Thank you President Elect Obama!

Citizen · Thank you President Elect Obama!

It was good to see John McCain give a gracious acceptance speech and try to silence his negative supporters.
Together we have a responsibility to heal a rift in our nation and move on.
Tomorrow is going to be a very good day.

laura keegan

YEAH OBAMA and BIDEN!!!!!

What an amazing country we are. I believe the landslide win by Obama and Biden shows we, as a nation, are ready for CHANGE. I hope our election of Obama will be a uniting force for us all. I am proud to be part of this history making event.

Guest

For sake of perspective, ‘landslide’ is relative.

Glad but reserved

Solid victory, yes. Landslide, no. Now comes the hard part and the proof is in the pudding as they say. He faces one of the hardest Presidencies since Lincoln (thanks in large part to Bush) and he is by and large untested and unknown. He just may be what America needs, or not. The honeymoon is just beggining, we shall see.

Walmart Woman

Obama is not God. He will not come through on any of his promises and his base will fall by the wayside. I look for a Republican House and Senate in 2010 with a one term Obama and a woman (Palin) in the Whitehouse in 2012. History has taught us that women do it better.
In the meantime, where is my check Mr. Obama? Ooops that's right my employer just moved his entire company to Kenya! I am PO'ed that America could be so stupid! We deserve what we get.

Citizen · Smiley Faces and President Elect Barack Obama

Driving to Costco today, along the streets of my blue state, Colorado, I saw a little yellow flag attached to the radio antenna of a truck (with an Obama sticker on it's bumper) It was a yellow flag with a hand drawn smiley face. I nodded and smiled at him, he nodded and smiled back, we both were feeling the exact same thing. WE DID IT!

From the Obama in Colorado Campaign a suggestion for our theme song. Enjoy! There are always clouds and challenges on the horizon, today we celebrate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc

Old Hippie

I saw a few McCain people gathered at the local watering hole and this was playing on the jukebox. Reminded me of the old LBJ days.
http://video.google.com/videosear...mp;ct=property-revision&cd=2#

I was there

The National Guard shooting down it's own citizens expressing their 1st Amendment rights. That was then, this is now. So we may never forget the ugly turn America can make, I prefer this video to the last:
http://video.google.com/videosear...mp;ct=property-revision&cd=2#
Obama has a vision for the youth and he will bring our children home and they will not die at the doorsteps of our houses of higher learning to fight a misgotten war. Those days are behind us.
Yes We Can!

Green

I like this version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0yCM5uhQU

Guest · To: I was there.

YES WE CAN!

Guest

Now this is the way to communicate! Music is universal.
But GAWD!!!! Did we really wear those outfits in our lifetime?
Hey green - It ain't easy being green, but it was really hard getting to purple too. So maybe, together, we can make green and purple the new red, white and blue.

Bat Man

Purple and Green? Aren't those the Jokers colors? And what about Two Face? Hmmmmmmm. Tune in next year, if you can tune in at all. Gotham City, you gotta love it. Don't you Bruce Wayne?
Does anyone love Superman anymore? Oh, I forgot. We just put Superman in the Oval Office. We don't know where he comes from but we do know he is faster than a speeding bullet and can leap buildings in a single bound. I just hope the bad guys don't have a pound of Kryptonite. That will not help his reporter/alter ego to much.
I have to go now, Robin and I are about to be married at the local high school. After all we are role models. Man/Boy, it's all the rage in Hollywood.

Love you Barry
Kiss, kiss, kiss
The Bat Man

Guest

Holy Attitude Batman!
Careful, or that bitter pill you are choking on may turn you .....
Blue!

Guest

It takes more than being a good speaker to run this Country. It also takes someone with the stomach to order the killing of other human beings to protect this Country. Does the most liberal guy in Washington have what it takes. I guess we will see.

Guest

Two of the most respected military authorities think so.
Colin Powell and General Petraeus.

Guest

I expect the Obama Presidency to be much like Nixons. Very closed, very secretive and very defensive, not unlike his campaign. After all even his supporters claim that we do not know this man.

Concerned

http://www.abc.net.au/news/storie...8/11/07/2412777.htm?section=world
Whatever happend to:

Walmart Woman

I guess Sarah can be expecting a dead fish in the mail shortley. Oh my, she already has! Does a pirranah trump a barracuda? Not in the long run.

Even More

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/...ndrew_sullivan/article5113223.ece
Fair and balanced. This stuff wouldn't even be allowed under the so called "Fairness Doctrine". He uses the F word way to often for even the most liberal of households. Cover your childrens ears, Obamas boys want to talk in prime time.

Patriot

It is not 2012, it is 2008 and we have many challenges ahead of us. Give President Barack Obama a chance to lead our Nation to a better place. The American people have spoken, we must unite in our common cause and I believe this man, Barack Obama, will do us no ill harm. I must believe that or I can no longer call myself a Patriot.

Guest

Thank you 'Even More' for the link. I wasn't aware that Emanuel had such impressive credentials.
Frankly, his 'prime time' speech patterns don't concern me at all. His effectiveness is what matters, and if the injection of some off color words into his speech get him there, more power to him - and to us. Something has got to change in our country, and it's quite obvious that the masked niceties that our current leaders project in public aren't doing a damned thing for us.

Guest

I agree give him a chance to lead. The worst thing that can happpen is he appoints 10,000 liberals to permanent jobs in the Govt, appoints two new liberal Supreme Court Justices, Destroy the capitalist economy, destroy the military, lose two wars, ... what the Hell it's only America

???

Do we really know who we just put in the White House? What has he really done? Sent a shiver up someones leg? Where are the articles he wrote for the Harvard Law Review? Where is the legislation he has written at any level? Where is his record beyound rehtoric? Already the media is backpeddling on his promises. The $250,000 tax cap is dropping, rapidly. Soon the reality will replace the fluff. I hope that he is made of the 54% iron that the nation has said he is made of and, that may not be enough. We have just made a man President who could not pass a background check to qualify him to be a Secret Service Agent overseeing the saftey of ...............the President.
We have indeed made history and now we will have to live with it. I personally want to thank G.W. Bush for making our choice so clear. Two betrayals for the price of one, what a bargain. It is obvious that America is up for sale to pay off the credit card debt. We have the best President money can buy.

Guest

I think someone is still choking on that bitter pill.
Lookout! I feel the blues coming on!!!!

Guest

I feel you people only awoke a sleeping giant conservative movement set to take over in 2012 when OBungle fails.

Dem Blues · Democrat Blue

Got a dem in the whitehouse
And dems on the ground
Them Dems takin over'
Lordy, what is that sound?

It's the Democrat shuffle
They put on their dancin shoes
Doin the victory dance
I got the Democrat Blues

Sweet music to my ears......

Guest

Dems don't bother me, take em or leave em. It's the egg sucking, freako liberals umongst thier membership that concern me. They for all practical purposes are not that much different than the wild eyed religous radicals the Republicans give safe harbor to.
For myself, I have no need for any of you far left or right whacko nut cases

Guest

Twangy blues....
they pull on my heartstrings.

Guest

they make my teeth hurt

Promises, promises

Did anyone notice that Barack is begininning to look a bit older since he has been briefed on the Nations most secret matters? Being the Leader of the Free World seems to have that effect on people. Now what was that promise he made? Bye, bye tax break. Shut down Guatanimo? Rigggght! Pull out of Iraq? Any day now. Then there is my favorite, form a National Homeland Securitey Corp (read-local spys). A chicken in every pot or is it a little pot in every chicken. I'm willing to wait and see. Churches are already under attack by people whom felt impowered by this unknown man. I'm willing to wait and see. His vetting process seems to be very thorough for his staff, or is it that he want's more on them than they could ever have on him? That is a great way to make your people tow the line in an "open and partisan" government. I am willing to wait and see. A President Elect hold up in Chicago. Homeland to Al Capone. We do not know this man but, I'm willing to wait and see. Did you notice how he is changing? He now knows what you don't. Did you notice how he's changing. I'm willing to wait and see. With an historic weepful eye I am waiting, waiting for the land of milk and honey. God bless Barack Oba....I mean America.

Guest

Geez, you seem to be a little UN willing to wait and see, as it appears you have already made up your mind.
He has a HUGE mess to clean up thanks to Bush. I think he is doing what needs to be done to clean it up. And if it means we have to wait on some of those promises, that's ok with me.
Of course, you are probably one of those who thinks the city can pull money for fireworks out of their ass, so I'm guessing that no matter what Obama does, you won't be happy.
But, I'm willing to wait and see.

Promises, promises

He is not going to make good one promise, he can't. He is already being isolated from his supporters, it's the nature of the office. Same would have been if McCain had won. The only difference? Obama doesn't know what's happening to him and that is why the only change we're going to see is in Obama and it's already happening. I'll bet his hair will be gray by the end of two years as he struggles to keep in touch and make good on all those promises. He will be in my prayers.

LoveMyCountry · Ship of Fools

Ship of fools

Nov 13th 2008
From The Economist print edition

Political parties die from the head down

Illustration by KAL

JOHN STUART MILL once dismissed the British Conservative Party as the stupid party. Today the Conservative Party is run by Oxford-educated high-fliers who have been busy reinventing conservatism for a new era. As Lexington sees it, the title of the “stupid party” now belongs to the Tories’ transatlantic cousins, the Republicans.
There are any number of reasons for the Republican Party’s defeat on November 4th. But high on the list is the fact that the party lost the battle for brains. Barack Obama won college graduates by two points, a group that George Bush won by six points four years ago. He won voters with postgraduate degrees by 18 points. And he won voters with a household income of more than $200,000—many of whom will get thumped by his tax increases—by six points. John McCain did best among uneducated voters in Appalachia and the South.
The Republicans lost the battle of ideas even more comprehensively than they lost the battle for educated votes, marching into the election armed with nothing more than slogans. Energy? Just drill, baby, drill. Global warming? Crack a joke about Ozone Al. Immigration? Send the bums home. Torture and Guantánamo? Wear a T-shirt saying you would rather be water-boarding. Ha ha. During the primary debates, three out of ten Republican candidates admitted that they did not believe in evolution.
The Republican Party’s divorce from the intelligentsia has been a while in the making. The born-again Mr Bush preferred listening to his “heart” rather than his “head”. He also filled the government with incompetent toadies like Michael “heck-of-a-job” Brown, who bungled the response to Hurricane Katrina. Mr McCain, once the chattering classes’ favourite Republican, refused to grapple with the intricacies of the financial meltdown, preferring instead to look for cartoonish villains. And in a desperate attempt to serve boob bait to Bubba, he appointed Sarah Palin to his ticket, a woman who took five years to get a degree in journalism, and who was apparently unaware of some of the most rudimentary facts about international politics.
Republicanism’s anti-intellectual turn is devastating for its future. The party’s electoral success from 1980 onwards was driven by its ability to link brains with brawn. The conservative intelligentsia not only helped to craft a message that resonated with working-class Democrats, a message that emphasised entrepreneurialism, law and order, and American pride. It also provided the party with a sweeping policy agenda. The party’s loss of brains leaves it rudderless, without a compelling agenda.
This is happening at a time when the American population is becoming more educated. More than a quarter of Americans now have university degrees. Twenty per cent of households earn more than $100,000 a year, up from 16% in 1996. Mark Penn, a Democratic pollster, notes that 69% call themselves “professionals”. McKinsey, a management consultancy, argues that the number of jobs requiring “tacit” intellectual skills has increased three times as fast as employment in general. The Republican Party’s current “redneck strategy” will leave it appealing to a shrinking and backward-looking portion of the electorate.
Why is this happening? One reason is that conservative brawn has lost patience with brains of all kinds, conservative or liberal. Many conservatives—particularly lower-income ones—are consumed with elemental fury about everything from immigration to liberal do-gooders. They take their opinions from talk-radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and the deeply unsubtle Sean Hannity. And they regard Mrs Palin’s apparent ignorance not as a problem but as a badge of honour.
Another reason is the degeneracy of the conservative intelligentsia itself, a modern-day version of the 1970s liberals it arose to do battle with: trapped in an ideological cocoon, defined by its outer fringes, ruled by dynasties and incapable of adjusting to a changed world. The movement has little to say about today’s pressing problems, such as global warming and the debacle in Iraq, and expends too much of its energy on xenophobia, homophobia and opposing stem-cell research.
Conservative intellectuals are also engaged in their own version of what Julian Benda dubbed la trahison des clercs, the treason of the learned. They have fallen into constructing cartoon images of “real Americans”, with their “volkish” wisdom and charming habit of dropping their “g”s. Mrs Palin was invented as a national political force by Beltway journalists from theWeekly Standard and the National Review who met her when they were on luxury cruises around Alaska, and then noisily championed her cause.

Time for reflection
How likely is it that the Republican Party will come to its senses? There are glimmers of hope. Business conservatives worry that the party has lost the business vote. Moderates complain that the Republicans are becoming the party of “white-trash pride”. Anonymous McCain aides complain that Mrs Palin was a campaign-destroying “whack job”. One of the most encouraging signs is the support for giving the chairmanship of the Republican Party to John Sununu, a sensible and clever man who has the added advantage of coming from the north-east (he lost his New Hampshire Senate seat on November 4th).
But the odds in favour of an imminent renaissance look long. Many conservatives continue to think they lost because they were not conservative or populist enough—Mr McCain, after all, was an amnesty-loving green who refused to make an issue out of Mr Obama’s associations with Jeremiah Wright. Richard Weaver, one of the founders of modern conservatism, once wrote a book entitled “Ideas have Consequences”; unfortunately, too many Republicans are still refusing to acknowledge that idiocy has consequences, too.

Copyright © 2008 The Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group. All rights reserved.

Guest

The South will rise again

Guest · Obama

Very good news article:

The New York Times:
Obama tilts to center, inviting a clash of ideas
Reported cabinet choices show preference for pragmatists over ideologues

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27849923/

Guest

That's because he saw somthing in his intel breifings that scared the crap out of him. Even a liberal will do whats right when they get kicked in the head.

Guest

Another good article:

Can Obama create 2.5 million jobs?

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/200...an-obama-create-2-5-million-jobs/

Guest

Obama is a god!!! He can do amazing things!
Just watch!!!!

Guest

Guest · Time to lighten up and have some fun

Nah. Just excited about leavening all the transparency and accountably stuff behind and getting back to some good old-fashioned worshiping.

(Just kidding.........)

The Harlander

Leader is one thing, God is quite another. Be very, very careful with your words and intent. I'm just saying. History has a way with dealing with this stuff.

Thank you President Elect Obama!

Smiley Faces and President Elect Barack Obama

To: I was there.

Democrat Blue

Ship of Fools

Obama

Time to lighten up and have some fun