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.”
***
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.
***
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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Gag. Jesse Jackson crying on Fox.
So what happens when he gets bored with this job?
And tomorrow the sun will rise.
And I’ll read your blog as long as the one allows you to have it. This is the saddest day ever in this once great nation. Thanks for all you have done Michelle.
Sad, so sad…
Any proposals on where to Balkanize?
Whooopie, I can’t wait…..oh for nothing of course. While the Republicans layed down now they are so insignificant it wont matter. Go the way of the whigs so we can be rid of you……
Screwed 08 wins…
My 2008 Presidential Election Bumper Sticker:
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb106/DenizenZERO/ObamaTag.jpg
Third order of business:
De-brand the GOP of McCain and the idea that we need a RINO because “he can win”.
Never again.
Good news: McCain will be out of the Senate.
I feel sick…and it’s not from too much consumption of bad food and drink.
What happens when Obama wants to vote “present”?
Welcome to the Nanny States of America. Such a sad sad day
Well, well, well, not sure if Obama won, but the media sure did. This was a pure media-driven campaign.
Unbelievable. Going into an all-cash business soon. Sorry, but I refuse to “spread the wealth”.
I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
I Tim 2:1-2
Be sure to stop by http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org
and sign up to pray for the president-elect and all our leaders.
I’m disappointed in the outcome but I trust God completely in whatever the circumstances.
Well, this announcement certainly explains the celebratory gunfire I’m hearing. (No, I’m not kidding.)
All things work for good for those who
love God and are called according to his purpose.
BlameAmericaLast – Dude, you beat me to it. Cash only, please. Screw it.
I feel sick. Really.
Your brand of conservatism losses, Malkin. Nice try, though!
And the lunatics are officially running the asylum. This is a sad day for the entire country, including the idiots who voted for this Marxist, inexperienced player. They are too drunk on Kool Aid right now, but they will realize in short order how duped they really were.
This is the first day of the fall of Rome.
I hope the poster of the two hands isn’t a proctologist showing us whats in store for us….
Congratulations to Barack Obama. It is historic. I live in the deep South but I am an American first. Barack Obama is our POTUS. We have come a long way, we must go forward, but ever vigilant. The fight will continue another day. I will be there.
At this moment, I can only pray for the impact this means to the millions of unborn that will die from the election results. Our society must overcome the violence and destruction to human life in the form of abortion.
“Out of the darkness from the shadow of death, free Your people, Lord, from their fear.”
Iowa Catholic Vote
Well….it’s all in his lap now, isn’t it?
Iraq
The economy
Unemployment
Immigration
The whole ball of wax.
You wanted the gig, and now you got it.
Go ahead…..show us what you can do.
Should be interesting.
And the GOP has got start grooming someone – and NOT a RINO – right now!
spackle…. I was thinking the exact same thing…..
sad…. so sad..
A pox on both houses!!!
Not one of those clowns, republican or democrat, has ever had my best interests at heart. So what has changed?
I only feel sorry for the military. Now, they’re going to get some of what us Viet Vets got from their so-called “leaders”. The only difference will be a smile from the ones stabbing them in the back.
BTW, Michelle, I would like to thank you for your energy and for continuing the fight.
Gird your loins!
Your brand of socialism distroys, Omu. Nice try, though!
There goes the Supreme Court!
…and so Senator Palpatine ascends the throne of the Republic.
“So this is how democracy ends. To thunderous applause.” — Senator Amidala
I guess the Star Wars movies really did forshadow actual events, huh?
The Rebel Alliance begins!!
Right, because we all picked McCain in the primary, right?
*sigh*
I so love my country.
May God keep her and bless her.
God help us all.
Rebuild the party it starts TODAY
As Neil Cavuto said tonight, the man who was the least experienced of all the candidates has won the office of the presidency.
And, i add, because he was elected by people who had no knowledge of who or what he is.
For those who say we deserve him….. is say only those who voted for him, but we all suffer. By the time his term is up, he could make Jimmy Carter look good!
Laddie, you must be new and haven’t read much by Michelle. McCain’s “conservatism” isn’t Michelle’s “brand” and her brand wasn’t “tried” this year. But when it is tried (e.g. Reagan) it always wins.
Excellent and honorable concession speech by John McCain, in stark contrast to the classless idiots in the crowd booing.
Its funny how a moderate has led us to the worst defeat in a generation.
And Yes McCain is at the top of the ticket he gets the majority of the blame
This is the beginning of the end of the USA we all grew up in. Here comes socialism, welfare state, high taxes, good bye to the supreme court, federal judges will legislate from the bench, depression is on the horizon.
Guess it has to get really bad before it gets better. Remember JimmaCarta?? You aiin’t seen nothing yet!!!
How long for buyers remorse to set in?
I’m going to finish reading the book “Liberal Fascism”
LOL. The GOP has no one to blame but themselves.
Thank God Reagan is dead and cant see what his party hath wrought upon us.
Now… for those of us that lived through the Carter years, its time to dust off those leisure suits and Disco balls and get ready to party like its 1976. Anyone got any old ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ reruns taped?
On November 4th, 2008 at 11:21 pm, Valiant said:
We didn’t run Guliani because he was a “baby killer” therefore a “RINO”..
We didn’t run Romnney because he “belonged to a cult” and therefore was a “RINO”…
We buried “McShamnasty” until it was too late because he was a “RINO”
Newsflash: the socialists are going to win as long as we have self appointed arbiters of what is and what is not a republican alienating potential voters/ candidates by calling them RINO’s.
This is a horrible day for the USA, save the circular firing squad for later.
a sad, sad day indeed.
Good thing gay marriage will soon be legal everywhere because we’re about to get it in the behind!
Screw it. To quote an appropriate line from the second Terminator movie: “There is no fate but what we make.”
It isn’t over. Not by a long shot.
The 2010 Congressional campaign and the 2012 Palin/Jindal Presidential campaign begin NOW.
LOL
Now the people who think the Democrats are so wonderful will get a chance to see what they’re really made of. I hope they pay attention.
I’ll ask again the ponderings I broached in the other thread.
1. How long before the American people realize they screwed up? Over/under April ‘09?
2. Who will be our next great conservative leader, in the mantle of Goldwater, Reagan, and Gingrich?
We’re done with McCain now, at least. And Hillary’s Presidential dream just took a pretty nasty blow as well…
Enjoy those realities. They are the best things Obama will do for the American people.
Can we at least hope to maintain enough Senate seats for a filibuster?
Well at least I can cease from holding my tongue as far as he is concerned.
WWRD
Oh yeah. One more thing:
I’ll give Obama every much respect and support…as the Donks have given President Bush these past eight years.
Voted R as much as they would allow up here, and even pulled the lever for McCain. Prob the only one in The Peoples Republic of Vermont to do so.
Well, think I’m going to take the next 4 years off and go to collage. I just have this feeling that I will not make as much money as I have been at my current job.
As a consolation prize, perhaps four years of Obama Jokes will help keep spirits up.
DenizenZero, Love the bumper sticker!
On November 4th, 2008 at 11:31 pm, mattm said:
1 – 15 months, depending on the buyer. The Tanning Bed Media will want a divorce before spring, I’m guessing.
The only thing that I fear is not as much Barack Obama as it is the blind adulation of this man. This kind of worship of a man is a little frightening. I pray my fears are unfounded.
no I just feel sick from knowing that the sheeple have led us to the slaughter…America has elected its first marxist/socialist president not its first black president…I never thought I’d see the day…God bless the USA as we have now entered new territory called the USSA…
I think that’ll be within the 1st hundred days of dear leaders reign if not sooner….excuse me I have to head to the bathroom now….
I’m going to part-time. Why work to support these fools. Early retirement sounds good to me.
We didnt elect a president we elected a deity
Michelle, you were a beackon of light and truth throughout this entire long slog of a campaign. I thank you for your integrity and your commitment. I will continue to come back to this site for my breath of sanity each day. Again thank you.
At least now the wall will be finished. Socialists need them to keep people in!
On November 4th, 2008 at 11:34 pm, Wes S. said:
We need to see to it that he looks like crap and is held responsible for his failings, that’s all.
I know Rush disagrees, but from here on out I will no longer take crap from anyone who wants to call this country racist. As a husband in a bi-racial marriage I was tired of everyone playing the race card, and as far as I’m concerned that card no longer holds any value in the USA.
Congrats Obama, I’ll fight you each and every socialist step you, Pelosi and Reid take until 2010.
I love my Lord and God Jesus Christ, and He commands I pray for those in authority. He puts them there for His purpose. So I pray for wisdom for Mr. Obama. I also love this country and take it’s Constitution seriously. I pray he does also.
Let’s not forget our previous losers to include the feckless Bob Dole. Why THAT guy was ever given the nod is beyond me.
In this election cycle we must not overlook the role W played. He was worthless in electing a successor of his own party. In fact, he pursued policies that drove the non-ideologically bent into the enemy camp. He vetoed a grand total of FOUR bills in eight years. He allowed economic problems to fester until they became the crap sandwich. I support his war effect. The world is better without Saddaam but try to tell me the world is better WITH BO.
Thanks for electing a Dem W.
One thing we will needs is blogs more and more. The MSM wont stand up to Obama and the dems that is sure. There will be no accountiblility if we drop the ball.
Michelle: I know you are referring to the Fairness Doctrine BS floating around Capitol Hill
and my pledge to you is that I and thousands of others will stick with you and support you and follow you wherever you end up whether it is here on this blog or elsewhere.
YOu are an invaluable voice speaking the truths that need to be heard and we will not surrender to the forces of censorship and ignorance.
God Bless You.
I never felt that “we” chose him. He was chosen for us by the mainstream media, and now you know why.
Well, at least we don’t have to vote for the lesser evil anymore. From now on, since the Dems have all the power anyway, we can vote our consciences – for all the good it’ll do.
Thanks a lot, everyone who bashed McCain.
Thanks. What would we have done without you people. You were instrumental. To the Obama victory. And you know who you are.
Enjoy the next four years, and again – thanks a lot.
The best news of the night is that we’ll never have to hear crap from John McCain again. Hopefully he’ll shuffle off to his back bench and shut up forevermore.
Whoops. So busy yapping on the last main election thread that I didn’t realize the
end of times arrivedrace has been called. Here’s what I wrote there, if anyone cares:“I’ve been going through a lot of ups and downs emotionally about this election. I’m now taking the results as motivation. If things continue tonight the way they are, then it means that we can rid ourselves of the old and reinvigorate ourselves with the new once everyone gets a sample of what an unobstructed Democratic Party tastes like (chicken?). There’s the silver lining.
I’m not depressed at this moment. I’m kind of energized, actually. Not celebrating (that’d be demented coming from me, who’s demented enough already), just energized. Palin, Steele, Jindal (to name a few), and names we’ve not heard from yet — after this storm has been weathered (I hope – yes, I said HOPE – it’ll just be some sprinkles or a squall here and there), the future looks bright.
I think we’ve been so lax and apathetic over who we’ve voted for over the last twenty years that we can now start over with a clean slate. New blood is what the Republican Party needs, and it’s been a long time coming. CHANGE! You wanna tick off a liberal, make “hopenchange” your own. They’ve been shooting themselves in the foot with their rude, punk-[self-redacted] attitudes. People will catch on to it sooner or later. Would’ve preferred sooner over later, but a lot of people are just ignorant. Nothing’s important unless it affects them directly. Until then, the big picture is just a painting of their own designs.
Sorry. Don’t mean to put an umbrella over anyone while the parade gets rained out.
Later, alligators.”
I didn’t think it’d be called this early. Kinda anti-climactic.
I’ve not had the TV on at all tonight.
After while, crocodiles.
Republicans chose him, ent. Don’t delude yourself with that BS.
Random thoughts: Hispanics turned against McCain, despite Shamnesty; in our hearts, we knew this was going to happen because McCain just wasn’t our standard bearer, not really; the Republicans we’ve “lost” in the Senate were mostly RINOs, so good riddance. You have to hit bottom before you can start on your way up, and that’s now what conservatives are going to have to do, work ourselves back up out of the hole the GOP has dug for us over the last eight years. It’s partly Bush, partly politicians who forgot why they were elected in the first place. We’re at risk now. We have to be more vocal than ever. We have to get rid of the elitist Republican pundits, or let them be clearly identified for what they are, Democrats in barely conservative clothing. This country has been in bad straits before, and we’ve recovered. We’ll have to do it again.
Don’t let up!
Starting on the first day of President Obama’s (that was so hard to type!!)
We can start the 1461 day countdown that our nation will be held hostage for by the Democrat’s and the new President until the 2012 election.
Michelle, we need you more now and during the next four years than you can imagine. I thank the Lord you are here with the talents you have on loan from God.
Loved how in Mr McCains concession speech that he implied that there is now no reason for each an every person to achieve based on their will and effort. The is now no reason to claim victim of race.
The victim industry must now end and each person has no reason to claim oppression and live off their victim-hood.
The symbolic playing field has been levelled.
The last percieved barrier (except after this election – sexism) has been pulled down.
Now can we get back to being ideologically pure in the Republican party?
To those quarter million very brave men who sacrificed their lives to ensure the defeat of the National Socialist Party (NAZI) in WWII, how do you ever explain that your prodigy just enthusiastically elected a marxist socialist dictator. You must be spinning in your graves. Problem is that four years from now, there won’t be a USA to bail us out.
Well, the good news is that the Republicans will have a much better chance of winning back the Congress in 2010. This embarrassment should motivate them to get their act together, not to mention inspire some new blood to run for office. Also, after the inevitable failures of Obama and the Democratic Congress, they won’t have McCain to blame (though of course they’ll still blame Bush). The American people will get a taste of socialism, which will renew their desire for candidates with the best ideas rather than the best image. This is an opportunity, folks. With some actual leadership and vision, the “conservatives” could very well pull this off. (The Republicans could start by instituting a preferential voting system in their primaries to prevent another McCain-like candidate.)
I agree blogs like this will be crucial as long as we can have them. Watching the news tonight was a disaster.
Here it was actually made significantly better. Here I could be reminded that we arestill a significant community of conservatives, together as we are about to embark upon this new long national nightmare.
Here we can at least know there are still those like Michelle Malkin who care about truth.
No, Bill – the Democrats will only win when the GOP runs knock-offs of Dem candidates. When people grab for Leftist, they don’t grab for Leftist-Lite. As the wise saying goes: “Words mean something” – and that does include the term “conservative”. RINOs should really only be angry at themselves and not shoot the messengers for just pointing out that fact.
I hate to say it, but if this country would elect someone like Obama, than this country is going to get what it deserves.
This country has already traveled pretty far down the road of moral decay. I was hoping we hadn’t gone too far. I believed we had, but that we could prolong her life for some time. Apparently not.
This country will be worse off when we leave it to our children.
Its funny how a moderate has led us to the worst defeat in a generation.
You know, the popular vote was very close. It is not hard to see the election was stolen in battleground states ala ACORN. 50% of this country still believes in hard work and not victimization. 50% of this country is a loud voice, it may be miserable, but we will live through it and when that 50% of the country screams out that they have had enough, people are going to have to listen.
No congratulations to Obama from me. I will despise and hate him until the day I die. My country committed suicide tonight. We elected a Muslim 7 years after 9/11, and that truly is a tragedy of beyond belief. It is now the case that most of our voting population identifies with the aggressor.
John McCain stood up for his country all of his life. He is NOT a “Republican in Name Only,” whatever that means. Well, I actually do know what it means: someone who is not a self-styled “true” conservative, a group that is willing to attack any Republican who doesn’t meet their single-issue polemic.
What the Republicans should learn from this spanking: Don’t run liberal light versus a liberal.
What they will probably learn: We must become more liberal to win.
I was resigned to this unfortunately. The American people are so hopeless and stupid that they think voting for the affirmative action candidate will bring them happiness. The American people have become so selfish that they no longer recognize what true freedom is. They think that losing their 401K or their house is losing their freedom now.
We conservatives will be living in the wilderness for a couple of years. I have a feeling that many small businesses and Joe the Plumbers out there will be persecuted out of business. What will happen to military members? Will they be sacked to make room for Obummer’s civil defense force?
This was the worst possible scenario that I imagined and, because McCain ran such a slap ‘n dash campaign, he just didn’t resonate. Libby Dole going down tonight was sad to see as well.
Sigh… RIP GOP. RIP USA.
My first post didn’t pass muster with “the Boss,” so I’ll try again, in a vein which I hope will be found suitable. McCain was the worst candidate, one chosen not by real Republicans, but by the media. And badmouthing him from beginning to end on sites like this one had nothing to do with his defeat and the overall defeat of the Republican brand. No, badmouthing him every chance we got was nothing but a display of our rock-ribbed integrity. Good riddance to the old man, who should never have left his park bench to play with the big boys. We are pure; we remain pure. It’s a failure of his courage and honor, that’s why he lost. If he only would have listened to us.
A storm’s coming.
Yes indeed. Now we are no longer a racist country!! Hooray! What will Jackson and Sharpton do? The “man” is partly black. No more oppression. You two charlatans have been made obsolete!!
As for me: ever vigilant. Trust but verify. Work to get real conservatives back into Congress and the White House.
You have your chance, Obama. Try not to screw it up. We are watching. Surprise us.
Well, there will be a new opening as “The Most Liberal Senator” come Jan 2009 for him to fill…
I just wish the Senate Dem count was 60+, if no other reason than just to kick the cr@p into the GOP leadership.
WE TOLD YOU, YOU IDIOTS!!!!
You are now the party of failure. Now get out of the Beltway and find out what you just did to the country. That doesnt mean acquiesce and be afraid of the Dems. It means GROW SOME F’IN NADS AND REGAIN YOUR PRIDE.
So Im going to offer one more free piece of advice, just like the free advice I gave you that you didnt listen to months ago ——
FORGET THE WORD ‘BIPARTISAN’ AND THE PHRASE ‘REACH ACROSS THE AISLE’
Send_Me said:
I wish that were so. I fear that Republicans will see this defeat, thinking they weren’t “moderate” (left) enough.
I had been hopeful, even to the very end of this race, that things would turn out differently. I seriously doubt the Republicans will ever get their act together.
I just heard a chant of “We finally got a f***ing N****r president, We finally got a f***ing N****r president!” Nice.