Congratulations, President-Elect Barack Obama
Posted by Dirty Harry on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
It’s impossible not to be touched by the history that unfolded tonight. Just the vision of a President Obama, his First Lady and their two beautiful girls inhabiting the White House goes so far beyond politics I confess to looking forward to it, if only because of what it says about America.
Of course Barack Obama will be my President. And I wish him all the success in the world in bringing prosperity and security to America. Nothing would make me happier than for him to leave office remembered as one of our greatest Presidents.
When it comes to what’s best for this country, I will recognize when he does right, never celebrate his failures (much), and should he ever decide to put American men and women into a foreign conflict I consider unwise, that disagreement will become a cry for victory the moment boots hit ground.
I was sure the most difficult part of defeat tonight would be in knowing that haters like Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Jeffrey Wells, Bill Maher, John Cusack and their ilk in the unholy HuffPo, liberal Hollywood, corrupt media crowd would have a good night. Even as I write this a gang of jerk-off college kids, flush with victory, are taunting President Bush in front of the White House. But when I watched the crowd celebrating in Chicago’s Grant Park, I realized most of Obama’s supporters are no different than me. As Vice President-elect Joe Biden might say, God love ‘em.
Certainly I’m disappointed by tonight’s outcome and tomorrow it’s game back on in the war of ideas. But for now I take a breath and recognize that the great and grand wisdom of the American people has spoken. There’s no doubt our history is about to lurch off in a new direction and if nothing else the ride promises to be an exciting one.
I recognize many of you are disappointed, some bitterly so. But I remind you that like all elections, 2008 is but a battle in an unending, bloodless war of passionate ideas. Sure, we lost this one. We lost in ‘64 and ‘76, as well. The other side lost in ‘02. In other words: comebacks are inevitable.
This is America. And I remain as excited and optimistic about the future as I was yesterday, and last year, and the year before that. This evening a center-right country gave a relatively unknown, liberal black man the keys to its future. Whether or not that was the right decision, time will tell. But what’s worthy of recognition tonight is what that decision reveals about the character of America.
All the passion, anger, frustration, anguish, hope, fear, and loathing that went into this election, and yet tonight power transferred without a drop of blood being spilled.
I love elections. Even when I lose them.
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the405on 04 Nov 2008 at 11:32 pm 1Good post Harry,
You know everyone said the conservative movement was dead in 1992. The Democrats picked up several senate seats and had strong majoirties in the house.
We were on the cusp of a decades long rule of democrats.
Yet, we all know what happened two years later.
Also unlike then, we have better weapons to fight the left than we (internet, fox news, talk radio) did in 1992 and we will not be burderend by an administration that did not defend itself.
I think once the cheering stops The Dear Leaders supporters are going to be shocked to find out this is not easy.
Just like Clinton did after he won…
Carolynon 04 Nov 2008 at 11:37 pm 2Stuff it, Harry!
You’re nauseating me with your ‘McCain’ attitude, your ‘gracious’ concession of this nation’s life, its existence. If you wanted to try a John McCain impersonation - well, right at this moment is not the time for it. You could have had the decency to wait until tomorrow - but right now. Talk about bad timing.
20 minutes ago I got the phone call that McCain conceded. You see, I hadn’t known what the election was like because I had spent the entire day in hiberation - fasting and praying. But the whole time - while I knew it might be close - I just knew that the decency of this nation wouldn’t let such a thing happen. But it did. And when the phone rang and I picked it up to hear my Canadian friend on the other end, my heart sank. Yeah, my gloating liberal Canadian friend who didn’t have the decency to remember my birthday (though I remembered hers) sure had the energy to pick up the phone and call me to gloat. I hung up. I didn’t yell or scream at her, didn’t curse - just said, ‘I have to go now’ and I hung up.
I am in more pain than I ever thought possible. The unthinkable has happened. I am in pain - and in moments like this, your ‘graciousness’ disgusts me.
Try being gracious when those Iraqis start dying like flies. Try being gracious when Ayers struts into the Oval Office with his ‘America makes me want to puke’ smirk. Try being gracious then, Harry. Well, that is, YOU try - but I won’t.
As for being ‘gracious’ now? Like I said, Harry, this is the WORST bit of timing you ever had. And as a screenwriter, you’re supposed to know timing.
Michael Hutchisonon 04 Nov 2008 at 11:44 pm 3Weird.
The National Weather Service reported that the ocean’s water level just lowered six inches.
Tommy Von 04 Nov 2008 at 11:54 pm 4I’m not optimistic. I’m worried.
I believe the ideas that America was built on are eternal, but not America itself. America can break.
It’s likely we will recover from the next 4 years, but it’s not inevitable. Our system requires an open and free press to take its responsibility seriously. We don’t have that now, and I don’t believe we can function properly like this. Democracy’s are no good without the free exchange of knowledge. They’re not Democracies then.
I am not confident that Obama’s presidency will be reported accurately. I believe him, along with a Democratic Congress, will be able to operate without fear of exposure, and in fact, can expect the press to run interference for them. They will operate in a press blackout and we will find it very difficult to mount any opposition.
Trust me, as far as the press is concerned, the 2010 and 2012 elections started tonight. Do you really think they’ll risk GOP gains with accurate reporting? They remember what happened in ‘92-’94 when they gave Clinton such a hard time. They will NOT do that again.
The MSM regained their power during Katrina when they were effectively able to end the Bush presidency. They felt their power. They’re not going to let it go again.
We can lick our wounds for a while, but we need to figure out how to deal with the MSM or the country that we know will be lost. I do not think this is hyperbole. If we don’t fight back, we’re in trouble.
The most radical man ever elected to the Presidency is taking office in a few months and he will a have large majority in Congress and the press are unlikely to report much that will make him look bad. Think about that. He will be the most powerful President I have known in my lifetime.
This is going to get ugly for a lot of people. My
Tommy Von 05 Nov 2008 at 12:14 am 5Just a thought that I think is worth noting…
Hillary Clinton would have won by 10-12 points, maybe more.
The political conditions were just horrendous for Republicans - a GOP candidate should not have even been in the race.
But McCain didn’t keep up because of McCain, McCain kept up because enough people saw through the lie that is Obama.
Any other candidate would have ran away with this in July considering the events going against the GOP this year.
But I am convinced that the MSM was able to sell America on a candidate that it would never honestly want if it knew the full story, no matter the conditions.
In other words: yes, we would have gotten a Democrat because of the political atmosphere, but we got Obama because of the MSM.
Brooksieon 05 Nov 2008 at 12:19 am 6This racial breakthrough might be something to celebrate or acknowledge if it weren’t actually an ideological breakthrough.
It’s a nightmare to consider his and his wife’s agenda.
Now we’re supposed to warmly congratulate him?
Should be interesting with the Dims having a president who is to blame for literally everything.
Carolyn: Bless you for the prayer and fasting.
Inklingon 05 Nov 2008 at 12:21 am 7The media roared and won. They’re not about to change their ways. We are steadily becoming like a European nation. And if you’ve ever studied the European media, you’ve seen how they embrace and support leftist governments, making sure to bury or underplay any negative news, while playing up anything positive.
On one level I admire McCain for his honorableness. On another, I deplore him for failing to do what he swore he would — put country first. Instead of doing what was right for the country, McCain put his personal honor first. He allowed a radical leftist to seize the presidency, rather than get down in the gutter and fight him tooth and nail. I will never forgive him for that.
McCain refused to bring up Obama’s biggest vulnerabilities. He ignored Obama’s relationships with some of the most radical figures in modern America. He let Obama get away with using the help of criminal enterprises like ACORN.
Obama did not fight “fair.” He lied about following the public finance laws. He said he would accept public financing, and then reneged. He spent (by some accounts) at least four times as much money as McCain did. And he did it by letting anybody (illegal foreigners, etc.) contribute to his campaign.
Let me repeat: Obama spent several times as much as McCain did. And he did it through lying and cheating. Where is the honor in that? And who will suffer most: McCain, or the American people?
No, Obama did not win this election honorably or fairly. The media won’t tell the story. But that doesn’t mean we should be silent.
beartoothon 05 Nov 2008 at 12:31 am 8DH:
But when I watched the crowd celebrating in Chicago’s Grant Park, I realized most of Obama’s supporters are no different than me.
You think ? That’s not the impression I’ve got over the last few years. As gracious as you want to be in defeat, I’m willing to bet that you know damn well that easy feel-good gestures have serious consequences. That’s a fundamental difference.
Real people in the real world are really going to die as a result of intellectually lazy people wanting a shiny new toy to feel superior about. Of course only a very small proportion of them will be US citizens, and the oh-so-caring internationalist Left won’t give a damn about any of the others.
abeon 05 Nov 2008 at 12:34 am 9Good post, Harry.
lol @ Tommy. Rationalize away.
It wasn’t America’s weariness with Bush and the Republicans that Obama capitalized on–Oh no, it was the media! If only they mentioned William Ayers and Reverend Wright every hour McCain could have won!
a. acaciaon 05 Nov 2008 at 12:35 am 10Nolte: I realized most of Obama’s supporters are no different than me.
In terms of being *clueless* then yeah. Spot on.
Get ready for a heavy dose of Buyers Remorse, Nolte. Read Carolyn’s comment. More of that coming your way. Enjoy!
EPorvaznikon 05 Nov 2008 at 12:37 am 11Out of respect, I will give President-elect Obama the benefit of the doubt, the opportunities to prove me wrong. If I tell myself this enough times, I hopefully will make that happen. I do.
The way he won the office, though, be it through intimidation, blatant lies or manipulation (aka, the Chicago way), have done nothing (yet) to earn my respect. Watching him preen and dog and pony through his acceptance speech not a good start, either.
OK, time to watch a Scrubs episode and get back to laughin’.
beartoothon 05 Nov 2008 at 12:39 am 12Couple of questions for those who understand identity politics better than I do (that would be just about everyone).
Assuming for the sake of argument that Obama fully lives down to my expectations and represents a disaster of historical proportions; and further assuming that we reach a point where this is too obvious to cover up however hard everyone tries:
1) What’s the long-term effect on racial relations ? At the moment everyone’s assuming this is a tremendous step forward, but if he screws up massively will it impact on black candidates for a long time to come ?
2) Will this make boring old white guys the safe choice in 2012 ?
Jake Was Hereon 05 Nov 2008 at 12:49 am 13Shove it up your ass, Abe. The only thing more obnoxious, annoying and repugnant than a poor loser is a poor winner. When you guys stop gloating like Eric Cartman over Scott Tenorman’s tears, then and only then will we talk about stopping our own bitching.
Still, I think it says something about the character of most Democrats that they somehow find it possible to be even less magnanimous in victory than the Republicans are in defeat.
Jake Was Hereon 05 Nov 2008 at 12:56 am 14And I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again.
whiskeyon 05 Nov 2008 at 1:05 am 15Obama is not my President. I know he hates me for my Skin Color. I read his book. He said so. It’s all in there. He hates Whites. It’s why he defended Wright to the end. It’s why he loves Ayers (who killed other White people). He’s always hated Whites. It’s the core of who he is.
I too echo Carolyn — you’re nuts Harry.
No, I wish him, and his wife, nothing but the worst. The worst of luck, the worst of times, he is NOT my President. He will get the same treatment from me that Liberals gave Bush. Returned with interest.
Obama is the worst mixture of hard left debased volk Marxism mixed with racial hatred this country has ever seen. A worse President than Nixon. Running a nation that is 75% White, while he is filled with hatred towards Whites. His wife is a piece of work too, filled with angry resentment towards Whites as an Affirmative Action admit to Princeton — and openly endorsing Racial Separatism and Black Nationalism (I read HER thesis too).
I wish Obama all the Clintonian attention that Monica Lewinsky gave the Clintons. I hope the alleged mistress turns up to be the real deal, and he is humiliated and disgraced the way Clinton was. I am quite hopeful on that score, and hope that someone will turn that opportunity into money fairly quickly. Drudge made $20 million off Monica and Clinton.
Obama is like Nixon. Vengeful, profoundly uncomfortable in his skin, filled with poisonous, treasonous, vicious, and criminal cronies, full of himself, thinking he can swing a “deal” with anyone, and likely to get a couple of cities nuked and this nation torn apart by deep depression (he’s a clown show who could not run a toilet scrubbing operation) and hideous racial strife.
Beartooth — Obama and Schumer are already talking about Open Borders and Amnesty in a Depression. Making “White Guys a permanent minority.” Or as one Democratic strategist put it “So Long White Boy.” The whole point is to punish White Men. Because we are evil. A 60 seat Senate guarantees that.
So Joe the Plumber is going to be broke, out on his butt, with cheap Mexican labor, which is also instantly, the second they cross the border, eligible for all sorts of Affirmative Action preferences. Whites will be first fired, last hired, the only group officially discriminated against, legally. And despised by all, discriminated against by all, with a President (and a Media flying air cover for him) that hates Whites with a burning passion the way KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest hated Blacks.
It won’t be Unicorns and Rainbows, that’s for sure. It will be ugly. White men and particularly Blue Collar “replaceable” White Men won’t be shy about letting their feelings be known. And reacting. This is a victory for Obama’s coalition of Women, Blacks, Hispanics, and White Yuppies. It’s all about screwing over White Blue Collar men.
I’m sure you will see Identity Politics for Whites too … a President Obama and his burning, abiding hatred for Whites will guarantee it.
I look forward to seeing Obama impeached and convicted.
whiskeyon 05 Nov 2008 at 1:06 am 16I could have lived with a President Kerry. Or a President Gore. I would not have been happy.
But they did not hate me for my skin color.
Obama does.
And so, he will NEVER be my President. And I will oppose him at every turn, starting now.
Good Night, & Good Luck w/ Roundup | The Anchoresson 05 Nov 2008 at 1:06 am 17[…] Dirty Harry offers a well written and exceedingly gracious congrats to Obama, and echoes some of my feelings. I will say though that what distresses me most […]
whiskeyon 05 Nov 2008 at 1:10 am 18Had McCain gone Atwater with Wright, and made the argument that (backed up by reading passages of Obama’s book where he expresses hatred of Whites and endorses violence against them), Whites would get screwed out of any Government spending because Obama would send it all to minorities …
Yeah he would have won.
It’s called Spoils politics.
I expect that argument to be made, explicitly, in 2010. After all, McCain was called a racist, a Nazi, and worse by Obama and his pals.
FWIW, Deval Patrick has a 34% approval rating, and dropping.
Jake Was Hereon 05 Nov 2008 at 1:20 am 19You know, despite being pro-Second Amendment, I’m very very glad tonight that I don’t own a gun. Because I know what my mind is like, and I’m not safe around firearms.
If I had a gun, the barrel would be in my mouth right now. That’s all you need to know.
abeon 05 Nov 2008 at 1:30 am 20^I remember when DH used to post pictures of an Obama-look alike teetering on the edge of a building, ready to jump off, and he would say that picture represented Democrats. Now the image of Republicans with their guns in their mouths does strike me as the equivalent. Especially today.
And I’m not being a “poor winner,” Jake. I’m going to gloat as much as I can every time I see lazy excuses for why McCain lost, and every time I see attempts to skirt around the righteous distaste the public has come to have for Bush and Republicans over these last 8 years as a primary cause for why Republicans have neither the house, the senate, or the oval office.
Inklingon 05 Nov 2008 at 1:35 am 21Jake: Wow. Make friends with your new pal Xanax.
Whiskey: It’s one thing for Deval Patrick to ruin Massachusetts. It’s been going downhill for 200 years. But America doesn’t deserve Obama. If only McCain had been willing to inform the public about him, we wouldn’t have to endure what he’s about to put us through.
Inklingon 05 Nov 2008 at 1:37 am 22Abe: You’re pathetic. And get your finger off the trigger on the gun in Jake’s mouth.
Jake Was Hereon 05 Nov 2008 at 1:45 am 23Abe I may be a pathetic suicidal drunk but I’m still a million times more a man than you will ever be in your miserable goddamned life.
Inkling has it right if you saw a republican with a gun in his mouth youd offer to pull the trigger wouldnt you? One less racist captialist pig in the world, eh?
Christ what the hell an I doing out of bed
Inklingon 05 Nov 2008 at 1:58 am 24Jake, just get back in bed. Things will look different in the morning. Take it easy, we’ll still be here. If there’s anything we can do, let us know.
johnmark7on 05 Nov 2008 at 2:09 am 25What mealy mouth BS, DH. Stuff it, indeed.
Now, for all you folks who think the MSM drug that racist punk over the finish line, it’s just not quite so.
Bush won by 3mm in 2004 with the MSM completely against him.
It wasn’t in the cards for a Republican to win this time; especially with a Rino who claimed to be a maverick but never showed he was a leader.
At The Corner there’s some argument that the country really, truly remains center-right, but I think this shows that’s not the case. The country has turned center-left.
In California, we passed Prop 22 which defined marriage in 2000 and won by 60%. We won Prop 8 by 52.5 or so a mere eight years later.
Some say that many were put off with the idea of changing the constitution, but I don’t buy it. In another four years or so, Prop 8 would probably fail.
It isn’t the MSM which is electing the Obamas, it’s the culture that is more and more pagan with every passing year.
Is it possible for another Reagan to come along and change the course of things? Maybe, but the fact is that those people celebrating Obama are not like me, and they have no patience for facts, no respect for truth, no love of God, no correct certitude about morality, and all want something for nothing.
I’ve been reading the diary that Reagan kept while president. You cannot believe the workload of a president, and the constant unexpected events and crises that erupt every single week, and often from day to day; the interminable meetings of setting an agenda and trying to get it done while dealing with a constant barrage of bad news, critical info, and dire consequences all over the world.
You have to be like a workaholic with an amazing focus to even hope to ride the storm that being president is.
Can Obama handle it? Not a chance. It will all be done by others around him. We’re going to see just how weak a man he is very soon. You cannot be such an egotist and narcissist and expect to be a good president.
Bartlessthescriveneron 05 Nov 2008 at 2:09 am 26The most dangerous thing about Obama, as was said above, is that the media will cover for any of his mistakes.
They will not report relevant information nor ask tough questions.
We are going to be living in a Pravda world. Total disinformation and a fawning media to help us on our way to hell, handbasket optional.
I bet they could, and would, try to cover up another 9/11 sort of attack by reporting it as a pipeline explosion or something of the sort. I would bet good money on it.
Without real information people become paranoid.
And no, I don’t want to be gracious. Not after the shit they threw at Palin. Never forget, never forgive.
a. acaciaon 05 Nov 2008 at 2:11 am 27So I hear that terrorist Bill Ayers burst with joy when Obama won. Yes, it merits repeating: a home-grown terrorist is now openly fawning over Obama.
Tell me again: How does Obama fight terrorism when he is friends with a terrorist?
Can’t wait to see the conga line of radical wingnuts heading to the inaugural. I’m guessing there’ll be lots of requests for that old disco staple - “The Hustle.”
Danilaon 05 Nov 2008 at 2:12 am 28Nah, I don’t wish Obama well at all. He’s just not a good person. He didn’t want to be president because he loves America but because it was the next rung up on the ladder. I don’t feel bitter or really anything at all. It’s the same thing I’ve always said about him since I first heard of him when he ran for state senate, and it’s even more clear to me now. He is a person of ill character.
I don’t care much about policies and I’m way over politics (if people want to try some more socialism whatever). I’m not a “fiscal conservative” and I am one of the people who doesn’t pay income taxes. I’m on food stamps living on 500 dollars a month actually, so an Obama presidency might help me in the short run. I am black and I know what this means to a lot of people. I know all of my neighbors and family were celebrating tonight, and I think that so long as Obama was just an empty symbol, it was worth it for the black American community, and goodness knows they needed something positive. Unfortunately, he is now the most powerful man in the world, not just a symbol. And he’s just this side of full-on bad.
Bartlessthescriveneron 05 Nov 2008 at 2:14 am 29Johnmark, good point. Obama is weak, if he were not he would have done a lot more than organize a community which is still a slum, and fool around with ‘education’, where kids are still uneducated, and run twice without opposition.
He would have done something —- something energetic.
He hasn’t.
You are right, the presidency will be run by shadow people and the buck never stops on the desks of shadow people.
Danielon 05 Nov 2008 at 2:21 am 30Great Monday morning quarterbacking, whiskey. It would done McCain wonders to turn the election into a referendum on race. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
And I thought the morons were mostly in Murtha voters.
I will say this about President Obama, I pray that he listens and learns and that his penchant for radicalism will be tempered by the real world.
I am afraid, however, that we will get Bill Clinton on steroids during his first few months.
Thank God for the filibuster. Presuming, of course, Republicans grow a pair and use it.
Forlournedon 05 Nov 2008 at 2:22 am 31Right now, muslims across the globe are celebrating. Guns are being freshly cleaned off, explosives are being distributed like it was air and the smell of massacres of the innocent there wets their lips. With intense glee, oil sheiks are uncorking a fresh supply of women as they ramp up the cost per barrel now.
Right now hollyweird actors are making even more virulent strains of diseases upon themselves as they’ve stayed up in orgies and drug baths in mass debauchery for the winning of a Jew/white hating cyper.
Right now, more trees are being cut down in preparation for wild printings of condemnation of the thousands of acts of Americans murdered across the globe next year at the u.n. as a response as well as the rest used as Americans become pink slipped out of jobs. What a surprise for all those college twits soon to join the working drudge eh?
In the end. Many, many more people will be dead outside our borders first.. Many more of us will follow soon thereafter.
Fatalistic?.. We as a nation did survive carter, but I wonder if our nation now has the same courage to survive it this time.
Morganon 05 Nov 2008 at 2:28 am 32I’m still bitter about the whole thing. It’s the first time I’ve made a serious effort to help somebody try and get elected President. And look what happened?
My own state, Indiana, went to Obama; first time in 44 years my state ever went to a Democrat, and in this case the worst possible Democrat who could ever run for the office.
I can’t be gracious right now; instead, I think about all those people who voted for Barack Obama and think, those people are real stinking idiots. They might as well bend over and get prepared to be royally screwed by the new administration, by Pelosi and by Reid. They voted for it, they deserve it.
Dirty Harry, you and John McCain are better men than I because of your graciousness, but right now is a time for mourn, for all the unborn babies who will lose their lives in the next four years (I fear it will increase), for all the gun owners whose rights are now in greater danger, for all the Iraqis who have fought to be free (I fear defeat might be snatched from the jaws of victory after all), for all the Joe the Plumbers whose lives will be more difficult when President Obama begins his economic policies (I fear we could be looking at another Depression soon), for the Supreme Court (where the long term effects of Obama’s administration will be felt), for the troops who I fear will be put in greater harm’s way, and for our nation which will be in greater danger of being subjected to another 9/11.
I hope I’m wrong in all this, but I fear I’m not.
Aitch748on 05 Nov 2008 at 2:31 am 33Abe said: “And I’m not being a “poor winner,” Jake. I’m going to gloat as much as I can every time I see lazy excuses for why McCain lost,…”
Yes, Abe, that makes you a poor winner. Winners don’t gloat; losers getting a one-off win are the ones who gloat.
But don’t you worry — you can at least console yourself that we’ll never be quite as unfair and ungracious toward Obama as you have been toward Bush.
Danielon 05 Nov 2008 at 2:32 am 34I think I understand wishing Obama well as President. I do have to part ways with DH when it comes to Obama’s supporters. I do not think they are just like me.
I think K-Lo, at NRO put it best:
“What Freaks Me Out About This Election is how oblivious to facts people have been. Everything about Obama’s judgment and radicalism … was essentially deemed irrelevant. Abortion? Near no one outside a handful of conservatives were talking about his record on infanticide — beyond abortion.”
Anyone who shrugs his or her shoulders at the facts, whose eyes glaze over with happy talk about “hope” and “change” is nothing like me.
johnmark7on 05 Nov 2008 at 2:39 am 35The MSM will cover a bit for Obama. But all honeymoons come to an end. Obama is weak and empty and the leaks will start popping out like crazy because insiders love to feel important and get credit or use reporters to undermine their foes inside the administration. Talk about your pissing contests.
When you have a weak leader, then everybody else contends for control. That creates leaks like you’ve never seen by all those vying for prominence.
It’s possible that Obama may surround himself with people as loyal to him as Bush’s people have been (the low number of leaks in his eight years is really amazing, especially once Powell was gone). But Obama’s people, well, he hasn’t got any large, loyal staff since he’s only a senator. Almost everyone he brings in will be from the campaign and the regular Beltway crowd. Lots of divided loyalties.
Reagan had a hell of a time with all the Washington insiders he had in his administration constantly leaking. (Al Haig, anyone.) Whereas Clinton had pretty good discipline in the WH.
The more Washingtonians you rely on, the more undermining you get.
Also, the number of foreign leaders a president meets is formidable, and they all take your measure very quickly, and they will see right off the bat that Obama doesn’t know anything, has no idea about what should be done, or how anything really stands. They will then act accordingly with this inside knowledge of the weakling.
Marieon 05 Nov 2008 at 2:42 am 36I’m so excited right now you guys - I’ll get to live through a real-life Depression, the one my grandfather spoke of so much. And we have the first truly racist President - the first racist president in the 21st century.
Wow, what a time to be alive, right?
kevin J waldroupon 05 Nov 2008 at 3:05 am 37Barack Obama is not my President
Death Metal Cookie Monsteron 05 Nov 2008 at 3:26 am 38Enough with the “Obama is not my president” crap. Geeze, you sound like liberals!
I pray that Obama does a lot better then we think he will.
Oh yeah, does this mean that Affirmative Action will be completely eliminated? I mean, with a gray man (he’s half black/half white) as POTUS it pretty much destroys the whole “whitey keeping the bother-man down” bs.
thudon 05 Nov 2008 at 3:29 am 39DH..you are a decent guy but in this case I have to part company with you…obama was a bad choice before his win…and a bad choice now…the suffering of all the good folk of America begins today.
Aitch748on 05 Nov 2008 at 3:39 am 40Somebody post how the market reacts today, because I’m not at all sure that the media will.
Tar Heel Momon 05 Nov 2008 at 3:41 am 41Harry, let me remind you of two things: Card Check and the Fairness Doctrine. These 2 items will FUNDAMENTALLY change the political landscape in the USA. Once these are implemented, it’ll be close to game over for any sort of “loyal opposition.”
Card Check will destroy the secret ballot for union votes. From allowing illegal workers to “vote” for unions (anybody else think they’d vote any other way?), how big a step is it to allow them to vote in municipal elections? I mean, after all, don’t they deserve some sort of representation where they live?? And from there, to vote in statewide elections? Once this ball starts rolling downhill, how in the world will anybody be able to stop it?
As for the Fairness Doctrine, San Fran Nan has already vowed that it’s high on her agenda, and you just KNOW that Dingy Harry’s still smarting from the smackdown Rush delivered to him last year. There’s a reason it’s called the “Hush Rush” bill. They can’t wait to shut down him, and Sean, and Mark Levin, and Laura Ingram, and all the other rightwing talkers.
And if you don’t think they’ll try to shove through some sort of Internet version of the Fairness Doctrine, you don’t understand how these people think. They will do whatever tehy have to in order to shut down and silence opposition.
BTW, for anyone who says the press won’t cover for Bambi just like they didn’t cover for Clinton: remember that Newsweek spiked the Lewinsky story at first. It was only because of Drudge that the story broke out.
Obama and his thughs stole this election and they will never get called on it. If I had the $$$$ I’d be buying a handgun today.
Michael Barone called it right. Prepare for the coming thugocracy.
Kiton 05 Nov 2008 at 3:43 am 42Dirty Harry,
Good post.
And Dems, as Arnie would say, “We’ll be back.”
RufusTon 05 Nov 2008 at 3:44 am 43DH,
Hear! Hear! Well said! I did my homework this election, I know a lot about Obama and he is the least impressive of any major candidate I can recall in my lifetime (well, maybe he’s tied with John Kerry), but this is the process and the best thing to do now is pray the guy governs differently than his past indicates. We live in a Representative Democracy and this is the process. I will work to make this work. I love my country.
rufus
Addison DeWitton 05 Nov 2008 at 3:54 am 44Can we talk about movies now?
Kiton 05 Nov 2008 at 3:55 am 45What Dirty Harry was saying is that he hopes Obama does a good job, not that he believes he will.
I have a feeling that Obama will not do the best job, but I hope he at least does a decent job.
He is my president. I will accept that. I’m not a liberal.
Kiton 05 Nov 2008 at 3:56 am 46Scratch that. He WILL be my President. Still a few months left.
Tar Heel Momon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:09 am 47“but this is the process and the best thing to do now is pray the guy governs differently than his past indicates.”
With all due respect, Rufus, this is the triumph of optimism over experience. What makes you think he’s not going to do what he’s been telling us he’s going to do?
Sort of OT: The thought of That Woman in the White House is enough to make my skin crawl. An embittered woman with a “you owe me, white America” attitude. He’s got a stick up his a$$, and she’s got a chip on her shoulder. What a First Couple. The only saving grace is those two charming little girls.
kevin J waldroupon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:10 am 48We are a weaker country today.
fiestamomon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:16 am 49Obama didn’t win with honor, he won with ACORN. Sorry, no congrats for me on this “historic” victory. Yeah, it’s historic, a candidate accepts tens of millions in foreign illegal campaign contributions, and receives hundreds of millions in free advertising from the mainstream media, yet receives a little over 50% of the vote.
I don’t EVER want to hear some liberal tell me about MLK’s great speech saying blacks want to be judged by the content of their character over the color of their skin. Nope, no sale. The man was voted in solely because of the color of his skin by black people.
Is it pretty obvious that I’m a BITTER clinger right now?
Ginaon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:21 am 50I will pray for Obama, because he needs it. But I’m darned if I’m going to celebrate.
Leo Grinon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:27 am 51DH,
Great post, and don’t let anyone (especially all of the deluded guys and gals who failed see this enormous electoral tidal wave coming) tell you different. What you are exhibiting here is not mealy-mouthed capitulation but what Peggy Noonan calls in her new book “Patriotic Grace.” It’s the right attitude to have, one that will pay large dividends down the road.
To the rest of you jokers who were “feeling” a McCain victory but who now are on your knees and snarling: try to get it into your thick heads how colossally WRONG you were about this election and about the mood of the country, and try to entertain the possibility that being so wrong about something this obvious might very well hint at you being wrong about a whole bunch of other things going forward in the election’s aftermath (things like condemning this post by DH, for instance).
I and other “Vichy conservatives” were RIGHT when we challenged all of the braying, bloodthirsty voices on this blog who were promising a McCain victory and threatening anyone who disagreed with exile from the “real” Republican party. We KNEW it was all BS, we saw this defeat coming from a mile away. We based our analysis not on mindless group-think or unreliable polls or wishful thinking, but on a sensible reading of the bitter tea leaves offered up by Bush, McCain, and the rest of the legion of Republican ne’er-do-wells these last four years.
It’s unbelievable to see some of the very same people who mocked Bush Derangement Syndrome for eight years now engage in Obama Derangement Syndrome before the man has made a single executive decision. Don’t make him into a convenient mirror on which to reflect all of the disappointments and failures of the past eight years. He’s not responsible for Republicans getting their lunch handed to them this time out, he’s just the one on the other side who managed to best take advantage of the malaise and betrayals which our own leaders have inflicted upon us. In 2004 we gave Republicans a wide, powerful mandate for conservative governance, and they proceeded to squander that precious capital perfidy by heartbreaking perfidy.
The coming years are going to require clear thinking grounded in solid conservative principles, not snapping and yapping like rabid curs. The Republican brand is currently at junk status. People who have voted for them and supported them their entire lives — millions of us — absolutely do not place any trust or faith in what they say anymore. We no longer believe the promises, buy the explanations, or credit the professed election-cycle Road-to-Damascus conversions. At every turn we cringe and jump, expecting our own side to steal our wallets or stick a knife in our backs or humiliate us with scandal. For that to change, Republicans are going to have to find leaders with the courage to vote staunchly conservative, the intellectual capacity to compellingly and congruently explain their reasons for doing so, and the charisma to make their stands palatable even to many voters on the other side of the aisle. We need people who put conservatism before careerism and cronyism, who don’t become deer in the headlights every time their teleprompters are turned off, and who don’t meekly accept the liberal prevailing wisdom but endeavor to change it.
Successful political coalitions are built by a continuous wresting of slivers of the electorate from the other side via a galvanizing, superior worldview — by making new friends and convincing them that it’s in their interests for your causes to become their own. They are manifestly not built by declarations of everlasting hatred towards the legitimate winners of an election and the half of the country who voted them into office. If we let the howling bitter-enders of this election set the tone for the party going forward, God help us.
Carolynon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:34 am 52“for now I take a breath and recognize that the great and grand wisdom of the American people has spoken. There’s no doubt our history is about to lurch off in a new direction and if nothing else the ride promises to be an exciting one.”
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DH, every time I read those disgusting words, they become even more repulsive. And frightening. DH, you clearly have not read history. By sugarcoating evil, you are simply making it easier to swallow. In your own way - you are doing as much evil as Ayers. While he says America makes him ‘want to puke’, YOU are one of those person who sniffs the vomit and says ‘well, it’s not so bad’.
Harry - nations are not lost because of grand clashing losses - but in small deadly quiet ones. How is it that you see and yet do not see it? Doesn’t that quiet warning speak to you - ‘a kingdom was lost all for want of a horse shoe nail’? Do you think of that as only an amusing anecdote, a play on words, a children’s rhyme? No, Harry - it’s a warning.
As I stand here in the wreckage and the hell, I see that this nation’s ‘horse shoe nail’ moment came last February when McCain joined hands with the enemy and stole the clear win from Romney. In that moment, today’s horror was made inevitable. In that moment, Romney’s horse shoe nail was hammered into his political coffin, sealing his defeat - shortly afterwards he dropped out of the race. Leaving it to a coward who would not fight. And this coward has today hammered the horse shoe nail in to the coffin of this nation’s faith, honor, future.
It is so ghastly because it was done with such hideous charm. Though we were in a battle for this nation’s soul - our ‘leader’ would not lead. And he made his refusal so easy to swallow - he chose charming words, elegant words, just like yours, to sugarcoat his horse shoe nail. McCain’s words resonated of grace and grandeur - words such as ‘gentlemanly’, ‘gracious’, ‘above such mud slinging’, etc. ‘Isn’t McCain honorable for not pointing out Ayers, Rezko, Wright, corruption, etc. Isn’t that noble?’
It wasn’t noble. It was deadly. And we swallowed it. We swallowed that poisonous lie, coated with our own fears, our own blindness, our own human inability (as all humans have) to recognize the enemy because it frightened us so. We swallowed the sugarcoated cowardice, the unwillingness to fight - and that horse shoe nail slide down into our guts and there in our bowels rotted and poisoned us from within. As McCain would not fight that extra step, so therefore we were lulled to not fight as well. How many of us now realize that if we’d made just one more phone call, if we’d mailed just one more flyer, if we’d contributed just one more cent, if - if - if we’d done this or that - etc., that the tide might have turned? It was close. That is the horror of it. The election was that close.
DH, you give ‘honorable’, soothing words to the evil man who’s been elected. You say charming things about the evil that is around us - you even sneer at our pain and suffering and call us ‘bitter’ because we are heartsick over what has happened. Oh, DH, how can you not see that your ‘bitter’ is no different from one who said that in SF months earlier and merely added ‘guns and religion’ to it? How is it you can not see that your concession to evil now is not so much different from McCain’s concession to evil in Florida when he put his ego ahead of his country and destroyed a candidate who would have fought as McCain refused to? And oh, my almighty God, we needed a fighter because we were literally in a battle for the existence of our faith, our values, our beliefs? But McCain didn’t give us a sword - he gave us a nail. We swallowed it. And now we are all paying in blood for that gulp. The Florida primary was a small treachery then - but it is the horse shoe nail that today, November 5th, is being hammered into the coffin of my beloved America that salutes the flag, supports our soldiers, praises God - and defends Iraqis from tyrants.
When you murmur soothing words, charming words over the enemy, you are become a Petain who murmured charming words of Hitler and wished him the best. And then, in quietness later on, in soundless efficiency, in looking out for his ‘own’, he then made up the lists of Jews to be deported. An enemy is not fought with charming words - it is fought with anger.
Do not soothe my anger, DH. Do not murmur charming words or pen eloquent hopes. That is conceding to the enemy. And make no doubt about it, Obama IS the enemy. There is nothing ‘grand’ or ‘exciting’ about him. He is a lying petty racist. He is terrifying and lazy and ignorant. If this is ‘excitement’ to contemplate watching him do his work, then Dunkirk was a picnic.
You have conceded to the enemy, DH. I do not denigrate your intelligence, I do not ignore your heroic work which you have done these many months. I chastise you in sorrow - and in fear. Reading your soothing words, your murmurs of support for Obama, I am heartsick to see that it is weakness such as yours, well meaning, well intended weakness, which has led to this damnable hour. This damnable hour in which a Muslim terrorist-sympathiser now will inhabit the Oval Office. Obama’s greatest strength was his opponent’s weakness. He smelled it, he sniffed it - and now it reeks in my face. The weakness of charm, of graciousness, of civility which shows itself now in your words of wanting to see him “leave office remembered as one of our greatest Presidents”.
Oh, I am heartsick, DH. How could you?
Salon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:36 am 53I’m sorry Harry, but I will find the historicity that we elected a black man to the Presidency cold comfort when an emboldened terrorist blows up hundreds of people in a mall or sports arena.
You’ve got your first black President, America. He despises the majority of you and cares nothing for your best interests if they conflict with his grasp for more and more power, he thinks your Constitution ‘needs work’ and that you need a civilian army to enforce the ‘change’ you all wanted so much, he cares more about what the world community thinks than what you do, but has no interest in honoring our committments abroad, he knows better than you how to run your business, and he’s going to punish your success so that you don’t make a virtue of selfishness, he has proven repeatedly throughout his campaign that he is a person of little or dubious character, but hey- you made history. Enjoy the moment!
No, not ready to be gracious yet. Give me a day or two or thousand.
JohnLockeon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:40 am 54But what’s worthy of recognition tonight is what that decision reveals about the character of America.
Well, you’re right about that. It reveals one of two things:
1. That America is short-sighted and gullible enough to allow its Bush fatigue, its general dissatisfaction, and the media to convince them to vote for a man that no rational American, Republican or Democrat, should ever want as leader of the free world during this crucial time in our nation’s history, or
2. that America really is as far left as Obama, and elected him knowing full well what kind of “progressive” policies this man is likely to implement.
Of course, I’m going with the first, which is still not a pretty picture.
Honestly, I can’t see how you can be so magnanimous, especially after all of your posts leading up to the election. Whatever happen to “something about this man isn’t wired right”? Now, I have no intention of being as cynical and bitter as some others here. I firmly believe that America can survive an Obama presidency. I’m also hoping and praying that my fears about Obama are wrong. But the fact is, the evidence doesn’t look good. This man isn’t ready to lead, he espouses disastrous left-wing ideas, and he has a pretty good track record of attracting radical and anti-American individuals to himself. One must seriously wonder if the last won’t have some sort of influence on who his cabinet members and various appointees are. So yeah, I’m praying for the best, but the facts suggest that we brace for the worst.
Oh, and correct me if I’m wrong, but your post seems to me to carry the implication that Obama has accomplished this despite his race. If that’s the case, then I’ll have to disagree with you again. Let’s face it, if Obama had all of the same charisma, political positions, and radical affiliations but was white instead of black, it’s doubtful he would’ve won the primary, let alone the general election. He succeeded because of his race. And yeah, I understand that forty years ago, Obama wouldn’t have even been allowed to vote in certain places, and that America has worked past a history of racism. But that’s just the thing, it’s already worked past it. It’s worked past it so much that in many situations, the scales are tipped in favor of blacks and other minorities. We have affirmative action now. If you want to celebrate America’s triumph over racism and segregation, don’t do it with this election, which is actually more symptomatic of white guilt.
Dirty Harry's Momon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:41 am 55Harry, I could not be more proud of you this morning. Barack Obama’s family is not the only one that raised up a splendid man.
A few word to those of you, the majority of your readers it appears, who hate, insult, direct your vituperative, puerile comments evens to Dirty Harry. You are one of the main reasons most all of the country is so proud this morning. We are sick and tired of your divisive, juvenile approach to serious problems. And it is my personal hope that you are now so far off anyone’s radar, that I will never, ever have to have anything to do with you again. Bad sess to you, as my grandmother used to say.
Carolynon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:42 am 56Leo - stuff it! There’s no ‘grace’, patriotic or not, in wishing well to the enemy.
The only thing about your post that I can stomach is that you point out - quite rightly - that we were betrayed by our own party. You are right, damned right, in that. The Republican Party betrayed us 4 years ago - actually longer than that - and yesterday their betrayal damned this nation to the most malevolent evil man who’s ever been elected to office. And he IS evil. Your inability to see that - your mistake in equating mindless BDS rage to be the same thing as BHO rage is stupid - and deadly. American soldiers fought in WWII with the same fury and intensity as Germans - but that does not make them the same. Both held weapons, both were heroic in battle - but both were not right. Only one.
Obama is evil. And his evil was enabled by our own evil - the evil of concessions. Our concessions came in all their deadly forms - some greater, some lesser, yet all were evil. For any concession to evil is itself evil as well.
I will not concede to the enemy. I am fighting.
It is not the ‘gracious’ words of DH. But that is nothing to be ashamed of. What is shameful is graciousness towards the enemy. And that I will not allow.
Carolynon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:45 am 57Harry - your perfidy has been ‘outed’. You just won your demeaning, humiliating, galling pat on ‘her widdle boy’s’ head from your own mom. Yes, you’ve sunk that low.
Doesn’t that make you proud?
It makes me sick.
Rodon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:46 am 58With 100% reporting in Minnesota, After nearly 3 million votes cast, it’s Coleman over Franken by…762 votes!!
Definite recount here.
Carolynon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:53 am 59DHM - “it is my personal hope that you are now so far off anyone’s radar, that I will never, ever have to have anything to do with you again”.
DHM - follow up this disgusting hypocrisy of yours with action, dammit! Come on, you coward - actually, for the first time in your rotten miserable existence, follow up your disgusting, cowardly words with action.
NEVER have anything to do with us again. Go ahead, DO it! Do it! I dare you, DO IT!
Yeah, that’s right - petty nasty vile-tempered DHM - get off our ‘radar’. We all of us wish for nothing more devoutly than your disappearance.
But that won’t happen because you haven’t got the guts or the integrity to do it. No, you’re one of those spineless, smirking cowards who’s always threatening to pack your bags for Canada but instead stays behind smirking that ‘America makes you want to puke’. Which is what your vile nasty little smirking post is right now. A vomitous spew of your own hate and bigotry.
So LEAVE, DHM! Go ahead, leave! Get out of here! I dare you. I DARE you to actually for once do what you threaten to do!
Stephanieon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:53 am 60Whiskey you are right. I would have gone hard core on Wright. That f’r never would have been preening. Yeah Harry he also hates you because of your skin color. REMEMBER THAT!
Stephanieon 05 Nov 2008 at 4:58 am 61Kit Barack Obama hates you because of yoru skin color you know?
And as far as what Carolyn is saying RIGHT ON WOMAN!
I agree. I will not concede, I will ignore, I will undermine, I will do whatever I can to throw all of teh evil Barack Obama is back at him. I despise him. I despise what he stands for. I despise his “friends” (does he have any? Interestingly enough Adolph Hitler didn’t have any REAL FRIENSDS EITHER!).
You know it is America…but America never elected a man who HATED HER! We have now. And yet here we are…like good little peon Republicans…whet all get awaong ok? HELL NO! Its time to ACT! TIme to FIGHT! Time to raise unholy hell till the day that evil doer is out of office. I would rather be dead than concede. My dog is my president until Adolph is gone.
pandaxon 05 Nov 2008 at 5:00 am 62I think why Obama won this election could be his biggest downfall..the people who voted for him. The one person who summed it all up was the lady in Florida who said she wouldn’t have to worry about gas for her car or paying her mortgage because if she did this for Obama he would help her. The message is very clear, I make you president and you will save me from every problem and bad choice I make. Even though Obama may very well want to save us from ourselves he won’t be able too. Even the mightiest global economy on Earth doesn’t have that much money to cover the bottomless well of bad things people can get themselves into. So when Obama tells us he can’t send us any more checks or the new social programs are breaking the bank and he has to raise our taxes more those voters will stop swooning forget all those wonderful speeches and cry “what have you done for me lately?”. I think our new President will come to realize that once you start to feed that monster you can’t stop or it will eat you.
wanketteon 05 Nov 2008 at 5:00 am 63Nope, I checked.
Still bitter & clinging to my guns & religion.
Bitter in a way I wasn’t when Carter or Clinton went in.
This man is an empty suit who has the power to turn my country into a thugocracy. Because now, like any Dear Leader, he has the media already covering for him. And it cost him nothing.
And any criticism of him from now on? Wascist.
I need a shower. For about four fuckin’ years.
Stephanieon 05 Nov 2008 at 5:05 am 641. That America is short-sighted and gullible enough to allow its Bush fatigue, its general dissatisfaction, and the media to convince them to vote for a man that no rational American, Republican or Democrat, should ever want as leader of the free world during this crucial time in our nation’s history, or
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Its one…its one. The American people would rather stare vacantly at their tvs playing their x boxes rather than do the ground work to find out who they vote for.
Its funny…just got back from coffee…guy at teh coffee shop said good morning I said whats good about it he laughed and said I know. I said hell I would have voted for Hillary over Obama…he said he would have to.
The Obama asses had no ground game down here..none…stories about ballot registrations being thrown all over a Tampa highway…………
Now it could have been worse…..but it wasnt. The left assholes will try and scream we realigned ourselves but we haven’t. Had Hillary run we may have seen a real landslide however enough people including our PUMAS did do some work. But this was a stolen election. Mark my words, when stories come out and the books written about ACORN and the rest it will piss everyone of you off. No he is an illiligimate pretender. A poser. He is not and never will be my President. I despise him and everything about him. His uglieness is tehre if you look hard enough. He is Hitler reimagined.
Mrs. Righton 05 Nov 2008 at 5:05 am 65The only thing historic about this election is that we have just elected America’s first Marxist president, with an assist from the propaganda machine that is the MSM.
Please, Dems, don’t do me any more favors.
pandaxon 05 Nov 2008 at 5:05 am 66Dirty Harry’s Mom
Big question is why the even worse behavior of liberals for the last eight years didn’t bother you? Now suddenly your offended? Harry I hate to have to say this but your mama is hypocrite .
Mrs. Righton 05 Nov 2008 at 5:07 am 67Stephanie, I hear you - better dead than Red.
Mimion 05 Nov 2008 at 5:09 am 68Let’s not dump on Harry. We all know how the next few years are going to go. It’s time to rebuild the Republican party. We need to get some new high profile names ready for the next election. We need to work on the ground game to counter ACORN, and let’s be sure that Obama gets the appropriate credit (good/bad) for everything he does so America has a clear picture of him (properly vetted) for the next election. Until next time…
Bennett Marcoon 05 Nov 2008 at 5:18 am 69Mimi:
You’re right. Nothing to do now but wish the President-elect well, because we wish the country well.
But let’s keep a close eye on him and a detailed, accurate “naughty & nice” ledger.
AND, let’s start figuring out how can do better next time!
BTW: No disrepect to Senator McCain or the Great Goldwater, but maybe Arizonans need not apply in the future. : )
Wayfareron 05 Nov 2008 at 5:23 am 70What the heck, guys!?
Quit acting like the libs after the 2000 elections. Yeah, we lost. Yes, the next few years are going to be bad. Carter-ish bad. But we can kick his butt in 2010. But we have to start working NOW.
Carolyn, Steph, Whiskey, etc, quit being sore losers and lets get out there and find the next conservative leader. Somebody who we can get behind and support 150%. That’s the only way we can get back. So lets do it.
We are going to come back. Will you help us?
mjkon 05 Nov 2008 at 5:25 am 71My vote is for Jindal in 2012!
RufusTon 05 Nov 2008 at 5:27 am 72Tar Heel Mom,
To answer your question, I do not know what BHO will do as President. He has said a lot in this campaign, and prior to it, and much of it is in direct opposition to what I believe a President ought to do. However, this is the process and our nation has elected him as President. Like Harry I will treat him with the dignity he deserves. If he does something as President that I disagree with I will not hesitate to speak my mind. And if he does something I agree with I will not hesitate to speak my mind. Time will tell. I voted for the other guy, but I am willing to suspend my concerns until President Obama has governed. I have been wrong before. I don’t believe I am this time, but my countrymen and women have spoken and this is the leader we have chosen.
I love my country and I believe in this process. It is bigger than me, and if Barack Obama understands it is bigger than him we just might be alright.
God Bless America!
Wayfareron 05 Nov 2008 at 5:29 am 73Rufus: Great post. I agree completely.
Bennett Marcoon 05 Nov 2008 at 5:31 am 74Wayfarer:
Let’s do it!
To steal a quote from a lefty icon: “Don’t mourn, organize!”
pandaxon 05 Nov 2008 at 5:38 am 75Another thing this pretty much also proves wrong every whiner who screamed how Bush was destroying our civil liberties and taking our freedoms away and turning America into a police state.
Moon 05 Nov 2008 at 5:52 am 76Perhaps at some point I’ll be able to read this in its entirety. But it is not this day. All I could get through was the title and the last line. And that, in disbelief.
I’m sorry, but I refuse to believe that the majority of this country believes the things this man stands for. And I have lost what tiny shred of respect I had for even the calling of journalistic profession.
Because you know what?
I refuse to believe that the majority of Americans believe infant murder is acceptable.
I refuse to believe that the majority of Americans are racists who believe Jeremiah Wright’s words are true.
I refuse to believe that the majority of Americans want a socialist government.
I refuse to believe that the majority of Americans think terrorism like that of Bill Ayers is acceptable.
I refuse to believe that the majority of Americans were never proud of their country until last night.
I refuse to believe any of it.
I do not know who and what the American people think they voted for yesterday. But that’s the fault of the MSM for hiding who this man really is and what he stands for. They won this election by deceiving the American people.
Because if that is not true then it means the majority of the American people really do believe all that I mentioned above.
And I refuse to accept that people that I know and love support these things.
Maybe I am the fool.
2keyboardson 05 Nov 2008 at 5:56 am 77Such bile and hate being spewed here, just because a man is gracious in defeat.
Barack Obama has won the election. I’m not sure what will happen now. I’m a little frightened, but I am prayerful. I do have HOPE that he will prove all of us wrong.
However, wishing ill to him and for him means wishing it for the entire nation. He is the President-Elect of the United States of America. He deserves our respect for that simple reason, respect for the office, if not the man.
I will fight the policies he comes out with that I don’t agree with. Just because DH can be gracious, doesn’t mean he won’t call Pres-Elect Obama on the things he knows are wrong and bad for the country. I firmly believe that DH will be at the front of the charge. But, we can be patiently optimistic to see what will happen. This man is a blank slate. I, for one, will give him the benefit of the doubt. He will be my president.
CrippleHawkon 05 Nov 2008 at 6:21 am 78THe GOP better find a good lineup in 2 years for the midterm.
trzupron 05 Nov 2008 at 6:24 am 79God Bless ya Harry. There is a difference between being a gracious loser of a particular battle, who remains committed to the fight, and timidly waving the white flag. I - and obviously many others - recognize that your post represents the former train of thought, not the latter. You’ve got stones my man, and I salute you.
Rich
Cambiason 05 Nov 2008 at 6:39 am 80The real battleground is the traditional mass media — Hollywood, the networks, and print news. To a large extent they created Obama, they covered for him during the campaign, and they sacrificed objectivity, integrity, and truth to drag him across the finish line.
So the question for conservatives should be, how do we counter that next time? The conservative web logs are only read by conservatives and the occasional lefty troll. They don’t get the message out. The “Fairness” Doctrine will cut down the reach of talk radio — but again, that’s mostly preaching to the choir anyway. How do we get our message out? How do we break the Left’s media monopoly?
Foxsongon 05 Nov 2008 at 6:47 am 81Graciously spoken, DirtyHarry. We are on opposite sides of the fence politically, but you have my respect.
Wayfareron 05 Nov 2008 at 6:48 am 82Re: Cambias
We go around them. We don’t need them. We go directly to the people. People are going to be surprised when the see what Obama actually does. Even the media won’t be able to spin what he does.
So we go to the people because most people either a)don’t care or b)aren’t too far left or too far right. (Well, that could be different in other states, I’ve lived in Tx and the midwest most of my life, so I wouldn’t know.) Most people are open-minded and see when stuff doesn’t work. Socialism doesn’t work. They will see that and conservatives will present them with a different direction. They’ll take it and Obama will lose.
Dougon 05 Nov 2008 at 6:53 am 83Good post, Harry.
Obama won 2/3 of voters under 28, and they received the majority of their political news from the Internet - the first time TV wasn’t the principle source of news. Obama had an amazing organization online, and will have it again in 4 years.
The Left’s media monopoly is increasingly irrelevant - and so is talk radio - clearly the Fairness Doctrine should fall on deaf ears if talk radio can’t influence an election like this! The future is online!
I still don’t think any Republican - especially a moderate one - could have won this election.
Let’s get back to our fiscal and economic conservative roots, and get organized online.
Brooksieon 05 Nov 2008 at 7:18 am 84I believe B.O. actually intends to do harm.
Wish there weren’t so much evidence that this is so.
Furthermore, why would he “sober up” once he sits in the oval office?
His purpose is sabotage, breaking an egg to make an omelette, etc.
Tommy Von 05 Nov 2008 at 7:27 am 85Abe:
I think I made it pretty clear that we would have had a Democrat because of the reasons you state, but we got Obama because of the MSM.
You know how I know that I made that clear? Because I wrote almost exactly that.
You want to gloat, so you ignore anything that doesn’t help you do that.
You are a small man, and you always have been. You think your “team” won, like it’s an ego thing with you. That’s strange to me, and these things indicate that politics is psychological with you and not intellectual.
That’s a dangerous place to be.
GTBurnson 05 Nov 2008 at 7:36 am 86Wait until his first 100 days are rolling to really go after Obama. First of all there is still a glimmer of hope that just like Bush if Obama screws up he will take his party down with him. We have a lot of voters under 28 with unrealistic expectations about him and what he will do. Much of his more radical ideas will probably be tempered by reality, if he does not have the skill to be President it will show and the MSM will not be able to hide it if things really hit the fan.
DEMS are in charge now, now they have no lone to blame if things go south.
Traffic Cop Timmyon 05 Nov 2008 at 7:40 am 87Stay strong Carolyn:
Ephesians 6:10-18a
The Armor of God
10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.
Vincent Wongon 05 Nov 2008 at 7:43 am 88Hey guys, stupid question here:Why is it that the next election is in 2010, not 2012?
Traffic Cop Timmyon 05 Nov 2008 at 7:44 am 89Brooksie
on 05 Nov 2008 at 7:18 am
“I believe B.O. actually intends to do harm.
Wish there weren’t so much evidence that this is so.”
I agree. Obama spoke constantly of “fundamental change” and saw the Constitution as “flawed.”
That’s not good folks. I for one do not wish him success.
Brooksieon 05 Nov 2008 at 7:44 am 90Because there are congressional elections every two (2) years.
You must be from some other planet.
Traffic Cop Timmyon 05 Nov 2008 at 7:46 am 91Vincent, the next round of Congressional elections is in 2010 - Senate and House, that is. The next Presidential election is 2012.
IMO, we need to re-establish conservativism in the House & Senate. POTUS is POTUS, but our future lies in young, conservative Republicans serving in the H & S.
Traffic Cop Timmyon 05 Nov 2008 at 7:48 am 92Be nice, Brooksie. My cube mate is from India and he is just learning about our electoral process. Maybe Vincent is learning, too.
Vincent Wongon 05 Nov 2008 at 7:52 am 93“You must be from some other planet”
That must be some other planet not named America.
Vincent Wongon 05 Nov 2008 at 7:53 am 94Thanks, TFT, and Brooksie. Learned it a while back but forgot about it.
Vincent Wongon 05 Nov 2008 at 7:53 am 95Sorry, TCT!
Brooksieon 05 Nov 2008 at 8:04 am 96If this does not happen to be the same “Vincent Wong” who left a couple of nasty taunts elsewhere on this site, then I certainly do apologize for the little jab.
Excuse me while I try to fathom why DH has served up his M to scold so many of his readers.
The M leaves such a nasty taste, and where pray tell is the M’s gracious winner? If M has ever been gracious on this site, please someone point it out to me.
Vincent Wongon 05 Nov 2008 at 8:14 am 97Nasty taunts? Examples please.
Jack Marinoon 05 Nov 2008 at 8:20 am 98We will get through this Americans, remember one third of us defeated the greatest world power and created America. We will flush this pestilence from our body politics. Stay strong and disobedience to tyrants is obedience to GOD. By tyrants I mean the entire leftist cancer that has now grabbed power to fraud. So let them cross the line, because this is what they have been planing for over 80 years.
Kiton 05 Nov 2008 at 8:22 am 99I wish him success as in doing good things for America, not the Leftist Doctrine.
However unlikely that may be.
Daliaon 05 Nov 2008 at 8:52 am 100Great post DH. Thank you. It’s a new day and we need to reach across party lines and rebuild our country. Things need fixing and you seem of the mind to start. Some of your little friends might need some therapy, but with your words behind them, how can they not see the light. Carolyn probably needs to eat a sandwich, Steff needs a brain, most need to look up the word marxist. It’s refreshing and wonderous fine to be reminded that you are a gentleman.
Brooksieon 05 Nov 2008 at 9:13 am 101For it is written:
Yesterday was Tuesday, today is Wednesday.
I believe that’s what DHM was trying to tell us.
maatkareon 05 Nov 2008 at 10:54 am 102Obama is not Hitler. Really. And the American system is still weighted so that no executive can change things as drastically as you guys seem to feel. Checks and balances generally work. There is no filibuster proof majority. No one is coming for your guns (I believe the last Supreme Court examination of the 2nd ammendment shored things up there). The man’s biography has been out for years and the Ayers/Wright thing was hammered in the media/internet until my eyes and ears bled. People were informed. But McCain just didn’t inspire the way Obama did. (And if the fears of voter fraud were so strong, why did he concede so quickly?) I think what some conservatives don’t realize is that the country is not as absolutely divided as they seem to wish it was. (and clearly a lot of people remain solidly pro-choice) If the economy hadn’t tanked this fall and gas prices hadn’t ripped everyone a new one over the summer things might have been different. Does the system need some work? Yes. It shouldn’t take two years and a gazillion dollars to run and election. But we’re not in Hell.
Brandonon 05 Nov 2008 at 11:34 am 103Well said Harry, I feel the same. The fact is in spite of how much we might disagree with him politically if we throw a whining hissy fit like liberals have done the last 8 years then we will in fact become what we claim to despise. The important thing is they did not achieve the super majority and we get another crack at the House in a couple of years.
We should be focusing more on making better all the things that have gone wrong in the Republican party and trying to reassert ourselves in mainstream media and Hollywood. All of this time crying over spilled milk does none of us any good.
Joe Weldonon 05 Nov 2008 at 12:57 pm 104Hey, Harry.
Please don’t take the hostile posts personally. Everybody’s pissed that Obama won, and your congrats to Obama was gracious, maybe too gracious, too soon, for some people who enjoy your blog very much.
We’re all big fans of yours.
Joe Weldonon 05 Nov 2008 at 1:13 pm 105I believe that dangerous times are ahead for us.
Russia announced today that it now intends to put missles at the border of Poland, to counter Poland’s NATO missles.
This news came out TODAY - Election Day +1.
Putin’s opinion of Obama is now frighteningly obvious.
And this is only the beginning.
Other regimes and rogue states will now start doing whatever they want, to see what they can get away with - to see whether Obama does more than just publicly condemn their aggressions.
When they see that the dog has no teeth and no bite, they’ll keep going. Just like the Soviets for 50 years.
Obama simply isn’t man enough to stop them.
This will have horrific consequences for America and the free world.
The disappointment I feel in McCain losing the election pales in comparison to the fear for my nation’s future.
The American people simply wanted a change.
They have no idea who Obama really is - or what trouble awaits the world because thay voted for him.