America, I Mourn For You

[Warph]

It's been a while now since the election took place, but it's still not easy for me to come to grips with it.  Strangely enough, I slept okay the night I learned that Barack Obama had defeated John McCain.  It was only when I awoke and realized that Sen. Obama would soon be President Obama that the nightmare began.  I truly felt overcome with grief, the kind you feel when a loved one dies.  In this case, the loved one was America.

I have been listening to conservative commentators on radio trying to put a good face on it.  At times, they've sounded like they're angling for the same White House dinner invitations they got from George Bush.  But perhaps they're just hoping if they do enough kissing up, they can somehow dissuade the Democrats from passing the misnamed Fairness Doctrine.  I think they might as well expect that Al Gore and Robert Kennedy, Jr., will acknowledge that global warming has been a gargantuan hoax.

Liberals, after all, never admit their mistakes, never take responsibility for, say, destroying public education or taking an axe to the black family structure.  But, then, liberals never take responsibility for anything.  If they did, they'd be conservatives.

I know that a lot of Republicans are busy playing the blame game.  Some, myself included, are pointing fingers at John McCain for running the lamest presidential campaign in memory.  Others, not I, are pointing at Sarah Palin, while a few are singling out Mike Huckabee, suggesting that if he had dropped out when he should have, Mitt Romney would have won the primaries, thus preventing McCain from getting to do his dead-on impression of Michael Dukakis.

Some people simply blame the economy for Obama's victory.  They may be right, but I'd prefer not to believe that a sizable number of Americans think that electing a Socialist is a really clever way to solve a financial crisis.

Many of my friends and colleagues are already looking to 2012, vowing to learn from the mistakes of this campaign.  Perhaps in four years, I'll find a reason to share their optimism, but, frankly, I doubt it.  When I look at the election numbers, I see no reason to believe that things will improve by then.  After all, in spite of hearing how brilliant, how inspiring, how charismatic -- and how I hate hearing that word applied to a politician! -- Obama is, he's the same guy whose friends, wife and religious mentor, combined with his nearly blank resume, should have kept him in the Illinois state legislature with all the other Chicago-based grifters.

The numbers, I'm afraid, tell the tale.  When it came to young voters, 69% went for Obama; Jews, 78%; blacks, 96%; Catholics, 54%; Hispanics, 67%; females, 56%; 90% of Muslims.  When you factor in birth rates, I'm not sure that in 2012, Republicans will get more votes than Libertarians.

Looking back, I think the left-wing cancer took root in the 1960s and the funeral took place on November 4th 2008.  That's why I'm having a really hard time putting up with people who are so darn jubilant about Obama's victory.  To me, it's as if they're dancing on America's grave.

I know that a lot of people will regard me as a racist for being so depressed over the election result.  I am probably the least racist person in America.  As I've always said, people who hate others because of their race, religion or national origin, are just plain lazy. After all, once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than that for despising them.

Besides, it does no good to deny being a racist.  Once you have to deny it, you've already been labeled.  But I have to ask, if Hillary Clinton had been elected president and I had been upset about it, would I be branded a misogynist?  The fact is, I would have been less upset if she had been elected.  But that's only because I only object to her politics and her voice.  Her circle does not include the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Father Pfleger, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Louis Farrakhan and Rashid Khalidi.  Aside from Hillary Clinton's colleagues in the Senate, her only questionable associate is Bill.

Now that American conservatives have become an endangered species, I'm wondering if Obama and his gang of compassionate liberals will give us the same consideration they give polar bears and snail darters.

One of my friends wondered how it could be that I wasn't thrilled to see millions of black people, including Jesse Jackson and all of Kenya, in rapture over Obama's victory.  I told him it's one thing for Obama to garner 96% of the black vote when he's running against a Republican such as John McCain, but quite another when he got 91% of the vote in the primaries when he was running against a liberal such as Sen. Clinton.  That, to me, reeks of racism, and I see no reason to celebrate it.

I went on to say that it often seems to me that it's only conservatives who ever took to heart Martin Luther King's fervent wish that we all learn to judge our fellow men by their character and not by the color of their skin.

I concluded by telling him that he had every reason to be ecstatic that a man who shared his politics was elected, but that Obama's color shouldn't enter into it, and that if I and many like me were disgruntled about the election, it had nothing to do with Obama's pigmentation, everything to do with his character and his leftist agenda.  We elected a president, after all, the leader of the free world, not a prom king.

If there is one bright spot in all this, it's that I won't have to spend the next four years listening to John McCain begin every sentence with "My friends."  The sad truth is, I pick my friends far more wisely than we pick our candidates or, for that matter, our presidents.


......Warph

[Catwoman]

Amen, Warph.  You stated it perfectly.

[pam]

I understand what you are sayin Warph...but there is one fact that gets no notice when people are discussin politics and that is that the government of this country is as far removed from contact with the real America as England was from the colonists 250 years ago.

Washington has no concept of life out here in the "frontier". All the well meaning bull aside they don't know ANYTHING about "joe the plumber" or "jane the factory worker".  Our government is basically another heirarchy of the same few upper class families it's been for the last hundred years or so. They don't know how it is..to choose between food or gas, they don't know that new glasses or winter clothes are major expenditures that have to be PLANNED for not just bebop out to the mall and get whatever you want. Joe and Jane are just the people whos sweat and blood finance their excessive insulated lives. So they can sit around and bitch about the laziness of the american worker who wants a livin wage here instead of the livin wage they can pay in bf bangladesh or whatever while THEY are suckin on the public tit which is what the salary they get for bein in the government basically is.

America ain't dead! Far from it...America is alive and well out here where the Americans are. Washington isn't America....Washington is a giant cosmic joke.

[pam]

Rereadin and decided I needed to clarify my point, stance, whatever....People elected Obama because he got them to think he was "one of them" one of the little guys made good so to speak. America "out here" thought they had an opportunity to speak, for real, instead of just another four years of "the Washington establishment" . John Mccain couldn't sell himself as the guy to clean up Washington because he has BEEN part of the washington establishment for almost 30 years! Obamas so-called "lack of experience" is what beat John Mccain. People are sick of Washington and the retarded things they do and thought maybe this guy really WILL be different. That remains to be seen......and whether that "different" will be good or bad for Joe Schmo. I totally get peoples attitudes about the election. People don't like different period. Change of any sort screws with the status quo, what we have may suck but it's familiar and we know what to expect. You go to changin things people circle the wagons and get ready to attack cause they are scared of the change and what it might mean to them and their favored ways of doin things.

Guy I used to work for had a motto, sayin, whatever.....You're either green and growin or ripe and rottin. Well America has been on the verge of ripe and rottin for awhile now...maybe anything that gets us green and growin again ain't such a bad thing after all. Even if it is Obama. Especially if it galvanizes the people who matter, the Americans out here. Whether it galvanizes them for or against him at least it'll get em started again.

[Teresa]

Fascinating.   I'm willing to bet everyone on this forum could answer these questions.

For more info http://howobamagotelected.com/

Applicability to gun control?   Imagine the in depth knowledge on the issue of guns and crimes these people have form from watching MSM and PBS?


Here are the stats from the Zogby poll:
    * 57.4 could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
    * 81.8 could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
    * 82.6 could NOT correctly say that Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
    * 88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
    * 56.1 % could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).And yet.....

    * Only 13.7% failed to identify Palin as the person their party spent $150,000 in clothes on
    * Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
    * And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

I have said it a hundred times..........a misinformed electorate is just as dangerous as an uniformed electorate.

[redcliffsw]

Good thoughts, Warph.  Can't disagree with any of it.  However, it seems that real American conservatism simply does not fit in or with the Republican party - never has, except when Reagan gave it a good try.   

[Jo McDonald]

This is truly pathetic!

[srkruzich]

Pretty sad isn't it that they can actually vote. 

Unbelievable. 

[Catwoman]

Ah, yes...the wisdom of the O masses...quite illuminating.