The One ascends; McCain concedes
Well, it’s official. Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States. Fox and NBC have called the race.
It’s a historic moment.
Congratulations.
Here’s my promise to you: As long as I can still publish a blog and speak my mind openly about the next denizen of the White House, I will.
First order of business: He can now change the “0″ to a “1.”
Second order of business: Will he bring the Greek columns out for Inauguration Day?
Commenter Valiant: “Third order of business: De-brand the GOP of McCain and the idea that we need a RINO because ‘he can win.’ Never again.”
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11:26pm Eastern. McCain concedes: “I will not spend a moment regretting for a moment what might have been.” Mention of Sarah Palin gets the loudest applause.
11:43pm Eastern. A few general notes on tonight’s outcome:
*Obama’s popular vote total is a lot smaller than most polls showed.
*The Senate GOP massacre was not as bad as expected. Still waiting on Minnesota and Oregon and a few others.
*The ballot initiatives are a bellwether. Gay marriage and racial preferences are electoral losers. (Update: Nebraska civil rights initiative passes; too close to call in Colorado.)
*Pandering on amnesty did not help McCain. In California, McCain won a whopping 16 percent of the Latino vote. (Update: now 21 percent.) By comparison, Pete Wilson managed 23 percent of the Hispanic vote in 1994 (the same year the much-loathed Prop. 187 passed).
Democrats won the White House, but they do not have an unfettered mandate for left-wing policies across the board.
Republicans need to learn from their losses. First step: Don’t put the same old, same old capitulationists and re-branding pimps in leadership positions.
You know the definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
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President Bush congratulates Obama: “Awesome.”
12:01am Eastern. Obama is giving his victory speech in front of more American flags than ever. Congratulates McCain and Palin.
Oh, man. He just thanked The Vice President-Elect of the United States, Joe Biden, and The Nation’s Next First Lady, Michelle Obama.
Oh, man.
He thanks his daughters (who will get a new puppy) and his other family members.
Thanks David Plouffe and David Axelrod.
“The challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime.” Here we go: mortgages, college education, saving the planet. “Our climb will be steep.”
But don’t worry, Peggy, you’ll get your gas and bills paid!
12:11am Eastern. Obama addresses opponents: “I will be your president, too.” Then he turns to his real constitutency: Citizens of the World. “There’s a new dawn in America.”
Fidel Castro applauds.
Obama’s now leading a creepy, cult-ish “Yes, We Can” call and refrain.
Obama declares it the new national creed.
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Last word to Bill Whittle, who puts things in proper perspective, as always.
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Michelle wrote:
Thank you, Michelle.
And speaking, I’ve no doubt, not just for myself, we’ll be here with you.
A reminder for all of us who answer to a Higher Authority:
*emphasis and editorial [note] mine
That doesn’t mean we give the president or anyone else carte blanche. But do pray for him, and for all those who hold positions of authority in this country.
Was giving this a moment of thought….
Maybe Obama’s new national creed can be one we all rally behind…
Yes We Can…stand and fight. Fall down 7 times, rise up 8.
Yes We Can…be gracious in defeat. Recognize and evaluate the good and bad involved in all of this.
Yes We Can…still voice our opinions and fight for what we believe, without compromise or “reaching across the aisle” and making outselves weak.
Yes We Can…find new leaders to rally behind, and not the same bags of FAIL that we have done so up to this point.
Yes We Can…..if we have the will, and the resolve, to not cave. to not give in to those who would do us harm and lower ALL americans into the latrine. To look forward, chins up, and focus on each step we make instead of blindly following a President OR the people opposing him.
Again…clear thinking, and rational discourse, are going to be how we get it done.
We’re all gonna be in for a long ride. I hope each of you are strong enough to weather the impending storm.
that’s not a problem. I just hope we can find representatives worthy of our support. So far, there are few of them. But they are out there.
This was a referendum on stupidity.
Uhh.. no.. you won’t.
Agreed. Palin is a bad pick i think at this point…she’ll always be associated with this ticket. it will be something used against her later by dems trying to paint her as a Bush follower.
I know there are alot of people who are angry. And i realize that there are many who would throw up their hands in disgust. And thats fine. but i dont want to see them give up, just because of this.
Congratulations, President Elect Obama.
I did not vote for you, but I give you the benefit of the doubt. Time alone will tell what kind of President you will be, or if I find myself voting to reelect you four years from now.
Godspeed and God bless.
MM:
thank you for all your coverage. I surely hope that you will continue to have a voice. Thankfully, the Dems apparently did not the “super-majority” they were hoping for.
did not get THE super-majority . . . need more coffee.
Palin was the only reason McCain had a legitimate shot. Think about who it is that’s saying that Palin hurt McCain? CNN? MSNBC? McCain got a huge jump in the polls by naming Palin. She needs to bone up on foreign affairs and wait for O to self destruct.
His speech struck me as half victory speech, half re-election speech.
Ed Mahmoud wrote:
Jeb Bush is, from what I hear, much more intelligent than GWB, and much more conservative.
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The above is illustrative of the power of the East Coast and entertainment media. Even people who should know better eventually get sucked in by the overwhelming deluge of spin.
President Bush isn’t the most articulate of men, but unintelligent? The message has been he failed at everything he ever did. The fact is he managed to keep an energy company afloat in the days of $10 oil. He managed to put together a coalition together to buy a major league franchise at a time when few saw the potential resulting in a 2500% return for him and the investors.
Regarding knowledge,President Bush is a prodigious reader of history and current events, going through a couple books a week according to those close to him, probably the most well read president since Theodore Roosevelt.
Bush’s presidency has been a mixture of successes-the tax cuts, avoiding a serious recession in his first two years, aggressively combatting terrorism. It has had its failures, the initial inattention to Katrina, failure to guide major initiatives in tort reform and social security into actual law, and tactical mistakes in Iraq. His fatal failure has been his passivity when it comes to defending himself against attacks from democrats and the media(apologies for the redundancy).
I agree. Sarah Rocks!!!
He has been the worst at defending his actions that I can recall, so the claims about him go unanswered. Iran was his downfall - Afghanistan brilliant. Obama probably now knows how much Bush has done to keep the US safe, and may even have some respect for what it has taken to do so. In the next four years I believe we will see Obama on TV - white as a cracker - trying to explain a stupendous disaster that he was too “nuanced” to foresee. I certainly hope I’m wrong.