Pr..Prrrr…Presssss…President Barack Obama
Congratulations to Barack Obama and his supporters. As a fan of politics, he really pulled off an incredible upset. This was Hillary Clinton’s year and everyone knew assumed it. We know what happens when we do that.
As an American, it is of course, an historic moment. It says so much about how far this country has come just in my lifetime (Class of ‘69). Juan Williams on Fox just now said it so much more eloquently than I ever could. What a great moment watching him react. I will inset it here as soon as it hits You Tube. (30 minutes later) Well, that time is now,
That said, there is the potential for Obama supporters, of any color, to throw around the race card over political disagreements. That has already happened and I hope it does not become the norm. That would be like stealing defeat from the jaws of victory.
John McCain’s concession speech was first class. Krauthammer called it a “particularly eloquent exit.” He also called Obama “an entirely self made man.” Good point. He’s no Kennedy offspring, somebody born on third base.
I expect this to be a harbinger of things to come from Republicans, here’s Jim Manzi at The Corner,
Legal racial segregation was prevalent in America within living memory, yet we appear to have just elected a black man to the position of maximum honor, authority and influence in the country. The manner of this political victory is important, as well. This was not some prize bestowed upon him, and Barack Obama didn’t just buy a winning lottery ticket; he out-smarted and out-worked both Hillary Clinton and John McCain. It is healthy that the American political system gathers the energies and talents of those who feel excluded into the nation to change it, rather than pushing them away from the nation to oppose it…there are about 1,460 days until the next Presidential election, and I assume that I will spend approximately the next 1,459 of them opposing Barack Obama. But I’m spending today proud abut what my country has overcome.
Stay classy Republicans, don’t become like the deranged left that you have grown to despise. I don’t expect to see hate filled rage and nonsense like “he’s not my president!” that we have had to endure for the past eight years.
Two things are on display now, liberalism and the cult of personality.
Barack’s opportunity is to resist the impulses of the Pelosi-Reid Congress. He could really develop a center-left coalition if he does. I’m not saying I would be part of it, just that such an opportunity exists. If he acts as President as he did as a state and US senator, it will be the ultimate example of the divergence between his words and deeds.
Now it is the Republicans who are the ones invested in hope and change. They hope Barack Obama is the centrist of his word and that he changes from the liberal of his deeds.
Here in Massachusetts, it is deja vu all over again. Two years ago we were awash in hope and change. Instead of new opportunties, change and a different kind of government, we got Deval Patrick robo-calls for a career criminal. (Yes, I know the calls were before the BRA-zen afternoon snack. She was a career criminal then!).
We could be pleasantly surprised by Barack the Pragmatist. I sure hope so. Or we could get the Barack we were warned about.
Obama’s biggest enemy now is not the Republicans, but hubris.
Random Thoughts:
Coming into tonight, I thought 60 in the Senate was the most important number to watch. Now I’m not so sure. Republican senator Susan Collins won tonight, that is one vote that could go either way on almost any issue. How many others will be running scared? Fifty seven or eight might be close enough.
Barack Obama is one thing, but John Murtha??????? Nooooooooooooo.
John Sununu is a good man and a good senator. Massachusetts owes New Hampshire an apology.
The last thing left tonight is keeping Al Franken out of the Senate.
“The sun will rise, the sun will set, and I’l have lunch.”
-former Red Sox GM Lou Gorman, after being fired (Hat Tip: Shannen Coffin)
November 4, 2008 11:49 pm 
President Barak Obama…Vice President Joe Biden…First Lady Michelle Obama…Ugh
The defeat of John Sununu in NH is actually the most bitter disappointment for me in this election- along with the fact that the state went ENTIRELY blue……we are the state of Northern MA now and I’m not going to lie- it stings!
Shana,
As a Masshole, let me be the first to say sorry.
Kevin
Thanks Kev, but I know you are a vice of reason in a crazy place down there.
Would have been nice if you guys could have voted to ban that old pesky state income tax too….I would have loved a raise! I suppose I’ll just be doubly screwed once NH gets their very own income tax now thanks to our Democratic “leaders”- my husband will lose a percentage of his pay too- GREAT. I was doing pretty well at seeing silver linings this morning, but now I’m depressed again.
Kevin,
Well said. Let’s hope Republicans get their act together.
Bob
McCAIN/PALIN VS. OBAMA/BIDEN, A SAD EXERCISE IN FUTILITY AND HUMOR
What else is there to say? We lost. They won. End of story.
Well, not quite but by this time the professional, erudite pundits have spoken and written their insightful analyses of the presidential race so what else is there to say that hasn’t been said over and over?
I prefer to cite Jay Leno’s monologue last night rather than the usual sources since it reveals far more about this seemingly endless race than do the usual, “objective” experts.
I didn’t catch Letterman except for a very brief clip in which he cracked something like, Is there any chance Obama could take over early? Hearing that brought two questions to mind. One, Is there any chance Dave would please step down earlier than planned and and maybe even marry the mother of his child, Harry, and two, Is there any chance he could be more of a horse’s ass than he already is?
Leno and Letterman are little more than automatons, slaves to their writers’ whims and biases, mouthing words and witticisms reflective more of those writers’ thoughts than of their own but one particular Leno line struck me as very telling about what happened on Election Day.
Of course, many factors contributed to the McCain/Palin drubbing, including McCain’s refusal to get down and dirty early with the always-dirty Democrats.
I believe it was baseball manager Leo Durocher who observed that nice guys finish last. Legendary Green Bay Packer coach, Vince Lombardi, may have said it better when he commented that “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”
Point is that Senator John McCain took the high road and it cost him, and it cost the rest of us, as well.
Perhaps if McCain had played to win from the outset of the race and if he had gone into the Democratic muck in September and hit Obama with his ties to Wright, Rezko, Pfleger, Farrakhan, Ayers, Dohrn, et al., he still may have come in second.
According to the mainstream media, so-called “negative” ads and campaigning always seem to be the province of Republicans anyway, so why didn’t McCain use them early and often? And is telling the truth ever a negative tactic?
But, I digress. Back to Jay Leno….
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As a Vienam Vet, I voted for John McCain and am sorry thank he did not win the Presidency. As an African-American I am happy to see an African-American in the White House. That happiness is more due to the pride I have in my country having gotten past racial bigotry. That being said, I am fearful in the direction we are about to take. Already Barney Frank is talking about cutting the military budget. Remember when the Clintons were in and military families had to go on food stamps?
One thing the left hasn’t come to grips with is that we are at war. And we need our brave men and women on the walls protecting us. They can not do that effectively if they have to worry about their families back home. We must start to do what ever we can to help our military families before the left starts to dismantle our military.
As to the Fairness Doctrine:
“Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. They believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensible to the discovery and spread of political truth; that without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.”
Louis D. Brandeis
Brandeis was once a darling of the left, see how far they have strayed.
As always I will be listening to your show. Please let us know what we can do to help our military families.
Please see previous article, “The Stealth Issue that Will Fleece (Some) Americans (Part One).”
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REPARATIONS PART TWO
What do we want? Money! Money!
When do we want it? Now! Now!
The “Reparations Generation” hasn’t, yet, resorted to so crass a chant but give it time.
Then, again, if Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, has his way, individual reparations paid to America’s blacks will never happen.
Quoting an ancient proverb, he inadvertently slurred his own people when he said that, “We cannot accept a cash payment, because a fool and his money will soon be parted.”
Instead, since, (he strongly implies), blacks would soon blow individual payments (on Cadillacs and crack?) Farrakhan calls for America to expend trillions of dollars and implement a Marshall Plan to compensate blacks for the evil of slavery as well as the transfer of “millions and millions of acres of land.” http://www.blackcommentator.com/10_reparations.html
That’s trillions of dollars and many millions of acres, folks! You can’t make this stuff up!
Whatever happened to 40 acres and a mule? Blacks have set their sights significantly higher than 40 acres and mules.
As far back as 2002 with the “Millions for Reparations Rally” in Washington, demands–not requests–were being made for American whites to cough up millions with cries and banners proclaiming, “It’s our time, reparations time” and “What time is it? Reparations time!”
I’m not sure if the millions referred to in that rally name was the number of demonstrators (only a few thousand showed up) or to the amounts demanded six years ago but Farrakhan and others certainly have upped the ante since then.
In purple prose worthy of a revival meeting, BlackCommentator.com waxes almost poetic in this summary of the requisite nature of the payback: “Reparations is an affirmation of human worth and dignity, a super-weapon in…
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