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We did. The electronic voting machines were forcing people to vote republican.

I would include the link but your blog won't allow me to post it.

There is nothing to gloat about. Obama has a task of unprecedented enormity ahead of him. Unlike the pompous jerk off Bush was/is, he doesn't beleive in "political capital" I am just gald there will be some intelligence brought back to the executive branch after 8 years of failure.

You know, McCain gave a powerful concession speech, and I was genuinely moved by it. But the thing that bothered me was his audience booing.

Bush had 8 years - we all paid our taxes, and no one resorted to civil disobedience or domestic acts of terror. You have to turn of the polarity and get back to being a contributory citizen. It's not us versus them anymore, it's just us now - the collective us.

You have the right to be disappointed and annoyed at the outcome, but it's still your country and in just 4 short years, you get to review the works and vote again. And if you can't do that, you're not a good American.

I cannot blame the crowd for booing. It was more an emotional rection than anything. McCain is a decent and honorable man. For the most part, he ran his campaign true to his word, and I am sure most of the negativity towards the end that we heard, was much to his own chagrin. He didn't waiver from that, and he should be commended for it. I have no doubt he would have made a great leader. I just did not agree with his policies, most of which are continuations of the Bush administrations failed policies.

Nonetheless, McCain is one of the few true public servents and was the best choice for a party in a death spiral. There was no chance the GOP had to win this election. Bush is the sole proprietor (sp?) and chief architect of the monumental failure his blueprint built. The GOP did not help itself by towing the party line every time. Allowing the neoconservative wing of the the extreme right to dictate policy was the biggest failure.

Nobody, even the most forked tounged critic of Obama can understate the enormity of what took place last night. We as a nation of people, when privately voting, looked beyond a person's skin color and decided on the content of their character. This election, the people of this country, made Dr. King's dream a living reality. While we still have a long way to go, I am so deeply moved and proud that I am alive to witness the beginning to the end of our devices of seperation and moving forward to a truly united nation and one people.

Not to leave it on that note, but lets not forget Sarah Palin. While in my eyes she is a failed politician, completely inexperienced, she is still a good mother. She is a steong person. And for your party to blast her and lay balme to her, shows the some of the fundamental problems of a party that is on its death bed. What does the GOP need to do to fix itself? When you sweat out the old GOP guard (the Lindsay Grahams, Ted Steven's, Bohners, etc.) and start goinjg back to the brand of GOP that Arlen Specters, Lincoln Chaffe's - the middle ground republicans, and rebrand your party, than not only will your party have significance again, maybe just maybe, we can gtet some work done in this country.

Nunya: Sorry you couldn't put up the link; honestly, I don't know which switch to flip to change that. I'll look into it.

Skip: I hear you. Honestly, I wasn't bummed out because Obama won; I actually took it in stride. Now four years ago, I would have been sneezing bricks at the television if Kerry had won.

It could be that I've toned down my interest in politics lately. I'm all for Obama doing what he said he'd do.

Mikey - perhaps it is time to re-evaluate your own political leanings. You are probably amongst the many lost wanderers of the GOP. The party has no real direction. The only direction and definition it ever really had was during the Regan years, and that is stretching it. (Thanks to his trickle down economics, we are in the pinch we are in now, but that is another debate). The GOP lost its way a long time ago. Unfortunately, most folks in the GOP are no innocative at all. They would rather follow rather than lead. They feel more comofortable with strict structure and heirarcheal dictation rather than participating in the process of policy.
In ny eyes, I feel the country popped its cherry finally. We may be growing up now. This election is much more than just voting democratic. Americans finally realize we cannot rely on the GOP to keep their word and hope everything works out. They realize a sharp change in policy to get things on the right track is in order. Not social conservatism and certainly not the idelas of more guns, more god and no gays. It is all very tiring and over the last 8 years I have aged quite rapidy constantly fighting these entrenched battles with the right wing of this nation which I always said is a vast minority. Impressive as it was, people like that holding the nation hostage, it is finally over. While the neocon and ultra-ring wing will never go away, I am feeling confident it will never hold much sway and influence like it did for the past 8 years.
Mikey, I do hope you take a hard look at everything where your own political leanings take you. I hope for your childs sake, she can look forward to a nation that defines its strength by hope and intelligence, and not by the size and number of its guns. Realize the military mindset is quaint at best. It should be left on the shelf, constantly taken care of and upgraded but break glass in case of emergency. Hopefully one day, hopefully soon, this world will grow up too. Realize we all are here for the same reasons and respect one another differences but see we are all pointed in the same direction.
I dunno I am rambling but hopefully, finally. Perhpas one day, you will join me in that hope.

I think the booing got to me because lately, a good number of "pro-GOP" guys have been bad people. You know, white supremacists, harm any party they endorse, as do xenophobes, the willfully ignorant, etc. These are fearful people - I was lurking some Pro McCain boards, and a number of people where all about defacing Obama signs and bumperstickers, some promoting active lawbreaking (vandalism of property) when cooler heads had to step in and say whoa whoa whoa, you harm OUR party by being THAT guy. The guys who say "no nigger in the whitehouse" make my blood run cold. I thought all those guys where in retirement homes already.

As for Kerry comment, I wasn't too impressed either - I think that was the election where neither side had a solid candidate.

As for the Palin comment above - I disagree; she's not a good mother and her political career is far from over. I think she does represent America, but not in a good way. I think she represents our sense of entitlement.

I do agree with you. I question the integrity of many of those who booed and wonder how many were voting AGAINST a black man and not FOR mccain.

The more I learn of Palin, the more I see what flaming assholes her and her husband are. I also question their dedication to mentally challenege children since they really have no had time to fully understand what it means to raise a child. While I feel for them, just being a victim of circumstance does not vault one into righteousness.

Personally, putting Palin into that spot showed hoe utterly desperate the GOP is to rebrand itself other than the old rich white gaurd that it is. It was insulting to women to think that by picking some hockey mom was going to win votes. The GOP should be ashamed. And they are still doing it now their "new" face of the GOP is the governer of Louisana, and Indian American. When will the GOP realize that it isn't about gender or skin color, but about ideals and who they really represent. Being so deeply pro-business wrapped in the guise of a christian conservative is hardly "American"

BT a early word of thanks to Mikey and his late father for their service to the country ala tomorrow, Veterans Day 2008.