Obama Defeats McCain: Why am I Sad?

McCain was too old to stand the vigors & stress of the top job in the country. Time for new fresh ideas to unite and inspire us. The negativity & Palin worked against his winning. Nothing can be worst than the last 8yrs but Obama brings us hope again!!! 

Last night, I watched John McCain put on the best and worthy speech since the beginning of the presidential race.  I firmly believe there was a congruency between his sincere speech and his character.  I commend him for his efforts in this race against such an outspoken and wonderful leader, Barack Obama.  I'm happy for all of my fellow Americans because I think we have come a long way and the journey continues...

Well said needsearplugs!  AND the dems are considering MORE stimulus money!  This whole mess is the fault of EVERYONE - democrats and republicans!  They all had a hand in it and all took "donations" from the greedy bankers.  Quit blaming the Bush administration - this economy was growing until the last quarter - the first quarter of loss of growth.  Who was in charge of the senate and congress the last two years?  They are all a bunch of crooks.  And quit blaming Palin for McCain's loss.  How about all the voters being registered by ACORN - being from the state of Ohio, I was disgusted by the registration fraud going on here.  They were paying people with cigarettes and whatever else to register AND vote the same day - and told to vote for Obama!  I am totally frustrated with the lack of ethics used during this campaign!  There is nothing worse than a poor loser - except a poor winner!  The Obama supporters should be happy - quit spewing your hatred of McCain and Palin and republicans.  The media did enough of that!!!  McCain gave five years of his life for this country - he deserved to win, but his campaign managers were awful!

I am tired of the Bush bashing.  President Bush did not put us where we are today. The President does not make the laws or even start bills that become laws.  You Democrats had the power and the Democrats did what they wanted not for the good of the people of the United States but for their own agendas.

I live in Michigan and we have had a Democrat for Governor now for 6 years.  Michigan has been bleeding jobs here, where were the Democrats? Now I can only see the same with Obama, more bleeding and more taxing.  If you are one of the lucky ones to still have a job hold on to it. The Democrats are going to tax us and the companies we work for just so they can share the wealth with the people who do no want to work honestly.  I believe that you earn what you work for.  It is not yours to take.  I can see Michigan back to being a WELFARE state again. The hard workers working to try to get somewhere in life and the Democrats wanting us to give what we have worked hard for the the lazy people who think they deserve what the hard worker had just because they want it. That is not what our country was built on.  That is why people from other countries come to our great nation because of the opportunity, but the Democrats keep taking it away from the hard workers.  If we did not have people with money owning businesses, we would not have jobs. With no jobs, no tax money and no need for government.

And yes I believe that there was a large turnout just because Obama is black.  Most black people do not vote because there has never been a black candidate. I feel the black population only saw that Obama was black and they wanted to show the rest of us they could get a black man into office.  If Obama had the experience, which he does not, I probably would have voted for him.  When I vote, I vote who has the qualifications to do the job. McCain has those qualifications and now we have an unqualified President getting ready to go into office in Jan.  May GOD be with us hard working people because we are going to be in for a fight to hold on to the jobs we have and the money we make.

John McCain lost the election, in part because he lost his integrity by pretending to be someone he wasn't. He went with the Christian right. He used his running mate to lie and attempt to tear down an incredibly talented and bright man who possesses  true integrity. Obama, however ran his campaign as Jesus would have by "turning the other cheek" and by showing compassion toward Americans from all walks of life. He is a true Christian. He doesn't just "talk the talk" he "walks the walk."

Congratulations, President Elect Obama! I am so ecstatic that you won. I am still crying tears of joy.

Obama is nothing more than a rebound president.  The left wing nut jobs and the kool-aid drinkers don't want a Republican because that's what Bush is.  They will get what they voted for and unfortunately so will the rest of us. 

I am very proud to say that I fully supported McCain.  He is a man who served over 5 years as a POW so we can have the rights that we do.  McCain is a great man and he is the one who deserved to win the presidential election.

Great post SnotRagDave

I actually voted for McCain in 2000. There were very few times I recognized him since 2004. You're doing a great job keeping the post on track. Keep it up.

To the happy, as yet to learn, democrats. During the nexr four years my grandchildrens inheritance will dwindle considerably.

Some of my rights will be taken away and laws will change.

Perhaps even my right to bear arms will be swept away with all kinds of explainations and promises of a safer America.

Here is my promise to you. Should you choose to come onto my property with your satanistic ideas and concessions...I will be waiting for you with baseball bat in hand..unless of course that too has been outlawed, at which time I will simply squeeze the life out of you with my bare hands for threatening my childrens future...and of course for trespassing with intent to do harm!

Not surprisingly, you're a delusional liberal on drugs with a distorted view of reality.  John McCain won the primary because he was the most experienced candidate.  There was no overall strategy of the party to select him.  And the party had little, if anything, to do with his choice of Palin. You are speaking in total ignorance, projecting the political engineering of the Donkey Party to your opponents.  There is a reason we don't call you the "Democratic" Party.

Palin was NOT an albatross around the neck of McCain, no matter how much you choose to hate her.  Exit polls demonstrate that among those for whom the VP pick was important, McCain performed better than he did among the general electorate. This means that Palin was a positive contributor to McCain's results - it just wasn't enough.

McCain blew the election by wasting an entire month while Hillary and Obama duked it out. The Republicans blew the entire summer not registering enough voters.  McCain refused to attack Obama early and focus on the economy later. He responded weakly to the scurrilous attacks on Palin by the media.

Barack Obama is a laughingstock and a diva. He's not a president, but he plays one on TV. His image is a thin veneer of respectability and competence covering his truly disgusting and ambling nature.

Ayers and Wright were June issues.  "Drill Baby Drill" was a July issue.  Obama ran against Bush, and McCain SHOULD have ran against Congress and against Obama's Supreme Court picks. McCain should have placed blame for the housing crisis squarely where it belongs: Bill Clinton, the democrats running Fannie Mae, Barney Frank, et al.

The bottom line is that McCain blew this campaign and he correctly took responsibility for it. Character is what matters most for a president and, as you say, McCain deserved the job more than Bush (and Obama), but he simply didn't have the chops to BECOME president - he proved this twice.

And yeah, you are a bunch of Flavor Aid drinkers. Seeing the creepy Obama posters floating through the crowd in Chicago and on the buttons of thousands of people in San Francisco reminds me of nothing less than a leftist cult of personality a la Cuba, North Korea, or East Germany - and it was the Hillary supporters who were the first to recognize that.

There's no way that Obama can live up to all the expectations he's created, which is why he has already begun ratcheting down those expectations (lowering the bar).  In three years we're going to remind every "swing" voter of every broken Obama promise.

I'll bet you can't even remember most of them because the Flavor Aid has already begun to take effect.

Gracious post Snotrag!

I believe that John McCain was thrown under the bus a long time ago by his "party". The GOP treated him horribly in 2000, and did not show the sincere support Senator McCain should have received as their party's candidate in 2008.

I also believe that many republicans supported the John McCain of 2000, and were disappointed by the John McCain of 2008. I don't believe that the 2008 John McCain is entirely at fault for the way his campaign was run, because he really didn't have the support he deserved. The uglier his campaign got, the more republicans jumped ship. He was left flailing around, trying to reign in his running mate, and keep his campaign as dignified as he could under the circumstances. He was duped by his backers that he had a shot, when in reality, they never had his back. The republican loss was the fault of many in their party, and not the sole responsibility of Senator McCain.

Although, I have never supported Senator McCain, I do acknowledge that he indeed served his country. He held on to the end, and for a man his age, I have to say I am impressed.

Here's wishing many happy years for John McCain. He's worked hard, fought against many obstacles and did the best job he could.

First of all, the first recession during the Bush Administration began in the FIRST three months of his presidency (the growth began slowing in previous quarters). That is most certainly the Clinton Recession.  You apparently know nothing about macroeconomic policy lags.

Second, this recession was caused by the housing bubble which was caused by Clinton's national housing policy. Under that policy, he created the "easy-pay" subprime products and the securitization instruments.  Fannie Mae, which bought up loans as fast as they could and then securitized them into financial markets, was run by two successive Clinton suckups: Jim Johnson and Franklin Delano Raines.  A third Clinton suckup, Jamie Gorelick, was the deputy chairman.  It was THEY who presided over the massive accounting scandal in Fannie Mae which was hiding the feeding frenzy of subprime loans.

The budget surplus was already disappearing when Bush took office due to backloaded spending by Clinton and the recession that his policies caused. Bush had to repair a military that Clinton had decimated every year for eight consecutive years.

No, there were two CLINTON recessions we've had in the past eight years.

Hussein Obama Bin Laden wins, America loses.  Reagan was an actor that made a great president, Obama is a politician that made a great actor.  He is all for himself.  The woman who said she has never been so happy, now she won't have to worry about filling up her car, or paying her house payment sums it up for all you who expect hand outs.

About that dividend from Alaska's Permanent Fund: it began LONG before Sarah Palin took office.  The dividend was increased under Palin because the rules of the fund required that the dividend be recalculated every few years and sky-high oil prices increased it.

Palin did not "buy" her popularity with oil dividends. Try actually learning about things before you comment on them. Reading...it's fundamental.

Finally, a post that explains the reasons why the first team pulled out early and left the republican's most hated member to swing in the breeze. I would have to add a bit of history however. The republicans wrecked the economy in their abortive years of Reagan and Bush. They then turned the reins over to Clinton who had to make all of the tough decisions and cutbacks to get us out of the hole that Uncle Ronnie and Daddy Bush sank us into. But they got to sit on the sidelines and snipe at the Dems in the White House for eight years. Clinton left us with 6 straight years of growth and money in the bank after being handed a busted economy in '92. The Retardicans pillaged the treasury even further this time spending money like a drunken sailor and they know that it is going to be painful to climb back out. They will sit once again and foul-mouth the democratic White House and Congress that tries to pay their tab for the last eight years. They will squeal like banshees when we pull out of a quagmire in Iraq and mourn the lack of backbone to persist in an abortion created by the neocons that costs the taxpayers 2 billion a week. They certainly didn't want to be the ones to tighten the belts and cut back on the catered meals at the Treasury for their buddies so they ran a senile old man and his harpee running mate that had so many skeletons and such a radical mouth that there was no way to win. I hate that John got trashed the way he did but he was stupid enough to hire the same vermin that accused him of fathering a black baby back in 2000 and thought they would actually help him. I hope it comes out who exactly first recommended Palin to McCain. In the words of the Godfather, " Remember, who ever comes to you with this deal is the Traitor." 

Finally, a post that explains the reasons why the first team pulled out early and left the republican's most hated member to swing in the breeze. I would have to add a bit of history however. The republicans wrecked the economy in their abortive years of Reagan and Bush. They then turned the reins over to Clinton who had to make all of the tough decisions and cutbacks to get us out of the hole that Uncle Ronnie and Daddy Bush sank us into. But they got to sit on the sidelines and snipe at the Dems in the White House for eight years. Clinton left us with 6 straight years of growth and money in the bank after being handed a busted economy in '92. The Retardicans pillaged the treasury even further this time spending money like a drunken sailor and they know that it is going to be painful to climb back out. They will sit once again and foul-mouth the democratic White House and Congress that tries to pay their tab for the last eight years. They will squeal like banshees when we pull out of a quagmire in Iraq and mourn the lack of backbone to persist in an abortion created by the neocons that costs the taxpayers 2 billion a week. They certainly didn't want to be the ones to tighten the belts and cut back on the catered meals at the Treasury for their buddies so they ran a senile old man and his harpee running mate that had so many skeletons and such a radical mouth that there was no way to win. I hate that John got trashed the way he did but he was stupid enough to hire the same vermin that accused him of fathering a black baby back in 2000 and thought they would actually help him. I hope it comes out who exactly first recommended Palin to McCain. In the words of the Godfather, " Remember, who ever comes to you with this deal is the Traitor." 

Senator John McCain lost because Senator Barack Obama defeated him.  Regardless of what you want to believe, John McCain did not lose because of some "flaw" in his campaign, or his character, or his decision making ability, he lost because Barack Obama took all the dirty crap, lies, and misleading or negative ads, that the McCain/Palin "partnership" threw at him  and held steady to his campaign plan.  Please note if Barack Obama/Joe Biden had run just as stupid a campaign as John McCain, the election may have had different outcome.  Simply stated, John McCain lost because the better man won.  It appears that John McCain has most graciously accepted that fact, why can you people do the same?

I was sad that John McCain lost.  and Sad that Obama won .

during the primary Obama made a statement back in may of 2007 that turn me off. i saw him at that moment that he was an elitist, a" music man", all show. Obama only had 132 days in the US Senate and year and half in the state. no true experience for the job level that he was trying to be hired for. (voted) he charmed the media, he charmed the contributors how ever small they were. Obama had a money machine and he used it to his full advantage.  Obama did demostrated to me that he is a strategist. That being the only good quality for his new job position. As a democrat who wanted the public funding for political campaigns so the rich and poor candidates will have a level playing field. As well as demostrate that they could win with in a budget.  I feel Obama and his team through that into the faces of Democrat. I showed me that Obama and his team can not work within a limited budget. I also feel that that the 40  million dollar informicals that he and team was a pay back to the network media for "being so kind"to him.

 John McCain did not have the backing of his own party. His ride to the nomination of presidency of his party was only due to the registered republicans who voted for him in the primary. The Republican Party had to hear what the people wanted. John McCain fought a long hard race. He is a tentacious, persistant and envolutionist. This man should had his party nomination in 2000 he fought for his party nomination in 2008. I salute John McCain for being the embodiment of a true American.

 But the election is over Barack Obama has won the electriol votes. But do you see. Do you really see that yes Barack Obama is the nominated future President of the United States. Look carefully to each state see the difference in margins. Few state had a large gap. Alot more had gap of 3% to 9%. As a nation we are still divided.

   Barack Obama will need to bind our differences and create a one America. Where the message of American is the same for all. A rally cry. A statement that is true, gives us hope and something to believe that it is possible.

   So I mourn John McCains lost today.

  Tomorrow I salute Barack Obama nominated President of the United States. I pray that he is as an American as John McCain in his duties. I pray that Barack Obama is just as tenacious, perisitant and envolutionist as I see America being, has been and will be.

  thank you for my say

I was sad that John McCain lost.  and Sad that Obama won .

during the primary Obama made a statement back in may of 2007 that turn me off. i saw him at that moment that he was an elitist, a" music man", all show. Obama only had 132 days in the US Senate and year and half in the state. no true experience for the job level that he was trying to be hired for. (voted) he charmed the media, he charmed the contributors how ever small they were. Obama had a money machine and he used it to his full advantage.  Obama did demostrated to me that he is a strategist. That being the only good quality for his new job position. As a democrat who wanted the public funding for political campaigns so the rich and poor candidates will have a level playing field. As well as demostrate that they could win with in a budget.  I feel Obama and his team through that into the faces of Democrat. I showed me that Obama and his team can not work within a limited budget. I also feel that that the 40  million dollar informicals that he and team was a pay back to the network media for "being so kind"to him.

 John McCain did not have the backing of his own party. His ride to the nomination of presidency of his party was only due to the registered republicans who voted for him in the primary. The Republican Party had to hear what the people wanted. John McCain fought a long hard race. He is a tentacious, persistant and envolutionist. This man should had his party nomination in 2000 he fought for his party nomination in 2008. I salute John McCain for being the embodiment of a true American.

 But the election is over Barack Obama has won the electriol votes. But do you see. Do you really see that yes Barack Obama is the nominated future President of the United States. Look carefully to each state see the difference in margins. Few state had a large gap. Alot more had gap of 3% to 9%. As a nation we are still divided.

   Barack Obama will need to bind our differences and create a one America. Where the message of American is the same for all. A rally cry. A statement that is true, gives us hope and something to believe that it is possible.

   So I mourn John McCains lost today.

  Tomorrow I salute Barack Obama nominated President of the United States. I pray that he is as an American as John McCain in his duties. I pray that Barack Obama is just as tenacious, perisitant and envolutionist as I see America being, has been and will be.

  thank you for my say

I was sad that John McCain lost.  and Sad that Obama won .

during the primary Obama made a statement back in may of 2007 that turn me off. i saw him at that moment that he was an elitist, a" music man", all show. Obama only had 132 days in the US Senate and year and half in the state. no true experience for the job level that he was trying to be hired for. (voted) he charmed the media, he charmed the contributors how ever small they were. Obama had a money machine and he used it to his full advantage.  Obama did demostrated to me that he is a strategist. That being the only good quality for his new job position. As a democrat who wanted the public funding for political campaigns so the rich and poor candidates will have a level playing field. As well as demostrate that they could win with in a budget.  I feel Obama and his team through that into the faces of Democrat. I showed me that Obama and his team can not work within a limited budget. I also feel that that the 40  million dollar informicals that he and team was a pay back to the network media for "being so kind"to him.

 John McCain did not have the backing of his own party. His ride to the nomination of presidency of his party was only due to the registered republicans who voted for him in the primary. The Republican Party had to hear what the people wanted. John McCain fought a long hard race. He is a tentacious, persistant and envolutionist. This man should had his party nomination in 2000 he fought for his party nomination in 2008. I salute John McCain for being the embodiment of a true American.

 But the election is over Barack Obama has won the electriol votes. But do you see. Do you really see that yes Barack Obama is the nominated future President of the United States. Look carefully to each state see the difference in margins. Few state had a large gap. Alot more had gap of 3% to 9%. As a nation we are still divided.

   Barack Obama will need to bind our differences and create a one America. Where the message of American is the same for all. A rally cry. A statement that is true, gives us hope and something to believe that it is possible.

   So I mourn John McCains lost today.

  Tomorrow I salute Barack Obama nominated President of the United States. I pray that he is as an American as John McCain in his duties. I pray that Barack Obama is just as tenacious, perisitant and envolutionist as I see America being, has been and will be.

  thank you for my say

st louis actor - I believe your comment is probably one of the best I have read.....people should learn from that because that would be the AMERICAN thing to do.

I voted for McCain and I am disappointed he lost and the way he was treated but that is now the past. Obama is the new President and deserves the opportunity to show what he is made of......

Sometimes it is truly unfortunate that it takes a disaster of tremendous magnitude to bring people together....I only know of one time where we stood as one...that was on 9/11..........living change and saying change are quite different...........

Since Barack Obama won the 2008 Presidential Election last night in a decisive and spectacular fashion, Fox News Network has seemingly been taking too many commercial breaks. Sean Hannity who “authored the script of shame” that culminated in the resounding defeat and rejection of the Republicans, with the collaboration of his cohort Dick Morris has so far been very scarce. Sean where are you?

Nwora Onwuzulu

Houston, TX.

WOW!  Check out the market!

What a day following the elections.  How’s this for a market indicator of the new prezzie!  It’s  s u p p o s e  to be a rally which means economic confidence on Wall Street.  

Looking mighty red out there…I smell blood on Wall Street.  On omen?  Corporations looking at their own death via taxes?  

What the hell, who needs all those corporations, jobs they give and taxes they supply.  LET THEM EAT CAKE!!!

Thanks for that thought, Dave, I feel the same way.  Though an Obama supporter, I'm sad for such an ignominous end to McCain's rise -- he should have been the Republican nominee in 2000.

I'm of the opinion that John McCain could have won this election if he had only abandoned Karl Rove's right-wing political spin machine. Americans are sick and tired of politicians making wild accusations of their opponents, attempting to destroy their public image and private lives, by splicing audio/video footage and repeating parts of speeches which are clearly out of context.

I think McCain will realize in retrospect that had he run as the man he is, a war-hero and moderate who cares about every American and their future, he would have won the election. By smearing Barack Obama at every turn, by constantly drudging up fake stories and overemphasizing past relationships which were minor at best, the McCain campaign shot itself in the foot. I was disgusted to see a good man support such mean-spirited and disingenuous commercials, no doubt he was egged on by his GOP campaign managers.

If the GOP makes the mistake of blaming John McCain for losing the election, instead of blaming the way in which the campaign was run, then a third American political party may soon replace the Republican Party. If the smear campaign returns in 2012, and Obama's first term has produced good results for our country, then Obama will earn a second term. I think that probably scares them more than anything, anything except some big "what if?" questions.

What if Barack Obama succeeds despite the GOP predicting his imminent failure?

What if Barack Obama does so good that in 2016, a Hispanic woman runs for president?

What if the days of the rich old white guy always running the show are over?

What if the American people wake up one day and realize that the religious right is neither religious nor right?

What if...?

compilation,

Are you aware that your so called prediction is already in the making?  Guess what?  Obama is not in the White House yet!