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  • Posted By: Gobama2008 @ 11/09/2008 8:21:02 AM

    Good riddance to Bush, Cheney, Rove and all their criminal cohorts. Unfortunately, the religious zealots on the Right will always be with us. It'll be so nice to finally have a President who can think for himself, and who is surrounding himself with a cabinet of other intelligent people. We never stood a chance with Bush. It's been a long, hellish 8 years with Clueless George and Cheney in command.....

  • Posted By: GregHere @ 11/09/2008 7:10:13 AM

    .........................................The Republican Rednicks are still here.......Maybe they should take a seat on the bench for a week or so and get some new ideas........America gave the Neocon Rednecks a D Minus and wants something fresh and new!!!!!

  • Posted By: racerstodeath @ 11/09/2008 3:54:07 AM

    Wow... i started to read this article thinking it was a piece about "innovative economics" that Business Week talked about a weeks or months back... but instead, i see a hate-filled rhetoric about "W"... Come on its really getting old... after reading your article (unfortunately...i did read it...) i really think i got dumber...Your piece was not thing i couldn't get by going to an eight year's old Myspace page who hates Bush (giving you the benefit of the doubt that a six year's old parent wouldn't let them have a Myspace page in the first place)...insult the man's intelligence, character and morals.... well, apparently, "W" is still 100x the man you are cause he's still President....but thats beside the point, isn't it?

    Anyways, if you are going to do an editorial piece about how you hate Bush or any other Republican for that matter, please, as proof of your professionalism, label it as an editorial. I love the " The World from Washington" nomenclature, but still...And while I am teaching you a thing or two about your job, remember that editorials don't belong on the front page...especially in an "acclaimed" news outlet ... actually, with this article, it just became a toilet read... try recusing yourself once in a while... its whats makes us human....

    By the way thank you for putting me into "the politics of ideological rigidity, religious zealotry and anti-intellectualism" as I happen to live in Houston, TX. I guess that Michael Savage is correct in saying "Liberalism is a mental disorder".

    Peace
    AltonNg.com

    Give Obama a Benjamin and he'll definitely give you change! Not thing but change! LOL

  • Posted By: blueskyatmidnite @ 11/09/2008 2:16:23 AM

    Krohn had the same post for another article...interesting. I had replied to that one: Comment: I bet a lot of energetic (and law abiding inclined) children are happy to learn that anyone -qualified- can win an election. I think it was the possibility of Palin that invited folks to believe knowledge, intelligence, character, associations, intentions, substance and demeanor were irrelevant. I don't believe those desperate for a handout made the difference in this election. It was my impression that ignorance, entitlement and irresponsibility - not to mention hate mongering and meanness, were the hallmark of the republican party.

    why does krohn post the same message for different articles?

  • Posted By: ariziowa @ 11/09/2008 1:25:17 AM

    Why would you disagree with hirshyboy ? I why is there a rollex tick, ticking all the time, Hmmmm. newsweak, please answer!

  • Posted By: ariziowa @ 11/09/2008 1:20:27 AM

    My goodness "chillydog - or is that god"? You didn't even read the article - or can you even read? Are you a "know-nothing moron" who worships osama?

  • Posted By: RaeofSun @ 11/08/2008 8:18:53 PM

    My thoughts put to paper. Exactly. The failures of Obama in the upcoming years will probably have less to do with him and more to do with how the world works and the fact that he could do anything and the economy will continue to decline and the foreign states will continue to attack one another and Us. His approach, though, is probably the best that can be hoped for. Pragmatic, thoughtful, patient.

    • Posted By: independentnow @ 11/09/2008 12:17:03 AM

      Why are people already apologizing for what Obama might do in the future. Give the guy a chance.

  • Posted By: getrealfrank @ 11/08/2008 10:51:56 PM

    Your date & copywrite is a year off.

  • Posted By: mycle39 @ 11/08/2008 10:25:43 PM

    You are absolutely right. I am tired of the same old excuses from the blacks!

  • Posted By: sirideain1 @ 11/08/2008 9:48:49 PM

    Racism my ***! Blacks were selling blacks long before Islam and Islamic blacks made it an international business. Take your masochistic liberal guilt and write an article about Poland. There is a people and country that has really suffered the indignaties and injustices of history.

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/08/2008 11:36:27 AM

    "Krohn": If you're as objective as you imply, then we will see you sharing with us your disdain for the truly shocking (E.g: Terrorist fist bump?) offal Fox "News" broadcasts. Until then, you have no moral authority.

    This is just an extension of your ongoing theme that the liberal press stole the election. It is fantasy of the right. It is offensive to us moderates who voted for Obama, including long term republicans like me. We were not duped.

    You will be a part of a shrinking party until you folks focus on the failures of the republican administration, including it???s choice to consider extremists as ???the base.???

    • Posted By: AlexHart @ 11/08/2008 1:32:18 PM

      The Liberal Press being in the bag for Obama is not disputable. The percentage of articles on MSNBC, for example, was 71-29 in favor of Obama. Fantasy? I don't think so, but perhaps you can come to some other conclusion...

      McCain's campaign was terrible on a lot of levels, but mostly because he did not articulate conservative principals, and that's because he is not a conservative. He needed to draw a contrast between himself and Obama, which he could not do.

      Let's hope, for the sake of the country, that Obama has something to back up the eloquence with witch he conducted his campaign. Given the 'deer in the headlight' look he had at his first press conference, I doubt it though. He is finding out, after his 'briefings' that a lot of the things he wants to do simply cannot be done - at least the way he thought they could be.

      I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that I am right. Time will tell.

      • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/08/2008 8:06:31 PM



        "AlexHart": Your "hope" is in the right place. If enough who wanted to elect McCain act on that, we all have the best chance possible to move forward in a way that will be in everyone's best interests. That's what we all hope for, right?

      • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 11/08/2008 5:51:28 PM


        "Deer in the headlights"? You must be one of those who think Fox News is "fair and balanced". Did you watch the Obama press conference in a parallel universe? To me he seemed totally in control and the markets got a bump right after, so a lot of people were happy with it.

        Now that McCain lost, let's just drop the nonsense about the liberal media. If a candidate calls his opponent "socialist" but proposes plans which call for excessive government intervention (buying bad mortgages - which even Obama said was too much), if his chosen running VP doesn't even know that Africa is a continent, or what the Bush Doctrine is, then the media is not spinning anything, it is reporting their idiocies.

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/08/2008 8:00:19 PM



    ???Krohn???: Some remarkably revealing ranting there???

    Human qualities will be irrelevant ???if you are fortunate enough to belong to an ethnic minority that the Media wishes to promote???. In this first???AFFIRMATIVE ACTION election.???

    We???re going to continue to ban all whites from elective office??? After all, that???s all we???ve done since affirmative action was instituted nearly 40 years ago.

    ???What will be our next step????

    We will continue leaving bigots behinder and behinder as delusionals like you continue to fade in your pathetic insignificance and irrelevance.

    The Media did not cause me to vote for Obama, nor did ???guilt??? over your gargoylean racism.

    A 40 year republican

  • Posted By: teddyo @ 11/07/2008 4:16:34 PM

    As one who has followed the cristian faith I see the republican party use it as a tool to hate and divide us, and to push it on others only scaring them away. It's sad because that's not what God intended. Then they wonder why the far left won't follow. It's because they see and hear a lot of lies coming from so called christians.

    • Posted By: the-commish @ 11/08/2008 7:13:08 PM

      You are correct, teddyo. But it's more than that. The GOP had control of the White House and the Congress for 6 years, but did nothing, nada, zilch, zero about abortion. Why not? Because if they had done so, and settled the issue once and for all, they would not have it as a wedge for future elections. So they pay it lip service, do nothing about it, and still have it as an issue that they can use to gain the votes of the religious right nutcases. How clever!

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/08/2008 11:46:02 AM

    "Ariziowa": "How many black people do you know that can't utter a sentence?" I know quite a few whites "who" can't. I know a black who can: Obama. Or is that his white part? How about Colin Powell? 'Course, he had to leave the Bush administration because he chose to ignorantly rely on the neocon pseuo-intellectual fantasies.

    • Posted By: sirhc @ 11/08/2008 6:45:31 PM

      THE MOST IRONIC PART OF HIS COMMENT IS THAT-NEVER, NEVER, EVER, WILL ANY BLACK PERSON BE ABLE TO ASCEND TO THE HEIGHTS OF BUSH OR SARAH PALIN WITH THAT TOTAL LACK OF COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/08/2008 6:44:05 PM

    November 5th, 2008 SP Editor Posted in American News | 159 Comments »

    Anything can happen in America???

    You can literally be ANYBODY and win an election, something that I bet a lot of lazy (and criminally inclined) children will be happy to learn. From now on, experience, knowledge, intelligence, character, associations, intentions, substance, and demeanor will be irrelevant, if you are fortunate enough to belong to an ethnic minority that the Media wishes to promote and that enough European Americans can feel guilty for.

    In this first (and probably not last) AFFIRMATIVE ACTION election, we have discovered that if you promise enough nonsense to those who are desperate for a handout, you can be victorious. We have discovered that when you allow the spread of ignorance, entitlement, and irresponsibility throughout an entire population, you can reach very high (note to self when selling any product!).

    Yesterday was the beginning of the end for the United States of America. We are only left to see what we can create from the ashes of this entire mess. WE will have to get ready for the tornado that is about to hit us, and be ready to take over from the mindless hordes that now dominate our land.

    Will many of these same ???AmeriCONS???, as I will now call them, ever learn?

    Yesterday, people elected a clone of Mr. 2000 and 2004. An unprepared empty suit of a man, whom we shall forever call the Affirmative Action Bush (AA Bush for short).

    What will be our next step?

  • Posted By: sirhc @ 11/08/2008 6:29:14 PM

    It's not even anti-intellectualism. The past 8 years have been a haven for arrogance, ignorance and a total lack of BASIC COMMONSENSE. How the hell can you say you (Republicans, Republican whitehouse, republican congress) are strong on the military and defending the country when the country gets hit and 3000+ are killed in one morning, the person who did it is still alive , talking crap on video tape, maybe writing a book...............etc. And the decision-LET'S GO INVADE IRAQ. Even kindergartners and Compton gangbangers know to hit the person back who hit you-Not someone else who had nothing to do with it.

  • Posted By: barry x @ 11/07/2008 10:58:57 PM

    What the world seems to like is a weaker United States, and this election has produced just that. I agree that George Bush is without effective communication skills. He is not however, weak, or without the fortitude to respond to a crisis. Obama has not shown the brainpower that you speak of. He has a knack for fooling the unfortunate among us by using class warfare, using race to forward his personal agenda, and passing
    vagaries off as a political platform thus allowing people to believe in their own personal Obama, one that he
    even admits could not exist. What Obama has espoused is nothing more than the failed ideas of the far left.
    He appears to be nothing more than the next Jimmy Carter, who coincidentally was just a popular with the mullahs of Iran as Obama, pretty interesting.
    Obama's glaring weaknesses aside, the biggest problems this country now faces are from an uninformed, history challenged population, a liberal Democratic leadership majority in congress that has been put in position to fix economic problems that it was largely the cause of (ie. the housing crisis), and a failure of media sources to fairly inform the general public without bias. Why do liberal politicians hide what they truely believe. Why can't they honestly and clearly tell the people what they believe in, the history of where these ideas came from, and examples of how their policies have worked in the past under similar circumstances? The farce of hope and change may have won an election, but a what cost?

    • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 11/08/2008 6:00:25 PM


      When Obama gets us into a war of choice against a country that was never a threat, when he mismanages that war at the cost of hundreds of thousands of victims. When he violates the Geneva Convention and tortures, gets rid of habeas corpus and spies American citizens without warrants, when he outs a CIA operative as a political vendetta, when he destroys our economy just to give Paris Hilton a tax break, then I'll be on your side. Until then shut it, because your side has done those things and much more.

    • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 11/08/2008 1:40:31 PM

      No president in modern times has made the United States weaker than George Bush. By involving this country in a preemptive war, by allowing torture, by suspending habeus corpus and suspending the rights of prisoners, by wiretapping and eavesdropping on American citizens even on their most intimate and personal conversations, Bush has negated all that the United States has stood for throughout its history. We've lost moral standing and allies thorughout the world. We have never been in such a weakened position internationally. The results of this election were a repudiation of Bush politics and a desire to return the United States to its postion of strength and morality in the world. The majority of the people of the United States believe that Barack Obama can accomplish that goal, and with God's help, he will.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/08/2008 9:31:07 AM

      "What the world seems to like is a weaker United States, and this election has produced just that."

      THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!

  • Posted By: toby123 @ 11/07/2008 1:13:40 PM

    Anti-intellectualism is not near dead. Just because anti-intellectuals lost the vote doesn't mean that all of them simply disappear or suddenly gain the ability to perform logical thought. They're already set for Palin 2012 despite her glaring flaws and disasterous effect on the McCain campaign.

    • Posted By: sudkan @ 11/08/2008 4:11:00 PM

      I agree the Republican party will appoint Sarah Palin as their contender in 2012. I sure hope so - they need tol have their appointed candudate lose before they come to their senses.

      They got lucky with Bush, who had run deceptively as a moderate - and then annointed themselves as king-makers.

      Once their influnece ebbs, we will hopefully see the Republican party come back after the regular folks take back the mantle from the likes of Rush/Hannity/Coulter. We do need a sessible and intelligent Republican party to play constructive opposition to the Democratic party. You cannot have democracy with only one party.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 11/07/2008 1:38:29 PM

      Good. Then Palin will do what she does best - lose - and we will carry on.

  • Posted By: softomic @ 11/08/2008 3:34:57 PM

    You make very good points. I totally agree with you. I think Obama speaks for the younger generation. There are many reasons why there haven't been any black presidents until now. I attribute it to the fact that finally, there are enough people who think that race is not an issue. It could have been just as easily been Mrs. Clinton as president elect because so many of us are fed up with the presidency run by an older generation. We are risk takers and Obama certainly will bring change, plent good and plenty bad.

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/08/2008 3:24:04 PM



    "AlexHart": It wasn't that he needed to distinguish himself from Obama. He needed to distinguish himself from Bush, which he could not do.

    It was not the liberal press that caused me to vote for Obama.

    A 40 year republican

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