Think of him as a non-thinking man’s Nixon.
Whew! I am needless to say, very pleased with the presidential election results. I’m waiting for the sore loser bumper stickers to start showing up on the H2s and other rigoddamndiculously big SUVs like they did after Clinton ran Bush I out of office. All the “Don’t Blame me I Voted for Bush!” bumper stickers… Whenever I saw these tools, I was always struck with the thought (besides running them off the road, probably scalding themselves with their big cup of $9 coffee in the mug lined with extinct animal hide) “blame you for what? this great economy? the respect of other nations that we are enjoying? this peace?”
But in all seriousness, this is only the beginning of reclaiming this country towards the focus of correcting this economy and our worldly stature. There is a lot of shit to fix folks, and just getting our guy in office is hardly the end game.
W, I think will go down in a similar vein as Nixon. I think there is the potential for some of the administrations’ work to reveal itself as being a good movement here and there, but W was just too despised to ever be seen as anything but the marble mouthed bully as he was depicted (and was in some senses… OK, a lot of senses). Nixon did open Communist China to the west, but most everyone equates him with the Watergate scandal. The scandal was inexcusable, granted, but to be Machiavellian, his administration was a part of our history that many positive things were derived. I think there’s a chance for W’s legacy to garner the same intelligent appreciation given some ugly parts as well. Think of him as a non-thinking man’s Nixon.
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November 5th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Be careful what you wish for……..
November 5th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Mike D – spoken like a bumper sticker haver. don’t be a sore loser dude, remember, the Phils won! we both can feel good about that
November 5th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Hey, don’t we feel great today!!! Florida went blue, man! Not my neighborhood. We invited all 11 of our clear thinking friends to watch the returns.
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November 5th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Bud – i had some clear headed friends over as well…. we weren’t so clear headed at the end of the night tho
November 5th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Did you see the stats for Medford Lakes? McCain – 1,130 Obama – 1,131 Unbelievable.
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November 5th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I saw THIS the other day.
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November 5th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Dammit, can you fix my linkage? And Frankily Yours is written by a man.
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November 5th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
My brother in law has already been warned he will lose customers if he reveals he voted blue. ?? It will be a long haul but the first step over the threshold towards reform has been made.
November 5th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I think I love Franki.
When I asked my son (5 years old) this morning who he thinks won the election he got a really big smile on his face and said “Rock Obama Dad!”
Damn skippy. Rock on!
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November 5th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I hope you are right Van. Regardless of our political affiliations, we are all americans and I want nothing but success for Obama because that means success for America.
It all come down to I have kids, you have kids, we all want our kids to be safe an happy.
Besides, Joe Biden has a LOT of comedic potential. Kind of like when I get that MP3 you are making for me of “Eye of the Tiger” in hand farts.
Love you man.
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November 5th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Carolyn – yeah, I don’t think of ML as being a god fearing community, I’m guessing it’s more concern over taxes that the race was close
Franki – done
Megan – he voted for a smurf? kick ass
E – everyone should love Franki, in fact, that’s the official slogan of Leesburg, Va I think
Houston – i’ll most likely have some recording time this evening, i do hope to get that recorded
November 5th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Actually I think the official slogan of Leesburg is “Everyone loves Franki’s boobs.” I dunno who E is but he’s got damned good taste.
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November 5th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Franki – E is pure chewing satisfaction. He’s a very good buddy from college and claims to not be a famous nascar driver
November 5th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
You are too kind to W.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
All I can say is.. I hope I’m wrong about Obama…
but… the thing for me …
I wasn’t happy w/ McCain either… so…
the Repubs deserve the spanking they got…
hopefully they will return to the core values of conservatism.
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November 5th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Chris – I’m leaving it open to the “maybe one day invading countries for no reason is cool” theory
Terri – I don’t mean any offense at all, but the phrase “core values of conservatism” scares the ever-loving shit out of me
November 5th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Mr. Furious..
liberalism scares the bajeebers out of me!
I don’t like big government … I don’t like expanding entitlement programs… I believe in donating to charites rather than having our wasteful goverment taking our hard earned tax dollars..
our governments MAIN priority is to protect us from foreign and domestic terrorists….
not to give handouts.
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November 5th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Here, I found this for you…
we can expect a lot of this kind of thinking :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ikOxi9yYk
I do not believe in redistribution of wealth…
I am allll for helping those that can’t help themselves… but not to pay for generations of people living off the government… and you know that is happening… right? All races, BTW.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Terri – the government’s main priority is to serve the will of the people of our country. donating to charities is wonderful and i’ve never seen political implications whether private citizens donate or not. i don’t agree with expanding entitlement programs like yourself, but when we spend more money on invading countries that have no terrorist ties than we do on our own schools… that’s not conservative (at least I hope that isn’t for your sake) or liberal values, that’s stupid and that’s why change happened.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Terri – what was the point in posting that video clip with that insinuation? I don’t know what Peggy was thinking, but she’s cut off in the clip itself and if that’s what she thinks is going to happen, well she’s wrong. Do you really think that a bill to give free mortgage and gas money is coming now? Really?
November 5th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
It was FDR and Woodrow Wilson that started the entitlement programs…..
and we donate to a variety of charities….. the ones of our choosing….
Of course Peggy is misinformed… but obviously THAT is the message she got from Obama, and most likely lots of others.
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November 5th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Terri – Wilson was elected president in 1912, and FDR left office in 1945. so…. what happened the past 60 years? there have been conservative and liberal elected officials in the presidency since then. FDR’s policies rescued the nation from the great depression.
that is great you donate to charities, i meant no insult by my comment. but really, that is neither a republican nor democratic choice. those that donate are good folk in my book.
I can’t speak for Peggy and where she got that message and honestly do not understand how you can gleam that from that short clip. For every Peggy you show me, I can show you some very sick rascist examples of conservatives shouting terrorist at Obama. we can throw fringe examples from both sides at each other all day long. Don’t use an example like this when the conservative house is definitely not in order as well
November 5th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I’m with Houston. Success for Obama is success for all of us– no matter what your politics.
Apparently a man writes my blog.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
SQT – really? hmm, I guess that thing assumes that only guys like science fiction… sexist pigs. I’ll beat them up for you.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I can’t help but crack up when people scream about fear of big government when ol’ Bush/Cheney have given us the Patriot Act and the Total Information Awareness Program. Is this considered small government?
Seriously?
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November 5th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
@ Franki: exactly. The right wing Rep under Bush are the quintessential example of “big, totally invasive government”.
Some of the Rep posters here seem to have no clue how much both the Patriot Act and the Total Information Awareness Program were a part of “big government, less freedom’, a government that even largely privatized the unwarranted invasion of Irak.
@ Terri@SteelMagnolia: giving to charities is fine, but it should never replace “compassionate government”: any true democracy should care for those who cannot care for themselves.
If you want to see *real “big government”: come over to Belgium, where I’m living:
0% to 50% tax on income: you’d leave screaming
On the other hand:
when I was hit with severe medical problems I got top quality care, fully paid for by Belgian taxes.
And when I had to quit my job due to those medical issues, I didn’t lose my home:
nothing really changed income wise.
That bizarre Bush era legacy of “be scared” seems to live on:
“our governments MAIN priority is to protect us from foreign and domestic terrorists”
is exactly what the Bush admin made you believe,
until you finally noticed they were bankrupting the USA.
Do check out
Why we fight, the movie, at sonyclassics.com
to get a clearer view on “terrorism” & the US economy.
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November 5th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
You know, I had a conversation today with someone who called me (among other things) a socialist who wanted to ruin the country. I considered going into the many MANY reasons this person is incorrect about both me and his preferred candidate, but I didn’t. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to do it without losing my shit. Bravo to you for not losing yours.
The Palin erotica = all kinds of awesome.
November 5th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
hey! i was giving the finger in my post, too, today. but i JUST saw yours, so i totally wasn’t horning in on your pissed offness.
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November 5th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Peter, thanks for the note!! …. but, truly, it wasn’t Bush that has convinced me that our government is here to protect us … it’s on our Constitution … I got this online for you, read the second paragraph:
The Preamble to the Constitution has no force in law; instead, it establishes the “Why” of the Constitution. Why is this document in existence? It reflects the desires of the Framers to improve on the government they currently had (to be “more perfect” than the Articles of Confederation),
to ensure that that government would be just, and would protect its citizens from internal strife and from attack from the outside. It would be of benefit to the people, rather than to its detriment. And, perhaps as importantly, it intended to do the same for the future generations of Americans.
I’m really not a mean spirited person and I of course would want to help those that can’t help themselves… of course … and trust me … we’ve had our fair share of medical issues w/ our medically fragile baby .. running out of insurance w/ no hopes of purchasing private insurance … and there was nothing for us … because we were middle class and not at or below the poverty level …
we were being steered to poverty and told to divorce so I could be a poor single mom or give our baby up for adoption, in order to get Medicaid. We were told this by conselors and people in our state government….
So… I get excited about this kind of stuff…
I will probably not post anything politial again… I seem to get myself into trouble.
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November 5th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
In every election since I’ve lived here, ML has been overwhelmingly Republican. I fully expected McCain to blow out Obama here…
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November 5th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
i think Peggy’s not misinformed, i think she’s misunderstood. what i get from that clip is that all Peggy’s saying is with the new man in charge the economy should (hopefully) improve and jobs will be less hard to come by…and she will have better means to make ends meet… i.e. put gas in the car, make those mortgage payments. she won’t have to worry about it because the economy will be getting better…or at least that’s what we’re all hoping for come january.
when i told little van that obama won this morning he said “YES!! I KNEW IT!”
and he hopped out of the car and had a great day at school. i think that while he has no idea what this really means, he senses that something big is happening, and he’s right.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I kept getting text messages from my Republican friends saying, “Congratulations”… I just kept texting back, “We’re all winners today!” like a lame monkey…
And wanting to kick a little sore loser butt.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:05 am
there IS such a thing as a sore winner, you know….just sayin’. Division starts and stops all in the same place. Be the change you wish to see.
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November 6th, 2008 at 5:58 am
So long, Bush and thanks for all the debt.
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November 6th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I read a post today that blamed the economy crashing on ACORN. I don’t mean, in part, I mean the entire thing.
The liars and haters are starting early.
November 7th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I do wish Obama well, and hopefully he governs from the center. Conservative values, at least economically, do have the benefit that most economist believe they work better – ask Paul Krugman, not a conservative by any means, about the need for free trade. If you look at why this crisis occurred, its a rather tragic confluence of events – Wall street, filled with hubris, wanted to get rich and didn’t account for risk, the federal government wanted to streamline lending to subprime borrowers, everyone was taking donations from Fannie and Freddie (yes, Chris Dodd and Barack Obama), and the people who regulated the system (Greenspan, Credit rating agencies, etc.) put on blinders when it came to appropriate measures to recognize and control risk.
As for the comment above, about Roosevelt saving the country from the Great Depression, maybe you ought to go read a history of the Great Depression. Economists point out that a lot of countries went through contractions in the early 30′s, but only one country did things well enough to have theirs called “Great”
First, Hoover helped start the problem by doing 2 things – raising taxes on the wealthy (63% top marginal rate) and putting up protectionist trade barriers (Smoot-Hawley). Sound familiar today? Roosevelt put measures in to stop the downfall, which helped – and some of them were really needed, like mortgage refinancing, the FDIC, and regulations on the financial sector, but many other measures later prevented the economy from rebounding. He stopped the fall but then mired the economy down.
Unemployment was around 25% at the start of Roosevelt’s administration, fell to around 14% in ’37 but spiked back up to 19% in ’38. Roosevelt himself would not have gotten re-elected in ’40 had the nation not needed to stick with a proven leader at a time of imminent conflict.
And of course, the aftereffects of the New Deal and Great Society are looming: a 50 trillion dollar net present liability for Soc Sec and Medicare might be a bit of a problem with the next president in 2016 realizes there is no money left to spend on anything else.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
I’m overjoyed that Obama won, although I have to admit that I’m not totally without apprehension about some of the programs that might come out. Things like allowing people to count the Social Security ‘tax’, and thus get refunded what they paid into it. Yet, years later they will still be able to get SS payments when they haven’t help fund it*. The whole system is struggling as it is – lessening the amount going in will help NO ONE because everyone will be SOL when SocSec goes broke.
But I agree with you, Van – the amount of money being spent overseas in conflict-related situations could be spent in so many better ways.
* I know this scenario is simplistic – the timelines involved almost assure that SocSec will be broke long before someone would go who has paid nothing into SocSec would be eligible to collect. It’s just the principle of it.