Posted on 11/05/2008 10:27:15 AM PST by pending
No mandate for Obama, no lopsided Congress
WASHINGTON -- The national election Tuesday was not only historic for the election of the first African-American president in the nation's history but also for how little the avalanche of Democratic votes changed the political alignment in Congress.
Obama has been all over the map, so it will be whatever they want to sell. Well they are going to be selling big, because the voters don't even know yet.
Did you know you volunteered to give up your car to save the planet? save the world,stay home.
Stop breathing too. Anything goes here,really
Well,ya,that is in fact a change...
The 95% shtick stuck. That seems about it for actual change?
This will be big,along with the race victim crowd pressing the difficult point that Obama's election means nothing has changed.
I project he will later again be depicted as not authentically black .
See,he didn't really descend from slaves,and he went to Harvard,all of that.
What real blacks go to Haa'vid?
I think the left will be disappointed because Obama is a politician first and foremost and way over promised them what he can deliever. I have a feeling that it is 1976 all over again and America has to be reminded.
I think the left will be disappointed because Obama is a politician first and foremost and way over promised them what he can deliever. I have a feeling that it is 1976 all over again and America has to be reminded.
I think the left will be disappointed because Obama is a politician first and foremost and way over promised them what he can deliever. I have a feeling that it is 1976 all over again and America has to be reminded.
AOL says it’s an “Historic Landslide.”
lol
Yea, sure. It wasn’t even historic turnout.
It should be clear to the most pig-headed open border fanatics among us that the immigrant vote breaks overwhelmingly for the socialist party.
Just for conversation sake....what if the GOP lets Obama have 90% of what he wants in legislation?
What if the country actually gets what it said it wanted?
Would the damage be enough to cry for a mandated change away from his politics?
1936, 1972, and 1984 were landslides. This wasn’t one.
ditto
jw
There was a mandate...we were just run over by it.
More social program...free stuff...government “work” projects....no dirty coal....reparations to black people, peace on earth (which means reduced military spending), tax “re-bates” to people that didn’t pay them.
Gonna be a fun 4 years!
think the left will be disappointed because Obama is a politician first and foremost and way over promised them what he can deliever. I have a feeling that it is 1976 all over again and America has to be reminded.
Sad that a rerun of Carter’s disaster is about the best case scenario. Though a rerun of 1994 would do just fine (though I don’t see it right now).
Well, if it's any encouragement to you, just remember that 1976 was followed by 1980.
When a presidential candidate wins in a landslide and his party's numbers in Congress increase, he is considered to possess a mandate.
Obama's mantra for the campaign was "Change". I have no idea what he plans to do with his mandate, but he has one, and he has the congressional backing to get it enacted.
They vote overwhelming for keeping what they earn after a hard days work if they are given the opportunity. And are very, VERY pro-life.
Republicans in border states like California need to stop listening to "helpful" liberals and start publicly supporting those positions.
I think the only meaningful questions at this point is how to reestablish the conservative cause again. Anything else is meaningless - the Republicans have to come roaring back with a clear and concise goal set, present it to the voters, and do it.
Instead, we'll spend the next year beating upon each other, then dragging our feet to support lame-voices in congress to hold some semblance of a voice for yet another disappointing midterm, and then thrash around and try to scrape up someone for a presidential run.
At some point, someone’s going to realize that we have to run as a party if we intend on being successful. The liberals can't - their party is filled with too many conflicting opinions to launch a meaningful campaign - after all, look at Obama - he won with one word - change. Unfortunately, the voters are going to find out that this was as effective as channel surfing at 3am in the morning. Nothing’s on.
We need comprehensive and iron clad goals. Smaller government, control over entitlement programs, thrashing the insane government payroll. I'd love to have a former officer stand up and run for the White House, demanding that government workers earn no more than their military counterparts.
Instead we'll get some empty campaign hack and everyone going it their own way across the country, yet again, and we'll remain the minority party.
Republicans win when they have goals and stick to them, they lose when the focus disappears. We won against Kerry because we weren't done in Iraq, we had a goal (abet a minor one in the overall scheme of things...) The liberals went into office without a goal, led by someone who owes everyone nothing, and no one owes him a damn thing. Hopefully this will cannibalize their own party, but nothing will mean anything until we get our own party in order.
In a way,they are right.
For the Big D to win this big,
we have to go back to,I don’t know?
Way back in history,
err...somewhere back there.
I know that is not what they are saying,of course.
That is the thing...big mandate! Wowee!
Everyone clearly wants that!
Err,what is that again?
Media multiple choice,a game to be
named later is my bet.
They will float things,
feel for resistance.
A big key will be,of course,who is the real Obama?
Last February’s radical,or Mr October?
Will he throw Reid,Pelosi and Schumer under the bus?
He is an experienced under the bus thrower of inconvenient and unwanted things,after all.
I no longer believe this. The evidence just isn't there.
Bingo. In 1980, the population was 80% white. In 2008, it is 66% white and falling rapidly. Whites tend to be the conservatives in society. While there are possibilities to attract minorities thru some social issues, most of them are socialists first so that trumps everything else. America is gone. Pat Buchanan was right. America needed a timeout to allow people to assimilate into the culture and learn American history and values. It didn't happen. The decline is going to happen...whether amnesty takes place or not will merely determine the pace of the decline.
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