wasn't it one party rule during bushes first six years? did you mind it then?
also, donations to a party fall under first amendment rights, don't they?

Obama sure did renege on his word when he saw he would benefit from opting out of public financing

But, I strongly disagree with you in regards to Obama getting his money from "God knows where". Even Stevie Wonder can see that Obama got his money from the millions of new voters who finally saw a candidate worth voting for. Voter turnout set records because of the interest in Obama

I'm 45 years old, and this is the first time I've liked a major candidate for the presidency. Obama was very smart to get his book out a few years before the election(regarding his drug usage). His candor about this, even if politically calculated, paid off big-time

I have a hard time figuring out how anyone thinks the media isnt biased especially the national media who were actually giddy today over this election. maybe if you agree with their politics you cant see it as well.

The military is run by graduates of the academies. Hard to get better than them.

I also cant comprehend how anyone could think that the world isnt a very dangerous place right now (Iran will soon have nukes, unstable regimes like pakistan already do, the Chinese are accumulating massive wealth of which a signifigant amount is spent on military, Russia is invading countries and rattling sabres, etc) and that the military strength that we posess shouldnt be taken for granted.

He may also surprise you too

Chuck don't forget we still have Chris Dodd and Barney Fiffe looking out for our interests..just like they have over the past several years!

Perhaps you need to do a little research. This was hardly a thrashing or were any epic proportions reached. Obama won with 53% of the popular vote. 22 states favored McCain. 56 million American citizens voted against Obama. 1956, 1964, 1972 or 1984, those were thrashings.

Walking into a sh.itstorm is surely not ideal though it gives him a lot of excuses to change what he has proposed and gives him the "out" i'm sure we will hear alot, Bush's fault. I dont agree with alot of what his stances on issues, I think (so much of what is proposed by people running for office and so many of the platforms that are run on are bs to get elected) but I hope he works out.

Where is the outrage against Bush? You are kidding right? No president has ever been as savagely attacked as Bush has.

I think Obama is going to fail for a few reasons. Number one is that 46% of the country doesnt agree with his policies enough to vote for a party that has failed in many respects. It wont take that much to turn that 46% into 51%. Number 2 is that many of his policies are simply not feasible. Number three if Sharpton, Farrakahn, Boxer, Streisand, Franken, Schmuer, Frank (Barney not Lawerence), Trial lawyers, unions, Oprah, Rather, Ted Kennedy, etc are happy then people like me should not be because they are polar opposites on virtually every issue to business owners and people like me.

I'm thinking that expressing that which one thinks.... and the reasons for thinking so, is not necessarilly the same as declaring someone a failure.

It will be interesting to see how Obama keeps
the divisive democrats mouths and actions out of the way.
People like Sharpton and Jackson will meet the wall of shun.
Pelosi and others will have to work with Rep. as will Harry Reid.
Reid is going to have to be more consiliatory, or I think he
might be asked by the Democrats to step aside as the new
president has a job to do... and it does not involve creating hatred.

The man has been elected by the mainstream. For those that
think the country is going to become a socialist-leftist country
you have got a big suprise coming. Obama is already trying to get
Clinton's man that made the big welfare cuts, etc... on board.

Obama might have more difficulty with the left of his own party.
I would not be suprised to see him referred to as an Uncle Tom
after things all get sorted out and he gets down to work.

What i mean with the %'s is that it wont take much to lose the faith of the % in the so called middle that voted for him. He has promised much during a very tough time with uncertain changes on the horizon many beyond the control of Obama or the US in general. Whether you like or support Bush you have to admit that 9/11 changed the landscape and was impossible to forsee in 2000. I am making the assumption that being a one term president will be considered a failure. Even though he certainly wont be to blame for all that goes wrong, with a Democratic congress he wont have much leeway.

The electorals are what count my friend. It wasnt even close.

No he won't. I don't think he is some kind of Messiah. I have said repeatedly that the winner of this election would be a one termer.

The only way he "surprises" me is if he does make it to a second term.

Compared to the last 2 elections it wasnt that close but it was hardly a runaway from an electoral standpoint. In 1988 GH Bush won the EC vote 411 to 111, in 1984 Reagan won the EC vote 525 to 13, in 1980 he won 489 to 49, in 1972 Nixon won 520 to 17, in 1964 Johnson won 486 to 52. Those are epic stompings. How do you expect us to educate Scavs on elections and the political system if you keep giving him hyperbole instead of truth?

Wish I had a business as successful as Winfrey's. Richest self-made woman billionaire in the world.

Finally, a smart, intellectual president. As one of the lifelong Republican women that helped vote Obama into office, I'm thrilled and excited and damn glad he won.

Quick, someone call Caribou Barbie, tell her Sarkozy is on the phone and has a position in the French government she can fill ... :D

PS - one of my GOP friends swears he's gonna just load up the guns and hide in the bunker for the next four years ....

Being a billionaire doesnt make your politics and views kosher with everyone. see George Soros or Jerry Jones

I think he is going to lay down the law fairly early to
those Democrats, while he still has the Democratic
mandate. Some of the democrats further left that
just like to make trouble are going to see some discipline
interjected while it still works. Imo Obama very clearly
understands the mess we are in.

No, but it probably makes you not "anti-business" ;)

Seriously, you want in on the GOP bunker?

Billionaires are isolated from policies that effect businesses and hence they sometimes have extreme views from the guilt they feel from their own fortune.

Unlike some I refuse to believe the most liberal member of Congress is suddenly going to move to the center especially with majorities in the House and Senate. Because he IS smart I may be correct in guessing that he has outsmarted many that believe the hype. "Redistribute the wealth" is not a term that he has backdown from or is afraid to say. That one line in itself should say it all about where we are headed.

First, I was not a supporter of this ticket. However, Andy I agree McCain is a good man, a war hero, a fine public servant. This speech was the real John McCain. In my opinion, he got terrible advice in the choices in personell, and tactics he used in this campaign. Karl Rove's old cronies along with the choice of Sarah Palin, kept this from being a closer race. I still have alot of respect for John McCain, it was a great speech, from a true patriot.

Who confided this to you, Donald The Trump? :) I would guess the average billionaire would be quite able to lobby to form that policy (see GOP, 2000-2008)

Yes, I absolutely grant the average billionaire would be, I suspect, rather isolated from the financial storms average folks have to weather daily (in BERK- B shares I trust)

I do not like that line either. However, there is no money for campaign promises. There is financial chaos and government debt. Promises are one thing, reality another. I'll wait and see where we end up.

Obama is not stupid.
There is no way health care, heavy taxes, and many
other things that might be possible in a healthy economy
will come to fruition in the form first dreamed about.

Reality is one thing this guy gets. And he has shown
a history of being a guy who sits back and listens, and
then makes diplomatic realistic decisions. But it still is unclear
how much can actually be accomplished with so many mistakes
to clean up.

Actually I was listening to a very wealthy man talk about it sometime ago and have never forgot it.

Do you really think that the influence of the mega rich started in 2000?

So you voted for a guy who made promises that are in your view are unlikely to actually happen?

All true. But tell me when a candidate from the same party as the sitting president lost this bad? I dont think its happened.

For a race that was supposed to be close, this was indeed emphatic.

Not, not at all. Why?

I voted for the guy I thought had exceptional intelligence and thoughtfulness, and will be most able to deal with the various disasters we are going through and yet may occur in the next four years. This guy has ice water in his veins when needed.

(GOP 2000-2008)

When has he needed ice water in his veins? Did he play in the World Series of Poker or something we dont know about?

LOL...

Oh Chuck...did you ever rely on campaign promises from ANY politician? Read my lips...

He beat a Clinton.
How many Republicans have beaten a Clinton?

Damon Thayer!!! He lives up to his promises! the rest suck

You need ice water for that? i just thought you drifted lefter and lefter

So what do you need icewater for, besides
Morton knawing on one's ankles?

Beating Hillary Clinton head on in the Democratic
party takes... large cahones?

...ice water, yeah, that's why he needs a teleprompter!

I even voted for Thayer.

LOL - is that supposed to be some kind of insult? They all use teleprompters frequently, even on the road at rallies :D

I don't beieve he's the cool commander that he's hyped to be, that's all.