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Nice. LOL
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on November 5, 2008 09:10 AMAnd three cheers for our Obama Youth, who have ushered in the neocom age.
Posted by: Saltherring on November 5, 2008 09:13 AMThe election of someone who has openly cultivated associations with acknowledged and unrepentent terrorists is a reflection of what the masjority of the electorate considers to be legitimate. In other words, according to the majority of people who voted in this Presidential election, we are no longer a Country in which the implementation of terrorist tactics disqualifies one as having the privilge to hold the highest office in the land.
Although I hope that we do not see it come to this - it would be poetic justice indeed if the next administration were faced with people who disagreed with federal government policies under an Obama administration were to employ the same exact tactics that his supporters have used in the past in an attempt to bring down his administration.
Posted by: JDH on November 5, 2008 09:19 AMAnd @4... guess this means that you cannot be considered a patriot, eh?
Posted by: demo kid on November 5, 2008 09:22 AMFor the first time in my adult life I can say I am ashamed of my country.
The election of someone who has openly cultivated associations with acknowledged and unrepentant domestic terrorists is a reflection of what the majority of the electorate considers to be legitimate.
In other words, according to the majority of people who voted in this Presidential election, we are no longer a Country in which being an associate and supporter of those who would implement terrorist tactics disqualifies one as having the privilege to hold the highest office in the land.
Although I hope that we do not see it come to this - it would be poetic justice indeed if the next administration were faced with people who disagreed with federal government policies under an Obama administration were to employ the same exact tactics that his supporters have used in the past in an attempt to bring down his administration.
Sorry you feel that way. I, on the other hand, have never been prouder of my country.
Shark~
Way to stay classy, dude.
Posted by: Steven Donegal on November 5, 2008 09:29 AMIn fact the election of Obama, if nothing else, validates the use of demestic terrorism as a vehicle to advance one's agenda when there is little hope of affecting change through the political process. The electorate has spoken.
You may not see it that way, but that is exactly what the message of electing someone who has cultivated relationships with those who resort to violence to affect political change.
This is a new dynamic here in America, but it has been accepted practice in the rest of the world since the dawn of time.
Obama's associations with terrorists were trivial at best. Seriously if William Ayers was a real threat he would be in prison and not teaching in Chicago. If he was the terrorist you claim he is GOP supporter / McCain backer Annenberg be paying his salary to have him sit on her board.
The Piper
Posted by: Piper Scott on November 5, 2008 09:46 AMIn fact the election of Obama, if nothing else, validates the use of demestic terrorism as a vehicle to advance one's agenda when there is little hope of affecting change through the political process. The electorate has spoken.
You may not see it that way, but that is exactly what the message of electing someone who has cultivated relationships with those who resort to violence to affect political change.
This is a new dynamic here in America, but it has been accepted practice in the rest of the world since the dawn of time.
You're looking at a history of eight years of Bush, but you're tearing into Obama after he's been projected to be president-elect for less than a day.
And yeah, I understand that you're distressed and mopey. By all means wallow. But "defaming a sitting president" is nowhere near as bad as folks that decide to defame someone who hasn't even sat down yet.
You mean the sitting President who claimed he was a uniter and not a divider only to lead one of the most secretive and partisan administrations to date?
The small Govt. President who increased the Govt. to it's biggest size in history? The low tax/small debt President who has led us to our first trillion dollar deficit? The President who never met a spending bill he didn't like until 6 years into his term?
President Bush earned his reputation by going against everything he claimed he was for. I would hope the GOP would remain somewhat classy at least until Obama picks his cabinet. If it's truly bi-partisan in nature (with someone like Chuck Hagel in it) then he's keeping his promise, if it's full of hard-core leftists and/or token conservatives we know that the country will face at least 4 years of the same old politics with a new and younger face.
America survived the cult leadership of FDR. Let's see if we survive the leadership of Obama.
Posted by: Snuffy on November 5, 2008 10:19 AMGood ol' Michele...one day in, Obama hasn't even picked his cabinet and she's repulsed by his actions as President. Seriously this is the kind of stuff we as a nation are hoping to move on from.
Tell me Michele why would Warren Buffet back a Marxist? Why would Colin Powell back a Marxist? How many private businesses has Bush nationalized? How about Gov. Palin who hails from the most socialist state in the union? Look no further than the GOP for Marxism in action.
As for Hillary...she was corrupt and if elected we'd have to sit through Hillary kicking her husband out of the situation room.
America has a fresh start with a new generation, no more legacy Presidents. Baby Boomers had their time and blew it. Time for a new generation of leaders to learn from the mistakes of the past and try not to make their own mistakes.
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...easy there big fella :)
Posted by: Duffman on November 5, 2008 11:29 AM...well, she had already kicked him out of the bedroom long ago.
Posted by: Rick D. on November 5, 2008 11:47 AMI was coming around, however - up until the time he decided that it was my obligation to indemnify and underwrite every G'damned worthless POS on both sides of the mortgage fiasco.
I did vote for McCain, but let me tell you something - if he had wone the thought of him being rewarded for every lowdown dirty rotten suckerpunch he has planted in the breadbasket of those who have supported him made me sick.
In the second article John Derbyshire points out why I am more and more inclined to disengage when he states: "What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn't let the fool park his car in my driveway."
And the Winner Is . . . Peggy the Moocher
Obama effectively channeled Oprah Winfrey's Big Give.
By Michelle Malkin
Sorry to break the bad news to Joe the Plumber. But the winner of Campaign 2008 is Peggy the Moocher. No matter who moves into the White House, Peggy has good reason to do a happy dance. The plain, ugly fact is that both major political parties are committed to spreading the wealth in one form or another. It's all just a question of how much and how quickly.
Who is Peggy the Moocher? She's Peggy Joseph, a voter in Sarasota, Fla., who exulted earlier this week at a Barack Obama rally that this was "the most memorable time of my life." Why? As she told a Florida reporter on a YouTube video that has been viewed by hundreds of thousands: "Because I never thought this day would ever happen. I won't have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know. If I help [Obama], he's gonna help me."
You can't blame Peggy the Moocher for viewing Obama as the superior Santa Claus. With a relentless messianic campaign, a grievance-mongering wife touting him as the country's soul-fixer and a national infomercial promising to take care of every need from night classes to medical bills, from rent to fuel-efficient cars, Obama effectively channeled Oprah Winfrey's Big Give.
"Everybody gets a car!" "Everybody gets a car!" And gas. And mortgage payment relief.
But the damning reality for fiscal conservatives is that John McCain's plan for homeowners underwater on their mortgages was even more generous than Obama's.
His $300 billion "rescue" involved directing the Treasury Secretary to "purchase mortgages directly from homeowners and mortgage servicers." That was on top of the trillion-plus-dollar "bank" bailout supported by both presidential candidates, the White House and the Democratic leadership; the $85-plus billion to AIG; the $25 billion to automakers; and the $200 billion in capital and credit lines to Fannie and Freddie. And who knows what else we'll be redistributing to the indebted states of New York, California, Massachusetts, and all the other Peggy the Moochers, large and small, lining up for their piece of the bailout pie.
McCain assailed massive government spending -- while promising to heap on more massive government spending to pursue home ownership and retention at all costs. It was the Republican, not the Democrat, who entrusted the Treasury Department to renegotiate individual home loans and become chief principal write-down agents for the nation. Both private and public entities are planning for a McCain-esque homeowner salvation plan for borrowers in the red.
It's a swell idea for everyone who bought overpriced homes with Adjustable Rate Mortgages. Those who rented, bought within their means or locked into fixed-rate loans that they could afford are out of luck, naturally. The only sane thing to do in response? Stop paying your mortgage and get in line.
"E Pluribus Unum" is no longer our national motto. These three words are: "Do For Me." As in: What will the government do for me?
On Election Day, the federal government quietly reported that it will borrow a record $550 billion in the current quarter to fund the bipartisan bailout. The Treasury Department plans to borrow more than a half-trillion dollars in the current October-December quarter and another $368 billion in the first three months of next year.
Estimated total for the whole year: $1.4 trillion. Democrats plan to add another $500 billion in "stimulus"-palooza legislation. Credit card companies, utilities, insurance companies, and car-loan and student-loan debtors await their turn.
The bailout bonanza blurred the differences between the two major political parties, but the Peggy the Moocher video shows there are still basically two starkly contrasting views of government in this country among the rank-and-file electorate. Unlike Joe the Plumber, Peggy sees government as her salvation and the president as her subsidizer-in-chief. She voted with the expectation that the Spreader of Wealth will reward her with payback. Joe just wants Washington to leave him alone to fend for himself.
Personal responsibility? Hah. Washington can't afford it.
Eight Wasted Years
And the ratchet slips free.
By John Derbyshire
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy.
Thus Barack Obama, writing in his autobiography about his time at the expensive liberal-arts college Occidental in California. I'd like to tell you that he goes on to mock his young self for naïvety and infantile leftism, to deplore the way those "Marxist professors" used their prestige and influence to fill young heads with poisonous rubbish long discredited by events in the real world. I'd like to, but I can't, because he doesn't. Obama doesn't think Marxism is rubbish. He thinks it's basically ... correct.
Not that our president-elect is going to roar through the U.S. economy nationalizing the means of production, distribution, and exchange. (The current administration has that well in hand, in any case.) Nor, I am pretty sure, will he incite a violent class war, with the losers hustled off to labor camps or driven into exile with the family jewelry sewn into their petticoats. We are long past the point where classical Marxism has any application. Obama can't incite the workers to seize control of the factories: the factories are all in China. He can't consolidate peasant small-holdings into communal farms, because there aren't any peasant small-holdings; and if he tried anyway, no one would notice, farming being the occupation of less than half of one percent of us.
Barack Obama does, though, have the heart and soul of a cultural Marxist. He sees history in terms of class struggle, with pitiful, soulful Oppressed being brutalized and impoverished by arrogant, heartless Oppressors. Anyone who sees matters in these Who-Whom terms has absorbed the essence of Marxism, even if he has never held a hammer or a sickle -- even if, like Obama, he has never held anything heavier than a Community Organizer's clipboard.
This was the import of the Joe the Plumber incident. In a long campaign your true self is bound to emerge once or twice. No matter how tightly your handlers apply the shrink-wrap, a sharp claw or beak will work its way through now and then. In Barack Obama's worldview, the Who and the Whom are locked in a bitter struggle, from which the Whom is bound to emerge victorious at last. Then the victors, purified by suffering, will lead mankind on to the sunlit uplands where from each shall be taken according to his abilities, to each shall be given according to his needs.
That these doctrines are utterly false, completely mistaken, and catastrophically destructive in practice, is a thought Barack Obama cannot think. That "ability" and "needs" turn out to be shapeless and slippery concepts when politicians try to corral them, has not occurred to him. (I need a new car. Will whichever citizen has been delegated to pay for it, please mail the check to National Review? Thank you.) How could such thoughts have occurred to him? He was a red-diaper baby, offspring of a love-the-world, hate-America sixties gal and an African socialist in the Mugabe mould, raised by leftish grandparents addled with "Uncle Tim" racial guilt, and mentored by a hard-Left labor radical.
Pat Buchanan (Whom God Preserve!) gave his own autobiography the title Right from the Beginning. If Barack Obama had been a tad more honest when writing his, he could just as well have titled it Left from the Beginning. He was honest enough though, lavishing praise on coarse, fascistic radicals like the odious Jeremiah Wright. (You can let Rev'm Wright out of the basement now, guys.)
Margaret Thatcher used to talk about the "ratchet effect." When the Left gets power, she said, they drive everything Left; when the Right gets power, they slow the Leftward drive, perhaps even halt it for a spell; but nothing ever gets moved to the Right. U.S. politics in the 21st century so far bears out this dismal analysis. What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn't let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word.
I see that some of my NRO colleagues are scratching around for shards of optimism -- of Hope! -- in the general wreckage. Good luck to them. I see nothing for conservatives to hope for in an Obama administration. We just have to stick it out. This shallow, ignorant, self-obsessed man, who held an actual job for just one year of his charmed life (low-grade editing for an obscure newsletter -- he felt, he tells us in Dreams, "like a spy behind enemy lines," the enemy of course being capitalism), this red-diaper baby and his wife, will be our First Couple for the next four years and some weeks. It'll be interesting. Interesting
Cato, we're just not buying your sudden case of self-righteousness. go over to HA, where they might actually buy it.
Posted by: Michele on November 5, 2008 12:11 PMYou must be reeling from all of the astute responses to your point.
Posted by: Zeeb on November 5, 2008 01:11 PMStocks plunge as investors ponder Obama presidency
Hamas fires over 35 rockets towards Israel
Israel launches first airstrike on Gaza since June
Iran warns U.S. military after Obama win
Russia to base missiles on EU border
nice ad hominem. Any facts to back up your assertions?
that's what I thought.
Posted by: John Galt on November 5, 2008 02:29 PMWhat I expect is Obama will lead America out of the festering crap-pile the Republican war and Republican executive / legislative branches created, and in a few years' time have us well on the road to recovery and prosperity again.
What I also expect is the fine, upstanding citizens on this forum will complain about it every step of the way.
Posted by: certaindoom on November 5, 2008 02:33 PMI have idea what this even means. If you are referring to how govts in Europe are run, well, it wasn't accepted by the great men who founded this country. Have we failed? No. I have no idea what Barry is talking about when he basically implies that America has been a s**thole up until his election. This man has never "worked" a day in his life. He has absolutely no freakin' clue what the middle class goes through everyday to provide for their families. His viewpoints seem to be theorectical at best. Gleened basically from textbooks and Marixist pamphlets. He's never had to make a hard decision in his whole freakin' life. And now we entrust this man with running the most powerful nation in the world??? God help us all! Hell, at least Dukakis was a governor. Kerry, despite him going rogue when he came back, led men in battle. And held a real elected position with responsibility before becoming a Senator. All Barry has done is look for his next opportunity. Well, he's at the mountain top now. No where else to go. Time to see if can actually DO something. Time to see if can make a HARD decision. Say what you will about Bush, at least there is a record to analyze. At least he made decisions. Barry has nothing to show. Madison and Jefferson are turning over in their graves.
Posted by: Dave on November 5, 2008 03:52 PMI WANT:
~Full Health Care for All
~An Army of Teachers
~Free College
~Free Broadband
~Free Preschool
~Government Guaranteed Pensions
~Lower Food Costs
~Bipartisan Washington
~Energy Independence
~No Carbon Emissions on Coal Plants
~World Wide Unity and Peace
~Huge Increases in American Jobs
~Stop Trade with Foreign Countries
~A Richer Middle Class
~Middle Class Tax Cuts
~Oceans Levels Lowering
~No Terrorist Attacks
Oh and I also want a living wage for all Americans. We should start out at $35.00 an hour and go up from there. Equal pay for equal work.
This will be perfect for ME and others my age as we will be able to take full advantage of all of these goodies before I die. Just about the time of my passing, the nation will implode into a low productivity, Marxist scrap heap much like Venezuela is doing now and Cuba has been for years. I'll get the best of it all and you youngins who voted for Obama will get squat but high taxes and the whole system will be junk. You get all the long lines, indifferent doctors (if you can find one), smelly operating rooms and sky high energy costs. We get the creme off the top.
The Demorats have been telling me to vote my own best interests for years and I think now is a good time to start.
Excuse me, I need to draft my first letter to Patti, Maria and Jay. Suckers!
This served very well, in as much as we have not had to deal with domestic terrorism on nearly the scale that other countries have. I will admit that many of the Scandinavian countries have been able to escape this dynamic up 'til recently when we have seen Islamists using these tactics.
Europe has been infested with terrorism from within, primarily by radical Islamic groups for decades. Europe is a lost cause because of their acceptance of people who associate with these hate groups.
Now we have a President Elect who freely and openly associated with people who subscribe to the politics of the temper tantrum when they think their personal cause to be morally superior and they act out by bombing the institutions of government and of political murder.
The President Elect's long time associates and supporters stand by this as a means of affecting political change today and they are in league with the President Elect. Thanks to a majority of the voting public not seeing these type of associations as fundamentally being a disqualification for high office. This is a very dangerous precedent, to say the least.
There have always been minorities that subscribed to the proposition that violence was a legitimate means to affect what THEY saw as a higher end. The difference is that yesterday the majority of American voters did not see having any association with people who subscribe to the use of violent tactics i.e. terrorism as being consistent with holding high office.
In that way we are now like the rest of the world. Good job morons, you have sewn the wind let justice would dictate that you be the ones to reap the affects of the whirlwind that it has fostered. Unfortunately this will not be the case, your blind stupidity has set in motion something that will be hard to control. People who advocate domestic violence in pursuit of a political outcome they favor now will not see this as damning them from participation at any level. This all started when Universities welcomed these animals onto their faculties and now it is spread throughout the land.
Posted by: JDH on November 5, 2008 06:52 PMOops! My bad. "Hey I want a new car too and free gas!!"
There, I fell better now.
But I am serious about this. I will be sending Maria, Patti, and Jay (and Obama of course) letters as soon as the smoke clears a little. Did I mention that I'm very serious about it?
The little kids who think that their social Valhalla is free will have to learn that their wages can disappear pretty damn fast when you want everything for everybody and I'm more than happy to show 'em how and how fast.
Did you here that Demo and the rest if you suckers? Here I come. I'm old and I'll get my share long before you get yours. Ha, ha, ha!
Posted by: G Jiggy on November 6, 2008 11:54 AM
Good article in the American Spectator referencing the theft of the Washington Gubernatorial election in 2004
Posted by: JDH on November 6, 2008 02:35 PMYou can expect every bit of consideration given to George Bush.
Posted by: Das Baron Von Zippee on November 7, 2008 12:31 PM