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As expected (and predicted by many) the bobbleheads on the networks are yammering about the need for “bipartisanship”. I keep hearing from my various Republican friends and acquaintances similar requests usually followed by a statement along the lines of “I’m tired of all this partisan bickering.”
That’s rich from the party that impeached Clinton, that [...]

Amidst the joy of an Obama win is the bad news - truly bad, depressing, despairing news. Proposition 8 in California - stripping the rights of gay and lesbian Americans to marry has passed.
I’ll let Autumn Sandeen from Pam’s House Blend say it for me:
And in California, we had Proposition 8. As [...]

For the first time in my life, I am really proud of my country.
…and congratulations to First Lady Elect Michelle Obama.
h/t Clammyc
In 2004, there was talk about how “the people have spoken” and how this was a “clear mandate” that gave Bush “political capital”. However, if that was the second straight questionable election which [...]

John Podhoretz:
. . .A McCain victory in the Electoral College with an Obama popular victory of 2 or 3 million votes at a minimum (somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5 percent under this scenario) would provoke a national crisis. . . .
The legitimacy questions that dogged Bush would dog McCain to a far greater [...]

From TPM:
. . . McCain’s campaign has devolved into something altogether different … what with its increasingly open appeals to racial conflict and aggressive invocations of blood hatred of Arabs and Muslims. As The New Republic phrases it, McCain’s “subtle incitements of racial warfare and underhanded implications of foreign nativity.” Over the months [...]

There’s been a great deal of talk about corruption in politics. The last 8 years have seen a truly shocking level of corruption in government - from the Republicans K Street Project, to the Bushies’ endless politicizing of every aspect of government starting with no bid contracts for any firm connected to the Administration [...]

So I made the mistake of wearing an Obama t-shirt to work today. I’ve gotten no work done and instead have spent my day engaged in a series of political discussions - of varying complexity and length - with an array of coworkers of varying degrees of hardcore republicanism.
What I discovered in these discussions [...]

When I was a child, election night was a strange mystery. My parents disappeared soon after dinner and didn’t return until they done the arcane process of voting. It simply happened.
The first election of which I have any memories was 1976. I thought Jimmy Carter’s smile was too broad and [...]

It kills me the way people are throwing around the ‘S’ word. Socialism is a well defined system, and we are no where close to it. One could also study a bit about tax policy, unless one prefers to make it up as they go along.
Being Stupid is a Choice

In the final 15 [...]

From MSNBC:
Plot to kill Obama is foiled.
A plot by two Neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Barack Obama and kill dozens of other African Americans has been foiled, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said Monday.
Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena, Ark., were charged Friday with making threats against [...]

Breaking news from Associated Press:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been convicted of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor.
The Senate’s longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial documents.

With McCain standing right beside him Former Army Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, in his introduction of Jogn McCain said: “You can have your Tiger Woods, we’ve got Senator McCain.”
..and McCain chuckled.
There is little left to say. No one could have convinced me that in this day and age, a presidential candidate (even a Republican) [...]