President Obama: Reactions On The Right
November 4, 2008 / 11:59 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierOh the humanity! Well, I for one want to congratulate President Obama and his voters. He ran well. It is my sincere hope that he’ll preside well.
Ace: McCain lost honorably, as he wanted. I guess that’s what really matters in the end. And more: “No man is greater than an idea. Even the great McCain.” [go read his whole post--it encapsulates my own problem with McCain].
Rachel Lucas: My nightmare is manifesting right before my eyes. Bourbon dulls the horror but not completely.
Jim Hoft: Congratulations to Barack Obama and to all African-Americans tonight.
Jonah Goldberg: Look, I expect to be one of the most severe critics of the Obama administration and the Democrats generally in the years ahead (though I sincerely hope I won’t find that necessary). But Obama ran a brilliant race and he should be congratulated for it. . . . God bless America, and may He guide Obama to be the best president possible.”
Jim Geraghty: He will be my president.
13 Responses to “President Obama: Reactions On The Right”
November 5 2008 / 12:12 am
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Ugh, I don’t offer any congrats. We just elected a socialist, and it’ll make things even more divided than before. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded. His speech is utter bullcrap. I think I’ll start a blog when he’s inaugurated in January to chronicle the disaster that will be coming…It may be bitter, but I’ve dealt with bitter from the left for eight years. I have a right to feel the way I do right now, which is nausea.
November 5 2008 / 12:37 am
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The man deserves no more congratulations than the dogs that played Lassie deserved for having a TV show. He was railroaded in. He didn’t lay the tracks or build the locomotive or even run the throttle. He just rode the train.
I can only hope that once the unified goal of getting him into the White House is over, the Weather Underground people and the Islamofacists start infighting, and that Hillary Clinton and the other Democrats who only wanted power, not to destroy the country, stand firm with the Republicans to help us ride this out.
November 5 2008 / 8:59 am
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I hold no ill will for the man. He has a daunting task ahead of him. As difficult a task as the election was, the very hard work is still ahead: governing. It is almost like a dog who chases cars; what does he do when he catches one?
November 5 2008 / 9:58 am
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What a load of horse shit! Obama is a great repeater of other people’s great thoughts.
November 5 2008 / 10:40 pm
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Mat, I partially agree with your statement we just elected a Socialist, but we currently have a Socialist government today, how else can you explain the 700 Billion dollar bail out.
Yes there are different levels of socialism, but how do we know if Obama is better or worse than we have today?
Speculation that he will be worse?
November 5 2008 / 11:07 pm
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I don’t agree that Obama ran well. He ran a vicious, hateful campaign from start to finish.
I won’t praise hatefulness just because it’s successful.
November 5 2008 / 11:12 pm
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Elethiopian,
Oh yeah, I totally agree. The bailout was socialist (and the republicans had their share in that as well as all the nonsense that occurred before that). There is no doubt that the Rockefeller Republicans (which McCain was and is a part of) are a little socialist.
However, when you look at Obama’s voting history, his comments that have been picked up off of radio in the past decade, and his choice of people that he hangs around with, it’s clear that this guy is very much way to the left. Now, I will grant that it is possible (well, anything is possible) that Obama will govern from the center. However, his history suggests otherwise. I’m pretty sure what we’re about to get is one stinking heap of socialism rather than the little tiny turds the republicans have been doling out over the past eight years.
November 6 2008 / 3:28 am
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I am fearful of what may happen in the coming years. The only normal and truthful thing binden said was that obama will be tested. And I feel he will fail. This guy will make our military weak. The terrorists are counting the days until President Bush is out and obama is in. God help us!!!
November 6 2008 / 5:09 pm
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Well,
There sure is a great of hate and fear on this topic.
For the last 8 years we have been in a culture of fear spurred on by hate and intolerance from the radical factions in both parties. However, our “conservative christian base” seems to have stepped a little bit over the line.
Say what you need to say about Obama, be as hateful as you want, question his motives all you want. It all sounds like sour, bitterly sour grapes. Our hate campaigning has finally come back on the RP. First he was a muslim, the his wife and he did a terrorist fist bump, then he was a terrorist because he associated with terrorists, now he is a socialist. I am truly embarassed by these notions of the RP. When we lost to Jimmy Carter, the party reunited under RR and took back the White House. They did not sit around a feel sorry for themselves and accuse the other party of all sorts of crimes and rules violations. We understood what went wrong, revitalized the supporters and moved forward quickly.
Drink deeply to ease the pain if you must but he kicked our dumb Republican butts!!
It wasn’t too complicated and was not negative in orientation as was our John McCain’s (copy of the Rove/Bush tactics). He beat us like a drum by presenting a choice.
Hope.
Some of the posts here resonate hate and intolerance. There is no dialogue about how to move forward, just hate, hate, and more hate.
That is just an exhausting line of thought with only a dead end … more hate.
For those of you who choose to hate I wish you well. For the Republicans who wish to move forward lets move to find new leadership and jettison the platform of the past. We can do better!
November 9 2008 / 9:12 pm
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As an Australian Christian who has lived in the USA, I am waiting for a biblical response from the evangelical Christian right in the USA. Most of what I am hearing is a bitter, spiteful, fearful cultural reaction, and certainly not one that I would characterise as trusting in God, respectful of civil authorities, and evidenced by love.
November 10 2008 / 8:30 pm
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KJ,
So if you happen to disagree with Obama, then you’re a hater. Got it, thanks. Sign me up for those political re-education camps…er, I meant sensativity training sessions right away. You’ll fit right in with that national security police force (Obamajugend?) that Obama wants to set up. I suspect you’ll be one of the first volunteers. Strength through Joy, all that good stuff. God, with “Republicans” like this, who needs enemies?
January 21 2009 / 9:38 am
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Hello,
I am one of those left-wing liberals that have been taking quite a beating in the blogs on this website. I did not read them to gloat. I was reading them because I remember how I felt when President Bush 43 was elected. It’s disorienting when your country (and it is still your country too), seems to be moving away from your lights, your ideals, your principles. It’s as if your voice has been silenced, and you don’t feel like your part of things anymore. I am a left wing liberal and the last thing I want is for you to go silent. I believe you have something of value to say, and add, in moving forward. The country has moved to the edge of a cliff, everyone is going to have to make the climb. We have been apart long enough.
Emeraldmae