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Another one the same? I’m happy, but sheesh. Maybe I’m being cynical. i’ve been up for like 21 hours now.
Ditto. I thought this was a comedy site, not a sit for liberals to gloat with images that don’t even try to be funny.
I’m in your reply, gloating away.
Welcome to PK, sit down and watch liberals put up pictures of how much bush sucks and wonder why it’s still funny when most of the time it’s not even clever. This will continue with every excuse barak will give about the economy.
Just gonna say to all the douchenozzles that I do respect and like, I really hope I’m wrong about barak.
You are. He’s a centrist.
Seth, how can that be true when his voting record doesn’t represent that?
His voting record shows present because he refuses to take a stand that might be held against him later. That is a true liberals way of hedging his bets and protecting his career.
Seth! He voted the MOST Liberal record of ALL Senators! He made Barney Frank and Hillary Clinton look Centrist maybe.
Obama has repeatedly stated his ideals on redistribution of wealth, (take from the haves & give to the have nots). He will have Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi and a Democratic Congress there to push through anti-gun, anti-capitalist, pro-liberal, more government and higher tax agendas that Bill Clinton only dreamed of doing. He will probably get to appoint 2 very liberal Supreme Court Justices who will be seated for 20+ years. The country will definitely will be much more socialist leaning by 2012. Who knows what will happen to the military defense structure of the country and our standing in the world. He has no economic policy of his own and a scary foreign policy.
I’m all for change, however I don’t think that Barack Obama is the one to bring about the kind of change this country needs. That’s the way I see it right now and I do hope I’m not right and I hope he is a good President.
If I am to wind up wrong, only the the next 4 years will tell. We will have to wait and see.
[meanwhile I'll be on Pogo playing games and be apolitical again. Twas Fun!]
I am in a leftist country sir, and Mr.Obama is no leftist. You Americans don’t know how to do left!
I feel I’m missing the joke.
Nope, no joke. You guys fear him as “socialist” and too far left, when really he’s not very left at all.
THIS.
See, to the far left, Obama is a centerest, just like to the far right Fox News is fair and balanced.
You’re kidding about Fox News, right?
“He voted the MOST Liberal record of ALL Senators! ”
Awesome
“Obama has repeatedly stated his ideals on redistribution of wealth”
Umm, all policiticans, even McCain, support “redistribution of wealth”. It’s called “taxes” and “government spending”. The question is, whose redistribution plan resonated more with America?
He was not the most liberal voter, you dufus. He was, at best, fifth or sixth in the senate.
fifth or sixth. gee that’s much better..
Dennis Kucinich. Let me show you him.
OHH I see, but when Bush won it was ENTIRELY acceptable for others to poke fun at Kerry…or Gore?
Wah, wah, wah.
Epic winnar.
I do appreciate that he mostly refrained from smears and tried to keep on the issues for his campaign.
or lack of issues, whichever way you may word it.
DERP!
Yes, he was more than happy to let his supporters handle the hate-mongering and race-baiting.
Because HIS supporters were chanting “terrorist” and “kill him”, right? lawl
OMFG, he heard one person in a crowd of millions maybe say that and you guys ran away with it like it’s the bible truth. If have a carrot on a stick can I use you to save gas money?
It was in multiple rallies that both he and Palin attended and the boos during McCain’s final speech aren’t Obama supporters, I’ll tell you that much. The above post of mine was just to remind you guys to look inside before slinging mud to the other side.
Not to mention the fact that Ayers mania points to a general aura of smearing and bs perpetuated by hate.
I will make sure to put my foot in my mouth and be behind you in support if any of these things like “kill him” come to play, that would suck and I would hate for it to happen. Until then what has been said is just a bunch of angry people with emotions running high. I agree they are stupid, to believe that is the rest of the party means that I can use you to save gas money.
It was a response to the comment that Barack Supporters are the intolerant ones. So far, the running trend does seem to be that intolerance is coming from the right side of the isle.
In this case, from what I’m seeing I’m inclined to agree with you. Please don’t make the assumption it is all of us.
Did you hear McCain’s speech last night? Great speech, but did you hear the crowd? I heard ‘terrorist!’ ‘BOOOOOOO!’ ‘SOCIALIST!’ when McCain mentioned Obama. Classy. McCain lost because he sunk in his own muck. He and Palin encouraged that kind of evil hearted, divisive ‘thinking’ every step of the way. His speech went a long way to make up for the hatred and fear he created, but I could tell he still felt guilty for the way he ran his campaign. He should, he pandered to the worst human emotions.
No, honeslty I ddi not, but I don’t take people like that seriously. Until anyoen acts it out it is just a bunch of hot air form idiots.
I’ve never defend conservatism as the most tolerant side of the isle, but we don’t claim to be and then contradict it in many ways. I’m sure if I heard those people to I’d find them ridiculous, but there is nothing to assume that these people have any merit or clout.
It’s not even the ideology of conservatism or whatever wich is intolerant, it’s purely the people. It’s McCain’s campaign strategy, Karl Rove style hatefull polarisation, wich turns certain people into hate mongering people. I don’t like it to see the US divided so much, although you can almost expect that in a country like that. Just too little common ground perhaps.
I wouldn’t blame it all on him as much as his campaign and the neocon ideology as a whole.
I, for one, am glad that no one will ever trust Karl Rove with their campaign again.
Yeah you can’t really put all your eggs in one basket when it’s a case of someone saying one thing, one time.
The same goes for saying things like “spread the wealth” or “cling to their guns and religion.”
You know the plural of “anecdote” is not “data”, right?
Says the people who think serving on a committee and meeting an aging terrorist in passing is being best friends forever.
ZING!
Shouting down dissent with Kos Kidz talking points — yep, you’ve got Obama’s “new politics” down pat.
Refrained?
REFRAINED?
Did you even watch the race? The high road? He got about 2 inches out of the mud for about 3 seconds. The rest of the time, both of these f*ckers were knee deep in the sh*t bashing each other relentlessly. They made a mockery of the race, plain and simple.
Have a look on snopes.com at the differing amounts of slanderous and flat-out untrue email forwards and urban legends that were spread about each candidate and tell me that both sides were as bad as each other.
Yes because everyone reads those emails.
There are too many dumb people who do.
Watch the Washington Journal every day for a week. Behold the hilarity that is the base.
The idiots that start the fear mongering do not necessarily work for either campaign.
Besides, there is a lot of unknown in Obama’s past, I guess people just filled in the details.
We know more about Joe the Plumbers past then Baracks.
If you bothered to read either of Barack’s books you wouldn’t be making ludicrous comments such as this.
So his past with his church, his multiple confirmed meetings with Ares have no part in his history, nor the fact that he has brought no hope or change to chicago or his own family members who live in poverty right now.
Man, you’re right, I’m nothing but crazy.
Have you read either of his books?
No, I haven’t, but if he wrote both of them I’m not going to because any political candidate writing there own book is not a good source of information, left or right.
The first book was written in 1995. I think you’re missing out, as I really believe you would not make comments about ‘not knowing about his past’ if you read at least his book about growing up as a person of colour in the US.
He wrote them himself. Great for an interesting read, not for political debate.
I’m just saying that you would have gotten to know him better if you’d read that first book! It’s not about political debate – just about getting to know a person better – a person who is now your president. (Not mine, I’m a citizen of Europe!)
And he is a good person with a very interesting life. I Haven’t read John McCain’s book yet but I will, because he too is a decent man with an interesting life story that deserves to be read.
correction…WILL be your president, sorry
Not everybody should need to, nor should they want to, read his books just to find out his past. A person running for a position of such power should not need to hide his past from those who ask.
Cobra, from what I’m getting you are agreeing with me.
Goodbye guys I’m outta here. I wish you the best of luck on your country’s choice of new president, and I hope that you find it in yourselves to rally behind him and be part of the exciting new vision and direction your country will take. It is a good day for you all. Take care.
Trainwreck, I guess I was agreeing with you.
But I suppose since he went to the trouble of getting voted in, I’ll give him a chance before I start hating him.
I’m not trying to rekindle any flaming, but why is it that Barack’s past had been on display for two years with this whole Prez bid, not to mention two freakin’ biographies, and people decide he’s somehow hiding something?
An unvetted no-name podunk governor thrown in the center ring, and she has the chutzpah to ask “Who is Barack Obama?”
I can understand not wanting to read his books, but what of at least perusing Snopes.com?
Snopes is a good place to research rumors, but there were a couple of questions that were never really answered.
What did he do for ACORN?
What did he do as a community organizer?
Why did he stay at that church when it wasn’t really his faith?
How did he really come to meet Ayers?
Why didn’t he just show his birth certificate to that guy who started the lawsuit against him?
I know some are more personal than others, but I think they’re all fair for someone who is running for leader of this country.
Besides, McCain was happy to produce his birth certificate and medical records when asked. Also, some reporters went over to Vietnam to interview his captors at Hanoi.
Are you actually, SERIOUSLY trying to compare my statements of the two candidates bashing each other to “urban legends” and “email forwards?” Dear lord, you need to have someone look in your ear to see if you’ve got some brains left in there, because that’s about the extent of the intelligence you just put forward in that statement.
What are some of the bashings on McCain you saw that were not related to the issues? I am curious.
Try his age, for one.
Not to mention all those slanders against Palin…
The obama camp wasn’t using anything about his age other than to say he was out of touch. it wasn’t derogatory in a character questioning way at all. Nobody bashed Palin, she did herself in. The bashings only came after she made a complete fool of herself. She was a horrible choice for running mate.
Likewise, all the unfounded attacks at Obama were not started by the republican ticket, but by the crazies that everyone has at the edge of their party.
Also, there were plenty of slanders against Palin
“She’ll abolish abortion!
She’ll change the textbooks to say dinos and man lived at the same time!
She’ll force abstinence only sex ed!
She’ll kill all the polar bears and environmentalists!”
There were plenty of slanders against her, though probably none from “the man” himself.
Palin herself slurred the “pallin’ around with terrorists” one. Apparently she got off her leash if what they insiders are now saying about her now that it’s all back on the record. She’s a wanker.
Bashings themselves are the source of my annoyance with the system, not the source or reason for the bashings. Attack plans, policies, or histories voting, not the men/women themselves. But if someone were to take that truly “high road,” he or she wouldn’t stand a chance in today’s cut throat political system. As such, we find people like Obama, McCain, and Clinton running for office.
I agree completely.
I just hope the Republicans can ALL concede as gracefully and full of class as Sen. John McCain did tonight.
…. check my link.
I agree. his concession was well written. He delivered it prettty well also. A few of the crazies were left in the crowd booing, but I hope this was a step in healing. (one snide remark—a bit more of this class would have made for a better campaign) I really do hope some of those crazies can get on with their lives though and we can all try to work together now.
Well, I guess the booing should be expected. It was a tough loss, so there was bound to be some. Not to say that they were racist or anything of the sort, naturally.
What happened to disagreeing is patriotic?
You know, I actually wondered the same exact thing. Now it’s just racist. (Not that I am, for the 500th time!)
It is, but there’s a time and a place. Also, this wasn’t simple disagreement, it was disrespect. They were booing when he was talking about becoming united under a new leader and when he talked about respect and that barack was a good man.
The cause was probably a lot of frustration.
I agree, it would have been better for everyone to stay quiet and let him do his speech, but this was a very long and toughly fought election on both sides, so I’m not surprised to see some left over animosity.
I’m sure it would have been much more amiable if he gave that speech today.
Maybe. But I think it’s more of a result of them allowing the divisiveness. They were selling hate (or at least not disavowing it. i.e muslim, terrorist, etc) McCain himself looked disappointed in what he had sown by the end there. There are still a bunch of crazies around here spewing the hate garbage. It’s deeply sown. Sadly.
There were booing Obama crazies too — they just weren’t mixed into the live feed.
EEEK Conspirassssyyyy
Second.
McCain regained a number of lost points in my book with his speech tonight.
He was the 2000 McCain in that speech; it’s amazing what he can do when his campaign doesn’t have all of the say in matters.
Yeah, he did all right. I was impressed. If that McCain had been running instead of Grampa McNasty, he might have had a shot.
McCain’s campaign team and the messages they sent had a big impact on the Grampa McNasty image. I don’t honestly believe that McCain himself was like hey lets beat the name of some aging hippie terrorist into the ground and call Barack a muslim.
Grampa McNasty is what lost my vote to Barr. I’d really like to see the Original Maverick run for president in 2012, at any rate.
Unfortunately they very well may run Palin, hence the link in my name.
That was quite possibly the BEST concession speech in history. I loved it.
Absolutely. His supporters really needed to hear him say those things, as evidenced by the boos at Obama’s name. I know they were disappointed, but seriously, that was not very classy. McCain earned back a lot of points in my eyes with that speech.
Yeah srsly good speech. His supporters could have at least done him the courtesy not to boo him when he congratulated Obama, and let him deliver his speech with class and dignity.
There are always going to be those that will never graciously accept defeat.
Indeed. I’m sure there’s plenty of sites up already like “notmypresident-dot-com” or whatever with people insisting that there be a recount or some such silliness.
That would happen no matter which one wins.
there is actually a site with that name!
Agree w/all you guys. Sen. McCain came across as an honorable man in his speech (unfortunately, in contrast to a lot of his campaign, which I think other folks have correctly noted had a lot to do with his advisors). The fact that he was willing to do the classy thing went a long way toward restoring the respect I had for him circa 2000.
BTW, does anyone else think he was secretly relieved?
Quite possibly, I’m sure. I would be, with all the stuff he had to put up with. Do you really think he would have picked Palin on his own? There was some serious string-tugging going on within the GOP. I wouldn’t be surprised.
Honestly? I would not have wished the job on McCain. I don’t mean this as one of those “McCain is old” slams (if for no other reason than I hope I’m not that lacking in originality), but the man 72 years old and just flat out doesn’t need the kind of aggravation that goes with the job, even setting aside Ms. Palin. I had thought more than once during the campaign that I actually felt sort of sorry for whoever won, because they’re going to inherit one hell of a mess.
The ‘failure’ that McCain had was that he took note of the GOP spin doctors. When McCain went off script, then there was a glimpse of a man who one could see. Before the election, I regarded McCain as a statesman of note, who was always ill served by occasional ‘popularist’ blips . It was like he was replaced by an idiot for the election (which was always going to be hard to win after the Bush years, compounded by the banks screwing the pooch) The speech (and the dealing of the woman with the ‘A-rab’ worries) was a flash of the older McCain, who actually seemed in control.
The failure wasn’t McCain’s it was the GOP’s
That’s still McCain’s failure: he listened. He’s man enough to take the buck head-on (snap its neck, field dress it, and rip the still-beating heart out of its chest to be devoured there on the battlefield…)
Perhaps one might be forgetting how scary a group this can be. All in all by the end I don’t think he really wanted to win, especially after that crowd yelling ‘off with his head’. Did you see his face when he was trying to talk them down? That was pure shame. He’s better than that, his party wasn’t, and despite popular opinion one does not get to the white house without the support of one’s party. Mc cain might very well be relieved right now.
Absolutely. McCain was ashamed at what he had done, but he was trying to make up for it. He was embarrassed by his supporters, it was obvious in his face. I also think he was relieved that he lost, and proud that his country was better than the people he was facing last night.
It really illustrates the bankruptcy of machine politics. Machine politics lost the Dems the last two elections. Obama built a new Democratic coalition, with none of the familiar old faces (buh bye Terry!) McCain used the old Republican machine and appealed to his base. Both parties need to reinvent themselves. The Dems did a better job of it this time.
No offense, but McCain did not appeal to his base.
He was “reaching across the aisle” from day one, just assuming that the conservative base would follow.
I think that’s one of the biggest reasons he chose Palin, she was quite conservative.
Erm, didja watch the same race I did? Because I saw no reaching across the aisle. Inh any case, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking campaign managers, strategists, ward bosses, and so forth. The political machinery. McCain used the same old Republican machine. Obama built a new one.
In the beginning he was all about “bipartisanship”, then he found that to not be working, so he tried to reuse the old “machine”.
Obama might have had a new machine, but I was still shocked with the force that was used by this machine. A woman was visited by secret service after being accused of giving a death threat to Obama, Joe the plumber was picked apart after asking a theoretical question, a reporter’s husband was attacked after she asked Biden some tough questions.
I know this won’t be completely indicative of his goals as pres, but it does make me wary of where this will go after he takes office.
Well he answered the question and then… Joe’s integrity turned out to be nil.
The question asker’s integrity did not need to be investigated.
1) About the death threat, that would have been handled by either local law enforcement or by the Secret Service. And after all of the threats that Obama got during the primaries. You do know that he received Secret Service protection the earliest of any of the candidates.
2) Not going anywhere near Joe the (not) Plumber, who is working on a book.
3) The reporter’s husband is a Republican media consultant in Florida. ‘Nuff Said.
I do know that he had SS protection, but a provoked expression turning into a “death threat” seems a bit exaggerated.
Joe the plumber is overdone.
Were they attacking the husband before the interview? I doubt it. It was not his fault that she asked those questions, and the Dems could have just refused to give them anymore interviews after that.
“A woman was visited by secret service after being accused of giving a death threat to Obama”
I’ll be interested to see what the facts are in this case when they come out (preliminary snopes page in my name link)
Well, the secret service is conducting an investigation.
Whether or not she said what she actually said, and the SS came to her house as a result is all on her word until someone steps forward with the report.
(and I doubt that will happen, it’ll sooner be forgotten)
Presidency FTW!!
For the Electoral win?
(check my link – i icanhascheezburgered it but couldn’t really find where to punditkitchen it. bummed, too, cause i lol’d.
Anyway, yeah. I was impressed with how well it was all handled this time around. Gratz to Obama.
I lol’d at that one.
CHANGE!
I’ve never been so confident that our nation will actually make some progress as I am right now. To the republican users of this site: I know how you must feel right now; I’ve felt it a lot these last eight years. I promise you, though, it won’t turn out as badly for you guys as it was for us!
I will say this, if the indication I am getting from Obama’s supporters here is correct, the U.S. could very well be back on track. I seriously hope so because we just can’t do with another 4/8 years of incompetance. If you voted for Barack, be proud. If you didn’t, be proud that your vote still counted. And more then anything else, it’s time to pull together, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or Socialist and make the U.S. the country it once once. There is hope in the air, I can sense it from across the ocean. I’m still an American, and I am damn proud to say so!
Word.
Talk about a back seat driver. Get a grip buddy. Meet the new boss….same as the old boss.
Nothing wrong with at least beginning with a little hope.
No, see, that’s -cynicism-. That’s what we just rejected. Now is the time for optimism.
Wow, nice.. thanks for that..
I got a bit of vindication on my stance that Obama is a centrist. I recorded the Daily Show/Colbert Report coverage while watching CNN and MSNBC. I watched it after Obama’s speech, and they had Obama’s Harvard Law School Adviser on. When he first met the Obamas, he thought they were Republicans! Reagan was Obama’s favorite president!
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The Democrats won this by moving to the center. We may have a majority, but look at how Pelosi has acted over the last two years: centrist. Don’t worry, Republicans, America is still a long way from embracing socialism.
Seriously, though, if you stop the average Rep. or Dem. on the street, there’s very little that divide them.
Reagen was Obama’s favorite president? OMG? you mean that someone from one political party can have respect for the way someone from another political party did things? I need to brush up on my U.S. History (it’s much too recent for me – i prefer my history *ancient*), but didn’t we have a president once choose the guy he beat as his Vice President?
Bummer.
Anyone know Alan Keyes?
Yeah. He’s kinda nutty.
High Road my ass.
I know. After month after month of mentioning the radical preacher and criminal ties–
No, wait–
The radical preacher who only ranted about stuff America has actually done wrong, instead of all the times America has done things right (feminism, religious pluralism, acceptance of gays and lesbians), and who has gone out of his way to be compassionate to people sick with AIDS and to women facing difficult decisions. I was actually pissed off at Obama for distancing from him. He’s no Jerry Fartwell, that’s for sure–why do supporters of ol’ Jerry get a free pass but supporters of a genuinely good man are vilified?
What “criminal ties”? Being neighbors with a guy who was pardoned by the federal government and hasn’t attacked anyone or broken any laws (that we know of) in years? Obama was barely in grade school when Ayers did what he did. And as the federal government did not see fit to imprison Ayers way back then, and we kinda can’t do anything to him now because the Constitution that conservatives are so allegedly fond of, forbids that–Deal. When Ayers blows something else up, I’ll be right there with you screaming for his arrest and imprisonment.
If you guys really do have the “right” answers for how to run this country, how is it that you had eight damn years and screwed them up, and why do you have to LIE? Ain’t that against one of the Ten Commandments you morons keep trying to post up in courthouses? Why don’t you try READING THEM for once. And, I dunno, maybe abiding by them? Naw, I guess you already know you’ve violated the first and second, you worship money and power so much…
whoa whoa, a bit of bitterness there maybe? I don’t like a lot of what the fundies are doing, but generalizing a whole political group with them isn’t helping at all, it just lowers you to their overgeneralizing, claseminded level.
let’s get a lesson out of this, we’re making history with Obama, let’s put away the stupid anger and ranting toward the losing side. It’s just uncouth to be a bad winner like that.
And people wonder why we conservatives are scared of Obama…
People like Dana are his supporters.
Hey yeah, that’s the high road…
…actually maybe she’s just ticked because the other side of the road keeps telling us that we ‘don’t know our candidate’…too pesimistic. Ya know what? We don’t worship him, we just believe in change. Granted, McCain was as liberal a candidate as we’ve prob ever had but…the right guy won. We needed this. All you republicans who said they’d move to Canada if Obama won… Here’s your chance…
Don’t you get it!? If you die in Canada, you die in real life!
If they leave because they think Obama is too far left, they’ll die of fright in Canada. Gay marriage, we has it.
Lol, that was my threat if McCain won! Only, I was actually prepared to make good on it…
Barack had the option to mention McCain’s ties to radical religious figures (Falwell, Hagee, et al) and criminal ties (Keating 5 ring a bell?) but he didn’t.
What the right pointed and shrieked with Obama were many of their own flaws and foibles; I was impressed (and sometimes frustrated) by Obama not returning this fire.
Oh, and Dana? I assume you don’t read threads here that often. I’m a flaming liberal
Precisement. Restraint is a good thing, and I fervently hope ALL the potential ’12 candidates remember that fine example.
i know, it’s called the white house for a reason let’s keep it that way, also why vote in some1 we all know is going to get assassinated
It’s racist asshats like you that give decent, respectable republicans a bad name. I did not vote for Obama but it had absolutely nothing to do with the color of his skin. His campaign ran like a well oiled machine so the least you could do is give him the credit that he deserves. He’s our president to be no matter what you think. I personally am praying for him and our country. I hope he does a good job and that our country can get out of this horrible mess we are in.
You know, I agree with Simon, in that I don’t believe the comment to which you responded is real – but I just wanted to say thank you for restoring a little bit of my faith in people. It’s nice to see that a few people can disagree with the choice of president, but still rally behind him because of the very simple fact that he is our *president*.
“decent, respectable republicans”
Yeah – and you don’t do much for the flying pigs either!
Obviously there are asshats on both sides of the aisle. I, for one, am trying to take the high road and support the president because he is the one we have. I think there are a lot more of us who actually want to work together and make this country a better place, than those of you who just want to be right and to hell with what happens to the country. We all live here and this is not high school. Grow the hell up and act like an adult.
I am heartened to see so many posts on both sides of the aisle that express a desire to work together for the good of all. That, as much as the election results, has gone a long way toward restoring my hopes for my country.
It just goes to show that most people are middle of the road, and are decent people not the heartless godless liberals that want to kill all our babies, or the fundie conservatives that want us to be a warmongering state backed up by god.
I’m proud of us, despite how much of a circus this stupid election has been we are in fact moving on.
I don’t believe this comment is real for a second.
Why not? Not because of the content? because I know someone personally who said ‘It’s the WHITE house, not the BLACK house.’
Exactly.
I would bet money that there will be an attempt, but I will also bet that the attempt will be poorly planned and the secret service will kick ass.
Yup. The Secret Service is pretty damn good at their job. And they’ve foiled one crazy racist plot against Obama already. I hear they even read Internet message boards…
There have been two already. Both conducted by redneck tweekers with no chance of actually getting at Obama, but who would have caused a lot of chaos if they’d actually put their plans into action. The white supremacist movements are active in this country, and it’s only a matter of time before somebody actually does carry out a terrorist attack.
They’re watching us…*dances*
I was thinking earlier this evening about how this is one of those comments that radically changes in meaning depending on context–and the context is largely dependent on the race of the person saying it. A white person says it, it’s racism. A black person says it, it’s a cynical commentary on race relations in America.
Here, I’m fairly sure it’s the former.
Goodbye Jeff. Your ill-educated views are on the way out of America. The majority of your country voted against your type of “thinking”. You’re going to have to get with the programme, my son.
**high fives** But seriously, folks, we’re going to have to leave this attitude by the way-side and move on into the America we all knew we could be.
THE TIME FOR CHANGE HAS COME!!!!!!! WOOOOOOO!!
(And I couldn’t possibly be happier!!)
Darn right! And I suspect jerks like Jeff will settle down after a few visits by the secret service. They take threats against the President very seriously.
“L”
Die out, already!
Ignorant garbage (not just the content, but the lack of decent grammar) like that makes me think perhaps you aren’t even college-educated…
Dude would squash you like a grape in a mental match.
Don’t worry~ I seriously doubt that you will ever make enough $ to have any loses.
GObama!
Texas was purple- YEA!
Lol, that made me happy, too! I knew McCain would win that state (it was simply too much to hope otherwise), but he didn’t win it by much! Whoop!
People were desperate for change, and couldn’t believe McCain (who actually is not a rubber stamp of GW) could provide it. But I cannot help thinking that instead of change or hope, America’s just been handed over. Who is this imposter we never heard of? What’s his agenda, other than socialism and killing babies with no conflict? Why do I feel like we just screamed out for Barabbas? What have we done, people? What have we done.. I hope I am proved wrong, but I feel as if we have one foot in hell.
You are funny!
Oh, so killing babies WITH a conflict is perfectly OK with you?
Where in the Constitution does it say we can’t have socialism? You ever *read* Karl Marx? Not the Manifesto… Das Kapital. I know, I know. It’s more complex than The Pet Goat. I understand. Still, I would think that if you are so OPPOSED to something, you would at least take the time to find out more about it from the guy who first championed it so strongly. Too much to ask, I know. They haven’t made a TV miniseries out of it yet.
Well, there’s Article IV section 4 that reads “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government” to start with.
With all due respect, that refers to a voting republic, not economic policies. As long as the people mandate it, More or less any economic program would be allowed. At any rate, if you go back over the last month of posts there is plenty of documented support for the fact that Obama is not a socialist.
but-but-but he’s used the “spread”, “wealth” and “the”! He must be a socialest!
President Socialest!
@Carol
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“Never heard of?”
Have you been living without tv or internet for the past two years?
If anything, “Never heard of” applies to Palin.
I would say “She’s probably a Fox News watcher”, but with the amount of time they’ve spent slandering the President Elect, you’d think even Fox News viewers would even know who he is by now…..
“Know” in a rather amusing context, that is. Search this site for ‘li’l o’riley’ if you haven’t seen it. It’s funny because it’s accurate
WHY SO IRRATIONALLY PARANOID?
People like you are ruining this country. Sorry to be so blunt, but, well, it’s just how I feel. Read a book, for the love of god. Watch a station other than the Fox News Channel. If you don’t know who Barack Obama is, that’s YOUR fault. The information is out there, and really, really insanely easy to find.
Wait. Hold up. DID YOU JUST COMPARE JOHN MCCAIN TO JESUS?! *stares*
This is what McCain has wrought. This is the legacy of his evil campaign. He may have tried to make up for it with his speech last night (did you hear it, Carol? Obviously, if you did hear it, you didn’t take it to heart) but he can not make up for months of hate and fear mongering with one nice speech.
Obama didn’t have to take the low road because the mainstream media did it for him (i.e. the vilification of Sarah Palin and ‘Joe the Plumber’).
In politics, if you’re squeaky clean, it just means you’ve got someone else doing your dirty work for you.
You mean people being vilified for running dishonest dirty tricks and smears? Boo hoo.
Well it isn’t as if he asked the media to dance around like fools and pick at any stupid thing they could find.
Hah! You… wait, what?
Heh, that’s interesting… I don’t think you’re completely right, but I couldn’t actually say you’re completely wrong either… hmmm…
But still, it was a *very* convenient arrangement. But interesting angle anyway from a big picture kind of view…
Sara Palin did that to Herself by saying she had foreign policy experience from her proximity to Russia and not being able to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, and winking at the camera. Nobody needed to do anything to make her look bad.
D*MN RIGHT!!! John McCains biggest FAIL was Sarah Palin, plain and simple. His entire “campain” reeked of desperation politics, and I think America saw that. He is a war mongering, disgruntled product of the United States Military vying to get into the White House and turn it into everything he wished it could be when he was young. We are not fighting to save that America anymore. That America is long gone. TIME FOR CHANGE!
So, wait…
Let me make sure I understand here…
If you get caught, you’re a baddie.
If you don’t get caught, you’re equally bad, but better at covering your tracks.
In neither case is anybody ever innocent of wrongdoing.
Kind of a cynical worldview, don’t'cha think?
[and that's not even to say it's incorrect]
And for what it’s worth, this is a much better picture then the other one. At least he doesn’t look so up himself.
I admire the fact that McCain’s defeat speech was so gracious, shame he once again had difficulty keeping a lid on the frothing apes that attend his rallies who were anything but gracious.
Well yeah, there are those out there. Someone must have thrown open the doors to the loony bin. Sorry ’bout that..
They gnaw through the straps and stun a guard… it’s the only logical explanation.
Wow…look at all the closet Repubs pitchin and moanin now! I just love it! Slinging crap ain’t no fun when it helps your candidate LOSE! LMBO!!!!
Wow, a gracious winner. Nice.
I agree that the comment was tasteless, but I’ve seen more sore losers than less-than-gracious winners, tbh
I dunno, I’ve seen about an equal amount. Tons of people getting in their last “hahah we won” and “change is coming b*tches!” remarks. Nutballs on both sides, annoyingly enough.
You think the GOP supporters would be more gracious in victory. Bear in mind that they booed McCain for daring to admit his opponent wasn’t a baby eating monster?
McCain was better than his supporters deserved…
Do you think the reaction amongst Obamas supporters would have been limited to booing if he lost?
I would guess that at least some would resort to violence.
The results are still fresh. Let’s not invoke too much of what is still entirely possible from the losing side after such an election.
Yeah, I don’t think you’ll see it… at least in part because Obama winning is not a huge surprise, for me at least the writing has been on the wall for a week or two now… sorta gives you time to readjust… (full disclosure, I’m a RWDB)
Red White Ding Bat?
Right-Wing Douchebag? Radical White Democrat Bast*rd? Red Will Dominate Blue?
I don’t think they would have been bad. If you look at the RNC and DNC there was a lot more crowd baiting and booing going on in the speeches at the RNC. They have always run a much classier campaign and wouldn’t have tolerated that sort of negativity. They weren’t even booing McCain at the victory speech, when Obama spoke about him.
Food for thought: Why boo him? You’ve got a win under your belt – no need for booing. ;D
I know, but some of the righty nut jobs were saying there would be rioting in the streets and looting, etc like there has been after a couple of superbowls. The left at least in this instance has remained pretty classy about the whole thing. Not that there aren’t a few nutters going round with a few Nyah nyah nyah’s, but, that’s mild compared to wheat the right wing pundits were proposing. They must be very disapointed this didn’t happen. I don’t think they know how to understand “Hope” as their party hasn’t had any in quite a while.
Not to pull the rug out, but at a few community colleges around where I live, things have gotten pretty rough. Quad parties that got so loud you could hear them word-for-word half way across campus, and that lasted until 3AM when the police were called. The most disappointing part was that one had the gall to whine the next day that “you damn white people were just jealous ‘cus Obama won!”. I kinda pity those types of people. But seriously, can you believe the gall?
Yeah, but these were college kids who probably have lourd parties every now and then. in any case, it not the rule I think. you’ll always get a few, on either side. There was nothing like the righty pundits were trying to propose.
McCain’s final speech was absolutely amazing and it’s a shame that most of his supporters all but tried to boo him off the stage.
You make an interesting point, although perhaps peripherally.
Now that running a crap-slinging campaign has failed (and as others have pointed out, I think McCain is at heart a good guy and the crap-slinging was more attributable to his campaign than the man himself), will we see a decline or possibly an end to the “My opponent is a poopy head” kind of tactics?
After all, if it doesn’t even work, why bother? What would be the point?
Wait–What? The high road leads to the white house? How can that be a truism? Is our memory THAT bad?
Exactly. There is no “high road” in politics, and the highest road you could find in politics sure as hell wouldn’t lead to the white house.
Wow, I thought McCain would get in because the public relations effort to paint him as the common man (who can’t remember how many houses he owns) and Obama (who probably also owns more than a few) as the elitist seemed to be having some success. At least from the outside.
being elitist is a mindset, not a material measure.
banning guns because you don’t like them is elitist. telling people to walk while you fly to paid gigs is elitist.
Having some wealth is American.
“banning guns because you don’t like them is elitist”
Uh… What? What definition of elitist does that come under?
“Jordan’s First Edition of American English”…
When will that be published, I could use a chuckle.
Currently, it’s in crayon
That doesn’t gel too well with the increase of income inequality…
Having a few houses is wealth.
Forgetting how many you have? That’s elitist.
I hope I make enough one day to forget how many houses I have. That’d be AWESOME.
Obama only has one house. Also, being intelligent and educated should be lauded, not criticized in favor of being “average”. We should want smart leaders. Being average should not be an ideal in leadership.
THIS.
Well, you gave that retarded cowboy chap a go and it laid an egg… but he was rich as The Vatican…
Obama wasn’t intelligent enough to see through McCain’s foreign affairs ‘experience’ gained by bombing a heavily populated area of Hanoi, or perhaps he’s just being courteous for the purpose of public relations. Noam Chomsky gave a pretty good explanation in an interview I read: imagine a guy in Russia who wants to get elected and replace Putin and says that he has experience in foreign affairs because he was shot down while bombing Kandahar in the eighties and spent a few years being tortured by Islamists the US trained and armed. Doesn’t quite work, huh.
…of course if was *pats you on the head*…
awww, poor little dumb American
You let at least six fundamental rules of grammar fly to the seven winds, and you’re calling him dumb? We’re all people here, so try and not be a close-minded tard.
All I can say is thank god.
This means that we won’t have the Whore of Babylon as Vice President.
Whore of Babylon? Hell, better than the Mephistopheles we’re getting rid of. Still, we made the better choice last night
We shall see.
No one will know what he’ll do yet.
Amen! I’m fine with Obama, McCain has some good qualities, but I DESPISE Caribou Barbie. Don’t want that @#$%^! anywhere NEAR the presidency. If John McCain thought she’d attract women voters, that’s a damned insult and I want an apology.
SNL is going to be epic this Saturday, though.
SNL comes on Saturdays? No wonder I haven’t been able to find it!
RIGHT O! I SECOND THAT.
Hey, I liked her, and I would have voted for her if she was separate of McCain.
But I’m also not a female, and I’m quite conservative.
OK, that has to be one of the most embarrassing things said on this thread…
Why? Because I made a conscious choice about who I liked in this election and it was against the majority of the people?
Truth is I voted for the person I liked in the election, even though I knew he had a snowball’s chance in hell of winning (and no, it wasn’t McCain). I refused to reduce myself to voting for the “lesser of two evils” that so many are willing to do.
For the first time in history, a man has won an election because of race, not because of his issues, or lack there of. You’ve made your bed American and now you must lay in it. I hope you all enjoy zero freedoms and high taxes.
Please watch just one of the analytical post election shows before you make an uneducated comment like this. More than anything else, generational difference played a huge role in this election. Also, seeing as the Republican’s had the PATRIOT ACT and similar legislation, I don’t think moving away from that will be a bad thing.
Sadly I do know a lot of people who voted for Obama simply because he was Black. However, I believe the reason most people voted for him was because of his economic policy. The simple fact that he believed that something was wrong with the fundamentals of the economy was something a lot of Americans wanted to hear. John McCain couldn’t provide such closure with lines like “The fundamentals of the economy are strong”.
Hey, I believe the economy is strong.
But then again, I live in an area that hasn’t seen the same problems.
This kind of nonsense is just as much “playing the race card” as if McCain had won and some people were saying it was just because he was white. McCain lost because he didn’t have the character or the policies, stop having little cryfest with your victim complex.
Also, do you honestly think Dubya would have gotten anywhere NEAR the White House if he’d been black? Of course not. Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America, and he’s there on merit and in spite of being black.
Hey! that sounds suspiciously like – the American Dream.
It’s a great day for America. *use Scottish accent while reading that*
That’s always been my thought on Lee Harvey Oswald… He changed the course of history by his own efforts, talents and with materials he owned, and he saved Kennedy’s rep for almost 40 years…
Yeah, people still think he was a good president. A pretty face = a good president?
Kennedy was pretty? I thought his whole thing was that he was young and powerful. I didn’t know he was actually supposed to be *physically* attractive…
WOW… imagine that… the belief that we were taught as kids, that ANYONE could grow up to be the president of the united states…
The American Dream.
Actually, I voted for him because I’m tired of Republicans taking my freedoms, my money and my loved ones (those of whom are soldiers) away. Have you forgotten the Patriot Act already?
astroturfer
Lawnmower. Say, is this going anywhere?
I didn’t like that cumbersome document anyway, Bush made it easier to not have to deal with so many rights
Zero freedoms, LOLOLOL.
If brevity is the soul of wit, we have Oscar Wilde posting…
so…
what did GWB get in for? fixing the election? being inbred?
seriously, BO has not got in for being black. he’s got in for actually having a brain, an education and a real hunger for getting the US back on track in the RIGHT way, not by starting World War III…
Sheeze! The man was elected less than 12 hours ago, and I swear I’ve already seen this exact post a dozen times! Did somebody save it as a macro or something?
What I’m proud of mostly at least on this blog is that most people are agreeing that both candidates were essentially good. Hell we even have a few republicans saying that it was the party not the candidate who screwed the pooch this time, which is probably about right. Obama still had the edge in policy and let’s face it Mc Cain did himself no favors going into what looked an awful lot like panic mode when the economic crisis hit. People who saw him as an old soldier with nerves of steel had to step back at that one and that was a critical blow to his appeal. Anyways, merry election to all, and to all: Good fight
“Hell we even have a few republicans saying that it was the party not the candidate who screwed the pooch this time, which is probably about right”
The previous eight years of ridicule the USA received from the whole world had nothing to do with it then…!!!
Aren’t we a little bitter? Use your head, not ground in “facts” others feed you. If you can’t be anything better than an ass, get out of the Kitchen. Face it, both candidates were equally good (in my opinion, they were “alright” given McCain surrendering his beliefs) and it’s a truth that McCain would have been better off (not necessarily a victory, mind you) had the GOP not been flooding with tards this time around.
Hell *yeah* the high road won this election. Calm, steady and consistent is what we needed to steer this ship away from the rocks. I see better times ahead now.
McCain’s concession speech last night showed a lot of class. He was, well, the John McCain I used to admire so much again. That’s a good thing. I thought that John McCain had been swallowed up by the haters.
No but he in the end couldn’t defeat them and run his campaign his way. Ultimately that was the test he failed. I had hoped for more strength from an old soldier.
I don’t give a care as to what anyone else says, I just have to say: Congratulations Obama [and America for that matter]!
Americans really will buy any shit they sell on TV…
(Ignore the hate-filled troll.)
President Obama – More experience of being president of the United States of America that John McCain and Sarah Palin will ever have combined.
XD Well, it’s true. Unless, of course, McCain comes back in 2012.
I’d vote for him if he did (I’d finally be able to vote then!). But he’d probably be too old by then and not campaign.
I mean, the fact that he had the option to stop being a POW and didn’t take it because the other prisoners wouldn’t be released..It’s those kinds of people you read about in FICTION.
So…
Huckabee Twenty ‘Twelve?
Heh, my papa (that’s my grandfather) is a die hard Rep. He’s also a vet. of both the Vietnam war and the Korean war and knows more than a thing or two about Senator McCain and all that crap and he… flat out refused to vote for him because he thinks he’s a lying liar who lies (my interpretation of his words).
Not saying he wasn’t a POW or anything like that, I’m just saying I wouldn’t put him on quite so high a pedestal – his heart might not be able to handle it.
You Americans have finally shown some intelligence in voting in a decent president (although it DID take you EIGHT FREAKIN’ YEARS).
Well done for NOT choosing a GWB carbon copy. Well done for NOT voting for four more years of crap. Well done for NOT voting for some crazy idiot to run your country.
Eight years of being the laughing stock of the world has finally come to and end; at least when the Zimbabwe elections were fixed, they were open about it instead of “changing the voting laws at the last minute”.
Again, well done. Congrats on getting someone decent, with realistic visions and true compassion.
“changing the voting laws at the last minute” — citation needed.
If you say so…
Oooh… stinging rebuttal there. I hope you didn’t use up your month’s supply of clever on it.
That’s the equivalent of the 3rd grade retort “Am too!” (or “Are not!”, depending on whether one went 1st or 2nd).
“changing the voting laws at the last minute” — citation still needed.
Ah. There’s the Liberal hate-filled trolling that I’ve come to expect from PK. I was beginning to think I had wandered into a church with all the politeness flying around.
Lol, what church do you go to? The ones I’ve been to don’t tend to be filled with much politeness…
Click my name for a great speech Barack gave late Monday night. In it he said “Your voice can change the world Virginia!” And we did!
Indeed. While people were looking to Ohio and Iowa, I’d kept my nose on VA. Obama started to pull ahead, and that’s when I knew. If he won VA, he’d won the whole thing. Sure enough, he did!
“High Road”? Now, I know that you all voted for him because you didn’t want to appear as racists, but “high road” is pretty stereotypical of black people.
I resent your implication that black people are more likely to take the high road than whites.
(Yes, you DID need to think about it first before you hit “Send”.)
Caption is fail. No lulz here.
Yeah, I suppose I could agree with you on that. The whole point of the picture was to start up the PK comment-train. XD
Actually disgust sycophancy, but that’s politics for you – sucking the right ass like you like the taste of partially digested sweet corn…
Obama won solely for two reasons… the popular vote and not being associated with Bush like McCain was. That’s it. The global issues, his plans/policies and all that didn’t matter. Just those two reasons.
My roommate strongly believes those who voted for him will regret it at some point during the next four years.
Next time your roommate is asleep, shave off his eyebrows.
BWAHAHAA
I’ll donate the razor
Just out of interest, did this Nostradamus character you share your living quarters with correctly predict that those who voted for Bush would regret it at pretty much every point over the next four years?
lol you are my hero… lol
Wow, your roommate is a genius! *cough*
Darn right he won the popular vote…let’s see…why could that be? OH YEAH! Maybe because he’s a LEGITIMATE chance for CHANGE. If you love the failed policies of Bush and the failed economy to go with it, chances are you will be crying in your Rice Crispies for quite some time. Roommate included.
Actually, yeah. I have a feeling people are going to get furious at Obama at one point or another these next four years. The mentality has been “If we elect Obama EVERYTHING WILL BE FIXED!”
The best thing the left side could do for Obama now would be to lower their expectations and not expect major results until some 2-5 years from now.
I agree, but just sitting down with a victory isn’t going to do anything. Everyone,
dems and republicans alike need to get working on recovery. after bush, there’s
a TON of badness to clean up, so we gotta move!
@ all trolls:
Please don’t do that, it’s not going to do any good.
Dude…you’re an idiot.
Your roommate eats his boogers, doesn’t he?
I’d suggest keeping all your food in a separate locked cabinet. He might be touching it.
It’s spelled AMERICUH
All I have to say is “Welcome back to 1976.”
Congrats Mr. Obama. I don’t really agree with your policies, but the people have spoken and i respect their decision and i will support your decisions for the next four years at least and hope they are the best for the nation. Congrats Mr. Potus-elect.
I REALLY hope he changes his mind about the coal industry, though.
History…. you’re lookin’ at it!
Congratulations to President-elect Obama!
What’s great about this is that at the tail end we really saw that McCain couldn’t even hold a campaign together, much less a nation.
More that his campaign didn’t know how to present him. A lot of people respect the McCain of 2000, but his campaign managers ended up showing him as almost an entirely different person.
Who hires the campaign managers?
CHANGE….Well, you got what you asked for..
the biggest joke was the irony of the caption. high road: your doing it wrong is more like it. he was just as bad and shady as mccain, engaged in a straw man trying to make mccain seem like bush, his ads were full of inaccuracies, misquotes, and blatant lies..
this man did not take any high road. he rode the wave of a fad, and empty statements. he pulled a big one over on the american people with his “change”, and “uncoruptablility” and such.
he doesnt really match any of the synonyms from an unbaised point of view either..
ethical, good, honest, incorruptible, moral, principled, straightforward, true, trustworthy, upright.
well maybe upright cause he walks on two legs..
AHEM!
yea you say that only cause its true.
Sure alex, where are your citations for these allegations?
(Repost) Let me just say that I’m guardedly optimistic about the new administration. I’m just happy hillary got flushed as she should have years ago.
Now, that being said.
HEY!
YUTZ!
THE DEMOCRATS ARE IN POWER AGAIN! WE GET IT! YOU CAN STOP GLOATING NOW!
I don’t see how banning a television station from interviews because they asked a question Biden did not want to answer is “taking the high road” What ever happened to the 1st Admendment?
exactly! barack obama and company are the same bunch of underhanded washington insider crooks as everyone else in the senate and executive branch is..
Does this Alex P Keaton come complete with tweed sport coat and GOP member certificate?
And just the right amount of *freakin’ adorable*?
We’ll listen to you alex, but you have to support your arguments with references. try providing some links that back up your statements from real news sources, not right wing blogs or FoxNews. Then we can have a real debate.