But Yahoo is trying to tell me the world love us again already:

Obama victory sparks cheers around the globe

Barack Obama's election as America's first black president unleashed a renewed love for the United States after years of dwindling goodwil

I guess that love is only skin deep.

It's funny. This is exactly one of the reasons I don't like the Democrats myself.

The World Islamic Crisis (let us call it that) is far from over.

Mr. Obama cannot vote present anymore, he will have to deal with the crazies, and there are a lot of them.

May he get our prayers.

This is a surprise to me.

Gosh, what a surprise.

/

With the added bonus that Obama is an apostate -- now still more reason to hate the US! Sigh.

Dancing in the streets, passing out of candy, launching a missile barrage at Israel.

/Just another day in the Middle east.

radicals have taken over the US and we are at war with them

re: #3 Ojoe

The World Islamic Crisis (let us call it that) is far from over.

Mr. Obama cannot vote present anymore, he will have to deal with the crazies, and there are a lot of them.

May he get our prayers.

I agree.

Shocka, Shocka. Islamists still hate the U.S. All that Hope and Change for nothing.

re: #1 Sharmuta

I was going to say the same. If he is not happy he must be the only one.

/

Who are we at war with today? Eastasia or Eurasia?

I hope the Jihadi's are right about Obama.

Did I just say that?

Woah! So under Clinton 12,000,000,000 Iraqis died?

/

re: #12 The Other Les

the reds

I'm somehow feeling a bit better, now that Sheik Qaradawi hasn't got his wish fulfilled: slow death by snake poison, and the perceived need for jihad dwindling isn't bad at all.

I grow tired and impatient with the Obama regime (paraphrase of WFB).

Minnesota voted to add a constitutional amendment to increase the sales tax permanently to fund the "arts" and the "outdoors", whatever that means.

I am going to calculate an estimate of what that will cost me each year and am reducing my United Way donation by that amount. That's not the change I can believe in, but if the gov't is taking more from me, what's a guy to do?

The Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it - and therein lies the danger.

What a strange 24 hours it's been. I never thought I'd live to agree with an imam.

re: #15 winston06

the reds

Yes. But which reds?

Speaking of reactions, where's Osama's reaction? After all, he was supposed to offer up his esteemed opinion and put his rubber stamp on things (or at least provide a disembodied voiceover).

I can't imagine him to be disappointed with the outcome since it gives his thugs new hope for success in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.

re: #1 Sharmuta

But Yahoo is trying to tell me the world love us again already:

Obama victory sparks cheers around the globe

I guess that love is only skin deep.

Yep - skin-deep gets it in one!

The dude said “The Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it " Man is he on it or what!?

re: #2 dsrtegl

It's funny. This is exactly one of the reasons I don't like the Democrats myself.

You and me both, brother.

Another hundred years? Buddy, we want to rule for 10,000 years or the next ice age, whichever comes first.

Hope! Change!

Right! I keep forgetting!

The next 6 months are going to be mighty interesting.

Not much any of us can do now but watch and wait.....and hold on tight.

re: #1 Sharmuta

Stunned none of you have said "RACIST!" yet. ;)

Oh, and only a matter of a year or two before we withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, so the love will just grow and grow.

re: #25 J.D.

Right! I keep forgetting!

Don't forget the waffles! Everybody love waffles!

This is because I prefer the obvious enemy who does not hypocritically [conceal] his hostility toward you... to the enemy who wears a mask [of friendliness].”

My liberal Canadian wife was ecstatic this morning, as were my Canadian in-laws. They called and e-mailed us from Canada with tearful congratulations. God, this is hard to take. This is worse than when my Buffalo Bills lost their fourth consecutive Super Bowl.

re: #1 Sharmuta

But Yahoo is trying to tell me the world love us again already:

Obama victory sparks cheers around the globe

I guess that love is only skin deep.

re: #27 Sharmuta

Stunned none of you have said "RACIST!" yet. ;)

Thats unneccessary now ...

WTF? When did Democrat Pres. Bill Clinton lay "siege" to Iraq?

Was I sleeping during that siege?

I would like to see Obama nominate McCain Sec. of Defense,

And Palin, Sec. of Health and Human Services.

Any other suggestions?

Let us assume he will be a brilliant leader, what would he do, in the real world, now?

re: #30 MandyManners

"and the mask that the monsters wear as they feed upon their prey." - Portishead

I would bet anything, that a bunch of Jihad leaders in a room together would agree that Obama is good for them.
I am convinced that he is their guy, in spite what this guy says

re: #27 Sharmuta

Stunned none of you have said "RACIST!" yet. ;)

This is the post racial era remember? KUMBAYA la la

re: #31 Pyrocles

My liberal Canadian wife was ecstatic this morning, as were my Canadian in-laws. They called and e-mailed us from Canada with tearful congratulations. God, this is hard to take. This is worse than when my Buffalo Bills lost their fourth consecutive Super Bowl.

Want the name of a good divorce attorney?

*rad*

re: #33 Intrepid

WTF? When did Democrat Pres. Bill Clinton lay "siege" to Iraq?

Was I sleeping during that siege?

No-fly zone.

re: #33 Intrepid

WTF? When did Democrat Pres. Bill Clinton lay "siege" to Iraq?

Was I sleeping during that siege?

It's called the no-fly zones. Or maybe he's referring to Operation Desert Fox.

While I vehemently disagree with Mr. Obama on a great number of issues, I do not think he is evil, or that he wants to harm the country (in his view).

What I do believe is that he is wrong on a great number of things. I will support him when he is right, I will oppose him when he is wrong.

In 4 years when his supporters find out that he is not Christ incarnate and that he isn't going to pay their mortgages or put gas in their tanks, maybe the Republicans will have found a fresh candidate with a clear vision and message.

The upside is that now the Democrats have control, for better or worse. They will be judged harshly if they do not deliver on all of their promises (which they can't... no one can), and we will see a big swing at mid-term and in '12.

Maybe Sarah will have matured enough to be our fresh face. Maybe it will be someone else.

re: #35 bellamags

"and the mask that the monsters wear as they feed upon their prey." - Portishead

The new Democratic Party.

re: #31 Pyrocles

Only one way I could handle a relationship like that. But to tell you what that requires isn't fit for typing here...

/

Islam, like Al Gore, has no controlling legal authority.
The leaders in Islam can and do say anything and everything.
You can cherry pick from among their words to make just about any case you wish.
And, when one or some act, you can always find someone in authority had weighed in on it one way AND the other.

The greater Middle East will be in flames within a year.

The Islamists in pakistan are not going to wait to figure out whether Obama was serious about his military intervention talk... they will take a "use it or lose it" attitude towards their prized nuke collection.

The factions in Iraq will begin jockeying for power and undoing much of what the surge accomplished... they don't think Obama will have the stomach to interfere in their internal and eternal disputes.

Domestic Islamists will begin demanding a complete withdrawal of American forces from the Middle East and a total abandonment of Israel... and if its not forthcoming, terror attacks will occur over here.

/peace thru weakness and dithering!

re: #22 Dave_Da_Kid

The dude said “The Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it " Man is he on it or what!?

True. What they do to America and Americans is akin to slowly boiling a frog to death in a pan of water. They slowly chip away at our rights and freedoms and we don't notice the water has gone critical.

re: #41 dsrtegl

Of course he's evil. He plans to banrkupt the coal industry, he will take away our guns, he will tax the shit out of his--he will rob us of the fruits of our labor.

Hehe, it's tough, man...tough.

re: #43 Oh no...Sand People!

Only one way I could handle a relationship like that. But to tell you what that requires isn't fit for typing here...

/

According to news reports Obama has Appointed Rahm Emanuel Chief of Staff. First time I've heard of him. According to wikipedia he's the son of Israelis and his father was in Irgun.

re: #39 MandyManners

No-fly zone.

Did we shoot down that many planes? Egads!

Iraq will resemble Somalia in a few short years. 4,000+ of our boys have now died for nothing.

One of my young friends (20 yrs) jokingly asked me if I was moving to Alaska now. I don't think she realizes Alaska is part of the USA. Oh the humanity.

yes yes, WE all know that the great Stan is the great Stan and there's no getting around it.

Btw - once he's in the White House, he'll learn pretty quickly that rethoric won't cut it - not when the CIA shows him where the next strike in the ME is expected.

And Washington being like a sieve - I'm sure we won't have to wait long for nice little leaks appearing in the papers ...

Iran welcomes Obama victory, warns US forces

'Obama's election as the US president shows the American people's demand for essential changes in the country's domestic and foreign policies,' Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA, while urging the new administration 'to distance itself from the wrong approaches of current politicians.'

As the first reaction by an Iranian official earlier on Wednesday, Gholam-Ali Hadad-Adel - senior advisor to Iran's supreme leader - said the victory of the slogan of 'change' is the admission of the American people to the failure of Bush's policies.

'The next US president should abandon the course taken by President Bush and the American people have to change their policies in order to get rid of the quagmire that he created for them,' former parliament speaker Hadad-Adel was quoted as saying by Iranian media.

The reactions to the US elections came after a harshly worded statement issued earlier this morning by Iran's military, warning American forces in Iraq that it would strongly respond to any violation of Iranian airspace.

And so it starts.

/your world atlas will soon be obsolete

re: #33 Intrepid

WTF? When did Democrat Pres. Bill Clinton lay "siege" to Iraq?

Was I sleeping during that siege?

Southern and Northern Watch! Are you kidding? You forgot already? I had friends who deployed as some of the first "expeditionary" units and developed the how-to manual for that... which has turned into pretty much our main way of doing stuff now.

...wait , when did Clinton Kill Iraqis ? What during the no-fly zone period? Am I missing a war here somewhere? I do like how these scumbags waited a good 12-14 hours before MF'ing the president-elect that shows they gave him a chance to surrender at least. Now according to islamofascist war arent they supposed to present their declaration of war IN WRITING or something? Maybe that will show up around the time our troops absentee ballots find their way into the US and straight into the dumpster.

re: #50 Intrepid

Did we shoot down that many planes? Egads!

No but, we killed sick Iraqi babies according to that dead bastard, Saddam Hussein.

Alaska is looking better and better to this old huntress/fisherwoman.

well given the enemy of my enemy is my friend. My friend BHO? eeewwwwww.

Btw - once he's in the White House, he'll learn pretty quickly that rethoric won't cut it - not when the CIA shows him where the next strike in the ME is expected.

Obama will say "what the f*ck?! Turns our Bush was right all along?"

re: #51 Lizard by the Bay

Iraq will resemble Somalia in a few short years. 4,000+ of our boys have now died for nothing.

I think they, their families, and many Americans (like me) would disagree with that statement. None of them have died for nothing.

re: #49 amir

Means nothing. He is as liberal as they come.

I think he'll learn quickly that the world isn't all rainbows and butterflies. I hope he's a fast learner.

re: #54 yma o hyd

Btw - once he's in the White House, he'll learn pretty quickly that rethoric won't cut it - not when the CIA shows him where the next strike in the ME is expected.

And Washington being like a sieve - I'm sure we won't have to wait long for nice little leaks appearing in the papers ...

The great conceit of "progressives" is that they are as universally loved as they believe "reactionaries" are universally hated by all "right-thinking people" (defined as "anyone the progressives define as 'oppressed' or 'the good guys' based on hating the same people the progressives do').

Where the trouble starts is with the progressives' inability to grasp the concept that our enemies abroad regard the United States as a whole, and Americans in toto regardless of politics, as "the Enemy."

When jihadists speak of "the near enemy" they mean Israel. When they refer to "the far enemy" they mean anyone and anything marked "U.S.A." and they consider politics, religion and/or ethnicity irrelevant. To them, we are "The Great Satan", regardless of who's in charge.

The Exalted One and his acolytes are about to find out the hard way that their entire worldview is built on a series of false assumptions. It will be interesting to see if they have the intellectual honesty to acknowledge this fact when the inevitable happens- and reality hits them right in the chops.

cheers

eon

re: #49 amir

According to news reports Obama has Appointed Rahm Emanuel Chief of Staff. First time I've heard of him. According to wikipedia he's the son of Israelis and his father was in Irgun.

He's a Clintonista and a thug. Obama is already setting the tone for his administration and it's going to be a mean one.

What I've been saying. They're missing Bush, with his white skin, his inarticulacy and his almost universal unpopularity already. With McCain, it would have been easy for them to continue to muddy the issues of the war on terror with smears of 'racist!' and 'warmonger!'etc and they could have counted on the support of the moonbats on that, as they did with Bush. Obama is potentially a far more awkward proposition for them.

lmao, better listen to Islamists when they are being honest, Mr. President elect.

re: #54 yma o hyd

Btw - once he's in the White House, he'll learn pretty quickly that rethoric won't cut it - not when the CIA shows him where the next strike in the ME is expected.

And Washington being like a sieve - I'm sure we won't have to wait long for nice little leaks appearing in the papers ...

We had our rude awakening last night and this morning. Obama will have his when he gets his first Daily Threat Assessment.

re: #49 amir

According to news reports Obama has Appointed Rahm Emanuel Chief of Staff. First time I've heard of him. According to wikipedia he's the son of Israelis and his father was in Irgun.

Does HAMAS realise this?
And do the Greeks know this? They were saying yesterday that with B0 in the White House, the evil Joooos won't have much to say now in American politics ...

I know a young man who graduated from the Naval Academy. He just finished basic flight school and is about to start Helo training. He is afraid his career in the Navy is over before it is started. So am I.

“The Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it - and therein lies the danger. They are like a snake whose touch is not felt until its poison enters your body."

+1

re: #49 amir

Read his wikipedia entry - he's neck deep in the Chicago group, including an "activist" American Jewish mother. They think they're helping people... and their perceived ends justify the questionable means...

re: #47 MandyManners

Of course he's evil. He plans to banrkupt the coal industry, he will take away our guns, he will tax the shit out of his--he will rob us of the fruits of our labor.

Roy? You just blew the sh*t out of our fruits.

re: #56 Sunlight

Southern and Northern Watch! Are you kidding? You forgot already? I had friends who deployed as some of the first "expeditionary" units and developed the how-to manual for that... which has turned into pretty much our main way of doing stuff now.

I was out of the country for the whole decade, mostly, and got only scant American news.

re: #49 amir

Oh yes, the Obama loves to surround himself with court Jews.

Btw - once he's in the White House, he'll learn pretty quickly that rethoric won't cut it - not when the CIA shows him where the next strike in the ME is expected.

You could argue that the left was right about one thing...Clinton's seige of Iraq was horrible on the Iraqi population. That shows that you need to win a war, not go half way. Yes, I know that wasn't an option in 1991 with the agreements we had, but just pointing out...

re: #47 MandyManners

Of course he's evil. He plans to banrkupt the coal industry, he will take away our guns, he will tax the shit out of his--he will rob us of the fruits of our labor.

I'm a BIG gun owner, and an NRA life member, I pay WAY too many taxes. I'm with ya, but what I was getting at is that he is well-intentioned, however misguided.

Here's the silver lining: We are judged on results, not intentions. He will not get good results, which bodes well for us in '12. I do not wish failure upon him, for if I did that, I would be no better than the lefties. I do know failure will happen on its own, and then we'll be in a stronger position.

re: #1 Sharmuta

Barack Obama is BLACK? Huh! Who knew. I voted against him based on the content of his character.

re: #57 deanayer

...wait , when did Clinton Kill Iraqis ? What during the no-fly zone period? Am I missing a war here somewhere? I do like how these scumbags waited a good 12-14 hours before MF'ing the president-elect that shows they gave him a chance to surrender at least. Now according to islamofascist war arent they supposed to present their declaration of war IN WRITING or something? Maybe that will show up around the time our troops absentee ballots find their way into the US and straight into the dumpster.

And don't forget that fine Oil for Food program, which spread the wealth around (except to the starving Iraqis who were supposed to be fed by it).

re: #34 Ojoe,

McCain as SECDEF would be an awesome pick....but there is no way McCain would take it.

I can't think of a Dem who would be worther, but Obama did have a bunch of generals who supported his candidacy. Please, lord, don't let him pick Weasily Clark.

re: #75 dmjung

Roy? You just blew the sh*t out of our fruits.

Huh?

I am working a countdown till the day that the new Islamist rage will be focused on teaching the masses to obliterate the US because their President Obama is an apostate who left Islam.

re: #58 MandyManners

No but, we killed sick Iraqi babies according to that dead bastard, Saddam Hussein.

Although he was hanging around for a while, he's urrently not available for comment.

Heh.

re: #82 DeafDog

re: #34 Ojoe,

McCain as SECDEF would be an awesome pick....but there is no way McCain would take it.

I can't think of a Dem who would be worther, but Obama did have a bunch of generals who supported his candidacy. Please, lord, don't let him pick Weasily Clark.

Has there been talk that he would use Republicans in his administration?

“The Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it - and therein lies the danger. They are like a snake whose touch is not felt until its poison enters your body.

Hmmm. They got that part right about Obama.

re: #79 dsrtegl

Road to hell paved with good intentions ring a bell? Keep your powder dry.

re: #10 Billy Hank

Shocka, Shocka. Islamists still hate the U.S. All that Hope and Change for nothing.

What a dumb ass remark. Do you think it would have mattered who was elected yesterday? McCain, Obama, McKinney, hell, those crazies in the middle east would still be pushing and pressuring us.

Look, Obama hasn't spent 1 hour "leading" anything yet, so it's a fucking cheap shot on your part to imply the his rhetoric about "hope and change" was for naught.

And no, I didn't vote for him blah, blah, blah...

re: #34 Ojoe

... Let us assume he will be a brilliant leader, what would he do, in the real world, now?

The first thing he'll need to do is make a significant executive decision. Something he has NEVER DONE IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE.

re: #86 Creeping Eruption

Has there been talk that he would use Republicans in his administration?

USE being the operative term...

re: #79 dsrtegl

I'm a BIG gun owner, and an NRA life member, I pay WAY too many taxes. I'm with ya, but what I was getting at is that he is well-intentioned, however misguided.

Here's the silver lining: We are judged on results, not intentions. He will not get good results, which bodes well for us in '12. I do not wish failure upon him, for if I did that, I would be no better than the lefties. I do know failure will happen on its own, and then we'll be in a stronger position.

I don't think that he has a single good intention for America.

BTW, you know to what good intentions pave.

More than 0bama's surprise to find the global love is short lived will be the surprise of his followers.

"But...but...but we gave you 0bama so you would love us again?! Why do you still hate us?"

Oh, boy. It's never pretty when rose colored glasses fall off the face.

re: #69 Intrepid

We had our rude awakening last night and this morning. Obama will have his when he gets his first Daily Threat Assessment.

President Bush already stated that he will be detailing him immediately. If Obama has an ounce of soul, he will realize just how stalwart President Bush has actually been in order to be as unbending and unyielding to the burdens he has been silently carrying and the herculean work he has been doing to keep us protected. Hopefully Obama has his eyes opened.

OT:

So, thanks for all the welfare free unicorns and welfare economic stimulus packages. Um, can I have a cigarette?

Leary/Whoever '12! A boot in every busket!

/just trying to lighten the mood a little :)

re: #34 Ojoe

I would like to see Obama nominate McCain Sec. of Defense,

And Palin, Sec. of Health and Human Services.

Any other suggestions?

Let us assume he will be a brilliant leader, what would he do, in the real world, now?

I heard that Kerry is loudly expressing interest in Sec of State. No joke.

With all the talk about expanding server capacity, which would be a good thing naturally, I'm finding that following the new posts is an exercise in futility. If I respond to one post with a reasonably thoughtful answer I find myself hopelessly behind, wonder who will even read it, and have to choose between attempting to continue that debate or jump to the next thread which has sprung up while I was trying to decide at what point to follow the present thread.

re: #78 Dave the.....

You could argue that the left was right about one thing...Clinton's seige of Iraq was horrible on the Iraqi population. That shows that you need to win a war, not go half way. Yes, I know that wasn't an option in 1991 with the agreements we had, but just pointing out...

NO. NO. NO.

Saddam Hussein screwed the Iraqis.

No one believes themselves to be evil. Even Hitler saw himself as the "good guy". I also think Obama truly means well, but looking at who he is and his past (lack of) accomplishments, does not bode well. He believes in a failed ideology, for one thing.

re: #79 dsrtegl

I'm a BIG gun owner, and an NRA life member, I pay WAY too many taxes. I'm with ya, but what I was getting at is that he is well-intentioned, however misguided.

Here's the silver lining: We are judged on results, not intentions. He will not get good results, which bodes well for us in '12. I do not wish failure upon him, for if I did that, I would be no better than the lefties. I do know failure will happen on its own, and then we'll be in a stronger position.

re: #85 Intrepid

Although he was hanging around for a while, he's urrently not available for comment.

Heh.

LOL!

Any military people (or people with husbands, wives, sons, daughters in the military) here? Any idea what the impact will be on current members re-upping or the ability to recruit?

re: #49 amir

According to news reports Obama has Appointed Rahm Emanuel Chief of Staff. First time I've heard of him. According to wikipedia he's the son of Israelis and his father was in Irgun.

He's a Clinton staffer, and is known to be ruthless. He's a Chicago machine politician and arrogant. I'm sure that will really set the tone for bipartisanship.

Gee, market is down over 400 points. Not exactly a surprise...

#41 dsrtegl

Then again - Lenin and Mao thought they were doing what was best, too.

re: #69 Intrepid

We had our rude awakening last night and this morning. Obama will have his when he gets his first Daily Threat Assessment.

Yep - and there will be no teleprompter then ...
I just hope that he'll accept that there are some areas where Ayers and his cronies simply have no expertise - and where $oros won't be of ny help either.
I just hope that he'll accept that some people in the CIA and the NSA actually do know whereof they speak when they warn or advise.

Russia Flexes Its Muscles — That Didn't Take Long

In a wide-ranging attack on the United States as it elected a new president, the Russian leader Dmitri A. Medvedev warned on Wednesday that Moscow might deploy short-range missiles in the Baltic region to counter a perceived threat from a proposed American missile defense shield in Eastern Europe.

/China is loving every minute of this

re: #49 amir

According to news reports Obama has Appointed Rahm Emanuel Chief of Staff. First time I've heard of him. According to wikipedia he's the son of Israelis and his father was in Irgun.

Emanuel had the same position in the Clinton White House. He was noted for being rude and profane toward the staff (had a habit of cussing people out, often for inconsequential things.). He also tended to get really touchy if anyone mentioned his background, as he was not kindly disposed toward Israel for some reason.

Source; Unlimited Access; An FBI Agent Inside The Clinton White House by Gary Aldrich.

cheers

eon

The US of A, the Great Satan, a change in President will never change that opinion of America by all of Islam.

By the way, how are the hangovers?

re: #10 Billy Hank

Shocka, Shocka. Islamists still hate the U.S. All that Hope and Change for nothing.

And the MSM's Hope and Change! love from the globe is only Spin and Cherrypicking.

re: #103 gregg

[Link: michellemalkin.com...]

re: #96 Slumbering Behemoth

Shit! Sorry, NSFW language there. Sorry.

re: #88 taxfreekiller

Sarah Palin,

You only have a few days, not weeks to say you do not support,
"a path to citizenship".

John McCain will go back to the Senate and he will vote "yes" on
a Obama, La Raza, Pelosi, Kennedy/Reid amnesty bill.

You do not have to jump into the deep blue sea with the RINO's,
your choice, but make it soon. Time and tide await no one.

Yours true,
"We the People"

I was just thinking...does McCain back in the senate add a +1 to the Democrat Senate numbers? I hate to think so...but I think so.

Anyone see this?

[Link: www.johncoxart.com...]

re: #85 Intrepid

PIMF - currently

D'OH!

re: #99 MandyManners

NO. NO. NO.

Saddam Hussein screwed the Iraqis.

Well he may have, he took viagara EVERY DAY!

re: #94 Sharmuta

More than 0bama's surprise to find the global love is short lived will be the surprise of his followers. "But...but...but we gave you 0bama so you would love us again?! Why do you still hate us?" Oh, boy. It's never pretty when rose colored glasses fall off the face.

And really, I don't think Obama is so stupid to think that global love would be pouring out of the middle east as soon as he was elected. It's simply projection on the part of his supporters thinking that it will be easy.

I'm pretty sure BO understands what's ahead, whether he can handle it or not, that's another story, to be continued...

re: #88 taxfreekiller
McCain was a champion of amnesty & porous borders, yet Latinos gave him less support than Bush got. They broke big for Barry.
I think that the reason is that Obama promises every thing that McCain does, plus lots of free stuff.

i think they are lying. if for no other reason, they prefer obama because he is weak. except the saudis who need our protection. most of the other moslems are hoping for a useful tool. that obama will favor them over israel. he has already shown that he does.
and i don't think they need an inspiration for jihad. they have the koran,
i think most moslems are curious abt. obama. intrigued. anxious to see what's in it for them.

re: #18 Sharmuta

What a strange 24 hours it's been. I never thought I'd live to agree with an imam.

Indeed and depressing to boot.

re: #102 buzzsawmonkey

"Ten thousand? We were talking about a lot more money than this."

"Yes, sir, we were. But we were talking then. This is genuine coin of the realm, sir. With a dollar of this you can buy more than with ten dollars of talk."

--The Maltese Falcon

and so the answer is . . .

re: #115 The Other Les

Anyone see this?

[Link: www.johncoxart.com...]

Yes, clever. Walking on water, but the moment the doubt sets in, you sink............and the sharks are waiting.

re: #91 Son of the Black Dog

The first thing he'll need to do is make a significant executive decision. Something he has NEVER DONE IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE.

I don't think HE will be making any decisions.

re: #41 dsrtegl

While I vehemently disagree with Mr. Obama on a great number of issues, I do not think he is evil, or that he wants to harm the country (in his view).

However, IMHO, he is a man who is basically weak, at his core, and that he will be unduly influenced by people who do not have the best interests of our country at heart. To put it in the mildest manner possible.

Churchill said America is sometimes more of a trial to our friends than to our enemies. As a Jew I understand the baffled anguish that our friends feel as they witness our tortured ability to rationalize conduct that is objectively self destructive on the part of Jews or hostility by others.

re: #94 Sharmuta

More than 0bama's surprise to find the global love is short lived will be the surprise of his followers.

"But...but...but we gave you 0bama so you would love us again?! Why do you still hate us?"

Oh, boy. It's never pretty when rose colored glasses fall off the face.

Heh.
Should've listened to Biden - he's warned them all during the campaign.

bbl

re: #104 lawhawk

He's a Clinton staffer, and is known to be ruthless. He's a Chicago machine politician and arrogant. I'm sure that will really set the tone for bipartisanship.

Emanuel is a foul mouthed little punk.

re: #98 Salem

With all the talk about expanding server capacity, which would be a good thing naturally, I'm finding that following the new posts is an exercise in futility. If I respond to one post with a reasonably thoughtful answer I find myself hopelessly behind, wonder who will even read it, and have to choose between attempting to continue that debate or jump to the next thread which has sprung up while I was trying to decide at what point to follow the present thread.

An unbearable bounty!
/I know what you mean... I never even figure out that there *is* a new thread until I'm the only one left on the current thread and the next one already has hundreds of comments. I keep wishing there were a way to have a little box pop up when a new thread starts...

re: #83 MandyManners

Huh?

Obscure quote from Shanghai Knights movie.

Roy tells the other train robbers to prepare to enjoy the fruits of the labor. In the meantime, the dynamite is moved from around the safe so that it blows it out of the train. The crazy guy from Texas than utters the quote.

I have a feeling that their attempts to latch on to more of our fruits will have similar unsuccessful results.

Took hours to get into LGF. Where is the free beer?

re: #108 Killian Bundy

I predict that China is doing more than smiling,perhaps cooking up a Tawain situation. Didn't W have one of those very early on?

re: #108 Killian Bundy

Russia Flexes Its Muscles — That Didn't Take Long

/China is loving every minute of this

Poor Poland. To be faced with an energized and frisky Russia and to be sold out by Barry's administration. I have NO FAITH WHATSOEVER that Barry will put up a missile defense shield anywhere.

re: #133 lifeofthemind

Took hours to get into LGF. Where is the free beer?

Next to the free gas and free mortgages...

The Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it - and therein lies the danger. They are like a snake whose touch is not felt until its poison enters your body.

You know, some fatwas are only scary because they are all-too accurate.

re: #130 Sunlight

An unbearable bounty!
/I know what you mean... I never even figure out that there *is* a new thread until I'm the only one left on the current thread and the next one already has hundreds of comments. I keep wishing there were a way to have a little box pop up when a new thread starts...

And if I get the spinning pizza of death at any point, fugedaboudit!

re: #100 Pyrocles

No one believes themselves to be evil. Even Hitler saw himself as the "good guy". I also think Obama truly means well, but looking at who he is and his past (lack of) accomplishments, does not bode well. He believes in a failed ideology, for one thing.

I believe we just said the same thing in two different ways. What I'm doing is trying ever-so-hard not to have Obama Derangement Syndrome. I'm trying HARD to be the shepherd. I refuse to stoop to their level. Won't do it.

I will let him fail on his own, then I will point it out to the "swing voters" who actually decide the election. By not sounding like a "crazy wingnut" we can convince them that they made a bad choice with Obama, and change their minds.

/Keeping Positive.

Thanks to all those that responded to my comment.

119 Opinion

McCain was a champion of amnesty & porous borders, yet Latinos gave him less support than Bush got. They broke big for Barry.
I think that the reason is that Obama promises every thing that McCain does, plus lots of free stuff.

You just summed up current politics. Bush and the Republicans in Congress gave everything to everyone, and look at what that got them. You can NEVER outspend Democrats. Example..Africa. Bush said he is going to piss away...I think it was $30,000,000,000 on it. Democrats came back and said, no, lets throw away $48,000,000,000. Bush said "okay!", then the Democrats said "Bush is a monster who wants to kill people of color".

Tim Pawlenty had a good line this fall (when he was under consideration for J-Macs VP). He said "we can never outspend the Democrats, so we need to spend more wisely. We are the Sam's Club Republicans".

My that was a quick honeymoon!

The tasteless, offensive and humourless UK cartoons of Obama have already started.

re: #133 lifeofthemind

Took hours to get into LGF. Where is the free beer?

LGF is a BYO. LGF is fair fizzing today compared to yesterday. I gave up.

It's been almost 24 hours since Obama became president elect.

Where's my free stuff?

“The Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it - and therein lies the danger. They are like a snake whose touch is not felt until its poison enters your body.

OTOH, if only this were true. I'd take a democrat administration that kills terrorists slowly and secretly rather than an administration that openly consorts and admires them. I think that is the real danger here. Hell, if Obama puts sanctions on Iran it will be a hell of a lot better than Obama signing a non-aggression treaty with it.

OTOH, I see Charles' point. Hopefully comments like these will not be lost on the Obama administration, and they will know the intractability of Salafi Islam.

So our choice, then, is a) the Muslim Brotherhood, which thinks Obama is awesome, or b) Qaradawi, who thinks democrats are more evil than republicans. Personally, I find a) more disturbing.

re: #44 mean Gene

Islam, like Al Gore, has no controlling legal authority.

Simile of the day! :)

re: #135 Russkilitlover

Poor Poland. To be faced with an energized and frisky Russia and to be sold out by Barry's administration. I have NO FAITH WHATSOEVER that Barry will put up a missile defense shield anywhere.

What! Why not?

/

Did Obama withdraw all the troops from Iraq today? No? Tomorrow?

re: #135 Russkilitlover

Poor Poland. To be faced with an energized and frisky Russia and to be sold out by Barry's administration. I have NO FAITH WHATSOEVER that Barry will put up a missile defense shield anywhere.

Well, so much for Peace, Love, and Happy Chocolates.

Does that mean they dont love us yet?

re: #82 DeafDog

Some people think he should keep Gates.

Well, it sure didn't take wiki long to update Rahm Emanuel's bio.

re: #107 yma o hyd

Yep - and there will be no teleprompter then ...
I just hope that he'll accept that there are some areas where Ayers and his cronies simply have no expertise - and where $oros won't be of ny help either.
I just hope that he'll accept that some people in the CIA and the NSA actually do know whereof they speak when they warn or advise.

We need to start a "Obama-isms" count, as has been done with GWB. The O had some great ones during the campaign for us to start out with:

* Asthmatic kids who use "Breathalyzers"
* 57 states
* "We live in the greatest country on earth - now join with me as we change it"

etc.

re: #140 amir

Thanks to all those that responded to my comment.

At least you got a response.

I've always been a G.W. Bush fan, but after reading this report, my
admiration'Yellowcake'... for him and my disgust for liberals and their methods has swelled immensely.

/Great article-

re: #145 Globular Cluster

OTOH, if only this were true. I'd take a democrat administration that kills terrorists slowly and secretly rather than an administration that openly consorts and admires them.

Me too. But if it secret, how will we know.

"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking,"

So it appears Biden's warning about O being tested took, like one day after the election, to be realized and not six months. Yes Biden the world of Islam is looking and they don't like America any better now than they did before O was elected. In fact they realize the Democrats are weak because they deceive and kill you slowly so they have given themselves justification to test you all that much more quickly. I hope you wake up and smell the coffee before you decide to pull out of Iraq Mr. Obama (with my only due respect afforded).

So Islamists will strike us to harden Nossiah's heart and mold him into an obvious enemy.

When I read about people around the world celebrating Obama's victory, I find myself hoping that Obama implements his protectionist policies, so they can share I joy over the next few years.

OT:

So yesterday, I predicted the Dow would be down 750 today. Comment
Dow down right now 415.

re: #142 Kenneth

My that was a quick honeymoon!

The tasteless, offensive and humourless UK cartoons of Obama have already started.

I think that last one pretty much nails how the world sees Barry.

re: #31 Pyrocles

My liberal Canadian wife was ecstatic this morning, as were my Canadian in-laws. They called and e-mailed us from Canada with tearful congratulations. God, this is hard to take. This is worse than when my Buffalo Bills lost their fourth consecutive Super Bowl.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Rush was talking about the looks on the faces of revelers when Obama was talking about sacrifice, and not getting everything right the first time - like huh?

watching people getting mugged by reality can be very therapeutic.

re: #142 Kenneth

Bush put up with it for 8 long years. Junior will have to suck it up.

re: #142 Kenneth

My that was a quick honeymoon!

The tasteless, offensive and humourless UK cartoons of Obama have already started.

Thats only Peter Brookes in the TIMES - he's always rather taste- and humourless, although occasionally he really hits the nail on the head ....

Obama's family celebrates with a Kenyan feast

Before journalists were requested to leave the compound to allow the Obamas to prepare for the feast - beside the chapatis, fleshly slaughtered beef and chicken was on the menu - Mama Sarah had time for a few more questions. Her advice to the new president?

"He should work very well globally, especially for global peace."

/whirled peas and slaughtered bull for everyone!

OK, he's a jihadi, but he has a point here: "Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it - and therein lies the danger. They are like a snake whose touch is not felt until its poison enters your body."

I didn't leave the Demcorat party, the Democart party left me. ~Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild

re: #159 gregg

When I read about people around the world celebrating Obama's victory, I find myself hoping that Obama implements his protectionist policies, so they can share I joy over the next few years.

The pallies celebrated by firing 40 rockets into Israel.

OT

What the hell is going on in Minnesota? Al Franken? There are people that think that Al Franken would be an appropriate member of the Senate?

I usually have about 20 customers by this time today - I have had 9.

re: #161 Russkilitlover

I think that last one pretty much nails how the world sees Barry.

Yeah well fuck them. For better or worse, he will be our president and making fun of him should be left to the best qualified - us!

re: #157 turn

"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking,"

So it appears Biden's warning about O being tested took, like one day after the election, to be realized and not six months. Yes Biden the world of Islam is looking and they don't like America any better now than they did before O was elected. In fact they realize the Democrats are weak because they deceive and kill you slowly so they have given themselves justification to test you all that much more quickly. I hope you wake up and smell the coffee before you decide to pull out of Iraq Mr. Obama (with my only due respect afforded).

I posted this on another thread...Russia already kicks it up a knoch.

re: #158 witness

So Islamists will strike us to harden Nossiah's heart and mold him into an obvious enemy.

Made all the easier by him being either "Muslim consort with the infidel" or "ex-Muslim" in their eyes.

re: #138 Salem

The important thing here (to me) is to absorb the points of view, learn new info, (laugh at some stuff), and formulate thoughts...

re: #168 Dahveed

OT

What the hell is going on in Minnesota? Al Franken? There are people that think that Al Franken would be an appropriate member of the Senate?

DUDE. I KNOW. wtf? he is a complete moron. How can anyone respect that jerk? Stuart Smiley? what a tool.

re: #152 jorline

Well, it sure didn't take wiki long to update Rahm Emanuel's bio.

Do they talk about him stabbing a steak knife repeatedly into the table while spewing the names of his enemies following each one with the word "Dead"?

/whirled peas and slaughtered bull for everyone!

Rotating title nomination.

re: #141 Dave the.....

119 Opinion

You just summed up current politics. Bush and the Republicans in Congress gave everything to everyone, and look at what that got them. You can NEVER outspend Democrats. Example..Africa. Bush said he is going to piss away...I think it was $30,000,000,000 on it. Democrats came back and said, no, lets throw away $48,000,000,000. Bush said "okay!", then the Democrats said "Bush is a monster who wants to kill people of color".

Tim Pawlenty had a good line this fall (when he was under consideration for J-Macs VP). He said "we can never outspend the Democrats, so we need to spend more wisely. We are the Sam's Club Republicans".

I think thats what really pisses me off about GWB. He tries to do the right thing (in his mind) and get along with the Dems all the while spreading our cheeks for them, and gets fucked for his trouble. Then he lines up to do it again, like it just doesn't register with him that these bastards aren't EVER gonna play ball for the good of the country, unless they can take credit for it while making GWB out to be a villain. He has been wearing a "kick me, I'm stoopid" sign on his back for 8 years.

re: #135 Russkilitlover

Poor Poland. To be faced with an energized and frisky Russia and to be sold out by Barry's administration. I have NO FAITH WHATSOEVER that Barry will put up a missile defense shield anywhere.

Gee, if anyone has noticed, Russia has been flexing their muscles for a good two years now (at least "publicly").

They have been trying to build a coalition of non-OPEC oil producers like Uncle Hugo and Libya's Kaducky. They have made numerous deals for arms sales, trying to get some new ports, and Medevdev is simply a placeholder for Putin, "he'll be baaaaacccck."

Nothing has happened in Russia in the last twenty-four hours JUST because of the election.

re: #168 Dahveed

OT

What the hell is going on in Minnesota? Al Franken? There are people that think that Al Franken would be an appropriate member of the Senate?

Apparently the approval ratings for Congress aren't sufficiently comic that they decided to improve their chances for a perfect score.

Any word on how much the ocean levels receded today?

I plan to make full use of my "loyal opposition" status during the Obama administration.

I will grit my teeth and stop calling him Barry too, since he is going to be POTUS.

re: #153 Intrepid

You know - I think this may well start to hapen soon.
After all, now that he's Pres.elect, nobody can be accused of being a racist any longer, can they, when they satirise him?

re: #165 Killian Bundy

Obama's family celebrates with a Kenyan feast

/whirled peas and slaughtered bull for everyone!

I have read several articles to the effect that Kenyans believe that Obama will improve their economic situation.
He has already jumped into politics there, campaigning for Odinga.

re: #171 jorline

Hey, I would have beat you to it but I've been getting the circle of death until just a few minutes ago :.) Thanks, I'll check it out. BTW, what has been the general concensus of O's win here.

re: #142 Kenneth

My that was a quick honeymoon!

The tasteless, offensive and humourless UK cartoons of Obama have already started.

Kenneth, what a short honeymoon for sure!
The thing about this humor is that, were it not based on truth, it would not be funny.
So, 0bama's saying to the people of Congo,

"After Rwanda the world said, "Never Again!." And I promise you we will say that again after Congo.!"

, rings awfully true, doesn't it?

re: #179 lawhawk

Apparently the approval ratings for Congress aren't sufficiently comic that they decided to improve their chances for a perfect score.

I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, I'm gonna steal this fucking election if I have too!

re: #181 catttt

I plan to make full use of my "loyal opposition" status during the Obama administration.

I will grit my teeth and stop calling him Barry too, since he is going to be POTUS.

I dunno, eight years of Chimpy McBushitlerhalliburton is gonna be difficult to forget for me.

re: #168 Dahveed

OT

What the hell is going on in Minnesota? Al Franken? There are people that think that Al Franken would be an appropriate member of the Senate?

Norm won.

Precincts Reporting: 100.00% (4130 of 4130) Last update was: 11/5/2008 2:19:10 PM

US SENATOR
Totals Pct Graph
Independence DEAN BARKLEY 437377 15.16
Republican NORM COLEMAN 1211629 41.99
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 1211167 41.98

/my vote counted, bracing for recount

OT lizards - you can help me with an advertisement I will run the 1st of December. I have a tanning salon/day spa. I usually run an ad with a pretty girl in a bikini which says "Look Hot when its Cold" at the top.

I was thinking about this : "Since we will all be rich, look like it" and have a girl in a short fur jacket, bikini and tiara.

Whaddaya think?

re: #152 jorline

Well, it sure didn't take wiki long to update Rahm Emanuel's bio.

What, did the delete the "vicious graceless partisan: narrow, hectic, unremittingly aggressive, vulgar, and impatient" part?

re: #171 jorline

Yes, I saw that on Drudge along with the Pali rockets into Israel. I consider the Islamic threat equally or more threatening. He's being tested on many more fronts in far less than the six months Biden predicted.

re: #168 Dahveed

OT

What the hell is going on in Minnesota? Al Franken? There are people that think that Al Franken would be an appropriate member of the Senate?

Well, he's good enough, smart enogh, and gosh, darn it, people like him.

/

re: #162 DistantThunder

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Rush was talking about the looks on the faces of revelers when Obama was talking about sacrifice, and not getting everything right the first time - like huh?

watching people getting mugged by reality can be very therapeutic.

And after all their gloating now, it's going to be really nice to tell them 'told ya so!'
(Heh - I'm in an evil mood today ...)

re: #168 Dahveed

OT

What the hell is going on in Minnesota? Al Franken? There are people that think that Al Franken would be an appropriate member of the Senate?

Yeep, the same ones that think the O is appropriate!

re: #172 victor_yugo

Senator Government will now be President Capitulation. He will open the gates and let all the barbarians in. Soon the sovereign wealth funds will be buying up all universities. Next they will do away with the tax exemption for religious institutions and they will all be bought by outside interests as well.

America on Ebay. Sold to the highest bidder.

Not a shot fired. we go with a whimper, not a bang.

re: #175 DistantThunder

Do they talk about him stabbing a steak knife repeatedly into the table while spewing the names of his enemies following each one with the word "Dead"?

Nope...just that he's a class act guy...but I think he was a spokesman for Ginsu Knives.

re: #181 catttt

I shall continue to refer to him as the Obama. Perhaps I'll cap The, but that's it. Let 'em sue me.

re: #180 Sharmuta

Any word on how much the ocean levels receded today?

Dunno about the oceans, but our yard is still torn up by mole hills, so he hasn't healed the earth yet.

;-)

Quote for the day:

"If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering ... And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."
-Thomas Jefferson

re: #189 bellamags

OT lizards - you can help me with an advertisement I will run the 1st of December. I have a tanning salon/day spa. I usually run an ad with a pretty girl in a bikini which says "Look Hot when its Cold" at the top.

I was thinking about this : "Since we will all be rich, look like it" and have a girl in a short fur jacket, bikini and tiara.

Whaddaya think?

Too subtle. People won't get it.

re: #169 bellamags

I usually have about 20 customers by this time today - I have had 9.

Everybody hung over?

re: #105 Summersong

Gee, market is down over 400 points. Not exactly a surprise...

I thought an Obama win was priced into the market - at least that's what CNBC was saying before yesterday. So what are they blaming this on?

re: #180 Sharmuta

Any word on how much the ocean levels receded today?

Nothing on that yet, but I noticed today that a dead spot in my yard is showing life.

////the earth is healing

re: #189 bellamags

OT lizards - you can help me with an advertisement I will run the 1st of December. I have a tanning salon/day spa. I usually run an ad with a pretty girl in a bikini which says "Look Hot when its Cold" at the top.

I was thinking about this : "Since we will all be rich, look like it" and have a girl in a short fur jacket, bikini and tiara.

Whaddaya think?

How about "Skin cancer? Why worry, I have Nationalized Health Care Insurance"

////

re: #182 yma o hyd

You know - I think this may well start to hapen soon.
After all, now that he's Pres.elect, nobody can be accused of being a racist any longer, can they, when they satirise him?

Oh, I wish you were right, but think about it - just like during his campaign, during his tenure, any debate, criticism or otherwise dissent will be met immediately with cries of 'racism,' at least from some quarters. During the campaign, ANY question about his experience, alliances, etc, was denounced as racist, and for many, the stance was, "he's so perfect that if you don't vote for him, it's cause he's black." That'll be the position when anyone challenges him on anything, you watch - there will be no criticism allowed.

re: #94 Sharmuta

More than 0bama's surprise to find the global love is short lived will be the surprise of his followers.

"But...but...but we gave you 0bama so you would love us again?! Why do you still hate us?"

Oh, boy. It's never pretty when rose colored glasses fall off the face.

Your O key got replaced by a zero? :-)

There were stories (urban legends, probably) about all "W" keys having been removed from White House typewriters before Dubya took office. How about if all "O"s on WH typewriters and computer keyboards being replaced by zeros before January 20?

Does this mean my check from the Zionist Occupation Government is going to be late again?

re: #188 Killian Bundy

But there were still over 1.2 million people in the state that voted for Al Franken. That is as scary as people voting for Barack Obama. What is in the water in Minnesota that there are that many people voting for that clown? There is something seriously wrong in Minnesota.

In a fatwa published on the eve of the U.S. elections, Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi expressed his preference for Sen. John McCain as president:

He's just jealous that Obama has dinner with terrorists other than himself. Once Obama invites him over for dinner, jihadists like Al-Qaradhawi will come around.

re: #192 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Well, he's good enough, smart enogh, and gosh, darn it, people like him.

/

Stuart Smalley's Daily Affirmations for the Inner Communist

Wednesday:

"I deserve all the mass adulation from the people I can get without feeling ashamed or being grandiose."

re: #177 maddogg

I think thats what really pisses me off about GWB. He tries to do the right thing (in his mind) and get along with the Dems all the while spreading our cheeks for them, and gets fucked for his trouble. Then he lines up to do it again, like it just doesn't register with him that these bastards aren't EVER gonna play ball for the good of the country, unless they can take credit for it while making GWB out to be a villain. He has been wearing a "kick me, I'm stoopid" sign on his back for 8 years.

President Bush, however well he performed in foreign policy, has spent eight years misunderstanding the bottomless hatred the anti-intellectual left in this country bears for this country. As such, he repeatedly extended them olive branches, and was repeatedly shocked when they set fire to them.

In this respect, he's like Charlie Brown when Lucy is holding the football.

Remember, she always has a "perfectly good reason" for yanking it away with a malicious grin on her face.

/I always wondered why Charlie didn't just get Linus to hold the football

cheers

eon

re: #204 OldLineTexan

do you really want me to bring up new research that shows otherwise? We have all been fed BS for years about UV light. But I won't get into it now.

re: #189 bellamags

OT lizards - you can help me with an advertisement I will run the 1st of December. I have a tanning salon/day spa. I usually run an ad with a pretty girl in a bikini which says "Look Hot when its Cold" at the top. I was thinking about this : "Since we will all be rich, look like it" and have a girl in a short fur jacket, bikini and tiara. Whaddaya think?

If you are being serious, then I would say not a good idea. What in the ad would establish that you are referencing the current administration and his political promises. Too confusing.

Really, it depends if you are interested in your business or using the ad to get in a personal jab to Obama. Personally, I would worry about my business, not the politics. Why waste your ad money on your politics, unless you are independently wealthy.

re: #202 gregg

I thought an Obama win was priced into the market - at least that's what CNBC was saying before yesterday. So what are they blaming this on?

Duh! Bush!
get with it, will ya?
/

re: #170 Creeping Eruption

Yeah well fuck them. For better or worse, he will be our president and making fun of him should be left to the best qualified - us!

Aww - cartoonists have made fun of Pres. Bush here for years - and of Tony Blair and his ministers. Now they make fun of Gord, and of Pres.elect B0 - thats how it works.
Gotta have a laugh!

re: #213 Walter L. Newton

My area is 80% rep.

As a Democrat, I was oblivious to politics. I voted Dem. That was it.

Then, in 1999, I found out a friend was a Republican. That gave me pause. You could be a Republican and be a human being! I started thinking about it more. Hey - I could vote for a Republican if I wanted to! I could vote on issues! What a concept.

Many, many Dems are still at the "that was it" stage. In a nice way, let people know they don't have to be a yellow dog Dem. One person can make a big difference.

Thanks Charles, I just got that article in my email. By the way, I also received a nice letter in the mail the other day from MEMRI, thanking me for my recent contribution. The letter then went on to list all the things MEMRI does, like helping our government in the WoT.

My guess is MEMRI will be persona non grata with the government after Obama takes office.

re: #207 lifeofthemind

We who are on the Zio-dole would be well advised to seek alternate sources of illicit income.

re: #189 bellamags

OT lizards - you can help me with an advertisement I will run the 1st of December. I have a tanning salon/day spa. I usually run an ad with a pretty girl in a bikini which says "Look Hot when its Cold" at the top.

I was thinking about this : "Since we will all be rich, look like it" and have a girl in a short fur jacket, bikini and tiara.

Whaddaya think?

Ha! You can pass out Obama gas cards as a door prize too.

Georg's predictions:
(I'm not sure which ones are supposed to be ironic, but maybe that's the point)

Foreign Policy

* Israel will *not* nuke Iran within the next 2 months. However there will be an *incredible* amount of behind the scenes debate about the possibility. In a vain attempt to gather international approval, in the end the Israelis will grit their teeth and wait to be nuked before returning fire. Hamas will begin “test runs” of dummy bombs into Israel in preparation for the real thing.
* Eavesdropping on foreign calls into the US for the purposes of preventing terrorist acts will continue. The NY Times will not report on it.
* All of the foreign terrorists will be released from Gitmo to foreign countries, where they will return to the battlefield sporting fantastic tans and great abs. Guantomo Bay will be given back to Cuba. Castro will demand money to go along with it, to clean up the mess the Americans leave behind.
* In order not to anger the Russians, SDI will be scotched, and any deployed antimissiles will be withdrawn. To show their appreciation, the Russians will take over management for the failed countries of Georgia, the Ukraine, and one other country to be named at a later date.
* Bin Laden will remain uncaptured, but will die of old age. Dems will declare victory.
* The US will withdraw totally from Iraq and Afghanistan. Both countries will plunge into full-fledged civil war. The Dem reaction will be able to be paraphrased as “Whew, good thing we got out when we did or we would be caught in that.”
* Billions of dollars in military budget will be transferred into social programs, which will not have a significant impact on reducing poverty. Dems will still claim more money is needed. Billions of these dollars will go to foreign aid. These countries will still hate us.

BBL got to go.

I'm considering always referring to Obama as "Chairman Zero" or "Dear Leader" to friends and family. Too kooky?

re: #197 vagabond trader

I shall continue to refer to him as the Obama. Perhaps I'll cap The, but that's it. Let 'em sue me.

re: #86 Creeping Eruption

Has there been talk that he would use Republicans in his administration?

SECDef would be the place to do it. I heard it rumored that many dems want Gates to continue. Gates declined.

re: #182 yma o hyd

You know - I think this may well start to hapen soon.
After all, now that he's Pres.elect, nobody can be accused of being a racist any longer, can they, when they satirise him?

Yes, I believe the race card can be officially retired from the deck. No need for the NAACP anymore, either. You can't get any more "advanced" than the presidency.

Silver linings.

re: #180 Sharmuta

Any word on how much the ocean levels receded today?

Aww - give the man a chance - he's not been sworn in yet!

Welcome to the United States of France.
Gird your loins.

re: #208 Dahveed

What is in the water in Minnesota that there are that many people voting for that clown?

It's called the DFL endorsement.

/the Bonkey lemmings here will blindly vote for a picnic table if it has the DFL label on it

re: #200 Creeping Eruption

Too subtle. People won't get it.

I like it - I think people like us will get the sarcasm, and the rest, who really think their days of bill paying are over, will think it's just a straight line. Cute. :)

Politics

# A lot of judges will get appointed who believe the Constitution is unimportant. This will not begin to screw us up for years down the road. Probably two of them will be Liberal Supremes. Their replacements will be Liberal-er. Abortion law will remain unchanged.
# Millions of dollars will be found to have been illegally contributed to the O campaign by way of Visa. The press will yawn. A few thousand will get given back. Nobody will go to jail.
# All the fuss about illegal voters, fraudulent registrations, people who are on tape about voting twice, etc… will fade into the background. ACORN will collect a nice chunk of change post-election and get all set up to do it again in four years.
# At least one Republican will be found to have been denied their election by fraudulent votes. The press will run a brief story on page 12.
# Republicans in the Senate unite behind a leader and form a filibuster blocking group which prevents the most egregious of the Dems plans from going forward. It eventually breaks down as Sen. McCain leaves and votes with the Dems. (Like last time too)
# Senate Majority Leader Hillary Clinton will announce new massive health care legislation which will double in size by the time it passes Congress, resulting in an incomprehensibly twisted snarl of laws that doctors must negotiate in order to treat patients. The Dems express shock as Health Care costs rise.
# Illegal Immigrants will suddenly become US citizens. Nobody will quite know how, but INS will begin handing out green cards stapled to Democratic voting registration cards.
# An unofficial list of rates will begin circulating in Washington, listing the amount of Democratic political contributions it will take to get your company government contracts, H1B visas, etc…. Republican contributions by your company will suddenly become unofficially a reason to kick you from the same contracts.
# Yet another Assault Weapons ban will go thru Congress, defining them so broadly as to include about anything that goes *bang*. Some Republicans actually vote for it, explaining that it will be held unconstitutional. They are wrong.

I live in the Minneapolis area and most folks I work with are scratching their heads regarding Franken. He got 1.2m votes and I've yet to come across one person who voted for him. If he somehow becomes our senator, we'll be wearing bags over our heads like fans at a Detroit Lions game.

re: #188 Killian Bundy

41.99% to 41.98%?

Wow

re: #211 eon

/I always wondered why Charlie didn't just get Linus to hold the football

It wasn't Charlie Brown's idea to kick the football. It was Lucy's.

(except when he tried to sneak up on her while he was invisible... and Snoopy spoiled it)

re: #206 Former Belgian

Your O key got replaced by a zero? :-)

There were stories (urban legends, probably) about all "W" keys having been removed from White House typewriters before Dubya took office. How about if all "O"s on WH typewriters and computer keyboards being replaced by zeros before January 20?

Not an urban legend......just reported again this morning on Fox News.

Economy

# The economy will continue a downward plummet as anybody with capital gains gets them out before Jan. The Dems pass another Ex Post Facto tax increase in February, raising cap gains back to Jan 1, 2009. Despite its unconstutionalisty, it remains in force. (Just like last time)
# My taxes will go up, despite the fact I only make a fraction of that 250k number that was so handily waved about. I will get a check from the federal government, but it will be for only about half of my increase (Here’s your $1000 check, that will be $2000 please).
# Carbon dioxide legislation will “breeze” thru congress and get signed into law. Gas, electricity, and other energy costs will begin skyrocketing. People who buy plug-in hybrids will suddenly wonder why they are not saving money.
# Gas prices will start back up the ladder as oil companies discover that regulation means it is cheaper to import all oil as refined products than to attempt to produce it here.
# Immigrants begin sneaking back home in order to get good paying jobs at Mexican oil refineries/oil fields. So do Americans.
# Inflation will begin roaring back. Congress will attempt to squelch it by printing more money, borrowing more, and taxing more. Unemployment will soon follow until they both hit double-digits. The phrase “Carter” will begin to be used in the same sentence as “Obama” a lot more.

Bibi Netanyahu '09!

Because you're gonna need the backbone, Israel!

re: #90 Walter L. Newton

Au contraire, mon ami. I believe The One was deadly serious about his hopes and the change he wishes to bring. I oppose those. My comment was directed at those who thought The One's election would cast a loving net around the whole world while prancing unicorns led a glorious parade. Evidently his net did snare a wide variety.

re: #223 Pyrocles

Dear leader is taken at the moment,methinks the 0 will be appropriate sooner than later.

“The Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it - and therein lies the danger. They are like a snake whose touch is not felt until its poison enters your body."
i wish i'd come up with that analogy!

My predictions (a repost from PJM Chrenkoff)

The American military will first be withdrawn and then will implode under the pressure of massive cutbacks and the exiting of career professionals. Obama will keep his campaign promises. He gave few specifics but those should be taken seriously. This will be followed by an orgy of violence around the world. Russia will bully, invade and blackmail its way back into power across the old Soviet empire. It started this morning with Medvedev scrapping the INF treaty to move missiles into Kaliningrad. The Baltic nations, Ukraine and the Caucasus are now naked in a jungle. The Chinese will find themselves recalculating the strategic choices Japan made in 1940, Strike North or Strike South? The people of Vietnam and The Philippines have reason to be afraid. The Indians face threats from China and disintegrating Pakistan. The tide of Nihilism from radicalizing Islam will send Indonesia along the path that Pakistan has followed. This will result in bloody carnage as the Chinese move in unconstrained by Western notions of constraint. Australia will be isolated and flickering in the gathering darkness. Africa will be the scene of massacres and disasters on a scale so vast as to strain human comprehension. The global economy, that gave some veneer of hope to those trying to escape from ignorance and subsistence living, will buckle under a wave of protectionism, regulation and asset grabs that are a return to Mercantilism and violence. Closer to home Chavez and the FARC will tear into Columbia like wolves on a horse. After that things will get ugly.

re: #224 DeafDog

SECDef would be the place to do it. I heard it rumored that many dems want Gates to continue. Gates declined.

Too bad. I hope that he is open to using qualified Republicans. I can hope can't I?

re: #216 bellamags

My area is 80% rep.

So what? As I said, there is NOTHING in the ad that would establish where you are coming from. Please, I write for part of my living. I put words on stage to paint a picture and bring an audience into the world that my actors are describing.

So, what are you going to do? Not try to bring in the other 20 percent of possible patrons?

Like I said, if you got money to blow, go for it. Gee, it will make you feel better right?

re: #180 Sharmuta

Any word on how much the ocean levels receded today?

re: #226 yma o hyd

Aww - give the man a chance - he's not been sworn in yet!

Maybe the Great One should head up to Maine to calm the waters:

Freak Waves Swamp Maine's Boothbay Harbor, Baffling Experts

Well I suppose "drill here, drill now" refers to the rear ends of those who will be buying fuel for the next four years....

re: #33 Intrepid

WTF? When did Democrat Pres. Bill Clinton lay "siege" to Iraq?

Was I sleeping during that siege?

Oil for Food - you know when Hussein and his cronies stole all the food and money aid and Iraqis starved in their millions.

re: #206 Former Belgian

Pop of the H's (Hussein)

On the flip side, we can pretty much guarantee four more years of South Park.

re: #226 yma o hyd

Aww - give the man a chance - he's not been sworn in yet!

He did say that when he's elcteced these things would start happening, not when he's sworn in.

//just saying

re: #232 Silhouette

41.99% to 41.98%?

Wow

/only vote I cast yesterday that really mattered

The 'Arab street' as some people call it is a tough thing to measure. It can't be summed up easily because it's both fractured and fluid. Many people in the Middle East are thrilled about Obama. Some it seems are indifferent, or even disappointed.

Just a big ol' mess.

The Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it - and therein lies the danger. They are like a snake whose touch is not felt until its poison enters your body.

"But enough about how Obama's election affects the people who voted for him....." Sheikh continued

re: #235 Kenneth

Sounds about right. Don't forget though, anyone grabbing cap gains before January will be hit with a retroactive tax bill, ala Clinton.

A co-worker just came over to my desk to gloat about the election. All I could tell her was that the rich will still be rich, the poor will still be poor, health care will never be free, the earth will warm or cool because that's what it does despite us. There are people that still hate us no matter who the president is.

I'm telling you it may be a year or two, but there will be buyer's remorse. They will discover that this guy was all talk.

re: #225 dsrtegl

Yes, I believe the race card can be officially retired from the deck. No need for the NAACP anymore, either. You can't get any more "advanced" than the presidency.

Silver linings.

I think race will be at the forefront of any criticism of his policies, etc. It will be worse, not better.

re: #197 vagabond trader

I shall continue to refer to him as the Obama. Perhaps I'll cap The, but that's it. Let 'em sue me.

OK. I admit it: I'll still call him the Great One and the Dear Leader, but I won't call him Barry any more. :D

re: #134 vagabond trader

I predict that China is doing more than smiling,perhaps cooking up a Tawain situation. Didn't W have one of those very early on?

Taipei and Beijing reach historic deal on direct flights, trade, postal services and food

[Link: www.asianews.it...]

They are like a snake whose touch is not felt until its poison enters your body.

Well he certainly does understand the Democratic ideology, I'll give him that.

re: #205 Lorenska

Oh, I wish you were right, but think about it - just like during his campaign, during his tenure, any debate, criticism or otherwise dissent will be met immediately with cries of 'racism,' at least from some quarters. During the campaign, ANY question about his experience, alliances, etc, was denounced as racist, and for many, the stance was, "he's so perfect that if you don't vote for him, it's cause he's black." That'll be the position when anyone challenges him on anything, you watch - there will be no criticism allowed.

Thats one advantage of the internet - he cannot prevent stuff from outside the USA flooding in. Like that cartoon linked above from The Times London. Once its out it'll be spread.
He better get used to it - comes with the office!

Just got this in an e-mail - posted here w/o the graphics.
Maybe a little long.
Charels, I'm figuring you will just delete it if it takes up more space than its worth. I just love it though when I hear or read something from a perfect stranger that sums up something I've been thinking myself. He/she beat me to it. I wonder, if at some point this morning, maybe while in the john, Bush didn't toy with some of these thoughts - totally or in part.
The speech George W. Bush might give:

Normally, I start these things out by saying 'My Fellow Americans.' Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer.
I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: There's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.

The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.
Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media.

Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.

We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this 'blood for oil' thing. If I were trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq 's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don't give me this 'Bush Lied...People Died' crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' In stead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.< /I>

Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named ' Clinton ' established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you?
Now some of you morons want to be led by a junior senator with no understanding of foreign policy or economics, and this nitwit says we should attack Pakistan , a nuclear ally. And then he wants to go to Iran and make peace with a terrorist who says he's going to destroy us. While he's doing that, he wants to give Iraq to al Qaeda, Afghanistan to the Taliban, Israel to the Palestinians, and your money to the IRS so the government can give welfare to illegal aliens, who he will make int o citizens, so they can vote to re-elect him. He also thinks it's okay for Iran to have nuclear weapons, and we should stop our foreign aid to Israel . Did you sleep through high school?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them.
cont'd.

re: #151 Kenneth

Some people think he should keep Gates.

My understanding is that Gates has already declined.

Speaking of MEMRI:

MEMRI TV: Egyptian Cleric Khaled Al-Gindi: Colombian Performer Shakira is a Whore

Well, there's no accounting for taste.

re: #250 Cognito

What the "Arab street" really thinks depends upon who is asking, and which Arab street you are referring too. The Egyptians may be happy, but the Iraqi's are worried.

That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe.

You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor.'

Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time yo u send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, dang it, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York Times, USA Today, or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol or Dancing with Stars.
I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and has a hurricane approaching.

I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.

So I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient for years. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.

So that's it. God bless what's left of America ..

Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you, kiss off.

PS - You might want to start learning Farsi, and buy a Koran.