FLOTUS SLOTUS. I am proud of the OFA team that worked tirelessly, day in and day out. I am proud of all Obama supporters, on this and other pragmatic blogs like TPV, POU, and BWD’s site, who never lost faith in the President. I think that tonight, the whole entire world is breathing a sigh of relief. After all, there are still many Americans who have not lost all sanity. Finally, let me join you in thanking Chipsticks for all the hard work she is put in running this site, even in those moments of doubts and despair. Let me also join you in thanking all the magnificent members of TOD family. One thing I especially appreciated was the many of the passionate supporters of the President never lost their sense of humor.
Where’s our President? I want to hear his speech, but my eyes are giving out on me. Long day….work tomorrow. History comes first…..I have to say, the music is awesome:)
OK, it’s half past 7 in the morning over here at the Right Coast of the Atlantiic.
I don’t assume to add any intelligent thought here, so I head to bed in the solid convicton that PBO wiill be the President of the USA and its CiC for the next 4 years, so that I can sleep safely :=)
Begin rant: I can’t bear to listen to pundits waxing on about Romney’s “gracious” speech. Forget about the 18 months of lies and insults to the American people that came before – the secrecy and disregard for the truth. Let’s just praise him for the last moment, even though he insulted dead Americans and the sitting President of the United States, calling him a liar and corrupt. I detest Mitt Romney, and if i never see him again, it will be too soon. And these pundits make me sick too. End rant.
Watching BBC. Much better discussion. One lady said that there are 50000 hispanics turning into voters every month, every fricking month. She said unless the thugs faced that reality, they will continue to lose.
Theo, I second your rant. I have sworn off msm for such a long time, but tuned in tonight after knowing we’d won. Now awful they are! Kept switching channels, looking for sanity. None! No wonder we are such a divided country. No wonder so many are uninformed, and filled with disrespect for our President. We simply MUST make this a priority, somehow, we must have a responsible media. This is simply shameful reporting on every one of the major networks. End my rant
You know theo, as much as I want to be magnanimous tonight towards the Romneys, I agree with you 100%! LO and Rev.AL were more balanced in their praise. But as always all the other pundits were totally inflicted with Romenisia. It was as if all the lies he told and the way he, his wife, and his surrogates like John Sununu and Donald Trump, denigrated a sitting President never occurred. Tonight, all that was tossed into a memory hole.
I’ve been telling my friends and family who were calling me from MD worried that the President was behind in popular vote to wait until all the votes are counted in CA. This is, of course, a much closer election than 2008. But I still think that when all the votes are counted in the west, the President will win the popular vote.
LOL… my best bud is here working and she just jumped up when Chuck Todd said “it’s hard to see where Romney finds enough votes in the remaining precints in FL” — she’ls like “Wait… what the hell is this guy talking about? Didn’t Romney just concede? The race is over!… Who is this guy”
“That’s Chuck Todd — head non-news fuck for NBC and still a Romney ball polisher” 😀
I don’t think I have heard one positive word about the President all night from my tv. I think I will return to my policy of never watching the news there.
For the first time in two years I turned on CNN because my niece in MD called me to ask about why Romney was contesting Ohio. John King was on and he almost made me puke with his negativity about how the President. Most of U.S. media are unethical.
Unethical, deluded. I really think that with some of them, the idea that a black man couldn’t possibly be as intelligent/competent/what-have-you as our president, is so baked in that they truly cannot see that it is there. It’s just an unexamined underlying assumption.
it was a rejection of right wing ideology..against women…. voter suppression …it was a choosing of the vision that PBO laid out!
however the ..redistricting of the states by Repub controlled legislatures prevented the Dems from taking back the House…but we did make inroads…and we will continue to do so…
Yes Indeed! Both Allen West and Joe “deadbeat dad” Walsh lost. Now if Michelle Bachmann were top lose, that would be, as DUBYA called it, “a trifecta”!
And it is so. The ship has come through the choppy waters for a brief rest…..Time to take on small stores and rest a little before coming about and giving congress a broadside.
I have a niece and a very good friend in MD! They are all ecstatic! MD really rocks! My friend who voted before going to work at about 7:30AM said that it took her less than 20 minutes. Almost the same time it took me here in SD, CA.
So relieved to hear Mitt Romney’s concession speech…..turned the volume very low…..can’t stand to listen to him, but watched him. That was blessedly short. Now waiting for my President……for him I will wait as long as necessary.
I will really sleep well tonight, the last week, like many of you, sleep hasn’t been restful or long enough, but now it will be, knowing Barack Obama is still our president.
oh man are you folks watching these wonderfully crazy happy democrats?? I just love them- everyone, thank you all for voting for this great man once again ~
I’m about to go speak to the crowd here in Chicago, but I wanted to thank you first.
I want you to know that this wasn’t fate, and it wasn’t an accident. You made this happen.
You organized yourselves block by block. You took ownership of this campaign five and ten dollars at a time. And when it wasn’t easy, you pressed forward.
I will spend the rest of my presidency honoring your support, and doing what I can to finish what we started.
But I want you to take real pride, as I do, in how we got the chance in the first place.
Today is the clearest proof yet that, against the odds, ordinary Americans can overcome powerful interests.
What a classy man. I got the same message, df. I am very happy and proud of the little that I contributed to fight against the powerful interests intent on destroying this good man. I am thankful to have joined up with some of the most intelligent and beautiful people who supported the re-election of MY President.
Hey!!! what are all those white people doing at Obama’s loser rally? Don’t they realize PBO hates white people and that there is a huge enthusiasm gap amongst caucasians when it comes to Obama?!!!!! WTH?!
Dear God. That idiot Eugene Robinson telling us what the fuck he wants to hear from PBO. 🙄 Media still hasn’t learned: PBO don’t give a fuck what you want. Asses.
You know, you and I think alike. I said before, he shouldn’t give ANY pundits the time of day. Speak to the local press when he wants to, like he does now, ignore those jackals in that press core too.
I just laugh every time they say Republicans need to think of a way to appeal to Latin@ voters. Hmmm! Think hard, Republicans! There must be something you could do…Sheesh.
I am looking for my daughter and her fiance in the crowd. They live just down the block from the victory speech. Yes!! Yes!! Glad he got to use the red, blue state but United States of America line. Full circle. He looks emotional and tired.
The Obama Diary 
yes it was
🙂
Early November back in 2012…
Top 10.
Best poster EVER!!!!
Absolutely!
Victory is ours. We’ve got the victory!
Beautiful night!
It is an absolute shame how sad the media is that the people have spoken.
4 More Years!!!!! 😆
I love these winners–yes I do I lvoe these winners–how about you?
I love them too, VL. How was the President’s speech? I missed both his and Mitt’s because I finally answered my phone after the fourth call!
Excellent poster, Chips.
🙂
My Suzan DelBene is doing nicely. Race won’t be called till tomorrow, though. I’m cautiously optimistic.
Romney’s speech was weird. Is it just me or what just happened?
I will leave it alone but…..( I’m just saying)
It was rushed and not genuine. He could be in shock or something lol
He simply plagiarized President Obama’s speeches…
THIS!!!!!!!
Down to calling Ann the “love of his life” which I think President Obama recently said about Michelle. I had to come downstairs, watched the concession speech with hubby upstairs, the pundits (Rachel, Ed, and company) had sugar leaking out their pores afterwards; I could not take it; made hubby mad cause I was yelling at them.
And we are closing in on the 15 millionth hit. 🙂
Romney couldn’t even stay with the truth at the end. I’m sure Romney was the one who held out for 2 hours. Miss Ann must have told him it was over.
I love that the pundits are shown to be liars and enablers – I love that it was shown money can’t buy an election – AND if PBO was the color of his white mother – he would have won over 400 EVs
THIS!!!!!!
Time for the Main Event with the Main Man. No more sideshows and circuses. Ready for the real deal.
And even then it wasn’t really his thoughts or words but stuff he’d stolen from President Obama’s speeches…
YES WE DID!!!
Congratulations everyone! WELL DONE OUR CHIPSTICKS! Even those who were faint of heart at times can soar with the feelings of what has happened tonight! The ship has been turned, thanks to the will and determination of one Barack Hussein Obama, whose vision never wavered in the face of a terrible foe. He could not have done it without us all, each and every one. He knows it. We know it. We are the ones we have been waiting for. And our Chipsticks? ~ there are no words gracious enough to envelope her dedication… I suggest she shall dance with the President AND the First Lady at the Inaugural Ball! And I shall recommend this to OFA! Brace yourself, Chips, and start looking for a gown!
🙂 Agreed!
Thanks Pamela for this beautiful comment. I am proud of the President, the Vice President and their incredible partners, FLOTUS SLOTUS. I am proud of the OFA team that worked tirelessly, day in and day out. I am proud of all Obama supporters, on this and other pragmatic blogs like TPV, POU, and BWD’s site, who never lost faith in the President. I think that tonight, the whole entire world is breathing a sigh of relief. After all, there are still many Americans who have not lost all sanity. Finally, let me join you in thanking Chipsticks for all the hard work she is put in running this site, even in those moments of doubts and despair. Let me also join you in thanking all the magnificent members of TOD family. One thing I especially appreciated was the many of the passionate supporters of the President never lost their sense of humor.
Love that! Dance like you mean it, Chips!
It looks like final EV will be 332. My prediction of 347 missed by a whisker by a single state. NC …. shaking my fist
yep, NC surprised me.
Very close amk – I thought he would win NC
Shame on you! Loser!!! :):)
😦 😦 😦
You did well, amk. I was really hoping for NC, too. I think the religious right pushed through at the end.
Excellent job, AMK! I too missed NC and my beloved Nebraska 2. Oh well, you can’t win them all.
Poor Mitch…now he has to work hard to make sure President Obama is only a two term President….lol
Where’s our President? I want to hear his speech, but my eyes are giving out on me. Long day….work tomorrow. History comes first…..I have to say, the music is awesome:)
Where are you seeing the music without the pundits?
Chuckie sounds like he’s gonna cry. Strong senate coming up, despite the house. Bachman is only approx. 170 votes ahead so far.
Allen West lost!! Yeah!
thank you baby Jesus. That man was pure crazy evil.
Thank you Sweet Lord!
Yeah!! And Joe Walsh, too. Now, we just need to oust Bachmann.
yes to both those nutjobs. I also wanted to see Walsh because of what he did during one of the President’s state of union.
That is fantastic…
Getting rid of Allen West and Joe Walsh made to night even more sweeter.
and they got rid off michele bachman too!!!
West and Walsh are gone thank you Jesus. Too bad lying Ryran and batcrazy Michelle didn’t join them but I will take whatever I can get.
I’m never coming down off this high.. ever.. or at least not for four more years 🙂
Yep, I get to postpone enrolling in TOD rehab for another 4 yrs. Oh sweet obsession!! 😀
right here with you dudette!
I join with your thankfulness too.
OK, it’s half past 7 in the morning over here at the Right Coast of the Atlantiic.
I don’t assume to add any intelligent thought here, so I head to bed in the solid convicton that PBO wiill be the President of the USA and its CiC for the next 4 years, so that I can sleep safely :=)
Thanks for hanging here with us, Toon Moene:) We’re all safe now…I’m going to sleep like a baby!
Begin rant: I can’t bear to listen to pundits waxing on about Romney’s “gracious” speech. Forget about the 18 months of lies and insults to the American people that came before – the secrecy and disregard for the truth. Let’s just praise him for the last moment, even though he insulted dead Americans and the sitting President of the United States, calling him a liar and corrupt. I detest Mitt Romney, and if i never see him again, it will be too soon. And these pundits make me sick too. End rant.
Watching BBC. Much better discussion. One lady said that there are 50000 hispanics turning into voters every month, every fricking month. She said unless the thugs faced that reality, they will continue to lose.
You spoke for me…
It’s sickening that the media continues with it’s dishonesty…
Even with a win, President Obama is still being falsely portrayed by them as having lost and somehow Mitt Romney still wins…
It’s heady stuff, the sort that destroys dysfunctional societies…
Theo, I second your rant. I have sworn off msm for such a long time, but tuned in tonight after knowing we’d won. Now awful they are! Kept switching channels, looking for sanity. None! No wonder we are such a divided country. No wonder so many are uninformed, and filled with disrespect for our President. We simply MUST make this a priority, somehow, we must have a responsible media. This is simply shameful reporting on every one of the major networks. End my rant
Yup – they are horrendous. I plan to boycott.
You know theo, as much as I want to be magnanimous tonight towards the Romneys, I agree with you 100%! LO and Rev.AL were more balanced in their praise. But as always all the other pundits were totally inflicted with Romenisia. It was as if all the lies he told and the way he, his wife, and his surrogates like John Sununu and Donald Trump, denigrated a sitting President never occurred. Tonight, all that was tossed into a memory hole.
It was disgusting, and it’s the reason the right wing never learns its lesson.
PV lead now 355K. Go CA.
We do rock. And we take forever to count votes.
WOW!!
I’ve been telling my friends and family who were calling me from MD worried that the President was behind in popular vote to wait until all the votes are counted in CA. This is, of course, a much closer election than 2008. But I still think that when all the votes are counted in the west, the President will win the popular vote.
Say bye bye to Allen West!
Good riddance.Hope the door hits his ass on the way out
For realz ? Show me the money.
He used up his 15 minutes of fame. By the way, does any one know how Allan Grayson did?
LOL… my best bud is here working and she just jumped up when Chuck Todd said “it’s hard to see where Romney finds enough votes in the remaining precints in FL” — she’ls like “Wait… what the hell is this guy talking about? Didn’t Romney just concede? The race is over!… Who is this guy”
“That’s Chuck Todd — head non-news fuck for NBC and still a Romney ball polisher” 😀
I like your choice of expression
I don’t think I have heard one positive word about the President all night from my tv. I think I will return to my policy of never watching the news there.
I’ve heard many positive words on TV. But I’ve seen even more positive words on TWITTER!!!!
The people voted for PBO despite the media. The interwebs are making the media irrelevant.
Indeed.
BBC. Period.
I tried, but it just wouldn’t work for me.
True, he has won decisively and the bitches are as nasty as ever. Sour grapes from people who have seen that they do not matter.
It’s always, he won decisively, BUT…yada yada!
For the first time in two years I turned on CNN because my niece in MD called me to ask about why Romney was contesting Ohio. John King was on and he almost made me puke with his negativity about how the President. Most of U.S. media are unethical.
Unethical, deluded. I really think that with some of them, the idea that a black man couldn’t possibly be as intelligent/competent/what-have-you as our president, is so baked in that they truly cannot see that it is there. It’s just an unexamined underlying assumption.
it was a rejection of right wing ideology..against women…. voter suppression …it was a choosing of the vision that PBO laid out!
however the ..redistricting of the states by Repub controlled legislatures prevented the Dems from taking back the House…but we did make inroads…and we will continue to do so…
Really?!? Halleloo!
Yes Indeed! Both Allen West and Joe “deadbeat dad” Walsh lost. Now if Michelle Bachmann were top lose, that would be, as DUBYA called it, “a trifecta”!
We did it! The world breathes a sigh of relief.
And it is so. The ship has come through the choppy waters for a brief rest…..Time to take on small stores and rest a little before coming about and giving congress a broadside.
So true sir…
No rest for the weary, eh?
YESSSSSSSS! I am so pleased that PBO won and sanity prevailed. Been listening but not commenting. What a night!
Chips thank you for your amazing site and for being there to give us all a positive and uplifting place to come to, you are a treasure.
Thank you PRESIDENT Obama for your vision, leadership and unshakable resolve to make this world a better place.
God bless America – tonight I do believe he has (again). Love you all!!
Are you in London? My stepson and stepdaughter both live there (Islington and Chingford); my stepson is American and voted for PBO.
Just 30 miles north of london, not far from Luton airport!
Meant to add THANK YOU to your American step son for voting for PBO
To the Republicans tonight.
Well done!!
Lyin Ryan won his seat again. Fucker!!!!!!
Shit. What was the margin ?
Quite large – it seems house seats show that the wingnuts are huddled together in small areas
56-42? I think that’s about right.
BBC analysts are brilliant. You should all be watching that channel.
Shit, Ryan is back.
yup. Fucker.
what?!!! Romney didn’t win the election against that Kenyan mooslim soshalist?!!!! WTF??!!!
hahahahahahhahahhahahhahahahahhahahhahaha!!!! 😆 😆
So proud to be a Marylander tonight!
I have a niece and a very good friend in MD! They are all ecstatic! MD really rocks! My friend who voted before going to work at about 7:30AM said that it took her less than 20 minutes. Almost the same time it took me here in SD, CA.
So relieved to hear Mitt Romney’s concession speech…..turned the volume very low…..can’t stand to listen to him, but watched him. That was blessedly short. Now waiting for my President……for him I will wait as long as necessary.
I will really sleep well tonight, the last week, like many of you, sleep hasn’t been restful or long enough, but now it will be, knowing Barack Obama is still our president.
Hey Murdock, was it God’s Plan for you to lose your election?
PV lead up close to 500 K.
You’re on a toilet roll today, Chips. Literally. LOL.
oh man are you folks watching these wonderfully crazy happy democrats?? I just love them- everyone, thank you all for voting for this great man once again ~
Florida might regret the abortion measure on their ballot – it lost by a large amount – no doubt brought many women out to vote
BBC – The President is in the building. Fuck yeah.
Bless his heart. Nate rocks in my book.
11:17 p.m. ET
President Obama’s message to supporters
I’m about to go speak to the crowd here in Chicago, but I wanted to thank you first.
I want you to know that this wasn’t fate, and it wasn’t an accident. You made this happen.
You organized yourselves block by block. You took ownership of this campaign five and ten dollars at a time. And when it wasn’t easy, you pressed forward.
I will spend the rest of my presidency honoring your support, and doing what I can to finish what we started.
But I want you to take real pride, as I do, in how we got the chance in the first place.
Today is the clearest proof yet that, against the odds, ordinary Americans can overcome powerful interests.
There’s a lot more work to do.
But for right now: Thank you.
Barack
What a classy man. I got the same message, df. I am very happy and proud of the little that I contributed to fight against the powerful interests intent on destroying this good man. I am thankful to have joined up with some of the most intelligent and beautiful people who supported the re-election of MY President.
Hey!!! what are all those white people doing at Obama’s loser rally? Don’t they realize PBO hates white people and that there is a huge enthusiasm gap amongst caucasians when it comes to Obama?!!!!! WTH?!
The press trying to fill this air time is just torturous. UGH.
I would rather hear the music and see the crowd.
Someone confirm this please. Pretty please. The icing on my personal cake.
Is that an addition to our senate count ?
71% of Latino voters for PBO; yea!!
Okay, so *now* are we going to stop worrying about them stealing the election?
Dear God. That idiot Eugene Robinson telling us what the fuck he wants to hear from PBO. 🙄 Media still hasn’t learned: PBO don’t give a fuck what you want. Asses.
You know, you and I think alike. I said before, he shouldn’t give ANY pundits the time of day. Speak to the local press when he wants to, like he does now, ignore those jackals in that press core too.
Exactly, Lisa! This is why my heart and my BP can’t take all these idiot pundits.
Still hanging in —–excited to hear from our Newly Re-elected President! What a relief!!!!!
I just laugh every time they say Republicans need to think of a way to appeal to Latin@ voters. Hmmm! Think hard, Republicans! There must be something you could do…Sheesh.
HERE THEY COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Here he comes!!!!!!!
New post!
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/11/07/four-years-on/
Here they are, my glowing First Family! Signed, Sealed, Delivered!
i AM JUST SOBBING RIGHT NOW….oH MY GOODNESS… I so love my First Family
Aaaand The President is in the room.
Ladies & Gentleman, The President of the United States.
。☆。*。☆。
★。＼｜／。★
The President of USA
★。／｜＼。★
。☆。*。☆。
PBO NOW!
He is here!!!!
I’ve got the most stoopidest shyte eating grin on my face when the O’s came on stage. I’m bursting with joy – even tho, I’m flagging – 6.39am!
OMG, completely crying now. What a wonderful open heart.
this is greatness right here folks.
I am looking for my daughter and her fiance in the crowd. They live just down the block from the victory speech. Yes!! Yes!! Glad he got to use the red, blue state but United States of America line. Full circle. He looks emotional and tired.
Man so much for the polls! Most were off on the margins it seems, especially gravis and we ask america.