Anybody feeling a sense of regret among Obama voters

[BelleAl]

I spent a great time talking to my sweet, but sometimes clueless daughters about the impact of this election. They tend to see themselves as more progressive - pro gay marriage, global warming, etc... (before you guys flame away, please know I did my best -- this is college academic influence on them). The sense I get from them and from my conversations today with friends and acquaintances, is that there seems to be a overwhelming atmosphere of regret or to be more graphic and explicit...an oh s__t, what did we just do attitude.

I don't see an in-your-face hurrah jubilation like 4 years ago (except among the DBM)...just a quiet, somber reaction. I wonder if you guys are sensing that and if so, is it registering in Washington? The dynamics are definitely different this time around and I hope it is seen as unsettling to those in power. I'm feeling an edge, a vibe of unrest, uncertainty.

[DefeatCorruption]

While I was in the bank today, closing out my accounts....

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Interestingly enough did the same today.

[Sarah Barracuda]

When I see a black person wearing an Obama shirt I just want to shake them and ask them “What the hell has Obama done for you?” Because he hasn’t done a damn thing except make them more poor and more reliant on Govt..but maybe that is what they want..they want as much free stuff as possible..you can see it all over twitter “F whitey” is what I see over and over again..they just want whatever they can get from white people because they think they are “entitled” to it..its a real shame that Martin Luther King’s dream speech apparently means nothing today in the black community..a wonderful woman Mia Love lost last night, she would have made such a great representative but because she is a Conservative she gets called every disgusting name in the book..its a shame how we have gone backwards like the Dream speech never happened..MLK is rolling over in his grave

[cherry]

I think they were resigned to the little dicktator losing,and actually secretly were relieved that he was, but then he got in thru that Soros vote rigging, and now, its all on their little hands....

I will be throwing it in their from now until I'm dead...

"oh...you didn't get that job?..can't find a job"...who did you vote for?"...

"oh..your taxes just went screaming high?..who did you vote for?"

"oh your health care premiums just doubled?..who did you vote for?"

[butterdezillion]

Wow, some things never change, huh?

[Red Badger]

People all over the nation will be shocked when they get their first paycheck of 2013. ......

[listenhillary]

I just stumbled across his writings at Zero Hedge recently.

[midnightcat]

these people live in a la-la land of their own making. the economy is going to crash and totally bite them in the butt. the shock will be amazing. life is rough!

[butterdezillion]

Yes, what you said.

[aruanan]

Look HERE for the origin of this quote:

‎"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful, good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'" -Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

[ari-freedom]

“Let them take 100% responsibility for the giant cluster F that is about to occur.”

You don’t understand. They will always blame someone else. They will blame employers for firing people. They’ll blame ‘greedy’ oil companies for high gas prices. And if they can’t find a good excuse for blame because everything really went down the tubes, they will say “but we care and will protect you.”

[Sarah Barracuda]

Here in California the voters voted to raise taxes on the “rich” so I say this..every single rich celebrity like Beyonce, Cher, and all the rest of the leftist slime balls who love Socialism SO much..I am fine with the Govt raising their taxes just like in France..raise them to 70 percent..and see how they like Socialism then. I would like to see my cousin who works for google and makes over 300,000 a year(And thats not including Google stock) who “proudly” voted for Obama and doesn’t mind having his taxes raised(But comes to family members birthday parties with NO gift, cheap ass) raise his taxes to 70 percent..see how he loves Obama then
See these libs don’t give a damn about other people suffering, but when its THEM suffering then they will think twice about that oh so wonderful Socialist Utopia

[Betis70]

>>For those who are not complicit in the bad governance, I am so sorry that they have to be stuck to the same fate as the others.

Yeah it sucks. I think I am conservative enough to move to Texas, plus I have lots of family there. My first preference would be Tennessee (partly because I love Country and Bluegrass music) but I don’t know a soul there. I also liked North Carolina when I visited there recently, and they are becoming a ‘swing’ state, so maybe my vote would have the most impact there.

I’ve always thought that fighting against the local libbies was part of my responsibility, to try to be an alternate voice against them. Now I think it doesn’t matter.

My neighbors will get the government they voted for.

[hcmama]

Went to Durham (NC) today to see my kid. Thought they would be out singing hosannas in the streets. But everyone seemed subdued—no celebratory vibe at all.

[butterdezillion]

My in-laws live in Texas and I mentioned to my husband that it would be nice to be closer to them. He smiled and said he’d remember that next time he gets an inquiry about working there. It sits in the back of my mind that if secession became a real possibility I would want to make sure I was not right in the middle of the country where there wouldn’t be a clean separation point from the rest of the Divided States of America.

The part about the south, though, is that the Mexican drug cartels are coming, along with any other terrorists. If Texas seceded they wouldn’t have Eric Holder to fight, though, and could maybe actually protect their border...

[cherry]

my two educated adult children are the same...total shallow non thinking liberals who think its so cool to be the jet set...

funny, my dtr was conservative like me until she met her husband....now she is just over the edge...

her idea of news is NPR....

don't wish bad things on my children, but boy, they certainly deserve it...

I've suggested to them..all of them...to get govt jobs....I want to tell them that if they want statism, they should join the state workforce, but they probably wouldn't know what that means...

[Psalm 144]

He governed to the left of Bill Clinton.

He was and is culture of death.

“Squeaky clean” is more than a peck-and-sniff monitor’s list of Things To Not Do.

He is a backstabber.

He is a liar.

He is weak, so weak he was punked by lil’ Barry Obama.

“Massachusetts Moderate” did not even sell in benighted Massachusetts.

[aruanan]

Here is more from this address given in 1965. It's pretty awesome considering the present occupant of the White House:

If you, per chance, are among those who would rather be governed by constitutional law than by the whims of men unfettered by restraint, I suggest that the war will have to be fought on a wide front. You can't win with brush fights in special area. You must join and coordinate your efforts with the professions, with business and industry, with agriculture and all facets of American society concerned with the preser- vation of personal liberty. The centralizers can lick the isolated groups, but they could not defeat a sustained drive by the consolidated believers in constitutional government.

As a conservative, you should scrutinize every political candidate, at whatever level, and support the man who believes in our traditional form of government. You should examine every major governmental proposal and express your convictions at the ballot box and by letter, telegram, and in person. You should devote the same degree of thought and attention to your public business as you give to your personal affairs.

If you are a liberal, you should insist upon a Republican form of government. You should oppose every invalid executive order and shout from the housetops against the Supreme Court of the United States every time it arrogates to itself the power to write new law and to rewrite the Federal Constitution. You should remember that the historic method of stamping out liberalism is to undermine constitutional government and substitute the rule of man. You should remember that in Russia and Germany, in Italy and Red China, the liberals were promised more liberality and more freedoms - that the promisors promised fast action by fiat. They said, as our Supreme Court now says, let's do these good things now - let's not wait for the slow processes of the law.

If you are an ADA left-winger, you should insist upon utopia under the law, not by executive order. You should insist upon the right to live in Mr. Gotrock's house on the beach, the right to a free college education for your children, your right as a Protestant to join the Knights of Columbus - but you should never give Big Brother the power to confer those rights by ukase. Why? Because when the President or the Supreme Court usurps the power to give you something to which, under the law, you are not entitled, the President or the Court can, with equal ease, usurp the power to take from you that to which you are entitled.

If you are one of the American minorities and unhappy with your race, you should exert every effort to improve your position; you can aspire to the social organizations of the other races and endeavor to pull down distinction and level off all differences. But, being knowledgeable in history, you should do all these things under constitutional law. You ought never urge the illegal use of the army in your behalf because, when you have lost your popularity as a cause and are no longer needed at the ballot box, the President can use that same army illegally against you. You should remember vividly, how, in other countries, where constitutional government was abolished, minorities were cooked in the gas ovens or deep frozen in Siberia.

And if I were a left-wing newspaperman wedded to socialism, hating wealth and the wealthy, I would do my writing behind America's constitutional guaranty of free speech. I would emulate the feist dog and bark mightily, but from behind the strong fence of constitutional protection. I would remember only too well how freedom of the press and freedom of those who write for the press have been curtailed in those countries where man has risen above the law. Each morning I would remind myself to remind all my left-wing doctor, preacher, teacher, and racist friends that only under a constitutional form of government, where the rights of the individuals are protected, can we live and breathe and preach and write our thoughts; that under centralized power our only free choice will be to write and preach and teach as Big Brother tells us or to go dig salt in the mines.

But what would you do if your aim is for a dictatorship or a communistic takeover? How would you go about weakening the fiber of the country? You would know that, given a fair choice between a representative Republic and a dictatorship, the vast majority of the people in this country would vote against centralization.

No, your road to successful takeover would involve beguiling the people with handouts, creating false sense of security and, step by step, the dishing out of benefits with one hand and the lifting of liberties with the other. You would encourage the issuance of invalid executive orders, all in the name of humanity to please large segments of the voters. You would persuade the judiciary to ignore constitutional restraint and, in the beginning at least, issue invalid decisions in favor of the so-called downtrodden of our population and, of course, contemporarily, you would have the do-gooders demonstrate and create strife and, in every way possible, debunk and belittle the principles upon which the country grew and prospered and became the first nation of the earth. This prescription, faithfully followed, is likely of success under all conditions and, absent intelligent opposition, can be guaranteed.

These are not just theoretical abstractions - that's the way it's been done throughout history, beginning with Greece and Rome, on down through Russia, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, and Peron's Argentina.

[hinckley buzzard]

I'm feeling an edge, a vibe of unrest, uncertainty.

Whatever, my answer to obama voters is, "enjoy it while it lasts, because your vote is going to cost you tens of thousands more than it will cost me."

[null and void]

It was a very good day to do that.

[comebacknewt]

I concede your point.

Still, I would prefer they have 100% control of the government when it comes crashing down. At least that would give me a small amount of satisfaction.