^^^^ lol now THAT is funny.
In other sides, apparently some people just aren't content. My friend who is in a dominantly black school population has been targeted yet again for being one of the few white people in her class at college. The black kids said that if Obama gets shot, that all the black people would go on a rampage and kill the white people. This was said aloud, while looking right at her. Very nice society we have, huh? This is progress, no?
First I would like to congratulate Barack Obama on becoming the president elect, and his running mate Biden for becoming vice president elect. I am supremely proud that I was up before the break of dawn standing in a line in the great state of Ohio. The victory is always won in Ohio, or defeat sewn in Ohio. The state is always that emblematic in presidential races. So when I saw the first returns coming in, and Obama was ahead I could tell the race was going to be a landslide.
I think the country really chose the better candidate, and everyone should be excited where ever they fell on the issues. The reason is simple we have had eight years of apathy, and now we will have a president that will bring energy, and will push a positive agenda. We know we need better education, environmental, energy, and economic policies.
For those saying well what is the lesson here it wasn't the economic meltdown. That just helped push Obama well over the top. Neither was it the wars, or the poor foreign policy, or the human rights violations, or even the political battles. The lesson is what the Republican party really has to contend with over the next four years, and they have yet to actually grasp this. The answer is not the likes of Palin.
The lesson is this the more extremist a party becomes the less successful it will be. The Republican party has remained predicated upon poor fundamentals. The party has become a bastion for religious fundamentalism, bigotry, hawkishness, and fear mongering. All of which played front stage in all the races yesterday. The more they focus their ideology the less room they leave for inclusiveness. The core constituency of the Republican party is no longer sufficient, and their stances make it nearly impossible to court new voting blocks.
For instance while watching election coverage I was repelled by a senate race in North Carolina where the Republican Candidate attacked their opponent by claiming she was godless. That was an incredibly bigoted remark, and the candidate thought nothing of using that. Further more you saw not a single Republican denounce that remark. Think about that according to the Republican party those that are not religious, and more to the point Christian are viewed as deviants.
How are you going to court other voting blocks if your position is that they are fundamentally perverted. How can you smack someone in the face, and then ask for their support. You cannot and if most of the electorate is not narrow minded your probably not going to do yourself any favors either. Which is what is happening the electorate is becoming more open minded, more diverse, and does not work solely off an ideological spread sheet.
I do not think the Republican party is gone, but they will need to become more representative of the country as a whole. They are geographically locking themselves, and the dynamic population is moving. They hold their stance without radical reinvention, and come four years they could very well push themselves into oblivion. The Democrats are literally ten senate seats from complete dominance in the United States senate. Once that happens the party is over.
The lesson the Republican Party should learn is not the lesson they are apparently learning. They are still thinking in terms of shoring up a dwindling base. When they need to be thinking how they can change on their stances to bring in new bases. I would really like to see a Republican party in four years that is not obsessed with abortions, assisted suicide, gay marriage, and pushing a religious agenda. That cannot be what they are moving forward. They need to have real governmental philosophy.
rocketpig said:
If I see Jesse Jackson crying, I always hope it's because he lost a limb or something else terrible happened to him. What a schmuck. He's a petty headline grabber whose time ended well over 20 years ago.
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Rocketpig, you called this perfectly. I had some respect for him when I was a young man - you know, him being there when MLK died - about after a while, he was flip-flopping like he was on a beach and taking the popular stance. I heard him speak at an NAACP convention in Houston and was not impressed. Then, the good Rev. had a baby out of wedlock.
And we won't get started about his comments on FAUX News. He should be honored for his accomplishment, but that's it. He's one of the biggest embeciles I have ever seen.
Yeah, Rocket, you are correct. Obama never really called on him for anything - and he won't do that now.
Jesse Jackson has become the underbelly of the black rights movement.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
Today I woke up at 1am just to see who had won.
| akuma587 said: Jesse Jackson is the underbelly of the black rights movement. |
He's a fairweather pol. I think MLK was awesome - and mad respect for Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, John Lewis and others who fought and died for our right to vote. Jesse was there at the right time. To be a leader, he should have should leadership and not bashed Obama, and definitely shouldn't have said any derogatory about him.
Obama will acknowledge him for his past efforts, but he has no role in his admin. Mark my words - he may allow him to do a few things, but that is out of appearance only. They aren't the best of friends.
I am shocked - I rarely disagree with my dog Akuma.
madskillz said:
He's a fairweather pol. I think MLK was awesome - and mad respect for Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, John Lewis and others who fought and died for our right to vote. Jesse was there at the right time. To be a leader, he should have should leadership and not bashed Obama, and definitely shouldn't have said any derogatory about him. Obama will acknowledge him for his past efforts, but he has no role in his admin. Mark my words - he may allow him to do a few things, but that is out of appearance only. They aren't the best of friends. I am shocked - I rarely disagree with my dog Akuma.
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Its cool, and I probably mispoke a little. I'll say that NOW Jesse Jackson is the underbelly of the black rights movement. In the past he wasn't so bad. But he makes black people look pretty damn crazy these days. Obama may not be more representative of the average black person than Jesse, but at least you don't have to keep him hidden from the public like your alcoholic relatives.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
| CrashMan said: Republicans REALLY need to be worried. A Successful 1st 2 years by this new administration (which will probably happen) will see more seats in the senate and house go democratic, and the Republican party will be over. They need to remake themselves or fall in to obsolescence. In 15 or 20 years, after all the anti-democratic actions by the Bush administration have been repaired and our global standings are back where they should be, I think democrats will look back at the Bush administration as one of the best things that has happened for the democratic party. They now need to really show progress and they could control this Country for a long time. A new generation is taking control of the country, it seems the republicans were the last to find out. |
Same as how the Democratic party was finished after Jimmy Carter? Back when Ronald Reagan won nearly every single state and George H.W. Bush had a similar landslide victory and would have had over Bill Clinton if it wasn't for Ross Perot?
No party as big as these is ever finished, more than 56,000,000 people voted for John McCain, you can't make that disapear. And once people realize that Obama being president won't affect their lives as much as they thought I highly doubt Obama will be reelected. And his redistribution of wealth policies will hurt people really bad and goes against everything this country stands for.
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