[LifeComesFirst]

I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at almost a year ago. I wonder what these.....people.....think of Obama now......

Guys? Any second thoughts? Ready to admit that you were hoodwinked by a smooth-talking Chicago thug?

[2ndDivisionVet]

How about $6 TRILLION in 50 days, you morons!!

[AlexW]

Let them eat crow.

[Alia]

The people in this article cited as to their reasons for voting for Obama come across as bitter persons. They voted for and reasoned for Obama resulting from their own personal bitterness. The personal became political.

[meyer]

"So really, how much worse can he be?"

Anybody that hasn't seen the answer to that question already is certifiably brain-dead!

[dinoparty]

Um, let’s not forget the people here on FR and even certain radio and print true conservatives who stupidly argued that Obama would be as bad as McCain and that we needed another Carter so we could get another Reagan.

[Dead Corpse]

Douglas Kmiec is former chief of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, and now a constitutional law professor at Pepperdine University and a devout Catholic. Kmiec endorsed Obama earlier this year, despite his conviction that Obama "believes in a pretty progressive agenda."

"With friends like these..."

Don't blame the moon-bat faction of the libertarian's for McIdiots loss. The only reason John got my vote was Palin.

[Paige]

A True Conservative would have “NEVER” backed, much less, voted for Barack. His ChiCAgo style politics, his books, his background all pointed to his SOCIALISTIC views. The Conservatives I know, been acquainted with, and believe in their Ideologies knew this about B.O.

Oh, and this not include the question - WHO IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA? WHO IS THIS MAN? Everything has been locked down and no access is allowed to anything about this so-called community leader - SO, who is BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

[JPG]

A Pennsylvania Dutch expression comes to mind...’Too late smart’.

[ExGeeEye]

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[PubliusMM]

Need a few changes...

1. “Qualified Elector” should be any US Citizen, over the age of 18 who is NOT on the public dole at any level, with the exception of Social Security and Medicaire.

2. Term Limits on ALL elected Federal offices; three terms for Representatives and ONE term for Senators. No cushy benefits, no imperial congress, no retirement plan.

3. Line Item veto for the POTUS

4. Rule Change in the Congress to restrict each bill to a SINGLE issue; no more piling on amendments with no bearing just to get support. Each bill should stand on its own merits.

5. ALL bills that involve the expenditure of funds should require 60% votes in both the House and Senate.

6. Election of Senators should be returned to the various State Legislatures. Reps should be the voice of the PEOPLE, and Senators should be the voice of the STATE, just as was originally planned.

[Ken H]

Exit polls say 26 percent of American voters called themselves evangelical or born-again Christians, and of these, 74 percent voted for McCain, with 25 percent voting for Obama.

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/11/the_evangelical.html

That's nearly 8,000,000 Obama votes.

[2harddrive]

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[autumnraine]

They would never admit it if they did regret it.

They went out on a political limb and their ego won’t let them admit to themselves or anyone else that they were wrong. Dead wrong.

[heye2monn]

Let’s not forget the dubious Ken Duberstein, the former Reagan chief of staff who endorsed Obama at the last minute. A week before the election, the fat cat lobbyist came out for the heavily favored Obama while dumping all over Sarah Palin. How convenient.

Duberstein is probably delighted with the trillion-dollar budget-busting president. As a high profile supporter of the Obama campaign, he can get high White House officials on the phone. The ever-flexible lobbyist will grow even richer as government swells to a mindblowing size.

[snowsislander]

Guys? Any second thoughts? Ready to admit that you were hoodwinked by a smooth-talking Chicago thug?

For what it is worth, I went back and re-read the first posting of this article to Free Republic back in July of 2008 (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041681/posts). From what I see, those postings didn't reflect any support from anyone at Free Republic at that time for Mr. Obama.

[nathanbedford]

This article is utterly fascinating for what it reveals about the psychology of the American voter. It is truly surprising that conservative elites were no less vulnerable to Barak Obama's Saul Alinsky two step than were guilty white liberals.

Here is a post I wrote six months before the election outlining the reasons why Obama campaigned as an empty suit. I should have added that the ploy was equally effective against elites as against liberals and uninvolved undecideds:

The American left, indeed the international left, is a hodgepodge of mutually inconsistent plans and programs which history has demonstrated cannot work. Leftists persist in their leftism because they believe that they are smarter than everybody else. Which really means," I am smarter than all the leftists who've come before and failed with this idea." The glue which holds leftism together when it should splinter apart because of its mutually inconsistent precepts, because it has shopped the entire country to ravening special-interest groups, is their idea that Republicans/conservatives are racists and they are not.

As long as we are racists and they are not, the left need not face up to its own looniness. This is why the left reacts so vehemently to politically incorrect racist remarks.... The coin of this political race card is white guilt.

Now comes Obama. As one black writer has pointed out, he has made a tacit deal with white liberal America: you support me blindly and I will in turn refrain from rubbing America's nose in its history of slavery and segregation. You can expiate your white guilt by voting for me. But Obama has to hold up his end of the deal, he must not rub our noses in our sins like Jesse Jackson or Reverend Al. As long as he was seen to be an empty suit-offering no reproach to America-we were comfortable with him.

Now comes The Right Reverend Wright. He has broken the deal. This is why Obama had to disown him. Wright rubs our noses in racism. To a conservative his crazy allegations are so bizarre that it makes not much sense and doesn't change the equation. We don't buy into this AIDS in Africa business, for example. But for a liberal, Reverend Wright's allegations are not bizarre but actually within the realm of intellectual respectability. We can dismiss them, but the left cannot because much of it comes right out of their own catechism.

What about the great mass in the middle? The moderates, the undecideds, the people who don't follow politics until after Labor Day, the folks who permit the likes of Barbara Walters or Oprah Winfrey to persuade them, what about them, the people who actually decide our elections? These decent folks don't want to be racists. They are always looking for a savior because they will tell you, "I always vote for the man." They shrink from the very idea of voting based on ideology. So an empty suit is no problem for them as long as he is also a savior. Obama was a savior. More, he was an empty vessel into which we could pour all of our yearnings and our simplistic hopes about the political process.

[danamco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnaAZrYqQI

[DTogo]

We The People warming up to take our country back!

[KC_Conspirator]

"But there are libertarians who say, 'Oh yeah? Do you think Obama will increase spending by $1 trillion, because that's what Republicans did over the past two presidential terms.

In a period of less than 2 months, Obama has spent 3.6 to 4 trillion into debt. And I still may be behind in my count.

I can't believe anyone believed this nonsense at the time...

[jwpjr]

These people are like a family where the kids are allowed to elect parents. Candidates come in and campaign for the position. The ones who promise the most ice cream, least homework, best cell phone plan, most secretive access to the Internet, minimum chores, etc. get the nod. Then it is time for the family to live with their selection. Soon they have none of what was promised. The kids were just too immature to realize that what sounds good can often be very difficult to deliver. And they learn that, as onerous as their replaced parents rules and policies were, they had come from years and years of experience.

I have never watched The Simpsons episode, but I suspect from what I've gathered from articles and the like that America has elected Homer and the Mrs. as POTUS. Feel free to suggest another cartoon couple is I missed the mark with the Simpsons!