Posted on 11/17/2008 3:56:26 AM PST by raybbr
It seems that much of the nation rolled over on Tuesday night last week, lit a post election cigarette and dreamily congratulated themselves on a wonderful performance. Was it okay for you?
I’ve never seen anything like the global swoon we’ve been experiencing since the polls closed and Obama’s victory was announced. "OMG," cries the public, fueled by a media that got itself a bit more than a little pregnant, "how wonderful we are for electing Obama."
Maybe I’m just a cynical, churlish idiot, but I woke up after the election with a feeling that, while historic, the result was more a vote against Bush than a vote for Obama. Dazzled by his speechifying and supercool ways, the partygoers opted for style over substance… for campaign skills over any discernible leadership record. Sure, we know he doesn’t have any significant experience and seems too smooth to be true, but what the hell. As a nation, we went out to the bar with our change goggles on.
So there we are the next morning, staring at our new companion for at least the next four years. You feel good for having brought home the most attractive candidate, and you did show how progressive you are… but what’s the person really like? Never mind. Let’s enjoy the feel good moment for a bit longer. Soon enough we’ll have to get out of bed and get something done. Here’s hoping the relationship works out and he’s a keeper.
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There's nothing wrong, IMO, with bringing up questionable circumstances (or evening damning facts) about your opponent. But I agree with you, McCain needed to offer something, some reason by which to vote for him. The dose of "negative campaigning" should be limited to perhaps 20% of the overall message.
There is more to a Presidential Election then winning the Presidency, Rove is one of two counselors to have a sitting President gain seats in Congress in off year elections, REpublicans expanded majorities in 02 and 04..
And one of the few Republican counselors to lose 30-plus seats in the other.
... REpublicans expanded majorities in 02 and 04..
And gave up over 50 seats in 06 and 08. I guess the sheen wore off Rove just a little bit?
Rove didn’t lose his sheen, GWB at 25% approval was impossible to overcome in 08.
Actually, until Chucky Schumer took the trouble to out a major bank (Indymac) as on the verge of failing thus creating a run on that bank for it’s cash, McCain was winning the election according to polling. President Bush is way ahead of the Congress in approval, too, yet democrats pick up seats in House and Senate.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94I3RCG0&show_article=1
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet
Nov 19 12:20 PM US/Eastern
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF and LEE KEATH
Associated Press Writers
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—”house negroes.”
Even al Qaeda says that Zer0 the 0re0’s appointments represent no change.
George $oreA$$ is controlling his house 0re0 very closely with these appointments/selections from Biden to $inator $hrill.
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