Comments on: What happens next?

By: Andre' Jones

Andre' Jones — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:22:34 +0000

I understand that I am in Lion territory, and after all, I am hunting lions and not rabbits. If I miss a shot, misspelled words included, the lion will rip off my liberal head and eat my guts.
George Bush addressed his house and senate before their break and said, “You will all be coming back in January, but I will not, he, he!” Historians are already saying (talk about jumping into the future) that the George Bush legacy is a disaster. And still, only time will tell, less we forget or want to forget.
We are never kind to our leaders. Being the president must be a thankless job; why candidates spend millions of dollars to be president is “twisted.” Wanting to change history for mankind is nobel, and greatness is measured by our accomplishments.

I am finding it humorous that the stock market went down because of Obama’s win. Hasn’t the stock market been going down for the past six months? Hasn’t it flat lined for eight years. Suddenly, the energy crisis is Obama’s fault. He isn’t even president yet, and the media is already making it Obama’s fault! President Bush is still our leader and cannot hold back the waters that have been building since his poor decisions; real policies real debt, real stay the course even if we are wrong. We are going “ground zero” because the last administration had a lack of foresight, oversight, and stayed the course. I am so mad that people never saw George Bush without any clothes.
In some respects I see this recession as a house cleaning. The slate is clean for the next guy. It is a very good place to start making changes so we “Don’t get fooled again, he he.”

By: Andre' Jones

Andre' Jones — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:37:47 +0000

I meant secession. I am a little rusty at writing! I know what to say, but I need to double check to make sure it is correct. If I were speaking, it would have gone over someone’s head. At least I know that Africa is a continent and not a country!

By: rhodesian

rhodesian — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:36:25 +0000

Having suffered through the World Series riot in Philadelphia I’m thankful the Obama celebration seemed to be just that. McCain’s concession speech showed why he had to lose. He sounded as if he’d just stepped out of a time machine. Obama’s acceptance speech was fluffy, right down to the promised puppy. We have finally witnessed the end of the twentieth century.

By: Polemicscat

Polemicscat — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:35:01 +0000

#6 Nixon was wrong about several things, but he was never more wrong than when he said, “They won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around any more.” Repeating a slander on the dead Nixon when every journalistic rag in the country has done it numerous times while he was living is not clever. More than that, Nixon was not much worse than others who have gotten off without even a mild reprimand for dirty tricks.
Example, Papa Joseph paid a man name Russo to run a three way campaign with another Russo who was running against John F. in his first foray into politics.
And, in LBJ’s first win in a political race, a crucial precinct’s ballot box disappear during the vote counting and strangely reappeared late in the evening stuffed with ballots for LBJ.
To Nixon’s credit, in the 1960 race for president, he bowed out rather than cause a national crisis by contesting the virtually tied contest in crucial Illinois, where the Chicago’s Democrat machine had almost certainly stolen the election from Nixon by raising the dead so they could vote.

By: Andre' Jones

Andre' Jones — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:47:17 +0000

Roger, it isn’t everything you expected, except that everything was civil. That was okay?

By: Andre' Jones

Andre' Jones — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:43:57 +0000

Roger, It actually happened as you said. McCain’s succession was graceful and eloquent. But, thank goodness no hanging chads!
I was upper middle class, public school and surrounded by a diverse population all my life. I have witnessed prejudice first hand when we joined an all white country club in the suburbs of Maryland. At the same time, I was introduced to an integrated jr high school. My library partner was a bright black girl. She let me touch her hair, we laughed and helped each other learn about each other. We became friends. I asked her if she would be my guest for lunch at the “all white country club” to make statement-I was 13 years old. We went and I couldn’t believe how people could turn us away from something as simple as having lunch together.
I understand that it might not be the fact that Obama is black, but the ideologies of classes, but I have a good feeling that he is right for healing, catching up with reality, and hope, change and everything that is warm and fuzzy. I don’t see anything wrong with “all that good” to pass around. You will see that people will have a different attitude and will bring this country back in the right mode. “YES WE CAN”

By: Juvenal

Juvenal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:32:08 +0000

Anthro:

According to Stephen Ambrose, a 101st AB medic trapped in Bastogne said of the enemy: “They got us surrounded, the poor bastards!”

By: Anthropogenicagent

Anthropogenicagent — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:24:57 +0000

For “michael”

You seem to think we are due our dose of reality. I think “reality” is more like the stuff of a Kurt Vonnegut novel. For all we know the root cause of the victory is that Michelle has Barak in the most comfortably underwear you can imagine; to wit, the permanent smirk on her face.

By: Carl Sesar

Carl Sesar — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:24:47 +0000

What happens next?
We’ll just have to wait and see.
See what?
His birth certificate, of course.

By: Anthropogenicagent

Anthropogenicagent — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:14:33 +0000

Save your self the grief of trying to analyze the present situation just remember in Bastone, General Anthony McAuliff responded to the Germans’ order to surrender with a one-word reply: “Nuts.”

Accept the result or not, but resist gracefully, with class.