How a ‘Nation of Whiners’ Struck Back

McCain tried to run as a conservative, but he is not, he's a moderate. He would not defend or nor could he understand what they wanted. There were so many openings for him to kill the Democrats on decades of failed policies, that setup this perfect finanacial storm, but he did nothing to take advantage of it.

I feel sorry for the United States of America. My sister owns a restaruant & is not rich by all means. By the time she pays for the food to cook, the cook, the waitressess, the utilities, and all the costs...She is barely bringing in 50,000 from the 200,000 range. She was going to expand the business but she layed off everyone & is the only cook, & waitress & cut down the days she is open. She said she can not afford to give her hard earned money away when she is helping to raise her daughter & her 2 granddaughters. She said she would rather give what she has to her family before it is taken away to give to strangers who have not worked for 30 years to own their own buinsess like she has. I am sure she is not the only one in this situation. All I see from all of this is a huge increase in unemployment & businessess going under for small business. Will be a scary & upside down 4 years. Nothing will be sure or stable.

Good article. I am constantly reading your blog and I noticed you constantly mentioned Barack OBama Plane in this article.
I had to share this.
I was surfing the web and I came across a company that has created an exact 1:150 scale replica of the Barack Obama Campaign Airplane. Pretty creative,
I believe their site is http://www.obamaplane.com.
Ken.

It's a good thing for McCain he isn't a Liberal or a Democrat (even though he thought of changing parties after Bush and Fallwell degraded him and his wife so bad in 2000) or he would have had to defend his adultery actions during his first marriage because the GOP's, especially the right wing fanatics, would have plastered his infidelity all over the place. Republicans would have made sure everyone knew McCain's character is that of someone who cheats on his wife.

McCain should have picked a better VP and NOT run such negative campaign strategy. McCain has no right to slam someone else's character when he has lied at his job and he committed adultery while married to his first wife. His take on Iraq which is to just carry on the corrupt Bush war is wrong, plus his support for corporation tax cuts which send jobs overseas is certainly not a patriotic decision.

McCain thinks jobs will be created by continuing Bush's corporation tax cuts. After 8 years of Bush giving corporations tax cuts, where are the jobs? They are overseas like in India, not in America. Why can't all the call centers in India be moved to Small-Town America? Why would McCain continue Bush's tax cuts for corporations when it hasn't worked for 8 years? - Typical GOP support of Big Business.

McCain said we can't just get out of Iraq yet Bush pulled the majority of our troops out of Afghanistan-the forgotten REAL war- just like that to start his corrupt war in Iraq which he LIED about, hence, CORRUPT war. At what point does a CORRUPT war like Iraq become honorable? - Never, corrupt is corrupt, there will NEVER be an honorable win in Iraq. McCain doesn't care about the cost it will take to win Iraq, be it money or lives, all McCain wants is to say we won. I'd rather see our troops alive and out of Iraq than any stupid 'win' title.

For Bush to start a war in Iraq off lies and not be held accountable, furthermore then getting RE-elected (even though he did NOT win the popular vote in '04) after all his lies, corruption, and ever embarrassingly stupid speeches, is truly beyond comprehension and a warped sense of Patriotism. Along came McCain who supports Bush's corrupt war and wanted to become president - unbelievable. A true insult to the service of veterans especially the vets who never returned home.

A gracious concession speech by McCain. Alas, it was not his time, his time was in 2000. McCain sold his soul when he aligned himself with the very people who caused him to lose the GOP nominee in 2000 by using dirty underhanded tactics. McCain's # 1 problem-BUSH, his second biggest problem-Palin.

It is disturbing that McCain got as many votes as he did. McCain can't say he is going to be CHANGE after he voted for and supported Bush's stupid and corrupt decisions. For McCain to suggest for himself and copy Obama's theme of change was utterly stupid. If you are mad or confused about '08 election results, you have been sleeping, especially for the past 8 years. Do the human race a favor, go back to sleep.

If McCain didn't want negative publicity, then HE should NOT have been negative towards Obama first, old John created his own negative publicity. Because McCain considered changing parties after Bush and Fallwell degraded him and Cindy so bad in 2000, I was shocked and disappointed when McCain became so brutally negative towards Obama, I mean didn't McCain learn ANYTHING about dirty politics?

There was an unintended truth to what Phil Gramm said about us whining. I already had a sadness in my gizzard, deep down there somewhere in the viscera, that was close to what would have been called a whine in my infancy. But, it had been generated by the tragedy of the eight years of Bush administration. I could hear echoes of Vietnam and the "guns and butter" waste of our soldiers and our resources of those days, and the repetitive claims that we were winning and that there was "light at the end of the tunnel" as the body bags began to stack higher and higher. I actually found, as well, when I finally got to go walk the distance of the Viet Nam Memorial, that the tears welled up and fell on my clothes with no hope of stopping them, and then is when I realized how bad it really had been, and that art born in tragedy can actually have a physical effect on an unwilling person. I am an old man who does not whine. But again, I hope for the last time, I was sitting at the television in awe of an historical election and when it was suddenly announced that a victor had been declared, I whined like a baby. I know that it was motivated by the fact that something really bad had finally ended. It is a long list of reasons that continues to come to mind, too lengthy to recite in this medium. I've had it with whining. I will whine no more, no matter what happens. I live in a good place again and there is cause only for celebration. I'll pitch in and do my part. That's how it was always intended to work here in this blessed country.

Time will tell about Obama. Were his words just to win votes?