They’ve called PA for Obama. It looks to be over.
Obama ran one of the most corrupt, dishonest campaigns in history, and with the media’s enthusiastic help Americans have been duped into electing the least experienced, most radical, and most ethically compromised Presidential candidate I can remember. God help us all.
UPDATE: The “God help us all” above was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I’ve seen Obama’s polititcs up close here in Chicago; it’s corrupt and poorly conceived and socialist, but Chicago survives and so will we. This is America, after all, and if Obama runs his Presidency anything like his campaign we can impeach him after two years. Who knows, maybe he’ll even turn out to be a good President.
In the meantime: Huzzah! Free gas and mortgages for all!
UPDATE:Â Palin/Petraeus ’12!
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Oh please. Somehow the country will survive.
Do you not understand that extremism is smoothed out by the American electorate every election?
A resounding rejection of the republican party and their ideals/tactics.
They were running Rev. Wright ads non-stop in Pennsylvania and in the end, the state was called almost instantly for Obama.
Republicans can resign themselves now to being the representitive party of religious fundamentalists and "Iraq was worth it" "no appeasement!"Â Â constituients. Â
redux:
Six years ago people were talking about the end of the Democrat party.
Things go in cycles. This is the Democrats turn. Chances are they’ll screw up just as badly as the Republicans did. That’s been the pattern for the past 40 years…
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Redux
And this is as good as it gets for Democrats. In two years we’ll reverse the trend because the Dems will have to govern instead of merely opposing. And in four we’ll have Obama to run against.
I’m amazed at how close this election is given how easy Obama had it.
This is as low as we go, and as good as it gets for your side.
Now Iraq is yours.
You own Afghanistan.
The Economy? Yours.
Terrorism? North Korea? Nukes in Iran? All yours baby.
You won’t be able to run against Bush in 2012 but it will be quite easy for my team to run against yours in 2010.
Go ahead, gloat. But if your Messiah makes a single misstep, if there’s one terrorist attack on US soil while he’s president, or if he hasn’t delivered on half of what people are expecting him to, then it’s over and he will be voted out.
Life is like a wheel; it all comes round.Â
The country will be fine, I’m sure. Worst come to worst, Obama can be impeached in 2 years, after all. It’s just sad to see how deceived Americans were.
redux is a perfect example. In this election, they questioned Trig Palin’s parenthood, blamed the FNMA mess they created on Repulicans, raised tens of millions illegally, and broke campaign financing promises. But in their minds, raising legitmate concerns about the fact Obama chose to associate with racists and terrorists was an unacceptable “Republican” tactic — as if they wouldn’t have screamed bloody murder had McCain had had those kinds of associations.Â
“Do you not understand that extremism is smoothed out by the American electorate every election?”
Often, but not always. FDR actually enhanced his own power considerably by making the country worse, and he was the closest we ever came to a dictator.
That’s what’s scary about the FNMA mess. Most people don’t really understand free markets, so it’s easy for Dems to claim the free market is the problem. We are likely to get more gov’t intervention, which (as in the Depression) will make things worse, and Dems will campaign on the downturn as proving we need more gov’t “help.”
Dave,
please give the american people a little more credit here. there are plenty of legitimate reasons to vote for obama, just like there are plenty of legitimate reasons to vote for mccain. reasonable people can indeed come to differing conclusions without having to resort to claims that the electorate has been duped. you’re upset, i get it. but what makes you think you’re so much more perspicacious than the next voter that gives you the right to make such pronouncements?
zach,
I’m sure there are legitimate reasons to vote for Obama. I’m also sure much of what Obama said, and that people voted for, was untrue. I’m also sure the media gave very biased coverage of the race, as has been well-documented. To that extent, the American people have indeed been duped.
zach, leave Dave alone. He hates half of America and can’t fathom how we could all be so stupid and traitorous, This will take some time for him to come to grips with.Â
Well, I see Aziz is gracious in victory.
LOL As spiteful as he is, you’d think Obama lost.
It’s quite easy to fathom. Obama illegally raised huge amounts of money after promising not to, and was handed the Presidency by the partisan media.
Given that I’ve been predicting it for months, it’s not like I really have to come to grips with it.
BOHICA!
- Fairness doctrine
- Card check
- Universal health care
- 401K takeover
- Repeal of Bush taxcut in 2009Â (not allowed to just expire in 2010)
 - Tax increase for $75,000+ (married), $30,000 (singles)
- Carbon taxÂ
- Skyrocketing electricity costs
I could go on….
Oh well. I knew it was the most likely outcome. But, I don’t really mind as I’m locked up in school (post-bacc and Graduate) for at least the next two-and-a-half years to three years so I don’t have to worry about watching the economy tank and unemployment reach easily into the double digits. Most likely the perfect shit-storm that’s going to happen due to Obama’s incompetence and inexperience will be mostly over in two (either Obama will sober up and start governing from the center as Clinton did or the country will and hand a veto-proof majority to the GOP in 2010) but if it goes to four I can add on a few more years getting a PhD.
This country is stronger than Obama’s stupidity and ideological extremism and will outlast him; Individuals, however, might not (no, not a threat, I’m more referencing the thousands who died or committed suicide the last time a far-left President took power).
If Obama actually pursues the policies he has advocated publicly, the country will resoundingly reject him after four years of the worst recession of the past 70 years.
If Obama actually pursues the policies he has advocated PRIVATELY, the country could well end up impeaching him as Dave predicts.
But, as with Clinton in 1994, if Obama actually realizes that his best course is to steer to the middle, then we might have a relatively tolerable four years and Obama might even get reelected.
We’ll see.
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I, for one, salute the President-Elect and welcome him to the job. I didn’t vote for him, but my guy lost, and it’s critical to get to work to solve some of these extant problems our great country faces.
Welcome aboard, Mr. Obama!
HB
HB, I agree, and I think that Obama needs to reach out to McCain now and follow up on his statement about needing him (during their phone call).
Watching McCains concession, I wondered why that mccain didnt run this year. Just like I wondered why the conceding Gore in 2000 wasnt teh one who ran, either. I think McCains concession was almost as good as Gore’s, though thankfully McCain will be spared the duty of certifying his own loss.
Aziz:
You truly live in an alternate universe.
The "conceding Gore" in 2000 was a bitter and divisive man whose grudging acknowledgement of defeat was not offered until he had forced this country through a constitutional crisis and which led directly to the bitter partisanship of the last 8 years.
There is very, very little to admire in Al Gore. In any capacity.
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"if Obama runs his Presidency anything like his campaign we can impeach him after two years."
This is also tongue in cheek, right? Something really disastrous would have to happen, like a US city or Israel nuked. Barring that, there’d be two hurdles to overcome.
1) Fierce accusations of partisanship because this would be the second Dem president in a row being impeached.
2) Impeaching the first black President would be seen as saying, "Fooled ya! We’re really racist!"
Jim:
I guess I didn’t read the part in the Constitution that says for every Democrat impeached, you have to impeach a Republican next and vice-versa. I thought it was based on what the actual individual DID.
If Obama attempts to enforce enough of his radical views by executive fiat, I can see a move for impeachment gaining some real steam. If Obama attempts to use the justice department to stifle dissent in the same manner he’s used his campaign lawyers, I can see an impeachment effort gaining some traction.Â
Are these likely to happen? Probably not, but until I see how Obama deals with his sudden exposure to the raw power of the office, I’m not willing to say they are impossible. It is my firm conviction that Obama is a hard left radical, a borderline (and potentially well over the border) marxist and a campaigner who breaks his word easily and who seems not to care much about campaign finance law, at least. How far his willingness to ignore legal and ethical boundaries goes is anybody’s guess, but his past history is not a strong indication of a straight-and-narrow proclivity.
And as I told Dean in another post, I refuse to let other people’s irresponsible cries of "racist! racist!" deter me from dealing with issues.
By the way, his choice of Rahm Emanuel as his White House Chief of Staff is certainly not a positive sign of any desire to pursue bi-partisan amity in his administration. Emanuel is about as rabid a partisan hack as there is in Washington, and that’s saying something. Not a good start, imho.
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today i am proud to call myself an american. never have i felt that before. I feel as if the US is in unity, with the exceptions of sour republicans, but for the most part, everyone is ready to move forward and get out of this rut we are in, i am grateful to call obama my president http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCqVcWzzO74
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