The NRSC has unveiled a new web-only ad hitting Obama on his flagrant hypocrisy on spending:
It’s nice to see Republicans holding Obama accountable to the campaign promises he made. Protecting our tax dollars? Go over spending bills line by line? Yeah, right.
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Do you think (N)Obama will be reelected and why?
No, I don’t think he will be re-elected. To be completely honest, this is mainly his own fault. Obama ran on a platform of change. He ran as a moderate who promised the American people that he would change the way Washington works, that he would give tax breaks to working families, that he would fix all of the problems America has right now, and he did it all using soaring rhetoric and pretty words — but very, very little in the way of actual facts and plans.
Because of this, every day the American people are becoming more disillusioned with him. He isn’t helping himself by trying to ram through his extremist liberal goody list in the first few months of his Presidency. Americans are suspicious of all these “stimulus” packages, and if they don’t deliver — and I’m sure that they won’t — there will be next to nothing he can do to save himself. The country will be furious at him and at the Dems in Congress for saddling us with so much debt, and that debt didn’t even do anything to fix the recession.
Then you add in that Obama’s promises of bringing change to Washington are quite obviously false promises. People are realizing that there is nothing new about the way the government is working, and that he’s got the same old corrupt bureaucrats in charge.
One of the biggest problems Obama has is that he set way, way too high a bar for himself. He promised Americans the world, if they would only elect him. He made himself an American savior, the man who would solve all of our problems, and the media played happily along. Then he gets into office, and immediately stops with the hopey-changey rhetoric and starts onto the doom-and-gloom rhetoric. Unfortunately for Obama, the American people bought into his hopey-changey promises. And inevitably, they will be disappointed and angry when those promises go unfulfilled. That’s why as soon as Obama took office, he immediately started trying to lower the bar for himself.
Obama is going to have an extremely tough time getting re-elected in 2012. Already, his approval rates are dropping and his disapproval rates are rising. Unfortunately for him, he painted himself into a corner, and it will take a near miracle for him to deliver all the things he promised the American people he would give them. Add in to that the problem that he’s got to also be appeasing his radical left base, and he’s got a real problem. The average everyday American is somewhere around center-right; they aren’t socialists and don’t want to be. But Obama’s radically liberal base is expecting him to also be doing what they want him to do. How does he appease both his base and the average American? The answer is that he can’t, but it seems like Obama has chosen to appease his extremist liberal fanatic followers over the people. Sure, he’ll try to be sneaky about it, but the people will catch on, and I think they’ll understand that Obama is merely Jimmy Carter v2.0 and vote him out.
Of course, there’s always the possibility though that we’ll see the Norm Coleman-Al Franken stolen election debacle in Minnesota played out on a national stage in 2012. That’s what I worry about.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...For the past eight years, liberals have screeched and moaned about how President Bush STOLE THE ELECTIONS!!!11!!!1!!!1!!! This, of course, is a load of crap, as President Bush actually did win the election. I’m sure that all those people were only concerned about making sure the voices of the people were heard, not anger over someone they disagree with winning office.
And considering how much liberals love fairness and upholding democracy, shouldn’t they be more concerned about a real, live, honest-to-God stolen election going on right now?
I haven’t commented much on the drama going on in Minnesota, with the race for the Senate between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. Why bother? I knew from the beginning what the outcome would be. No matter who the people actually voted for, Al Franken would be declared the winner. And that’s exactly what will happen, because there is no other allowable outcome beyond a Franken victory. It doesn’t matter whether or not Minnesotans want him; all that matters is that some crazy guy wants to be a Senator and he’s got a (D) next to his name. Every single outcome of the recount, no matter what they find, will benefit Al Franken, as the Wall Street Journal is noticing.
Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as “duplicate” and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.
This disenfranchises Minnesotans whose vote counted only once. And one Canvassing Board member, State Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, has acknowledged that “very likely there was a double counting.” Yet the board insists that it lacks the authority to question local officials and it is merely adding the inflated numbers to the totals.
In other cases, the board has been flagrantly inconsistent. Last month, Mr. Franken’s campaign charged that one Hennepin County (Minneapolis) precinct had “lost” 133 votes, since the hand recount showed fewer ballots than machine votes recorded on Election Night. Though there is no proof to this missing vote charge — officials may have accidentally run the ballots through the machine twice on Election Night — the Canvassing Board chose to go with the Election Night total, rather than the actual number of ballots in the recount. That decision gave Mr. Franken a gain of 46 votes.
Meanwhile, a Ramsey County precinct ended up with 177 more ballots than there were recorded votes on Election Night. In that case, the board decided to go with the extra ballots, rather than the Election Night total, even though the county is now showing more ballots than voters in the precinct. This gave Mr. Franken a net gain of 37 votes, which means he’s benefited both ways from the board’s inconsistency.
There’s lots more, but from that alone I think you get the picture. And of course, liberals aren’t decrying this election, even though it’s undoubtedly stolen. Breaking the law and stealing elections is perfectly acceptable, provided it benefits the right people.
And as for the wimps on our side, I’d love to see them actually grow a backbone and put up a fight. Coleman says he’ll sue, but what happens when that doesn’t work? It’ll be back to the GOP standard of rolling over and playing dead.
It’s a great time for politics in America, isn’t it?
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(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Good video and all, but is anyone surprised? You take a spoiled, whiny, uninformed electorate, give them a biased media in the tank for Obama, and this is what you get. A lot of Americans will have buyer’s remorse in the next year or so, because they had no idea what they were voting for. None whatsoever. This video just happens to show it in an entertaining way. These twelve people in the video couldn’t name the political party currently in power in Congress. They didn’t know who Barney Frank, Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi is. They didn’t know that Obama bragged about campaigning in 57 states, how he said he wanted to bankrupt the coal industry, or how he won previous elections by getting all of his opponents thrown off the ballot. They didn’t know who Bill Ayers is. They did know, however, that Sarah Palin had a $150,000 wardrobe and that her teenage daughter is pregnant — truly, the important things in choosing who will govern a country, right?
The folks who put on this video then did a Zogby poll and guess what? Similar results. Shocking, I know.
Watch the video. It’s entertaining, and yet a little sickening at the same time.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steven den Beste predicts the next four years and will be, and you know what? We need to take a page out of his book. Let’s just all calm down, take a deep breath, and chill.
It’s easy to let yourself go in despair and start thinking things like “We are well-and-truly fucked” or “This is the worst of all possible outcomes”. But it isn’t true.
I think this election is going to be a “coming of age” moment for a lot of people. They say, “Be careful what you wish for” and a lot of people got their wish yesterday.
And now they’re bound to be disappointed. Not even Jesus could satisfy all the expectations of Obama’s most vocal supporters, or fulfill all the promises Obama has made.
I think Obama is going to turn out to be the worst president since Carter, and for the same reason: good intentions do not guarantee good results. Idealists often stub their toes on the wayward rocks of reality, and fall on their faces. And the world doesn’t respond to benign behavior benignly.
But there’s another reason why: Obama has been hiding his light under a basket. A lot of people bought a pig in a poke today, and now they’re going to find out what they bought. Obama isn’t what most of them think he is. The intoxication of the cult will wear off, leaving a monumental hangover.
And four years from now they’ll be older and much wiser.
A lot of bad things are going to happen during this term. But I don’t think that this is an irreversible catastrophe for the union. I’ve lived long enough to absorb this basic truth: the US is too large and too strong to destroy in just 4 years. Or even in 8. We survived 6 years of Nixon. We survived 4 years of Carter. We even survived 8 years of Clinton, God alone knows how.
The President of the United States is the most powerful political figure in the world, but as national executives go his powers are actually quite restricted. Obama will become President, but he won’t be dictator or king, let alone deity. He still has to work with the House and the Senate, and he still has to live within Constitutional restrictions, and with a judiciary that he mostly didn’t appoint.
The main reason this will be a “coming of age” moment is that now Obama and the Democrats have to put up or shut up. Obama got elected by making himself a blank slate, with vapid promises about “hope” and “change” — but now he actually has to do something. Now he has to reveal his true agenda. And with the Democrats also having a majority in both chambers of Congress, now the Democrats really have to lead. And they’re not going to do a very good job of it. It’s going to be amusing to watch.
And the people who fell for the demagoguery will learn an invaluable lesson.
Make sure to read the whole thing.
Oh, and can we put a stop NOW to the Obama Derangement Syndrome? We are not liberals. We do not need to act like them. Just because we disagree with Obama on just about everything does not make him the devil. It doesn’t even make him a bad person. So just cool it, and cut it out with the wailing and whining and crying. We’re the grown-ups here, so let’s stop acting like five-year-olds and just focus on how to move forward, OK?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Well, it happened just like we all thought it would and hoped it wouldn’t. I did not end up going to the victory party with the Duval County Republicans, as the flu bug I’ve been fighting for three days reared its ugly head and made me its prisoner. So I was dealing with the flu while I watched Obama win. It was a FUN night. Some notables from yesterday:
Intimidation, you think?
For the last seven years we have had the highest corporate profit ever in American history. . . But it hasn’t been shared, and that’s the problem, because we have been guided by a Republican Administration who believes in the simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it. They have an antipathy toward the means of redistributing wealth. And they may be able to sustain that for a while, but it doesn’t work in the long run.
Like they always do, hardcore liberal voters have placed all their hopes and dreams into one, terribly flawed, terribly human basket. And without doubt they will be terribly disappointed, especially when they learn they’ve still got to pay their own mortgage and buy their own gas.
Their Messiah, ain’t one, which will become painfully apparent to them soon enough.
Meanwhile, here on the right, we have low expectations of human nature and even lower expectations of government. It’s hard to disappoint us.
And unlike the liberals, all of our hopes and dreams are in exactly the same place they were yesterday, in our family, our friends, our local community, in our work, in our religious faith, and in our country. Those are the great constants, always there for us even when we suffer the greatest of setbacks.
Yep, tough times are ahead, and we’re going to have to fight like somsabitches to keep Obama and the Congress from screwing things up too much in the next two years. But, we’ve been there before, and we’ve prevailed before.
…Don’t give the fucktards on the left the satisfaction of seeing you all act like a bunch of hysterical schoolgirls. They’re the ones who can’t take defeat. We can take our lumps, get up, and keep fighting. We should be Happy Warriors. whose proper response to this is mockery, good humor, and hard work. We lost an election, but we’re still right, and they’re still wrong.
Anyway, it’s time to cowboy up, and get ready for the next go round.
Last night, I was getting pretty despondent as the reality of the situation became more evident. The landscape of our entire country will change; come January, we will have a President who sees our Constitution as a major flaw. I told myself last night, though, to stop being a whiny liberal bitch and to suck it up. I’m a conservative and I’m a fighter, just like all of you are, and we will get through this with our principles and our integrity in tact. Or, as Michelle more eloquently puts it:
We stand up for our principles, as we always have — through Democrat administrations and Republican administrations, in bear markets or bull markets, in peacetime and wartime.
We stay positive and focused.
We keep the faith.
We do not apologize for our beliefs. We do not re-brand them, re-form them, or relinquish them. We defend them.
We pay respect to the office of the presidency. We count our blessings and recommit ourselves to our constitutional republic.
We gird our loins, to borrow a phrase from our Vice President-elect.
We lock and load our ideological ammunition.
We fight.
The good news is that perhaps this will be the death of the McCain Republicans and reclaim the party for conservative principles. A message was sent to the GOP, and I hope they got it. Also, can this finally be the end of the AmeriKKKa crap? A black man just broke the highest ceiling in the country. Any person, regardless of age, sex, or gender, can do anything they want to in this country if they’re willing to work hard enough for it. Barack Obama just proved that. So let’s close that racism chapter, hmm? Finally, let’s keep in mind that McCain won almost 50% of the popular vote in an extremely anti-Republican political climate. His campaign wasn’t the best run campaign in election history, but I think it goes to show that the entire country has not gone mad, and conservative principles are still alive and kicking in the United States. We’re not going anywhere. And with an Obama victory in 2008, we’re more likely to have a Palin/Jindal ticket in 2012. (Please please please please!)
We’re at the end of a long election, and I want to offer my congratulations to Barack Obama on a historic victory. I may disagree with him 99.9% of the time, but he is still my President and I will continue to respect the office that he holds. Congratulations, Barack Obama.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Well, today’s the big day. There are many bloggers who will be liveblogging tonight as the results roll in, but not me. No, I will be attending the Election Day Victory Party with the Duval County Republicans. I remember, in 2004, after campaigning for President Bush staying awake in my room until around 5:30am. When it was decided that he had won, I was jumping up and down in my apartment cheering… alone. Not very much fun, and I kinda felt like a loser. I figured it would be infinitely more fun to go do that with other people. Plus, there’s an open bar I’ll probably be taking advantage of should Obama win in a landslide.
Anyway, if you’re in the Jacksonville area and would like to join the festivities, come by the Marriott Hotel Southpoint at 7:30 and say hello. We’ll watch the results roll in and possibly get very intoxicated. Unlike Rachel, who is a Wild Turkey girl, I am a Jack Daniels girl, especially if Obama is winning tonight. So come on by the party, watch the results come in with me and the Duval County Republicans, and have more fun than were you sitting at home checking blogs for updates.
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Remember when he did this to Hillary, too?
If he wins today, we’ll have such a mature, classy President, won’t we?
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Have you voted yet? Make sure you do, and keep this tool out of office. PLEASE. I am too young to witness the horrors of a socialist President.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I’m sure a lot of you saw this video. It’s no surprise that this video, according to Fox News, is the most popular election video on YouTube, garnering over 11 million views.
Transcript:
Dear Mr. Obama,
Having spent twelve months in the Iraq theater, I can promise you this was not a mistake. I’ve witnessed firsthand the many sacrifices made for the people of Iraq. Those sacrifices were not mistakes. The Iraqi people are just like us. They want a chance to live in a secure world: free from tyranny, free from terrorism, free to prosper, free to raise their children and pass on a future. Are they better off today than they were in 2002? You bet. I’ve seen many men sacrifice their lives for the Iraqi people. They died for a purpose, not a mistake. They died giving hope. They died promoting freedom. Do you rescue a fireman just as he’s about to save a child? When you call the Iraqi war a mistake, you disrespect the service and the sacrifice of everyone who has died promoting freedom. Freedom carries with it a price. Because you do not understand or appreciate these principles, sir, I am supporting John McCain for President. He, too, made a huge sacrifice promoting freedom… because he understands the fundamental truth: freedom is always worth the price.
Isn’t that what this and every election should come down to? There are problems that need to be addressed during each and every election season. Obviously, we want the person who can best address those problems and issues, but in this particular election, we have a huge disparity between two candidates. One has fought for America and for freedom, and sacrificed five years of his life for it living in a hell hole being tortured daily. He then dedicated the rest of his life to serving his country. There is no doubt that, in John McCain’s heart, he truly loves the United States and would fight to his last breath to defend her. You can disagree with his policies — and I do disagree with some of them — but there is no doubting his allegiance and love for his country. With Barack Obama, he’s led a largely privileged life, going to private schools and eventually Harvard. He got married, entered politics, and a mere 143 days after becoming a US Senator, became the first African-American to run for President on a major party ticket. Yet all he and his wife can do is criticize the United States, paint a picture of gloom and despair, complain about all he feels we’ve done wrong, and smear Americans as racist if they don’t support him. For God’s sake, the man said he wanted to “free us” from the “restraints” of the Constitution, that it was a blind spot and a major flaw. It’s hard to tell if Obama loves his country or not, because there’s a vast difference between loving America for what she is and what she stands for, and loving America for what he thinks she could be if only he could change everything about her. That’s not love of country.
John McCain understands the price you must sometimes pay to remain free. Barack Obama does not. Perhaps this is why the vast majority of those serving in the military, in all branches, overwhelmingly support John McCain. They know they have no ally in Barack Obama. And this is possibly the same reason why Iraqis also want John McCain as President. They understand what Barack Obama cannot.
Can we really have a President who doesn’t understand the basic principles upon which this country was founded — a President who looks at those principles and see a “major flaw”? The answer is no, we cannot. I think the 11 million people who have seen this video, and those serving us in the military, can see that. It’s sad that there are so many that can’t.
Issues like a hurting economy will come and go. We can rebound from a recession — we’ve rebounded from worse. But can we rebound from a President who wants to destroy everything we stand for?
Hat Tip: Confederate Yankee
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