Not that I wish ill on Obama, I’m just hoping his “curse” won’t include the words stupid and red button. I know one thing’s for sure, his second term ain’t gonna be as fun for him as his first. Campaign mode/off.
Read the full article here. And a snip:
Even a narrow victory can create overconfidence. In 2004, George W. Bush won 50.7 percent of the vote, which was no landslide (even compared with his 48.3 percent share four years earlier). But he treated the victory as a huge mandate, and plunged ahead with a plan to privatize Social Securityin 2005, as he had promised during his re-election campaign.
But the Social Security plan went nowhere. Republicans cringed, and Democrats eagerly united in opposition.
Now that’s what I’m talking about, uniting in opposition 😀 But not sure for which team yet?
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As the new kid on the cyberblock, trying not to step on the truly gifted bloggers here. Just trying to add more cowbell while we work out our grief process, as in, Denial to Murder <—-not really Agent Mike, back off. This does push Oswald's No Mandates a touch further. Keep on keeping on…..in all my political activist life, I've never been so confuzzled as this election's results.
I'll try and keep some OT posts qued up on TCH's ondeck circle on the dashboard. I have one there for the morning guys now.
Thank you so much Denise, that is awesome.
{{{hugs}}} VM. I’m loving it. We have few months yet to Teh Won’s Inaugural. I’m thinking, Really? Another Coronation? Could they please donate that to the Sandy Fund ? Or the poor bastards in rural Virginia that had their towns wiped out in the last tornado sweep? Naw.
I’m either killing myself on January 20th, or declaring my candidacy for a local office. Not sure which yet. 🙂
My hubby thinks you should run for the U.S. Senate.
I do too. Run, Lola, run!
Run Lola Run. 🙂
Omg, run lola run is the perfect campaign slogan! And i am being totally serious. It is so catchy and overthought like any of bo’s taglines 🙂
“So catchy and NOT overthought… ” my bad 🙂
Oh, you gotta run! GO Lola!
Girlfriend, you need to take more credit. Your voice is a breath of fresh air, and your work ethic is AWESOME. Keep ’em coming. I, for one, am loving it. Too much spice can lead to heartburn.
thanks DeniseVB. I am SICK of the second term already…………………..
I will second that! 👿
third
Obama apologized to the Iranians today for wasting their bullets when they attempted to shoot down an American Drone. 👿
A week before the election. Media “covered” it literally.
I could not fucking believe that when I saw it today. The video guy was sentenced yesterday, too.
TWEETABLE!!!!
Do it!
Oh, that is so outrageous. And the video guy getting a year for “parole violations” is a slap to anyone who cares about the first ammendment.
I think there’s a better chance that his administration will implode in on itself. Obama will just circumvent any opposition with exec. orders but he can’t brush the problems with the looming fiscal crisis, or sequestration, or trying to get Obamacare off & running in a year, under the rug.
And I think he’s going to have a real problem with pitting federal agencies against each other to cover his ass. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some major internal wars erupting in this term.
I’m still confused on Executive Order and Executive Privlege. It’s like the Founding Fathers forgot the “special needs” kids as President ?
Disclaimer: I have a “special needs” kid, almost 40, his prognosis at birth was ” I dunno”. I. Am.Mad.Lucky.Blessed.
Isn’t there an amendment that exempts part-time constitutional lecturers from actually abiding by the document they pontificate about? I’m confused too.
And Denise, you don’t need any disclaimers, I know your heart is always in the right place.
Thanks cj, I try 😉
I wish they would let the fiscal cliff stand. Just bring the whole thing down. The quicker people realize how serious this shit, the quicker they will wake up from apathy and denial.
I agree — all of us here would be able to survive it –the morons who supported Obama are the ones incapable of taking care of themselves and would therefore suffer the most.
LET IT BURN.
Those “people” actually believe as long as gov’t. printing presses work there will be no money shortage. And they have 4 year degrees. And know how to spell. U n b e l i e v a b l e !
I changed my voter registration today to “Other” and wrote “Country B4 Party.”
Saw “Opolian” on the other thread 🙂
There’s a nice tweet..
I’m in Virginia, open registration. I think Voter ID requirement should trump state party registration. All states should be open, which would help the primaries too.
Honk!
It sounds like they are just lowering expectations for Bronco. If he is expected to be an enormous dud in his second term he will be doing what everyone expects which is nothing. I’m sure the NYT will eventually be explaining that we have to go backwards because anything else would be unfair and probably racist.
I think the NYT will put some pressure on Teh Won Part Deux. As I recall, the drool bucket media will turn on the second term. And so will SNL. Ratings and Subscriptions baby 😉
You are probably correct. It really is a shame if the NYT turns on Bronco in the second term that no one but other media, academics, and New Yorkers will be reading Carlos Slim’s new rag. I’m going to think of the NYT’s as Montezuma’s Revenge.
I’ll believe that when I see it. Obronco is never, and I mean never held accountable in the ways that GWB was. It’s a function of the elite’s racism.
HONK!
Rod Blago is getting out of jail. http://www.illinoispaytoplay.com. 👿 Seriously, why would anyone think he was gonna sing on Bronco Hussein? 👿
ugh
Is he on parole or did he serve out? If he is paroled he has to zip it or go back in. Is he going to be an evangelist now like all the other famous political crook? I’ve never heard of a Polish evangelist from Chicago.
No. I think he had 18 or 30 years. Looks like Obama bought his silence. Too bad for rezko – he voted for romney so Bronco would be able to give him a pardon. I bet bronco is probably getting ready to have a really big prison break which includes the blind sheik. 👿
As much as I hate to admit it, being one of his tribe — Blago is about as Serb as one can be. We haven’t had a public figure to be proud of since Karl Malden. : (
Rod Blago is getting out of jail. http://www.illinoispaytoplay.com. 👿 Seriously, why would anyone think he was gonna sing on Bronco Hussein? 👿 yawoooozooo babe
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/15/romney-campaign-files-federal-suit-to-ensure-all-military-ballots-count-in-wisconsin/
Romney campaign files federal suit to ensure all military ballots count in Wisconsin
I think Alan West is challenging the FL results too. I’m really shocked West and Mia Love lost their elections 😦
revenge
Meant to nest it below DeniseVB
I was very disappointed Mia Love lost. I really believed the poll that said she had a good margin over the Democrat. Darn it!
I was so smitten by Mia, I paid no attention to her challenger. This. is. going. to. be. a. long. 4. years. Sigh.
That article is from October 15…?
That OFA took “special efforts” ($$$$$$$) opposing those two races speaks to Dems racism. Next they’ll be gunning for Thomas Sowell.
Oh I am so glad to hear that. Someone needs to stand up for them, for god’s sake. Put your life on the line so the faux CIC can ignore your vote just doesn’t fly with me.
Washington doesn’t even have a governor yet. He will probably be the Dem, but we haven’t even finished counting ballots. My county has nearly 30% of our ballots still to count and won’t be done until tomorrow.
I’m really tired of us basing our elections on predictions and media speculation. Half the time a state isn’t even finished voting yet and the polls are still open and they call an election. I don’t like that one bit. Our elections should be based on ballots, not speculation.
Florida is a bloody nightmare, but they really aren’t alone. The media expects the results within minutes but it often takes days and even weeks to get all the ballots counted and certified.
My rant of the month.
I don’t blame Romney. I thought he was an excellent candidate.
I blame the POS and his staffers for rigging the voting machines. And then I blame the a$$hats who voted for 4 more years of the incompetent vile nasty destructive narcissitic pos.
After that I blame Chris Christy for his backstabbing intervention to help save Mr. Affirmative Action’s a$$.
And then I blame the media, BC, minorities intent on getting their “revenge” against whites and whites who did not get off their butts to vote.
At this point, with all other racial/minority groups coalescing to form a united front it’s about d@mn time whites did the same. It’s like there’s a racial deathwish among some whites. We are the only group that voted in balanced numbers for the two candidates, I believe it was 39% for the pos and 61% for Mitt.
All other groups voted lockstep for melanin. Blacks voted 99% for the POS and Hispanics voted over 70% for him.
It seems the POS was successful in the strategy of suppressing white turnout but whites have only themselves to blame for that.
As for me I will never again support minority positions on anything. Screw them. I am headed toward white solidarity. It was never my first inclination but at this point it is perfectly clear the pos and his supporters aim to take out the white population.
I am not mincing words or trying for a more subdued analysis. I am calling what’s going on what it is. An attempt to overturn and destroy a country built primarily by white people which, in an attempt to become inclusive has sparked its own downfall.
It is war.
And, BTW, the POS called Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader and President of Egypt as soon as he verified (they already knew) that he’d successfully stolen the election.
And, (since I’m on a rant I may as well continue) it seems the POS talking points to the repubs that Mitt’s failure to achieve victory was because of a failure of outreach to minorities has already begun.
BS.
I’m for self-preservation at this point. That’s what the pos has imposed on the country. Complete divisiveness and the realization that race, gender and color are (almost) everything
Wow.
I wrote my rant BEFORE I saw this!
I rest my case.
Newsweek Cover: “GOP: You’re Old, You’re White, You’re History”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/newsweek-cover-gop-youre-old-youre-white-youre-history/#comments
Holy crap. I’m not a Republican or a conservative and I find that headline offensive as hell. It’s ageist and racist. That’s the thing that is most detestable about ObamaNation: their hateful hypocrisy.
That way leads to Serbia and Croatia but I understand the reaction.
We already are Serbia/Croatia.
Wyntre, I understand, just keep in mind a whole lot of black folks are angry too, and did not support this fraud.
http://blackagendareport.com/content/victory-%E2%80%93-non-resistance
99% voted for the pos.
Congressional White Caucus; NAAWP; White PUMA Panthers;
EAO-Euro American Organization; United UnNegro College Fund; WET White Entertainment Network.
Can you just imagine the outrage! LOL
What a bunch of hypocrites they are!
Joe Biden, David Axelrod, Plouffe, Messina, Harry Reid, Timothy Geitner, NY Gov. Cuomo (rumored to be setting up for 2016 run) — no white guys in high authority positions in the Dem party.
Condoleeza Rice, Nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal, Allen West, Mia Love, several other women and hispanics were on stage at the Republican convention.
Were they just convention crashers? DId they just jump the barriers and rush all the ‘old white guys?”
that is such a crock of bullshit!
The MSM completely ignored them so they didn’t exist.
Wyntre, Obama has been the most divisive president ever, and is the reason I never supported him, and I will always be disgusted at his sight and voice. But 40% of the whites voted for Obama, and without that vote he wouldn’t have been elected. MN, WI, PA are somewhere between 70 to 80 percent white, and those states went for The One. So what are you gonna do with that piece of information?
I’m going to call it what it is. White Guilt. That can be cured.
The comment’s by “wyntre” are heartbreaking, but what are you going to do? I think it’s better that people say this out loud rather than hide. I know wyntre isn’t a representation of all PUMA’s but I wonder about the hold outs. Who are the PUMA’s who because obots? Were you all the moderate/blue dog dems? Were you only dems because of the GOP’s Jesus/guns/gays stance? For as long as I have been an eligible voter I haven’t been able to find a political home so I like to pick the partisan brain.
because=became
What’s sad about it? The fact that I said it? It needs to be said, clearly, without fear.
FYI, I was an ardent HRC supporter. When the RBC stole delegates from her during the May 31 2008 meetings in order to gift the Affirmative Action incompetent unqualified candidate the nomination I tore up my dim card and registered as an Indie.
I knew the pos was an imposter, a shucking and jiving pulpit pimp as the blacks in the inner city neighborhoods where I taught referred to such BS artists but I did not know the extent of the groundswell of support for his racist ways amongst the general (minority) population.
Now I know.
And I choose to stand with my racial group now the same way the fothermuckers on the other side have chosen to stand with the pos.
I did not create this mess but I d@mn well am not going to ignore it.
I and others like me will be just fine. Poor but fine. I know how to stretch a dollar and survive.
I used to have compassion for those who will come after me but no more. The mask has been stripped from the beast and the idiots have chosen their fate.
I intend to sit back and laugh as the ground collapses beneath their feet.
Not going to click on the link since the title itself is designed to be inflammatory and demoralizing. Rich white people will take care of themselves whether D or R. The racial problem is that Caucasians are high-maintenance employees. That’s why so many jobs are being transferred to Asian countries where the employees are brainy, hardworking, and thanks to Mao, tyranny-compliant. If it comes to a labor war among races, I’m going with the Asians on intrade.
Oh, please. You must live in an urban area. Here in the country – mostly white – people work their butts off.
Of course they do! (They also work their butts off in urban areas.) But this is the global perception of Caucasians. We’re the ones who championed labor laws, equal rights, etc. Those are not necessarily values world-wide.
Not sure if I get my point across – what do you think?
Oh wow voter turnout in Boston was 129%? Gosh and I thought the 99% turnout in Philly was amazing.
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
When a state allows same day voter registration, votes totals over the number of people registered before election day make sense, but MA does not. I wonder how this affects the Brown/Warren totals.
I think brown needs to run against kerry in an off year election. I think then if he did win, it would look more and more suspicious towards voter fraud in 2012. I think brown should totally go for it. He has nothing to lose except he could win, there could be kerry fatigue. Also if kerry is sos, then brown should run for his old seat!
I wonder if Paul Revere is still voting?
bwahahah I am so stealing that!
The dead votes are coming! The dead votes are coming!
I did a quick calculation. In the 2010 election, Boston had a 43% turnout and the total votes cast was 153,270 (254 precincts) for Brown and Coakley
per the Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/2010/senate/results.html
That means there were about 356,441 registered voters
This November, according to the Boston Globe there for the same 254 of precincts, 247,464 votes were cast for Brown and Warren.
If I assume the same number of registered voters as 2010, the turnout was about 69%
The Boston Globe has reasonable numbers when one looks at the 2010 and 2012 election. I must assume then that the spreadsheet is wrong. It’s not unusual for spreadsheets to have calculation errors that go undetected. That is more reasonable than to assume massive fraud. I think Brown and the Republicans would be screaming if that was the case.
Of course jumping to conclusion is, per rule 7 (Oswald), completely acceptable.
The 2012 Boston Globe link
http://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/2012/general/mass-us-senate-election-results-2012.html
Also, the spreadsheet shows 387,142 registered voters. That’s 30.7K more registered voters in 2012 than in 2010. That’s reasonable because 2012 is a presidential election. If I assume the 387,142 as the number of registered voters, the turnout for the November 6 election was 64%. That’s a very reasonable number.
I noticed something on page 7 of the City of Boston spreadsheet. One of the columns shows “Total Votes” 250295
That total votes is a little higher than the 247,464 reported by the Boston Globe because the total votes would include voters for other candidates.
It got your point across, but me thinks they are NOT RECEPTIVE to that point.
LALALA can’t hear you….
Seriously I am looking forward to Obama owning all his shit.
No more blaming or crying and I WILL REMIND all my Obot friends and anyone else who even tries to make one fucking excuse.
HONK HONK HONK
Annabelle is on tonight…listen now
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/johnwsmart/2012/11/09/the-john-smart-show
Personally, I am holding the Democrats accountable for all the nasty drone killing of innocents and the complete erosion of our civil liberties. Everybody on the planet knows the GOP is in favor of all the DHS intrusions and the never ending Warrenterrer…and they won’t try to stop it.
That was the job of the Democrats.
Now that 51% of country gave Obama the go ahead…that blood is directly on them. And then the unholy blasphemous assault on the Constitution is on them as well.
By their votes, they give support and legitimacy to FISA and NDAA, and all this class warfare. They are the party of taking away our rights and killing innocents in Yemen.
This is now way bigger than Hillary for me. This is time for revolution.
Someone pointed me to Jeremy Scahill testimony about our Peace Prize Pres . Obama’s first killing drone strike. How Yemen took the credit for it but how the truth has a way of revealing itself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/02/jeremy-scahill-says-drone-strikes-murders_n_1565441.html
Honk!
That’s why there’s a man in London, in the Ecuador embassy, who has been identified as enemy of the state.
Does anyone have final FL numbers?
They are STILL counting!
Was it ValJar that said something about payback? It’s started- and they started with Seal Team 6. Fucking bastards. So oblowhard and drunk Joe can blab all they want and go unpunished- but the Seals – well no, no they can’t.
http://news.yahoo.com/source-7-navy-seals-punished-secrecy-breach-011057932.html
I’m starting to call her Val Jar Jar after Jar Jar Binks, the most hated Star Wars character ever.
Love it! V.Jarjar
I think it is really stupid to piss off either the CIA or the SEALs.
I’d love to see their payback, but that would be kept secret.
More than 1600 comments on that article.
A review of voter registration data for ten counties in Colorado details a pattern of voter bloat inflating registration rolls to numbers larger than the total voting age population. Using publicly available voter data and comparing it to U.S. Census records reveals the ten counties having a total registration ranging between 104 to 140 percent of the respective populations.
http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/04/colorado-counties-have-more-voters-than-people/
Like they couldn’t figure out this was going on before the election.
Obama lost in every state with voter ID
Were they red states?
Hey DM — eff off with the Southerners are racists bullshit.
No Angienc. I have no idea why you say something I did not say. I don’t know of any blue state that has voter id. I’m then saying that if a state had voter id and Romney won, it’s not because of the voter id but because it was a red state to begin with.
Angienc, it seems to me you carry a chip on your shoulders and believe that people are out to call you racist because you are a Southerner.
Folks, I don’t have a dog in this particular fight, but I LOVE TCH and it would break my heart to see us implode.
Debunked:
The votes reported:
1854 + 1320 = 3174 Gilpin
and
228 + 352 = 580 Hinsdale
You can jump to conclusions, but I’m not gonna believe anything from that red state story.
You can check those CO counties for yourself here
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president
I don’t trust the NYT
lol. I understand. You can check other sources. I’m sure Fox News has CO returns in detail 🙂
The Fox News map for CO. It also shows the same number of votes.
Hinsdale is a blue county closer to the top, and Gilpin is a red county toward the bottom.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-colorado-state-race
I would really like to send a card to Mitt and Ann Romney, thanking them for running for president as he did. Do you know how to find their address or since they are so popular, how to address the envelope so it will reach them. Thanks!
I was thinking the same. I’m going to send it to:
Gov. Mitt Romney
C/O Republican Party
310 First Street, SE Washington, DC 20003
Thanks, DM! Appreciate it.
There is negativity even from repubs in the media, that Romney did this wrong and should have done this, etc., etc., that I wanted to counter it for Romney by letting him know how much I liked him and his family, their values, and such, and of their positive influence on me. He and his family must be going through much worse shock and depression than we are right now.
One small change. I just looked into it. There’s no more “Governor” The letter and envelope should be addressed as:
The Honorable Mitt Romney
and salutation is:
Dear Mr. Romney
Thanks again, DM. I have corrected the info. You have some great research skills. 🙂
Great idea
I just read a comment on another blog that Fox said Eric Holder is retiring. Wow, I hope that’s true!
I think he would need to pass a senate confirmation again. There’s no way that he could go to a confirmation hearing without being asked about Fast and Furious.
my theory on this thing so far: i think sandy helped obama turn out his base in the end, and that, combined with the low gop turnout, which we now find out was a result of a catastrophic ground game failure on the part of the romney campaign was enough to flip the election for obama. i think romney performed fantastically as a candidate in an environment that was extremely hostile, particularly with regard to the media. he showed a lot of guts and heart, more so than john mccain did, i thought. i’m not sure to what degree i can hold him responsible for micro-managing people somewhere in the framework of his campaign who cannot handle basic communication with their ground teams. that’s not really the candidate’s job.
Apparently it was a software glitch of their got out the vote program and who knows, my tinfoil hat is on but there are alot of college students who are able to manipulate code nowadays. Not to mention the horrible voting software used in so many different municipalities.
http://tinyurl.com/ap6q64x
What I need is to be able to trust the process and I cannot any longer. I still wonder why the Democrats never pursued our terrible e-voting system.
Yup, I remember all the “Diebold is rigged by Cheney!” screaming in 2004 – what happened to that? It’s all good as long as it’s rigged in favor of Obama.
You know, Romney was correct about that 47% not voting for him since they had become dependent on the gov’t’s generosity but that number grew as more and more became unemployed, needed food stamps, etc. What that 47% doesn’t realize is that those cuts to these programs are coming no matter who is president but with Obama there will not be the jobs for them to replace those lost benefits.
The cuts are coming, but nobody will scream about them, if Obama is president.
And that’s pretty much why he was engineered into the position.
Walker has an excellent point. In addition, as we look around, who are the candidates for the Democrats in 2016? Hillary, Biden and Cuomo. I guess there are a few others, but the Democratic Party has aged and petrified. The GOP is young, and the future belongs to the GOP. The GOP doesn’t have to change much, but it needs to enough to move voters from 47% to 51%
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