The Obama Uprising

Fair or foul the Democrats are now seen as the diverse party, what's this make the Republicans? A bunch of old white rich guys. They had a real chance of being the first to have a minority president in the person of retired General Colin Powell. I would go so far as to say that had he ran at any point, past or present, that one would be hard-pressed to find an opponent for him unless General Normon Shwarzkoff came into the picture. Now their credibility is damaged on so many levels. The best the Republicans can now hope for is that the opposition is either inept or arrogance takes hold. My hope is that President Obamas "Yes we can" is more then just a nice catch-phrase.

Fair or foul the Democrats are now seen as the diverse party, what's this make the Republicans? A bunch of old white rich guys. They had a real chance of being the first to have a minority president in the person of retired General Colin Powell. I would go so far as to say that had he ran at any point, past or present, that one would be hard-pressed to find an opponent for him unless General Normon Shwarzkoff came into the picture. Now their credibility is damaged on so many levels. The best the Republicans can now hope for is that the opposition is either inept or arrogance takes hold. My hope is that President Obamas "Yes we can" is more then just a nice catch-phrase.

According to Idiot Neo-Cons, Obama while campaigning painted himself as a Messiah who can fix everything, so what - like McCain didn't? What a stupid comment by the Neo-Cons - ALL politicians campaigning sell themselves like they can fix everything. Heck, even Palin tried selling herself as a fix-it-all person.

The Idiot Neo-Cons think all the people who did not vote for Obama made a statement. The MAJORITY voted FOR Obama. The people who made a statement in this election are the ones in the Confederate states who turned Blue - THAT is a statement!

Ms. Clift, you can stop endorsing Obama now, he won the election.

Eleanor, gee I think you're swell. The thing not often mentioned about Obama's mass of small donors is that there's NO GUARANTEE whatsoever they'll stay energized and keep giving. So Obama has to do well and EARN their support at re-election time, and I think that's a very good thing. It's the right kind of accountability, to the people at large.

Contrast that with Bush, who had a reliable base of $2,300 donors who only cared about him cutting their taxes (regardless of the deficit or shape the country was in). He could have a well-funded campaign with a lot of party and 527-group support even with mediocre or low approval ratings, as could other Republicans because of the quid pro quo on taxes. It has robbed future generations badly, even to the extent of paying for Iraq and Afghanistan with deficits (a first!) History won't be kind.

Our country is bankrupt, in two wars we can't win and can't withdraw from, in a recession heading for a depression, and alot of these comments are about the media bias toward Obama. That may be what the Republicans want to bitch about, but it is time to grow up and try to fix problems instead of blame. After blaming the media, the blame game within the party between whether the loss was McCain's fault or Palin's fault or Bush's fault drones on. I guess after generations of daydreaming about ways to dismantle the evil government the Republicans find it impossible to think constructively. While they wallow in self pity, at least they can shut up, step aside and see if the new administration can do better than the current one. We are in trouble as a nation on many fronts. Do something to help, or have the decency to get out of the way.

not at all significant to me ... still a man on stage

This is a movement but in the wrong direction I do not think the race issue plays a big part in today's thinking the generational changes will take care of thing naturally but what will not be changed and is a direct hit to our freedom is the National media coming out and with no secrecy creating a favorable image for one candidate this treasonist and will led our nation to place I think most of us will


regret to see it go if this happens it will be to late to go back.
I think Chris Matthews needs someone with some common sense to set across from him and have a discussion with him on just how stupid he sounds. I really feel sorry for people who filter out the facts that they do not want to deal with because it goes against their ideals and by using them they would then need to explain them and that is why they are seen for what they are propagandist who want to influence the uninformed about 80% of them they will succeed but I hope the same people like a Chris Matthews will understand they will also have to reap what they sow
I do not think the Obama white house will create a condition of new taxes that will destroy the economy even more it is not a complicated decision

I'm confident Obama will be a new beginning, this election was about more than tax's Bill Ayers, or Rev Wright it was about the Idea of America.
Obama recognizes that idea and if you listen closely and try to understand just what he was saying you know that already.
It's about peace and prosperity for all Americans. Keeping it going is not going to be easy the Republicans set this country back 100 years. But every journey starts with the first step.
Let the new millennium begin.

Bush and the Republicans promised choice, freedom, reform, and a restrained federal government. They delivered massive overspending, the biggest expansion of entitlements in 40 years, centralization of education, a floundering war, an imperial presidency, civil liberties abuses, the intrusion of the federal government into social issues and personal freedoms, and finally a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street that just kept on growing in the last month of the campaign. Voters who believed in limited government had every reason to reject that record.
Big-government conservatism, a toxic combination of the religious right and the neoconservatives, lost badly on Tuesday. But the voters didn???t give a ringing endorsement to big-government liberalism. Fifty-nine percent of voters call themselves ???fiscally conservative and socially liberal,??? and that???s a rich vein the Republican party is ignoring. If Obama governs as a centrist, he may make it very difficult for the Republicans to recover. But a candidate in either party who presented himself as a product of the social freedom of the Sixties and the economic freedom of the Eighties would be tapping into a market that both parties have yet to nail down. From "A Sweeping Rejection of President Bush" - David Boaz, Cato@Liberty

It appears the dog caught the car.

One Look at the results nationally, the GOP is DEAD. It has NO reason to exist given the pattern of votes. There were only a few states in the south giving the GOP a large majority vote. That is NOT enough to sustain a national party. (I say that as a former national GOP director for 3 of the 4 national GOP organizations: NRCC, RNC, RGA as I left the GOP in '84 BECAUSE of RWR's LIES to the American people).

Conservatives need to LEAVE the GOP to its demise and to re-form a political organization based on what "Teddy Roosevelt" demonstrated as a "Conservationist" Party.