A watershed election. A Weimar election?

The state, with its main duties, the taking care of everyone, defines what is important from now on. One might say that our people coldly looked the Leviathan in its eyes. They did not flinch as he brought them into his body. These are dramatic observations, no doubt. We now wait to see what happens next. We have established who is in power. We will not pass this way again.

And in establishing who is to rule us, we reveal our own souls. The liberty to do whatever we want that Aristotle spoke of while describing democracies is now firmly rooted among us. No real opposition will be tolerated. Liberty means doing what state demands.

This lukewarm reception could have been part of a Democrat feint, though. Acorn and Son Of Acorn never urged anybody to go to an Obama rally. Why put their puppets to any more trouble than needed to take the election itself?

Also, think of all the money saved on yard signs/buttons/T-shirts/bumper stickers produced and distributed. There was little to no visible sign of BO support via signage and merchandise -- either this was also part of the feint, and/or they knew the election results were a foregone conclusion via fraud, so why bother expending the money.

...they knew the election results were a foregone conclusion via fraud, so why bother expending the money.

Obama looked stunned he had to show up for the charade of the first debate... Then Candy helped him the second time... What ME? Moi?

Why bother with debates, crowds, posters, bumper stickers. His buds in the ghetto were stealing the election for him - what's to worry about? The same folks who didn't bother to go to a rally - even with a free concert - ALL show up to vote? 100% in some precincts? Lucky that dems have their big brother the MSM to rough up the unbelievers...

Obama looked stunned he had to show up for the charade of the first debate... Then Candy helped him the second time... What ME? Moi?

On another thread is a discussion about outcome-based granting of jobs to minorities regardless of merit.

That's what happened here. I believe Romney ran an honest presidential election: he had policy positions, he had rallies, he went to debates. This effort on his (and his campaign staff's and supporters') part assumed a response of effort on the voters' part: they would voluntarily show up at the polls and vote for him.

Not so with BO and his campaign. Why expend the effort if the outcome is guaranteed? This explains the baffling lack of crowds at rallies, the lack of bumper stickers and yard signs, the lackluster debate performance. He phoned it in. Some people here said "the fix is in." BO's campaign staff told him, "Don't worry, we know how many votes you need, we'll deliver them. And we'll make it look plausible, too."

Check out the tech culture Web sites and see if you find any discussion of electronic vote fraud or voting technology. The tech culture is generally very left and very mercenary. At its most conservative, it is libertarian in nature. It is always mercenary and for sale to the highest bidder. Someone gave me a link to the video about the programmer who wrote code to make electronic voting machines generate a guarantee outcome (2004 elections, in Ohio). How on earth do people believe that the leopard has changed his spots in eight years? These people are still around and are still for sale. If it can be done from a keyboard, coooool. They're all in.

Why expend the effort if the outcome is guaranteed? This explains the baffling lack of crowds at rallies, the lack of bumper stickers and yard signs, the lackluster debate performance. He phoned it in. Some people here said "the fix is in." BO's campaign staff told him, "Don't worry, we know how many votes you need, we'll deliver them. And we'll make it look plausible, too."

You're right on this codont - we all live in Detroit now. And we'd better start acting like it. Republicans are fighting by Queensbury Rules, while dems are fighting by Chicago gang banger rules - 10 thugs kicking an unarmed person in the groin. Our side needs to grow up and and get real.

It’s really odd to me that Obama was not re-lionized a la Che Guevara. How many folks do you meet sporting Big Ears’ visage on their chemises?

So far, I have not seen any. I have not seen people walking around wearing BO T-shirts or buttons. I saw a few the day of the election and the day after, but that was it.

What I have seen lately (not the day after the election but the past few days) is people trying to make eye contact with me and smile at me, and try to get some sort of emotional reaction from me. That did not happen after the 2008 election. People seem "friendly" in some weird way. Maybe it's just my general neighborhood. These are people who ordinarily would go about their daily business any other time. It's very strange.

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