i’d like to say…
By American Girl in Italy on November 5, 2008 at 1:45 PM in Current Affairs, John McCain, Obama, Obama's Media Censorship, Race, Sarah Palin, Sexism, Tavis Smiley
Watching the Obama supporters last night, with tears streaming down their faces, their screaming, clapping, dancing and fainting, I have to admit I was a bit emotional myself. I appreciate what this means to African Americans, you could see it on their faces. Juan Williams cried through his whole commentary.
And, as opposed to an Obama presidency as I am, I still hold dear, and respect and value the Office of the Presidency, the symbolism of that office. These kinds of things make me weepy, as does the National Anthem. I can’t help it.
And, although many of you might disagree, I am not bitter, or angry. I am just interested, opinionated, and involved, and I supported and voted for someone else. But as much as I can understand what this means to his supporters, it is unfortunate that what this year meant to those who supported Hillary Clinton or John McCain and Sarah Palin, wasn’t understood.
I’d like to say that I think Obama transcended race, and is truly a new kind of Politician. But, then I remember the number of times people who opposed him were called racist. I can’t forget the Clinton’s painted as racists, her supporters, then Palin, and McCain themselves, as well as their supporters. I can’t forget the number of times I was called racist on my blog, or online from the very first day.
I’d like to say that as I watched Michelle on stage last night, that I felt pride that she will be our first African American First Lady. But, I can’t forget the times she said she was for the first time, proud of her country. A country that afforded her an Ivy League education, a country where her family prospered and excelled. I can’t forget her saying that America is a mean country. I can’t forget when she said that she would have to think long and hard before she would support Hillary, should she be the nominee. I can’t forget when she said that *if you can’t run your own house, how can you run the White House*, such an affront to women everywhere.
I’d like to say, as I watched those adorable two girls on the stage last night, the opportunity that lies ahead of them, and all young women. But then I couldn’t help think of the attacks on the children of Sarah Palin. I couldn’t help think of the attacks on her, her 17 year old daughter, and Hillary Clinton, and her female supporters. I can’t forget the public acceptance of the effigy of Sarah Palin, or the Clinton Nutcrackers, or the Sarah Palin is a cunt t-shirts, or the many, many sexist attacks. I couldn’t help remember the nasty comments coming from the left that she should have aborted Trig.
I’d like to say, as I watched the supporters, running through the streets celebrating, that they deserved it, that they worked hard, and put up an honest fair political fight. That they just wanted it more. But then I couldn’t help think of the personal attacks on me, from the day I typed *I support Hillary*. I can’t forget the anonymous personal attacks, and death threats and worse, left on my blog, for discussing the race. I couldn’t help but watch the crowd, and think, “are they someone who called me a whore or a racist c*nt?” I can’t forget the caucus fraud that was witnessed all over the country in the primary. I can’t forget the attacks on African Americans who didn’t support Obama. I can’t forget that someone told Soldier4Hillary that they hoped she died in Iraq, because she supported Hillary. I couldn’t help think of the Black Panthers I saw, in Philadelphia standing in front of the polling place, threatening voters. I can’t forget the death threats on Tavis Smiley for criticizing Obama. I can’t forget the Super Delegates who received death threats for supporting Hillary.
I’d like to say as I watched Hillary and Bill cast their vote yesterday that I believe they supported Obama. But, I can’t forget what Hillary said during the primary, questioning Obama on Rezko and Ayers, and Wright. I can’t forget the constant insults from Obama about the Clinton presidency, and Hillary personally, and professionally. I can’t forget Biden, Edwards, Dodd, and more, tell the American people that Obama is not ready, and not tested. I can’t forget his refusal to release his Senate records, his college transcripts, or his passport.
I’d like to say, as I saw Obama standing there last night, in front of a wall of American flags, giving his speech, that he truly loves America, and is a man of his word. But I can’t forget his excuse for not wearing the Flag pin, and then his political expediency in wearing it. I can’t forget the photo of him not placing his hand over his heart during the National Anthem. I can’t forget the photo William Ayers standing on the American flag. I can’t forget his refusal to release his birth certificate, something that was demanded of Mccain.
I’d like to say, as I watched Obama vote for himself as President yesterday, that I appreciated what an out of body, overwhelming experience that must have been, the pride and excitement he must feel. But, then I saw William Ayers go into the same polling booth, as did Farrakhan. I was reminded of what Obama did early in his career, to get to this point, who he considered appropriate to associate with, to befriend, and to partner with to further his political career. I can’t forget how he exposed his opponents in Chicago, and personally attacked them, to get them removed from the ballot. I can’t forget how he ran his Chicago Districts and his dealings with Rezko, and the state of despair his districts are in. I can’t forget that he didn’t leave that church.
I’d like to say that as I watched him walk to the podium, to give his acceptance speech that he worked so hard, and that he earned this. But I can’t forget what little he has actually accomplished. Yes, he ran a good campaign, he spent more days campaigning then he has ever held a job. I can’t forget all the articles I have read, about his start in the Chicago Senate, and how he was handed bills, to further his career, how his mentor carried him, made himself a Senator. I can’t forget the articles I read how Obama would catch Dodd or Kennedy in the halls and cling to them as they went to present bills, and adding himself to their accomplishments. I can’t forget that he has campaigned longer then he has actually served in the Senate. I can’t forget how he himself said, in 2004 that he was not ready.
I’d like to say, as I saw him standing there, that the people have spoken, and the best man won. But, I can’t forget the thousands and thousands of fraudulent voters registered, the buses of homeless and drug addicts that were driven to the polls. I can’t forget the Obama supporters who have been caught voting twice, the people on the streets saying they voted multiple times, the overseas ballots that have been tossed out. Those four delegates. I can’t forget the actions of the DNC and how they treated the Clintons. I can’t forget the efforts to shove Hillary Clinton from the race.
I’d like to say that as I saw him standing there, and even as I listened to him, and was moved to tears, that he deserves it. I couldn’t help think of the man that did not win. A man who has courageously served his country since he was 17 years old. A man who fought, and almost died for his country. A man who spent five years in a prison in Vietnam, at the same time one of Obama’s neighbors and friends was bombing the Pentagon, and Capital. I couldn’t help remember that Obama gave a book review to Ayers, whose other book was dedicated to the man that murdered Robert Kennedy.
I’d like to say that, although my candidate lost, I trust that Obama will follow through with his promises. But I can’t forget the broken promises he has already made, and the lies that he has told – looking into the eye of the American people. I can’t forget the sliding numbers for his tax cuts.
I’d like to say that as I was watching McCain give his concession speech, that he lost after a good fight. But I can’t forget that McCain couldn’t even fight. His every move, every attempt to put up a good fight was chastised in the media, screams of racism were thrown at him. Even having to fight his own party. As I watched Sarah Palin standing behind him, I couldn’t help think how close we were to having a woman in the White House. As I watched her fight back her tears, I couldn’t help think of all that she has accomplished in her life, being only two years older then me. I can’t forget all the disgusting insulting attacks thrown at her, and how she stayed strong. I can’t forget all of the attacks coming from so called feminists, and how far this election has set us back, as women. And apparently, we really have not gone that far. I can’t forget members of her own party calling her a cancer. I can’t forget the attacks on her and her family, a sitting Governor who has served the people of Alaska, who was asked to join the Republican ticket. The respect I felt for McCain and Palin standing there, moved me to tears. He is a true American Hero, and his service to his country should never be forgotten. I can’t forget the attacks I have read, from the left, on his service.
I’d like to say that Obama is truly a man who was supported by the American people. But I can’t forget the broken promise to accept campaign finance. I can’t forget the millions of dollars of overseas money he as illegally accepted, the millions he has had to return, the unchecked prepaid credit card donations. And his refusal to release the donor list. I can’t forget the millions he has raised and spent, and the promise he broke to get there.
I’d like to say that Obama will be for all people. But can’t forget the personal attacks on Joe the Plumber and anyone who opposed Obama. I can’t forget his pandering to Christian Conservatives in some states, including the gay bashers, his opposition to gay marriage, or his refusal to speak out against the sexist attacks on Clinton and Palin. I can’t forget that Obama pays his female employees less than the men. I can’t forget his double talk regarding Israel. I can’t forget his is associations with Farrakhan, Wright, Khalidi, Meeks, Moss, Dhorn, Ayers, ACORN.
I’d like to say that Obama will help the economy. But I can’t forget his share of the responsibility in the collapse of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. I can’t forget all of the experts telling us how his spending and proposals are going to add trillions in more debt. I can’t forget that he is second only to Dodd, in his two short years in the Senate, for taking money from them.
I’d like to say, as I watched the members of the media praise him, and talk about what a great story this is, that I think it is. But I can’t forget the attacks that they launched on Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, their supporters, and Bill Clinton as well. I can’t forget their utter failure to do their job, to report the facts, not to create the story. I can’t forget their complete and utter bias. I can’t forget their cover ups, and failures to vet this candidate. I can’t forget their personal attacks on an average citizen.
I’d like to say that this proves that America is not racist. But I can’t forget that 95% of the African Americans voted for Obama. For half of the country, their opposition to Obama was not about race. It was his judgment and his character. It was his policies. And for conservatives, it was everything he and his party stands for. White Americans, Democrats, embraced him. He won cross over votes. But those who didn’t vote for him didn’t do so because of his skin color. But those who did?
I’d like to believe that when Obama said that *out of many, we are one* that were true. But for those who did not support him, from the first days of the primary, were told to for example *keep the fuck out of my country* were treated anything but.
I do understand what this means to his supporters, to African Americans, and to people around the world. I do. As I said, I could see it in their tear streamed faces. And it saddens me that I can’t share gleefully in this moment in history.
As much as I want to welcome this idea of change, this new age of politics, this giant step for mankind, this great leap of faith, this huge movement forward in race relations in America, I just can’t forget how we got to this day.
Will Obama live up to *the promise*? As they say, time will tell.
And as far as the DNC now controlling all three branches?
Gird your loins my friends, gird your loins.
I am assuming a lot of people will be out of work at NAACP now, since they are not needed anymore.
You can add NOW and NARAl to that list, HARP.
Yeah. I am sure that the fund raising with the 0bama supporters has more than made up for what they didn’t get from those of us who didn’t support him, right? hahahahahaha
Sara: Thank you for saying this. You are so right. I don’t know why half the US can’t see (or care about) these things, but they have scarred me, made it impossible for me to go ‘oh, well, he won’ and go on with things.
My commitment to real change is all the stronger for this process.
American Girl, I wish I had read this earlier – I needed to hear these things. I, too, have felt angry today that I can’t celebrate this historic moment. Many of my loved ones are thrilled out of their minds, but they don’t know what I know and frankly are not interested in knowing.
I would have been on the front lines of a historic campaign like Obama’s had it come much later and had we been spared seeing Hillary’s candidacy become a mockery by Obama, his supporters, and his strategists.
I am further troubled by Hillary and Bill’s relentless help for him. I don’t think they thought he could win, but when it started to seem enevitable, I think they had to rev up their support. Who knows. I am concerned that we can’t forget it, but it looks like they already have. I hope they will let us know in some way that we have not had one of the worst years of our lives in vein.
OIGHOHUY
What the hell you mean you can forget NOW as they’re out of a job? Are you serious?
WE NEED NOW NOW MORE THAN EVER! WHY ARE YOU SUCH A SEXIST OBAMABOT/DUBBYA FRINGERITEWINGERTURD?
LOL!
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As a woman, I also wanted to see an historic presidency of Hillary Clinton. What make me very up set is obama stole the nomination from her. She clearly won the primary with over 300,000 popular votes and only 17 (or 4) pleged delegates apart. (before the floor vote and SD)
See, that’s the thing. If they’d not taken away OUR votes here in FL, she’d have won FL. If they’d not taken away her votes in MI and given them to Obama, she’d have won MI and SHE’d have been the candidate – not Obama.
The whole thing boils down to theft of votes. The DNC did this. And now we are stuck with this arrogant ass for 4 years.
I can’t help it. I’m angry – more angry than I thought I’d be.
We have 77% of the Jewish population to thank for helping elect Barack Obama. He has repaid them by selecting one of them to be his Chief of Staff. What were they thinking? Obama goes to an anti Semitic church for 20 years….. Is their hatred of white christian that deep? After all it was a majority of white Christians that died in WWII saving them from the gas chamber and concentration camps. Nice way to repay us. Sorry if I offend someone but I am heart sick at finding this out.
He is a friend of Arabs and possibly is one himself? How will American’s look upon any attack on Israel after the Jewish population helped elect this person to be the president?
There are an estimated 650,000 Jews living in Florida.
He has asked one of the Chicago Political Machine Rahm Emanuel
Obama Offers Rahm Emanuel Job of White House Chief of Staff
November 05, 2008 8:30 AM
ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.
Emanuel, a knowledgeable source tells ABC News, has not yet given his answer. The sharp-tongued, sharp-elbowed, keenly intelligent veteran of the Clinton White House is said to have ambitions to some day be Speaker of the House. But he also has a keen sense of “duty.”
Today on “Good Morning America” ABC’s George Stephanopoulos reported Obama likes the fact that Emanuel “knows policy, knows politics, knows Capitol Hill” and has told associates that Emanuel would “have his back.”
Rahm and Barack have a deep history together is Chicago politics. Emanuel has been instrumental is the rise of Barack Obama from neophyte Senator to the next president of the United States. Getting virtually no media attention Rahm Emanual has been by Obama side during most of the last two years on the campaign trail.
Emanuel belongs to an orthodox Jewish congregation in Chicago and worked as a volunteer in Israel during the first Gulf War.
His father Jerusalem born Benjamin M. Emanuel was a member of the Irgun, a Zionist Militant organization in the 1940s. The Irgun bombed the King David Hotel occupied by the British and housing the British authorities of Palestine on July 22, 1946. The group planted a bomb in the basement of the hotel. The ensuing bomb blast killed 91 and injured another 46.
http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2008/11/04/rahm-emanuel-the-next-president-of-the-united-states/\
Barack Obama wins 77 percent of Jewish vote, exit polls show By Haaertz Service and News Agencies Tags: israel news, Barack Obama
Despite the tense rift between Republican and Democratic Jews over the course of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, exit polls on Tuesday showed that Barack Obama received about 77 percent of the Jewish vote.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1034574.html
Yes, and as a Jew, this makes me ill.
The ADL has issued a statement in celebration of Obama’s election:
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Mise_00/5385_00.htm
and does not see him as in cahoots with Farrakhan…just to be clear…
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/NatIsl_81/5208_81.htm
And that my friends, tells you exactly how his words and actions continue to be opposite one another. He says bi-partisan, unity, having Republicans in his cabinet. Er un um…No. Not on your Tin Type, Sonny.
He’s become so easy to read. Whatever he says…about anything…just hold on for a day or two and you’ll see him doing just the reverse. So the lesson here is: Never under any circumstances believe a word that comes out of his lying mouth. Only look at his actions. Makes for much less anger over the old okey doke.
Emanuel was part of the Clinton White House. But for the past two years has been right by BO’s side on the campaign trail? Interesting.
Like Pelosi and Dean, then, he was pretending to be neutral in the primary until near the end when he could no longer stand NOT to endorse the one. But all the time working like crazy for him behind the scenes.
Another “Clinton Backstabber”! How much more devastating for the Clintons (and us) can this get?
Rahm is from Chicago. You can’t blame him for supporting the home town boy.
http://www.votehillary.org/CMS/Media/4-22-06RealTime/Hi.html
Funny how racist comments are edited out (and rightly so imo), but anti-Semitic ones are not.
I agree with all of the above, as well as that at the end of the convention, the DNC gave ALL of the delegates from Michigan and Florida to BHO, but only the half to Hillary that would deny her the nomination!….
Nancy Sabet
Yes,indeed. What has happened is that ONLY THE HISTORIC CANDIDACY OF OBAMA COUNTS.
WHAT ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON’S EQUALLY HISTORIC AND MUCH MORE BELATED NOMINATION? WAS THAT NOT A HISTORIC FIRST? SHOW ME WHY IT’S A SECOND, AND DIDN’T DESERVE MEDIA ATTENTION AND…RESPECT—WHICH IS A WORD THE OBAMA CULTISTS CAN’T SPELL!
HARP: “I am assuming a lot of people will be out of work at NAACP now, since they are not needed anymore”
Obama will shift them over to ACORN. He started he reelection campaign last night during his speech.
All I can think of is all of the little girls in this country who have once again been kept in their places. The lesson for them from this campaign season is “No We Can’t”. It’s a devastaing blow to girls and women in America.
And the fact that many are now blaming Sarah on why McCain lost is truly devastating as well..
Love how our new first lady is sporting designer outfits – how much you bet her lovely red/black ensemble was $150K?
sorry but that outfit was made by Barney.
I am with you. I found it ugly as sin and dressing her daughters is not a talent, either. Having said that, there are plenty of women who don’t know the first thing about fashion and that doesn’t make any of them inappropriate residents of the White House. Mrs. 0bama has a distinct dislike for the majority of America’s citizens and she doesn’t hesitate to let us know. She thinks the world owes her something. I doubt that her “give me more” will be sated any time soon.
She indeed has a strong dislike for the majority of Americans. I also don’t think she has great taste in clothing herself. She looks like she’s tried a bit too hard, all the time.
It’s a talent – either you have a sense of style or you don’t. Cindy McCain does well. Nancy Reagan had/has a great sense of style. Jackie Kennedy did. Lady Bird, Barbara Bush, even Laura Bush? UGH! Awful.
I just had a brillant idea!! Sarah can donate the clothes from the campaign trail to Meechelle Obama … Oh, but wait .. I highly doubt Meechelle would fit in Sarah’s size. Oh well. Meow!
Her dress was made by Narciso Rodriguez. His dresses go for $1000 up. Since this design had been worn on the runway perhaps she got a discount since it was passe’, and without question did nothing to conceal her size. Interesting to note she gets larger and Barack gets skinnier. Of course we have not seen his medical report.
Meow! Guard the curtins, Kitty has her claws out! OK, I can’t help myself.
MEchille will get a stylist soon compliments of Oprah. Then she will look just like everyone else on the fashion pages. Booooorrrrring.
She does have a talent on her own of choosing colors that are just a little off and styles that do nothing for her pear shape, keeping her top smaller and featuring very wide hips. Narciso should be banished for giving her that dress to wear. Ditch the cabbage rose prints and big splashy graphics MEchille…for a start. And stop believing everyone who yes’s you about being the Black Jack and Jackie. You are not. She was a size or three smaller than you are so don’t copy the style. Here’s an idea! Develop your own. Sigh…maybe not.
And why dear god does she dress that little daughter who has dark skin in black???? No taste at all… is the black and red color combo significant of something…some group or something??? I found it an odd choice for a family group photo op…….She’s no Carla Bruni well actually she’s two Carla Brunis.
And you guys talk about feminism; however, I guess it’s only limited to Hillary & Sarah, not Michelle. It is sad to see how you can judge her clothes, her size and how she dresses her children.
Barney would not be caught dead in that outfit
It’s the Romneybots and Bushbots that came to the campaign after McCain secured the nomination. snakes
I don’t know why McCain thought he had to hire the enemy….and notice after he hired these types of people he stopped criticizing Bush. They gave him poison advice to try to set Romney up for 2012.
Of course every time McCain aimed deserved criticism at Bush before then republicans screamed that he was a traitor to their hero.
Yeah, I’m bitter and angry at Bush. His failure is now complete.
We’ve been overrun by ‘bots. That’s for damn sure.
‘bots to the left of me
jokers to the right
here I am
stuck in the middle with you…
Good one.
Romney is behind the push to blackball Sarah Palin. He is scared and paranoid of her appeal. He wants 2012, and will stop at nothing to make her unacceptable. At his core, he remains a ruthless corporate raider. Believe me. I have seen him do it before with Governor Jane Swift here in Massachusetts.
Lovely?
That dress with the red hourglass pattern on black?
Chuckle.
That’s the signature of Latrodectus, the black widow spider.
The spider: http://tinyurl.com/5zqltw
The First Lady: http://tinyurl.com/5qot4b
I thought it was hideous! The red and black Obama family brigade was wierd.
Please. Let’s not visit the sins of the father upon the children. On that stage last night they looked happy. And in this world, you can’t do better than that.
Mr. Natural
You’re right. Let’s leave the children alone. And I for one find the Obama girls to be attractive and sweet and peppy. Wish one of them ran for President one day. This Hillary Puma would gladly vote for the Obama girl. (no, not the other one!)
Let’s confine criticism to Obamarama–leave family out of it. Let’s not stoop to the Obama Campaign’s level of logic….
It’s sexist to talk about Palin’s clothes and Clinton’s clothes, but not about Michelle Obama’s clothes???
Help me out here…
And the sound bite was already out there this a.m. that “Sarah Palin” may have spent much more than $150k on the clothes. Gasp!
Let’s see weren’t those bought for her by the RNC? Frankly I think she and her family are owed at least the wardrobe to make up for the hanging in West Hollywood.
What’’s good for the goose……. so to speak
And we are not the msm here
And the fact that many are now blaming Sarah on why McCain lost is truly devistating as well..
Love how our new first lady is sporting designer outfits – how much you bet her lovely red/black ensemble was $150K?
I am pained to think of my 9-year-old and 7-year-old nieces are forming their identities as their Obot parents trash first Hillary for being ambitious and now Sarah Palin for having the audacity of ambition, of having clothes, of having babies.
I hope you are able to speak out against what you are seeing. Let those nieces know what’s right, if you can. Good luck.
Oddly their parents are much wealthier than I am and it’s my older brother who can be prickly. He is no bigot, he’s just grown up in the body of a 6′4″ white male with a good education and has not noticed the inherent privilege that comes with that.
“It’s a devastaing blow to girls and women in America.”
Hey look at the bright side – they have Michelle for a role model now.
Typewriterstreamin…
thanks for the joke! priceless–like Michele’s nightgown with black and red splashes…what on obamearth was that all about, pray tell! Was it fro the Obamyopic crowd to admire…
Cindy,
Yes. The message of the Obamessiah cult now inhabiting the White House (soon) is going to be told in a baritone voice next year and his message of Hope to Women and Girls will be:
“BACK TO THE END OF THE BUS, LADIES”! and soon we’ll be breathing the toxic fumes under the ObamaBus!
Barack HUSSEIN supported cousin Odinga in Kenya for Sharia Law for girls. He actively campaigned for this murderous sexist creep (now pres.in Kenya thanks to Obama’s donations!) back in 06 and was told by the then presidnet to get out of the countyr and go back to Chicago.
Take time and listen to the words of John Lenon’s l970 song: “Woman is the Negro of the World”…unfortunately, with Obama she will remain for another 4 years!
I keep telling myself today that anyone who makes it the Whitehouse is probably beholden to the same types of interest groups as Obama anyway. So if we are going to have a corrupt president, at least we have one whose victory made some well meaning people who deserve some joy and pride to feel all these things. I guess my only concern is the mob mentality that got him there and gave him a filibuster proof Congress, and all that this implies in terms of the unchecked power and control (and unchecked ego) he will have.
you start off with the right idea. the money men control the purse. the dems are as much under corporate control as the repubs. obama doesn’t have the power to do that much. he can’t give the far left all they desire. the poorly informed too easily swayed aa’s won’t get a damx thing. shame on them! the mob mentality will be quelled.
Did they get 60 in the Senate? I thought that fell short.
Yes, he ran a good campaign, he worked harder campaigning then he has ever held a job.
He did NOT run a “good campaign.” He used race-baiting, sexism to his political advantage, spent an ungodly sum of money (much of it unaccounted for), had the media shilling for him every step of the way, the DNC leaders carried him along, and he constantly lied and dissembled. I do not consider that a “good” campaign. Could he have won without dividing the AA community from the Clintons, or without the fawning media–hostile to all opponents–who did NOTHING to challenge his lies and record? Could he have won if Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry et. al. had not have stabbed the Clintons in the back? Could he have won without gaming the caucuses, and using Alinsky style bullying and intimidation while he spoke of “new politics?” And lastly, he is just another by-product of the Bush legacy.
THE END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS. I wish I could vote for an AA candidate that had earned the position–that would give me joy. This candidate did not. I feel the same about him as I did Bush–he is illegitimate, and therefore, not my president.
We learned this in grade school and it’s still true.
seems you struck a cord.
“the end does not justify the means”
and karma is a mofo…
i agree completely
I watched last night and was emotional (although not as tear-streaked as I was when I saw Hillary voting yesterday morning.)
There was a part of me that wishes that she could’ve gotten behind Obama so that I could hoot & holler and freak out with happiness, but, I sat on my couch, watched, listened to the speech (which, I’ll admit, was pretty damned good.)
All in all, I’m cautiously optimistic.
I’m not going to sit here stewing in my own bile and getting an ulcer over the outcome.
Hopefully, the people he chooses down the road will help to get this country back to rights.
you had better stop being hopeful and start being informed. that is how we got in this mess. hopey/changey! give me a break!
bite my ass, stodghie. i’ve been in this since the get-go for frigging hillary.
i AM fucking informed, so, maybe i’m trying to deal with this fucked up outcome in my own way and if not sitting here having a god-damned aneurysm over this and TRYING to look at the big picture and be “cautiously optimistic” is the way I want to deal with it, so be it.
All I know is I cried yesterday when I voted Republican for the first time and I cried last night when all this shit hit the fan.
So don’t you fucking dare call ME “hopey/Changey”
GOT IT?
put it where the sun doesn’t shine hickchick!
and stop your damn crying and start learning and reading. showing your butt on here doesn’t speak well for you.
stodghie, you are a sad, pathetic fuckwit.
gigglehick, i don’t care what you think. i took the time to look at your information. geez! grow up!
maybe you SHOULD start to care what others think.
and what “information” might you be talking about? My blog or my campaign product store? hmmmmm…
talk about “growing up” – maybe don’t slough off others’ feelings and chalk it up to them being in the effing tank for Obama.
You certainly jumped to conclusions that i was being “hopey/changey” and ill-informed…
maybe you should shut the fuck up until you, yourself, do a little research.
enjoy stewing in your own rancid mess.
well thanks for proving that you have a dirty mouth and bad attidude. scratch a hopey/changey and what do you get? a foul mouth silly crybaby!
good point. The BOBOweenie as a whole doesn’t seem to care about anything other then the cult of BOBO. It was them who became the republicans in order to defeat the republicans. It’s time to start recognizing the fringe elements in the debate who place opposition above all else if we are ever going to capture the center when the inevitable swing back of the pendulum occurs. I’m getting tired of docey doeing with the fringes every four years.
well, you make some good points. my issue with all this hope and optimism is that people substitute it for reason and knowledge. we operate in this country too much on emotion. witness the bush saga where they voted for him because they wanted to drink a beer with him or he said the right things for the religeous right. here comes obama and democrats doing the same thing with the same reaction. i am sick of it.
you don’t get out of a mess with hoping for change. you get it by understanding what happened and they taking some action.
and sweeping this under the rug the next day with comments that try and push aside the nightmare that has taken place astonishes and depresses me no end.
His campaign has been the Iraq war brought home to America. Have never disliked a politician so much in my entire life … well, maybe that yahoo in Texas who was an exterminator whose name I blissfully forget ….
good point.
how in God’s name did I try to sweep it all under the rug? I was expressing how I felt. I’m quite upset over this whole thing and then you come after me with this “hope/changey” accusation — go off an be depressed, Kid. But, I’m trying to take a breath, step back and see what we CAN do… and try to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. As I said, I’m not going to sit here and stew in my own bile and just whine whine whine on the internet over this BS. I’m assuming that we’re on the “same side” — so, Stodghie, don’t be a prick. Otherwise, that turns people off just as much as the retarded Obamabots and their asinine comments do.
And you might not want to jump all over someone as fast as you frigging did before.
Seriously.
actually my comment had nothing to do with you or your posts.
Stodghie. I associate myself with your comments. I am a black female Hillary supporter who has a masters degree in chemistry. The hopey/dopey/changey feelings are nothing but a substitute for sound reasoning and experience. We don’t need to let the MSM pick our presidents for us by telling us bullsh*t like “this is the man you want to drink a beer with”, or this one transcends race and offers hope and change. Hell we need a frigging president who knows what he/she is doing, has experience, integrity, and is honorable with leadership abilities. SORRY BUT OBAMA DOES NOT POSSESS THESE TRAITS, THEREFORE WE ARE FUC’ED.
thanks wise woman! i too have a masters but actually own my own company. so i have seen a few things. i always have more to learn and come here because overall the quality of the comments is very informative.
I stared at my ballot for about an hour yesterday before checking off McCain and walked out of the church feeling skeezy. Voting for a republican was the last thing I expected to be doing in November when this thing started back Iowa. Now there is some change you can believe in, because you lived it.
exactly wildchild. exactly.
never in my life did I ever think that I would push that button for the R at the top of the ballot.
yup, yesterday was a bad day.
Yeah, I felt awful voting for McCain too, but then reminded myself it was the Democrats who forced my hand this year, and that McCain was the lesser of two evils. I was happy that I did what I knew was right in my heart no matter how uncomfortable it felt.
It’s always been an imperfect fit. I relate more to the republican take charge approach to things but their policies have always been one step inside the door of fantasy land. The democrats have a better interpretation of the constitution but they have been meek since 1980. Hillary was the best choice for getting that take charge demeanor with the strong constitutional foundation this election cycle. Unfortunately due to the self destruction of the right fringe and the wild rise of its lefty analog, we are going to have to take at least one more swing into the fringe before we can pull this country back to the center.
I voted for John and Sarah with a tremendous amount of pride. I knew that both of them had been honest and straight with me and even if they had not done everything to win the campaign, they did nothing to dishonor another human being. They never ridiculed or mocked or called another soul a racist. They did not run a scorched earth campaign. I was proud to vote for them. The reason they did’t win is that too many Republicans stayed home. I think that speaks volumes.
I *photographed* mine.
I wanted to be able to show it to people later, as in, “Yeah, I really did this.”
Hmmm. I’d mail it to the Dems, but I know they don’t care. They threw me under the bus and won without me.
I agree with you. I am optimistic.
One thing for sure though, women have a long way to go.
yeah, i heard some woman last night say that “now every child in the world knows that they can grow up to be President”
all I could think was “not little girls.”
If an African-American male can be elected, anybody can be elected. The glass ceiling is on the floor in pieces.[Administrator: For shame. And since "anon" is not a proper username, you're out of here.]
Somebody said this in a triumphant email at work today.
I replied, “My niece doesn’t.”
I will state once again what I stated earier: When Pelosi comes out and states ” that we must govern from the middle”, indicates that she is very aware of the damage she and the others have caused in our country. Half of this country is bitter and it doesn’t matter whether it is the right or the left. Obama must have the full cooperation from the entire country to govern well like Clinton who had the full cooperation and was voted in twice. In order to govern, he must move into the middle. So, the ones that lost were the liberals and I am so happy that these vile creatures have lost. When they see that Obama does not give them rights, does not stop the war, does not give them refunds, does not have special needs given to the black people, but, govern as a typical white man- they are going to be very disappointed with him. Yes, I say we won on this blog and the african americans too- because the pleasure I will seek to have is when MSNBC is pushed under the bus by Obama and the liberal media is crying that our new elected President moved to the middle- which most of us are in. Until I see this- then maybe- I will respect this deceiful person. Watch it happen soon. Under the bus goes the media and the liberals. Ha!ha! And, you liberal guys thought he was going to give you all free stuff….please! First thing he will rid this country of is gay marriage. He sure doesn’t want to be remind of his iniquities in his past life.
soldier, I disagree with you. now that obama has got absolute power, we’ll see his true colors. his upbringing, the major influences in his life, are not very inspiring. that will now rise to the forefront. his radical past is still with him, even though he tries to desperately hide it. so no, in my view, he will not move to the middle, cos his convictions are different. although we can always hope.
Exactly right. Besides it is Congress that will move swiftly to the center, disenfranchising Obama and isolating him. I know everyone hates him because he rose in the primaries by pitting all politicians against their constituents. So payback will come soon. But once he finds he is alone in the WH, he will become dangerous and we will witness “change we will be hard press to believe.”
“When Pelosi comes out and states ” that we must govern from the middle”, indicates that she is very aware of the damage she and the others have caused in our country.”
Good Lord, that is the call of the Pelosi wild. She is a lying, arrogant, power loon. Right there, with that statement we should all know by now we are about to take it up the butt. Pelosi could give a rats a$$ about what half this country thinks. Pelosi and Dean beheaded the Clintons and it wasn’t because Pelosi & friends thought they weren’t “middle” enough.
No way will they govern from the center. She is a lying conniver. She wants to be the next president. Notice how she was jealous of Hillary? She had to have hated Sarah, who is young and beautiful. Where as all Nancy has to look forward to is another botox treatment. They did a test where botox went to the brains of rats…….. I rest my case.
Corruption won yesterday–that’s all I feel.
Yup.
I think it’s time to stop rehashing the past, the same hurts, the same comments, and move on to fresh ideas.
yeah, move on, Mira.
moveon.org is thataway ========>
Being sentimental about Hillary Clinton and what could have been and repeating all the terrible things Obama did these last months is not helpful for peace of mind. It doesn’t mean what Obama did was ‘good’ and we should have ‘hope’. I didn’t even infer that. That’s your intrepertation.
‘Fresh ideas’ are just that – fresh ideas, something new.
I’m well aware of what Obama did and didn’t do. I’m expressing my opinion, that’s all, I thought it would be possible to do that on this website.
and we are expressing our opinion of your posts too.
“I think it’s time to stop rehashing the past”
That is exactly why half this country has no idea why so much of what Obama has done is creepy and wrong. They didn’t like giving any attention to history either.
Don’t worry about it. Larry is one of the last believers in free speech hosting a blog… and I a happen to agree with you.
I don’t think a blog, written ONE day after the election is overly sentimental. And for your information, writing this was good for my peace of mind. So, yes, you are free to your own opinion, but so am I.
exactly, American Girl in Italy (by the way, you rock!)
Loved, loved the article, American Girl. It covered all the bases for me.
What happened last night was a perversion of Dr. King’s dream. I wept when he died and I wept last night for all those who didn’t understand his ethics and principles. It was like watching an empty shell. His stature grows even greater in comparison.
…girl in italy,
thank you. your opinion speaks for me and i’d bet thousands and thousands of others. that you could string such coherent and eloquent words together the day after such a shameful and horrendous event is admirable. thank you. i hope you don’t mind me sharing your words with others.
palin ‘12
Yup!
American Girl in Italy
YOU ROCK! and p-l-e-a-s-e can we have some sentimental posts the day after the election and for the next 4 years! We need to REFLECT and gather our Pumaish strength–so we need the American-Italian girl to write some more!
Ciau (sp?)
Hillary Rocks!
2012
Mira, go stuff yourself.
You decide what that will be with.
When Obutthead has taken your freedoms. Remember that you and your ilk screwed all of us over.
Nope it is actually
<—————— to the far left.
wave at Soros when you see him. Visit his site fact checker too.
mira, you are a tool.
Please stop with the personal insults.
hey urban, stop with telling us what to do. that is larry and the moderators’ call, not yours.
It’s not OK. (I noticed your personal attack on gigglechick, too.)
Sorry, but your personal attacks just aren’t OK. If the moderators or LJ call you on it– GREAT FOR THEM!
i truly don’t care what you think hillbilly. you need to wake and smell the corruption. times are not getting better. gigglechick has her issues with personal attacks. i recommend you read the use of language she has written on here. but since you argee with her, that’s ok. yeah right!
You are entitled to your opinion. I don’t want to continue this “tit for tat” with you. Peace to you. (I mean that.)
We’re gonna need all the peace we can get. The likes of Hillbilly can go police themselves.
“The likes of”? Nice.
I was trying to be kind and back off of stodg.. Why the heck did you feel compelled to butt in? (rhetorical)
Go police yourself!
Still policing even though you said you backed off?
Try it again.
hey stodghie, i only started with the pottymouth after you lashed into me, so, maybe you should try a little harder to refrain from sassing people on here.
get a life, gigglechick! you used the language, now it is yours. what you write you own.
oh hey, i’m not regretting calling you a fuckwit at all, Stodghie, but, you are the one who jumped on me first.
I have a life. I am living it.
I am not sitting here attacking anyone who posts (although I will bite back when I am attacked…)
I am fine and dandy using my “language” and if your poor wittle itty bitty eyes can’t handle my “language” you might need to get over it.
In any event, speaking of “a life” — I’ll let you live yours on here Stodghie Kid and I’m going to go out and about while you spew your vitriol here.
Have a great day!!!
Can we all just get along???
dgr
Yes! We do get along. Personally, I must confess to you, I rather enjoy a bit of dissension here and there–sooo unusually ‘democratic’….Pelosi and Dean and Master Obama would not condone it of couse. Thank God, Larry puts up with us here….
giggle you are good at showing your butt and that’s it. you are young and it shows. wayyyyyyyyyy young! from now on when you post your diatribes, i’ll close my eyes and sing lalalalala. expect that if you try and post to me again, kid!
People process things in their own way and time. Be supportive and stop arguing. When did NQ stop being a blog that allows all input and ways of expressing?
A part of me senses some PUMA’s guilt for ‘third party’ and “top slot blank” Voters.
I voted Repub all the way down. I can live with that. I’ve done all that I can. Have you?
I agree, it’s fine to express opposing viewpoints. Truly, I am sick of the nastiness and personal attacks.
What do you mean “I’ve done all that I can. Have you?”? I’d answer, but I don’t get your drift!
Dumb?
Quit harassing me.
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Quit judging others and we’ll call it good.
I was thinking the same thing earlier. How many will regret not using their vote against Barry?
I did my part and voted McCain.
I have a feeling I am not done yet. There is still more to be done after the dust settles.
Look, not only did not all PUMAS strike a vote for McCain – worse than that – the Conservatives didn’t all come out. So, hey, I never heard we thought we could do this all alone. The Republican Party is a shocking freakin’ mess.
The New Democratic Party wants to make it look like we had no impact. I don’t believe it. Take away their dirty votes and I say we would have won. Screw the New Dems. we aren’t going away and we don’t buy any of their horse sh$t.
What Typewriter just said!
Agreed. I did my volunteer part and the county I worked in voted well over 60% in favor of John McCain. To be honest the people who live in the North Florida area, just didn’t drink of his kool aid.
I almost hurled when one person here in Jax said that he thought Obama would think well of Jax for the high number of votes he got. Mentioned his last second visit to here as well. Everyone has been puzzled what that was about. That said (haha) he didn’t take Duval county (Jax) after all.
Yes, fresh ideas like- Hope and Change. Will that do it?
Writers and commentors here have never been rehashing the past. They have always been concerned about the future. The future that has been ovetaken by a malicious group of people who’s goal is to abandon every ideal this country was founded upon, or so they say.
And now we are left ‘hoping’ they will ‘change’ what they have said and do what is right. Too bad, ‘hope’ is not a plan.
‘Hope’ and ‘change’ are not ‘fresh ideas’, they are slogans and words that don’t describe, they are vague and can be used in any way as I’m sure Obama will use them to suit himself. New ideas are what people use to solve problems, and perhaps find solace and a good way forward in their thinking.
I commented on this article not on all articles in general, which you seem to be suggesting.
Sorry but you’re not speaking for me when you say, “And now we are left ‘hoping’ they will ‘change’ what they have said and do what is right. Too bad, ‘hope’ is not a plan.”
I have no hope that Obama will change his fundamental way of operating and I never said or inferred that ‘hope’ was a plan.
I have no hope that Obama will change his fundamental way of operating and I never said or inferred that ‘hope’ was a plan.
I agree
Hope: I truly believe when Obama was quoted early on as saying that the USA is the greatest country on earth and followed by “Join me in changing it” that he really meant just that.
Just as when I have a new male acquaintance…he’ll tell you the truth about who he is in the first hour…believe him…so did Barry and I believe him. I believe he will be the most extreme leftist the country has ever known. His radical associations have continued and will still have access to him through the back door. Remember, Rev Wright said he’d be waiting on the front steps of the WH to give Barry his laundry list of expectations for Black Liberationists.
right, and let it happen all over again in four years. must strategize…
I felt for Juan last night. Deeply.
It’s a shame though that a man of color is being referred to as an African-American due to his complexion. It’s a lie that the first African-American was electe POTUS.
If that is the case, then he is ineligible to be Commander in Chief. The office mandates a person must be American. Not African.
Senator Obama does not have one single drop of African-American blood in his DNA.
juan is what HE thinks he is. stop feeling for him. feel sorry for the women who have been kicked in the stomach here. all this faux tears for poor ole juan who sucks up for his paycheck. spare me the bullshit.
Right.
Juan Williams turned out to be another blood sucking snail jumping here and there trying to be on the “in” side. He has been painful to watch. What a pandering lout. To borrow some of Larry’s words, this election has shown me one too many “butt snorkelers”.
Hey, typist, I agree. Its too bad. I thought back last winter that Juan was going to rise above the BS and that would have been noble. But you are right. In the end, an ass sucker.
Technically, it probably depends on who is the real baby daddy.
If we don’t sign this and pass it on we will be stopped right now.
Stop the Obama Constitutional Crisis
Sign the Petition : 70,744 Letters and Emails Sent So Far
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the economy? take a look at dow jones.
as I stated earlier: after the fall of hillary and palin, I sincerely doubt any woman will be allowed to be pres or vice-pres. Is sexism in americas collective genes or something? women are atleast 50% of our population. but the MSM, general citizens somehow look at it as a joke for a woman to run for office. both the dems (clinton) and repubs (palin) tried, but the MSM made fun of them and influenced the general publics perception. This is sad for america. even the europeans and asians have no problem electing women as head of state. for such a modern powerful country, this anti-woman stance is pathetic. all this talk about equality is exactly that – talk.
The damage obama has done is almost irreparable.
The University of Texas, on this very day, is paying their female professors $9,000 a year LESS than their male counterparts!!!
outrageous
The damage women like Tina Fey has done is flabergasting. She went after Palin with venom. Disgraceful. Absolutely freaking disgraceful.
Tina Fey deserves an OSCAR for her imitation of Palin. I haven’t laughed so hard in years. She almost made Palin likable , ALMOST!
simone, put a sock in it. palin is likeable. are you?
Yes that last Saturday Night live just before the election was aimed more at Sarah than anyone. They surely didn’t go after Barry O now did they? Maybe they will put Tina in here burkah before they force us into ours. Hope they put Michelle into one too. Of course a 1000+ one designer made as befits her station in life. No sacrifices for them.
What do you think? Blue for MeChille?
It’s strange but women have trashed women just as much as the men have. until women can learn to speak as a united group they will always take a back seat to men. This was not simply the abused woman by her husband syndrome, this was women abusing women. I didn’t hear the husband ,Bill Clinton, say one disparaging word about his wife. But Hillary did ignore Bill when she glided past him to embrace the messiah.
Stock Market no likee, Barry. Yeah, I saw what and heard what “the world” is saying about how they so approve of our election. I don’t give a flying f what “the world” thinks. They’re all standing in line with their hands out. Sorry, “world” we’re tapped out.
Chelsea, too.
Chelsea too:
Oh, the daggers.
I hear the Whitey Tape just showed up on Fox. Can you impeach before he’s sworn into office?
hey, if you don’t think the muck on obama won’t make it to the surface, you had better think again. the media love to bash and now they have another dim to bash and demean. they carried bush around on a sedan chair till it suited their purposes to attack him also. the press isn’t repub or dem. they are all american idol, short attention span hoopla for purposes of making money on the low information people who watch.
Don’t think about this -
With every passing day Obama has to repay all those people that put him in the WH. They are waiting for their pay back.
Don’t think about this-
With every passing day those people will remember the stolen primary, the stolen election, the lies, the cover ups, the campaign contribution fraud, the voter registration fraud, the big drape over his past they have been holding up.
Don’t think about this -
The FBI is looking at the Rezko Obama mansion, there’s a RICCO case buidling it mentions the One three separate times, Tony Rezko is itchy in his cell.
Don’t think about this:
US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
Just don’t think about those things. Don’t think about Pink Elephants, Don’t think about how Richard Nixon fell from inside that White House, Don’t think about the man looking out for your very own personal bank account, your home, your family. He really thinks about you daily. Really. Talks to Michelle about you constantly.
Now have a nice 4 years and very pleasant dreams about the One you are so very sure is Jesus come home again.
well, obama made promises he can’t keep. it is that simple! bush bankruped the treasury. no money no goodies for the obots. sure they can raise taxes but only so much because they’ll get their ticket home in two years.
Rmember this Nixon won the election but was soon out of office due to the way he won the office.
All of the criminal stuff will eventually come forward about Obama. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, but eventually someone will finally speak the truth with the documentation to charge with the many crimes Obama has committed.
Already the Rizzo case is pointing towards Obama. The truth about Obama and his autnt is slowly coming forward.
Obama owes so many many people so much due to the unethical ways he won. Obama cant pay back ALL the people who helped him, especially the ones who used unethical methods. Eventually one of them will come forward due to greed, or nagging conscious and spill the beans.
Well, Resko not quite so itchy now that his salvation will be in charge of the “Pardon” stamp.
What it meant for African-Americans was that they took a big steaming dump on MLK’s dream. Electing a black man just because the other guy was white. Thats why most blacks voted for him. That wasn’t MLK’s dream. His dream was that obama race was to have made no difference. It clearly did.
Our flag upside down
This is disgraceful. Just a sign of things to come. I can’t wait to start the “I told you so”s in a few short months. This sucks.
Really it makes me want to cry, seeing our flag treated that way.
Michelle and Buttcrack are burning those “flawed documents” the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as we speak. Then Billy Ayers will be by for a little flag burning party – of course he will be STANDING ON IT while he torches it.
Honestly it saddens me too but do you really think they know flag ettiquette there?
i don’t think so. they were celebrating, not criticizing.
Ignorance, no? What about your question turned inwards. Do you think we or better yet those who voted for Obama know about election process and methods etiquette here?
Ignorance there, ignorance here, ignorance everywhere. What does ignorance get us?
Another infected White House.
Oh come on, even if they do not know it is a distress symbol; surely, they can tell top from bottom. They were not celebrating the flag or this country. They were celebrating one of their citizens ( as they believe Obama to be) gaining power in it.
30yrdem, I really don’t think they meant any disrespect. I noticed there were people waving small American flags as well, because they’re obviously very happy with America right now.
Besides–and ironically enough–the upside down flag is a distress signal, not a sign of disrespect.
If I had a flag I might very well be flying it upside down right about now myself, because distress is a mild word for what I’m feeling.
The pride coming from the media over such a sight must have been overwhelming. I wonder what flag they believe we should honor.
Bullshit via politico:
President-elect Barack Obama is strongly considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a Cabinet post, Democratic officials told Politico.
I’d like to say obama giving Kennedy a look was great news. But it’s bullshit. I’ll not only eat my hat but yours to if obama picks Kennedy for the EPA. [PS: he'd not only have to pick Kennedy but fight for him]
That’d be awesome.
Why the fark would Robert Kennedy take that – what a butt licker really – work for the friend of Bill Ayers who dedicated his book to Sirhan Sirhan???
Christ the human race is disintegrating.
I would bet obama will not ask him. At best it would be something like: Hey kennedy you don’t want be head of EPA in my admin do ya. It’s the media just trying to pump the oborg.
well we can “hope” obama will “change” and ask him. geez!
RFK, Jr., and Greg Palast, lefty writer, were busy making the case for a GOP theft of the GE…just in case McCain won. The last communique from him was telling people to vote for Barack “because he’s black”…it’s high time, etc. I sent him a return rebuke but who cares, he makes money off of it all.
Sobering message I received from yesterday.
It is still OK to treat women like second-class citizens.
I am a Democrat but I am not celebrating today.
I was a democrat. Today, I am an independent.
I was a Democrat, on 5/31 an Independent, and today a Republican. Reactionary I suppose but can’t stand the stink on the other end…must get as far away from the “New Democrats” as possible.
You are right. Women were and are treated like second class citizens — and the press joined in gleefully at every turn and called no one out on the carpet from the Obama campaign or anywhere else for doing so.
Like AGII, I am trying to be happy for his supporters today, many of whom are also decent hadworking people, not Obots, even if I don’t think they were making the right decision. But it is hard to be happy knowing how this all transpired.
A brilliant piece looking back on the process.
As for the future, I think the USA will suffer from a subversion of democracy in much the same way as Chicago.
With the assistance of ACORN and methods tried, tested and proven in Illinois, this President-elect and his cronies will attempt to ensure a Democratic – oh the irony – White House for decades.
How can the American people have voted a friend of a sympathiser for the assassin of RFK into the White House. It is beyond words….
There were at least 8 unopposed Dems on the ballot in IL yesterday.
8 unopposed Dems. If that doesn’t say we need a 3rd party I don’t know what does. The New Democratic Party would have run a corpse.
shame on the voters and democrats. the thing is we are on our way to losing rights under repubs and democrats. the damage is the influence of the far end of both parties.
I agree, it is despicable.
Oh then it must be true that he is considering RFK, Jr. for the EPA.
Apparently in the American people’s minds a good campaign is a winning campaign. As many obots have said on this site, “The end justifies the means.” As they say in football, “Winning isn’t the most important thing; winning is everything.” Or how about “Nothing succeeds like success.” Certainly the Bushes subscribe to this philosophy. We see where that led them.
Oh yeah – Bush and Obama both ran great campaigns. During the primary when people were praising Obama they’d say and isn’t he running an amazing campaign, so disciplined? I’d say yeah, George Bush was really good at that too.
The citizens of the country got kicked to the curb.
Women were put back in their places.
I will never celebrate or approve of a lying, incompetent, unqualified, fraudulent Affirmative Action candidate taking over the WH.
The country was just sold down the drain and I’m beginning to think it was with the repubs blessings.
I’m not sure it was with Republican blessings, they’re having a cow on talk radio today and in the blogs. This was absolutely, positively with the blessings of the MSM – and that includes turn coats like Peggy Noonan. The MSM has been running against George Bush (and Bill Clinton)for 8 long years and here was their big chance to turn the knife. Looking back now, and I can’t stand George Bush, I really wonder if everything I heard about him was true. We need some other news stations on the tube or we will never take back the White House. They are plugged into a majority of Americans brains.
Now there’s an interesting thought: who is the true G.W. Bush? I’ve always thought the media was probably being nice to him, as with O.
Basil:
I’d like to see somebody do some research on just what pieces of the Repub party would stand to benefit from an Obama presidency.
I kinda sorta am thinking along the same lines as you – I can’t believe the Repubs didn’t put up more of a fight.
Newt Gingrich said it best… “the fix is in.” He was referring to the media. Let’s face it, without the help of the media, McCain may have had a chance but the msm created a lock on what McCain was permitted to say and what he wasn’t permitted to say.
Obama plans on taxing the shit out of people with earnings starting at $120K. That sounds like alot of money to many but here in a high cost of living area – that’s some peanuts and maybe a hotdog once-in-awhile. Not looking forward to paying even more taxes. When Bush went into Iraq, this person’s taxes went up 200%. No thanks to more taxes.
cr49, obama can propose but the congress will dispose. taxes should never have been cut like they were especially with a war(ugh). i think anyone in the wh including hillary would raise taxes. the congress critters will only go along so much with pelosi and reid. they have their voters to answer to on this issue especially. hell will freeze over before the corporate boys allows obambi to screw with coal.
so don’t really expect a controlled congress like you had with the repubs. dems don’t operate that way even now.
They are now pushing that stimulus package. Where is that money coming from and who does it benefit?
Is it high time this country had a black (even mulatto) president? Absolutely. Just not THAT ONE.
Am I glad that AA boys can now believe they, too, could really rise to the office? You bet. I just hope their parents advise them to acquire the right experience, values and judgment first.
Do I believe this means the same opportunity for women and other racial or religious minorities is forthcoming? Sure. BUT NOT IN MY LIFETIME.
Fifty-five years from now; the time span between blacks getting the vote and women getting the vote.
Time will tell, indeed. Will Obama live up to all of his expectations? Probably not. Will he do an absolutely awful job and send this country spinning downwards? I really hope not.
In fact, it’s possible, amidst all of the confusion, tension, hurt feelings and questionable actions, that the Obama Presidency will end up making a positive impact. I really hope so. Hopefully foreign support will rise, and the U.S. will gain the respect we deserve from the rest of the world. That Obama will start to enact positive change, and that the campaign he worked so hard on to unite so many people will continue its momentum in a positive direction.
Hopefully we won’t see a Presidency of all words and no action. Hopefully Obama will remember that he was elected to represent everyone, not just his most liberal supporters.
I’d like to say that all of this will be true, but I can’t. Nor can I say that it won’t be. Time will tell.
Will Obama live up to all of his expectations? Probably not.
Which ones would those be?
For or against NAFTA
Cutting taxes or raising taxes
For using coal or not using coal
Removing troops from Iraq or not removing them
For the bailout proposed to buy up motrgages or against buying nortgages
For FISA or against FISA
For womens’ rights or against them
For drilling or against drilling
Protecting live babies or not protecting them
For gay rights or against gay marriage
For transarency or for elevating govt secrecy
For viewing Iran as a threat or not a threat
For protecting allies or for telling them to play nice
Pro Israel or Anti Israel
For campaign finance reform or against it
For free speech and civil rights or for illegally investigating civilians
For democracy or for voter intimidation and fraud
For respecting the flag or against it
How about this one
For equality or for black liberation theology
What will be the measure by which we decide if he meets expectations. What is he really expected to do? He’s given no evidence of what that is…maybe we could ask his lifelong friends what we should expect. Presumably, they know who he is and what he stands for, becuase we sure have no way to.
That was kind of my point. There’s no way he can live up to everyone’s expectations, because it’s unclear which of those expectations he should live up to.
I know, it’s just stunning. It seems it has come down to the public hoping he will give them free money with his tax cut lie. They are hoping that is one promise he meant, while simultaneously they are hoping he meant none of his others. We are not to believe that he knew any of his radical friends at all. We are not to believe he means it when he says he wants a civilian army. We are not to believe he meant it when he said women should be included in registering for selective service. We are not to believe he meant it when he said several times his energy plans are only for AMERICANS to conserve by force with skyrocketing energy prices, if necessary.
And so on and so on..
But believe him on the tax thing, ha ha.
There are men that voted for McCain and SARAH PALIN. I wasn’t real excited until Palin was selected for VP. It will eventually come back to the Democrats for the tactics they used, and the supporters of the new president elect are going to be in for a huge disappointment. Looks to me like Republican party is where women can get the respect they deserve. I’m a male by the way.
We’ll see whether his new job will last more than 143 days.
Well there is President of the World! Maybe he will start running for that in 143 days…..
moving, Sarah. Made me cry all over again.
I just want to thank soldier4Hillary, blackmanNot4Obama, mimi, Patsy, Jeremiah and all the AA writers at NoQuarter. We had a black mayor here and he was liberal but admired by Repubs for his confidence and political skill. But this old-time black politician, Willie Brown, had none of the inner racial resentment that just oozes from Obama.
If Jesse Jackson Jr. takes Obama’s senate seat and Colin Powell focuses strictly on black boy education as Secretary of Education I fear a backlash coming toward African Americans.
I need to get in touch with s4h. Can anyone help me, please?
For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of my country.
Here, here, Carol. So am I.
Me, too. I want a bumper sticker.
zazzle.com you can make your own.
Thanks Athena!
Thank you American Girl for a great piece. I am forwarding it to those friends and colleagues of mine who just cannot understand why I’m not happy today. You say it so well.
a good way to express oneself
Brava, AGII … I like what you have to say, every word of it. A few days ago, I told a some parents picking up the kids at school that I would love to have supported the first AA pres candidate, a man who is of my generation, no less. Of course I got the “but the war … McCain’s too old … our taxes will go down”. Barf. I believe the bulk of O voters were of this same uninformed mindset.
Let’s hope Obama surrounds himself with sensible advisers. I dunno. But I will NEVER forget what really happened, starting with the primaries. You know what Reagan said about the Democratic party. Now I get it.
Well, John Kerry wants Sec. of State………Rahm Emanuel for Chief of Staff.
i don’t want kerry as s of state. no way! let’s get someone with a background for it. i voted for kerry and he is a big disappointment.
Juat a reminder to everyone, as we heard so often in the last eight years, DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC. Substantially half of the populace who went to the polls voted for someone other than Obama, there is no filibuster proof majority in the Senate, and the House survives with a still healthy opposition minority.
So to all you Obots saying we need to all come together as one behind the president and blindly follow his every pronouncement as if we are a one party state wherein all rights and powers are vested in the government, I say bullshit. There is no overwhelming mandate from the people as arose from elections in the past. Dissent shall live.
Despite what Obama may say, the Constitution is not one of negative rights, but one of positive rights, inalienable rights vested in the people who have granted limited powers to the government. A governement of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the face of this earth.
Not to be technical, but… he said the Constitution spells out what government cannot do but it does not explicitly instruct what government must do.
Obama has stated he considers the Constitution “an experiment”. One that has apparently failed the test, in his view.
No no no – he said it was fundamentally flawed.
George, you are a wise man.
the bots will support obama till he tells them no and he will have to do exactly that. then the whining will begin.
I find the only thing good about his election (or selection) is the symbol for the black people. The sad thing is, is he isn’t the most qualified. It’s saying we don’t have a better black person for the position, which is just soooo not true. I would have liked for the blacks to have a real accomplished person that has lived as a black person in a real community of their culture. Someone compared Colin Powell’s book to Obama’s and said Powell grew up really really poor and repressed and grew up to be thankful and proud, whereas Obama grew up priviledged and free and grew up to be ungrateful and ashamed.
American Girl, please save your article, and bring it out again as needed, whenever we need to be reminded of just what has happened. We need to never forget.
As for today, I watched my sweetheart-of-a-neighbor, (who brought my son & I homemade chicken soup last week when we both were ill,) go dancing out the front door on her way to the Obama rally in Chicago, carrying sweatshirts that she had designed for herself and her daughter. It was great to see her so happy.
Please, please, Larry, keep NQ up and running. You have been the glue that has held America together during these trying times, and I foresee many more hard times ahead.
God Bless,
And I thank you sincerely.
…but therein lies the problem. My son was happy we have a black President, too. But he doesn’t like BO. Being my son, he has followed this election. And he knows everything I know about the man. He supported McCain. And he could tell you why. But being black in America, he has been subjected to prejudice based on his race. (He’s Jewish, too, double whammy!) And so, he smiled when I told him BO won. But he wasn’t dancing. Because he knows more about BO than the color of his skin.
Unfortunately, this well informed child is still too young to vote.
I hope that this election completely removes racism from future races. Now we can turn our attention to the atrocious misogyny.
Amen. No one can ever play the race card again when running for high office. Over.
That would be very nice if nobody ever played the race card again. But I don’t believe it will go away now that it has worked so well for Obama.
i don’t think playing the race card will work out that well the second time. my belief is people are sick and tired of it.
That would be nice!
It would be nice not to hear the word racist used in elections, jobs and etc.
Wake up America, even with the election of Obama I have a feeling that it will be worst.
With Bush it was our constitutional right to differ with our President. However I think that if we differ in our support of Obama’s policies we will probably be called Racist.
So if Hillary or another woman would have won, that would be proof that there’s no more sexism or mysogyny in the country?
“I’d like to say” that you said it all for me…except for one more thing…anyone who still believes that this is a democracy where votes really count (or are counted) is just operating under delusional thinking. “Gird your loins” indeed. In the end, “hope” is just another 4 letter word.
Thank you so much for this beautiful post, American Girl. This is your best yet.
And yes, you have put the mix of emotions together so well. I love my country very deeply and so, I wish Obama Godspeed, even though I did not support his candidacy. And I, like you, am devastated about the methods he and his campaign manager used to get here.
But he will now be our President. I only hope everyone will get and/or remain informed and speak out — otherwise there will be no hope for change if we stay silent and not involved in our government.
The most heartbreaking outcome of all of this is not who won — but the way women in this country were treated this year. Whether you liked or agreed with them as candidates or not, neither Hillary Clinton nor Sarah Palin deserved the kind of filthy vitriol and degrading, dismissive treatment they received.
We have not sent a good message to our daughters. And in the year 2008, considering how far we are supposed to have come, that is disgraceful indeed — no matter who got elected President.
Excellent point.
The way women were treated this past year has been crushing. It will not stop until all people stand against any form of “female bashing”. Obama, the left wing feminists and many others need to atone and change their ways.
I have to say Ani that from what American Girl in Italy wrote, I disagree with her and you in one sense. It seem obvious to me from the article that Obama did not win fair and square. That the race to the White House should not be played with those tactics and unruliness.
From her writing you can see that American Girl in Italy’s feelings are good and honorable but somewhat misguided. Yes, her feelings I can honor but must take exception myself. Why?
Because after all, if he won his race with those tactics and unfair methods, then what should I expect from him from here on forward. More of the same I guess. Yes, more of the same against you, me, her, everyone here and everyone else.
I feel bad that we have to make ourselves feel good about something so crass and unsavory. That we have to arise to good citizenship behavior meaning that we have to accept all of those bad practices and accept them as the Virgin Mary did, as daggers unto our hearts.
thank you ani! I feel he won on the backs of women. the narrative at the beginning of the primaries was ABC (anyone but Clinton) The media and anyone not supporting Hillary had one goal – to get her out. Once energy picked up on Obama, it was a massive assault to take her out. And when McCain brought on Palin, it was intensified.
It is ironic all this talk today of how far we have come. We have transcended race, they claim.
But the bigotry towards women was beyond pale.
And have they forgotten the passing of Prop 8 to ban gay marriage? That obama opposes gay marriage?
How far we have come, indeed.
Today I’ve been reminding myself of two good things about the election:
01) We live in a nation where the head of state is changed by voting, not by violent revolution;
02) No one person can take away our liberties.
Despite my sadness today, I firmly believe those two ideas.
I’m so very grateful for sites like NoQuarter and for people like the PUMAs who know the truth about Barack Obama and did their best to get that truth to the general public.
The truth won’t go away even though his pay grade will change.
I would have been a bit more easy about this outcome if Obama had Truthfully and Honestly answered the questions regarding his
–muslim religious participation(even though it looks like it was went he was a child and due to parents).
–Connections with Ayers
–True knowlege about Wright and his beliefs/church
–Connections with Rizzo
–Connections with Racketeers who ripped off money from inner city projects
–Knowlege of his aunts illegal stay in America
–Conections with African election
–Reasons he was registered as Barry Soetoro an Indonesian Citizen while in school
–Birth Certificate mess
Believe it or not its not the associations, religous views, changing of names. To me it was Obama’s need to lie about them not once, not twice, but many many times.
I believe you. Because what so many people even here appear to be missing is this. Regardless of whether he is a natural born citizen under Article II, as a candidate for POTUS, he knows we are concerned as to whether he is eligible. Indeed, this is why he posted that “Certification of Live Birth” on his “Fight the Smears” web site in the first place! Now, he has responded to several lawsuits seeking to establish his eligibility; yet, while expending the human and financial capital to combat these suits, he has still failed to produce the documentation sought. What manner of hubris enables him to ignore the people in this way? What mindset informs the people this conduct from the man who would be their President is in any way acceptable?
So what if the appropriate forum in the judiciary has not yet been discovered to perfect a case that will produce this documentation; he knows we want proof he is a natural born citizen!
His association describes who he is, what he is, and what he is about. His associations describes his choice of character, including his, and his religion describes his morale values. People are what they practice and Obama’s religion practices Anti-American thoughts and values.
wha
“I’d like to say” what a fraud Obama really is in just a few short words. He denies who he was, what he was, and what he really is other than the newly elected (or selected by the DNC) president.
Obama did not transcend race. He just avoids the topic but it is seething underneath. Corey Booker, other black politicians do not carry the resentment Obama does.
Look at this – http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10903813
Well, at least they voted down ticket. In the primaries, they only voted Obama and left the rest of the ballot blank.
I feel that women’s rights have been drop kicked to the times where the only thing we are good for is to wrap a penis when it needs a fuck and spit our boy babies and occasianal new fuck machines when the old ones wear out.
I hope there’s life after death and if there is I want to be reborn on a planet where women treat men like pieces of shit.
a bit extreme, amazon. but your first sentence is a very good point.
LOL–Planet Dominatrix. There are many men who would love to beam down to this planet.
i’d like to say…
I would like to say, American Girl in Italy what a memorable piece of literature or writing you just wrote. I like to say that to me it deserves a Pulitzer. I like to say that it is emotionally very moving. I like to say that it really encompasses for me a great summary of what we need to feel today. I like to say that this piece proves you are a great writer.
I like to say that I copied your piece to my hard drive and will be printing it on my printer to read it once in a while and keep it with some memorable papers to give it to my granddaughter when she becomes 18 years old.
I like to say thank you for that piece. It really makes my mind stop and enter into a profound reflection.
wow! thank you very much. *ok, now you are making my eyes get misty!*
Yes American Girl, I agree with Lark.
I’d like to say,
I’m so glad you wrote this. It is complete and concise, and strikes exactly the right tone. Now that it is written, I think that perhaps I can feed my cats, clean up the house, take a walk, and otherwise get on with my peaceful life.
But then this wave of pure anger moves up my spine and I know that it will take much more than eloquent words to resolve the bitterness engendered by this election cycle.
we live to fight another day.
:O)
I have been against an Obama presidency. His associations and behavior throughout the primaries and general bothered me greatly. I also think that McCain would have done the right thing by the country and left after 4 years. Mccain has proven he can work with the other side.
However, we are now faced with an Obama presidency. As strange as it was I feel surprisingly good (I have been happy all day) that American has an African American president. I am proud that my country could do that. HOORAY!
I will be keeping my eye on Obama and hope he does the right thing because after all he is our president whether we like it or not. God Bless our new President,….President Obama.
He is not my president. He stole this in the primaries. He’s still an illegitimate player.
I’m with you McPalin.
I agree with you! I thought I would be upset McCain lost. Happily, I’m not, though I do feel for McCain.
Hopefully, Obama will be subjected to scrutiny as President. Who knows, perhaps he’ll be a good one! (One can only hope!)
Hopefully, Ayers will not be invited to the White House or be allowed anywhere near the Dept of Education. He (Ayers) has served his purpose for Obama, now maybe he can be discarded.
Yeah right… keep hoping…
Obama threw all of the civil rights activists and that movement under the bus. As a person of color, I don’t feel “proud” or happy one bit that this smooth-talking con is POTUS. He’s stomped on MLK and all that we feminists fought for these past decades.
He’s not my prez.
American Girl in Italy, History’s memory is fickle.
America is divided more than ever and last night proved it.
Time is short and this country can ill afford to wait for “change”. BO is not a harbinger of “change”, but of the result of collective indifference, Apathy’s child.
I so admire your work. Thanks.
And now, a few honest thoughts from your friendly neighborhood trool. Split into several comments so I can get around the stupid word-filter.
To all of you actual, now and former Hillary supporters:
I’m not a participant in any Democratic websites. But, it seems you enjoy having a place to discuss your politics.
Hillary’s still a Democrat, and the issues still bring Hillarites and Barackians together more than they separate them.
In fact, between the two groups, they’re almost the same.
Come back home, if the scumbags dominate here; or make NQ a place where HONEST Democrats can hold Obama’s feet to the fire!
I disagree, but you’re entitled to your own opinions. obama cannot be compared with hillary. period. yes, we are dems. but its always country before party for us.
one last thing since you replied:
country before party, until the Reps change entirely, does involve voting for anyone but a Republican.
Seriously.
It was McCain’s slogan, but ironically, an honest belief in this possibly ensured he lost.
Bye.
ugh, on a misspell-trip — this part trips wordfilter somewhere.
(Demz are better at this than Republicz, always have been… well, since Nixion, anyway.)
To you miszleading, fearz-mongerzing, lyingz characzter-azzassins: I hope the people you so long led on a false path take this site from you.
Or, that they leave, and leave you with no souls to maznipulate. It is what you dezserve.
This is my final comment on this site, for now and forever.
UNLESS it’s deleted.
I’ll be watching.
Goodbye, all.
– lack of toner, aka White Boner, aka “jr”, aka “wtf”, aka “oboe”, aka … you get the picture
see ya. lol
Pleaze get back on your medz.
F%$#k you! Why don’t you go back to your misogynist and race-bating cheeto site. Can’t we all just get along my ass!
We refuse to belong to your Pod Dem Party. Why this phony concern for us anyway? Get the F#$%K out of here! You Pods are dead to us!
I respect your point of view and I thank you for this post. I feel differently. African Americans are celebrating a stolen victory, the celebration should have been for women of all races, but once again we’ve been shunted aside. If it were a legitimate candidacy, campaign, primary election, and election, I would feel differently. I am glad this is a site where diverse points of view can be discussed and respected.
Thanks No Quarter for this safe haven and thanks again for your post.
Gee, I was thinkin’, Obama could now have Larry Sinclair to the White House whenever he is in need, and with impunity. Yeah, Larry could be a regular Monica Lewinsky.
IN YOUR DREAMS, OBAMA, IN YOUR DREAMS
Honestly I am getting rally tired of all this talk of who cried and jumped for joy over the crowing of a Black man as POTUS.
Hour after hour on FOX,and CNN I did not even want to check the other stations because am sure it would of been the same dam thing. How long is this weeping and soul searching going to go on?
It’s was great to see no one on FOX today was concerned about their stocks as the market tanked, it was good to see no one cared that the peace treaty with Israel was throw out the window this morning, it was good to see that no one cared about Russia and the missile shields.
I guess the crowing of Obama sure has put all of us into a state of denial, I guess everything is aright again with the economy and the world, so I guess I can look forward to a abundant 4 year with this new Obama administration bring hope and change to America and the world.
Hope is cheap. And if I’m the one I have been waiting for we are all in trouble.
thanks hadenough. i can’t handle all this false hope/change stuff today as that is all i have heard from obots. i come here looking for information to undertand what is going on and not a teenage lovefest where we all cry and hope for the best.
sure they can feel and write what they want, but i can express my view also. we sat around hoping bush wouldn’t continue to screw up in iraq while men died and we went bankrupt. we hoped that the democratic congress would help in 06 while the put the screws to us. now i come on here today and hear about hoping for the best. dang, look at what it got you.
SJ people are already sick of it, that’s one benefit of Obama’s overexposure, oversell, and the long campaign. So give them today, maybe tomorrow, but seriously we’re sick of Obama’s voice.
Even Mark Shields last night said Obama’s speech was too long.
Obama is the Wedding Singer – remember that movie? He sings one song really well. But he only knows one song. That’s Obama’s speeches.
Wedding Singer goes to the White House!
I’m just furious at republicans who didn’t come out to support John McCain. They forced the worst president since Herbert Hoover on us, and then they stabbed a wonderful man in the back.
I registered republican late this summer. I’m going to change to independent ASAP. I want nothing to do with those people ever again.
I feel sick to my stomach.
i felt the same bittersweetness all day…proud for the AA faces I see around me, devastated for my daughter, who watched clinton, then palin get attacked.
and yes, obama is just not good enough to be that first AA prez…on the back of caucus fraud, campaign finance fraud, voter registration fraud, etc. is
the word that kept going round my head was” honorable, as in NOT. he did not win on honorable terms.
Let’s face it — after 8 years of Bush a Democrat, any Democrat, should have won.
This was a Democrat Party year.
The banking industry collapse and the bailout put the last nail in the GOP coffin. Sure — many democrats share the blame, but the buck stops at the president’s desk and Bush checked out as soon as the DNC won a senate majority in 2006.
The BIGGEST problem for me was that Bush was a figure-head president and the neocons were pulling his strings — a behind the scenes shadow government run by Cheney.
Let’s hope we won’t end up with the flip side of the same coin.
Here’s my question — will Obama be his own man?
Or, will the leftest segment of the Democrat party (who hate the Clintons)be pulling Obama’s strings for the next 4 years?
Did we just exchange on partisan figure-head for a different partisan figure-head?
Here’s the test — I heard today that John Kerry wants Obama to make him Secretary of State.
Hmmm. First he picks Biden as VP and now he may pick Kerry as State Secretary?
That’s not looking like much change to me.
If Obama picks Kerry my worst fears are confirmed — he’s a figure-head president with party hacks telling him when to jump and how high.
If he resist pressure from the New England Liberals like Kennedy and Kerry, if he reists pressure form the Daley/Chicago politcal machine (who told him to choose Biden)– if he indeed chooses a Secretary of State who represents CHANGE, then I’m behind him all the way.
But if I have to look at the faces of 60s era partisan hacks like Biden and Kerry for the next 8 years (even though they’re hacks from my own party), I’ll give Obama a thumbs down.
And I so want to give him a thumbs up.
So – I’m asking you President Obama. Do you want Democrats like me back in the fold?
Don’t give us any more choices like Biden for your cabinet. Set these antiqued liberals who hate the Clintons out to pasture.
But of you choose Kerry for Secretary of State, I’ll be voting third party candidates in protest for the rest of my natural life.
Ball’s in your court Mr. President.
you’re wrong.
Why?
Obama has never been his own man. He has always need some godfather type to be pulling the strings in the background, from Tony Rezko to Emil Jones, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy.
Obama = GWB, the sequel.
Stunning.
I am saving your piece and will enjoy visiting it again down the road as this American Idol moment plays out in the real world. I have a feeling it is not only relevant and spot on now, but will become somewhat prescient as Barack Obama drives his shiny new bike out into traffic.
I have enjoyed very much following your comments for the past many weeks. Always well reasoned, incredibly well researched, and balanced while pulling no punch that deserved to be thrown.
I have a couple of things I’ll be watching with interest over the next little while.
First. Who is going to give the invocation at the inauguration? Any guesses? I don’t know. But, it will be interesting to see how much chutzpah this fellow really has.
Second. How soon are the promises going to start being deferred due to “current conditions” — falling off like curled leaves as the wind turns colder. [Did you notice last night that he said some of these things might even take TWO terms to accomplish. He's already started lowering the bar and running in 2012 before being sworn in. But, that's what he does best, run for office.]
Third. The house and the land, subtitle: The Senator & The Racketeer. It sounds confusing when I’ve read the latest reports but here’s what I think happened (subject to being proved wrong). This is lurking though I hold no hopes for anything but fizzle, for reasons noted below. But, here’s how the deal shapes up from the face of it.
BHO couldn’t afford to pay the asking price for the house. Same owner owns the property next to the house. Rezko tours the property with Obama and comes up with an idea. It becomes an (unofficial) package. BHO denies the deals were related, says they were totally independent transactions (he says a lot of things). But, for the two to accidentally take place (the closings) simultaneously (same place, same time) with the same owners is beyond obvious.
Here’s the rub of it, I believe.
They (BHO/Rezko) tell the owners, sell BHO the house for less than list and Rezko (through his wife) will buy the adjoining property (which the owners also needed to sell — they had taken another position and were leaving Chicago) at full list.
So, you give The Senator a break on the house and make it up by not having to take less than asking (nobody pays full list for real estate in normal times) on the lot. And, so, the discount really isn’t so much (on a percentage basis) because you spread it over the combined total of both transactions. And, we’ve taken care of your need to move both properties without having to negotiate with other potential buyers of the land.
Of course the appraisal shenanigans related to allowing for a higher loan to Rezko’s wife on the vacant lot but that’s only what triggered the “Whistleblower” filing by the appraiser. That’s only the key to the door that’s opening on this thing.
Let’s see how fast the door is slammed shut, if it is, now that Obama’s been elected.
What do you call that if it happened roughly like that? Basically, a gift but hard to track because the gift is actually the amount by which Rezko actually overpaid for the lot and that’s a market question. Very fuzzy and hard to pin down.
And, it would depend on the testimony either of the former owners (that it was offered up as a package deal) or of Rezko himself.
We will see what we will see.
I will not hold my breath.
See, what would a day be without another dark and murky corridor to attack with a flashlight?
Keep rockin’ it, AGII.
former owners worked with michelle obama at u of c
What a beautiful, powerful post. Thanks, AGI. You put in words what so many of us feel. Happy for African Americans, angry at an ugly, sexist campaign.
Beautiful post, AG. You have put into words precisely my own feelings.
I think Obama for all his change will have a party of Washington insiders. Yep, that’s change all right.
The only change we’re going to be seeing is what’s left of our paychecks after the Obama share the wealth tax plan goes through.
Republican insiders will be replaced by Democratic insiders.
isn’t Berg’s case set to go before Supreme Court November 7?
Oh, that Supreme Court. You can count on them to clear up election issues, step right in there, protect the Constituiton (see:Bush v Gore 2000).
Now I’ll sleep at night.
American girl, you said it. If Bobo makes it to inauguration day without being disqualified or indicted, he’ll still be the same flim-flammer who used racism, sexism, and crooked cash to bulldoze everyone in his path. He’ll still have unsavory ties to domestic Marxists, terrorists, Afrocentrists, black liberation theologists, and assorted foreign despots and Muslim radicals. I never thought the American people would do this to themselves, but enough did (probably combined with voter fraud)to put a man into office who’s a disgrace to everything a black American should stand for. All he seems to have ever done for black folks is to give them a fleeting feeling of euphoria. He’s set race relations back 50 years and caused white backlash and resentment. I’ve heard people say, “Well, they have their President now. They better not ask for anything else!” I, as a member of the most disadvantaged group of all–women–would hate to hear someone say that to me had Hillary become President-elect. I wouldn’t have voted for, say Libby Dole, for instance, even though she’s a female. I don’t and never did expect special treatment, even though I was born back in 1947. I want to make it on my merits and be viewed with respect.
I’ve heard uninformed black people on TV say they expect reparations, mortgage payments, unlimited college tuition, across-the-board welfare payments, and even a cure for AIDS from Barack. They won’t get any of this, and my guess is they won’t utter a peep of protest. And it’s a shame. I expect Bobo to just play emperor and rest on his laurels. Well, better that than institute the libertine, Marxist paradise envisoned by Brazile and co.
Political campaigns are like those times when friends or family are at serious odds and lay out all of their arguments and grievances against each other–major and minor, real and imagined, fair and unfair. It’s not symptomatic of terminal division or dysfunctionality. Anybody who seriously messes with us soon finds that out.
Out with the old in with the old:
The campaign announces the operation will be orchestrated by John Podesta, Valerie Jarrett, and Pete Rouse.
Team will also include former Clinton Commerce Secretary William Daley, Governor Janet Napolitano, former Clinton Transportation and Energy Secretary Federico Peña, foreign policy adviser Susan Rice and more
thepage.time.com/obama-biden-transition-announcement/
That’s just the transition team. But when it starts out with the same old same old who’s it gonna end up with.
Other than the light weight susan rice I’d bet that’s pretty much the type a Hillary trans team would be like. For the oborg it’s just another kick in teeth from The Precious.
Isn’t Susan Rice the adviser that resigned because she was caught calling Hillary a monster?
no that was samantha power
0bama’s going to seize assets.
First, he will tell us that the financial situation is worse than he knew and he will not be able to have any tax cuts for low income persons, but he will be imposing the tax increases on higher income families.
Next, within 6 months expect a Biden crisis, which will give 0bama license to invoke executive rules which will constrain our civil liberties and constitutional rights.
The crisis will escalate. The constraints, which can include property and asset seizure, will follow.
Chavez, his hero, started by seizing oil/energy, then cattle ranches, farms, media, running education, youth indoctrination.
This is the bread and butter of what 0bama knows.
He will break industry with unions, “skyrocketing” energy (no coal), break business with taxes and health care requirements.
As with F/F he needs to construct the crisis in order to take over more control and more assets.
He’s gunning for 401ks and next will be IRAs; probably in fact anything sitting in an American bank.
I would look into ways to keep assets preserved before Biden’s crisis gives him full tilt permission to do whatever he wants with them.
Seizure of lawfully acquired assets is something that nearly all Americans instinctively oppose, liberal and conservative alike. This is so obvous it hardly bears mention. Hugo Chavez is nobody’s hero, least of all Barack Obama’s.
Excellent analysis. I just think this will start happening by this time next year but most of it will begin late Summer 2010.
oh i think it is a foregone conclusion that the lefties won’t get anything nor will the aa’s. wall street? well that is another matter. obama is an inside the dnc operation. there may be a nod to the kennedy’s but that’s all it will be. so all you obots with your fresh ideas etc are shix out of luck.
thank you American Girl in Italy. I will send this to a few people to help them understand what I’m feeling today.
I can’t even read the comments here though–there are so many insults and so much personal bashing that it’s just not worth it.
American Girl in Italy:
I cannot thank you enough for writing and sharing your essay, your words, your sentiment. Your post gave me sustained goose bumps: I share it all, every single sentence. It is extraordinary. This morning after barely 4 hours of bad sleep I finally
got up and was thinking about all this for a long while while the sun was rising. And by the time I had to get ready to go to work I said to myself, what your our ending so eloquently says:
Thank you.
I appreciate the people voting. But, Berg v. Obama et al is set and the U. S. Constitution requires Obama to provide responses to the claim on 12/1/08.
Things will be coming out in the next week, I bet you. I hope that Obama is a natural born citizen and will PROVE IT so he can be legit. If he is not, we are in trouble.
If he not legit, then just like his aunt he is in this country illegally and should be deported after serving his [several] life’s sentences
for all the violations of our constitutional laws. The Rosenbergs (man & wife)were executed for treason.
new thread up…..
That was a beautifully written piece, and I thank you for it. It represents a lot of what we are feeling. Thank you.
I don’t think anyone can say they supported Hillary MORE than me.
I voted against my own party in protest over the sexism against her and then Palin.
I am deeply concerned that so many men and WOMEN are in denial about the rampant sexism in this country.
It apalls me when so many say there was no sexism during this political cycle.
That level of denial is equal to claiming there was no holocaust, in my opinion.
And as a Mom of two girls, it frightens me.
With that said — I am prepared to support our new President if he lives up to his promise to be post partisan.
His choice of Biden really let me down because it showed his capitulation to the Chicago Daley machine. (Google it – the Chicago power players forced Biden on him.)
As for the joy of my fellow African American citizens… I am happy for them, I shed tears with them, as an American I cannot deny how important this is.
Heck — seeing Jesse Jackson cry like that, I was hoping someone would give the man a hug and a tissue. I got weepy when I saw Jesse cry because he’s been on the front lines. He was standing beside MLK when he was shot.
How can I NOT be joyous for Jesse and all African Americans today.
However — I wonder how many Obama supporters of all races would have been happy if Hillary was the winning candidate.
How many would applaud an historic moment for women.
We don’t know. And I don’t know if we’ll ever know in my lifetime.
I just wish Obama supporters, especially African Americans, would acknowledge that many women felt as deeply about Hillary breaking the gender barrier as they did for Obama breaking the race barrier.
Just acknowledge that for us women these feelings were just as valid as you.
Screw Jesse Jackson and the donkey he rode in on.
Great comment.
I had to avert my eyes when I saw Jesse Jackson crying, because it instantly made me cry. “How can you not be happy” is right.
I found it very easy to not be happy and even easier to disgusted, particularly after what Jackson set about Obama’s private parts early in campaign. Jackson is a thug hypocrite.
The Obama Chicago-thug machine scammed this election, and McCain and the MSM caved to Obama and his campaign’s unjust ridiculous cries of racism any time anyone dared criticize or question The Messiah. The whole thing is nauseating.
And the way supposedly “progressive” women bashed and encouraged the misogyny toward Palin makes me furious.
Susan, if it is any consolation there are 2.3 million more women in college right now then men. Education seems to be working better and working to get better for women. (Don’t get me wrong – we need to help our boys. They are struggling. Boys and girls can BOTH succeed.)
It seems, though, women do not stand together against sexism. It is so much a part of our culture, men and women don’t even “see it”.
Well, women do outnumber men in the USA.
I agree that too many are blind to it because sexism is normal in our country.
All those photos of Palin’s head pasted on naked female bodies — how can anyone deny the sexism that communicates.
Actually, no, women still need a university degree to earn as much in their lives as a male with a high school education.
All across the country, women and men with the same university credentials are earning different salaries, and the gap is actually widening again.
I am a female Hillary supporter. I don’t feel a dang thing except shame that Obama was able to lie and cheat his way into the WH. The man dishonored the memory of Dr. King. Jessie Jackson, Jim Clyburn, John Lewis, et.al know this and did not speak out against the racist lies he spread about the Clintons or the racial accusation he tried to stick McCain with. They have all lost my respect. How can I as a 63 year old woman who marched with Dr. King be proud of a lying, phony, fraud. He has trashed everything I believed in to my very core. I am hurting deep inside. I can not be joyful because I know too much, have seen too much and have lost ALL my heroes. May god have mercy on this decipicible human being.
Susan…and because of that it is a complete desecration of the spirit of Dr. King…electing someone by the color of their skin. Dr. King envisioned a society of colorblindness when it comes to achievement, position and acceptance.
Thank you so much for expressing what so many of us are feeling. I am a 57 year old woman who has voted a straight Democratic ticket all my life, until yesterday. I refused to vote for Obama after his campaign accused the Clintons of racism.
This has been a difficult year for so many of us. I feel like I’m in shock. Imagine how Hillary feels.
Thank you for one in Texas who had a first row seat to the fraud here. …and knows the whole tale of Obama. Hard to be enthused. Easy to be angry.
Wow, you moved me to tears. No matter what, we have the strength of great Americans like Hillary & Bill Clinton, John McCain, and Sarah Palin to help us persevere. This may feel like a dark moment in our country’s history but we will rise above. I still hold hope for the best. But Obama is not the one to deliver it. Whatever it takes, we won’t let him ruin us.
Good article.
Administrator: Max needs to go, please.
“I’d like to say that I think Obama transcended race”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/11/05/brian-williams-game-national-conversation-race
In my opinion, the race card will always be available to be used as a tool. White guilt, it works everytime.
I had the exact opposite reaction this morning. I felt relief at losing absolutely ‘white guilt’ AAs can never complain about racism to effect with me again. I saw black racism like I never had and will never respond to it again. It’s a non-issue for me now. One commenter wrote that an elderly woman was threatened by some young men… I wondered how I would react. My feeling was ‘meh’ I won’t be intimidated by black racism again. I will never respond to ‘black’ issues again. I will never give the discussion any attention. It’s a very odd thing to know, that if someone ever mentions racism again, I will smile, shake my head and walk away.
I guess I am one of those that will just think… an AA got the WH, get over it.
Since Tavis Smiley had no problem bringing up the issue of race and inequality, I don’t think we’re going to stop hearing complaints of injustice any time soon. Have you heard anyone state that it’s time to get rid of affimative action? The answer is no. I do agree that it will be more difficult to make the claim that America is unfair to a certain segment of the population.
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This election should have never been about race, or gender…But, about who was the best candidate to lead this great country.
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I won’t forget those things, either. It’s unforgivable.
I no more trust the DNC as far as I could throw them.
Now I’m going to work for third parties.
I totally agree with You, American Girl in Italy.
On another blog I read today, You can buy an election, but not a presidency.
Obama has ahead of him to prove that he can be a president.
I personally think, after all, a star is born.
This is going to be exiting and maybe it will last for two terms.
Sarah Palins presidency 2012-2016
American Girl in Italy says PERFECTLY what I feel. Thanks.
Thank you for taking the time to summarize and record the sentiment of so many. I wanted to share in the joy as well, but kept coming up short as I considered all that I had read and seen in the last year or so.
I am happy for those who are celebrating now. I think if nothing else, his victory can bring some healing and peace to those who struggle so hard against injustice.
I just wish that beneath the surface of expression, there was a depth of conviction to serve. Maybe there is, maybe I missed it. Maybe even if the intention isn’t there, some promises will be kept, and a democratic congress will help to enact a portion of them – whatever the cause or motivation. Only time will tell, really.
I honestly believe, however, that reform is needed before we can actually begin to support a domestic agenda – and that is one of the main reasons why I turned my energies and focus to Senator McCain.
I never imagined attending a republican rally, but I did. I never imagined voting for a republican candidate, but I did. And listening to Senator John McCain last evening validated my choice. I don’t agree with him on some policy decisions, but I value his service to the country. I wish his deep understanding and discernment about issues concerning global security and war, could have permeated a discussion about the domestic war we are facing – lack of health care, affordable housing, etc. But, at least with him, I felt there was a chance for sound discourse.
And while I don’t share all the enthusiasm of some about Governor Palin, I have been impressed with her wit, bravery and honesty. And I had the privilege of witnessing this first-hand at a rally. She managed to accomplish in a very, very short time – proving she was capable of leading the country, supporting a running mate, and mobilizing her party to action – and ultimately being able to draw an invisible population of working class women to the forefront, if nothing else than to expose our own liberal hypocrisies. And she paid the price for it over and over again. In ads, in blogs, spoken and written by open-minded, liberal men and women. Well done Sarah. I wish I could apologize for all feminists, but I can’t.
She and Senator McCain, in my opinion, have servants’ hearts. They are rarely elected, but often have the ability to genuinely reach beyond party lines and identities and spark something inside those, for whatever reason, are moved to hear.
As a liberal, perhaps even “socialist”, community organizer thanks for letting me share my thoughts with you. I have never been prouder of my vote for President and Vice President as I am today.
Thank you for this piece.
I told my husband that it has been eight years since I could actually listen to a President when he spoke (since the sound of “W’s” voice just made me sick to my stomach) and now I can look forward to at least four more years of turning down the volumn when the President speaks. It really does disconnect a person from the world not to be able to listen to the person who is supposedly the most important in our country. But here I am again, a “stranger in a strange land.” I would have just been too upset to sleep and come to work this morning if I had watched him.
I stopped watching after I saw McCain deliver his most noble concession speach. I just admire his humility, though he more than O should be the egotistic one. I admired his speech as an effort to begin a “healing” of our severely divided country. I just can not understand a generation of people who did not honor him, who has served us for so long, with the highest “job” in the land, giving it instead to someone who has not served as long as he, McCain, spent as a POW. It is incredible to me the way people think nowadays when they vote.
Now, again, I am trying to pull myself away from all this to get a life back somehow and find some peace.
Diane L.C:
It is amazing how similar many of us we feel about certain things … If it helps: you are not alone. I have exactly the same reaction; had had it for the past 8 and I guess for the next 4…12 years of being unable to stand listening to our POTUS ….
That goes for me. The mute button, Home Channel and a few cable channels are going to be in constant use.
I tell you what people. Half of America is not only disappointed, they are scared and angry.
This whole Obama campaign was unbelievably disturbing from beginning to end and he’ll be going in to office not only with a country on the verge of collapse but hatred towards him rivaling any we’ve seen before.
Far from the rosy future his supports see, the reality is bleak – just look at the stock market’s reaction.
His election would have been worth watching him slowly and inexorably disgraced, if he wasn’t going to take the rest of us down with him.
Thank you for this. It’s nice to know I’m not alone. There’s comfort in that and to know I am not crazy.
Yeah, I know what you mean…this election is messed up. It’s as if you’re guilty of not being on board the “making history” train. Creating history seems like it’s the most important issue to the media and Obama supporters. Forget who is best qualified for the job.
So true–and that is why the world is supposedly so thrilled Obama has been elected (total self-interest). They know he wants to take down America many notches.
We live in a democracy and the downside of that is that you sometimes don’t get your way (like when 63,000,000 people disagree with you or when the people that you consider to be insane reelect George W. Bush).
I was a Hilary supporter during the primary but she got beaten by a superior candidate at the head of a superior organization. There was no sour grapes from me: I reevaluated the available candidates and decided to vote for Obama, like millions of other Hilary supporters and Americans.
There are two sides to every story, especially in politics. Every campaigner makes attacks and is subject to them. Sen. Obama has shown an ability to rise above the attacks thrown at him and deliver stinging blows in return. It certainly upset me when he did this to Hilary, but this sort of article, that reviews all the attacks made against Obama, true and false, serves no purpose at this late date: it’s just sour grapes! The time to attack him has past and the time to help him change this country for the better has arrived.
matt, what you dont realise is that obama = GWB3. you just think its sour grapes, but here, its country before party. and no, obama will be worse for this country than GWB. wait for 4 years, and then you’d understand.
I see that 100% acceptance of Obama is still required.
I don’t see this post as sour grapes at all. Just an opinion.
I hope Obama is up to the job.
Now don’t forget hope.
Heh. Like I said, I hope Obama is up to the job.
I hope Obama is found ineligible or impeached. Hope is such a fickle thing. It can mean so many different things.
Where do we sign up to expose the pretender to the throne?
The time to keep up the scrutiny and make Obama accountable is now—and for the rest of his reign.
Matt, just go away! Go back to MyDD where you belong.
“He can’t run for president, he hasn’t done anything yet” – Michelle Obama
No amount of attempted justification will alter the fact that our country just elected a unqualified and by some accounts corrupt pop icon.
We once again voted against our best interests and our better judgement. We were swayed by the media’s relentless spin of inevitability. We let the most uninformed and most easily controlled portion of the electorate seal the outcome.
We got exactly what we deserve, and now we’re going to have to pay for it.
Thanks a load.
How old are you? I mean chronologically, not mental age. We can already see you’re functioning at a pre-adult cognitive level by your deductions.
Naive doesn’t begin to cover the hopey-dopey attitude.
Meant for Matt, the wonder poster.
What are you babbling about. First, you were no Clinton supporter as evidenced by the fact you can’t even spell her name.
Help him change the country for the better?? I would ask what the hell that means but attempting to get through to empty headed nitwits like you is fruitless. What are you twelve? It’s just the same empty, moronic talking points from the campaign. Obama won’t save the country from itself you dweeb.
This country is founded on political dissent. I didn’t like Bush and turned the tv off. I don’t like Obama and turn the tv off. Get over yourself, you little prima donna with your simpering, juvenile attitude.
Congratulations for moving beyond your anger, and for where you are in your process. Sharing today was part of my process. I spent the day congratulating friends and co-workers, and yes, I gave equal time to honoring my feelings.
There are millions of places for you today where you can express how you are feeling, and you made this post one of them. Why?
It’s been my experience that expression leads to healing, and healing leads to change. No expression, no healing. No healing – denial. And denial leaves you vulnerable to deception.
What makes you think Obama is going to change the country for the better? He never changed anything for the better before. Ask the people on the South Side of Chicago.
Blah, blah, blah, blah…bleeech. Get lost.
Well, I don’t feel, along with 47% of the voters, that we deserve Obama. On the contrary, we deserve to have our say.
Support anything that will expose Obama and crew for the criminals they are.
It’s simple enough.
American Girl, what a stunning post! Your insight captures how many of us are feeling deep down inside. This victory was ill-begotten. We at NQ of all Americans are painfully aware of that. We will also forever be haunted by the reality that women were treated like second class citizens by the DNC & the Obama campaign. We will never forget what happened to our candidate, Sen Hillary Clinton.
The election of Barack Obama as POTUS does indeed send a message that anybody living in the US is capable of becoming Commander-in-Chief. The two main provisions are that there be a sham DNC roll call and full endorsement by the fainting, adoring MSM. Furthermore, it doesn’t matter if the aspiring candidate fails to present a legitimate birth certificate, or pals around with unrepetant terrorists, or is a member of an anti-semitic, America bashing church for 20 years. Let him too go for it. He just might win. In fact, he just did! The bar has also been lowered to the extent that party surrogates such as ACORN can game the system and no one will raise an eyebrow. Only sorry, no female need apply!
That being said, we at NQ fought a good fight. Has the fat lady sung yet? Maybe not. We’ll have to see how things unfold between now and Inaugeration Day. And for the record, nothing would have made me happier than to have voted for an AA to become POTUS which is why I started out as a Barack Obama supporter. It wasn’t until BO’s unsavory past caught up with him that I saw the light. We have the liberal MSN to thank for the fact that there weren’t more BO supporters who got religion in time to make an educated choice.
Barack Obama ran a great campaign?
So did Adolf Hitler..He targeted the youth, also!
And where is Hitler today?
When I went to the polls, I wasn’t sure what to do. I felt totally left out of this race. Hillary represented ALL Americans better than Obama ever has, so I wrote her name in. Yes, it was a throw away, but it was the only vote I could give, in my very blue state.
I HOPE that Obama will prove to have greatness and that he will be what he MUST be, and not necessarily what his past and very left leanings indicate he may want to be.
Rotting in Hell, I hope!
Oops, to finish.
A chapter of history that no one wants repeated.
Yes, there are many who feel that history may repeat itself. Soon.
To think that it could have been avoided had the MSM been purveyors of truth rather than spin.
I just had a thought.
Obama has all his live taken the easy road, using his race for his benefit, played the race card in case of obstacles.
Since I am from Europe I can guarantee that this whole race thing does only work here.
To a certain extend the victim and underdog role works everywhere, but not to a presidency without any qualifications for it.
So Obama will find himself soon asking “what am I gonna do now?
My tricks don’t play out in the rest of the world.”
He will really have to show some character and strenght. Unfortunately this is no time for on-the-job-training, as Hillary said.
He will have to train, grow up and deliver.
There is a chance he will.
Maybe just because he is so damn vain.
(I guess I just try to talk myself into a positve view, have an election and wine hangover)
No, reality is, he will be just the same jerk he was during this whole time, arrogant and self-absorbed.
Good Night and Good Luck, America.
In his own words, he is a blank page, for people to project their own aspirations… Well, it is time to turn another page. All, I see is no hope.
The ‘change’ you get, will surely not be the ‘change’ this country wants or needs.
Just look at his record, if you can find it!
Change? What change? In the wee small hours of the morning, he gave a victory speech lauding all of those $5 donations from so many cash-strapped supporters, which somehow added up to half of his $650 million take. Of course, he knows those under $200 donations came from all over the world, over and over again to amounts reaching into the hundreds of thousands. Because someone in his campaign had to make the conscious decision not to enable the screening mechanism in the software that would have prevented these illegal donations to his campaign. In other words, at least as of last night, he hadn’t changed a bit. Still spinning his own white washed narrative, independent of the sordid facts.
Obama’s life just got a whole lot harder. He’s gonna have to put up or shut up like he never has before.
Bets on when he’ll need his first vacation?
What I would like to know, is when did Obama change his name from Barry Soetoro…And, was it done legally.
Do you think people, and especially the youth, would be chanting “Soetoro, Soetoro, Soetoro”?
Sadly those who live in hope tend to die in despair.
To American Girl in Italy, thank you for saying so well what so many of us feel.
I couldn’t watch it…Did he and Michelle do another fist bump? Did he plant another slobbery kiss on Joe Biden’s wifr?
sorry, Wife!
Thanks for this post.
I did not vote for Obama, and I have many reasons to believe his is not ready for the military challenges ahead, and has not backed up his words with actions, and has associated closely with unsavory characters…and that, yes, the nomination belonged to Hillary, not Obama.
But I too was elated and deeply moved by the dawning awareness I could see on the faces of African Americans as tears came. It’s been a long time coming, and I’ve fought side by side with blacks, gays, women, children, etc for civil rights equality all of my life.
It was a great moment for America in that regard, and I’m very proud and honored to have witnessed it.
Now, let’s do something about the ugly sexism we’ve all witnessed!
The rightful Presidency is stolen from an intelligent, experienced woman and you are weeping with joy because an interracial man; not even legally black (6.2% ) is installed as the new dictator. I do believe this is called identifying with the oppressor.
What we’ve just seen is an American presidential election decided by both a large electorial majority and a significant majority of the popular vote. That hasn’t happened for a while. The American people might be wrong, but they have spoken clearly. Personally I think they’re also thinking clearly. Time will tell.
Those who reject that process are the ones who would give us dictators. If we don’t like the results of a majority vote there will be a mid-term election in only two years and another presidential election in four. Some of us have been marginalized for eight years, following seriously questionable elections.
You might want to turn down the hyperbole of your dictator nonsense. Those who oppose the BOBO aren’t an enemy to the constitution. Stay full of yourself and you’ll have something to worry about in two years or in four.
Oh the irony of coming here to post that! You’re truly a silly one.
48% of the people voted against him. How is that a significant majority of the vote? Next you will claim he has a “mandate” like Bush claimed after barely squeaking by in 2004.
And you do know that all of his mistakes (there’ll be many) will be made by his White side doncha?
i swear i’m not a troll.
i’m just an Obama supporter who respects Hillary and am trying to understand the hate here. yes, it was a tough fight and some Obama supporters said terrible things about Hillary. maybe the media didn’t treat her fairly. but terrible things have also been said about Obama from the beginning.
why do you think it only went and goes one way?
i don’t understand. i know you are disappointed, but please try to honor Hillary’s historic achievement while also respecting a deserved victory for Barack Obama. he is better for the country than McCain/Palin, and he clearly reflects Hillary’s values much more.
bless you all. i still love you!
then please take the time to read previous articles regarding the primaries on this site. and no, obama is nothing like hillary. we are democrats, and we dont think that obama is a true democrat. obviously, we oppose him.
You may think that its disappointment, or sour grapes, but it isnt. we truly belive that McCain is better for this country. not obama.
Sod off, trollie.
Get the f#$%#k out of here, Sequoia. You “respect” HRC! Well when you Ozombies lynched Sarah Palin as you did HRC that was sure a funny way of showing your “respect.” Take your respect and shove it up your Savior President’s ass. I here he likes it like that.
I’d like to say
Sorry America, we didn’t have enough bullshit the last 8 years, we decided we needed it for another 4 and we failed you, miserably.
I bet bush is ecstatic about this, now his administration and their works will look like platinum compared to barry’s pile of excrement that will be building and building over the next 4.
Yeah, I am beginning to like ‘Dubbya’ a lot more!
lol. makes sense. by the time obama completes his first term, he’ll make bush look like an angel. lol
I’ve no doubt alot of last night was people who wanted “revenge” and to teach bush a lesson etc etc, all they did was elect a pseudo black bush from a different party, good going on that one.
It’s always easier to place the blame on someone else rather than accept responsibility. Bad MSM. Bad ACORN. Bad Democratic party.
Hillary entered the campaign with the assumption that she was somehow the inevitable choice for the Democratic party. It was a fundamental flaw. The election is a competition, and she was without a strategy after “Super Tuesday”. As a result she lost valuable time before she began to regain momentum. If the campaign had gone on for another month she very may have won.
You can wallow in self pity and vitriol, or reflect on what happened and avoid the same mistakes next time. Your choice.
Descrates. Hillary never said she was inevitable. You know you are lying and this was just media spin to undermind her. Why can’t you Obots tell the truth every once in a while? I am retired and I kept up with everything of significant during the primary. That was a made up lie by the media, That was a made up lie by the media, That was a made up lie by the media, That was a made up lie by the media. Maybe if I write it 100 times on the blackboard you may get. Obama won the Iowa caucaus by busing ACORN folks from neighboring Chicago, IL and taking over by cheating Hillary supporters. Run a search on this site to get the truth, otherwise STFU and disappear.
Heck, Barack and the DNC will probably change the constitution so that there will be no Presidential election in 2012…And, he will reign supreme for as long as he wants…
I totally understand your point. I see it as a form of validation. Up until this point I never told my race or my sex because I didn’t want to be prejudged for what I think. I’m an African American black woman who was appalled as you regarding the treatment of fellow sex gendered human beings.
On the one hand I can appreciate the pride of having a black individual finally in the white house and I DIDN’T cry because I refused to watch it.
But I know for a fact that I would watch Hillary had she been given justice and a democratic chance to compete. Would I have cried, I think men and women would cry. We let off a collective sigh of ‘its about time’.
I guessed its called validation. Being validated as a race in America, after slavery, and racial hatred. In some weird way, that perceived racism that Obama’s campaign proclaimed was just another strategy. It wasn’t vaild at any point. And that’s why I’m proud to be an American, period. We have come a long way as a nation for that because surely even if every eligble black person voted for Obama if would not come up to 10%. That means that 90% of the other races put Obama in the White House.
Going deeper into it, America didn’t vote for Obama per se. They were voting for their favorite singer, comedian, actor, football player, friend and it felt right. The ‘other’s had something to prove and unfortunately for Hillary the black man cried racism and that’s the only thing heard. Not unfairness. Not psychological displayment of women-hate or envy disguised as hate.
When Hillary or Sarah or, hopefully, any other powerful woman in politics rises up and yanked the torch of president, and claims it for all women, then I’ll cry. Those are tears of pride and joy that at long last my gender was validated.
I okay with my grave doubts about Obama. For as Martin Luther King said, ‘judge someone on the content of their character, not the color of their skin’. I did just that. Obama’s character is not worthy of the White House. No part of his past, and for expressly his present behavior warrants the post.
Nope, unfortunately he was judged on the peculiar need to have a black man for president.
I’d like to thank Larry for this site and hope Obama’s FISA police won’t shut it down.
I hope America is not hit with an atomic bomb, or suffer disastrous divisions of race, nationality or gender. I believe in America just as I believe in justice. One shouldn’t cancel out the other.
Deep truths, I am in agreement. As a latina woman, I am angry as to how Hillary was treated, and how O Cloaked himself under the guise of race to protect himself from scrutiny.
I can’t celebrate with the OBOTS b/c of how he got to the WH.
I wanted to vote for the ONE who is best qualified to defend the constitution and the people. Someone with no hiden agenda and open to who s/he is as a person, and leader with proven experience.
Martin Luther King said, ‘judge someone on the content of their character, not the color of their skin. SO TRUE
I am very concern with a unbalance government and what this could lead to. No check and balance will lead to coruption and abuse of power. In the hands of an unproven leader can spell disaster.
I like to add most people who voted for Obama did so out of anger toward Bush…They will soon regret that rash choice.
Ironically, they’ve voted for GWB III.
Well…
I DO understand having feelings of pride about our first African-American President. The only problem is, I can’t weep for THIS “African-American” President.
This man will never be MY president.
I am angry about the way Obama got to this point. Too much to mention here, but we all know how he arrived as the President-elect. How could anyone look at him during his speech last night and feel any tug of the heartstrings for African-Americans in our country? As far as I am concerned, “they” got rooked.
Obama has NOT lived the experience of an African-American in our culture. He may “identify” with that part of his DNA, but he did have a caucasian mother, and and very international up-bringing. Having a mom on food stamps, because she’s working on her gradutate degree, is different than having a mom who has other children, works a full time job, and fights for everything she gets.
With the nasty primaries, the “friends” he has lied about, his church, and on and on…Nope sorry, I can’t get mushy about any of it. I am angry, but I plan to move on, and make sure that this never happens again. Whatever group I need to join, whatever people I need to meet, I will do it. We need to make sure that election reform hapens, and happens now. We also need to make sure that Presidential candidates are investigated. INVESTIGATED by a commitee that we can trust to do the job.
Nope, the tears I am crying are for our country, and for the African Amercian people, for all people who voted based on Obama’s skin color, and not his soul.
Say all you want about Michelle and Barack. There is much I dispise about them but the reason he is headed for the white house is
He never took his eye off the prize