No, I didn't get the memo that I was irrelevant.

Hey, didn't your fearless leader Obama say that he was going to be INCLUSIVE of ALL Americans, and there were no longer red states and blue states but the United States?

Apparently YOU didn't get THAT memo.

Obama has also stated clearly that he does NOT like "yes men" who just parrot his every opinion. There is little value to him in merely hearing his own opinions echoed back to him.

And by the way, didn't you get the memo that the war (or election) is over? Or do you just want to be The New Bush and arrogantly walk all over anybody who disagrees with you?

And don't gloat. You'll wind up losing everything that you have gained.

I watched the returns at the gym, and they didn't have Fox News on. I found myself wondering what the tone was over there; and imagined Leonard Cohen scoring a Bergman movie.

Yet, was it not, perhaps, MSNBC that was delivering evil

with a capital "E?" Listening to Chris Matthews drone on and

on about the final, blessed relief to grotesque Bush Presidency

he fought so hard to bring about was sickening in it's own

specail way.

No matter, I suppose. For all the bathos, Black People

really did save the country last night.

Last night and today have been the best 24 hours of my life. I wonder if Obama got 100% of the vote in Brooklyn...it seemed like it.

shoo fly.

I also surfed over to Fox News last night, I had to look up the channel since I never go there. I enjoyed the morgue look on everyone's face. They can't believe that they are no longer in charge and are stunned that their scam has finally been called. Kind of like their Wall Street friends when the market imploded.

I realize that they didn't ask me, but I think that Fox News and their Republicans Friends (the same thing) need to sit quietly and shut up for the next couple of years. We have to dig out from their deficits, their de-industrialization economic policies, their environmental degradation, their invasion of the wrong country, their poor management of the Afghan/Pakistan conflicts, the list goes on.

I know that it will never happen, but all Republicans need to simply ask; "what can I do to help?".

Fun fact: Juan Williams wrote the book (literally) for "Eyes on the Prize," the late, great Henry Hampton's civil-rights documentary. I think that may already have justified Mr. Williams' existence.

Watching Fox News for hours at a stretch must dull the brain. What other reason would you have for being impressed with that Juan Williams clip? It was pretty much a flavorless recitation of the most obvious points.

The most interesting thing to me was that he felt it necessary to carry on the ridiculous Republican meme that this is a "center-right" nation. Steve Benen shot down this notion better than I could:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_11/015519.php

(link below)

Short version: what would a "center-left" USA look like? Do you think it might have a center-left president-elect, a center-left House, a center-left Senate, majority of center-left governors, and a population that agrees with almost all center-left positions? Well, that's what we've got.

During the elections of 2000 and 2004, exit polling suddenly came into disrepute. Somehow, it was off by multiple percentage points. Interestingly, nearly invariably, the exit polls showed Democrats to be far ahead of Republicans compared to the actual vote count.

Although we interfered in the Ukraine elections in 2004 because their exit polls were far off the mark - just as ours were - we were all wringing our hands that exit polling, which had been nearly exact for so many years, was inexplicably and hopelessly broken in our own elections.

During this year’s primaries we began again to hear about exit polls, and they again appeared right on the mark. I could only think that if we were again hearing anything of them in this election it would tell one of two things: If they were again completely off (again, highly favoring Republicans), then another fixed election was about to be delivered to our nation in favor of McCain. If we heard of them as being on-target, then we could be assured of a good year for Democrats.

I always figured that Obama had to win by 8% to 12% to actually win. Between caging lists, felon lists, ID battles, fixed voting machines and all the other machinations developed by the spawn of Atwater and Rove, the Democrats would never prevail in any close election.

Happily, we are hearing about valid exit polls and Democrats have done well. Hopefully, we will create the machinery in the United States within the next two years to actually insure that the winner in any election will be the one who actually had the most voters cast their ballots. And we will see that exit polls are again as precise as they have been in most election years of the past before 2000.

I seldom watch Fox News but after reading this article I now regret not having devoted my entire evening to them just to view this cast of characters who have done so much to harm this nation for so many years suffer the agony of defeat. When they ordained themselves "Fair and Balanced" George Orwell must have rolled in his grave as no news source anywhere on this planet held such standards in abject contempt as have they done since they were created. Their tactics of selectively culling polls and quotes to give their views credibility has been so successful for so long that many Americans still believe Saddam was involved in the 9-11 attacks and did have an awesome WMD arsenal which he had cleverly buried wherever the Neocons on their staff chose as being "the enemy of the day." But let us not become overjoyed thinking we have witnessed their demise. They still have an audience that voted for McCain and that numbers nearly 50% of the voters. steve world war 2