The 2012 "Election" thread

[Elvis]

Dear Obama: I am a dyed in the wool liberal. I want to like you. You seem cool. So please stop slaughtering innocent Muslims with robots, stop going after whistleblowers, stop trying to close down medical marijuana(even tho I am into into pot), stop being a wall street puppet, close down Gitmo and CIA torture black sites, stop bragging about assassination lists, stop expanding the NDAA/Patriot Act/Homeland Security, and for the love of pete grow a pair of balls when it comes to the right wing idiots who hate the idea of health care or unions. I'd be the biggest Obama supporter if you did these things. K thx, bye

8bit, you kinda hit the nail on the thead there. Maybe you should print that out and mail it to Obama?

(I wonder, would it need editing to avoid a Secret Service "knock & talk"?)

[8bitagent]

concession speech 5min

http://www.youtube.com/politics

Obama may carry EVERY 'battleground' state

Mitt looks happy

That was a surprisingly happy concession, weird.

I loved this comment from Huffpo, a user posts

sawadee2000
There is not a chance that the Republicans will even consider getting off the train to Crazy Town. Indeed I'm willing to bet they will double down on every extreme position. Count on the GOP going full tilt on obstruction

Watching clips of Carl Rove try and explain how Mitt can still win this, when all other networks(including Fox) called the election for Obama was truly wtf.

Oh god... "the white establishment is the minority"

Seriously, try not to vomit when you hear O'reilly on why Obama won: Basically, minorities are able to vote, and people want rights.

[JackRiddler]

But all kidding aside, this shows who TPTB have chosen.

Apparently someone should write to most of the billionaires and explain to them that they are not TPTB, in your reckoning. I don't think the majority of decision makers within the MIC, the financial sector or the deep state would have been upset about either outcome, obviously. Those are my primary TPTBs, who are yours?

Obama gets away with shit that Republican presidents only dream of.

I'm so sorry that no controlled experiment will be possible to show how ludicrous this hypothesis is. Then again, one could always correctly recall rather than distort the history of the last 12 years. We're very lucky we escaped your apparently preferred outcome tonight. Any "change" that results will be thanks to social movements outside electoral politics, as always, but the chances are existent, as opposed to zero.

I've called the last two presidential elections, btw.

Since calling'em I've called 8 of 9. (That is, if we count Gore as the 2000 winner, which is certain, and Bush as the 2004 winner, which is not. But I'll grant the latter, making 2004 my 1 out of 9.)

So? What do our amazing shared powers to sniff out the obvious show?

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[barracuda]

Rove's meltdown is a keeper.

[8bitagent]

Billions wasted in this election cycle, but one thing I think we can cheer:
no real vote fraud, the people did speak and rebuked the horrific backwards insanity of the GOP.

But yeah, the GOP couldnt even have the votes flipped this time. No Florida, No Ohio. People seem satisfied. Cept for Trump and the fringe.
America really did vote for Obama, so for that I am happy in that the votes mattered.

[lupercal]

BO: "if you stood in a long line to vote, and by the way we have to fix that ..."

Bingo. This might be four years that BO and Joe finish carrying out the trash, at least, I hope it will be!

[Elvis]

I'd like to dedicate this bonghit to each and every one of you.

And one to Jill Stein, one for the BKIC (as I listen to his acceptance twaddle), and one for Romney for his gracious, if wooden, concession twaddle and getting the hell out of my sight.

[8bitagent]

NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama did not just win reelection tonight. His victory signaled the irreversible triumph of a new, 21st-century America: multiracial, multi-ethnic, global in outlook and moving beyond centuries of racial, sexual, marital and religious tradition.

Obama, the mixed-race son of Hawaii by way of Kansas, Indonesia, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, won reelection in good part because he not only embodied but spoke to that New America, as did the Democratic Party he leads. His victorious coalition spoke for and about him: a good share of the white vote (about 45 percent in Ohio, for example); 70 percent or so of the Latino vote across the country, according to experts; 96 percent of the African-American vote; and large proportions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

The Republican Party, by contrast, has been reduced to a rump parliament of Caucasian traditionalism: white, married, church-going -- to oversimplify only slightly. "It's a catastrophe," said GOP strategist Steve Schmidt. "This is, this will have to be, the last time that the Republican Party tries to win this way."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... 85819.html

[Jerky]

That was one hell of a victory speech, whatever else you may think of the man. Wow.

[lupercal]

okay it's official, so now we can be cynical again, and my assessment of BO is that he's learned on the job and one thing he's learned is that he's fallible. He had to fight to pull it out this time because he didn't have the same support as in 2008, though he had most of it obviously. But his FISA switcheroo and his Clinton cabinet might have been expedient, even beneficial in some cynical way, but they looked terrible and I don't think he'll be making mistakes like those again.

[ninakat]

[lupercal]

Joe Kennedy Nabs Congress Seat
ABC News - ‎2 hours ago‎

Joseph Kennedy III, the great-nephew of president John F. Kennedy, won election to Congress today, marking the return of the Kennedy clan to the federal government for the first time since Patrick Kennedy resigned from the House in 2010.

Kennedy will fill the seat vacated by Rep. Barney Frank, who retires this year. The seat will remain Democratic. Kennedy, the grandson of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the son of six-term Congressman Joe Kennedy II, is a Harvard Law graduate, a former member of the Peace Corps, and prosecutor who most recently worked as an Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/OTUS/joe-kenne ... JoKYuxcyq0
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quite a night.

[justdrew]

[82_28]

Republicans are gonna be pissed now. These losers can't see that the world doesn't revolve around hate. Domestically, things look great at least as far as social issues and signals that the religious right is losing its hold. Perhaps Obama will use this mandate to do what our multi-cultural majority wants. Washington State looks like it took care of business of all the things we care about -- save possibly the charter schools issue. I applaud all souls in the majority. Dubya fucked the right, because they doubled down time and time again. You give the keys to an idiot and bank on the hatred, it eventually comes back to bite you -- being the party of the "rule of law".

All in all, the best possible outcome given what we are given.

I'm gonna go buy me some weed at Target now. Well, I guess in December or something.

[ninakat]

That was one hell of a victory speech, whatever else you may think of the man. Wow.

Well, nobody said the man didn't have the courtesy of a reach-around. Gotta give him that. And, he's really considerate when he uses that hopenosis on you before you get fucked but good. Chris Hedges is probably right. It's The S&M Election.

And now for a meaningless song that has lots of mythology connected to it -- oh, yeah, like you know, OBAMA.