President Obama Wins Four More Years
(Updated 2:10 a.m. Eastern time)
President Obama captured enough electoral votes tonight to fend off a challenge from former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and win four more years in the White House.
The president faces myriad hurdles from the looming fiscal cliff and sequestration, which must be dealt with in the lame-duck session, to a congressional investigation over the administration’s handling of the Benghazi terror attack.
But first, Obama eked out victory in what was projected to be an extremely tight election — yet was called before most Americans went to bed.
The president won critical swing state Ohio, along with Virginia, Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Colorado, and Wisconsin.
Obama had 303 electoral votes to 206 for Romney. The popular vote was 49.7 percent for Obama and 48.8 percent as of 2 a.m.
Romney won the battleground state of North Carolina, which also elected a Republican governor for the first time in 20 years by voting for former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory.
Florida was still too close to call.
Romney made a concession call to Obama after midnight and spoke to supporters in Boston shortly thereafter.
“I have just called President Obama to congratulate him on his victory,” Romney said. “…This is a time of great challenges for America and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.”
He thanked his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), as “the best choice I’ve ever made” besides his wife, Ann.
Ryan, who appeared with Romney at the end of the speech but didn’t address the crowd, was able to run concurrently for his House seat. He won, and will return from the campaign trail to the lower chamber.
Romney thanked Ann as “the love of my life.”
“She would have been a wonderful first lady,” he said.
Romney also thanked campaign volunteers. “I don’t believe that there’s ever been an effort in our party that can compare with what you have done,” he said.
Before 2 a.m. Eastern time, Obama and Vice President Biden arrived at McCormick Place in Chicago to address supporters.
“Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward,” Obama said.
“It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people,” he said.
The president thanked all voters, including Romney supporters. “We may have battled fiercely, but it’s only because we love this country deeply and we care so strongly about its future,” Obama said. “…The Romney family has chosen to give back to America through public service and that is the legacy that we honor and applaud tonight.”
He vowed that in weeks ahead he and Romney would sit down together “to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward.”
Obama praised Biden as “America’s happy warrior” and told Michelle Obama “I have never loved you more; I have never been prouder to watch the rest of America fall in love with you, too, as our nation’s first lady.”
He also lauded “the best campaign team and volunteers in the history of politics.”
“You lifted me up the whole way and I will always be grateful for everything that you’ve done and all the incredible work that you put in,” Obama said.
He then gave an energetic stump-style speech hitting policy points from immigration reform to climate change to his “all-of-the-above” energy strategy.
“America’s never been about what can be done for us,” Obama said. “It’s about what can be done by us together through the hard and frustrating, but necessary work of self- government.”
Our country is so screwed.
Watch Israel attack Iran at the next new moon.
NOW do folks see why many of us were so insistent that Romney NOT get the nomination??? That it would end in disaster??
Republicans brought this on themselves.
Then why don’t you get involved and do something about it?
As opposed to waiting for the messianic figure to rise and do it for you.
Cheers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf4jhb9p2v8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hLnj4IFBHY&feature=related
“NOW do folks see why many of us were so insistent that Romney NOT get the nomination??? That it would end in disaster??”
Maybe your insistence was the reason for disaster …. Jesus said, I house divided … cannot stand.
Sniff, Sniff. I smell some very full Depends Undergarments. Rut Roh.
Sore winner syndrome?
Let’s hope that Obama is more gracious than you or our country wont get anywhere.
Amanda, is that you, you bitter, bitter girl? How pleasant it is to see you in such high spirits for a change. I am wondering how you feel about the states breaking apart around more or less red/blue lines, you know, you in your borrowing utopia and we aliens-in-a-strange-land making and exporting stuff to you. Wouldn’t you like that?
A brief collection demonstrating Cyn Wonder’s odd fascination with things directly and indirectly excremental:
“loser with a prolapsed political rectum.”
“Is your Depends undergarment full too…”
“Are you unhappy that President Obama bent you over and made you his bitch?”
One would think Cyn would be lighthearted now that she and her girlfriend may soon be able to tie the knot.
Mike, you are hitting the nail, maybe more on target than you realize, regarding Israel. ,
In fact, a new blog analysis will reveal similar thinking.
In the meanwhile, never went to sleep last night, in order to see the results, and that is with a 7 hr time difference in Israel.
NO matter. Fateful times, call for special sacrifices – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/11/07/the-day-liberty-died-the-west-truly-hangs-in-the-balance-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
And this is one such time!!
These are headlines from Drudge..
“Putin happy with Obama’s election…”
“FLASHBACK: ‘After my election I have more flexibility’…”
Very, very depressing for our country. The economy stagnates for another 4 years. More tax payer funded vacations for Michelle, excellent.
What’s depressing is the fact that you are against Gods chosen candidate. God wanted President Obama to win re-election. You are against God. That’s the saddest thing of all.
God gave men (humans) free choice and presented them with both good and bad and they must choose. In the Israel Defense Force they always quote the verse “and I have placed before thee the good, the bad. Life, and death. And thy chose life”.
That concept of choice is heaven and hell in Christianity. America chose (under the free will god had beset upon all mortals) badly, and is more than likely to see hell coming soon. Not by Israel, but by the Muslim world who sees that meek of a president leading it for four more years. Good thing I never took that green card offer. Good luck to all Americans who live off the government while they CAN work.
Sorry hon, you have a misunderstanding of the attributes of the theistic god. The theistic god IS the god of Israel and of Christianity (and Isalm, for that matter). The theistic God is omnipotent (all powerful) and omnibenevolent (all good), and omniscent (all knowing). If the God of your understanding had desired that President Obama not have a second term then that is what would have happened. That is not what happened.
As far as free will is concerned, that is a logical contradiction, so it is somewhat amusing that you would even bring it up. If God has a foreknowledge of your actions via omniscience, then those actions must necessarily occur. You can’t have it both ways. Either God has foreknowledge of your actions (which means eternity is like a play and it must play out as written or known) or God is not omniscient. Which is it for you? You have to choose one. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Trying to do so is irrational, and designating a position as irrational is to discount it in a most humiliating way. Not even for Israel. Understand?
You are assuming that free will and determinism are incompatible. That may be a given, but I doubt it. Indeed, I am convinced that even if my actions are completely determined by physics or by God, I still have free will, because I have the capability to take in information from my environment, ponder it, and then make conclusions and act.
The American people went through this process, and they chose poorly. That doesn’t mean it’s God’s will that this happened (although if it is, it is likely to be the “they have made their bed, let them sleep in it” variety).
Could we get this guy out of here? Thanks.
Logic is scary, huh? Not that your type would know anything about that …
Sir, I have proven to my saitisfaction that “logic bombs” do nothing to change the course of much of anything, having delivered enough of them. It is obvious it is only force that carries the day.
Be that as it may, PJ Tatler prohibits ad hominem attacks and you have delivered more than one. You need to go.
As far as my “kind”, you simply have no idea.
Another very sad day/night in America and another long nail in its coffin. I was expecting this outcome and commented a number of times here in PJM. Further, I am fairly convinced that it’s the outcome of large scale fraud, mainly in electronic form. I have said many times that many inner city minority precinct vote counts aren’t worth the paper written on. But the GOP seems, for many reasons, to be oblivious to this fraud – just simply and easily willing to take it.
The chickens have ounce again come home to roost.
“once” again (so late at night, so upset!)
“I have said many times that many inner city minority precinct vote counts aren’t worth the paper written on”
and conservatives wonder why they can count on mostly only white men for votes? I hope the other users of this site don’t agree with your racist conspiracy theories. Otherwise they can look forward to a lot more disappointing Novembers in the future.
“…racist conspiracy theories”? LMAO…
That’s the moronic reaction to reality that led this country to a Third World status, with a fraud sitting in the WH right now and for four more years to come.
Minority precincts don’t HAVE to be worthless sheets of paper – neo-commies, Chicago thuggery and “useful idiots” made them that way.
One only needs to look to California to see where this nation is headed. Romney. or any candidate that the Republicans could have put up, constituted a threat to the sweet song of socialism. That’s exactly why Obama has won. His victory is simply a manifestation of what a majority of your fellow citizens wish for. A free ride at the expense of others. Utopia. Romney didn’t promise it so he lost. Sad to say we are surrounded by grifters who could care less about our founding principles about which they are totally ignorant. They want Santa Claus so they re-elected him. The miracle and beauty of the Declaration and the Constitution. Who cares? Just don’t screw with my entitlements and benefits. That describes the mentality and mindset of most of our fellow citizens (soon to willingly be subjects) so accept it. They won. The Brits have learned to live with this reality. So will we. Nothing more than a bunch of castrated Americans.
How many more years before you die? You represent one demographic that our nation can do without. Out with the old, in with the new.
And you in particular represent the demographic I described as “castrated Americans”. You wouldn’t have the balls to say what you just stated to this veteran’s face. Punk.
Like I said, Good bye. And take your trailer trash you …
By the way, the majority of veterans voted for and donated to President Barack Obama. You, sir are in the minority and do not represent the views of real veterans.
Love when oh-so-concerned for the poor liberals call people “trailer Trash”
CW is THE Poster Child for whats wrong with this country
To Cynical Wonder: I am so glad to see we have a big city college intellectual here to put us PJM trailer trash yahoos in their place
Attention PJ Media: I believe we have heard enough from this person. Enough.
Agreed.
This virulent troll does nothing but pollute everything; kind of a precursor to what will happen over the next 4 years, now that the wicked have full confidence that they are at the helm in every way, shape and form.
Oh no, America will be like California??
You mean we will have the top public university system in the world, beautiful weather, tolerant, safe, prosperous cities, and gorgeous fit women of every shade?
Please say it ain’t so!
They also have the biggest debts and deficits in the nation, and are giving out “IOU”s in place of tax returns. I can’t wait for my very own IOU when the time comes!
The only difference between California and the United States, is that as California goes down, the businesses just flee to other states. When the United States goes down, there’s nowhere to go. Well, maybe Texas, if it secedes from the nation, or maybe Montana, for similar reasons.
ROTFL!!! Quit watching Bravo and come to the REAL California. Outside of Hollyweird there are no more attractive women in California than there are anywhere else in the contiguous 48. And Hollyweird is only an exception if you happen to think fake breasts, fake lips, fashions which bare more than they enhance, makeup half an inch deep, and the “blingy” rewards of promiscuity are “attractive.”
So it looks like the old republic is now officially gone.
No, the power of old impotent white males has officially come to an end.
CW, I am enjoying this as much as you ;o) This website is soooo batty, the comments so crazy, its truly a laugh every time I pop in here. They really don’t get it.
But, Fox and Friends told them Romney the Mormon clown was going to win?
What you don’t get is that everything you despise is what props this country up and holds it together. When you’ve removed the remaining powers-that-be, do you seriously think you’ll still have the talent and ability to provide yourselves with the toys and the money and benefits that you have now? The people you laugh at have made it possible for you to laugh at all. You have not the knowledge or the drive to make the world go around, and so it won’t.
And do you seriously think that your everyday world is going to be a safer place when the old religious freaks are gone and no one gives a rat’s ass about some stupid commandments carved in stone, or some silly laws signed by a bunch of dead white guys a few hundred years ago? I mean, it’s just about getting busted, then. If a person can get away with it, why not? I’m sure you think there’s no difference in walking down an alley in Salt Lake City compared to Detroit. Or if there is, it has nothing whatsoever to do with religion and respect for the rule of law.
Dana, is that what they told you at the church that took over the supermarket space in the strip mall that closed down?
Hey, Cynical Wonder.
A brief greeting from a fellow denizen of the reality based community dropping in here for the entertainment value of the crazy.
Depressing thought for you: these people actually get to vote!
They do get to vote, and I support that 100%. The good thing is we outnumbered them and they will accept it and be obedient.
Yup, no riots in the streets or calls to end the electoral college.
Don’t misunderstand me, CW. I’m not calling for restricting the franchise; I’m wishing for better informed voters.
Don’t be so sure that we’re going to be obedient. As laws and regulations proliferate, there’s always civil disobedience to the most draconian of the laws; as we become overwhelmed by taxes and regulations, we’ll simply stop working, or at least not work as hard, and thereby erode the tax base; and if all else fails, and armed bureaucrats come to enforce their unjust decrees, there’s always the possibility of revolution.
I’m a mathematician. I ought to be able to easily find work; and I ought to be able to make a lot of money, doing some of those things. That I have not yet is immaterial: I just need to push myself to do better. What *is* material, though, is that I get migraines, and I get worn down by the difficulties I have when I run up against bureaucracy. I have some interest in starting my own business, but I also feel the burdens of debt and taxes and even regulations–and I am discouraged from making lots of money. How many others are there, like me, who can prosper, but choose to limit their prosperity, because they feel the burden as well? What happens when more and more people feel this way–not just old white guys? How long will we shoulder the burdens of those who are able to work–whether by taking welfare, or by being yet another redundant and meddlesome bureaucrat–but do not?
Then again, it’s not even over yet, politically. We will step back, re-evaluate our political strategies and ambitions, and fight Obama tooth and nail in blogs, in legislatures, and by whatever other means we can come up with, to change the hearts and minds of the people. We will not go silently into the night.
Romney ran a campaign about his plans for the future and Obama ran a campaign based on race, class, and gender.
This was not a victory against white people but it isn’t surprising that you would frame it that way.
I have nothing against white people (I’m white). But there is a certain segment of the white population who is has been severely deceived by the likes of Fox News.
Cynical Wonder, You truly are a wonder. You are one of the cool kids who believes everything the left wing establishment tells you to believe. It clearly saves you the the trouble of thinking and reasoning for yourself. You have contributed nothing but mindless juvenile nonsense to this discussion.
It is likely that you don’t have a reasoned thought about anything, and quite likely are lacking that capacity as well, but you do hang with the cool kids.
Just for fun, could you try to explain which of Obama’s policies would better serve America’s interests here at home and in foreign affairs and why you think that to be the case?
I don’t need to explain anything chuck. We won. You lost. The burden is on you as to why that particular outcome has manifested.
If you are the future tell me exactly how do you propose to pay all the bills you are running up? Or is that something you think you can always push off until tomorrow, like a modern day Scarlett O’Hara?
As I suspected.
Cynical Wonder, you say you don’t need to explain anything, because you won. I have a few things I’d like an explanation for:
First, if you won so fantastically, why do Republicans still control the House? Will they be eager to go along with Obama’s “mandate”?
Second, how do you explain Obama’s factual statement that Bush was unpatriotic for $5 trillion in debt in eight years, when Obama himself established $6 trillion in four, and isn’t likely to let up anytime soon? How is this going to be good for the country?
How do you explain an unemployment rate of 7.9% after nearly four years of Obama, when his Stimulus was supposed to reduce unemployment to 5.6% in two years?
And how do you explain Bengazi?
For a “winner”, you have a LOT of explaining to do!
And the power of voting for more Pie with borrowed money is here…
16 trillion in “obama phones” buys alot of votes doesnt it, whore?
Been scanning the posts here. One thing stands out, Cynical wonder is quite the POS.
That’s it. We’re done.
Last one out, turn off the lights, please.
Hug your children, enjoy your day, bad things are coming.
Evil won.
No, God won. You are against God.
Obama is God’s punishment to America cynical wonderless.
LOSER! You’re against God!
I remember my first time trolling…
You know, Debbie it does kind of seem that way. These loving, tolerant, “Forward” thinking superior beings are up to their usual name calling because they don’t have a logical argument. Maybe those of us in certain demographic are being punished for neglecting the “education” of these wonders.
Sigh.
It was God’s will to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. It was God’s will to destroy the people of the Promised Land, and replace them with Israelites. It was God’s will to divide the Israelites into Judah and Israel. It was God’s will to overrun Israel with Assyria, when Israel refused to live up to his expectations. It was God’s will to overrun Judah with Babylon, then re-establish them, then send the Greeks, and later the Romans, to rule over them, and then to finally scatter them to the four ends of the Earth. It was God’s will to destroy each of these Empires–Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Rome, and many others besides–when they became ripe in iniquity.
So now you are goading over the fact that it is God’s will that Obama is now President. Are you *seriously* going to tell us that God’s will is always *pleasant*? Often, it is God’s will to leave us to our own devices, and let us suffer the consequences of our decisions, when we choose poorly.
Of course, this is for our own good. Just as spanking a child for running into the street is for his own good, to keep him from running into the street when a car is coming, so is it good for us to be punished, for choosing financial irresponsibility.
Of course, I doubt Romney would have been able to do much, had he been elected. It was my hope, though, that he would have tried–and if we had elected him, we would have been attempting to try as well. It’s just disappointing that we, as the American people, chose financial irresponsibility. I do not see how this is going to end well.
Yeah, I know: I’m only feeding you, you troll. But I can’t help it, because you’re making the silliest claims–claims that are so easily refuted, with a handful of examples.
This is why the MSM kept pushing D+9 polls that showed the race tied. That way, it’d be believable when they rigged it by the skin of Barry’s teeth.
No, your epistemic bubble has been burst. Deal with it. Reality can sometimes be tough.
“Reality can sometimes be tough”
Got that right…
The tipping point of theives and freeloaders voting themselves other peoples money has finally been reached.
Yup, thats a tough reality.
16 Trillion in debt, $265,0000+ for every child born today, forever.
Thanks for destroying our country
Why not just give up and shut down PJ Media? The old America is gone, and there’s no point advocating freedom and liberty.
And why do you say that Obama faces hurdles? Nothing will happen to him over Benghazi, or anything he’s done. He’s above the law. Do you think he’d ever be impeached over anything, or that a Democrat controlled Senate would ever find him guilty of anything?
Why would you think he cares about the economy or unemployment? The more people dependent on him and his party, the better for him.
Steve, STOP IT!! Please don’t tell PJ Media to shut down. Aside from the The Onion and Cracked.com, no other website provides me with daily laughs and guffaws as this place. Wretchard is the only blogger I take seriously here. The rest are just straight up Looney Toons.
Yup. What’s the point anymore?
Commenting on PJ media today is my last fling before unsubbing ALL my political boards.
Voting doesn’t matter anymore. Military hubby and I are now serious about becoming “preppers.” He’s a trauma medic; I’m a [libertarian conservative] educator and a darn fine “if you can kill it, I can cook it” asset; any existing community will take us in after the fall even if we can’t get our own up and running by then.
Sayonara, complaceniks.
Next stop…..Greece.
America has thus voted.
The United States of Welfare is now Royalty Screwed.
The next 4 years will be spent leaving the USA.
New Zealand looks like the best alternative.
Promise? Might be hard to leave behind that Alabama trailer.
He didn’t actually ask you to go with him.
Well thank god(obama) for the free birth control and abortions, I wouldn’t inflict the world to come on a child if you paid me.
all good things must come to an end
I heard that somewhere
OK. Mitt was the best moderate establishment Republican candidate we are ever going to find.
He was running against a guy who would make most people vote for Jimmy Carter if that was the choice. We should have been won in a walk.
Can we dispense with the idea that the path to victory is in the middle of the road?
We have to gain control of our nominating process. The Democrats cannot be allowed to run our primary debates ever again. They bend the process to get the opponent they want. The Democrats wanted to run against Romney and they had a plan to beat him that worked. This has to be the last time this happens.
We have no one to blame but ourselves. We can do better.
^ This! ^
Shoulda gone with Perry!!
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/11/6/1352218783586/rick-perry-gop-debate-meme.jpg
That is when the election was lost.
Well, it’s certain that the country we knew and loved is gone. But we were always up against a rather frightening fact- and that is that we don’t know what to do with millions of people whom the economy can (somewhat) support, but they can’t contribute. Our workforce participation is somewhere in the low 60% range- excluding kids and the elderly.
Bread & circuses are just around the corner if this keeps up.
Did people decide R & R were holding up false hope? Maybe people really are so frightened that they would pick a safety net over an opportunity. I can’t blame them for that. They’re always at the mercy of an employer, and lifetime employment with a pension at the end is a thing of the past. Even the reliable paths to the upper middle class, e.g. the professions, are no longer the sure things they once were. Not everyone can be an entrepreneur, small business owner or a consultant.
I think people are just very, very afraid.
Your comments are going to be lost in the venting and spewing that are (understandably) going on this astonishingly inexplicable evening, but I believe you are close to the mark. When people give Obama or the Democrats high marks for handling the economy, what they have in mind is the safety net of unemployment benefits and other programs that they are hopeful will be there if and when they lose their job. Going out into the world to seek and take advantage of opportunity can be a frightful undertaking for more people than we want to admit. Still, it’s a form of trading liberty for “security”, and one day, we’ll harvest the fruits of that trade off.
I think the Republican party is officially dead and put in a geographical box they can’t break free from, even if they still retain the house.
I rarely agree with anyone on PJM, but in this case I do. The GOP needs to start appealing to the messicans if they want their Murikkka back.
Do you think we will be able to have a fair and open dialogue how all the Asians, Hispanics and Blacks all overwhelmingly went with the non white guy or do you think the next 4 years will continue to push racial double standards and only whites can be racist?
If you want to make Republicans the party of white people, take a look at the white people who are still voting Democratic, and find a way to appeal to some of them. You do that, you might also get a few more Hispanics.
Lot of white Obama voters voted for him because of social issues. A few like me voted for him mainly because of economic ones.
But Republicans aren’t the party of white people. This is a terrible misconception and almost borderline racist. Democrats want to keep minorities addicted to social welfare. Make it so without big governments help the evil white Republicans will take your free stuff away. Biden alludes to the fact that Republicans will put y’all in chains. Yet the right is the racist party. Not the left who cultivates and maintains this racist boogeyman and keeps minorities voting for them due to fear.
Republicans are the least racist of any party. If you are a hard worker and show your worth you will be an asset to people. It’s not race that determines your worth but the free market. If you adapt you will get far. This goes for everyone. This is the least racist idea of any party.
The problem is Democrats make it nearly impossible to have a dialogue with black communities and address the terrible black on black crime statistics. It’s immediately dismissed as racist. Any open criticism of the black community is racist. Any thing said to a black person that isn’t praise is racist. It’s ridiculous. People are starting to get fed up.
So in conclusion. Democrats hold them back and remind them that they need us whities help or they won’t get anywhere on their own. Republicans say work hard, prove your worth and we’ll reward you with good things. Of course Republicans are the racist ones. Amazing.
Republicans are the white people’s party because 62 percent of them or so, a near supermajority, voted for Romney, a private equity banker running on a platform of unfettering capitalism. My point is that given the demographics of our nation, there simply aren’t any more whites willing to buy into this, nor are there any more blacks and Hispanics, who rightly conclude they will benefit more from Democratic Party commitments to more Hispanics with green cards and affirmative action and government wealth transfers to both groups.
What hasn’t been tried is a candidate preaching RESPONSIBLE fiscally conservative economic populism, a la Buchanan and Huckabee, mixed with social and foreign policy moderation. Considering that Ayn Rand disciples, pro-lifers and anti-Islamist crusaders have nowhere else to go, such a candidate would likely net a few more white vote percentage points, and pick up more Asians and a few Hispanics as well.
You are proving my point though. The Democrats are offering more free stuff to minority groups in exchange for votes. Here is your free green card. Here is your free food stamps…..that you can use on things like liquor and cigarettes. Don’t worry you don’t need IDs that is racist.
It’s blackmail. It’s essentially become this idea that if you don’t support us this free stuff goes away. On the flip side Republicans offer the same rights FOR EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF RACE. Republicans don’t pander to minorities and of course this is seen as a BAD THING. Republicans pander to Americans which we should all be first. In an ideal world me and a black person have equal opportunities to do anything and we should worry about the same things. However there is almost this cold war going on between blacks and whites that no one wants to talk about. We apparently can’t enjoy the same things. Can’t dress the same way. Can’t have the same hobbies. The black community goes out of their way to be different and worst off difficult and we can’t talk about it. Because it’s racist. Absolutely disturbing.
When that happy day comes for the progressives when whites are no longer a majority who will all the “minorities” blame their problems on? When they have taken everything from those evil whites where will they go for more free stuff?
From my observations I have to conclude that every group of people has racists among it, but racism among whites seems to be less prevalent and less virulent than among other groups, except among the white “arrogantsia” who tend to incorrectly see themselves as the “intelligentsia”. This odd group is racist against other people who happen to be white but don’t share their views on every single issue.
White voters: 39% Obama, 59% Romney. All non-whites at least 60% Obama, according to PBS NewsHour. We white people don’t get to dictate to the non-European population, we have to listen to their interests. And many of my fellow whites deeply resent and/or fear this loss of lordship.
Nope early indications are
93% blacks voted Obama
70% Hispanic
75% Asian
Obama was estimated to get 98% of the black vote so it’s amazing that he got less than that. This is pretty damn racist. I’m sorry with whatever spin crap you want to say now and Southern Strategy crap but today, in 2012 Republicans are very respectful towards minorities. The KKK (which a Democrat started) isn’t even a serious threat despite it getting invoked in arguments all the time. The New Black Panther group vows to kill white children and it’s ok.
I’m not some white supremacist guy here asking to hold the minorities down. I just want everyone to be held to the same standard and it’s not happening now. Hundreds of black people murder in Chicago and Detroit every month. We hear nothing in the news. Zimmerman, a white Hispanic guy shoots Trevon Martin and is crucified by the media despite there being proof that he was legally defending himself. It’s disgusting what the lefties are doing here. They are creating racism and making sure it exists to benefit their party. History will not look kindly at this.
“History will not look kindly at this”. You got that right!
You guys were too mean and too angry. Not Romney, but the Republican base. You gotta give people something to vote FOR, rather than someone to vote AGAINST.
Back to the drawing board.
As opposed to the Obama campaign? His rhetoric and that of many of this supporters?
Spend some time working as a unionized government worker, who happens to be conservative, and you may very well laugh at that statement of yours.
Republicans weren’t the ones tweeting death threats to any left wing celebrity who expressed their views publicly.
Republicans weren’t the ones who claimed Clint Eastwood had dementia simply because he spoke out against the president.
Republicans weren’t the ones threatening riots if their candidate didn’t win.
Gawker. DailyKos. Huffingtonpost. Visit the comment sections of these sites. Look at the hate spit on by your every day liberal. For gods sake they still attack Sarah Palin and her kids. This site is populated by right wingers. You won’t see blind hate messages here. You will see respectable discussion. The left is the mean spirited ones. It’s easy to be mean spirited when you aren’t backed by any morals what so ever. That is the ultimate trump card to not being religious at all. You aren’t held to standards so you can be a mean piece of s^%t without regard.
I wish I could say “I told you so” but I was mostly absent from this site during the run-up of the elections with everyone blindly supporting Romney and even some thinking that Obama would be completely destroyed.
Let the housecleaning begin.
We’ve comfortably established that the GOP can lose the White House perfectly well with or without the social liberals and ideology-free mediocrities that Mitt Romney embodied. Let’s make the “without” part official, and by-God stand for something. Let’s frighten the horses. Let’s make David Brooks, Ross Douthat, and the WSJ & Commentary editorial boards befoul themselves. Let’s reach across the aisle … with knives. Let’s strike fear into the heart of every waste-of-flesh “soccer mom” in the nation. Oderint dum metuant.
Put a sock in it. The majority simply does not want any more of your recycled 1930s fascism. Just go find a place and quietly die.
I’m enjoying your liberal “tolerance”. You are putting on a pretty good display of ignorance too. Do you know what fascism is? Do you know whose ideas are from the 1930′s? I doubt it, but you sure seem to be having a good time exhibiting your shallowness.
Watch this video,see if you recognize yourself.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k “You mean like democrats” See, you’re aren’t so original after all. Now, I’m going to waste no more time with your mindless drivel.
We do know what 1930s fascism is. It was just defeated. You apparently have a problem with that. Tough …
Not exactly. It just won.
I said I wasn’t going to waste any more time on your lunacy but I guess you got me one more time. Good one. ha ha
See thats what a lack of education from a brainwashing left wing Academia gets you. Guys like Cynical Wonder who throw around terms like ‘Fascist’ and NAZI trying to pin them on ‘conservatives’. Completely ignorant of that fact that they are BOTH left wing aberrations which along with Communism spawned the world biggest mass murderers Hitler, Stalin and Mao as well as the world most incompetent Dictator Mussolini (shades of the USURPER).
Are you serious? This from the group that called President Obama a socialist, fascist, dictator, Kenyan, Muslim, etc. all in one sentence. Your ignorance is laughable.
Blunder, you are identical to a 1930′s German Jew who just voted for Hitler, thinking he will save the world. Your childish banter will not change that fact. When you find yourself reaping the rewards of your choice, I hope you ask yourself how you got there. If you have a job and you notice how much more of your paycheck goes to pay for things you don’t want, I hope you ask yourself again. When the government decides what is and is not allowed to published or even said in public, I hope you ask yourself again.
You, sir, are a fool. You have cast your lot for socialism. You have been duped into the rocks with the siren call of it, which is always the way it begins. When the ship founders and people die, people like you are always too stupid to realize why it happened.
So you got your dream. I hope it’s everything you think it will be, utopia on earth, free stuff for everybody. But you do not want or care to understand how things really work and you have chosen to ignore this administration’s very bad and dangerous qualities. You will live it now. I wish you luck because you’re one of the first who will become shocked when things get ugly.
Can’t oblige you there, I’m afraid. And though I’ve no love for 1930′s fascism, I intuit that being considered an exemplar of the breed by you is a signal honor that one should strive to be worthy of. If we currently look “fascist” to you, then God willing, you’ll soon run out of adjectives to describe our noxiousness and dangerousness in your eyes … even if you had thrice the vocabulary you currently sport (still not setting the bar too high, I grant).
We’ll lose if we do that.
I think it’s best to drop the social issues at a national level. Let the churches, communities and states deal with those. After all, it is education, not restrictive laws, that has caused the rate of abortion to drop steadily in the past thirty years. It’s state law that shapes the entitlement programs which cause so many families to fail as the government replaces Daddy.
The president needs to focus on security and the economy.
You are very bright Dana. That is unusual from what I see here on PJM. For instance, as far as abortion is concerned, it’s OVER. If you don’t want one then don’t have on. Simple as that.
Slavery was like that too…if you dont want to own a Black Persona as a slave, then just dont…
Hows that sound?
YES!!! FOUR MORE YEARS, PAJAMAS PEOPLE!!!!! BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS ONCE MORE YOUR PRESIDENT, YOUR LEADER! IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT! HA HA!
He’s your Commander and Chief whether you like it or not.
Ah, that’d be no. He is the CinC of the Armed Forces, not of the citizenry.
I’m a civilian. Today, the vast majority of American citizens are.
If Obama called me on the phone right now, this very minute, I would tell him that I don’t think he deserves to be President.
And then I would hang up on him.
And I would have every constitutional right to do that.
No, Obama is NOT my leader, any more than Romney would have been, had he became President. I am the captain of my own life. It is up to me to succeed or fail.
Obama does everything he can to make it difficult for me to succeed. Romney would probably have put obstacles in my way as well, but I supported him because I thought he was less likely to put obstacles in my way, and I expected that it would have been at a slower rate than that of Obama.
This.
One wonders whether Ron Paul could have won this race.
Media titans like Rush Limbaugh called his election prospects “unrealistic.”
PJ Media writers did their part to subvert his candidacy as well.
The Constitution gets lip service from mainstream republicans, and Barack Obama is too important as a symbol of equality for the mainstream media, academia, the house republicans, or the judiciary to risk treating him equally.
With the bureaucracy and the leeches conspiring, the value-creators haven’t got a chance.
Best of luck going forward.
Okay, kids, let get this out of the way.
Throughout the primary season, we were ceaselessly told by the GOP Deep Thinkurs that Romney was “The Electable One”.
Well let’s vomit out the FACTS.
Romeny was not quite the electable one in the USA
And he wasn’t even the electable in HIS HOME STATE.
THAT hasn’t happened to a Presidential candidate since the DemocRats’ McGovern debacle. MCGOVERN!
You eminences in the Party Hierarchy, you “Movers and Shakers”, should ponder that fact.
And here’s the proof that a whole bunch of people who calim to be in the know in reality are ignoramuses:
In 2008 you helped nominate the premier RINO in Washington, and you got CLOBBERED.
In 2012 you helped nominate another RINO, and he lost.
In 2010, when the Conservatives and the TEA Partisans took the lead in nominating their Congressional candidates, you shellacked Obama and gave him the worst midterm defeat since FDR’s second term.
You beginning to get the picture that maybe the GOP greybeards and their fixation on “moderation” are playing the same sucker bet over and over?
Stop hammering Romney. This was a “Lazerus and the rich man election.”
Obama is such an intellectual light weight he thought there was an Austrian language, he couldn’t even read corpsman from a teleprompter, gave Osama bin laden a “proper Islamic funeral” so he wouldn’t offend the enemy which he can’t even name, (note that bin laden was only killed after Leon Paneta made the call to do it then brought Obama in for a photo op), Obama shut down the keystone pipe line so we could remain dependent on his Muslim buddies for oil and that was after he had all but shut down drilling on government land, he refuses to deal forcefully with Iran, he has been instrumental in installing Islamist, America hating governments in a number of middle eastern countries in a move he calls, with incredible stupidity “The Arab Spring”, he terribly disrespects Israel our only real ally any where in the world. All this and wrecking the economy too all the while acting like a big crybaby saying “boo hoo , boo hoo it’s Bush’s fault what can I do waa, waa ,waa”. Then incredibly he refuses to protect American diplomats and calls their deaths “a bump in the road”, And Then he concocts a stupid story that it was caused by a youtube video that had gotten 17 views, And Then he goes in front of the U.N. and says “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”.
With a record like this any human being with a pulse should have been able to beat him. The real problem is the extent to which the American public has been dumbed down. All those “really smart” people who ridicule Fox News, Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Hannity and other voices of DIVERSITY yet parrot what they are fed by the clones ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, New York Times, are the reason the voice of reason has such a difficult time.
In the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man the beggar, Lazerus, and the Rich Man both die; Lazerus goes to Abraham’s bosom and the Rich Man goes to a place of torment. The Rich Man asks Abraham if he could send Lazerus back to warn his brothers of what awaits them but Abraham tells the Rich Man that they have already been warned by the prophets.
The Rich Man then protests that his brothers might listen to a man who has returned from the dead. Abraham tells the Rich Man that the prophets message was clear and that if they didn’t heed the word of the prophets neither would they pay attention to a man coming back from the dead.
So it is with Obama supporters. If they still support a President with a record like Obama has, even a man coming back from the dead would not persuade them to listen to reason.
I don’t know the answer but I don’t think it’s all Romney’s fault
“With a record like this any human being with a pulse should have been able to beat him. ”
One would think that would be true, but the fact remains that Romney lost. He couldn’t even carry his home state, but he sure did a Hell of a job on the other Republican contenders for the nomination, didn’t he?
And so there it is.
Of course, now that I think of it, it’s been a very long time since I looked at Massachusetts as a bastion of Liberty. To the extent that Romney was espousing the values of liberty (and there were times that he made me wince, in that regard–take drones, for example), I wouldn’t expect them to support Romney.
If the day comes that Massachusetts allows the carrying of guns for self defense, whether open or concealed, without a license to buy, or even carry a gun, and they still don’t vote for someone like Romney, whether or not he’s from their state, I’ll raise an eyebrow.
We lost because each generation is becoming more selfish , than the last.
Common Sense no longer is the rule. right or wrong is now turned into – Whats in it for me ?
The Takers have Won. The Me , Me , Me , Me People now out number the Givers.
The only way now, is to out smart them and work around them.
Vote when you can, Join the Tea Party. Do the best you can.
“the takers have won?” No one in my family has ever received any kind of government assistance (not that that is bad if you are needy). Indeed, I live in the same town that Mittens is building his house with the car elevator, if that tells you anything. We are not poor by any measure. All of us, as did our neighbors, voted enthusiastically for the re-election of President Barack Obama.
That’s because you and your neighbors have it too good. You don’t know how fragile prosperity is and how quickly it can go away. Instead you worry about whether gays can get a slip of paper saying they *really* love each other or whether a college girl gets government help to pay for birth control. Meanwhile the debt clock keeps ticking and the cliff draws nearer.
I love it!
“the takers have won!”. Oh, so you’re not a taker, well, it’s STILL your fault because YOU’VE GOT IT TOO EASY!
Isn’t it just slightly possible that just maybe a few honest, intelligent people might have voted for the incumbent because they thought he was the better candidate?
Also don’t forget that this was a race involving relatively few seats. How the whole country felt about it isn’t really all that important when the majority of districts are locked in. Even if romney wins more votes, obama apparently ran the better campaign in the swing states.
You’ll probably find this maddening, but to an outsider (me), obama has actually done a pretty good job over the last 4 years. Not all of the problems were his doing – he did actually inherit the biggest global banking fubar in decades, and while he was trying to stimulate local demand and save industries, the states were doing everything they could to cut spending – and some of his successes were hard-won and worthwhile. His foreign policy record (with the exception of one night of bad news in libya) has actually been very good, whether you can see that or not.
Obama could have done nothing at all for 4 years and some people would still be shrieking about his disasters. It’s what you have to do – barrack for the team.
But I can assure that, with the possible exception of maybe half of israel, the rest of the world is happy with this result.
Of course, there’s that troubling $5 trillion deficit that’s looming over our head, with no sign of relief…
The problem with your analysis is that you suggest that President Obama has governed as a moderate Republican (fiscally) which means my life changes very little, except for the fact that I can feel good about the gays getting married (yawn …). You lemming have been played so bad …
Clinical Blunder Socialists like the Incompetent, Unqualified, Benghazi Bottler the USURPER only stop spending when the run out of other peoples money. Hat tip Margaret Thatcher.
You aid and abet the takers, therefore you are a Taker
Tell ya what CW. I’ve had some financial reversals the last couple of years and could use more money. Since you are so successful and wealthy, AND compassionate, instead of calling everybody names could you send me a check?
” We are not poor by any measure. All of us, as did our neighbors, voted enthusiastically for the re-election of President Barack Obama.
Maybe thats because you’re a “guilty white liberal” with money than sense. The precious few that can affort a 50% or 75% or 90% tax rate and still send their kids to good (private!) School.
Yup.
Now one of my college students worries about doing/building anything. Government will take care of them.
What will the TAKERS do when its all gone? That time is close.
When I was a kid, I used to wonder what the average Roman felt like when they saw their Empire crumble around them while Rome was sacked. Now we know.
I’m done with politics. Whatever happens, happens.
Yep. It is every man for himself now. I am officially apathetic. If there was anywhere to go I would be out of here next week. Some really ugly stuff is coming down the pike. This is not Mitt Romney’s fault. There is no mortal that could leap across the obstacles placed in front of him. I admire him and his good grace to go on as I think he knew it was futile but put himself out there and fought like hell for this country anyway. So no, it is not appropriate to beat up on him. Let’s face it. Our country was destroyed by the very people we entrusted and elected to care for it. All the while we worked and kept the wheels greased. We got complacent and there was no over sight. Some of those obstacles Romney faced were in place before any of us were even born . This catastrophe has been brewing for 100 years. I am sorry my old parents have to witness this
Romney didn’t fight. Benghazi should have been his knock out blow. That’s what you get for selecting a gentleman.
Benghazi? You got nothing.
Cynical Wonder, here in the closed information loop (Fox, PJ, WND, Limbaugh) it was Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi non-stop, so the ignorami here convinced themselves it was a real issue.
But you might have noticed that none of them blamed the GOP congress for cutting the State Department’s funding request for embassy and consulate security – with the result that when multiple requests for additional security did come in, State had to make choices in allocating the reduced funds.
There’s a word for the kind of attitude we see manifested around here: hypocrisy.
So we just watch them die on drone video? You Taker
The cuts in spending isn’t a valid excuse. There was an easy way for Obama to have handled the situation: do what every freaking consulate in the area was doing, and pull them out of the area before September 11th.
The fact that this happened alone, would indicate that Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing.
It still haunts me: Benghazi shouldn’t have happened. And it was then covered up for weeks, when it is now clear that Obama knew what happened.
And yes, Romney should have hit Obama hard on the issue. Republicans in days to come still should hit hard on it.
Actually, our people at the consulate got nothing from Obama.
Actually, it’s Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Ty Woods and Glen Doherty who “got nothing.” First , no adequate security. Then, no backup when they were screaming for it as they were being shot, mortared and burned to death. Then, no life and no futures. These four men are the ones who GOT NOTHING.
And you enjoy spitting on their dead bodies as part of your tawdry little political gloating.
Wanna know what GOT NOTHING looks like?
It is Americans under attack by terrorists in a foreign country being left to die by their president. It is the justice these men deserve being shoveled under by hacks and toadies who care more about their precious than the lives of four good men who should never have died.
Wanna know what else GOT NOTHING looks like?
What’s left of a person’s character and soul after they’ve sold fellow human beings and their own countrymen out for some powerlulz on a blog site.
Yep Clinical Blunder you are spot on . Benghazi meant nothing to the left wing Obamabots that voted for the USURPER they know nothing apart from Celebrity claptrap and where to get their foodstamps and Obamaphones. They wouldn’t know where or what Benghazi was most of them could not even point to Libya on a map. Such is the informed electorate which forms the USURPERS base.
So Obama wins even though he would’ve given his left nut to have George H. W. Bush’s economy.
What, losing 800,000 jobs a month compared to 32 straight months of job growth and adding 5.4 million private sector jobs? Sorry, the nation decided to NOT give the keys back to the drunks that drove the car into the ditch. You have a lot to learn. So very sad …
How was Romney’s 5 – point plan compared to driving the car in the ditch in the first place. You observations are completely knee-jerk. Can you think about what you are saying first please?
Revenge of the Takers
No, a rejection of recycled 1930s fascism.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It does. I have a masters degree, and I graduated with highest honors, so you’re not smarter than me. You’re the one that has a misunderstanding of terminology.
My ex also has a Masters Degree which she brags about endlessly and then boasts about scamming the system for food stamps and section eight housing.
Would you like an introduction?
Just kidding. She really does have the degree. And she really does scam the system.
Just for perspective, Bill Gates has no degree.
And what IS your Advanced Degree IN CW?
Not in any real science, I’m sure.
Its most likely in an “Obama catagory”, one of those those fluffy, make-believe self esteem topics Lefties are SO good at….where opinions are called “proof” and proclaimed through circular logic.
Endless possibilities about your “education” exist, but I CAN tell this much:
You certainly DO NOT design things that have any moving parts, or that carry any structural loads, am I correct?
Doctorate here. And, no, it doesn’t mean what you think it means. You should ask for a refund.
Oooh, a Master’s! I happen to have a doctorate, so I have some idea of what it takes to be educated.
And you’re wrong on the word “fascism”. It’s the philosophy that the government owns the businesses while they tell the business owners what to do. The National Socialist government of Germany was Fascist in this sense. So was Italy. And with the increase of regulations we see, we’re going that route ourselves.
Fascism is just another in a long series of philosophies that, at their core, are based on the idea that government and central planning are the keys to a good society. The fact that this has failed time and time again–whether it be in Revolutionary France, or Tsarist Russia, or German Nazism, or Italian Fascism, or…well, the examples are too numerous to list–never seems to dissuade people from trying it one more time, because this time it will work, we promise!, because we’re calling it Progressivism, or Liberalism, or Freedom, or something, and We Know What We Are Doing This Time(TM).
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Obviously not, since he’s a supporter of the American political party that most closely resembles the fascists.
We are beating ourselves up for nothing. Romney was a fine, dedicated candidate. He would have made the best president ever. But we had to contend with a MSM that never gave Romney fair chance or fair time. The debate moderators were mostly rigged against him.
Obama bought off chunks of the population with Dream Acts, welfare medicine, free contraception for lady parts, gay marriage(which he originally spoke against), free phones. We lost momentum with Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie spoke and behaved like a boor in relation to a visit by Romney to New Jersey and then he tongue-kissed Obama. I am so sad and in such shock. What a loss for our country
Great comment!
….so happy that Obama won. and that this election is over. Now its time to start shoving progressive policies down this nations’ throat whether they like it or not. Oh yes, pajamas peepers, the kid gloves are coming off. “Good Cop” is stepping down, and “Bad Cop” has entered the room. You brought this on yourselves. The heck with compromise and reaching out to you lunatics. Universal healthcare, women’s right to choose, gay rights, affirmative action, progressive/protective labor laws, oh yeah, it alllllll coming at you, baby! Start crying and weeping now. Pathetic punks!
Uh huh. So you think with a very small majority you’re just going to walk into our red state lives and cram things down our throats, hey?
I’ll make you a promise. You’ll be lucky if we don’t start practicing a little reverse Cloward-Piven of our own. In case you haven’t noticed chump, there’s a real thin veneer of civilization between red and blue, getting thinner by the day.
I wouldn’t push too far or too hard. You may not get the results you expect.
I think it would be wist to stay put in your welfare red state. Red states are the biggest welfare queens. Ee don’t need you mooching off us educated and prosperous blue states.
I’m retired. What’s your excuse, ‘high achiever’? You’ve been here for hours now. Like I said, your only credential is unemployment, punk. That crap about your high flying job awaiting is as lame as your love life.
As far as being “wist” and venturing to your broken blue state, you don’t have to worry about me being there. I made a vow to not give California a dime five years ago. I’m going to watch it go broke and laugh at your expense. Your greatest natural resource is now homelessness and bangers.
What I do have to worry about is keeping an unemployed punk and parasite like you out of my state, a punk whose already is assisting bankrupting the tarnished golden one
The thing with Tex is his wife (if he ever had one) died several years ago, probably of cancer or something. He probably had to move to some cheaper southern state so he wouldn’t go bankrupt over her nursing home care. He’s old and retired. His days are numbered. His demographic dime is up you could say. As his demographic dies off he will be systematically replaced with younger energetic progressive voters and activists like myself. Tonights election is proof of that.
So, Tex, old punk, how do you feel about that?
Gonna be laughing out your ass Wonder when they come for you. And they will. And you will be most surprised. Let me know how it works out.
P Jay Medilla, great handle, I love it!
Now all the backloaded “flexibility” kicks in. I can’t even think about the Supreme Court now. If we don’t carve out a constitutional island in the middle of this mess we and the next generation sink with them. They’ll feed off of the private sector host until they kill it. And then blame the victim for expiring, because if they could just get more of other people’s money, and just get more control over people’s lives…The Left has never appreciated the incentives they kill; it’s like history never happened. “Greece” looms closer now.
Know what Paul ? I hope it all goes very fast. The faster it all collapses the less painful it will be and then we can decide if there is anything left to salvage from the ashes of this once great country.
The blue state exodus will go from a trot to a stampede as “fairness” hits like a sledge hammer. Here in California we’re already bleeding at the rate of about 225,000 a year (recent Manhattan Institute study), and have been for at least ten years; that’s job creators, investors in job creation, skilled talent and taxpayers.
I agree that a swift blow would be preferable to a thousand cuts; maybe the fiscal cliff will “help.” Oh, and if you know any MDs, ask them about OBCare’s “benefits.” Those I know are counseling family and friends to consider other careers. My advice: if it’s a major procedure especially, schedule sooner not later.
I’m wondering what this Cynical Wonder thinks he won that it so life changing?
I know he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, though he might be the most venal person I’ve ever read. But in case he didn’t happen to notice, the only thing that changed from 6:00PM this evening until now, is a further weakened President who just won about 50.1% of the vote, whose performance was abysmal when Baracky did have a super majority.
If this Cynical Wonder really thinks San Diego and California are bulletproof, he’s even dumber than I thought. And if he’s stupid enough to think his own miserable existence can’t change in a flash, I’m tempted to pay $1,000 to anybody on this board who can identify this Cynical Wonder by name with proof, just so we can keep tabs on his life’s progress and blog about it on the Tattler.
I don’t think it would be too difficult for a large blog of people to keep measure of our young pompous ass, just in case he doesn’t prove quite as successful as he would like us to believe. Bonus for a picture of his mug.
We could help make him famous.
Is your Depends undergarment full too Tex? You know, I read an article on NYT, well researched actually, that postulated that conservative men who lose elections often have trouble getting it up. Maybe that’s what is bothering you. You can’t get it up any more. Maybe you can find a blow up doll or something for practice. Are you unhappy that President Obama bent you over and made you his bitch?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/is-america-man-enough-to-vote.html
Now CW, be nice! We are guests on this site. The repugs have had a hard night. Let them process ;o)
Generally, my compassionate Buddhist leanings are my default position. However, in this case evil must be defeated. Once we knock them down we must apply firm pressure to the back of their neck. We must keep applying firm pressure until they stop moving. Then, after they stop moving, we must continue to apply firm pressure just for good measure. This, of course, is for the benefit of all sentient beings.
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha
Youre a Buddhist huh?
A regular Dhala F*cking Lamo
No WONDER youre so comfortable with YOUR OWN PEOPLE living with a Communist Boot on their throat, while you preen with celebrities someplace ELSE.
Yes, you have just demonstrated that you are the evil one, and that you must be defeated–your world view needs to be made irrelevant. But I, for one, will not advocate your demise, even symbolically. It will suffice to make you a laughingstock.
You have just espoused the philosophy of King George III, who felt the same way towards those upstart colonies. They fought back.
Or do you really think we’re going to take this laying down? We can only remain productive for so long, though, before we get exhausted…and angry.
No, I’m unhappy that you haven’t attempted to bend me over, flunky. But life changing evening? Hardly. Take a good look at the results, punk. You think your miserable, unattached existence just improved? Nothing has changed. Not one thing.
Aren’t you going brag for us once again about your immense talent and degree? That’s always worth a good chuckle, as if most of us “impotent” don’t recognize a basement lounging loser with a keyboard and bleak future. You ever kissed a girl?
And I think your credentials imagined, college boy. I think you’re unemployed toady, rooting for his football team tonight and riding the pine, plastic cup in hand for the keg.
You’re a loser. A loser with a prolapsed political rectum. A nobody on your way to nowhere. We are the future. Not you. Buh, by ….
Perhaps. But it’s an assured bleak one if you and your lackey there are representative. See you around, water boy.
“We are the future.”
Did you click your boots and make the Party salute when you wrote that?
The uneducated ignorance displayed by those left wing moonbats such as Clinical Blunder and his acolyte Bart posts on here just exemplify exactly how the Unqualified, Incompetent USURPER was re-elected.
Pragmatist – cease the friendly fire. I was responding to the popinjay “Cynical Wonder”.
Do you mean ‘click your heels’ like a members of that extreme LEFT WING organization the National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party (AKA NAZIS) used to do – Well Bart do you?
YES, Prag, that is exactly what I meant.
…with regard to “Cynical Wonder”.
I didn’t want to believe it, but now I do. I didn’t want to believe that we had passed the tipping point from a country of producers to a country of takers, but we have.
I didn’t want to believe it, but now I do. I didn’t want to believe that voter fraud was a serious problem, but it is. Even if this election didn’t hinge on voter fraud, and I’m not sure it did, the outcome of today’s election will be to institutionalize voter fraud. There will be thousands of verifiable cases of voter fraud that the Holder DOJ will refuse to prosecute, thus further emboldening those who will cheat to win. Welcome to the newest member of the banana republics.
I didn’t want to believe, but now I do. I didn’t want to believe that a majority of our fellow citizens were/are too ignorant to grasp the cause and effect relationship between those policies that made our economy grow and our country great, but now I do.
Last, I don’t want to believe the Republican party will fail recognize that the reason Romney lost is he was too moderate. Instead, I fear they will conclude that the reason Romney lost is that he was too “radically” conservative. The days of a real fiscal conservative winning a national election are over, at least one coming from the Republican party.
Buy lots of ammo, stock up on long term food, become as energy independent as you can and be ready for the civil war that is surely to come as our government runs headlong in to fiscal insolvency, and the masses who have no idea where their “free” stuff comes from begin rioting in the street as forced rationing and mandatory confiscation are implemented by the government.
The sad, sweet irony is that when that day comes, the low information voters who handed us this mess will be the first and the hardest hit as they have ZERO life skills that will allow them to break away from the government teat.
Our only hope now is to take over all local politics, install hard core fiscal conservatives who are true patriots who believe in the promise that was our constitutional republic. Likely, these candidates will have to come from third parties as the Republican party will be utterly clueless about the need for it and will do everything in it’s power to defeat them from the grass roots level on up.
If I am right about all of the above, and I think I am, it only strengthens my resolve to remain resolutely bound to my core principals and the Judea-Christian based ethics that made this country great. I will fight to the last for what I believe is right.
I”m not convinced this is over yet … the divisiveness and anger continues. All I can personally do now, is to continue to pray for Obama; he is, our POTUS (again) but what he will do is NOT set in stone. All he has done so far is to hide from us; and pop out occasionally to be a superstar, dissing everything and everybody … without God’s grace he cannot continue down that path without resigning. It’s not about Obama and Romney it’s about us and the fact that our division has been made official and it’s not just rhetoric anymore … it’s for real, and there are consequences. Only God can help us now … WE are Americans and yes we fight over things, but we’ve let lies and deception sway us from our course – the course that the Founders set in writing – and the future of prosperity and happiness that results from following that path. I believe we’ll honor the Founders; regardless of who is POTUS. We must however STOP the decent into divisive BS such as I’ve just witnessed here … c’mon; we’re better than that!!!
Not likely. You’ll notice the left is motivated by a burning desire to destroy.
The reason the makers vs. takers meme gets objected to so much is because they don’t monolithically enjoy receiving things.
What they enjoy watching it get ripped out of your hands, without you being able to do anything about it.
It’s all about schadenfreude, punishment, and social vengeance.
God will deal with Obama eventually. And the left, who loves to kill babies. Oh yes.
Good luck, America! Good luck, Israel! Good luck, world! We’ll need it.
I fear for Israel. May the character and wisdom of the prophets strengthen and guide them in their dark hour.
The Benghazi Murderer. Let’s just call him that for the next four years. Something else we have to think about is how we are going to deal with the traitorous media. These people deserve the absolute worst treatment.
The Lunatics have finally taken over the asylum. The first election of the Unqualified USURPER could be put down to an aberration a case of national mass hysteria however this second election and the margin of it just confirms my worst fears. Those were that America would finally go the way of Socialist Europe and they have. Proving that after decades of brainwashing by Academia and a Lame Stream EneMedia that the American electorate is now just as moronic as those in Europe have been for decades.
Check the bonds market. The US is not winning anything there. Another downgrade and a market crash and we’ll wish we’ve turned into Greece. Why> Because we are turning into Argentina.
Barack Obama–makes a desert and calls it “compromise”.
Well you ‘Makers’ had better get used to it the “takers’ are in control and in the majority. So the ‘Makers’ better get used to it and live with the ‘Social Security Benefit’ takers the Obamaphone Takers the Food Stamp Takers and all the other Benefit Junkies and Green NAZI scams that this USURPER and Regime will now inflict on you. The cancellation of the Bush Tax Cuts for the ‘Makers’ will be just the start look forward to even more wealth redistribution as the Takers hold out their hands for More! More! More! while contributing NOTHING.
Who says we have to participate? They can build this monstrosity without my help.
Times like this, I wish Breitbart was still around .
Living in a Conservative county that voted for Romney by about +30,000 I’m feeling like a member of a community in exile this morning. So I read Jeremiah’s letter to the exiles. This verse stood out for me personally:
“Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
For those of us who live in areas of sanity, this is what we must do. We must try to keep the saner areas of the country strong.
And when the brothers and sisters (that voted for the Obama Nation causing desolation) come knocking asking for bread, make sure to put them out of their misery in a quick and merciful manner.
Tex Taylor, you really sound butt hurt, kiddo. Your butt must really hurt ;o)
I’m alway amazed at how clever Obama rubes really can be. That was absolutely one of the most uniquely qualified puerile retorts yet, paper. What are you? Seventeen, braces and zit faced?
You’re too insipid for insult, gnat. Move along. Come back when you’re more seasoned and ready for battle before I set fire to your paper.
OCCUPY WALL STREET FOREVER!!! OCCUPY WALL STREET FOREVER!!! NOW THE REAL WORK BEGINS! UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, IMMIGRATION REFORM, PROTECTIVE LABOR LAWS!!!! WE MUST CONTINUE TO FIGHT. OCCUPY WALL STREET NOW AND FOREVER!
Republicans have finally paid a political price for their cynical, treasonous, scorched-earth strategy to oppose any and all attempts by Obama and the Democrats to get this country back on track. They held the economy of the country hostage so that they could create a failed presidency to run against. They created this unprecedented gridlock and then – and I’m not making this up – claimed that only a Republican – Rawmoney – would be able to work with them to break this gridlock.
Rawmoney’s argument that he would be “bi-partisan” was perhaps the most insulting of all his many incredible and unbelievable claims. He wanted us to believe that the unprecedented obstructionism of Obama’s agenda by the Republicans with the express purpose of creating a failed presidency was Obama’s fault and that we needed to not only ignore the treasonous betrayal of America’s interests for the pursuit of political power by the Republicans but now we should have rewarded this extortion and voted for him.
How much longer now will the Republicans continue to put their selfish desire for power over the good of the country?
Truly mind boggling. You Taker
Hmph. You say this as though the Democrats have been civil through all this. You had control of the House. You didn’t need Republicans to help fix things. Yet you didn’t do it. Why is that?
The answer, of course, is that the policies Obama *has* put in place, has utterly failed.
Relax, people.
We’re not going to win every election, no matter what.
We, as a country, have been in way worse shape than we are now. As a matter of fact, except for having too much government, we’re way better off than people were 100 years ago. We live longer, and have much better lives than folks did then.
We’ve had presidents who were even worse than Obama (FDR for one), and America survived.
The Democrats win most federal elections and have ever since the 1930s, but they don’t win as much as they used to, so if you believe the Republicans represent your viewpoint more than the Democrats do, then we’re making some progress.
So, cheer up, and get ready for the next battle. You still have excellent lives. Enjoy them, and don’t get discouraged.
Does this mean we no longer have to be subjected to weasely posts by Bridget Johnson? To me, her posts have been the most irritating and deflating of all PJM posts.
Lets see, I came home last night to find my cat had died, then I wake up this morning to find Obama had won. What else is instore for me?
Honey? I met this guy today, and guess what? He’s an Obot! Turns out they’re not as bad as you’ve been saying. Quite charming, actually. Anyway, one thing led to another, and… Well, anyway. The key is under the mat. Bye!
Hey Cynical wonder, you wrothless little punk! What else did you college professors tell you say on this board!?
Obama won by 2% of the popular vote—not exactly a squeaker. Unless the Republican Party turns loose of the John-Birch-Tea-Party-types, they’re going to continue to lose.
I disagree with the people who think we will survive this. We are out of time and money. The takers are now firmly in control of the government. Your property…is not. They will pillage and plunder it, but it won’t be enough. Total collapse…far bigger than the real estate bubble popping…is inevitable.
By the middle of next year…when Boehner and McConnell tax increases “on the wealthy” kick in, tax revenues continue to plunge, and even Europe and Asia start to get really concerned about continued quantitative easing by the Fed…the government will be desperate for money. Watch them come for your IRA and 401k…they were talking about it this year…
Seriously considering cashing out retirement funds and paying the penalty….trouble is, where do you put the money when it is all going to be considered property of Barrack Obama and the DNC?