Someone beat me to the Reggie Love joke...
Seriously, though, anyone who even remotely thinks the guy whose whole campaign boiled down to “Republicans are the devil!” and who shut out Republicans for the last four years is going to be Mr. Bipartisan all of a sudden is a complete idiot. Which means the liberals all do believe it.
Yes he does.
After 4 years, everyone knew exactly what Obama stood for:
1) a larger federal government
2) Keyneasin economic policies
3) government backed businesses
4) the federal government micro-managing entire industries
5) clean/green energy (and killing fossil fuels)
6) higher taxes on the rich and business
7) expanding government benefits
He was reelected with all that front and center.
On the other hand, the GOP-D is shell-shocked. Romney was their perfect candidate, and he lost. They are abandoning the idea that they can win with conservative ideas, and are already talking about moving to the left.
The result of this election is a political setup like they have in Europe:
1) a far left party (Democrat)
2) a “conservative” party that is slightly left of center (GOP).
As a practical matter, there will be no major “conservative” party in the USA, just a liberal and a very-liberal party.
I don’t know what to do, or what our answer should be, but we’ve got to start by facing reality. And, the reality is the Reagan revolution (at least at the federal level) died yesterday—and so did the GOP (they just don’t know it yet).
It will be interesting to see how long it takes for him and Hillary to go at each others throats.
I am interested because the term "mandate" implies strong popular support.
mandate, ARF, why because blacks voted in their masses due to their racism.
Because layabout lazy welfare, food stamp trash voted to keep their freebies coming.
Because th emedia ignored fast and furious, Libya, border agent being killed, solyndra, debt, unemployment, homosexual agenda, money wasted, and they were always bias and corrupt.
He;s got an agenda and to know what it is then read the commie papers of 1963, he;s already done half of that
mandate, ARF, why because blacks voted in their masses due to their racism.
Because layabout lazy welfare, food stamp trash voted to keep their freebies coming.
Because th emedia ignored fast and furious, Libya, border agent being killed, solyndra, debt, unemployment, homosexual agenda, money wasted, and they were always bias and corrupt.
He;s got an agenda and to know what it is then read the commie papers of 1963, he;s already done half of that
SINCE WHEN DOES A MANDATE MATTER TO A DICTATOR???
I heard them discussing this on Fox last night.
This is why we are losing. Eggheads are in the deep weeds fighting the last war, when Obama is invading Poland and Czechoslovakia, so to speak.
WAKE UP. IT’S A WHOLE NEW WORLD!!!
He doesn’t care if he has a mandate or not.
He won.
I don’t think it matters. Obama can now do most anything he wants, and he will.
We didn’t just lose an election, we lost relevance, we lost our country.
He has all the “mandate” he wants. He can now rule by fiat. He started openly using that power already and the congress did not object.Some Republicans objected to the purposes of the fiats but they did not object to the president’s right to use them. Ergo, thus and therefore the Constitution and Congress are no longer important parts of our system of government. They now exist only for formality and the illusion that the USA is still a republic. It is not. Analagous to the Romans, we have made the transition from Republic to Empire, or rather, to despotism that may turn out to be empire. This would be true, even if Romney had won. Once the presidency has used fiat successfully it becomes a part of the Presidency. The election passing without Fiat even being an issue of the election ensures that result.
He turned the election into a referendum on Big Bird. The only thing he has a mandate for is to save Big Bird.
If by mandate you mean he will cator to a small core of the population at the expense of everyone else then yes.
Of course he did. The GOP lost the White House and 2 senate seats. It’s all go for broke now.
I dunno, did he come out of the closet?
Obama does have a mandate. The mandate is to divide the nation , bring about its fiscal destruction and its military failure.That mandate does not come from Americans, it comes from elsewhere.
America will rue the day it re-elected Obama. Now the real hurt begins.