Posted on 11/05/2008 6:19:47 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
All Americans should be glad that a black American has been able to make it to the presidency, and hope that President-Elect Barack Obama’s time in office will redound to the country’s long-term benefit.
We wish the outcome of yesterday’s elections had been different. Liberals will shortly be in the driver’s seat in Washington in a way they have not been since the Great Society. The Democratic majority in Congress will be slightly smaller than the one that greeted President Clinton in 1993, but much more homogeneous in its liberalism.
Yet the public has not embraced many of the central aspects of liberalism. President-Elect Barack Obama’s record and positions put him well to the left of any president in the last four decades. But to judge from his campaign, he is a man who wants to cut taxes, defend an individual right to own guns, take a hard line on terrorists in Pakistan, reduce the abortion rate, allow people to keep their health-care plans, and keep trade free. The polls suggest that he was wise to run in this fashion: They show that the public remains as skeptical about federal activism and social liberalism as they have been for years.
The public has, however, clearly rejected the Republican party in its present configuration. It is always difficult for a party to maintain control of the White House after two terms in office. But both President Bush and Senator McCain made the task harder. Bush took too long to change course in Iraq and botched the response to Hurricane Katrina. McCain rarely stuck to one message or strategy. The financial crisis, for which we do not primarily blame either man, sealed the party’s fate.
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Thank you!!!
Great article.
“All Americans should be glad that a black American has been able to make it to the presidency, and hope that President-Elect Barack Obama’s time in office will redound to the country’s long-term benefit. “
I am disgusted that we have to take notice. I long for the day when Barack HUSSIEN Obama will simply be regarded as a racist, socialist, not a BLACK racist, socialist.
I am so tired of the first black this, the first black that, the first woman, the first Latino the first ...
We are culturally retarded, and unless/until we can quit grouping people, we are doomed to be divided.
As for any HOPE with Obama’s presidency? It can only turn out badly. I guarantee it.
That says it all. Now we regroup and like all teams who have been defeated we must start by returning to the fundamentals.
I’m amazed at the battleground states. Seems like the more money and time JM put in a state, the bigger the gap. PA, MI, MN, WI, OH, IN, CO, NV saw the biggest shift against us.
Right. Stick around...
The media, the left (i know, redundant), the Hollywood elite and the sheeple have really shown us! We're going to take our spanking for what happened generations ago...and pay dearly.
I will watch this circus unfold... from my knees.
While it was refreshing to see so many young, black voters learning the ropes yesterday, it was at the same time quite sad knowing how misled and misguided they were.
There is no ‘hope amid the ruins’ as long as conservatives accept the false premises of the liberal media machine..ie, that we ‘botched’ Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq!
So sick of the temid responses to this narrative, I could puke!! One other thing....why did we run from ‘Big Oil’? Big Oil employs hundreds of thousands of people in this country and the companies that supply ‘Big Oil’, employ hundreds of thousands more!! We need some leaders that are not afraid to stand up to the socialist/populist tide.
He didn’t make it at all. He was handed it on a silver platter by Affirmative Action advocates and a press that felt (not think) that ‘it was time’ irrespective of the qualifications.
Yeah. The more people saw of McCain, the more they didn’t like him.
No surprise, since most of US didn’t like him EITHER.
#1. Get involved locally in your town government. Start small if need be. (Planning board, rec committee etc...) Use this position to push for conservative values. Work your way up.
#2. Help local causes and organizations that promote conservative values. (Donate money and time)
#3. Write letters to the editor, your congresscritter, go on the radio...get vocal.
Dont give up, use this defeat as a motivator for YOUR values and help save your local community from the insanity that is sure to come.
I know I will.
Don’t get on your knees.
I’m getting out of the Political thing. I watched my eight-year-old crying last night. It won’t happen again.
Now is the time to take care of your own. If I see a movement happen that I can support, cool. Otherwise, I’m just watching out for me and mine.
“He didn’t make it at all. He was handed it on a silver platter by Affirmative Action advocates and a press that felt (not think) that ‘it was time’ irrespective of the qualifications.”
You are correct. And that is the elephant in the room. If he were a white guy named Barry O’Bama, he would have never gotten this far, this fast.
And that adds to my disgust.
So sick of the temid responses to this narrative, I could puke!! One other thing....why did we run from ‘Big Oil’? Big Oil employs hundreds of thousands of people in this country and the companies that supply ‘Big Oil’, employ hundreds of thousands more!! We need some leaders that are not afraid to stand up to the socialist/populist tide."
Perhaps Conservatives are sheeple too...
Yeah, Right!
Just like "Bill Ayers is just some guy who lives in my neighborhood".
“botched the response to Hurricane Katrina”
Nonsense, propaganda perpetrated by the political/media complex and no one (in a position to do so) even attempted to correct it.
Black Americans don’t have WHITE mothers!
There are clearly many Republicans/conservatives in denial about what this election means. I don’t ever see a rebound for Republicans/conservatives. Groups like ACORN are clearly entrenched in our ‘electoral’ process and will become even more so now. Nothing is ever done about deliberate Demonrat thuggary with the ‘vote’. They now have Governorships, Legislatures, Congress, presidency and now even more of these radical judges that write their own law that will only push it in their favor more, as if it was needed! And on top of all the domestic chaos to come, so many have forgotten 9/11 and are in for a very devastating wake-up call. 0bama is the destruction of the United States as far as I’m concerned and laugh all you want about the ramifications but sites like this and conservative/Republican viewpoints are going to be targeted for shut down and censorship. It’s coming and it’s not going to be pretty. Give it a yr.
Yes, it is however, unfortunate that he happens to be a leftist, socialist, anti-American ultra-liberal, who will quite possibly make Jimmuh Carter look like Ronald Reagan by comparison.
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