The aftermath
From American Thinker, "A terrible blow," pretty much sums it up.
I do not think the American people have a clue as to what's coming. I was not in this fight for the "my side won, yours lost" angle. This is not a fucking game. We conservatives truly, deeply believe that the course we were (are) on was (is) dangerous and fraught with peril.
Last evening before leaving work a co-worker wished me luck. I told him not to wish me luck, but to wish the country luck.
A terrible blow to the country. I won't say a blow from which we will not recover because we cannot know that. But it does have that feel.
The torch is passed to Allen West if the Republicans are not their usual clueless selves.
Elizabeth Warren won in Massachusetts. Even given that it is Mass, that says a lot about the country. A liar, a hater of capitalism, an opponent that it was easy to vote for and yet...she won.
Obama thinks the world loves him. He doesn't know that it is laughing at him. China wants what we have. The Islamists think their hour has struck. The Saudis are undermining us through their worldwide placement of madrassas. The Saudis have seen off the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire and they are going to see us off.
U.S. government finances are in complete chaos, in complete freefall.
And the American public has reelected a man who knows nothing about any of these problems, who has just disgraced himself with our fighting forces, and who hates the last 236 years of American history.
Let's hope all this means that the world needs AT even more.
It makes you respect Winston Churchill when he foresaw the future with such clarity and nobody would listen to him. And he was right...the Munich Agreement WAS the end of the British Empire.
Adam Smith said "there is a lot of ruin in a nation." Let's hope he was right.
Indeed Pitbull, this is not a fucking game, those who voted for Barry will painfully learn that fact when this country economy collapses, or when have some other major problem created (or aggravated) by Obama's policies.
We should have known there was a very serious problem in 2008, when someone clearly unqualified and with a murky past and extremely disturbing personal associations was handed the most important job in the world. I suppose at least some of those who voted for him then might be excused for one reason or another, but there was absolutely no excuse for voting for him now. None. Those who did so are fully responsible for the consequences, but of course everyone will suffer them, and the guilty will never make it up to the innocent--it's unlikely they'll ever so much as apologize. They will simply rationalize or find suitable scapegoats.
Democracy is only as good as the majority of the voters, and the majority in this country has betrayed its past and failed its future. Again, everyone will pay for this, responsible or not, and yet again, there is NO excuse. It's small comfort, actually none, but perhaps those Cubans who enabled the Castro regime are not quite as contemptible as I have long considered them. They didn't have over 200 years of distinguished democratic history behind them, and they were not the citizens of the greatest country in the world. Relatively speaking, they were practically infants, as well as pretty small potatoes. Maybe we should cut them a bit more slack.
But really, words fail. They cannot express the depth of my disappointment and unease, and yes, my disgust. God help us.
Amen to both of you.