By Soixante huitard

November 5, 2008 7:26 PM | Link to this

I know he’s got more baggage than a hanger with a Fed EX cargo fleet, but for the sheer moxy of a brass-knuckled streetbrawler, leavened with real intellectual heft and the mouth of the South to boot, you can’t ever count out Newt.

By jon

November 5, 2008 7:34 PM | Link to this

My wish is for a man will intelligence and vision to step up and lead the Republicans out of the wilderness. He is reviled by the left wing and the media because he scares them to death, but that man is Newt Gingrich.

Newt is more aware of the challenges facing this country and the world than any national political figure. His lectures on the changes we face in the not so distant future with the explosion of technology we face are real eye-openers. I challenge any of you Newt haters to go to You Tube and listen to his discussions about the growth of technology and the global economy. You might be impressed that a politician is thinking farther ahead than the next time they are up for re-election.

By RW-(the original)

November 5, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

I guess Jay B wants to be the “journalist” shipped off to cover chicken fights in Haiti for the next four years.

We had bipartisan agreement on that one right here on your blog Jay.

I refuse to play the 2012 election game, but don’t be surprised to see Adam Putnam begin to rise in prominence. It’s being reported that he stepped down from the current leadership because of weakness, but it could well be more to gain some distance.

By Taxpayer

November 5, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

Jay, didn’t you get the memo. Newt is being resurrected. The goal is to bring him out of the closet next Halloween. He’ll be introduced on SNL playing the role of Michael Jackson in Thriller. It will be a fear monger’s delight but with a tilt toward a whole new base of yet-to-be dissatisfied voters.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 5, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this

Our ideology-

The exit polls, to the extent they can be believed, remind us once again that America remains a decisively right-of-center nation. Liberal remains a dirty word. In fact, many more Americans continue to self-identify as conservative (34 percent) than as liberal (only 22 percent). Knowing this, successful Democratic candidates across the country used conservative rhetoric and themes to score points against their Republican opponents and win the hearts of voters. The Democrats’ repeated refrain on behalf of middle class tax relief was but one of several such examples.

By hillbilly ragger

November 5, 2008 7:55 PM | Link to this

Ragger, you’re gone til tomorrow.

• Jay

By Soixante huitard

November 5, 2008 8:00 PM | Link to this

Ed Rollins has just nailed it:

Shoot the elephant!

By AJC/DNC Management

November 5, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

Indeed, the only good thing about McCain is that he gave us a genuine conservative, Sarah Palin. He’s like one of those insects that lives just long enough to reproduce so that the species can survive. That’s why a lot of us are referring to Sarah as “The One” these days.

Like Sarah Connor in “The Terminator,” Sarah Palin is destined to give birth to a new movement. That’s why the Democrats are trying to kill her. And Arnold Schwarzenegger is involved somehow, too. Good Lord, I’m tired.

Word up.

Go back to Alaska, govern as a Conservative, become involved in the rebuilding of the Republican party, assert yourself as a leader.

We will be there for you.

By TN Gelding

November 5, 2008 8:04 PM | Link to this

What about Jeb?

Pretty slim pickings.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 5, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this

It sucks don’t it, people had to overcome their inner wingnut to vote for the pinko.

And they won’t admit they are libs.

Geez.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 5, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this

And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it’s been done in America for 221 years-Oblahma

The Declaration of Independence was put forth in 1776.

232 years ago.

What in the hell country is he talking about?

By AmVet

November 5, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this

YES! By all means, bring back Newt the Nut.

And watch the GOP lose another ten seats in the US Senate and 30+ more in the House.

And then bring back Ronnie! (I guess that is going to be a tad more difficult).

Hell, in a few years, you can trot out Dickhead and Not-so Curious George again!

The once Grand Old Party, obsessed with the past and oblivious to the future…

By Soixante huitard

November 5, 2008 8:21 PM | Link to this

I’m watching John King go over numbers right now.

It’s like viewing pictures from a massacre.

Take just one for example. When you consider how John McCain was trounced in the Latino vote (67% going to Obama) - given his bravery and ‘maverickism’ on this very issue - sorry to say, it starts to actually become conceivable that this party doesn’t even survive this beating.

By Roy Adams

November 5, 2008 8:25 PM | Link to this

“Palin has considerable support here in Georgia, I suspect, where Romney’s Mormon background is a problem for evangelicals.”

It was the Evangelicals divisive fear of Mormons that crushed the GOP in ‘08. There is a chain of command in the GOP where 2nd place becomes the next 1st place. Mitt Romney is in charge and anyone who thinks otherwise is either; A. harboring anti-mormon feelings, or B. wants Obama to serve 2 terms. Do any of you honestly think Huckleberry has absolutley any appeal outside of the “evangelical base”? …and Palin? If Hillary couldn’t do it, it would be a cold cold day in he11. Mitt 2012..get used to it.

By AmVet

November 5, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this

Andy,

The answer that alludes you is to be found in fourth grade American history.

1787 - The US Constitution was adopted.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 5, 2008 8:35 PM | Link to this

DimWet- The United States was born in 1776.

You libs hate the Constitution, remember?

By Class of '98

November 5, 2008 8:36 PM | Link to this

Four years ago, did anybody predict that Barack Hussein Obama, a rookie Senator from Illinois, would be President-Elect in 2008?

C’mon Jay. You might as well ask us who will win the college football national championship in 2012.

By JAY BOOKMAN

November 5, 2008 8:38 PM | Link to this

“The Declaration of Independence was put forth in 1776.

232 years ago.

What in the hell country is he talking about?”

This one, Management. The United States of America.

The U.S. Constitution setting up our current form of government was ratified in convention 221 years ago.

By Class of '98

November 5, 2008 8:41 PM | Link to this

AmVet…

Since you are so smart, you may want to know that the word that eludes you is “eludes”, not “alludes”.

I think I learned that in 7th grade.

By AmVet

November 5, 2008 8:46 PM | Link to this

Andy, it’s called standard, written English.

You should give it a try sometime.

No we just hate it when you neo-cons try to put your filthy hands on that sacred document with your inane “amendments”…

By Taxpayer

November 5, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this

Perhaps the allusion was the illusion of elusion — or not.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 5, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this

Oh I get, we were never a country until we got the bureaucracy.

All those brave men that died in the Revolutionary War were just disenfranchised Britains, hahahahaha.

Get outta here.

By AmVet

November 5, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this

Thanks, Class.

Your contribution cannot be overstated.

By Soixante huitard

November 5, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

When you consider that John McCain was beaten by Barack Obama among Latinos - the fastest growing major demographic group in the US - by 67 - 30 % …

I ask you: How does a party survive this given its essential coalitions ?

Romney? Give me a break. David Brooks was already saying in January the party was toast if they got behind him.

By ConsternationNation

November 5, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

You cannot have law for the rulers without the ruler of law and we know all to well that with which we measure is the duly approved documentation that defines us — so said we all.

By Class of '98

November 5, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

2004 Media: “Bush wins 51%, nation divided”

2008 Media: “Obama wins 52%, nation united”

By NRB

November 5, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Comimission, applauded Obama’s victory, with Barroso calling for a “new deal”.

“I sincerely hope that with the leadership of President Obama, the United States of America will join forces with Europe to drive this new deal. For the benefit of our societies, for the benefit of the world.”

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/11/20081155293464248.html

Here we go, folks. Open your wallets. Work overtime. Work two jobs.

We will now be expected to fund social programs for planet earth. (this is almost the point where I get to say “I told you so”….almost.)

Remember that Europe believes that America should basically put the rest of planet earth on a welfare program and this statement proves it.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 5, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this

DimWet: If you are attempting to change the subject, do try to be more specific.

One of those “amendments” of ours abolished slavery, thank you very much.

By AmVet

November 5, 2008 9:04 PM | Link to this

The fundamental question the neo-cons have to ask themselves now is, “Why have they lost the past two elections so badly?”

The combined numbers of Nov. 2006 and Nov. 2008 approach the ridiculous. Something along the lines of 60 - 4. Staggering looses for the neo-cons, by any measure.

And some of the less lucid and English challenged here contend that it is because they were “not conservative enough”.

Yet they supported and enabled these faux conservatives every inch of the way for the past eight years.

Which begs the question, “What is it about them that they are so gullible and uninformed that they allowed this to happen to themselves?”

In other words, Andy, grow a pair…

By AJC/DNC Management

November 5, 2008 9:06 PM | Link to this

Did Oblahma send out his get “gas for free cards” yet?

Ahahahaha.

Suckers.

By Soixante huitard

November 5, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this

Suckers?

Nah. We buried you.

How’s the view from underneath so much dirt?

But, anyway, here’s an idea: how about a retooled, agnostic, libertarian leaning, lean-and-mean pro-business Romney and Palin’s hot daughter as running mate? She’ll work too. (After all, credentials don’t matter, right?)

Hey, btw, here’s a shout out to all you Socialists out there! (Echoing Bill Maher) Congratulations!

By RW-(the original)

November 5, 2008 9:18 PM | Link to this

Is Obama talking about the Constitution 221 years ago as a good thing all of a sudden. He’s been saying it’s fundamentally flawed and only contains negative rights behind your backs so why would he celebrate its ratification?

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AJC/DNC-M,

Obama would have to use his own money to send out the free gas and mortgage cards right now and that’s not going to happen. He has to get in office first so he can use our money.

I mentioned this on an earlier thread, but when he raises capital gains taxes next year he can make them retroactive to January 1st. If you’ve got any short term investments that have capital gains right now you may want to take those gains by the end of December.

By Soixante huitard

November 5, 2008 9:21 PM | Link to this

RW (original): He’s been saying it’s fundamentally flawed and only contains negative rights behind your backs.

C’mon. Don’t be coy here. What are you talking about?

By jon

November 5, 2008 9:30 PM | Link to this

My employer reacted swiftly to the news that anti-business Obama won the election. We all got notice of 10 to 20% reduction in hours and pay.

Many came in gleeful this morning about the election of their savior. They went home glum like the rest of us.

Now that’s change they can believe in.

By RW-(the original)

November 5, 2008 9:31 PM | Link to this

Soixante huitard ,

Should I have a chance to look it up for you tonight I’ll post it, but you really should research your own candidates a little more thoroughly.

Feel free to entertain yourself with a musical interlude while I decide whether to do your research for you.

By Midori

November 5, 2008 9:34 PM | Link to this

this is all I need to know about Obama and the Constitution

By AJC/DNC Management

November 5, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this

RW: Take into account the steady decline of securities that will happen between now and the new dawn of socialism on Jan. 20th.

Stocks may not be worth anything on Jan. 1st.

I’ve already “cleared the books,” so to speak.

~~~~~

By Soixante huitard November 5, 2008 9:16 PM |Suckers? Nah. We buried you.

Au contraire, bozo, you buried yourself.

What you have done for us is purged the moderates, the across the aisle reachers, the “unifiers.”

For this I owe you an enormous debt of gratitude.

Sure, I would have liked to have seen the hot chick living in the Naval Observatory, but those are trivial things.

By Midori

November 5, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this

Jon,

why are you blaming the voters because your employer is a stupid idiot?

By AmVet

November 5, 2008 9:42 PM | Link to this

HUGE belly laughs!

Purged the moderates from the GOP???

Who exactly would those be?

The unifiers???

In the Republican Party?

What a laugh riot…

By AJC/DNC Management

November 5, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

Christopher Shays.

Gone.

Buckley, Noonan, Powell.

The living dead.

You shall see and you won’t like.

By ByteMe

November 5, 2008 9:47 PM | Link to this

jon: as I pointed out earlier to RealityKing who had the same complaint, it’s more likely that your employer was reacting to the sad news that Michael Crichton died today than to the news that Obama was elected.

Trying to find a relationship between two unconnected events is both normal and completely ridiculous.

However, if you talk to your employer, you’ll likely find a strong relationship between his actions and the credit crunch that is keeping many banks from lending money to businesses right now and that is impacting everyone’s cash flow.

By jon

November 5, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this

Midori,

I’m not blaming voters for anything. Just stating facts. Corporate America, when told that they will be taxed to support social programs, reacts. They will cut wages, they will move jobs overseas, they will raise prices. Corporations don’t pay taxes, dearie. People do.

Just keep sticking it to The Man, Midori. You’ll see that The Man rules.

By AmVet

November 5, 2008 9:59 PM | Link to this

The ONLY demographic the septuagenarian RINO won was the over 65 crowd.

I would say the future of the Republican Party is very much in doubt.

Perhaps it is time they go the way of the Tories and Whigs…

By RW-(the original)

November 5, 2008 10:04 PM | Link to this

Sh,

I think this is the evidence you’re looking for, but my computer is acting crazy as it does quite often or Obama has scrubbed the audio, something you can also look forward too. Their suppression techniques will make Nixon look like a jaywalker.

ByteMe,

These posts today about the employees losing their jobs because of the coming tax policies are likely not even true and if the cutbacks are real I agree with you about the credit crunch being the blame. That being said, the day the card check law goes to Obama’s desk I’m dumping every full time employee I need to dump to get below whatever threshold is in the bill and I’m sure there are many more businesses like mine.

By "The Corporal"

November 5, 2008 10:06 PM | Link to this

To Copyleft

See the “Voters protect personal privacy” blog and my 9:00pm post if you wish to continue the dialogue.

By RW-(the original)

November 5, 2008 10:10 PM | Link to this

Or maybe we just quit running RINOs.

By Soixante huitard

November 5, 2008 10:16 PM | Link to this

How about Cantor?

He did a good job of jockeying for the cameras during Finance Jam ‘08.

He struck me as reasonable. Not too bad to look at, or listen to. But hey what do I know, I’m just a crusty old Leftist? (or young, but I ain’t tellin’.)

By jon

November 5, 2008 10:18 PM | Link to this

byteme,

I talked to my employer today as I do every day. We have been friends for over 20 years. As a stockholder in the company I know what drives the tough choices. Business has been slow the past 2 months and decisions were delayed until after the election. The election results provided no reason for optimism. Tough choices were made. If the pro-business candidate had won, there would be reason to believe that better times were around the corner. But the reality is that the candidate that believes that punishing business through higher tax rates won the election, and unfortunately workers paid the price.

I work in a service business where the jobs can’t be shipped overseas, so we cut payroll or we go under.

Change you can believe in.

By Soixante huitard

November 5, 2008 10:22 PM | Link to this

Buckley, living dead?

Aw c’mon. Really? Dead?

You’re gonna need a good satirist on your side, no?

By Kev the Electrician

November 5, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this

Fox News reports that Sara isn’t smarter than a 5th grader. She couldn’t name the members of NAFTA, didn’t know Africa was a continent…..fooled you once, twice, almost 3 times

By ByteMe

November 5, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this

RW: I had to research what you were talking about “card check law”. Are you in GA? If so, you’re not at risk, because we’re a “right to work” state and that supersedes the act. At least that’s what’s at Wikipedia; I’m too sleepy from being up at all hours with sick kids to dig further, but that seems like a reasonable provision so I figure it’s probably true.

Off to dreamland. Hopefully, the kids sleep thru the night….

By Soixante huitard

November 5, 2008 10:37 PM | Link to this

To Jon: The election results provided no reason for optimism. Tough choices were made. If the pro-business candidate had won, there would be reason to believe that better times were around the corner.

Better times around the corner?

What’s your employer smoking?

There’s probably an army of bodies under this cellar - and we’ve only gotten started.

By RW-(the original)

November 5, 2008 10:40 PM | Link to this

ByteMe,

Unfortunately state laws don’t supersede federal laws. When you wake back up you and I might find some common ground as Federalists.

Good luck with the kids! Been there, done that.

By ByteMe

November 5, 2008 10:40 PM | Link to this

jon: I feel for you, but anyone who thinks that the election is going to miraculously help your business is likely just being overly optimistic. The way the credit markets are screwed right now, it’s likely your business is going to be slow through most of 2009 (so act accordingly). Lowering taxes won’t help the credit markets at all. What’s needed is more regulation that gets enforced to ensure transparency in the markets. So the candidate that understands the need for regulation is the right one for the job of President at this time.

Both candidates were pro-business; to think otherwise means you don’t understand politics and who pays for politicians. But being pro-business doesn’t mean you know how to repeal the business cycle. We’re in a recession triggered by a twin bubble of housing and credit; it’ll take another year to work through that, regardless of which candidate won.

By Presidint George W. Bush

November 5, 2008 10:41 PM | Link to this

I’d like too be the ferst 2 suggest a 2012 ticket of my brother, Jeb Bush and Govinoor Sarah Palin. Persenally, I thenk that Gov. Palen would be the best to c** my legasy as an ntellectuall thinker.

Bush/Palin or Palin/Bush or Palin’s Bush ‘12

By Presydent George W. Bush

November 5, 2008 10:46 PM | Link to this

Qquestieon. Whut ever happened to Dan Quayle?

By Soixante huitard

November 5, 2008 11:06 PM | Link to this

Ok, RW, now I’m with you.

Well, all I hear is a rather dry discussion on a public access station in which an IL senator / law professor on matters of public policy and legal procedure.

Sorry, I’m not hearin Lenin’s sickle grinding in the background here. (You guys aren’t fixated on looking for the big bad socialist bogey man behind the mild-mannered liberal legislator here, are you?)

Anyway, I’m suspicious of the editing and above all the poorly produced, typo-infested text.

And what’s with the strange cut right before the text tells us O has reduced the matter of redistribution of wealth to a mere administrative matter?

By Greg Mendel

November 5, 2008 11:08 PM | Link to this

Not much point in finding a new leader for the GOP, because there won’t be much GOP in 2010, much less 2012. It has become, as one Republican said today, a small, southern party.

Actual conservatives abandoned the Republican party after 2004, leading to losses in 2006 and 2008. The party can’t attract new members because the Atwater/Rove trademark fear and loathing has quit working.

Neither party can stray far from the center. Contrary to the wails of wingnuts, Obama is much closer to the center than McCain/ Palin, and he will drag Reid and Pelosi to the middle, or they’ll be history in a hurry.

Don’t look at the parties, look at the electorate. It’s sick of war and debt and not being able to afford medicine. It’s sick of having religion crammed down its throat, its patriotism attacked, its intelligence mocked by incompetent halfwits who are all hawk and no spit.

The GOP will be a cult by 2012. A coalition party of extremists will be formed, led by Ralph Nader and Sean Hannity. It will hold a convention in a Motel 6 somewhere south of Tifton, and run on a platform of invading Finland and making organic prunes the National Food. Daffy Duck will be its Messiah, and will lead it out of the wilderness and into oblivion.

By Ryan

November 5, 2008 11:22 PM | Link to this

This is exactly why we have the image we do as Republicans. I sat here and read most of what was written above and I stopped when the 7th grade comments started flying. Can we please do the one thing that is best for our country for once? Is it possible for us to be the bigger people and stand up in a show of support of the man that has been elected as our President? Can we, for the better of our Nation, be unified toward a common ground of One Country, Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all? It is a time to reflect on how far our great Nation has come. It is a time to learn that the American people are tired of the fighting and tired of the bickering. Now is the time to reach out in that common goal, unite as a Nation in the face of doubt and uncertainty that surrounds us. Now is the best of moments to cloud the image of political parties, if just for a short time, and bring the Nation to its ultimate goal of prosperity.

By BDAtlanta

November 5, 2008 11:46 PM | Link to this

After this Newsweek expose goes mainstream, Caribou Barbie will be little more remembered than a curiosity.

By Presidynt George W. Bush

November 6, 2008 12:10 AM | Link to this

Greg, at witch exact Motell 6 will that GOP Conventshion be held at? Let me know so that I can clear my calender. I wanna flye in from Crawford.

By Presydint George W. Bush

November 6, 2008 12:16 AM | Link to this

I like Daffy Duck!

By Soixante huitard

November 6, 2008 12:50 AM | Link to this

Oh, merde! Can’t believe I missed this whopper from earlier tonight. (Goes to show - you look away for just a minute and a cow chip flies right by you).

What you have done for us is purged the moderates, the across the aisle reachers, the “unifiers.”

That takes the cake!

Us, purge your ranks of its moderates? Hah!

To know what happened to your moderates, my friend, all one has to do is look for the long dripping knives! (figuratively speaking of course!)

Although, on second thought, there is one moderate who you’ve managed to hang on to: a certain Lieberman from CT.

Hey there you go. Could it be we have an answer to Jay’s original question?

Lieberman / Graham ‘12, perhaps? Hmm.

By Frederick Douglass

November 6, 2008 1:08 AM | Link to this

Jindal/Palin 2012, Mullah and the Maverick. He’s got a brain and a half, she’s got half a brain, perfect combo.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 6, 2008 5:33 AM | Link to this

Fulton County is the only county with numerous ballots outstanding, said Matt Carrothers, a spokesman for Secretary of State Karen Handel’s office.-Urinal

Scene from a Fulton County elections office:

How many more votes we need?

I didn’t know there were so many Daffy Ducks living in town.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 6, 2008 5:41 AM | Link to this

Democracy at risk when ballots cast early-Urinal/DNC

After the election they tell us this.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 6, 2008 5:43 AM | Link to this

Look at New York City getting ready for the Oblahma tax hikes:

Bloomberg to cut tax breaks, jobs- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he will eliminate two popular pieces of property tax relief because the city’s economy is in distress and can no longer afford it. One of them is a $400 property tax rebate, which he said just six weeks ago he would retain. The other is a temporary 7 percent property tax break put into place last year. Bloomberg also is cutting hundreds of jobs, raising fees and fines, cutting library hours, closing dental health clinics that serve poor children and reducing nighttime staffing at five firehouses.-Urinal/DNC

Getting their’s first.

By AJC/DNC Management

November 6, 2008 5:45 AM | Link to this

The Illinois Democrat failed to win a majority of white votes in any Southern state, and exit polls indicate that a deeper racial divide may persist here than in other regions.-Urinal/PMS

Not voting for Oblahma is racist?

Sick.

By GodHatesTrash

November 6, 2008 6:20 AM | Link to this

Palin will be the GOP standard-bearer in 2012.

Her campaign slogan is similar to one of Jesse Jackson’s, with a Repub twist:

Keep Hate Alive!

By GodHatesTrash

November 6, 2008 6:37 AM | Link to this

Like George W. Bush was able to eliminate capital gains taxes by eliminating capital gains, New Yorkers’ income tax burdens are reduced when they lose their jobs, and thereby lose their incomes.

Republican fiscal tax strategy and policies at work.

By GodHatesTrash

November 6, 2008 6:50 AM | Link to this

Bookman is going crazy pulling my posts, but I’d like to use his superfine blog (since it attracts such a fine clientele) to express America’s thanks to Governor Palin for always reminding us that - even when you put lipstick on a barnyard animal, well, you still have a barnyard animal, dontcha know?

Good luck in 2012. It will be good to see you again.

Now run along - don’t you have some clothes to return and a shotgun wedding to plan?

By spankmonkey

November 6, 2008 6:59 AM | Link to this

Two days later and the rioting hs been minimal here in East Cobb County. As a matter of fact the only two rioting black folks I’ve come across turned out to be that lovely black couple who live two streets over out for a walk in the nice weather. The were very gracious in accepting my apologies for peppering them with shotgun blasts for coming too close to my property…

Riot scare over, I continued on in my endeavour to find all my possesions of any worth and pile them all out front so Comrade Obama can collect them to redistribute them to people he feels needs them.

I love this comment from and AJC article: “He listens to a story about a veteran in eastern Florida who was so furious about Obama’s victory, so furious that America had turned its back on a war hero, that he hung the American flag upside down in his yard.” I wonder if he felt this outraged when a draftdodger named W did much worse to a war hero in 2000??? I doubt it.

By TN Gelding

November 6, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management

November 6, 2008 5:43 AM

Obama had absolutely nothing to do with this and you know it.

Why do you continue to make such outrageous associations? I know you’re smarter than that. Or are you?

It’s the result of the last 7 years, 9 months and 17 days of failed fiscal policy.

By TN Gelding

November 6, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

* AJC/DNC Management*

November 6, 2008 5:41 AM

That was one man’s opinion.

The superior AJC editorial board thinks otherwise.

Personally, I don’t like it either, because it does present another opportunity for mischief. The polls also need to close at exactly the same time nation wide.

By TN Gelding

November 6, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management

November 6, 2008 5:45 AM

Also known as the Republican base.

One of the teenagers in my neighborhood told me yesterday Obama didn’t like white people.

By RealityKing

November 6, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

MSNBC?? Your parroting THE most biased news outlet in America for another pitiful partisan attack?? Disgraceful.., I mean really, how hard could it be to beat the Harry and Nancy show.

So much for the call to unity..

By RealityKing

November 6, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Bruised stocks in early retreat , as the Obummer affect continues…

No worries for the Republicans. At this rate, the American people will be ralling around them before the end of next year.

By RealityKing

November 6, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

If your one of those poor saps that still hasn’t taken your money out of the stock market, now is a good time… Before the impending doom of the next Harry and Nancy show’s spectacular socialistic intervene, I mean government bailout.

By Copyleft

November 6, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Ooh, but make sure you put all your retirement funds in the stock market! Because “privatizing Social Security” is NEVER a bad idea, right Republicans?

(snicker)

By RealityKing

November 6, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

As if private Social Security money can not be moved in and out of the market(eyes rolling)??

By G

November 6, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

I am still so elated about President-elect Obama. I’m on Cloud 9 and loving it.

I do worry about the nutjobs out there who could be planning to assassinate him, there are so many who hate him, and I am very concerned for his safety.

If people who are so upset that he won would just consider this: How would we white folks feel if the situation were reversed? We would be every bit as excited as African-Americans are, if not more so, to finally have a white President.

What I am not loving is everything that’s coming out now about Palin. McCain’s staff is really talking now that the election is over.

It is scary, people. We came so close, so very close, to having that nitwit in office, a heartbeat from the Presidency.

I get mad at McCain all over again, each time I think about what he tried to do to our beloved country.

I am so sick of hearing how gracious he was in his concession speech. He should have been down on the floor begging our forgiveness for setting Palin loose on us.

I have no sympathy for McCain whatsoever.

On a brighter note, I am so looking forward to January 20, 2009. It can’t come soon enough.

By lovelyliz

November 6, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

The GOP is at a crossroads and must decide whether they want to follow the Constitutionally based, fiscally conservative road or the religious/socially neo-conservative one. Will their future be Ron Paul, Chuck Hagel, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sarah Palin, George Bush?

Will they pay attention to the middle or give in to the far right?

By TN Gelding

November 6, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

RealityKing

November 6, 2008 9:50 AM

Sorry, this is still BUSH’S DISASTER.

And you know it.

I hope you saw my retraction Tuesday of my Monday prediction.

By rose

November 7, 2008 6:15 AM | Link to this

Presidency of 2009 Seems Organized and Underway

As of one hour and fifty-two minutes ago, (according to Yahoo news,) Mr. Barrack Obama is getting his team organized quickly. It is said there are those picked already and a short list of those to come. Maybe 2009 will bring a new change after all. Maybe the economy just might turn around and maybe the war in Iraq could begin to be an event in history, our children will read in new updated textbooks instead of experiencing their parents leaving.

Of course, it will free up time to finish the mission in Afghanistan, but we can only hope the direction will move forward. This was my thought at the poles when it was my turn to vote and the word “Hope” keeps coming up with association in Obama’s name. We are Americans, w have seen worse times than the economy is of now. Our own parents have seen what the Depression can bring and two world wars. We all must have a connection of remembering Vietnam in some way or the shortage of gasoline during the seventies.

Life will become better.

No matter what happens, there are those who say, these are the end of times. I think we should not be concerned over the ending of our world but of looking ahead. Americans historically have fought their way through any problems and moved on. Regardless of what happens and life throws its curve, we are Americans and we will survive, long after the crisis has past.

We are Americans and it is in our souls.