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Barack Obama Wins US Presidency
Last night, around 11pm, all the major networks announced that Senator Barack Obama had won the election. Soon after, Senator McCain conceded. There were no crazy partisan court hearings, just a simple election. This is your chance to talk about it and what it means for the future of our nation.
I've always wondered what it would feel like to life in a welfare state. Hard work is penalized, and laziness will be rewarded. I for one welcome our socialist overlord. Spread the wealth baby!
More government! More Welfare! Punish Success!
Yeeeeaaaahhhhh!
Now lie back and take it.
Those "certain inalienable rights" you may have heard of - they went out the window as soon as Obama and McCain became the two choices. Combine Obama's win with the Democratic majorities, and we're ripe to see our individual rights replaced with others' rights to the fruits of our labor - a right to a car, to gas, to healthcare, to other people's property, their privacy, their services, with no choice or input from them. Got a problem with it? Move to another country!
Emigration may be in order (if you're a U.S. subject--er, citizen).
http://blog.vault9.net/newswire/obama-assassination-attempt-foiled/
Already attempted.
Yeah, well as for not getting the "red carpet treatment" from the rest of the world if you want to emigrate *NOW*? You can think your beloved NeoCon, "conservative", white, Republican pricks currently in charge.
Ain't that a bitch?
"Democracy." It's just a slogan.
McCain has a multi-racial family. Obama is yet another example in our long line of presidents with mono-racial families. McCain followed Dr. King's dream and didn't asked to be judge on the color of his skin or of his children's skin color. Obama race-baited early in the campaign and talked about how he didn't look like previous presidents - as if his color were something you should consider while voting. McCain was the real follower of Dr. King's dream. To bad we're still not ready for it.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
In the same vein:
Congratulations USA on your recent election. The world watched this very carefully, and we are generally happy with the choice you have made.
You've made the first step. Don't fuck this up. You're still on notice.
Fixed that for you. Seriously. How did this empty suit get elected? Oh.. I know. Rampant Voter Fraud, A Main Stream Media who anointed him Messiah, and hundreds of millions of dollars in questionable campaign funds from untraceable sources.
God Bless America
1776-2008
Rest In Peace because we will be in pieces before this is all over.
Don't rush me, Sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
yeah... Am seriously thinking about that.. but the ever-dwindling shortlist of places that *arent* totally screwed up already is woefully short.. no, actually its pretty much non-existant..
UK? nope...
Canada? nope...
Australia? nope..
What to do.. What to do..
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
I just hope that when he doesn't solve the economic crisis and "all of the worlds problems" that they don't blame him, the 'first black president' (or the first white-ish president)...
I hope the American people are smart enough to realize that Bush has buried them deeeep into the sh*t hole and that it will take a while to dig out of it.
As a Canadian, i am wondering if he would even have been into the Race for President if he had been a BLACK man instead of a "white guy with a tan".
This is not intended to be flaming... just a question. My father remembers walking into a restaurant in the states to go to the washroom and seeing an "out of order" sign on the door was told by the owner that that was just to keep the "negroes" out.
Just a question.
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You've made the first step. Don't fuck this up. You're still on notice."
Like we give a shit.
On notice?? I don't get it....a country always acts out for its own interests above all others, that's what a country is there for.
Cooperation is a great thing, and should be sought whenever possible, but, when it comes down to you or me....I gotta go with 'me'.
It is nice you are happy with who is elected, but, irrelevant if you are not a US citizen. It isn't like we really care who you elect in your country.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Then you are a moron and in 4 years, I will still be laughing at you when you try to blame Bush for the problems the country still has.
Only the most shallowest and partisan hack can look at the problems we are in and claim that the republicans are the reason. And for that, you will forever end up disillusioned and eventual apathetic. You have extremes in both parties that are just as bad as the other and you have mediocre people in the middle who are basically lapdogs for them. Get ready to pay out your ass for things you probably already have been complaining about like energy costs and so on. If Obama keeps any of his early campaign promises because you enabled them with your straight democrat BS, I suspect a lot of people will be buckling in no time just as they did when energy skyrocketed after the dems took congress in 2006.
For some reason, people have been conditioned to blame congress's inaction on energy policy on Bush and completely forget that energy prices doubled after 2006 causing most of the strain that forced the banking collapse. Of course the most notable thing that happened there was the dems controlling congress and doing nothing about it.
But I thought the republicans had the christian god on their side - that's at least the way they made it sound. So what's the deal here - omnipotent or impotent?
I know this is flame bait, but still; it amuses me when the people who claim to have a god on their side lose something.
Like when going on a plane full of nuns - if you fall down you either know there is no god or that (s)he has a wicked sense of humour. Both are good to me (apart from the actual plane crashing part of course).
You've made the first step. Don't fuck this up. You're still on notice.
As an internationalist, socially leftist Obama supporter who believes it is vital to repair our reputation overseas,and is beyond thrilled that Obama won, let me just say: Back off. We are still the most powerful country in the world, and we chose Obama because he was the best choice for us, not for you. We are not coming to you hat in hand asking for your forgiveness, and you have no ability to put us on "notice."
Do you think he'll get the Dems to undo the Patriot Act?
Not likely. The democrats like to wring their hands about abuses of power by the other guy, but they never act to reduce the power when their own guy is in the big chair.
Do you think he'll get to the bottom of and stop the Wiretaps on US Citizens?
Maybe, but I wouldn't hold my breath. I'm just glad that Hillary didn't get the chance to wield the power that Bush seized.
Do you think he'll have us 100% out of Iraq in the next week? Month? Year? Decade?
Decade, maybe. The war is the biggest corporate welfare program going at the moment, and bought-and-paid-for politicians like Obama are unlikely to rock that boat.
Will he magically fix the economy? If so, how long? What exactly is he going to do?
He's going to worsen the depression about as badly as McCain would have, but the blame will land entirely on Bush, since the crash that started it happened on Bush's watch.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I'm dreading what the next few years will hold and how our country will change. I simply hope the media tears into him just as they've done every other president and we get the truth exposed somewhere in between journalistic sensationalism.
I predict an assassination attempt within a year. I certainly hope it does not succeed because then he'll be considered a martyr and things will just get worse.
I pray to God I'm proven wrong.
Racist much?
I thought race didn't matter in a non-racist world. Being pro race is also Racist.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Screw income tax. I want to see fucking asset tax. You have over 200 million, you lose 1% of it a year.
Just kidding, but, seriously, at some point we have to look at the money the rich have already collected.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
You aint the most powerful country any more. China is already more powerful than America and so is the EU.
Really? You'd better rethink that little statement since China hasn't done jack squat but host the olympics and the EU isn't a country last time I checked. Btw my smug little friend winter is coming and Putin has your natural gas supplies, so I wouldn't get too proud quite yet.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
it really does. A broken clock is right twice a day, but fox news is most like a semi-broken clock. Occasionally they state facts, but so does Spider Man. Doesn't make it reality.
You represent the World do you? Well you can take your notice and shove it up your anus. If you don't like the way we do things then maybe you should have fixed it before we felt we had to. We wouldn't be acting as the world police if the rest of the world had a spine.
What are you going to do if we screw it up, fire us? How exactly does that work? I'll bet whatever country your in we can still lay it to waste in no time. Put up or shut up.
Gore won in 2000. He won Broward Co., he won Florida, and he won the popular vote. Re-thugs stole the election by not allowing the re-counts. That is a completely different scenario than the landslide that happened this year. No one can dispute Obama's victory.
Thank you Dave Raggett
Yay, we've elected a lame duck who won't fix anything and will continue the Republicrat agenda of worsening everything on our descent to ruin.
But, by golly we're Americans, equal in blame for choosing the government we deserve and the apathy we display at trading our freedom for percieved protection from danger.
Your mod of insightful only proves that most people are thoughtless idiots and deserve the screwing over they're getting.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
As an American, speaking to a Canadian, let me say that I hope that Obama's healthcare plan works as well as he hopes without the adverse effects that many foresee, especially those who have Canadian friends who come to the US to see doctors without having to wait. Otherwise, you're going to have a lot longer trip, Mr. Canadian, to get to a doctor. As with every new President in my lifetime, I hope for the best but expect much less.
And it's not because the Democrats control everything. It's because one party controls everything. There's a big difference between the two and I feel sorry for those who can't figure it out.
Debates on issues no longer have to occur because bills can go through completely unopposed and be approved regardless of content. We're finished as a country because we elected a dictatorship. We've adopted the political system that Iraq used to have under Saddam. And this is how people receive it: with celebrations. Freedom died to an applause.
I railed against this concept in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper a few months ago. We need more than two parties in this country if debates on ideas are going to occur. Now we don't even have that. Our rights to protest any content that is going to be put through congress in the next 4 years have officially become null and void. If we even have the right to vote in 4 years after this I'm going to be amazed because there's nothing stopping anyone from changing the rules forever now.
As of this moment Iraq now has more freedom than we do. Every freedom loving American now needs to find a new home. Will the last one please bring the flag with you when you leave? Now excuse me while I play Taps.
As to what to expect. Hahahahahahahaha! You hope and change harpies are in for a real shocker... The economy is in shambles (and you can blame Chris Dodd and Barney "Bang me in the ass" Franks for that) and you think the government is gonna fix it? Good luck folks. See ya in four years. It's going to be interesting to say the least....
All of us need to forgive the Republicans and invite them to JOIN us in creating the future America in which every American will have a stronger stake in our economy, socialized medicine, and equality for everybody.
Hell no, it's payback time. All those innocent Democrats arrested and put in gulags by the Bu$h administration will be wanting their revenge on their Republican neighbors. I say we start passing out the machetes now.
When nations lack shared values, they collapse, and in the chaos tyrants and oligarchs prevail, reducing them to failed third world states.
Toynbee, Spengler and Plato agree on this.
America is now at a stop point:
Most white people voted for McCain, showing their values.
All but 5% of black people voted for Obama, showing their values.
( http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1 )
These values are incompatible, and it is oppression to both groups to have the values of one group picked to rule us all.
Pluralism does not work. Historically, it has not, and the only examples we have of it are from dying states.
America will have to end pluralism, and either fragment or find a dominant ideology, or it will become a failed state.
Futurist Traditionalism
I agree with Spengler. Social loci rise, flourish, degenerate and die organically. There never has been, nor will there ever be, a successful heterogeneous social loci. Anyone who says otherwise suffers from a utopian psychosis. Greece and Rome were strong as long as they thought of themselves as Greeks and Romans. Once they became multicultural, they died. Period. There is no other glue except race and culture and the two are inextricably wedded. Read Thomas Sowell's "Race and Culture." Educate a black man long enough, and he'll eventually assert black inferiority. The only reason that Blacks and Whites in America don't try to exterminate each other is because they can avoid each other in a wide-ranging geography. Ever heard of White Flight? The Blacks move in; the Whites move out. HUMAN BEINGS ARE SELF-SEGREGATING AT A SUB-RACIAL LEVEL. If that were not true, then Europe would simply be an undifferentiated caucasian mass. Instead we have clearly differentiated sub-racial loci: Germans, Swedes, English, etc. If there is ever a complete social breakdown in America, you'll see what Blacks and Whites *really* think of each other. That's why Osama Obama wants a Civil Defense Force. Down deep he knows that the remaining unfeminized white males don't like him and, clearly, he doesn't like Whites. Ask the good Reverend Wright. Consider: "All men are created equal." The man who said that owned negroes. So either he was lying or he didn't think negroes are men. The bottom line: if blood is thicker than water, it's certainly thicker than paper. Ask the Chinese or the Japanese what they think about multiracialism. Hell, ask Africans. As we speak some of them are slaughtering each other with an unrelenting, absolutely Olympian, barbarity. Oh, and it's called "ethnic tension." Ethnic? Can you see any visual difference between the slaughterers and the slaughterees? I can't. And to those of you who will read this and howl with indignation, crying RACIST, let me simply say: of course I am. I'm healthy. Take this to the bank: the Chinese are destined to rule the planet because they are smart, industrious and, best of all, racially homogeneous; they are Chinese, not a mongrel loci ruled by feminized utopian psychotics.
So are you willing to admit that the democrats had just as much to do with the current mess as the republicans did? Outside of that, you would be a partisan hack just like the guy I was responding to.
I think your going to be pissed off a lot in your life. The only way you can legitimately make a claim that I was painting everyone is if your willingly ignoring relevant facts to maintain your claims and views. Here is a news flash for you, read all of what i said and you will see that I was politically neutral and complaining about a partisan hack which you are demonstrating yourself to be. What's that word I used, oh yes, MORON.
Oh.. here is another news flash for you. getting your panties in a knot because something was said about your political affiliations doesn't make you neutral by any means.