To think Barack Obama is a “post-racial” president is ridiculous. Based on the people standing in line waiting to vote in my precinct who were giddy about the prospect of voting for him, it was apparent they were voting for him only because of Obama’s race, either because he shared theirs or they were “progressive” enough to want to see a black man lead them. They were completely ignorant of his positions on any issues or anything he believes in. Hell, they were equally ignorant about John McCain and all other fringe candidates. They just know Obama’s black and that’s all that mattered.
And that’s fine, but to think we live in a land of an enlightened electorate because Team Elephant got kicked out is probably the least enlightened view possible.
Most of the people in my line were just like this dumbass:
Obama Supporter: If I Vote For Obama I Won’t Have To Pay For Gas, Pay My Mortgage
Yet it’s the white rednecks who vote republican who are mocked and treated with derision. There are morons on both sides, and without the ones on Team Donkey yesterday Obama would not be president-elect this morning.
So smug assholes who think you’re brighter and better than everyone because you were on the winning team this time, just remember who you couldn’t have won without: the dumbfuck, half-illiterate, racist uninformed. You should be very proud.
P.S. I wrote in Ron Paul, who was the only voice of reason of any candidate in this election season. So this post isn’t just the ranting of a bitter loser. My guy never had a chance to begin with and I knew it, but because I am not a dumbfuck half-illiterate racist uninformed voter I am the only one who can see shit for what it is and can bitch about it because I voted. Holla!
That woman didn’t say she won’t have to pay for her gas or her mortgage. She said she won’t have to WORRY! That can be interpreted a number of ways.
Anyhow if you believe most people aren’t very bright, I’m not going to argue with you on this one.
But let’s be fair here. I hear the drunk angry white guys calling into talk radio during the day and they aren’t particularly smart either, and the paranoid senile old ladies who think Obama will put Bill Ayers on his cabinet.
Even smart people think a lot of stupid things. Remember when you were pulling out your pom-poms, saying “yay yay, Iraq war” (metaphorical pom-poms of course, not to insult your masculinity)?
Oh, I do not in any way intend to suggest there are not mouth-breathing numbskulls on the red side. But the way the blue side acts it is both morally and intellectually superior to the red side, and that’s just not true. On both sides 98% of the electorate are just on this side of being functionally retarded.
And come on, even in the heat of Obama-inspired rapture, what in the hell could possibly make someone think that his becoming president will allow them to remove the worry about paying their bills? If you allow yourself to get that caught up in his spirit, so to speak, you’re no better than those god freaks who get all hypnotized and dazed at Benny Hinn revivals.
And yes, I was for the Iraq war, and I still would be if it hadn’t been so stunningly bungled. My opinion of the war never changed. Only my opinion of the execution of it did.
Still don’t think we can just cut and run though…
We have to do something. McCain didn’t have the answers people were looking for about forward motion.
Check out The Onion–”Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job”. Heh.
I just want to see the excuses if the US is still a shit storm down the line. It will be interesting to see how long everyone blames Bush when things aren’t working…4 years? 8 years? Because it sure as hell can’t be the chosen one’s fault.
If Obama turns out to be the best thing since the fleshlight, then fucking hooray. I have no problem holding a press conference and announcing I was wrong and people like Malnurturedsnay.net were right. But if this great land isn’t full of unicorns and rainbows in four years, I expect some fuckers to eat crow. It won’t happen, because lord knows it will be someone else’s fault.
Frankly, I hope the guy does an excellent job. He just hasn’t proven or shown me anything that he could. I hope all his talk about “redistribution of wealth” was just to get the poor, uneducated and lazy vote (And I’m saying that is three different types of voters, not just one type of voter) and now that he is in, he’ll do something different. As a wise man once said, “If you steal from Peter to give to Paul, you’ll always have Paul on your side”.
Malnurtured Snay is a douche. Even if he’s right he’s wrong, because 30 year olds with Lego rooms have no credibility. And his Hogwarts still always sucked.
As for placing blame, you know here in MD Ehrlich is still being blamed for everything nearly three years later. Whoever is in power will never stop blaming whoever isn’t for their failures.
For the record, my prediction for the Obama candidacy is that he’ll govern from the center (center-left, maybe, but still the center). I think he’s smart enough to know that whatever majority he has in Congress now probably won’t last past 2010, and beyond that, I think the country has enough serious problems — some Bush’s fault, some not — that any approach not bipartisan in nature won’t succeed.
We’ll see in four years whether I’m willing to pull the lever for Obama again.
And, for the record, I’ll be rebuilding Hogwarts starting late this month. (Had to tear it down when I moved to DC).
For the most part I’m going to stay out of this fight, except to say I did just roll my eyes when I found out Ari Gold’s douchebag brother is boing to be Chief of Staff. The only good I can see coming out of that is be the possibility that Turtle might become Press Secretary, which would be awesome… OF COURSE.
Wow, Snay… I’ll be completely honest and say I might have visited your blog twice since you left Blogtimore, and neither time during or after your move to D.C. So it’s very impressive that you’re so in tune to any you discussion over here.
Obama may lead from the center, which would be wise, but he’s working with an extremely leftist congress, which is where his roots lie, so he may work with congress to just jam through as much lefty legislation as possible in the next two years and see where the chips fall from that. Considering he has the poor, black and Hispanic vote no matter what he does he may not have to be such a centrist.
And please, if you’re going to rebuild Hogwarts, try to make the depiction a little more accurate this time. Thanks.
Cheese, yeah, I heard you were calling me a douchebag in person so I figured I’d see what all the fuss is about. Who is Baiken Matters?
Except Obama isn’t going to be working with an extremely left Congress. A lot of the Democrats who gained seats in 2006 are center and center-right politicians. The most famous example is probably Jim Webb, who, while a Democrat, can hardly be considered a liberal. I really doubt a lot of these so-called Blue Dog Democrats are going to go along with a leftist agenda, primarily because they’d probably like to be re-elected at some point.
I don’t think you’re right about the Hispanic vote at all — that vote usually seems to sway to the right, particularly with Cuban-Americans. I think the Hispanic vote largely went to Obama as a smack to Bush, and it doesn’t mean they’d vote as a bloc the same way again.
Re: Hogwarts. Accurate according to which depiction? Recreating the castle as seen in the movies would be boring, and Rowling described it as a “A huge, rambling, quite scary-looking castle, with a jumble of towers and battlements.” I think, while I have not have scored necessarily on the “scary-looking” part, I got the “jumble of towers and battlements” down.
Cheers!
“In person” = “In comments.” Sorry.
Sorry, I meant to write “in comments”, not “in person.”
You think Cubans were more interested in smacking Bush than they are concerned about putting a communist sympathizer (which, like it or not, is at least what Obama was back in the day through his association with William Ayres, even if he acts like he barely remembers the name now) in the White House? I don’t know about that. And Cubans make up a small percentage of the hispanic vote overall. Every organization that assists mexican illegals gets them on the voting rolls, and 99 times out of 100 they’re pushing them to vote democrat. That’s where the hispanic vote comes from. Just look at what CASA does in Maryland to that end.
So nice to know people are reading my blog and then selling me out to stir the pot. A-holes.
Baiken Matters is my hero. Unless he’s the A-hole selling me out.
If you don’t want people to “stir the pot” (is that really what you would call any of my comments?), maybe you should consider turning off comments. I tend to view the comment thread as a way for readers to present their own view of something — y’know, like in a discussion …
If you “heard” I was calling you a douche in comments, that’s not participating in the discussion. No one left a comment defending you or condemning me for calling you that. He or she just went to you with the info, probably to see what you’d do. That’s stirring the pot. And that person is the A-hole in this scenario, not you.
I am who I am and thats all that I am.
PS - I didn’t sell you out Cheesey. I would never do that. Unless the price was right.
I’m waiting to see which Supremes die or step down under Obama. I’d love to know who he has his eye on for replacements.
How did my name even get brought up in this conversation?
I brought it up…I happen to check out your site from time to time and laugh at how you suckle from the democratic teat.
midwestie, the word on the street that the three Supremes headed towards retirement are Stevens, Ginsburg and Souter. I wouldn’t be shocked if Stevens and Ginsburg both announce retirement in Obama’s first week. All three are considered liberals, so it isn’t likely the court will change much. The only difference is the court is no longer on the brink of becoming overwhelmingly conservative in our lifetimes. The one thing that I will give the Bush Administration for was their Supreme Court appointees. Conservative, to be sure, but top rate minds in both of them. I’m hoping Obama follows Bush’s example with temperate appointees over partizan quacks.
Can you blame me considering how sour the other teat tastes?
Suckling from the democratic teat over here. And after examples like this in my backyard,
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=268466
I am super glad to be doing so. These are the nutbags we would have parading around in our streets if the other guy would have won. I like that instead of parading around their being investigated for their racist, nutbaggery. You should have seen this freak on TV.