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‘Surprisingly sanguine’ is the registered trademark of Xanax. Cease! Desist!
Sandy mattered. Drudge called NJ for O.
NJ/NY were always going to go Democratic though. I’m about 5miles from major storm damage. I dont think Obama didn’t get a bump from Sandy. PA is a surprise thus far.
Something smells in Pa.
Probably because of all the fracking they do there.
Philly is a cesspool.
they called WI for obama with only 131 out of 3500 precincts reporting and Mitt has over 69,000 votes to obama’s 53,000. Go figure
Im watching Romney/Ryan order lunch at a Wendy’s in Ohio it’s got to be probably the most comical video ever. It might be Romney’s first time in a Wendy’s in his life.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2_6#/video/politics/2012/11/06/sot-romney-ryan-wendys.hln
I think there seems to be a trend for the media to just start calling states for Obama, but its going to be a long night I think!
Dan, Romney did better than my husband, who thinks fast food places are rest room stops..If they ever start serving rare hamburgers he may actually buy something. It has been an exercise in patience to drive around some strange towns passing multiple fast food restaurants, while starving, and ending up in strange diners, because he is convinced they serve ‘real’ food. A very hit or miss experience, to say the least.
Not such a long night after all.
Speak for yourself. I was so sick I didn’t sleep. This is likely the end of democracy in America.
Ooo, yuck Tamer. I’m sorry you’re having that reaction. I felt displaced and out of sync with the world last night (CA upheld the death penalty? What???), but I hope to have lost my last night of sleep over such things.
Note: Modern presidential campaigns are won and lost IN AUGUST.
Too early I think, although Im sure Barry would love to chalk this up as a win and have everyone go to bed.
If ignorance is bliss, I hope O’s supporters can use bliss to buy groceries and gas.
LOL. And pay their Obamacare taxes. Nothing like being in hock for something you don’t have.
Well, we may not have the right to due process or our 4th Amendment protections anymore…but by God at least we don’t have to worry about Andrew Sullivan calling us racist.
And another plus… he will NEVER BE ON THE BALLOT AGAIN.
Yes, Jay, that is indeed the silver lining here!
They will repeal the 22nd. Meet the American Putin.
Maybe not, Jay, but President Biden could always appoint him Chief Justice.
Imbeciles voted once again for this stinking creepy loser of a President. VacuousCreepInChief. Obama will now swan dive nation into an empty pool.
I am thoroughly disgusted.
Sad turn of events. I feel truly bad for you all who need to remain here.
Been on facebook tonight with my Obama supporting friends (who probably won’t be for very long, now that I’m going to be holding them personally accountable for next 4 years). None of them can still say what he’s going to do in next 4 years. Not even in generalities. Their only response is that “nothing is going to get done because he won’t have partners to work with.” Oooookay then. Glad you said that now.
Their only response is that “nothing is going to get done because he won’t have partners to work with.”
lol! hey I would be GLAD for nothing being done….but trust me , alot will get done, none of it good. ,,,and no partners? This set up is perfect for the top .999. to partner Barry and the GOP house in a tag team .
Barry will kept the Left quite and heeled about the new wars, when the GOP house slashes social spending , Barry will lay down for that, and give up even more than they asked for and call it a victory for “bipartisanship. ” Perhaps he’ll allow the Dems to wring thier hands in fake disress for a moment before caving…but usually he gives in so fast, they haven’t the time….
“None of them can still say what he’s going to do in next 4 years. Not even in generalities.”
I know. It’s crazy!
On an entirely selfish level I’m keen to know how quickly Obama will move to dismantle Social Security. I’m hoping he drags his feet a little so that I can get grandmothered in. (fingers crossed)
Social Security is a goner.
Yes, Tamerlane, it’s a goner. I keep trying to explain this to my mother but she won’t believe me. She probably won’t even acknowledge I was right after it comes to pass. She is part of the misinformed masses, you know, the ones that believed their were protests in Benghazi because NPR and the WH told them so. (sigh)
NES the fix was in. Sad to say but the results are bullshit.
Alinski 1, USA 0.
How stupid can half this country be.
Please Tweet that! And mention CLoward Piven too
Disgusted into a hiatus from politics.
JWS, thanks for this place of refuge, insight, and humor. Back in the near future.
Barry will kept the Left quite and heeled about the new wars,
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This was the main reason I wanted him to loose even though I knew it wasn’t ever going to happen. So many people are blind to his actions. Before the elections I thought the silver lining in Obama winning will be that people will finally get to stop making excuses for him. I now realize they will never stop finding excuses. I was talking to my family about Obama’s wars in Yemen, secret prisons in Somalia, helping the Al Qaeda rebels in Syria and Libya, drone kills of children in Pakistan and the response was that he was couldn’t control everything. Romney wouldn’t have been any different on Foreign Policy except for the most IMPORTANT fact that Democrats would wake up and realize that when a republican does the same thing as Obama, it is wrong. They would have fought him but just like in his first term, he has no opponents.
Maybe he will be better in his second term
EDIT: he couldn’t control everything.
Can anyone tell me how Obama’s Foreign Policy is different than Bush’s? They both have innocent blood on their hands. Bush more than Obama but that can change in his second term.
Downticket except for a few policy positions he is W. Bush.
The news occasional discusses how he got us out of Iraq, but neglect to mention that it was following W.’s timeline to a T. Plus the forget to mention the thousands of troops still there.
In 4 years, Obama has murdered 6x as many civilians with drones as Bush did in 8.
I am not surprised that Obama won – Romney was an empty husk of an opponent. There was nothing there. And people tend to stick to the non-entity they know…even though in eight month’s time the majority of the American public will be dissapointed and frustrated by him.
Nobody cares about drones, Gitmo, secret prisons, dead children. The majority of Obama’s human-rights abuses happen to dirty brown people on the other side of the globe, so they don’t matter.
The only thing that matters to people here is jobs and the economy – Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. On the domestic front I don’t think Obama is going to get the pass he did the first time. It’s going to be put up or shut up. And the next four years are going to be very ugly.
Well said, Lonely, Unfortunately for those who thought O was going to pay for their rent and gas the first time around, things are about to get worse. They have served their purpose and will now be escorted to the underside of the bus.
“Nobody cares about drones, Gitmo, secret prisons, dead children. The majority of Obama’s human-rights abuses happen to dirty brown people on the other side of the globe, so they don’t matter.
This makes me very sad, but I think you’re spot on.
Proglodytes are like sparrows, tricked into raising the cuckoo’s egg.
One thing worth remembering: before the revving up of Romney/Ryan, Obama had dismal approval ratings. Now that those knuckle-draggers are out of the picture, expect Obama to revert back…much faster than the bots expect.
HuffPo’s Cenk Uygur wimped out in the end (“I have to vote for him anyway” No, You Don’t) but his opening paragraphs are rock-solid:
“Anyone who thinks President Obama will magically turn around in his second term and be a real progressive is high on a 2008 supply. Soon after President Obama is re-elected he will do the Grand Bargain deal with Republicans, which will cut Medicare, Medicaid, discretionary spending and maybe even Social Security. On top of that, they will pretend to get extra revenue from closing loopholes but in reality they will definitely do a corporate tax cut and perhaps even a top rate tax cut for the rich.
President Obama views this as the height of courage because conventional wisdom in Washington is that screwing over your own constituents is very, very bold. Yes, not laying a glove on the rich and powerful while you take the lion’s share from the middle class, poor and powerless is so bold! And if it’s so courageous why don’t both sides tell us that’s what they’re going to do before the election? And yes, this time the Republicans will take the deal because it actually helps their donors a tremendous amount.
President Obama will also continue senseless signature strikes where we have no idea who we’re killing with our drones. He will also continue warrantless wiretapping and indefinite detentions. He will pass every trade deal multi-national corporations demand, he will continue to break records in oil drilling and approve the northern half of the Keystone XL pipeline.
And oh yeah, he will continue to do almost nothing on the biggest problem in the country – the enormously corrupting influence of money in politics. The man who raised a billion dollars in legalized bribes in this election will not magically become a reformer in his next term. The only way he goes in that direction is if we push him. The only hope we have is that he is a politician and might change with the times if world events force him to.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/why-obama-will-disappoint_b_2081870.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email+Notifications
Expect the first step to be a “one-time tax amnesty” on repatriated foreign earnings.
This was ultimately,always a culture war. The O’s knew that, they invented it.. It will remain so until the checks start bouncing. A whole lot of people are going to have to grow up fast, this may take another generation. Once everyone has a horse in the race, this vile and bigoted war will pass into history. Good riddance.
My only regret is that it doesn’t appear that the numbers in Congress are great enough to support the impeachment of an odious war criminal. I sense a far reaching evil genius behind those numbers, almost as if the defendant got to pick his own jury.
The half of voters who did not vote for O need to find a new Enlightenment . This needs to be pursued almost as a theology, one with rock hard values and compassionate rules of engagement. It was never enough to simply curse the darkness, half the country now needs to shine a light on their values and ideals, and figure out a plan to bring them to the other half.
Our slogans can be as simple as the Pledge of Allegiance, the Golden Rule, or the alcoholic’s prayer.. Whatever works…
Just don’t call it the Tea Party..
Do not blame it on Sandy. We have just witnessed Chicago ward trickery on a national scale. The results do not match with the internal trends. This election was rigged by OFA, and I now know exactly how they did it.
Do tell, please. I’d really appreciate hearing your take on this.
Tamer, when you have time, I hope you will explain your thoughts on this. Since the winning numbers are razor thin, I’m guessing absentee ballot games, and suppressing the military vote. Four semi’s filled with ballots will be found under Lake Michigan by an archaeologist some day.
To my last breath, I will believe that the make up and demographics of the crowds I saw waiting 4 and 5 hours on line to vote in Florida, strongly indicated that more than of few of them were being rewarded, either with i.d.’s, food stamps or other goodies..
I know and love these same type folks, I worked with them and for them for over 20 years, they are many good things, but altruistic or idealistic isn’t part of their m.o.,they are survivalists, understandably so,
I will post or talk on the radio. I need to delve deeper into some numbers, but the whole things makes me puke at this point.
This is not sour grapes. There are things that don’t make sense. Remember that obama & gang are thugs to the core. They “game the system” and play by different rules than their opponents assume are in force. Just ask Jack Ryan or Hillary.
Ethnic identity is alive and well, Wasserman Schutz cruised to victory in Fl , were she a Republican or a Catholic, she would have been toast.
Party identity must be even stronger, both Mia Love, and Allen West lost, by inches, but nonetheless.
John, I am THRILLED that you will be moving the conversation along. I adore and appreciate your analysis–I always have, but the predictable Obama-over-the-top bashing is tired (much of which is comment based). Let’s move on…I am happy that you are (maybe?) a bit exhausted and tired of it, too.
I just took out the trash & I was thinking, why didn’t America take out the trash on Tues? But dubya also got reelected so I guess it’s no surprise. I had no illusiuons about Romney. He would of probably used drones & do the other disgusting things that bambam already does. The only thing I wanted from Romney was to get rid of Obamacare. If he had kept that promise it would of been worth putting up with him for 4 years. Hopefully the state law we passed here in OH opting out of Obamacare will hold. But I was hoping for an across the board Presidential executive order getting rid of it. Nowe I fear we are stuck with this POS & will never get true heaslthcare in this country