Thank you for being mature, I fear I'll need the example tomorrow, my heart's not there yet. And thank you for the blog, it's a joy.

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Democracy isnt about getting your way, its about being asked. We got asked and a majority of people in the country thought that something else would be better.

Let us all go forth together.

My problem is I've lived through the Carter years and I believe Obama will be Carter II. Plus there hasn't been a good Democratic President since Truman.

Sorry people; I hope I'm wrong, but history is a track record.

1) I was born in 1972. Obama's skin colour means nothing to me, positive or negative. I fail to see why it makes a difference and I fail to see why I should care that the first Black man was voted President. See, his skin colour not mattering, means I can't get excited about it either. Sorry, I am post-racial.
Of course, the one party that has worked as hard as possible in my lifetime to make sure race matters above all else, is the party that fought a war to keep people like Obama slaves.

2) While it doesn't matter given the lop-sided win, he (and his supporters or sock-puppets) still committed voter fraud in OH and PA. That doesn't change.
While I am not about to suffer Obama Derangement Syndrome, I still view Leftism as bad people.
As Evan Sayet says, you have dinner with someone. He says he hates his wife. You don't believe that. He has been married to her for 25 years; he loves their kids; he just says that.
And then, from the window, you see his wife being mugged and beaten. You say "Come on lets help your wife". And he says "mmmm, No, I hate my wife."
And you realize, he really does hate his wife.
That was the Left on 911.
I went from thinking Leftists are stupid, to Leftists are really bad people, who really do hate Western Civilisation.

Thank you, Frank. A good night's sleep worked wonders on my emotions and rational thought is restored. Good day.

Yes Paul, I am thinking that, too. But don't forget what Carter inspired in America: Eight Years of Ronald Reagan, my hero. I was too young to vote for Reagan and I think my vote for McCain was my first chance to vote for a great American leader and not simply voting against someone (and that's not an insult to W at all, just saying) and I'm glad to have gotten to do that in my life. And that's my first silver lining.

EvilDave, I'm same as you and we brought up our little boy to be truly post racial, but when he went to public school and got the African American awareness talks during MLK week he freaked out that "some white people wanted to shoot his best brown friend who had to ride the back of the school bus". It is frustrating; but I view this as the culmination of the civil rights movement, henceforth claims that one group is held back by whites will be glaringly hollow and the dishonest activists and trouble stirrers will be out of work. That's my second silver lining.

Well, we survived 4 years of Carter and 8 years of Clinton. Lets see what shape this country is in 4 years, and for Bobby Jindal to step up to the plate.

Frank, i myself are like Barack, a hapa. half minority and half caucasian.

in politics, like football, and in steak eating, if it's men, women, blacks, or whites playing the game, it's still football. it's still politics. it's still eating a steak.

with Rahm Emmanual running the show for longer than most people have been aware, and is now about to be THE key planner/player in the Obama admin, all i can say is, get out the steak knives. the game of compromise has just gotten a little tougher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

> My problem is I've lived through the Carter years and I believe Obama will be Carter II. Plus there hasn't been a good Democratic President since Truman. Sorry people; I hope I'm wrong, but history is a track record.

I'm more pessimistic than you, Paul. I think Obama is going to make Carter positively shine as a beacon of comparably competent presidency.

"See? You thought Carter was bad... Watch THIS!"

Carter, at least, inherited a defacto bad situation, and had bad advisors, and thus was limited. At the least, he did manage the Camp David accords, and though they accomplished little in the long run, at least showed that some progress was possible.

Obama has got a moderate recession coming on (which the media, you'll no doubt find, is happy to blame on the previous president. Contrast to the recession in 2001, which was "clearly all Bush's fault"), but he will greatly worsen it, especially if the nutjob Dems get their way.

I expect double-digit unemployment again, instabilities around Russia, Iran, Pakistan, & Venezuela. Turmoil in Iraq, Israel, and Afghanistan. The economy will tank and get worse, seeing a Dow of under 6, perhaps under 5. Inflation, probably as bad as in the 1970s (but not right away -- 3+ years from now).

Expect widespread brownouts within 3 years, and household electric and heating bills to be not less than double and probably triple or quadruple what they are within 4 years. Gas? I'll see 6 bucks a gallon, unless the world DOES follow us into a collapsing spiral into fullscale depression.

You ARE going to appreciate Carter by the time Obama is done.

> I went from thinking Leftists are stupid, to Leftists are really bad people, who really do hate Western Civilisation.

Dave, it started as a result of WWI:
What we lost in the Great War.

The left looked at how badly Western Civ screwed up in WWI, and decided then and their to turn on it. They've been a cancer at the heart ever since.

Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

> Well, we survived 4 years of Carter and 8 years of Clinton. Lets see what shape this country is in 4 years, and for Bobby Jindal to step up to the plate.

LOL, I suspect Palin by then to be a lot more seasoned and she IS a Reagan Republican. As the Veep, she's not tarred by this loss the way McCain is, plus a casual analysis will show that she's the only reason McCain stood a chance. And next time, she'll be fully prepared to run.

That's assuming we don't have martial law declared by Obama and elections suspended in the face of terrorist attacks, giving Americans the chance to wave a "purple finger".

"The economy will tank and get worse, seeing a Dow of under 6, perhaps under 5. Inflation, probably as bad as in the 1970s (but not right away -- 3+ years from now)."

Here's an interesting paper on the upcoming Global Depression:

http://www.clusterstock.com/2008/10/more-bearish-than-roubini

I WISH HIM ALL THE LUCK IN THE WORLD. HE WILL NEED IT.AND SO WILL WE.GOD BLESS AMERICA.

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