Hello? Hello? Where the Hell are the conservatives?

I've always been taught to respect people. Ideas, however, are free game.

First of all, please do tell me how you find the name calling and ridiculing of a president something to aspire to do? I find it only shows what little minds so many people, yourself included, have here on A2K.

Hey, guys, girls . . . it's election night . . . where the hell are ya?

Anybody seen any conservatives tonight?

Hopefully the next 4 years will find less hatred coming from the conservative side than all the hatred and name-calling of the president that came from the liberal side during the last 8 years. One can only hope.

During a political campaign, all politicians encourage the belief that their election will benefit everyone. The Obama campaign drew much of its strength from the idea that the policies of the past were wrong, wrong, wrong. The expectation fostered was that Obama's election would represent a new era, a new politics that would be everything that past politics was not. The near religious zeal and idealism of Obama's followers has been frequently noted. Like other idealists, Obama's election took on a tinge of the crusade for revolutionary change in the political environment. Obama's election has been sold as a glowing promise that inspires hope and will lead to that rosy future I mentioned above.

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During a political campaign, all politicians encourage the belief that their election will benefit everyone. The Obama campaign drew much of its strength from the idea that the policies of the past were wrong, wrong, wrong. The expectation fostered was that Obama's election would represent a new era, a new politics that would be everything that past politics was not. The near religious zeal and idealism of Obama's followers has been frequently noted. Like other idealists, Obama's election took on a tinge of the crusade for revolutionary change in the political environment. Obama's election has been sold as a glowing promise that inspires hope and will lead to that rosy future I mentioned above.

And so it begins.

Accuse Obama of claims he never made so you can accuse him of not living up to them.

I doubt most people that voted for Obama expect him to fix everything let alone fix it quickly. We just wanted a new direction because the old direction was horrible. Whether the new direction is perfect is debatable but it can't be as bad as where we are now, 2 wars, recession, record government debt, a financial liquidity crisis caused by lack of regulation, a complete disregard by the current President of much of what we were taught America stood for as children.

Will Obama be perfect? No
Will he appear perfect compared to what we had? That is in the eye of the beholder I guess.

I tend to fear you are probably correct Parados. But we can always hope it will be different. I am afraid that until conservatives and liberals become more civil toward each other it will be difficult to find common ground with which to move forward and solve the problems that face us all.

I've seen dozen of interviews today on Sky News getting reactions from Americans. Not a blade of grass in sight. Not a tree. Cityscapes only. I would guess 95% of interviewees were black and at least 50% of them were well overweight and in striking contrast to the blacks in the Congo. One shop had a large sign reading SEE YOUR FOOD.

I also noticed that the new political map retains an enclosed area with no blue inside it and no red outside it.

Have the Dems achieved the filibuster proof 60 seats in the Senate?

What's the DOW doing?

"Don't follow leaders--watch the parking meters."

I also noticed that the new political map retains an enclosed area with no blue inside it and no red outside it.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

It is perhaps true that the America I call home is not the one that you call home, but I do hope and pray that while we may not share the same home that all Americans can live in the same neigborhood, where our best days lay before us and we can continue to move forward towards a more true social union for our descendents and where we can continue to stand as a shining beacon of freedom on a hill to light all mankind.

So, while my America came home to me yesterday, I know that it will come home to you if you have faith in it.

Because we are AMERICANS.

Hey, guys, girls . . . it's election night . . . where the hell are ya?

Anybody seen any conservatives tonight?