Comments on: US election: Yes we can!

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:48:34 +0000

Dunno, Saint. There seemed to be an awful lot of people outside the White House chanting “Yes, we did.” and “Pack your bags and go today”, so many millions of happy peoplein Grant Park, that Chicago is planning to use the success of that rally in their bid for a future Olympics, and an ABC repoter observed that usually nobody’s ever smiling in Washington, but today everybody was smiling. Not to mention the millions in New York. And even Condaleeza Rice, who is not one of my favourite people, thought Obama’s win was a great thing. In fact, the American Imbecile even got in on the act, and said it was wonderful.
And Sarah Palin’s gone back to Alaska to watch for those Russkies invading across the Bering Strait.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:50:02 +0000

Charming, as is your wont these days, saint.

And your figures on turnout are wrong.

By: saint

saint — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:46:35 +0000

Wow and after 20 months of campaigning, a fraud-friendly $600m dollar campaign, voter registration fraud (which in the end barely netted a few hundred thousand extra registrations), we get less of a voter turn out (118 million 2008 vs 122 million 2004) with Obama just getting 400,000 more votes than Kerry in 2004. And Kerry actually did run against Bush, got swiftboated and didn’t even have the entire U.S. media in the tank for him. Landslide? Obama for all his efforts -and he had to spin that effort hard because he couldn’t run on his character or record – bought himself a five point win.

Wow, if this is a forerunner of both the effectiveness and efficiency of the 143 day Senator, look forward to the first 100 days. Oh wait he’s already revised it to the first 1000 days.

All that buzz and excitement? It’s the 3 or 4 million Bush voters who stayed home who won it for him. Call it the welfare vote.

Haha!

By: Huggybunny

Huggybunny — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:06:28 +0000

I thought Mranda Devine was really off and irrelevant with her Obama drug rant. Janet Albrechtson was even worse with her thesis that black people who voted for Obama are racist (I think that was her message – it was very confused. Sheridan was his usual ” Some republican luminary (insert name here) told me at dinner the other night” totally stupid self.
What is it with these right wing pundits? At least Hitchens has had the sense to edge himself over to the Democrats. I wait with baited breath for his mea culpa on Iraq.
Huggy

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:28:30 +0000

I had a blast at the Warren View do watching the death by 1000 cuts of the Republican Party with you lot.

Now that’s etertainment.

Thanks people.

By: GoTroppo

GoTroppo — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:15:39 +0000

Sorry, that embed was obvious a dismal failure. Try this link instead. I can see the darn thing in the Preview Pane but it must pull it out when posting.

By: GoTroppo

GoTroppo — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:11:40 +0000

Speaking of “Yes We Can”, did anyone else come across this during the campaign? It was news to me until someone showed it to me this morning. Pretty impressive and powerful stuff putting Ohama’s words to music!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:58:57 +0000

Morra Aarons-Mele on the future role of the blogosphere:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/nov/05/barack-obama-bloggers-media

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:46:56 +0000

There’s not really any such thing as party membership, Chookie, in the Australian sense. There are party officials who are elected by registered voters – but it’s one of the big differences between our system and theirs.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:38:45 +0000

Still, it was a wonderful day.