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America could have done better!
Obama cannot control her - and she will represent herself - NOT the president, NOT the US, but herself.
Shoving Hilary to the world is NOT the Obama "change" the world deserved.
Moderates, huh? I'm beginning to wonder who won the election--the Democrats or the Republicans. So far, it looks like the Repulicans.
Oh well, maybe we can take heart. Maybe he won't be quite as bad as we all feared.
Govenor Huckabee won big in Iowa. Coming into South Carolina, the conservative vote was split between Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee. That split enabled John McCain to win SC.
Both Florida and Michigan failed to register on time for the DNC's deadline. Therefore, Democrats who would have voted in those primaries instead voted in open Republican primaries. That's how McCain won Florida and Romney won Michigen. Republicans voted for Huckabee, and Democrats continued to vote for McCain and Romney in open primaries.
Although McCain tried to whooo the base with Palin, his determination to silence her and then run his campaign to the left of Obama angered many conservatives who then refused to vote - period. After his defeat, McCain and Leiberman ran back to Harry Reid.
Bottem line: let's keep Republican Primaries closed to only Republicans.
I'm sure it's hard to deal with having to run against someone who is better looking, richer, smarter and has a "perfect" family. Huckabee behaved in a way that was small and nasty. I lost a lot of respect for him and it's going to take a lot to get it back.
Remember, Herr Propaganda Mister Limbaugh telling his conservatives followers to march lockstep to the polls to vote in democratic primaries for Clinton? This was "Operation Chaos," to subvert the American electoral process.
"Limbaugh conspiratorially calls the tactic, �Operation Chaos.�
He began urging his listeners to vote for Clinton in the run-up to the March 4 nominating contests in Texas and Ohio after it was apparent John McCain would easily secure the Republican nomination. Limbaugh explained to fellow conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham on Fox News on March 29, �I want our party to win. I want the Democrats to lose. They're in the midst of tearing themselves apart right now. It is fascinating to watch, and it's all going to stop if Hillary loses.�
Weeks before the swearing in of Obama, we can see the fruits of Limbaugh's logic. There are his listeners, who have been being duped, are now being duped and will keep on being doped. Life deduced to being one of Limbaugh's fools.
"Inmate A to M will change their underwear with inmates N to Z."
Welcome to the Obama-nation where change is whatever we want it to mean. Same-o-same-o fits his bill. Gullible Obamaites let his vacuous rhetoric be filled in with whatever delusional images they had in their wee bitty minds and said that was what Obama believed in. He's a painted sepulcher.
Reality bites and it will bite Obamaites hard when, two years from now 1) the economy is still in recession and hearing "it's Bush's fault" have wearied even the Bush haters, 2) 125,000 troops are still in Iraq because... they have to be! 3) Another terrorist strike somewhere is causing an upheaval and we're rattling our swords and talking tough about getting them. 4) Bin Laden is still being protected by the Pakis.
Now who to blame...
Welcome to the United Socialist States of North America.
I'd like to see another national poll showing the "no confidence in his decisions and he hasn't taken office yet." Boy what fun the next 4 very long years have in store for us.
Thank you, Sarah Palin and Saxby Chambliss. This will be a sweet victory. Ha ha, B. Hussein Obama. Before the end of the night, this Running Ute will catch a case of Bulldog fever!
You use big words to try and persuade people into thinking that you are intelligent and therefore you must know what you are talking about.
People that use Big Words to push their agenda look like idiots, you are the same as the fakes that sit in coffee shops with their MacBooks and look like a clone.
The simple fact that you think we "have to be in Iraq", shows that you really do not understand global politics and you should stick with your mass labling of Obamaites.
When you get an actual education please come talk to me, until then, realize that anyone can pick up a thesaurus and try to look intelligent.
It is not the quality of words coming out of ones mouth that defines intelligence, it is the quality of ideas.
The truth is the Obama Administration is shaping up to be a hybrid third term for both the Clinton and Bush administrations. The "business as usual" crowd that the President-elect campaigned against are the very people he is choosing to run his administration.
Not that there's anything wrong with that; contrary to the myths the Left and the Media have been peddling the economy isn't the worst it has been since the Great Depression, the Iraq war hasn't been a disaster, and many of the policies of Presidents Bush and Clinton have been beneficial to both America and the rest of the world.
Thankfully, President Obama is wise enough to recognize that and govern accordingly. Unfortunately, many of his supporters still cling to their Leftist dogmas.
So, they take a couple of steps "out of line" and they can be replaced immediately -- no questions asked.
They bring their ideas to the table, many of which will be contrary to the President's, and he makes the decisions. The cabinet members then implement those decisions.
Should be interesting, and it could work out.
I can't see how it could be much worse than what we've had lately and I'm willing to give it a try.
Lincoln did a similar thing, BTW.
I am NOT making any sort of comparison between the two men, only between their choices of cabinet members and the speed with which the choices were made.
Good luck to all of them -- we're going to need it!
"and STOP USING THE "LDS" WORD for personal gain. this is not about religion!!!
Stop being one of those many jack mormons or sunday mormons ok! Im one on those whor really go to church to listen and DO things for a better world!!! sop please if you are not going to make a positive comment...be quiet!"
WRONG! The Republican party being held by religiously fanatic right wing-nuts, and the Bush/Chenney factor ARE about religion!
The religious right got their day with this country and through Bush/Chenney/Republican majority run this country on a purely 'theocratic' ideology. Banning stem cell research, loading the Supreme court with theocratic ideologues, invading Iraq because God said to do so, faith based programs getting funding while broad-serving secular social programs were axed, gutting public education in favor of religiously motivated private education interests, and the list goes on and on...
That said, may I now boldly say, I am an active Mormon and very proud of my 'left of center' view of politics, which incidentally is exactly where Jesus stood in his own politics with the Romans and jews, exemplified in his actions!
And never, will I vote for Huckabee or Palin. Both have the same voters. Bigots.
There goes the neighborhood...
SCROLL UP!.
This year, more than ever, has given us an election based on popularity and nothing more.
I am sure that the military families who lost loved ones and the tens of thousands that returned from the Middle East that were injured and maimed will find comfort in those words.
I say good riddance to our current president.
He has his own definition of the word... and has had all through the campaigns. It goes something like: Change the White House and control of the US government from whites to blacks.
Ted Stevens, Mark Foley, Larry Craig....
I didn't know those guys were democrats.
If you'll check, you'll find it was the US Congress who got us into the Iraq War. Look up and read the Resolution that august body passed authorizing the war for proof. The American dead and wounded can put the blame where it belongs... not on Bush but on the governing body responsible for getting us into wars.
PS: Our new head of the State Department voted for the Iraq War Resolution. As did B. Hussein Osama's illustrious vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.
I think you have boldly gone where no man has gone before.
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