Today's Must-Read

I missed this last week but it's a must-read for anyone who followed the presidential campaign. It lays out in detail how the Obama machine grabbed the intitiative and won the election while the GOP watched in stunned amazement.

Hat tip: The News Junkie at Maggies Farm.

Iowahawk--The Idiossey

A must-read by the most creative writer around.

Respecting the Office of President

With less than a week to go before Barack Obama takes office, it's time to mention some things that some may want to hear, some may ignore and some may outright laugh at but must be said anyway.

The inauguration of Obama will be an historic time for this country; a time that many never thought would come. For those men and women who suffered under the oppression of outright racism and bigotry it will be a time to begin the healing process and gain a sense of closure perhaps. We have elected an African-American to the highest office in the world and it was done through democratic means that in some minds may have been shady in some respects but the cleanest democratic system the world has ever known. Remember when the liberal blogosphere was talking about Bush suspending the 2008 election and naming himself President for Life ala Hugo Chavez? They look even more stupid now than they did then.

You may recall that when George W. Bush was elected in 2000, the left of this country went nuts and they swore to make his job as difficult as possible. In concert with the media they made every success a failure and every failure a catastrophe. It became a sport to them and they weren't stopping until the man was destroyed. They never once gave him the benefit of the doubt; even in the horrible days following 9/11. They accused him of planning and carrying out the September 11th events as a precursor to invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and acted as though he watched--voyeur-like--while torture was taking place. In short, they hated the man and disrespected the office he was rightfully elected to.

I don't want to see that happen with us on the right. We are too smart and too moral to allow things like this to occur. The left allowed themselves to be infected with Bush Derangement Syndrome and it ate them up to the point that there was barely anything that could be recognized as human remaining. The allowed the hate to corrode their souls and it's left them a bitter group.

We, on the other hand, know right from wrong and know that regardless of what we think of Obama, he's generally a decent man and not a dumb one at that. He does have the best interest of the US at heart but sometimes his ideology (or advisers) may take his heart to the wrong place. He will take office as a president at war in two nations (although one has essentially been won by his predecessor for all intents and purposes) and facing a dire economic situation. He's looking at major corporations tanking daily and whole industries disappearing overnight. Tough times indeed.

I'm hoping Obama can get this thing fixed as I'm sure Bush would have if he'd had the time. It's good if people are working and making money because that's what is good for the nation and keeps us strong. If Obama gets the credit than so be it. If we capture bin-Laden or Zawahiri a week from Friday, that's fantastic and I'll give Obama his props.

What I'm getting at in my typical long-winded fashion is that as Conservatives and Republicans, we want America to be great. We want our nation to be a beacon and an example for the planet. It really doesn't matter if it is Obama leading us there or Bush. In the near term, the media will credit Obama for every good and Bush for every bad, we know that and will comment on it accordingly. History will judge Bush and I believe that it will vindicate him for a great many things. Look at how history is already relegating Bill Clinton to the dustbin of mediocrity only eight years removed from office when he was hailed as an outgoing saint on inauguration day 2001.

Let's be better than those liberals and Democrats on the left. Sure, I'll continue to be Obama's biggest critic and will slam him when it's rightfully deserved. But I won't play that game of getting into personal attacks on him, his children (as the media and liberals did with Barb and Jenna) and his wife. Let's remain the side of ideas and not the side of hate and misery. We saw what it did to the likes of the Kossacks and the half-brains at Arianna's snooze-fest, we should police ourselves and not let it happen to us. We lost, we accept it and we move on and try to get ourselves viable again.

You will never see me blaming President Obama for the deaths of our soldiers or instantly believe every vile thing written because it would make me exactly like them. I go to their sites and feel like I need to spray my laptop with Lysol. Their collective soul is dead.

Remember, respect the office even if you don't respect the office holder.

News and Notes For Wednesday Night

Not new but a Predator drone exterminates insurgents placing and IED in Iraq.

Al Franken thought he had gotten over. Not so fast, scrub.

This should give us insight into how the Obama administration will view amnesty.

Italian President Silvio Berlusconi has now become one of my worst enemies. Silvio, meet the US 1st Amendment, it represents free speech, not something known in Italia. Remember the late, great and beautiful Oriana Fallaci(pictured at right in 1966)?

The power of Palin puts Chambliss over the top.

He's Bad Enough, Dumb Enough and Doggone It, He Doesn't Have Enough Votes

Stu Smalley is going down:

While a tiny margin separates the candidates in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race, it is wide enough that Democrat Al Franken faces a daunting task in challenging votes to erase Sen. Norm Coleman's lead.

The two sides have disputed thousands of the other's votes, but many of those challenges are regarded by experts as frivolous.

To win his case before the state Canvassing Board, Franken must prevail on more than 6 percent of his challenges of Coleman votes even if Coleman fails to succeed on any of his challenges, a Star Tribune analysis shows.

Don't fret though folks, he's already set about writing his next book entitled "Minnesota Voters are Big Fat Idiots". It should be a big seller in Brainerd.

Thanksgiving Bliss: Franken's Attempt to Steal Election Rejected

Sweet. My heart is pumping immense amounts of piss for Stuart Smalley:

Minnesota's powerful canvassing board ruled 5-0 on a motion NOT to accept rejected absentee ballots in the closely-watched recount between GOP incumbent Norm Coleman and comedian-turned Democratic senatorial candidate Al Franken in a high-profile meeting.

Some Republicans worried Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and canvassing board member was not going to vote for the motion, but he did in the end.

Coleman is currently leading the recount by a narrow margin. This request to the board was considered a last-ditch effort by the Franken campaign to gain more ballots. Roughly 12,000 absentee ballots were rejected in Minnesota.

Franken has been doing everything possible--in concert with George Soros--to make a mockery of our electoral system. Today he was shot down in glorious flames.

Coleman's looking like he will narrowly maintain that seat and the Dems will not have the veto-proof majority they covet.

The Gay SS

Homosexuals are a combined 0-30 in electoral battles to get same-sex marriage legalized. The latest and probably hardest blow...er, most difficult loss to deal with was the passage of Prop. 8 in California. This was it they thought, this was the winner with a high turn out expected and an extremely liberal presidential candidate whom would draw in millions of voters who would support them and vote the measure down.

Unfortunately for them, they lost once again. Now they are turning their wrath on those who they feel wronged them and posting names:

In addition to protests, gay activists have begun publishing lists online exposing individuals and organizations who have donated money in support of Proposition 8. On AntiGayBlacklist.com, individuals who gave money toward Proposition 8 are publicized, with readers urged not to patronize their businesses or services. The list of donors was culled from data on ElectionTrack.com, which follows all contributions of over $1,000 and all contributions of over $100 given before October 17. Dentists, accountants, veterinarians and the like who gave a few thousand dollars to the cause are listed alongside major donors like the Container Supply Co., Inc. of Garden Grove, Calif., which gave $250,000. "Anyone who steps into a political fight aimed at taking away fundamental rights from fellow citizens opens themselves up to criticism," said Wolfson. "The First Amendment gives them the right of freedom of speech and to support political views, but people also have the right to criticize them."

Now just imagine that it was a conservative group doing the same thing, does anyone believe even a little that there wouldn't being a sentence in that piece about incitement to violence or somesuch language? What these gay brownshirts are doing is listing targets and the gay group have already shown that they will attack anyone--old women, blacks, etc.--who had the chutzpah to get in their way. Imagine if, say, a pro 2nd Amendment group did the same thing.

Someone is going to get seriously hurt in this and the media will gloss it over.

Update: Read this and watch this. Instead of calling it a black list, call it a hit list because essentially, they are calling for the all-out assault on those who exercised their freedoms and are setting those people up for revenge.

Update: Note (second item) as well how even though 70% of blacks voted for Prop 8, the NY Times singles out Mormons.

Yes, Obama Is My President

I've been writing about the election just past since 2006 and some posts reference it earlier. I was wrapped up in the daily minutiae more than most and some would say to an insane level. I followed every detail and you can read my thoughts just scanning this blog.

That said, I admit that yes, I am disappointed. I'm disappointed that McCain ran a bad campaign, I'm disappointed that America forgot about Iraq and Afghanistan because things are going well there, I'm disappointed that Americans allowed the media to dictate the stories of the day, I'm disappointed that Sarah Palin was treated like garbage when it would have been different had she been a Democrat, I'm disappointed that the Bush administration strayed from the conservative principles that have made us a center-right country since 1980, I'm disappointed that Hillary supporters have so little self-respect that they still voted for a man who disrespected her immensely and poured salt in every wound and finally, I'm disappointed that Barack Obama won.

But the simple fact is that Obama did win and did so in convincing fashion (not a mandate but I'll cover that later). He ran a solid campaign and stuck to the points he wanted to make. Yes, he actually espoused many conservative views and yes, he pandered but he was steady and smooth. So, as the next President, he will be my president. I'm not about to play this game that liberals did when George Bush won; running around saying "he's not my President" or some other such rubbish. No, I'm a vet and a vet is trained to follow the orders of the Commander in Chief. The new CinC will be Obama. I don't have to be happy and I will criticize every single policy decision he makes but he's still the President-elect of the US and as such deserves my respect.

The country sought a new direction after the last eight years, it happens often as it did most recently in 2000. The economic collapse was a big deal as was, ironically, the surge that was championed by McCain and panned by Obama but which actually was so successful, it took the war issue off the table. People are looking for a scapegoat and some have focused on Palin but she was not to blame. John McCain is a good and honorable man and deserves the respect and gratitude of every American but he was a horrible candidate. He didn't energize anyone (Palin sure as hell did, though) and juxtaposed with Obama looked old, sounded stale and lacked the pizazz of the younger, more vibrant Democrat.

So, to sum up, I accept the fact that Obama is the next President and I congratulate him and his supporters for the long hard campaign they won. It was a grassroots effort that energized people (some so much they contributed daily and voted three times, but I digress) from all walks of life. Dare I say it was Reaganesque? I'm not going to be like the libs were over the last eight years where they hoped for bad things to happen, wanted the economy to tank, some even hoped we would be attacked again or were joyful when the death count in Iraq reached two, three and four thousand. Those people are scumbags and beneath contempt and were the very worst of what America is. I'm not them, I want good things for this, the greatest nation God has ever given man. I want low unemployment and low taxes so people can live their lives with a little spending cash and a chance at a decent retirement. I want a secure nation where we worry about what college our kids will get into and not where some Islamo-fascist is going to target next. I want a nation of free markets and freer people. I want the Dow to pass 20,000 and the median income to approach $70,000 per annum. In essence, I want America to thrive and that surpasses any and all partisanship.

Summing Up This Election

I couldn't have said it better myself, dude:



The CNN reporter looked a bit uncomfortable about interviewing that guy. The guy just admitted a felony but I have to get the hell out of here. Nice.

President Elect Obama

Man, that hurt to write those words.

Congrats to Obama who ran a steady campaign. Here's to hoping his supporters act like adults but I doubt it.

My assumption is that people wanted change and boy, they're gonna get it. Some blame Palin but I'm not in that camp, McCain ran a horrid campaign and Palin kept him afloat.

More tomorrow as I'm going to pound about twenty beers right about now.

Personally, I'm in the environmental business so I look to make money off of Obama's new policies.I'm always a capitalist and good capitalists make money regardless of the Prez.

GOP Not Sunk Yet in Senate

Saxby Chambliss wins in Georgia. Couple that with McConnell's win and we have the veto option still available unless the Dems can run the table. A doubtful outcome.

Game Over--Obama Wins

Fox has now called PA for Obama. I still think it's too early (as does CNN) but going on the supposition Fox is correct:

This is armageddon for the GOP.

There's no conceivable way I can see that McCain pulls it out.

Get ready for four years of hell...or at least two because you know Nancy Pelosi will screw it up and the GOP will gain in 2010.

Time to regroup Conservatives, time to go back to the principles that Reagan espoused and Bush tossed out. Small government is on life support and America goes left.

I guess I'll have a great deal to write about in the next couple of years.

NBC Calls Pennsylvania for Obama (ABC Too)

I think way too early. No results in as yet so based purely on exit polls. Stick around for this one. If McCain loses PA, drink three or ten shots and go to bed. Hopefully you can sleep well knowing what we have to look forward to in the next four years.

Some good news, Fox called Mitch mcConnell the winner.

Bad news, Liddy Dole lost her seat. Two GOP losses.

Update: ABC now calls PA for Obama. If that's true, game over. Again, exit poll data only and Fox is not calling it as yet.

Evening Election Update

Some food for thought:

Not only is the Dow up nearly 300 points, but Pfizer and Merck are up strongly. Both stocks are supposed to suffer from Obamacare. Is the market rallying on the certainty of an Obama win or on hopes of a McCain upset? Me: I just don't see how the certainty of higher taxes, more regulation and more unionization helps stocks. Plus, stocks tend do poorly under unified government.

More from James here.

Fox called Vermont for Obama, Kentucky for McCain and all the others too close to call.

Megyn Kelly is excellent with election results.

"Black Panthers" Intimidating Voters In Philly

I touched on this before but this shows that it is really happening. Not sure if they are really Black Panthers but regardless, they are intimidating voters:



I'm guessing they're not voting McCain/Palin.

H/T: Hot Air where the updates are coming fast and furious.

Also, more here at Election Journal where they are tracking all cases of suspected voter fraud from around the nation. They've got more than you can count.

Update: Greg Sargent at TPM says an Obama worker denies they were intimidating anyone. He has not mentioned or posted the video above, which is everywhere now. Anyone with even an iota of pride would admit they were wrong and post the video but it's election day and no one in moonbat land has any pride.

Obama's Ego Trip

Tonight at an expected Obama victory party, no one with star power greater than The One should attend:

Reportedly, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Sean ''Diddy'' Combs, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Ben Affleck are among those advised to skip the Chicago festivities and focus on attending the expected Obama inauguration in January.

''There really only needs to be one star in Grant Park, and that's Barack,'' said the source, a high-profile elected official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, since he's not authorized to speak for the campaign on this issue.

We've heard he was arrogant but jeez, the people who helped get to where he is will be dissed even before he takes office. A new era in solipsism is taking beginning folks.

No one shall broach The Messiah on the night he proves that he is just as good as he always said he was. And oh yeah, all you people who cling to religion best stay out as well.

Regardless of Who Wins, Race Relations Will Suffer

Here we are on the final day of a race that literally began on January 21, 2005. Back then, it looked as though it was Hillary's race to lose with her competition being perhaps John Edwards or Al Gore.

As the race started heating up, before the Iowa Caucuses, we saw the advent of a new campaign strategy, one which had never been used and the playbook showed no defense against it: the Race Card. Many of us had toughened our skin for the expected incoming volley of "sexism!" hurled our way by the Hillary acolytes.We expected to be portrayed as the biggest misogynist's since Dabney Coleman in the movie 9 to 5.

Then something interesting happened, Obama started playing the race card against Hillary, at first subtly and always through proxies, but later in a more overt fashion. Hillary soon found out that the sexism card was a king but the racism card was an ace. They accused Bill Clinton of racism and then leveled their attacks at the rest of the campaign. Hill's campaign withered under the barrage and Hillary was cast aside like an old pair of sneakers. Not even a VP nod.

Then came the general election and the race card was not held in check for a crucial moment but was used daily against McCain. Question Obama about Rev. Wright? You were racist. Question him about Tony Rezko? You were a racist. William Ayers, Father Pflegel, ACORN? Racist, racist, racist! Those Obama associates you brought up concerns about need not be black, oh no, just the fact that you would question the ascension of The One was enough to brand you with the new scarlet letter--a huge "R". The racial dynamic so skillfully played by Obama to gain the votes and the way he played on our past racial history was brilliantly devious.

Now here we are on the cusp of electing the first black man as President. His supporters pledge that we will be unified because we have overcome our prejudices to vote him in. They fail to see that there is one half of this great nation that will not support Obama. They are sick of being called racist because they didn't agree with the policies of the man. The fact that they supported McCain had absolutely nothing to do with race didn't matter, the race card was a means to an end for the Obama people and they used it like a hammer.

We've seen several pieces written about what would happen if McCain were to win but we've seen none about the harm in an Obama win. The media has bought into the unity garbage when in reality we will be more partisan than ever before. I for one don't appreciate being labeled racist for every criticism and then be expected to exult when Obama wins, it just doesn't work that way. I'll wear that "R" with pride because I know I'm not racist and the only things I'm prejudiced against are horrible policies that will harm this nation. So, I guess you can say I am prejudiced against Obama in a way.

If Obama wins tonight, the media will undoubtedly follow the meme that we are all one again and America's standing in the world will be greater. They will fall in line and we'll see stories about seas stabilizing and Red Sox and Yankee fans in a new harmony, hugging and singing together. But the media, in their rush to portray the world as cured, will miss the big story: That half this country will not support Barack Obama regardless of what the Spanish, Venezuelans or Gazans say. We were maligned as bigots and worse for no other reason than political expediency.

Obama, by playing the race card, has set back race relations in this country by twenty years. By screaming racism constantly, he cheapened the definition and thereby lessened the impact when true racism raises its ugly head. Liberals have always said that we need to have a discussion about race in America and indeed, we just had it. It was one side screaming that the other was bigoted and the other cringing every time it was said to them. It was America getting a peak into the churches of hate and being horrified that a preacher would scream "God damn America!" or "AmeriKKKa!" from the pulpit. It's 95% of African-Americans voting for Obama and the media saying nothing whereby if 95% of whites were to do so for McCain they would be screaming that whites are racist.

If McCain wins, there will be chaos for certain. The calls of racism from within and without this country will be staggering. For certain, we will face the greatest racial divide since the 1940's with African-Americans opting out of the voting process for a decade.

Alas, regardless of the outcome,we will be more polarized after tonight than we will be unified and we have only Barack Obama and the media to blame for that. Not only polarized left vs. right but polarized by race, a sad period I believed was tossed in the dust bin of history.

Chris Myers for Congress

In what is shaping up as a dogfight, Chris Myers is battling John Adler for the seat being vacated by Rep. Jim Saxton.

This is an important one, folks. An Obama win and an increase in seats in the House means we need reliable conservatives who will act as a a bulwark against the liberal legislation Speaker Pelosi will try to ram through. This isn't a time for soft conservatism but for hard-nosed fighters who will stand up to Pelosi, Hoyer, Emanuel and Frank. Myers is that guy and a fellow decorated Navy vet to boot who served his country during the first Iraq War.

A perfect day is a Myers win, a Murtha loss and and a McCain win. Let's hope for all but at least two out of three.

Alright, here's the particulars:

Myers is up by a little over 1%; within the margin of error and a strong Obama turnout in Cherry Hill could spell disaster. Get out and vote Myers (I would say early and often but the Dems seem to have that locked up).

Background on the race here.

Latest on the candidates here.

Myers' site is here.

Voter Fraud Update

In Philly...

In Florida...

In Virginia against our military men and women...

The networks in a rerun of Florida 2000...

In all cases, it's the Dems who are involved.

Update: In what is not a fraudulent occurrence but should be as the man should be a felon; unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers voted. Since neither Pol Pot, Stalin or Castro were on the ballot, I'm guessing he went with Obama.

Update: The Catholic Church through ACORN...

Update: In Minnesota (ACORN just keeps popping up)...

Update: And Wisconsin...

Election Eve News

Michael Barone on what to expect election night from the first poll closing to last.

The latest battleground polls. McCain leads in FLA and NC. They are tied in OH and MO and Obama leads in VA and CO. No PA numbers. Definitely trending McCain. Cause for hope or just getting our hopes up to be crushed?

The amount of people who are very confident that votes will be counted correctly is roughly the same amount who are very confident in Congress.

Via Ace, Mark Katherine Ham assembled the chameleon-like changes of Obama:



Vet calls Murtha a "fat little bastard". I've called him worse on a good day such as Abscammer, Pelosi lapdog...More anti-Murtha fun here. I viscerally hate the dude for what he did to those Haditha Marines.