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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.
This is going to suck like nothing has ever sucked before, comrade.
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!
I am mourning the loss of the United States of America and weeping the birth of the United States Socialist Republic.
I'll be clinging to my guns and religion until 2012.
May God have mercy on this country.
Using the Freedom of Speech while I still have it.
You are going to need it. Have fun with the European-style socialism.
Now lie back and take it.
You'll feel better after we impose Sharia and make you get a gay Mexican socialist abortion.
Enjoy the re-education camp.
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).
Yes, and he tells us to trash the earth, ignore science, hypocritically judge our fellow man, be hateful of everyone not like oneself, etc.
Oh wait, did I get that backwards? That's what *republicans* tell us, not God. God is obviously a bleeding heart liberal, unless you're following the zany old testament.
http://blog.vault9.net/newswire/obama-assassination-attempt-foiled/
Already attempted.
Watching on CNN the sea of people in Chicago cheering for President Elect Obama and his victory speech convinced me that this was one of those unique moments, the kind that people decades from now will remember and ask each other "Do you remember where you were when Obama was elected?" Truly a great moment.
I would like to suggest a new meme: WTCJ (worshiping the chocolate Jesus). People like you are so going to be disappointed. Not because of anything that Obama does or doesn't do, but because NO ONE could possibly live up to your childish expectations.
If they weren't, they should have been.
I for one welcome our new radical Marxist overlord, his terrorist benefactors, his "God Damn America" spiritual advisor, his communist pedophile mentor, and his convicted slumlord real estate broker.
Funny thing is, once upon a time Democratic presidents, while wrong on policy matters, still loved this country and were more or less good people like Truman, Kennedy and Johnson. And Kennedy was actually right more than he was wrong, what with lowering taxes and being strong on defense. I suppose that these days it's too much to ask that the president not hate this nation.
Off to the local gun shop, time to spend some of my money while I still have change left after taxes, and before the 2nd Amendment is repealed.
And now, for our new national anthem:
Soyuz nerushimy respublik svobodnykh
Splotila naveki velikaya Rus'!
Da zdravstvuyet sozdanny voley narodov
Yediny, moguchy Sovetsky Soyuz!
Slavsya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye,
Druzhby narodov nadyozhny oplot!
Partiya Lenina -- sila narodnaya
Nas k torzhestvu kommunizma vedyot!
Skvoz' grozy siyalo nam solntse svobody,
I Lenin veliky nam put' ozaril,
Na pravoye delo on podnyal narody,
Na trud i na podvigi nas vdokhnovil!
Slavsya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye,
Druzhby narodov nadyozhny oplot!
Partiya Lenina -- sila narodnaya
Nas k torzhestvu kommunizma vedyot!
V pobede bessmertnykh idey kommunizma
My vidim gryadushcheye nashey strany,
I krasnomu znameni slavnoy otchizny
My budem vsegda bezzavetno verny!
Slavsya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye,
Druzhby narodov nadyozhny oplot!
Partiya Lenina -- sila narodnaya
Nas k torzhestvu kommunizma vedyot!
"Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
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..)
Long as there's a watermelon on your vine,
Everything is fine.
Long as there is chicken gravy on your rice,
Everything is nice.
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.
soylentnews.org Go there to enjoy the people!
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."
You aint the most powerful country any more. China is already more powerful than America and so is the EU. Its seriously gotten to the point where the USA is the laughter of the rest of the world and I think we're glad for you that you all did the right thing.
Level Headed,
Does every wrong need to be met with another wrong?
Or can we draw a line, and say "enough - time to fix the problems and reclaim the American Dream for our children and ourselves"?
Not this time. Next time.
May he be treated with 1/10 the respect GW got.
The next thing to remember is to put next things next.
95% of African-Americans voted for Obama.
If African-Americans did not vote on the basis of race, their percentage of support for Obama would have been 66%, at most. Asian and Hispanic support for Obama hovered around 64%. Neither Asians nor Hispanics used skin color in choosing a candidate. If 66% of African-Americans supported Obama, then McCain would have received 49.6% of the popular vote, 48.4%
Anti-white racism in the African-American community is ugly.
Help our fellow countrymen:
tax the upper and upper middle class to death to make sure they don't become as powerful as the ones in charge (obama)
put forth the fairness doctrine so people can not speak their mind without being punshed for it. (liberals, you will suffer too, again, this is to keep the powerful, powerful)
destroy our right to carry weapons (so we will never have the change to have a violent revolution)
KEEP DOWN the poor by making them dependant on welfare (oh, if you make more than $X, we're not giving you free money any longer)
pass ANY liberal agenda that they want, like the recent desires to allow abortion soon AFTER birth, as if partial birth wasn't enough.
No, you can count on my not helping out with that.
Realize that I don't think this is all doable because we have obama now. It's because we now have Democrats in the whitehouse, senate and house... They can do whatever the fuck they want with this country.
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
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.
Quit being bitter and help? Like dems after 00 or 04? I suppose they were all friendly and helpful and not resentful at all? I suppose their legislators didn't try to block everything that tried to get done? Yup, paragons of non-divisive helpfulness.
I love the double standard. He's an asshole, but when it was the other way around you weren't!
Liberal-dot at it's best!
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.
Bullshit. Talk about being bitter and not getting along with your fellow Americans. Fox is as valid as CNN or any other news source.
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
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.
MLK: Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Fail.
MLK: We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
G** d*** fail.
MLK: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
This dream has been turned on its head. Barack Obama was elected precisely because of the color of his skin and in spite of the horribly woeful quality of his character: racist, bigoted, militant/thuggish, fraternizing with criminals and terrorists, promoting sexual debauchery, dishonest, phony, vengeful, covetous, classist, subversive, irresponsible, disrespectful, dishonorable, ungrateful, unjust, cold-hearted, infanticidal, self-aggrandizing, arrogant, elitist, ignorant, naïve, impractical, inexperienced, unwise, brainwashed, authoritarian, anti-Constitutional, un-American.
How about we just ignore the opinions of morons instead?
I'll start with you.
Why are so many posts with factual errors modded up?
When Bush was elected, he emphasized that he would first and foremost be the President of the people that elected him.
When Obama was elected, he emphasized that he would first and foremost be the President of the entire United States of America.
That's the difference here.
Also, considering Bush was illegitimately appointed to power in 2000, he wasn't our President. Entirely different situation there.
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.