Congratulations to Barack Obama, our first pure socialist President.
At least we at FA are going to have a TON to write about over the next four years.
One thing I find humorous is this kind of sentiment coming from Oprah:
I haven’t seen this sense of unity since 9/11, really, really, and 9/11 was this tragic experience that brought us all together and now we’re all brought together in the name of hope. Not since 9/11 have I experienced anything even kind of close to this.
Unity?
Oh yeah, lots of unity is forthcoming for this man, the most inexperienced man to ever hold the office and who’s complete life has been an exposé of socialism. Come on.
Much of the blame can be laid at the feet of the man the Republican party voted to represent them as Ace put oh so succinctly:
There is no “McCainism” as there was a “Bushism” or “Reaganism.” Those men offered fairly clear visions (well, Reagan particularly so). Not McCain. Everything with him is just his personal gut, principle-free, just an instinct, an impulse, which often takes him in wildly contradictory places (but he’s always haughty about the moral superiority of his decisions).
For example, he’s pro-drilling… but not in ANWR. Um, why? He’s forever undercutting himself with unexplained hedges and caveats.
He’s pro-business… Kinda. Except when he’s making his distaste for anyone working in the private sector “for profit not patriotism” so glaringly evident.
He wants to lower taxes. Sorta. Sometimes. Maybe. In election years.
We must regard Obama as suspect because of his association with the terrorist Bill Ayers… but it’s racist to mention his membership in Jeremiah Wright’s Church of Hate.
This leads to a paralysis among his campaign staff. Everyone knew, pretty much, the Idea of Reagan. They could act independently with confidence that they were advancing Reagan’s goals.
No one could do that with McCain.
~~~He always had a tough battle, but in the end he had no plan for battle, only the unwavering belief that he alone was equipped to lead the war.
There was no idea of McCain beyond McCain himself.
And ultimately, he lost. No man is greater than an idea.
Jonah Goldberg recognizes that the left has succeeded in a long dreamed of mission:
The American left since the turn of the century has seen their mission as the Europeanization of America. The amazing thing about American politics is that we always greet these efforts as some sort of fresh project. I often think things would be so much easier — for both sides — if liberals would simply admit what they’re up to and conservatives would remember that liberals aren’t up to anything new.
Anyways, as the title of this post makes clear. Obama peaks tonight….he has no where else to go but down….so enjoy it Barack.
Thankfully!….thankfully he does not have a filibuster proof Congress.
(Can you tell I’m a bit upset that our country elected a complete and utter socialist as President? At least we got Sarah Palin out of it….one shiny bit of good news)
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Bah, if Wallstreet is right as rain starting 2morrow im going to believe it was manufactured to fk with mccain.
Congratulations Mr. Obama, i’m moving to Alaska to let Sarah Palin protect me.
My sympathies go out to: Small business owners, Middle America, Big businesses, the poor who won’t be able to afford anything due to rising prices forced on us by a rob from the rich to ‘give to hte poor’ mentality, Our service men and women as Obama pulls them prematurely out of a war we are winning, to Iraqi people who will be over-run by terrorists once again, to small business owners who will have to lay off workers because big businesses that they do business with can’t afrford the higher taxes and have to cut hteir own staff and reduce costs, and just basically to everyone as we begin the slow decay of Europonization- Oh, and to everyone as we pay htrough the nose for the ‘privilege’ of socialism.
Demoncrats Agenda?
No Drilling (read- complete reliance on nations that hate us)
No new refineries (which we desperately need to meet demand- but Demoncrats don’t want this as their agenda is higher fuel prices/taxes on fuel prices)
Take from the rich (Who already pay way more than their share of taxes) (Which will not only affect big business, but also smaller businesses who rely on the big businesses)
‘Global Warming’ mandates/Carbon taxes (Psssst- the earth has been cooling now for over a decade DESPITE record levels of carbon going into the atmosphere- hmmmm- guess the scientific facts don’t mean much to those greedy for taxpayer money though)
Socialized healthcare (Say goodbye to choice, and hello to subpar service as Doctors and Surgeons get far far less than they now get, and htus give less quality service- Just ask Canada!!!)
Mandatory Green Power (Get ready for costly upgrades to your homes and businesses or face stiff fines for defying obamamessiah)
Higher prices on everythign as Obama makes it nearly impossible for busineeses to make a go of it, and the trickle down layoffs and ramped up prices on everything start piling up.
Civilian Security- What hte……
we were not proud enough, we didn’t hit hard eough, we will next time around.
12:55 a.m. EST, Nov 5 ’08
That doesn’t look like unity to me
luva,
I believe this election was a referendum on Bush. Like it or not, he was not an effective president during the last 5 years. He failed to articulate why Iraq was front and center on the war on terror. He never explained how spreading democracy in the center of the Middle East was key to our own security. He grew the federal bureaucracy and our debt. The final nail was the financial crisis and the bailout (the sitting presidental party always gets blamed). The uneducated masses who get their news from the networks voted 54%+ for Obama as a result.
We regroup and fight another day. Until then….
God Bless America and may He guide President Obama.
My prediction, the stock market tanks tomorrow. People just don’t know what they voted for. So much for the claim that people don’t get their news from the MSM.
I’ll be getting a bumper sticker that says–We Warned You About obama
@Hard Right: if you find on of those stickers, set up a link here, i will need one.
Congratilations to Obama. He ran a great campaign and we have to respect him as the next President.
I just hope the people that voted for him know what and who they voted for. Because he will bring this country in a totally different direction. And you sometimes need to beware what you wished for.
U. M. A.
“The final nail was the financial crisis…” (Elroy Jetson)
That financial crisis was a fraud. It was orchestrated by the Dems, Fannie Mae and Obama associations to win this election. There was no real crisis… it was a plot. It would have eventually become one in a few years, but they chose this time so Obama would win. A 6 years old kid could see this. And the bailout was the Congress idea pushed on Bush.
“Congratulations Mr. Obama, i’m moving to Alaska to let Sarah Palin protect me.” (Custer)
Smart move Custer. I would suggest that everybody would follow you. I just might myself. The people who voted for Obama are just as stupid as Québeckers. So, I guess I will join you.
Curt,
I feel just like you, maybe just a bit more frustrated. I am damn mad. We Canadians rely on the States for our security. Now, we will have to protect you. WOW, with our Army that is equiped with toys guns. That should do the trick! That is all we have, we are a socialist country, don’t forget.
“There was no idea of McCain beyond McCain himself.”
I’d say that hits the target. McCain was supposed to be the candidate who would appeal across party lines and win over Democrats as well as moderates and Independents.
And yet we saw tonight that President Bush in 2004 did a much better job of getting that vote.
It’s not all McCain’s fault. Without the financial collapse he might have been elected tonight. But he could have done a better job of pinning blame for that collapse on the Democrats.
President Bush will also bear his portion of the blame for tonight’s loss too. He stood there and let Democrats use him as a pinata for eight long years and rarely held them accountable. All in the name of that stupid “new tone” of his which was a license for Democrats to abuse us all.
I hope that we have learned some lessons tonight. Number one being that we need to reorganize the GOP from the top down to serve conservative principles. We need to support strong, credible candidates who aren’t afraid to be conservative and who are not afraid to fight. Further compromise and calls for bipartisanship are only calls for more defeat.
We also need to uncork the vast fundraising potential of conservatives nationwide and use this resource to promote our cause, not just the cause of the GOP. Establishment of a Conservative Majority Fund would be a good start.
In 2008 and 2006 Democrats proved that hard work, intense fundraising and a demand that candidates follow a disciplined ideological path was a winner.
Not only can we do the same as Democrats. We can do it BETTER!
The battle for Congress in 2010 starts tonight as does the battle for the White House in 2012.
Did his tribe kill their bull?
Unity?! What has Oprah been smoking? Good God, is it possible that these people believe that now that their false messiah has been elected, everyone is going to settle down now and play happy, hapy, joy, joy with the Great Pretender?
I admire John McGain for his gracious – even noble – concession. But I lack his character. The ignoble fraud who stole the presidency is not my president. He will never be my president.
Congratulations to the MSM for lying for Obama, congratulations to those on the right who backed Obama so they could ingratiate themselves with his regime, congratulations to the New Hampshire for putting life into McCain’s dead campaign which gave us the most nonconservative candidate we could get and congratulations to the 52+ million who I will point to on a daily basis as this country moves to becoming another Eurabia.
I will never admit to Obama being my president. I will take the attitude of the left and have ODS to the point that I will blame everything that happens on Obama. The good (which will be minimal) and the bad whcih will be tremendous.
I only pray that Obama, Pelosi and Reid will not totally f*** this country up beyond repair in four years.
Mike,
The problem with Bush is that he is a “good guy”, like McCain. So Bush never defended himself. Good guys always get screwed. People should know that. If you do not have the guts to defend yourself, then you merit losing.
This just proves how stupid people as a whole are… and what influence the MSM has over the less informed..
Anyone… ANYONE with one itoa of common sense would not have voted for the obamination…
I have no faith in 50% of the people in this country,,, but then again I never did…
They are all idiots and deserve what little they will get…
We are well and truly f’d…. the freaking tree huggers, socialist morons are now in charge…
Say good bye to freedom….
Stalin has been reborn…
I hope Sarah starts campaigning tomorrow morning for the next presidency. This WOMAN is not a “good guy”… she has guts and she will win!
“We will not go quietly into the night…we will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today, we celebrate”… the birth of a new nation… and in four years we will put this bastard unwanted birth up for adoption.
Let the witch hunts (against republicans) begin.
It wasn’t just McCain that went down, the Democrats took down some big guns running for Congress.
I think we are going to see some massive inflation from several fronts and this is just going to hurt American trade. First he promised higher costs from health care. Then he promised inflation from cap and trade. Then we are going to see inflation from his taxes and increased minimum wage ideas and the costs get passed down to the consumer, including those people around the world buying U.S. goods. They just aren’t going to buy the goods.
To make matters more interesting, when it comes to foreign trade, the Democrats are protectionists. They believe, and Obama supports, tariffs and subsidies. The WTO has already ruled against the subsidies. I sense trade wars on the horizen as countries refuse to buy U.S. goods and the U.S. refuses to import goods and if they do, there would be massive tariffs.
Then we enter stagflation as the price of goods and services go up while production goes down. All that spread the wealth will get gobbled up and people will be back to where they were, expept maybe this time without a job. The world will continue laughing at or hating the U.S. as Brazil, India and China pass the U.S. by on trade and productivity.
These trade wars will just kill the U.S. in making allies. There would be no more carrots to offer. Maybe that’s why Obama would rather talk in the UN while the world suffers what it’s always been suffering.
He’ll end up causing the same things he accused Bush of doing, but just in a different way.
Curt, you aren’t the only one! I’m mad as Hell! I can’t believe the utter stupidity of the 52 million Americans that voted for this shyster.
The MSM will be a problem for conservatives for the foreseeable future (unless we can find the next Ronald Reagan). I mean, the moment that the MSM started flashing red lights about the economy was the same moment that they realized that stories of what was going on in Iraq were no longer cutting muster for BHO and company (because the surge worked and we’re winning the war now). You can tie the date that the McCain campaign began to spiral down from being on top of the polls to tonight’s defeat to the exact date that this “financial meltdown” became headline news.
That said, it’s definitely in our interests to take a page from the liberal play book and immediately shift into the start of a new campaign (be that the 2010 mid-term campaign, or for the 2012 White House campaign). Whilst I revile the prospect of politics dominating the news 365 days-a-year, year in and year out; it seems that those on the left aren’t likely to let things go back to move civil times. So, it’s time for conservatives to do a little tactical self-evaluation, polish our strategies, and start looking for candidates that will capture the public imagination as much as BHO did this time around.
One area where I do worry about more permanent damage resulting from the coming Obama administration is on the Supreme Court. Judicial activism is already a favorite play of the left, and there will be appointments made during these next four years. I guarantee any BHO appointments will make all Justices currently on the bench look at least moderate in comparison. Well, time to drop the curtain on this election…
Barrack Obama will fix economy and stop the war, well as I said America will sleep well , Obama will take care of everything … The world will love USA, cause of Obama … The world will we better
… God bless America
Never thought I’d see the day when a Marxist was president. I’m missing George Bush already. He kept us safe, appointed two good judges to the Supreme Court, kept our taxes low and is winning the war on terror. He also is pro-life. How long will it take BHO to turn this all around?
BTW any tax break or incentive check I might get will go directly to the GOP for 2010 and 2012 elections.
I deploy in 2 days. My deployment just became infinitely more dangerous and the job I must do infinitely more difficult. Why does it not bother the left that when they win, dictators and terrorists world wide celebrate?
Oh and people, I hope you like the failed socialist economy of Michigan….. Because the whole country is about to follow suite.
I have no faith in the American people they have lost their will to fight COME on Murtha won??
Yes the fatty who called his people names and yet these people went and voted for him?
Yes there was a lot of cheating going on, but where was the fight about the cheating?
I am still in shock that the American People are so stupid or is it just greedy?
We will all suffer from their stupidity and for me I will not forgive McCain or the press.
Catherine
Bob Beckel mentioned this morning that one of the first things Obama and Congress needs to do is fill judicial vacancies that have been back logged. He’ll have Chuckie Schumer, Durbin and Reid to help. Scary.
@ChrisG:
I’ll keep you in my prayers Chris. As much as McCain has disappointed me in the past, the most important reason for me that he win was because of our military. I can’t see Obama as a decent CIC for our troops. All the GI Bill benefits he trumpeted aren’t going to be much help for those serving on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan. He certainly wasn’t interested in anything General Petraeous had to say.
Agreed wholeheartedly.
The word for this is “ANTICIPPOINTMENT”. I first heard it on one of those financial investment shows (possibly Jim Cramer).
Obama has set himself up literally and figuratively as a messianic figure. The problem…he’s just one man. And most of his ideas have been proven to fail. Just look at Europe.
He was elected not to be president. He was elected to be elected. He has achieved that for which many of his followers were pinning their hopes….he is the first elected black president.
I could sense that he knew all of this in his acceptance speech last night. And it will slowly dawn on many of those who voted for him. The emptiness of his many pandering promises will inevitably be revealed.
Buyer’s remorse is putting it lightly.
OFF TO A GREAT START….
PLEASE NOTE THE DRESS MICHELLE OBAMA IS WEARING TO CELEBRATE.
Let’s see, where have I seen that red hourglass on a black background before?
What happens next? Does she eat him?
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“Buyer’s remorse is putting it lightly.” — Erik
Seems more like what I imagine “date rape” might be like.
Luva, here’s a link :
http://www.makestickers.com/
@yonason:
Pretty funny yonason. First I saw the little girls and thought, how cute, they look so, so nice, pretty little dresses, their hair styles were cute, very classy little gals. Then came mama, I just kept staring at that dress wondering why? why would someone put that thing on? Ugh!
Obama Peaked. It’s just that simple. No Bush to bash. No Republicans to scapegoat for doing nothing in Congress. No campaigns for media to cover. No political reason to oppose a war (especially when the Dems can’t afford to gamble that Iraq wouldn’t fall apart after a premature evacuation). No money in budget for the long list of campaign promises.
Last night 59,000,000 Americans no longer felt alienated, but 53,000,000 Americans are watching with baited breath for the first, smallest fubar to pounce on and say, “See, we told ya.” It’s gotcha politics turned on its head. Now the Democrats have all the power, but that means all the responsibility, and all the accountability to a media that’s about to become dangerously bored.
Good luck President-elect Obama, and think hard why President Bush is laughing and waving as he leaves.
Put another way…ask yourself, “What will Jon Stewart be talking about on The Daily Show a week after Innauguration Day or from that day forward?”
As stated before, I’ll do my part. Just removed all volunteer fire/rescue identification and emergency medical supplies from my truck. Will not be stopping at any more vehicle crashes to offer assistance. Will cease to be volunteer with no compensation (hundreds of hours per year for 14 years) before Hussein takes office.
Been on the U.S. mint site cancelling all of my subscriptions (I’ve bought all new releases, coins and sets for years) and will close my account. The government makes a huge profit on the sale of these coins.
I have already got out of the market and put my savings in silver/gold (in my own lock box) so don’t have to worry about that.
As a military retiree I will not longer recommend military service to anyone and will advise those who are currently serving to get out. Served during the Carter screwing of America and it wasn’t pretty, so will pity anyone who serves under a socialist coward like Hussein. Let the dimwits restart the draft.
Screw those who screwed the country with this traitorous POS.
denial denial denail
More of the I love America but I hate Americans
All I can say is;
Welcome Back America: http://wearyman.blogspot.com/2008/11/welcome-back.html
Scott,
The left has not held their socialist thug leaders to accound for anything thus far, why should they start now?
As for John Steward, hew will be doing his best to shill and cover for Obama’s every miss-step, just like the rest of the media.
“Let the dimwits restart the draft.” — scrapiron
They’ve already said they want to.
http://www.quentinlangley.net/blog.php?id=219
But, as we see more and more that “truth” isn’t exactly a Democrat thang.
Yes, just like he’s going to give you free healthcare, more social programs, and lower your taxes.
I wonder if his foreign investors will pay for this.
Custer:
Nah, it’ll all be paid with the money that won’t be available for people like me in the future, for people who want to excel in their career.
Under Obama, I have no incentive to excel anyway, because the more money I make, the more he’ll take from me.
I don’t think brandon has a clue of what he’s talking about, IMHO. His way of thinking is a tad bit…underage?
And ChrisG INRE your comment #24, I’ll keep you in my prayers too. Just make sure to keep in mind that you have people who support you wholeheartedly and who honor you for your services.