Obama was pretty much a foregone conclusion.

Sarah Palin – Again, if McCain won, perhaps — although she was really only a story for three months of the year. I suspect she’ll get more opportunities down the road.

You would think so, wouldn’t you. But the media has her in their sights, and I expect her to stay in the news for months to come.

Racial divide? Didn’t this election prove that our racial divide had moved to the past?

Can’t agree with you on this one. The election of Obama has not put racism in the past. It has guaranteed that we will hear the racism charge thrown around every time anyone opposes the messiah-elect.

I can almost guarantee that in four years the idea that Obama’s election marked the end of the racial divide will seem quaint.

In one of the craziest elections in American history, he overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who are political institutions and the racial divide to become the 44th President of the United States. …
Racial divide? Didn’t this election prove that our racial divide had moved to the past? … Had there actually been a racial divide in our public life, Barack Obama wouldn’t have won the nomination, let alone the election. Maybe Time should think about that.

You might enjoy this: just recently, someone posted an article titled “Another Racial Barrier Toppled!”, which argues that every mundane “first time” is invariably pitched as some overcoming of a racial barrier:

RACIAL barriers have toppled at a very elite club. Two anonymous men, one Han Chinese, the other Yoruban from Nigeria, have become the first non-white, non-celebrities to have their full genomes sequenced.

Didn’t I say that Barack Obama’s being elected president would not be the end of “racism”? Every time a nonwhite person does something or is included in something that has not happened with a nonwhite before, it will be billed as “Racial Barrier Toppled,” as though there had been some racist barrier preventing this event from occurring up to this very moment, meaning that the society has still been racist up to this very moment, and that all the previous topplings of barriers really didn’t mean a thing, meaning that the civil rights movement really didn’t mean a thing, meaning that the Thirteenth Amendment really didn’t mean a thing, meaning that 600,000 white men dead in the Civil War and the civilization of the South destroyed really didn’t mean a thing.

To the liberal mind, an event can only be given positive meaning if it is seen as an overcoming of white evil.

Also, notice the wording of the first sentence of the New Scientist article: “Racial barriers have toppled at a very elite club.” When you read that, your first thought is that there is some very exclusive, probably British club, that has just let in some nonwhites for the first time. In fact, all that’s happened is that a genome study was done on two anonymous nonwhite men. So there is no “club,” and there is no membership, and there has been no exclusive membership. But that is the way the liberal mind must conceive of the event, both to make it seem particularly worthwhile and to find another way to stick it to whites.

And what’s with the blue spot in his right (image left) ear?

And anyway I’d have to agree with something else others have said: “Who cares???”

But I always have the pleasure to reply “NO!” for a change.

This is one of the reasons why.

As for you, MC, I don’t mind telling you I get my undies in a bunch when the syrup runs low, too. I’ve got to make my soon-to-be-world-famous pecan pie for the girls at work on Friday, and Grade A dark amber is running at $20 a quart.

Jaibones on December 17, 2008 at 1:41 PM

The Seven Years’ War was for syrup!

MadisonConservative on December 17, 2008 at 1:11 PM
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Comedy fail.

Drudge is a disrespectful a$$hole.

Dave Rywall on December 17, 2008 at 11:26 AM

Yeah, well … so? And since when is publishing a picture of your Messiah – looking very proud of himself, I might add – “disrespectful”?

At least things matter enough in our country to get ulcers over. You get ulcers when the maple syrup supply runs low.

MadisonConservative on December 17, 2008 at 1:11 PM

As for you, MC, I don’t mind telling you I get my undies in a bunch when the syrup runs low, too. I’ve got to make my soon-to-be-world-famous pecan pie for the girls at work on Friday, and Grade A dark amber is running at $20 a quart.

Someone – Dave?! – anyone, tell me wtf is up with that?

Of course.

As if all of you aren’t going to get ulcers over the next 4 years complaining about every. Single. Thing.

Next.

Dave Rywall on December 17, 2008 at 12:52 PM

I’m sure I can speak for most of us here when I say we are concerned about our families and the health and safety of our wives and children. You know, things that really matter.

The last thing we will ever worry about, to the point where it gives us ulcers, is some freakin loser sitting in the White House, standing in front of his mirror admiring how wonderful he is.

Unlike you, we don’t look at Obama as some God-like creature. We won’t lose any sleep over his stumbling and bumbling in the years ahead. Ulcers? No way. But we might crack a few ribs laughing at his incompetence as he plays the role of POTUS.

Dave Rywall on December 17, 2008 at 12:52 PM

At least things matter enough in our country to get ulcers over. You get ulcers when the maple syrup supply runs low.

Next.

It’s as if none of you knew Time came out with this issue every year.

Thanks for all the laughs.

Dave Rywall on December 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM

Um, no. Of course we all know it comes out every year, and almost every year it succeeds in being stupid.

What I think you haven’t quite figured out is that that’s not the funny part. It’s all the idiots who still take Time magazine seriously.