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1. Frank:

All is lost. Repent, sinners, the End is nigh.

Nov 4, 2008 - 6:42 pm 2. Ms Attitude:

I’m gonna quit my job and let the “one” pay my mortgage, make my car payment and pay for everything!!! (Sarcasm)

The loud sucking noise we will be hearing soon will be the sound of the evil entrepreneurs and businessmen who drove the economy and paid 95 percent of our taxes for years, and who soon will be enemies of the state, taking their money and businesses to another country.

Nov 4, 2008 - 6:56 pm 3. » Pajamas Media » Barack Obama Set to Become Next U.S. President:

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Nov 4, 2008 - 6:56 pm 4. Grace:

It’s only 4 years… Please God, let it be a quick, uneventful four years…

Nov 4, 2008 - 6:57 pm 5. momof3:

Bright side, I am going to be super-fashionably thin, since I vomit every time I see the man, and as much as he loves himself he’ll be on tv all the damn time.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:01 pm 6. skink:

may I be the first to say, to all the rabid, bile-filled, oboxious bigots that populate this site:

HA

HA

HA

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:02 pm 7. dad:

The folks that are voting for him have not looked beyond the curtain. Just like in the Wizard of OZ, except here in real life the fools listened to the Great and Wonderful OZ and did not have ToTo there to help.

Hamas, Hezbolah, Iranian Regime, Al-Qaeda, Chavez, Castro, Farrakon, Wright, Ayers, Dorn and other Anti-American trash will all be happy.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:03 pm 8. Joel Rosenberg:

Do folks who voted for McCain also get their mortgages and gas bills paid by Obama?

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:07 pm 9. Will Conway:

Ugh. No surprise, I guess.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:07 pm 10. Chad:

No, the End will be kinder and sweeter than his nascent long national nightmare.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:12 pm 11. Chad:

*this, not his. Stupid typo.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:13 pm 12. Bing!:

It was a long shot. Now we have to prepare for four years of OJT.

/bing

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:15 pm 13. dad:

Its not that he is black stupid, its the fact that he is the wrong man period.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:21 pm 14. bc:

Apparently, by a slim margin, the most repeated phrase in America will soon be,”I can’t believe I voted for this idiot”.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:22 pm 15. Gottafang:

I don’t even give him four years. He clearly doesn’t have a mandate of any sort, and he will be watched closely by those of us who did not vote for him.

I say, as I have in comments in other blogs, look for another Republican Revolution in 2010. Anything he tries to do will be hobbled by a new Republican majority.

Just my 0.002 worth.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:23 pm 16. Steve-o:

I feel sorry for all the younger people still trying to make it in America. I’m older, and my plans were ready for this possibility. We’re moving to our place in the mountains and taking an earlier retirement than planned. All our money with go into tax-free accounts and be held in unrealized and Obama will have to redistribute all the freebies without my help.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:26 pm 17. Roark:

The American Dream is finished. We had a good run, some 230+ years, but sadly the Great Experiment is coming to an inglorious end.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:29 pm 18. Anon:

The folks that are voting for him have not looked beyond the curtain.

Yes, they just haven’t looked behind the curtain. All those prominent Republicans who endorsed Obama? The ones who are more intelligent and politically aware than you? They somehow failed to notice that Obama is the anti-Christ. But you figured it all out. Congrats.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:30 pm 19. jonesy55:

“I don’t even give him four years. He clearly doesn’t have a mandate of any sort”

What are you talking about, he’ll get 330+ in the electoral college and win the popular vote by 6-8%, that’s a pretty clear victory in anybody’s book.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:32 pm 20. W:

This is a great day for our country. Obama will likely win with a mandate, and we will once again live in a nation where the interests of working Americans are considered before the special interests and corporations in DC>

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:35 pm 21. ddc:

$600+ million can buy just about anything

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:36 pm 22. Brian:

I did not vote for the man. But he is now our president-elect. I pray he will govern sensibly and well and that America will be better for it.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:42 pm 23. skink:

doesn’t have a mandate?

he will win the electoral college with a majority of the popular vote, with an increased Dem majority in the House and possibly a supermajority in the Senate.

talk about denial

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:44 pm 24. Cato:

Well, it looks like The Messiah is going to win.

For all of you who supported him, enjoy. Enjoy the Depression he’ll bring with higher taxes. Enjoy the destruction of the military. Enjoy the empowerment of our enemies.

I am reminded of Nietzsche’s aphorism 125 in Die Froeliche Wissenschaft: The Madman in which he speaks of the death of God and the people in the marketplace who have killed him without being aware of it:

[quote]Whither is God? … We have killed him you and I. All of us are his murderers. …

I come too early… This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars — and yet they have done it themselves.

For the death of God, substitute the death of Liberty and the Republic.

For my part, I will give Obama exactly the same measure of cooperation and support that the Democrats gave George W. Bush.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:48 pm 25. Moving:

So is their any republic countries i can move to? Countries with rights like i had before tonight?

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:51 pm 26. bobby b:

Putting money in tax-frees? No, no, no . . . .

There are no actual safe-dollar-havens anymore, at least among the approved-and-legal asset types. You can try to put money into real estate for safety, and then the bottom can drop out and your basis is gone.

You can buy big-cap stocks for safety, and the market can easily be trashed (and you’ll usually then see four or five major “oo – oo – oo it’s-going-back-up-quick-buy-back-in oo – oo – oo it dropped AGAIN?!” harvesting cycles towards the end of the crash, as every available dollar from that class is sucked into the drain).

You can tuck bucks into qualified accounts (401k’s, IRA’s, etc), only to see the gummint “change its mind” and either wickedly raise distribution tax levels, tax balances, or outright “take them under its wing” (i.e., confiscate them) by taking away your property rights in them and leaving them mostly as an accounting tool by which to figure your future (possible) benefits. (Yes, this is a current proposal.)

You can bury lots of gold or other rare materials, but if assets seem to be disappearing from a population, they can deport you from the area and keep you from recovering it.

You can invest in expensive art, but that can be nationalized.

No, you’re never going to put yourself out of reach.

You are the rich he’s been waiting for.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:53 pm 27. mik:

yayyyy…..obama’s winning!

anything than to see palin in the white house. that woman’s scary.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:57 pm 28. John:

I can’t wait to see the dumb ignorant bastard get sworn in. On his left he will have a hoard of lefties expecting him to work miracles, on his right he will have about 45% of the country that hates his guts and in the middle he will have the independents who voted for him thinking that he would be a sensible moderate. What does he do? If he pleases the independents and moderates the left will turn on him. If he pleases the left he will get 40% in 2012. He is screwed either way. And don’t forget Hillary is waiting to do a primary run, ala Kennedy in 2012.

It is pretty easy to strut around as the Messiah when you are an out of work community activist. It is a little bit harder when you have actual responsibility.

Nov 4, 2008 - 7:58 pm 29. John:

Hell yes he has a mandate. I hope he goes after talk radio. Shuts down all of the conservative think tanks. Sends his thugs out into the streets to beat down his advasaries. Raises taxes through the roof and bankrupts the country. I am tired of one party not giving what they said they would. Let Dear Leader keep all of his promises. America richly deserves it.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:01 pm 30. TeamPlayer:

Cato, you do recall Bush’s ridiculously high popularity, right? He made his own bed by subverting the constitution, failing in Katrina, failing in Iraq, failing with Gito, failing with torture, failing with the DOJ and failing as leader.

Moving, did you complain about the signing statements, suspension of habeas corpus, Gitmo, or DOJ scandals? That’s what I thought. You love ‘em your freedoms, huh?

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:01 pm 31. Winefred:

Canada breathes massive sigh of relief: America can keep its Hollywood a-holes for four more years. As everybody knows, the natural order of the universe is that Canadian performing talent goes south to make the living denied them in their home country (Michael J. Fox, Jim Carrey, Keifer Sutherland, William Shatner, blah-de-blah-de-blah)– there’s nothing natural about American stars heading north — California can keep its Sarandons and Baldwins.

Chicago is at this moment erupting. They can probably hear it in Manitoba. God help America if it gets a Canadian health care system. God help Canada’s health care system if the country has to build its military because there is no longer enough U.S. military to defend it. Heed these words of an American Marine and Navy mom resident in Canuckistan.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:05 pm 32. Someone75:

Such sore losers! Get a life, people!

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:06 pm 33. Judy, NYC:

a lot of those obama redistributees are going to be waiting next to the mailbox, if they have one, a long time for his “redistribution”, especially when the rich transfer their monies into tax free bonds. it’s likely he’ll be hard to get on the phone. too bad. the rest of us might like to give him a call and ask where the good jobs are he promised, and the no interest student loans, and the government medical care, and ask when the war in afghanastan will be over, and when can the soldiers expect the great military gear. the coal miners will also be eager to talk to him after he bankrupts the coal companies. we can all just leave messages on his voice mail, including chavez and akmidinijad, who want their money back.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:09 pm 34. Andrew Zalotocky:

Let’s ask seriously: what would an Obama Presidency be like?

We know Obama’s instincts are well to the left – for example his “spread the wealth” comment, and his associations with former terrorist William Ayers and the racist reverend Wright. But he was quick to dump his former associates the moment they became inconvenient, and has changed his position on Iraq every time it was expedient. So we know that Obama has leftist instincts but puts his ambitions first.

So in domestic policy he is likely to follow a similar trajectory to the British Labour government of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. At first Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor (i.e. Finance Minister) Brown were desperate to show restraint and moderation, to re-assure the public that Labour weren’t crazy tax-and-spend socialists any more. But whenever they faced any opposition from a Labour-supporting vested interest (e.g. in attempting to reform the state education system) they backed-down and threw public money at them. In time, Labour sank back into its old tax-and-spend ways with predictably bad consequences.

I expect that the same will happen with Obama. He will start off ostentatiously cautious and centrist, and then gradually revert to his tax-and-spend socialist instincts. So the first year or two of the administration will seem quite moderate, then there will be a rapid slide to the left. In domestic policy, his legacy will be a vast expansion of the government bureaucracy and significant tax increases with nothing whatsoever to show for it. America will become more European, in the sense of less prosperous and less free.

In foreign policy, Obama has shown himself to be naive and ignorant. But his unrealistic faith in diplomacy will be well received in Foggy Bottom, where he will find kindred spirits who will flatter him that he is as wise and sophisticated as he thinks he is. The State Department will soon be in total control of US foreign policy, which means talks about talks about bilateral multilateral UN-sponsored talks about talks with the world and his dog.

It doesn’t mean a sudden cut-and-run from Iraq or Afghanistan as Obama would be too concerned about the effect on his standing in the polls to do that. He will follow the path of least resistance, which is to accept the status quo that he’s inherited. But while McCain would have sought a clear victory in both theatres Obama will let things drift unless he sees a chance to claim victory in Afghanistan as his Great Historical Legacy. If that happens he will pursue it with a tenacity that will surprise many people.

America’s enemies won’t find that Obama just rolls over for them, because he has a need to appear tough to protect his political position. But they will find that they can string him along with meaningless negotiations that never quite reach any conclusion until they are ready to seize what they really want. If they have any sense the Iranian regime will let Obama play peacemaker until they have nukes, at which point they will flip him the bird and start making demands. The Russians, Chinese et al will play the same game. So expect lots of diplomacy that initially appears to succeed – and is praised to the skies by the MSM – followed by a series of sudden and humiliating reverses.

In retrospect, the Obama years will probably be viewed as a period of drift and self-delusion in which America ceded the initiative to its enemies.

Embrace the suck? Embrace the malaise.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:09 pm 35. Gottafang:

Victory is one thing. Mandate is another. I stand by what I said. As of this writing, Obama leads by only three percent of the popular vote. He won, to be sure. But three percent is not a mandate. It’s a squeak-through.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:16 pm 36. Ford289HiPo:

We are so screwed!

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:21 pm 37. Marc Malone:

They may have called it for Obama, but the actual counting is not yet done. Ohio is a 2-point race with 1/6 of the count to go. PA is closing, although clearly less likely. Same with some other races. I will wait on the final count, thank you.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:22 pm 38. Lily:

I plan to cut back on my spending. My spouse and I make about $250,000, and will expect to see a large tax increase (BYW, we are not rich – we come from humble backgrounds and have worked hard – and only just began making this level of income – we haven’t had any chance to build wealth – and $250,000 is only a comfortable living in a large US city – trust me). So, I plan to tell the places I usually shop why I won’t be buying so much – and I plan to tell my usual charities why I can’t be giving as much – Because Obama needs to spread my ‘wealth’ around. They can ask him for the money.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:23 pm 39. Pat J:

McCain just made one hell of a beautiful concession speech. The man has some class.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:25 pm 40. Pat J:

bc:

Apparently, by a slim margin, the most repeated phrase in America will soon be,”I can’t believe I voted for this idiot”.

——
Pretty much what a lot of people and a lot of other countries said when Bush won.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:28 pm 41. GoJohnnyMac:

This is an insult to our Military who have fought and died for our way of life. How soon people forget. I give up I’m going to puke. Time to sell out and find another country, cause this land, will never be the ground I was born on anymore.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:36 pm 42. rvastar:

Congratulations to President-elect Obama. May he surprise us with sensible actions

Don’t despair people. In the end, Leftist ideology will fail in Western Civilization, just like it’s abjectly failed everywhere else it’s been tried that didn’t have the West’s massive wealth advantage. Unfortunately, that failure is going to have a catastrophic price tag, especially in Europe. But it is what it is. There’s absolutely no stopping it now.

The best thing we can do is raise our children to be hard, strong, and self-reliant. They’re going to desperately need those traits in another 30-40 years.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:38 pm 43. amanda:

Obama is not the one who shouldve won… mccain is amazing,but honestly what is the world coming to when people forget the important things, when christians vote for creep like, when catholics vote for someone who is for abortions, when heroics doesnt matter, when money is the issue and when u vote for someone just because he is black which he isnt even all black he is biracial… the world is becoming a disaster not because of bush or washington but because of all the kids of people who would vote for a man like obama. this is really the ends of time for us true christians! obama will fail and i kno it, god knows it, and all us true republicans know it too. have fun paying more taxes and becoming more and more socialist. MCCAIN AND BUSH AND PALIN MAY GOD BLESS YOU!

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:40 pm 44. Emma:

McCain has just given an extremely gracious concession speech. Can’t all you spewing bile take heed?

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:43 pm 45. Lee:

Yes! Victory is sweet and the people booing during McCain speech showed their class lol

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:46 pm 46. Marc Malone:

Well, PA is near done, and it’s stuck at 56-43. Game over.

I worry for my kids’ futures. I don’t have much longer, so no big deal for me, but I’m sad for them.

Nov 4, 2008 - 8:48 pm 47. amanda:

sara palin see u in four years!!!!! mccain may god bless u everyday! bush take it easy let obama take the blame for everything now, you did a great job! obama is going to take out our troops when they havent finished the job so now the terrorist can come over here AGAIN and kill more americans,but war is bad right? wrong it needs to be done. if clinton wouldve stopped being obsene and morally corrupt for one min maybe he wouldve fixed this issue when they first bombed us. Oh and just so u know this CHANGE obama talks about isnt going to be good change… did u ever think he may have lied or twisted his words, could he do this…hmmm hes a politician people come on! lets also consider he spent all this money to be on tv but doesnt want to give anymore money to our soldiers. and wat about a muslim paying for him to go to school when he claims to be a christian but christians dont have racist pastors…how much can you really believe people. mccain shouldve won tonight. GOD BLESS US ALL WE WILL NEED IT!

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:02 pm 48. Dave:

Amanda, you are so out of touch with the American public it’s sad. One of the key principles our country was founded on the principle of religious freedom. Get a clue.

Why don’t you explain what denomination and beliefs make a “true christian”, that should be interesting and divisive – even in here.

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:05 pm 49. Josh:

Amanda,
You are funny, because watching Republican losers is funny. Thanks for squealing like a dumb pig. Your party are losers, you were losers when you went to war against third rate monkey countries, you were losers with the economy, and you are losers in defeat. Hahahahaha LOSERS!!!

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:15 pm 50. Lily:

Victory is sweet and the people booing during McCain speech showed their class lol..

You mean the kind of class the Democrats showed during the Bush years?

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:17 pm 51. Truth First:

We are living in a new era now. It is an era of hope, justice and peace. An era of social and economic justice. An era where the wicked are punished and the innocent are free from fear and injustice.

2008 marks the end of the Bush Regime and American Imperialism. A time known as BO or “Before Obama”. A terrible time of the sickness America inflicted upon the world.

Obama will heal the world of the wound known as America.

http://truthfirstnow.blogspot.com

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:21 pm 52. view from afar:

Sorry about McCain’s losing, but now we have our future President. Skink, lay down no one needs outsiders jumping on the gravesite. Nicholas Sarkozy said a President has 100 days, and he was quoting from an American, within that 100 days we should know pretty much anything there is to know, God bless us, just watched the President elect give his speech, he didn’t seem to be totally thrilled to be where he is, at least to me. I pray god that nothing happens to this man, because his VP is one of the scariest things I have ever heard from…

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:26 pm 53. Someone75:

Marc Malone:

Seriously, man. Stop deluding yourself. Obama has won a decisive victory.

We had a massive election and America spoke. Majority rule.

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:27 pm 54. njcommuter:

Let us hope that the next four years are bad enough that we learn our lesson, but not so bad that we doom ourselves, or that our failures cost the millions of lives around the world that I fear they will cost us.

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:30 pm 55. ak:

Skink, I know you’re too stupid to see this, but YOU are rabid, bile-filled, oboxious bigot. Every comment you’ve ever posted here has been bile-filled and obnoxious.

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:35 pm 56. view from afar:

OOOPS God
Truth first, too bad we can not slam you personally for your stupid comments: Obama will heal the world of the wound known as America…please get a clue! As one wise journalist pointed out, if the world loses the US economy, even China will implode…the Europeans aren’t going anywhere fast
I also forgot to say, it’s going to be even harder to claim racism is why blacks don’t have anything now…even though there is racism, it can’t be that all consuming can it, so it can only get better, even if it has to get worse first…

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:36 pm 57. Donna V.:

I feel sorry for all the younger people still trying to make it in America. I’m older, and my plans were ready for this possibility. We’re moving to our place in the mountains and taking an earlier retirement than planned. All our money with go into tax-free accounts and be held in unrealized and Obama will have to redistribute all the freebies without my help.

Yeah, so do I. My job is secure, and although there is an aching need for RNs in this country (check any hospital website), I can live much more cheaply in Costa Rica. Today, I looked at all the clueless college kids in line voting today and I thought, “You’re voting away your own futures, you young fools.”

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:40 pm 58. Roark:

I concur, college campuses are chaulk full of complete idiots.

Nov 4, 2008 - 9:50 pm 59. Suzy:

I wonder if now, our newly elected dear leader’s wife is “truly proud of her country”. I have ALWAYS been proud of my country. That woman will never be MY first lady.

Nov 4, 2008 - 10:01 pm 60. SunSword:

Welcome to the USSA.

Nov 4, 2008 - 10:24 pm 61. Dan:

EAT YOUR HEART OUT FASCISTS!

SO MUCH FOR THE POWER OF YOUR VENOM AND YOUR HATE AND YOUR (snicker) PRAYER!

And some of you think colleges are filled with idiots, eh? I’d be willing to bet none of you ever even went, so you probably have no idea. There’s a reason that generally speaking more educated individuals tend to be more left-leaning in their politics.

It’s the end of an era. Sarah Palin is gone, we won’t have to pander to you god-squad freaks anymore, the world may stop hating us, progress can be made n the war against terror (b/c the rule of law will be re-established), and this country will heal from its wounds.

Haha! Roark, you ignorant, ignorant fool.

Whatever, I only read this site this morning to drink in your agony and suffering. We’ve had eight years of it. It sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, doesn’t it?

Notice that the Sarah Palin supporter, Amanda, doesn’t write in proper English grammar and can’t spell.

SHE is indicative of the average young dumb voter, not the college kids that are ‘educated.’ Sarah Palin indeed.

One more questions. For all of you right-wing Christian freaks out there, if this election is in the hands of God, and Obama won… does that mean that God is on Obama’s side?

Also, SD struck down a bill that would have allowed abortion today. The American people are waking up from your uneducated system of brainwashing people and your scare tactics. I can’t tell you what a relief it is to not have to worry about you sheep anymore!

And now, I’m off to other sites to revel in this victory with other uneducated, unmotivated, apathetic young people that JUST ELECTED BARACK!

Later losers!

Nov 4, 2008 - 10:42 pm 62. proud elitist:

I am profoundly proud to be an Americn tonight. We, as a nation, have spoken and I am proud to have thrown my hat in with Obama.

I sincerely hope that those of you who did not support Obama give him a chance before judging his presidency.

I cannot belive after suffering in 2004, I get to go to bed tonight with a happy heart and smile on my face.

Nov 4, 2008 - 10:45 pm 63. BC:

You guys should just suck it up and admit that Bush and the GOP behaved more like crackheads than leaders the past several years, and that Obama was a vastly better candidate than McCain. Obama and his people ran a masterfully tactical and efficient campaign throughout the primaries and the general election, and that bodes well for the future. Obama is going to bring in a lot of very smart and very competent people, which the federal government very much needs and certain agencies desperately so.

For people in the know, it was never really about politics or even policy — it was all about competency. McCain was going to bring in a terrible “F Team” to help run things, starting with his current rogues gallery of advisers like Randy Scheunemann, Rick Davis, and Phil Gramm. Compare those to some of Obama’s advisers like Warren Buffet, Sarah Sewall and Paul Volker. No comparison.

So stick a cork in your whining and try being supportive and open minded at least initially. After all, the right guy (so to speak) won.

Nov 4, 2008 - 10:50 pm 64. Maxd:

What a horrible bunch of trash you all are. Enjoy the cancer, you old hatemongers. Soon, our great nation won’t be burdened by your decrepit, bilious fear-mongering. It’s comforting to know you are relics of an old dead time, your impotent rage and toothless attacks crumbling into dust and ash. The founding principles of our country are alive and well, the notion that all men are created equal was resoundingly hoisted and proudly unfurled tonight by a new generation of proud Americans, and yet you sit and bitterly disgorge your heartless phlegm. Enjoy the descent. Good riddance of you all.

Nov 4, 2008 - 11:05 pm 65. Buffoon:

BC, I am a self admitted idiot….your the worse kind,,, one whi isn’t aware of it

http://www.dequalss.com/wp/2008/11/obama-wins-america-loses/

Nov 4, 2008 - 11:14 pm 66. skink:

AK @55

you’re right. I have been having fun winding up all you bigots, mostly because you are all so full of denial and self hatred. Some of what I have said may come across as hateful, but it was meant in a loving way.

The fact is that the politics of hope defeated the politics of fear and hatred and paranoia.

You can call it bull, you can call it lies if you like, but voters were tired of the negativity of the last eight years and rejected it.

you guys can hold on to it if you like. You are welcome to it.

I’ll see you again in four years, those of you who don’t choose to drink the Kool-Aid.

Nov 4, 2008 - 11:14 pm 67. view from afar:

Ok the gloating lefty idiots that are writing to hate crap, why? It brings you even lower than you were before just for commenting to provoking the right; good start off for your brave new world people. OK elections over, let’s get this moving. Oh Dan please check out, seriously, once you’ve sobered up, what Donna V wrote, you’re a college grad whoopie!! So am I, what does that prove, only that you can learn what you are taught. Duh. That doesn’t mean you will be able to create anything, including jobs for anyone else let alone yourself. Whoopie! We know nothing about what Obama really plans to do let’s hope reality will teach this ivory tower elitist something.
Oh compare the two speeches, I showed them to my children and my neighbors(English) most people felt that there may be a lot of hope for Obama, but McCain is better person, judging by speeches alone…so let’s grow up and not ruin my favorite country in the world.

Nov 4, 2008 - 11:25 pm 68. Obama Wins, America Loses | Democrat=Socialist:

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Nov 4, 2008 - 11:43 pm 69. DW:

Congratulations.

This is your reward for abandoning every principle of the Republican Party.

Pull out your old, tattered copy of the Contract With America, and the copy of the Constitution that you right-wingers wiped your ass with for the past few years….

read them… and maybe you’ll realize why it is you lost now.

Sadly, most of you will miss the point, and think the problem is you’re not extreme enough, learning exactly the wrong lesson.

Nov 4, 2008 - 11:51 pm 70. Damon X:

Let me congratulate America for proving that rabid, fascist and paranoid bigots such as the ones this site caters for no longer all the shots. Here’s to four years of potential.

Cheers.

Nov 5, 2008 - 12:07 am 71. Pajamas Media » Obama Looks Strong in Early Count:

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Nov 5, 2008 - 12:26 am 72. vivo:

Viva Obama!!!!

Nov 5, 2008 - 12:53 am 73. Irish woman:

Thank God the right man won! By the way all of you who disparage Europe on this site – let me tell you have no idea of how much better our quality of life is than yours. Our crime rates alone are a fraction of yours despite the fact you put 1 in every 100 adults in jail. What does that tell you about your society compared to ours.

Nobody here needs to worry they’ll be bankrupt if they get sick. Woman are paid the same as men. I’ve never seen a gun in my entire life (I’m in my forties.) Our children have free access to university education. My country has what we consider to be a centrist right government and I can assure you Obama would be considered centrist in Europe so stop worrying about socialism or at least read up what socialism is because you guys are so uninformed it’s scary.

Nov 5, 2008 - 1:27 am 74. parisman:

TRIUMPH of the West
Un peu partout dans le monde, les contempteurs de l’Occident se réjouissent ce matin de l’élection de Barack Obama. Altermondialistes, islamo-gauchistes, néo-guévaristes, révolutionnaires et autres non-alignés ont fiévreusement espéré cette victoire dont ils attendent un bouleversement majeur. Laissons-les à leur rêve éveillé : ils réaliseront bien assez tôt que le succès d’Obama pourrait marquer leur complète défaite idéologique.

http://www.causeur.fr/obama-ou-l%e2%80%99occident-triomphant,1267

Nov 5, 2008 - 1:41 am 75. Jonesy55:

Irish Woman, prepare for tirades of abuse!!

I wouldn’t say that Europe is perfect either by any means, but in as much as there can be said to be such a thing, the ‘European model’ is a credible alternative in my opinion. I’m sure many Americans prefer their systems just as many Europeans prefer theirs and that’s fair enough. I certainly enjoy my life here anyway, being more like the US in some aspects would be a good thing and in some other aspects I wouldn’t want it.

Nov 5, 2008 - 2:02 am 76. Sari Buida:

Barrack Obama finally elected 44th US president. Congratulation! I wish all the best for America.

Nov 5, 2008 - 4:53 am 77. Lily:

Irish woman – enjoy while you can – Europe is headed for a demographic train wreck. You cannot maintain your big government programs on an aging population. You solution seems to be to bring in a new population whose culture is the antithesis of yours. Hope you like your burka. I wish you luck!

Nov 5, 2008 - 5:03 am 78. Little Banana:

Irish Woman – I presume you’re referring to Ireland in your comments. So let’s discuss….

“YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF HOW MUCH BETTER OUR QUALITY OF LIFE IS THAN YOURS”

Terrible health system, crap infrastructure, no decent public transport, 1 in 5 school leavers illiterate, petrol prices on average 20% higher than the rest of Europe, highest VAT rates in Europe (except for Scandanavia), home repossession orders doubled in the last 5 years and up 50% from last year. Yeah, quality of life is great here. Oh, and the weather sucks too.

“NOBODY HERE NEEDS TO WORRY THAT THEY’LL BE BANKRUPT IF THEY GET SICK”

No – they’ll just die on a trolley in the hallways of emergency room because there aren’t enough beds. Or maybe they’ll die at home from MRSA picked up in dirty hospitals. Tell me, what were all those senior citizens protesting about two weeks ago????

“OUR CHILDREN HAVE FREE ACCESS TO UNIVERSITY EDUCATION”

Not for much longer. Or did you miss Brian Lenihan’s budget of 15 October?

“OUR CRIME RATES ALONE ARE A FRACTION OF YOURS DESPITE THE FACT THAT YOU PUT 1 IN EVERY 100 ADULTS IN JAIL”

Maybe that has something to do with overcrowding in Irish jails, an ineffective and unarmed police force and an ultra-liberal judiciary. On Halloween night alone in Dublin – 2 buildings and a factory set on fire, approx 50 cars torched, 2 police in hospital, one fireman in hospital with the windscreen of his firetruck smashed, over 800 call outs for the fire service and over 500 calls for ambulances – ’nuff said

“OR AT LEAST READ UP WHAT SOCIALISM IS”

Or maybe we should ask Bertie Ahern*, who says he’s a socialist, or Brian Lenihan**, who’s telling us that paying taxes is “patriotic”.

Granted, life’s not too bad here, but it’s not the fairytale utopia you make it out to be.

* Former Taoiseach (Prime Minister)
** Current Minister for Finance
(for the benefit of our American friends)

Nov 5, 2008 - 5:56 am 79. Jonesy55:

Lily, do you actually know what your talking about or do you just like parroting the Euro-bashing, islamophobic trash you find in the conservative media?

Ireland’s ‘big government programmes’ give it an overall tax burden pretty much the same as the USA and its birth rate is comfortably above replacement. You clearly know nothing of Europe, you are projecting and amplifying your own prejudices into the echo-chamber of conservative discourse and accepting the resultant cacophony of nonsense as meaningful and factual.

Such ignorant posts seem to show that the nasty muslim man has replaced the nasty black man as the simultaneously loathed, feared, dehumanised and mythologised bogey-man in the mindset of certain ignorant people on the American right-wing.

Nov 5, 2008 - 6:04 am 80. Irish woman:

Little Banana I don’t live in a perfect country – nobody does. The point I was making was that those who demonize Obama by deriding Europe are labouring under a misapprehension. Ireland comes top or close to it in every international quality of life measure, as indeed do most Western European countries. I’m sorry your glass is half empty and grateful that mine is half full.

Nov 5, 2008 - 6:47 am 81. Ditto:

Looking at the exit polls, it seems clear that the “baton has been passed”, so to speak. Obama’s presidency was secured by the young vote. Every generation sees a passing of the baton. I just don’t feel old enough to be the one passing it backward! LOL

At any rate, while running the country is miles apart from moving out on your own the first time, I will say that the dread I’m experiencing right now over the next four years feels very familiar — it feels like the gut-wrenching concern I had when my eldest moved out on her own for the first time to make all her decisions on her own and, putting it mildly, sink or swim.

When she moved back home she half-jokingly accused me of having made it look too easy… the bill paying, budgeting, managing your time wisely, promoting yourself at work, inch by inch winning a little more comfortable existence. She learned a lot though, and of course so did I.

I just sincerely hope this generation, the one who received this weighty baton, is as self-correcting as my eldest. If they are, we’ll be okay.

Nov 5, 2008 - 8:41 am 82. Anonymous:

hi i know i am not 18 but i am voting for you

Nov 5, 2008 - 8:41 am 83. rvastar:

Let the Lefties gloat, people. Remember: politics is their religion

Plus, here are some facts: Obama got 62.9 million votes. George Bush got 62.0 million in 2004, with a 45% negative approval rating.

Yawn.

As for the talk about the country’s huge shift to the Left, just take a look at the gay-marriage bans that passed in Florida and CALIFORNIA.

Oops.

Finally, the Dems came up short in their bid for a filibuster-proof Senate majority.

Aww (sniffle)

Obama and the Dems are caught in a no-win situation. If they lurch too far to the Left, they lose the general electorate in 2012. If they attempt to govern from the center, they will incense the hard Left and dissipate the activist base that did the leg-work to got them elected…again, they’ll lose in 2012.

Watching the disillusionment set in over the next few years is going to be priceless

Nov 5, 2008 - 8:59 am 84. Edmund Jenks (MAXINE):

First off, congratulations to Barack Obama and the George Soros funded “Hard Left”.

Daily Kos will replace the New York Times as the paper of record, free speech will be under attack through the revival of “Fairness Doctrine”, 401K retirement programs will become the property of the federal government and reduced to a maximum 3% growth opportunity, more babies will not make it to see the light of day than less (even those who might have seen the light but officially did not), tax rates will be increased and less taxes will be actually collected, the national debt will continue to increase along with the size of federal government, less energy will be drilled, mined, transported, fused, and otherwise placed in a way our freedoms are increased and made more viable, our votes on the job, at work, will no longer be secret, less free trade and more economic isolation will become the trends, true respect and stature for the United States will suffer as our support for Israel takes a step backward, and the balance of power in Washington DC will have all power with little balance.

Sadly, the federal government will insert itself in the control over our everyday lives to a greater degree than ever before and everyone’s personal freedom of choice and options will decrease and hence become less of a shining city on the hill most thought of when people throughout the world came to a vision of the United States and its capitalistic based democracy.

Life will change and it will not be for the better. It will become harder to find a place to succeed with one’s dreams for at least one generation.

All hail to The One.

He ran a very successful campaign – to be able to displace Hillary Clinton and raise more money than any other candidate in history has to be recognized as a truly great effort.

Nov 5, 2008 - 9:00 am 85. Steve P.:

Edmund Jenks says (MAXINE): “First off, congratulations to Barack Obama and the George Soros funded “Hard Left”.”

Thank you.

“Daily Kos will replace the New York Times as the paper of record,”

Yes, and MSNBC and the Daily Show will become the only legal television news sources. Hope you love Rachel Maddow as much as we do, because O’Reilly, Limbaugh and Hannity will mysteriously disappear without a trace.

“…free speech will be under attack through the revival of “Fairness Doctrine”,”

Free speech is only free as long as we like what you’re saying. So just nod and agree and everything will be fine, okay?

“401K retirement programs will become the property of the federal government and reduced to a maximum 3% growth opportunity,”

What’s so genius about this is that if we are holding your retirement money, we get to decide when you retire! You want to retire before the age of 75? Well, not with our Federal money you won’t! Keep chopping those rocks, gramps!

“…more babies will not make it to see the light of day than less (even those who might have seen the light but officially did not),”

I am confident that by the end of our first term, we will have adequately addressed the “baby problem”. By 2012, America will be baby free, and this great nation will be able to look to glorious future free of whiny, hand-out grabbing, welfare addicted infants that do not work or contribute to society.

“tax rates will be increased and less taxes will be actually collected, the national debt will continue to increase along with the size of federal government, less energy will be drilled, mined, transported, fused, and otherwise placed in a way our freedoms are increased and made more viable, our votes on the job, at work, will no longer be secret, less free trade and more economic isolation will become the trends, true respect and stature for the United States will suffer as our support for Israel takes a step backward, and the balance of power in Washington DC will have all power with little balance.”

You forgot the part where we beat old ladies and kick puppies. That was a huge part of our campaign.

“Sadly, the federal government will insert itself in the control over our everyday lives to a greater degree than ever before and everyone’s personal freedom of choice and options will decrease and hence become less of a shining city on the hill most thought of when people throughout the world came to a vision of the United States and its capitalistic based democracy.”

Come on! Everyone know that people don’t actaully want choice, unless it’s a choice between french fries and onion rings. It’s so much easier to just relax, kick back and let the government do what it wants. It worked out so well for us the past eight years of not questioning our leaders, let’s just keep it up!

“Life will change and it will not be for the better. It will become harder to find a place to succeed with one’s dreams for at least one generation.”

Please, try ten generations.

“All hail to The One.”

Hail, mighty One!”

“He ran a very successful campaign – to be able to displace Hillary Clinton and raise more money than any other candidate in history has to be recognized as a truly great effort.”

So is there any remaining doubt or confusion in your minds of what a Community Organizer does? Because I think you all just received a pretty swift lesson.

Nov 5, 2008 - 11:21 am 86. rvastar:

So is there any remaining doubt or confusion in your minds of what a Community Organizer does? Because I think you all just received a pretty swift lesson.

No confusion whatsoever…it’s called “credit card fraud”. Not much different really than the “education” fraud he and his commie “neighbor” Ayers pulled off in Chicaco, to the tune of $100+ million with absolutely no results…other than creating more ignorant dolts such as yourself.

But thanks for admitting that breaking election laws are a source of pride for you Leftists. It’s that kind of arrogance that’s going to find you back in the political wilderness soon enough

Nov 5, 2008 - 11:36 am 87. Niche:

America decided and decided overwhelmingly

I can understand the negative comments of the people above, no-one likes to lose

But on a more serious note, America Is long overdue a change. A change in direction, a change in mentally, a change in momentum. We have long lost the values that have made us the greatest country in the world. Embarrassing was the stone throwing during the campaign

I recognize the dignity of the concession speech, but that dignity showed up a little too late

The most amazing thing is that Americans could put aside there suspicion of RACE and vote for PRINCIPLES that they believe in

Nov 5, 2008 - 11:47 am 88. PopeRatzo:

Hooray for the good guys.

Take this one lesson away: Americans are getting tired of negative campaigning.

All the secret-tape/muslim/terrorist/guilt-by-association/not-a-citizen stuff turned Americans off.

The Age of Rove ended a few years ago.

Oh, and one other thing: Americans may be socially conservative, but they don’t want social conservatives running things any more. That’s why Sarah Palin bombed, big-time.

Nov 5, 2008 - 3:13 pm 89. James Westlake:

Andrew Zalotocky:

It is interesting to read an intelligent critique of how you think an Obama Presidency will play out (though I think you’re wrong) but have one question: aren’t you embarrassed by all the right-wing nutters here?

I feel that the obvious split now opening up between the more intelligent and relatively moderate Republicans on the one hand and the angry extemiism of the relegius right on the other may keep the GOP out of office for a generation.

God Bless Obama, God bless America.

Westlake

Nov 5, 2008 - 3:33 pm 90. Wowww:

I refuse to debate this any more clearly it has gotten me no where on my other forums. I just want to say that we (as a whole) did not vote on principals. The majority was young people that where targeted by the celebrities they watch on T.V.. 94% of African Americans voted for him?? That is a little high for any one candidate. 75% of the youth voted for him also, now that is a little better. My daughter is 18 she voted McCain. Most likely because these values have been instilled in her but her friends are sending her texts that say things like this… “All white people report to the cotton field for orientation”. Even if he is was qualified or prepared his cult-like followers will run him through the ground!

Nov 5, 2008 - 4:58 pm 91. olivia:

Clearly a man with a mandate, and the most organized campaign in history. He will run his White House the same way. Determined, organized and fruitfully. He is left with the worst debt ever, a country owned via bond debt to China and Japan a leftover war for oil and cooperate welfare out the yazoo with no American jobs to show for the government subsiding corporations over the last 8 years. A country in which the infrastructure is seriously in need of repair.

The chance of him expanding the ever shrinking middle class is slim in our current financial situation. The Bush administration has damaged that forever.

I fear he will not be progressive enough for me, and it would please me to no end to see him appoint the most liberal cabinet and supreme court judges we have ever seen. I fear that won’t happen as he courts the middle and leave us progressives in the dust but I can keep my fingers crossed.

I found McCain’s concession speech ironic in that he ran such a disturbing sleazy campaign and then turned around and pledged his support to the socialist, communist, liberal, Muslim he slandered daily in the media. The whole of the election process totally invalidated in one short concession speech.

Nov 5, 2008 - 5:01 pm 92. Lily:

Olivia said: “I found McCain’s concession speech ironic in that he ran such a disturbing sleazy campaign”

Yeah, all those illegal donations he took online, and the money and co-ordination with that Acorn group for voter fraud. Yeah! Oh, wait, that was Obama. Never Mind.

Nov 5, 2008 - 8:22 pm 93. Lily:

However, I agree with Olivia on one thing, unlike McCain, I would not have pledged my support to the Socialist, Communist, Liberal ….

Nov 5, 2008 - 8:23 pm 94. Lily:

Jonesy: Watch and Wait.

Nov 5, 2008 - 8:28 pm 95. USpace:

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Great links. I want to believe that Obama won’t be as bad as some people think, but I’m quite sure, that at best, he won’t be as good as most people hope he will be.

I wish this site had come out earlier, I had some Obamabot friends finding out that they had big differences with Obama’s positions:
http://www.barackobamatest.com/

Years ago I was knocked off the voting rolls here in this very Blue City when I was a Republican, on election day I found out I was knocked off as an Un-Affiliated. Next time I should register as a Democrat, I bet I won’t get knocked off then.

The biggest dangers come from the Left anyway, my votes in this Blue State’s closed primaries would be more important there.

Telling Moonbats I’m a Democrat would stop some in their tracks too, maybe making it easier to chip away at the false veneer of so-called ‘progressivism’.

Let’s hope he does well, at least not too badly, with the least amount of despair possible. May God Bless and help guide President Obama. And may God Bless and save America! Keep the faith!
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe hates
history either way

America WILL survive
we MUST still fight for freedom

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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
ELECT socialism

let the young people see
survive the false promises

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creating MORE jobs
will spread NEW wealth around
- it is NOT finite

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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
give up the search for truth

stop trying to show people
how the world really works

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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
Bush was worse than Hitler

and Stalin and Mao
and Castro combined

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All real freedom starts with freedom of speech. If there is no freedom of speech there can be no real freedom.
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POTUS-Elect BHO Thrills Earth!
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USpace
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Nov 5, 2008 - 10:53 pm 96. jonesy55:

“Jonesy: Watch and Wait.”

I have been and will continue to do so, so far you are wrong, I fully expect this to continue.

Nov 6, 2008 - 12:30 am 97. morbshock:

Everyone says that he is the first black to become president. NOT. He is the first half black, half white person elected for president. Everyone always forgets about the white side. He is 50% black and 50% white. So, officially he isn’t the first 100% black person to be elected.He is still way too left and Commie for me.

Nov 8, 2008 - 5:04 am 98. PlaneJane:

President-elect Obama should give all Americans pride as we shine again as that great city on the hill, regardless of who each of us voted for. Republicans ready with your hate and attacks, remember that Democrats who were upset over the the close election of 2000, but willing to give GWB a chance after all was said and done. It was once said that GWB was a uniter not a divider. Obama won with a clear majority of voters. The voters in our democratic republic have spoken. Why not put your hatred and false accusations aside until Obama proves otherwise. There was a time when our country could disagree politically without demonizing each other. Turn off the angry talk radio for awhile and form your own opinions. Let’s start fresh, what say you?

Nov 8, 2008 - 10:19 am 99. Uday:

Squeal, piggies!

How does it feel to have run your country into the ground to the point where it is practically bankrupt, your military humiliated by minor league teams across the world, and then, to top it all off, to taste bitter, humiliating defeat at the hands of a ‘commie/terrorist’? Who cares what kind of president he is as long as he keeps you losers squealing.

Nov 8, 2008 - 5:37 pm 100. Lisa P:

We have now discovered who our next head commander is. Congratulations, Mr. Obama on becoming America’s 44th President of the United States of America. Your endurance through the 22-month campaign is highly admirable. However, your journey has just begun. You have been chosen to become the decision maker for all Americans to resolve the major issues in our economy. First and foremost, the financial system and the faltering economy must be stabilized and we understand that you have proposed a number of different stimulus packages in recent weeks regarding this matter. Your plans to temporarily exempt seniors from having to make annual withdrawals from their IRAs and 401 (k)s after the age of 70 ½ and to temporarily exempt the unemployed from having to pay tax on their unemployment benefits will most likely have you score on both sides. Nevertheless, the biggest focus should be on keeping the bank bailout/credit repair that started on track, reduce real estate foreclosures and change the position of financial regulation. To sum up, you have all your objectives laid out for you, Mr. President-Elect.

Nov 11, 2008 - 1:02 am 101. James Westlake:

Lily,

“However, I agree with Olivia on one thing, unlike McCain, I would not have pledged my support to the Socialist, Communist, Liberal ….”

which is he? (FYI he can’t be all three!)

westlake

Nov 11, 2008 - 7:47 pm 102. Rancher:

Dear
Heavenly Father

I come to you in these time of need ,these time of hate . I come to you in these time asking you to bring peace . Lord i pray that we all find you an that we let our hate go for one another. Lord i pray that in your name amen.
Oh Hevenly Father listen to my prayers commant thy will be done. Please give the USA a helpful hand on restoreing the economy,betering the schools,cleaning the drugs an helping us all acept our new pesident into office,, for we can not hate our nabor for only we pray that you will direct our Nations leader in the right path, we as many pray the the new president of the United States will do a good job as his term be filled as well as the american to acept that he was voted in fairly an that we must all do our part in keeping america on the top amen

Nov 11, 2008 - 10:50 pm 103. Gene:

A magic number – 44. We have a lot expectations from your Barak.
Younger is better then older I think. Let’s see how he will satisfy our expectations. Big hope!

Nov 15, 2009 - 2:13 am

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