Positive Obama thread

onward and upward ladies - keep the positive light on here and all around your world, i am moving on but not without saying what an honor and pleasure it was to share the election of PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA with all of you lovely ladies. we did it. WE WON! Hope has replaced fear and a better day for our country is coming, of this i am sure....

Yes,

This thread was vital to my enjoyment of sticking it to the non-believers! Wooooooooo-hooooooooo!!

We did it!! Yes we did--to all the great supportive positive thinking Obama fans on this thread, I salute all of you.

To the negativity and anger and nastiness, I am retiring that mess to the corner for naughty time--hopefully for a very long, long time--like at least 8 years. And then we will find someone else just as wonderful as our new leader and put them in for another 8 years.

the Negatives score -10

The Positives score infinity            And we scored NO FOULS.

We won!!! Ha ha ha! Bwahahaha! We are doing the happy dance! 

Hey Hey goodbye, na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey hey GOODBYE!!!!!

 See you elsewhere Obama Ladies!! We are a class act!!  (so glad we didn't sink to any republican's' levels--Rush can spew all he wants--he affects us not)

We kept our cool--and stayed way cool!! We are behind Obama 100% and believe in change--oh yeah--change is HERE!!! Woooooooooooo-hoooooooooooo!!  

Hi all you wonderful women!  Tuesday was SO-O-O-O-O beautiful!

I just pray that most of the country doesn't sit back grudgingly, judgingly, foot-draggingly, obstructionist -- as Newt Gingrich and Ken Starr were to Bill Clinton. Of course, even then, BC's administration managed to leave this country in great economic shape...

Praying that most of the nation will be putting its shoulder to the wheel!

Reminds me of a favorite line of poetry, from Allan Ginsberg (in the 1950s, no less!):

"America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel..."

I'm in favor of keeping this as an update thread.  Some of us don't always have time to watch the news.  We can track all the good things President Obama has done for the day.  He's already done more good in the few day's he's been in there, then the entire 8 years of Bush!  It will only get better!! 

Have a great w/e Obama Ladies!!

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wow!  Have been TV and 'puterless for a couple days...see a lot of deleted by community posts.  Have surely missed out on something(s).....only rally cheer I know is...

..Rock Chalk, JayHawk......GO   K.     U......

must glue self to tv tomorrow and insist that the remote is mine for a bit...listen to news, flip channels, come back here--lord, don't know if I have it in me to figure it all out!!!!

Anyone want to share?????   

hugggsssssss to all!

yes ilj, isn't it amazing how two words can be a thorn in the side for millions of americans, a mistake for one american and then take on a wonderful new meaning!

Dear Community Members, 

We would like to propose closing the political threads due to the negative climate that they have brought to the boards. Politics are tough in this kind of open forum.

We would like to suggest an "economic update" thread to break the barriers. We are posting this is in the other political thread(s) as well before deleting. 

 Many thanks for your feedback/understanding. 

the Breastcancer.org team 

I agree with Ann and/or Sherri G.  

It has been stated time and again, if a thread or poster is not to your liking ... don't read it!

I read these two threads, but rarely post on either of them anymore.  There is plenty of good information in both threads.

What is missing is respect for others views and posting respectfully about our political leaders.

Freedom of speech comes with an enormous responsibility.

The "report this comment" button should be removed from this site altogether.

I would love to see the political threads taken down.  There are other forums for that sort of discussion.  I try to avoid them -- even though I am a politically active person -- but every once in a while I will see a post that infuriates me from someone I got along with and admired when we were just talking bc.  We keep losing good women over this.

Tami and Melissa -  I would like to thank you for reinstating five of my seven posts deleted by the community on Saturday. I am thankful that this did not happen to me two years ago when the bco boards were my lifeline, I would have been devastated.
It remains unclear to me how "the community" can delete seven posts in the matter of hours, two weeks after they were posted resulting in a ban for our wonderful bco sister, djd. Donna has travelled the world and country meeting bco sisters, she has represented her bco sisters at funerals for lost sisters, she has offered support and information to many, she is a tremendous loss to bco.

 And Amy, the woman that started this board, refusing to respond to personal attacks, became an easy target.  It is no wonder that Felicia and others are choosing to leave instead of standing by to both watch and recieve the enduring name calling and thinly veiled personal attacks. 

Many people believe that when they write something on a  message board, they are truly "anonymous" and have a free pass to say anything they want.
People who post false statements about someone else on a website are often surprised when they learn they can be sued for defamation. To state a defamation claim, the person claiming defamation need not be mentioned by name - the plaintiff only needs to be reasonably identifiable and accused  of a crime like making false disability claims.   For over a month the following post remains on the Respectfully Republican Thread, the post has been reported to you, yet it remains.
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-- Posted in: Recovery, Renewal, & Hope + Moving Beyond Cancer, Created: Dec 15, 2008 01:38 am
The Respectfully Republican Conversation
So I am new here and I am amazed at what I am reading between this thread and the Obama - democrat thread.  Wow!  I am a bit confused as there seems to be a common theme with democrats called "entitlement". They, of course, do not use this word, but it is painfully obvious many of them feel that the government should "take care of them". 
I dont know about everyone else, but looking at how the government has taken care of what it has control over, I shudder to think if I wanted them to "take care of me" too!  I am of course referring to mortgages and bailouts and bankruptcies, etc.
There is one lady who I think started the thread who definately is "milking" the government!  She said she has fibromyalgia and because of it. she cannot work and is on disability!  I have never in my life heard of anyone getting disability for fibromyaglia!  I belong to a LARGE fibro support group (yep, I too have fibromyalgia) and I was sharing her "story" with them at the last meeting (there are about 75 - 100 average attendance and 2 pain mgnt doctors) and NONE have heard of anyone getting disablility for fibro, nor would any WANT disability for it.
The thing we all know and understand (it isn't rocket science, but perhaps the poor girl was "too sick" to go to school too...) ) is that the WORST thing someone who has fibromyalgia can do, is to do nothing!!!!  Exercise is KEY to pain management.  Laying around collecting a government check is NOT the way to handle this dibilitating disease.  Now CHEMO deserves temporary disability, but not fibro!
As a woman, who has endured the pain of fibromyalgia for 6 years AND CONTINUES TO WORK FULLTIME, I am so offended to see democrats boast of their "disability"!  I have pain 24/7, I see pain specialists, I have done trigger point injections, accupuncture, muscle relaxers, Lyrica, Neurontin, massage therapy, chiropractors, physical therapy, theraputic whirlpools, muscle stimulators, TENS units, bio-feedback, anti-depressants, facet injections, 2 epidurals and one denervation, and NOT ONCE would I have ever run down to the government office and tell them I hurt too much to work.
That is a COP OUT and sorry if this offends anyone, but I got so furious reading how that girl on the democrat thread has been bleeding MY paycheck for HER "disability"!!!!!!  If she would get off her A$$ and WORK, she might could keep her mind off the pain.
Exersice and my TENS unit are the only things that give me relief.  If I can exercise, if I can go SHOPPING, if I can go on vacation, clean my house, cook my food, wash my clothes, I can CERTAINLY work!!!!!!!
Whew- I fill better now!!!!
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This is beyond unacceptable. Clearly you do not have the time or inclination to monitor these boards appropriately. I seriously recommend taking them down.

Respectfully, laurap

LauraP, I hadn't been on the board much at all in December, so I missed that post -- but it certainly is the kind of thing that should have been removed quickly.

And over on the Republican thread they are blaming Democrats for the idea floated by the moderators to take down the political threads.  This just proves the point, that these threads are unnecessarily divisive.  I think if women want to have private discussions about politics they should start their own listserv.  Its not difficult to do.  The mission here is clear, to support each other in our struggles before, during and after breast cancer.  The political threads only detract from that.

 So I join Iodine.  Please take down these threads.