Nonsense! I could hardly get out of my front door this morning for all the unicorns prancing around farting rainbows and crapping gold nuggets.
Surely goodness and mercy will follow Americans all around the world now like the cloud of stink that followed Pepe le Pew in the cartoons.
O ba ma! O ba ma!

I was watching YouTube clips of the election-night coverage in 1980 and 1984. I think I'll go back to watching those. I miss the days when "hope and optimism" was coupled with "kick our enemies' butts," but maybe that's just me.

I watched Obama address 'the economy' on CNN, and he has already alluded to bailing out the auto industry because it is 'the backbone of the manufacturing industry in America.' This is not change, it's more of the same old crap.

He talks about things being difficult in the times ahead, and I think he must mean that it will be difficult to pay off the massive amounts of debt the government will incur to finance this craziness. Why is it okay for us to endure *that* hardship, but not the hardship that would occur if we simply let the Big 3 fold, and for their competitors to absorb the jobs, the customers, and the revenue? The latter seems a lot easier to me. My next car's going to be a Honda anyway.

Its because they don't want to be the ones who presided over the Big3 dying (been a long time coming) and all the job loss/horror that follows. Prolong the slide and leave it to the next guy. McCain would be in the same position. The auto bailout has been rumored for months now and a sure thing for 1-2 months. The question is, will it be enough. IMHO, hell no. GM looks really bad but then their banking spin off GMAC has been the money maker for awhile now. Oops, there goes that company too due to the credit crunch.

They have to crash for there to be any chance of bringing them/industry back in the USA. Both the exec's running it and the UAW working it have destroyed the companies.

"This is the most meaningful thing that has ever happened"

More meaningful than the asteroid that whacked the dinosaurs?

The invention of writing?

The signing of the Declaration of Independence?

Am I the only one who feels as if half of America has turned into North Korea overnight?

Sarah Palin & Bobby Jindal, the current young superstars on the Right, have their hopelessly infatuated fans who are sometimes blind to their faults. But neither of them could ever imagine creating a Messianic cult around themselves.

Parris writes about disappointment. History shows pretty conclusively that the rise to power of a leader with an insane personality cult leads to tragedy, not just dissapointment.

The Who called this one more than 35 years ago.

I feel like the younger generation of voters(college) which I belong to is being lulled into a "he can fix it for us" mentality. Where is the fear/distrust of the government that led people to THINK?

Somehow (probably due to never NEEDING to think)it disappeared. When you trust something implicitly, and never feel the need to question it, you give it complete power over you.

Six months. That's how long the honeymoon is.

All the leftoids have is their hate. And the instant it becomes clear to them that Obama is only human and doesn't fart rainbows, they'll turn on him. Obama's moonbat supporters are going to go from calling him "Messiah" to "that stupid nigger" once they realize that he's not going to give them all the goodies he promised them.

The only thing I wonder is how long after that he'll be willing to play nice with Pelosi and Reid.

Maybe there is a silver lining after all.

Hey Skipper, that was brilliant! Spanks for sharing!

Brian, you cynic, you. o.O

I love your point, Brian.

I have the weird feeling that the United-States just elected a new Jimmy Carter. He's new and improved to the point of being extremely PC but I also give him only six months, then we will see people asking for change... again.

A spot of humor on this point...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR1uWIX1NBQ

> I have the weird feeling that the
> United-States just elected a
> new Jimmy Carter.

Or re-elected thethe old one.

For a somewhat less saccharine view of the Obama victory, check out http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/11/election-analysis-america-can-take-pride-in-this-historic-inspirational-disaster.html . It begins:

"Although I have not always been the most outspoken advocate of President-Elect Barack Obama, today I would like to congratulate him and add my voice to the millions of fellow citizens who are celebrating his historic . . .", but after that. . . well, see for yourself.

Heads up.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Thanks for posting that here, Crid.

"The stories against her are being fed by an anonymous source who is allowed by the press to make ad hominem attacks on background. Beigun...is happy to defend her, on the record, under his own name."

The bonds of the New York Times, LA Times, and pretty well every other mainstream print media company have been, or are being, downgraded to junk status, accompanied by a hemorrhage of circulation and credibility. It will be interesting to see how many mainstream media outlets succeed in destroying themselves before they can destroy Palin.

Of course, they're all probably relying on Obama to hand over a generous portion of that $ 700 billion in bail-out money, in return for getting him elected.

I feel like the younger generation of voters(college) which I belong to is being lulled into a "he can fix it for us" mentality. Where is the fear/distrust of the government that led people to THINK?
-Tina

Well tina all the sixtes radicals were bribed with social security, medicare, and medicade. As they are the generation now running things they made damn sure that since they were now reciving all the goodies they didnt want younger genrations upsettng the apple cart and were crafty enough not to teach their children to be as critical of the government as they once were

> the New York Times, LA Times, and
> pretty well every other mainstream
> print media company have been, or
> are being, downgraded to junk

Yes, but there's still the question of why the story came to us first from Fox.

Perhaps, whether the story is true or whether it wasn't, the campaign workers who sought to share it knew the most receptive listeners would be the freshly wounded party which was looking for someone to blame. On Wednesday the Democratic media machinery (NYT, WaPo, CNN etc) was still in afterglow, and not interested in snarking on the freshly defeated adversary.

Same old same old for me, too. This column is a bit out of the ordinary for The Times of London. Most of its columnists have been contorting themselves into all sorts of positions of support for the Messiah, despite all the evidence that no right-minded person should fall for his personality cult.

And on the way, they indulge in a few lies about Sarah Palin for good measure. If only sexism aroused as much ire as the low threshold of racism...

Do all read the Iowahawk article referenced by Rex Little above. Iowahawk always nails it and this one is deadly accurate.

It will be a honeymoon for a few months, then when the reality sinks in that people that are being foreclosed on are still being foreclosed on, and the numbers of unemployed keep going up, and the people thought they "deserve" a house just because they want one? They still get to blame somebody else for their ills, as Obama sold himself as the solutin to their problems that they brought on themselves.

Then reality will start to sink in.

The economy was crap when Reagan took over, but he had a couple of things in his favor. Interest rates were high, so when they were lowered considerably, it freed up money that stimulated the economy. Also we had a credible threat, so beating the russians was something that we could sort of unite behind.

How about the depression? social security hadn't been invented yet, so FDR and his new deal could tap the current workers for more tax, to pay off the guys that were unemployed, telling everyone they how had a golden parachute, which stimulated people. Even still, it took a long world war and about THIRTY FUCKING YEARS factoring in inflation before the market reached previous highs.

What do we have now? Interest rates that can't be lowered much, we are the sole superpower, he's already promised everybody and their goddamn grandmother a tax cut.

We are slowly slipping into socialism, where more and more go getters and hard workers will be paying their taxes into the pockets of the "I want therefore GIVE ME!" crowd.

I really really hope I'm wrong. Maybe he really can fart rainbows.

The thing is, Liberals can only function in the opposition. They really don't get what policy making is.

How many times have you heard something like, "But Policy X has these dreadful problems! We need change." When you ask what policy alternative we should pursue, all you get is an ad hoc "Something else!"

I've done this experiment dozens of times with Liberal acquaintances. I ask them to craft an alternative to a status quo conservative policy. Just be an expert for a few minutes. After some fumbling, and some questions they can usually state a policy alternative. But it's never an alternative. Invariably, they arrive at the conservative policy. They are always embarrassed.

Why does this happen? Because Liberals think that the right policy is the one with no problems, so the clamor for change, speak truth to power, and ll that. When pressed for a real policy, not just a complaint, they falter. They come face to face with the ugly truth about politics: all policies have serious problems. Serious ones.

The right policy is the one with the fewest or least onerous problems, not the one with no problems. A policy can have problems, even really bad ones, and still be the best policy among all the alternatives.

Liberals don't get this. I'm pretty sure O! doesn't get it either.

> Invariably, they arrive at
> the conservative policy.

Tell more... Flesh out the scenario for one of these conversations