It's 11:30pm, and I think we all know by now what has happened. Barack Obama has won the presidential election. A strong college following, an effort to blast cities and suburbs with voter registration volunteers, and a little help from ACORN has given him more than enough votes to take office.
I could write about how angry I am, or how I do not understand how America can vote for someone who has the political experience of a sandbox, but I understand why. This was a prime time for the Dems to take control. 8 years of Republican control in the White House is difficult to continue with the way things have gone lately, and as I have mentioned in previous posts, this is not entirely the fault of the current president. But he will get blamed for it, and I expect that with the barrage of media attacks he receives.
I may not like, trust, or believe Obama, but I will give him a chance. I will see what he does before I begin calling for his head. I will hope that he does not get the opportunity to do certain things with my money and my country.
6 comments:
Picking a horrible running mate didn't exactly help the cause...
Yeah, Biden was a bad choice. Thanks for bringing that up.
It would have been nice to have heard a comment out of you that had not been fed to you by KOS or Keith Olbermann.
Palin wasn't a bad choice. The demise of McCain came with the financial crisis in mid-September. That is when his numbers began to fall. Palin supplied new blood to the campaign, but in the face of the financial issues and people just tired of hearing the words Clinton or Bush, they could have put Reagan up there and it wouldn't have mattered. Palin did well, McCain did well, but Obama was more organized and did it better. For that, I will give him credit.
Nobody feeds me comments. I don't even read Kos.
We'll call it a draw. You're correct in that no running mate would have turned the math in McCain's favor; but on the other hand, any discussion of the factors that contributed to his defeat that does not include Sarah Palin is both disingenuous and incomplete.
A conversation for another day, perhaps. Do you think Perkins actually believed we'd start showing up on Thursday nights?
(I'm also curious on your thoughts about the reluctant governor. Tuesday was a rough night for the GOP, but Daniels is clearly a rising star in the party, even if he doesn't want to be. He claims to have no further aspirations beyond governor, but it's awfully convenient that his final term will be drawing to a close just as Lugar's term is also coming to a close.)
Nah, Perkins knows we've aged. But still, perhaps we should do that soon.
Simply put, Indiana isn't doing bad, which is why Daniels did so well. As for his higher aspirations, I believe he might consider running for Senate, but he has already been to Washington, and that may have something to do with his position. Also, Daniels is smart. He isn't going to talk about running until he sees how Indiana works for the next couple of years. If things start turning into a Pet Semetary, he may not be able to run against Mr. Franchise Dick Lugar. I was surprised Barack didn't pin Secy of State to Lugar...that would have made some headway with the GOP voters.
You are one of only three republicans I know that has responded intelligently to Obama's win. You are going to give him a chance instead of being convinced he won't make it to office for not being a US citizen or some such nonsense.
Of course, you are the only person I've met that based their republican vote this time on actual political beliefs instead of mistakenly believing Obama is a muslim.
It's refreshing to see someone actually responded logically to this instead saying WE ARE NO LONGER SAFE! QUEERS GONNA GET MARRIED NOW!
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines that the party would court Daniels and that Lugar would see it as a good time to retire, since he could almost certainly leave the seat in the hands of an accomplished Republican. Not that I want him to retire, you understand. It just has that feeling of one of those "this is the right time" deals. I don't know if I explained that very well.
And yes, we should.
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