Today while waiting for my daughter after school I listened to three concerned young girls discussing how horrible it was that Obama was reelected. The reason they discussed was how “sad it is that now that he is back in he will cut military pay, starting with the navy. My brother is in the navy. He is going to get a pay cut. That is why we should have elected an American.”
I don’t, I can’t, blame these girls. I am sure they exported that idea wholesale from what they heard at home. But this is why I can’t sit back and listen to the concern trolls. Several people on Facebook have posted the “I am saddened by people I thought were friends who are bashing on my candidate. It is over. Just accept that two good men ran and one lost.”
This makes me want to slap the shit out of these concern trolls.
Two good men didn’t run. One person who I disagree with on many topics ran against one collection of lies, half truths, bullshit, ignorance, race baiting and ass-hattery. You don’t get to lie about literally every aspect of your opponent and then say “well, no offense, good race” after it is over. That is the real reason we have divided nation. Because one side spent the last four years saying their opponent was a Kenyan Muslim atheist socialist. Just because the election is over, it isn’t suddenly ok now.
And acting like it is only sends the message that they can get away with it the next time.
Enough. The GOP needs to learn that this is not a winning strategy. Nor is it alright even if it did win. You can’t demonize the other side for holding a position you hold, and then claim they are un-American. You can’t lie cheat and steal and then expect everything to be alright afterwords. You can’t keep acting like spoiled kids and expect to get a seat at the grownup table.
…BTW the pay cuts? Obama set a freeze so the budget crisis couldn’t cut service members pay. Romney wanted to cut it in one of his budget drafts.
Yeah. Guess we should have voted “American.”
#1 by Richard Warnick on November 7, 2012 - 3:44 pm
Remember when right-wingers claimed that anyone who dared to criticize “Our Commander in Chief” in any way was guilty of treason? It was just 5 years ago. They said only traitors could say anything negative about the President while our nation was at war.
Steve Benen documented 917 Romney campaign lies from January to the end, most of them unconscionable distortions of President Obama’s record.
#2 by Shane on November 7, 2012 - 4:15 pm
To be fair, I am sure they don’t consider Obama their commander in chief.
#3 by cav on November 7, 2012 - 5:53 pm
Seems to me the republ’ strategy of demonization and lies, is pretty much the American way of empire building writ small.
I’m hoping that the apparent failure of that strategy as a guide to winning elections might inform the modus operandi of the globalists. Still a long road ahead, with larger and larger storms – just to add drama.
#4 by Ken on November 7, 2012 - 8:15 pm
It is time for Democrats to put their money where their mouth is and give Mitt Romney some of Obama’s votes. In fact he should be paying Romney at least 35 – 50% of his votes which would make Romney the President. Do it in the name of fairness. Tell Obama to stop being greedy with his votes.
#5 by Larry Bergan on November 7, 2012 - 8:33 pm
Obama has promised to end the war in Afghanistan, but I think that’s a-ways off. When Bush II was running for his second term, all the talking mouths were saying, “you can’t change presidents in the middle of a war!”
What happened to that? Didn’t hear it once in the entire campaign. But, of course.
#6 by Larry Bergan on November 7, 2012 - 8:38 pm
From what I hear, it was young people who helped Obama win this time too. You can’t expect your kids to accept whatever you say for too long, if it doesn’t add up.
Stop watching the Fox poison channel!
#7 by Nathan Erkkila on November 7, 2012 - 8:42 pm
Apparently they were right.
#8 by Larry Bergan on November 7, 2012 - 10:08 pm
Except for the fact that changing presidents in the middle of a war was EXACTLY what we should have done with George W.
And we DID!
Just had no help prying him out of the office he/his stole for a second time.
Obama, for all of his faults, won both of his elections and so did Clinton.
#9 by Richard Warnick on November 8, 2012 - 7:50 am
Unlike Clinton, Obama won with a majority of the national vote (52.87% in 2008, over 50% this time). He’s the most successful Democratic presidential candidate since LBJ (61.05% of the vote in 1964). In 2000 Al Gore got 48.38%, more than Bush but not a majority. Truman and Kennedy won by a plurality. Jimmy Carter got 50.08% in 1976.
List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin
Republicans have won the popular vote for president once in the last six presidential elections.
#10 by Richard Warnick on November 8, 2012 - 10:29 am
The 6 Best Overreactions To Obama’s Win
My favorite:
#11 by Larry Bergan on November 8, 2012 - 5:25 pm
I’m crying too; tears of laughter!
So General Donald Trump wants to declare revolution, huh.
I don’t know if I can blame him for deleting his twitters though. The people I work with absolutely swear that CBS was reporting that Romney had won the popular vote by a million.
If they did that, I’ll bet they’re deleting their newscasts.
#12 by Nathan Erkkila on November 8, 2012 - 11:05 pm
I love how the conservatives are struggling like a wounded animal.
#13 by Richard Warnick on November 9, 2012 - 9:18 am
Glenn Beck told his remaining listeners to buy a farm in some rural county that voted for Romney, move there and stock up on guns and ammo. Of course, Beck himself isn’t leaving Manhattan because he doesn’t believe a word he says.
#14 by Richard Warnick on November 9, 2012 - 11:33 am
Michelle Malkin: Impeach President Obama for “jihadi-coddling.”
#15 by Larry Bergan on November 9, 2012 - 4:14 pm
Hannity wouldn’t have have accused Bush-the-lesser of lying if he had said Hannity’s mom had sex with a pig. A spot of grease has more integrity then those two freaks.
No offense to pigs, which are wonderful animals.
#16 by cav on November 9, 2012 - 6:27 pm
I hear it all happened in Benghazi at the same time the CIA Chief, General Petraeus was entertaining a special guest (perhaps it wasn’t all Obama’s fault after all. The lunatics will bawl nonetheless) elsewhere.
Who could imagine?
#17 by Larry Bergan on November 9, 2012 - 8:50 pm
Well there are two dots the media won’t be connecting, but thanks for that cav. Interesting.
#18 by Larry Bergan on November 11, 2012 - 4:22 pm
Ted – I shit my pants for two weeks to get out of serving in Viet Nam – Nugent never fails to put his two cents in.
NRA; have some pride. I mean REALLY; have some pride!