daytripper wrote:
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 23:03:46 -0500, "Mr Opus McDopus--Mark H. Bowen"
wrote:

Thank goodness sound judgement won out this time!

Op

Indeed, and it's so much more than just electing Obama as President. Between
this election and the mid-terms of 2006, the Republican Party has suffered
tremendous losses at all levels of government - basically, it has had its head
removed and handed back to it. Such is the cost of their having run the
country into a financial, moral and ethical ditch while they were in control.
Now they have two choices: sit on the sidelines and snipe, while hoping things
get worse, or change their stripes, moderate their dogma, and join in the
effort to extricate the country from the abyss that the neocons sank it in.

But, for me at least, the very best part of this election: it was a wholesale
repudiation of those who would divide this country through hate.

The list of losers is long and utterly undistinguished, but to mention just a
few, kicked to the curb were the likes of Karl Rove, Phyllis Schlafly, William
Bennett, Laura Schlessinger, Newt Gingrich, Rudi Guiliani, James Dobson, Ralph
Reed, Pat Robertson, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham,
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rupert Murdoch and the entire Fox
News organization...and on and on. The whole collection of bad actors got
their hineys roasted, and cannot escape the reality that if they ever actually
held sway over any significant part of the American electorate, they've been
diminished to near irrelevance. And it's about time.


Meanwhile, for the sake of good order, props to John McCain, for a magnificent
speech to close out his campaign - and the wisdom to keep Sarah Palin quiet.
The irony is, of course, that this signified the return of the man that most
people once knew and had some respect - the John McCain of 1999 - instead of
the 2008 candidate that not only allowed his campaign to get rolled into the
wingnut/neocon mud hole, but contributed with his cynical selection of Sarah
Palin ("Country First" my white shiney ass!)

One can only wonder, had McCain taken the high road through this presidential
campaign, if the outcome could have been different. Perhaps not - clearly, the
electorate was disgusted with the Republican Party and may not have shown any
quarter. In any case, there is reason to be hopeful that McCain will provide a
positive contribution to the raising of the ship of state, before he rides off
into retirement.

And so now we wait and watch as the next Administration is formed - and hope
that the current, disgraced Administration goes away quietly...

/daytripper (Tonite is a better nite, and tomorrow will be a better day)

You're so fos and hate. The outcome of this election was decided by the
press a year ago. My daughter, the grad student in journalism, was
actually embarrassed by the unequal treatment of the two candidates by
the press.

One needs to consider why, with the negative approval for the president,
the election was as close as it was.

We can only hope that Obama and his three vice-presidents don't actually
start implementing Obama's promises. Or maybe we should just to prove
how clueless they really are.