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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
If they really wanted change, they should have voted for Ron Paul.
Obama’s cabinet is just a bunch of recycled big government Dem operatives. *yawn*
Probably. But it's also an indication that McCain offered nothing to tempt people away from Obama's rhetoric. His campaign was centered on trying to tell people why they shouldn't vote for Obama and not on why people should vote for McCain. If nothing else good comes from this campaign then maybe it'll be the death of that Rovian strategy. Regan won because he told people what he was going to do and what his vision for the future was. We need to return to that.
McCain ran a horrible campaign. Palin was the only thing good going for him. He blew it big time,
McCain was just the wrong choice. No guiding vision, nothing to inspire... just a career centrist with a track record of crossing the aisle.
Wonderful find, raybbr!
Far far too many Americans think the government is the answer.
It was the government that caused the problem.
The dems pushed the American Dream Act,the republican president signed it, and the rest is obvious.
People thought they were entitled to something for nothing.
How to step back from such a disaster is not going to be easy.
LLS
I posted right after your post without reading yours... right on! Great minds and all that!
LLS
Hmmm I see it as the vindication of Rove, you start out with your base, then expand, McCain never had his the core of the Republican Party, and he started trying to organize us to get out the vote far to late in the Election.
If anything, this election is the death of the Moderate.
LLS, you sum it all up very nicely. Many voted for Zero because, and only because he was not Anglo. How stupid is that?
I simply cannot understand the term ‘white guilt’. One cannot pick your parents. I have never owned a slave. I don’t know anyone who has. I live in a nice neighborhood with several black familys. A few go to my church. There is no observable recial tension around here. Hell, the high school where my teenagers go just elected a black girl Homecoming Queen. Why in the world would I vote for a guy based solely on skin pigment? It boggles ...
He's going to do his damnedest to keep those people in homes that had no business being there in the first place. And in continuing turn economic reality on its ear, the disaster will only become worse.
Because voting for the black guy shows that they are more progressive and it makes them feel good about themselves.
What is lost on them is when they do it only because of his skin color that makes them exactly what they say they are not - racist...
“People thought they were entitled to something for nothing.”
That’s what they thought they were promised.
They got something, doubtful it costs us nothing.
Oh, but this way, we get to leave Iraq PLUS have a socialist system. Ron Paul would have made us face realities and go back to icky ol' responsibility.
I wonder how many voters will wish they could chew their arm off.
By the way, in last week’s PWB, we asked readers to tell us what they learned from the lengthy campaign process.
The first thing that comes to mind is that despite the extraordinary length of the campaigns, it's amazing how much the electorate didn't learn!
BTW, the excerpt doesn't give a proper overview of the article--those who haven't read it all should click the link and check it out. The later topic is quite well discussed.
A Muslim, Socialist Chicago machine politician was “elected” either by voter fraud (did you see the ballots?) or mesmerism (2 Cor,4:4) of the Adolph Hitler variety.
A skin was “elected” based on its color, without any knowledge of what’s inside it.
LLS
I can't source it ( a radio news item) but a group of educators rated McCain and Obama based on vocabulary and style of speech during their first debate. They found that McCain spoke at the fifth grade level while Obama's words were pitched at the third grade level.
So whatever the reason ("change" goggles, dumbed-down public schooling, or incredible naivete), Dem and MSM programming are changing to reflect our obvious stupidity.
And why not? After wealth is redistributed, who who else would have the money to buy their stupid products?
Rove's strategy resulted in a bare win in 2000, a less than impressive win in 2004 against a terrible candidate, a route in the 2006 off year elections, and a massacre earlier this month. Rove's successes have been more accidental than anything. Reagan, on the other hand, presided over two landslides.
If anything, this election is the death of the Moderate.
Conservative or moderate, you have to give people a reason to vote for you. The Rovian model is convincing people to vote against the other guy and hope they pick you by default.
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