Who the heck are they polling? I remember Clinton having extremely high polling numbers also, but he got elected with 43% of the vote and sucked as both a president and person.

Tommy_G on December 18, 2008 at 10:38 PM

I’ll have to admit, during The Time Of Clinton’s Trouble I was skeptical of the polls. I could not believe the American people were so accepting of corruption and immorality. But I’m not so sure any more since America has elected her first Pimp-Daddy.

First!

Notice liberals are afraid to call themselves “liberal” they have to resort to the nondescript, “progressive.”

Joe Pyne on December 18, 2008 at 10:03 PM

I have discovered in my lifetime, as I’m sure most of you have, you can call a steaming pile of horse dung “rose food” but you will still have a steaming pile of horse dung. The same is true for liberal/progressive.

Ya know, I’m really enjoying watching the cannibalism of the far left. Watching Obama piss off his own base is invaluable entertainment to me.

:)

I mean, if I’d have known he was going to cause this much of a disturbance on the left I’d probably have just gone ahead and voted for him.

HAHAHAHAH!!!

… well not really but still…

One Angry Christian on December 19, 2008 at 1:04 AM

I was expecting the campaign to be a real blood-letting, particularly from the dem side. I was kind of disappointed there but I think Obama’s administration is going to rival Clinton’s in corruption and scandal. And I dont really find any joy in that, the country is in trouble and has no time to trifle with corrupt politicians.
And, it’s Chicago politics, it’s in their nature.

He is the biggest liar to ever be selected to the Presidency.

he has also, fortunately, shown us the way to keeping him — and our country — on the right track.”

I think they mean the “left” track.

Notice liberals are afraid to call themselves “liberal” they have to resort to the nondescript, “progressive.”

Joe Pyne on December 18, 2008 at 10:03 PM

Ah, but as others have pointed out, the word “progressive” is anything but nondescript; in fact, it implies that everyone who is not “progressive” is obstinately standing in the way of progress — in other words, a bunch of dimwitted, backward rubes (perhaps the type who stubbornly cling to their guns and Bibles).

Words (and labels) matter, as Bambi himsef once pointed out. Liberals want to be called “progressives” now because the word “liberal” has bad connotations for so many people. It’s the same reason that illegal aliens are trying to force people to stop referring to them as “illegal aliens.” They want to force the use of such terms as “undocumented immigrants” instead. “Illegal aliens” are foreigners willfully violating our immigration laws. “Undocumented immigrants” are just hard-working, American-dream seeking families who neglected to do a little paperwork.

Control the language, and you control the debate. Control the debate, and you win the debate.

Okay, honestly JEFF INGLIS + DEIRDRE FULTON you’re both a couple of naive gullible dumb $hits.

Ya know, I’m really enjoying watching the cannibalism of the far left. Watching Obama piss off his own base is invaluable entertainment to me.

One Angry Christian on December 19, 2008 at 1:04 AM

It is funny, for now. But as others have said, the game with Obama is always one of “who’s the rube?”

By that I mean we all – supporters and detractors alike – need to be extremely cautious about anything Obama says or does. This is not a guy who acts from a basis of personal integrity, principled conviction or devoted service to others.

Obama does what’s best for Obama. Only and always. That’s why although good arguments were made that his presidency would resemble a second Jimmy Carter term, it’s instead Nixon he most reminds me of.

I won’t descend into ODS and I sincerely hope for all our sakes that Obama’s administration is a rational and intelligent one but he’s sure not wasting any time in demonstrating that he can’t be trusted. Even by his most rabid activist fund-raising fans.

(for the record, we did know he wasn’t the Messiah)

The Joker:

“And I thought MY jokes were bad.”

If they are progressive does that mean the rest of us are regressive?

HawaiiLwyr on December 18, 2008 at 10:05 PM

I like to think I’m a regressive, since there really isn’t much left to conserve anymore.

Buckaroo on December 19, 2008 at 1:09 AM

Look at the late 1960s and pre-Watergate 1970s for an example. The Far Left was destroying the Democrats up until then.

Had his daughter and friends not persuaded him to reveal all to Vanity Fair three years ago, we would have known of his name for the first time today.

Of course, you know Pat Buchanan and Ben Stein have plans to dance on his grave…

The progressive movement rose from near death and kept Obama alive in the primary, eventually proving stubborn enough to carry him to victory over the Establishment candidate.

………. that’s because every Democrat given a job, even pushed from power, is still on the payroll.

………………… you try that.

Maybe in the next hundred years or so, when the “Conservatives” get power back, they will remember this, and when in power, clean house….. clean out the bureaucracies, slash government to the bone………. but we don’t have that chance right now do we?

Elections do have consequences………………. enjoy the ride.

oooh, so they’ll get 5% of the vote instead of 2%?

/whatevs.

:)

I mean, if I’d have known he was going to cause this much of a disturbance on the left I’d probably have just gone ahead and voted for him.

HAHAHAHAH!!!

… well not really but still…

The Greens are part of an international environmentalist movement based in oh-so-fashionable Europe, while the Libertarians smoke too much pot, and not all conservatives belong to Neal Horsley’s church.

When conservatives kamikaze, they stay home. When liberals kamikaze, they fill the ranks of third parties that in turn gain organizational power and nip even more at the Democrats’ heels.

There will be some seriously high expectations from liberals from a government completely controlled by the Democrats. These expectations will either be fulfilled, with a concomitant loss of centrist support, or we will see a huge revival in leftist third parties.

I’m sure hussein knows that, and for 4 years he will work with Conservatives, if he wins again we will see the wrath of liberalism sweep across America.

christene on December 18, 2008 at 11:57 PM

Yes he does and he will stay in the center on foreign policy as long as he can. But he will move left on domestic issues and spend a lot of money just as soon as he can. And I’ll lay odds that the centrists that you see in his cabinet now will not be there at the end of 4 years.

So if…he is not who we thought he was… are… they still the ones they’ve been waiting for?

katy on December 18, 2008 at 10:07 PM

The way I see it, it only seemed that the ones he said were the ones they were waiting for were the people who thought he was who he wasn’t, but, in fact, they were not the ones he thought were the ones they were waiting for. Simple. I mean obviously, because if he had been the person they thought he was, then they would have been the people he thought they were waiting for. And you don’t get that, then you didn’t believe in hope and change.