I hope they give you hardship pay.

Yeah, where are all the boyzz?

Elephantman, Norbitboy, turkey, shooter000, Benny74, ShimmeringShithammersofHate, tiberian, zoltan_dewberry, et. al. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Why aren't they here, attesting to their foresight and accuracy, their sense of fairness and brotherhood that they've so patiently explicated to the rest of us lo, these many months. I want to re-air their points-of-view because they added so much to our discourse and in the light of a new day I'm sure their rapier-like insights and wit would shine even more.

Come out, come out, where ever you are.

I'm not sure what your point is. I thought that their coverage of the election was quite good. They weren't indulging in the obnoxious Obama Worship that was causing me to get nauseated.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, your rumors of the death of the Republican Party are greatly exaggerated. Sure, it was a down year. The stock market crash in and of itself would cause any incumbent party disaster.

But quite frankly, the Republicans did not do NEAR as bad as a lot of people expected. While it was a decisive victory for Obama, it was NOT a landslide. A "landslide" would be if Obama had turned all but one or two states blue. McCain at least kept a solid grip on the South, and many of the states that he lost, like Florida, were squeekers. They were also gained by dredging up huge numbers of semi-literate people who were voting for him for one reason: Because he has black skin. Hardly a noble reason.

Also, the Dems fell well short of their 60-senator objective, and also feel short of objectives in the House of Reps.

Quite frankly, I think that a Hillary/Obama ticket WOULD have been a landslide, and it would also have captured more of the Congress.

But now begins Obama's real challenge, which I do not think he will do that well at. As a person with no experience whatsoever, he is going to have to take over the ship of state in the middle of a furious storm. And of course, he is still muttering about "change". Whatever THAT means.

Plus, despite all this blabbering about not owing anything to lobbyists, he is TOTALLY IN DEBT to the "Black Lobby". He was truly elected, in both the primary and the general, by his army of fanatical black followers. But what is he going to do to REPAY them? What CAN he do that will not alienate whites?

All in all, I wouldn't be quite so quick to measure Obama for Saint's robes. I think that he'll have a tough fight in 2010 as well as 2012.

Although I am honestly hoping that Obama does well, for the good of the country, I am not overly optimistic.

Obama has shown himself to be too arrogant, too divisive, and too much of a know-it-all. He also has virtually no executive experience whatsover. He has never had to meet a payroll or make a profit. He has been nothing but a Senatorial gasbag for most of his career. The speeches are marvy-pooh, if you like speeches (which I don't), but now it is time for action.

Yes, this is the happiest I've been about the prospects for my country in eight years. Yes, it's WONDERFUL to see the forces of bigotry and divisive politics put in their proper place (down, down, down).

That having been admitted, I'm tired of ugliness in general. I'm following President-Elect Obama's lead and I'm not going to trash those who oppose/have opposed us.

They will see: Ayers will not be Chief-of-Staff, Wright will not be the head of FEMA, Obama will not put minarets on the White House, Obama will be sworn-in on a Bible which will not burst into flames, their paychecks will not be suddenly subsumed by the new Socialist regime, Iran will not nuke us or Israel, Israel will be supported rather than cease to exist, Obama will not cede Florida to Cuba OR make Cuba the fifty-first state, African-Americans will not "take over" (i.e. take something away from whites or harm, belittle, or diminish us in some way), when the next international or national crisis comes it will be weathered, Khalid Rashidi will not be Secretary of State, the coal industry will not be driven into bankruptcy, Pelosi, Reid, and Obama will not join together to declare a liberal totalitarian state... and so many of the other dire (and frankly idiotic) predictions about the destruction an Obama presidency would cause will not come to fruition. That will be the best repudiation of all and the greatest joy in this victory.

I'm ready to heal. I'm ready to say to those who oppose that we can find some acceptable middle ground. I'm willing to forgive and (cautiously) forget (while maintaining the lessons learned). It is a new era, and the high ground is up here, with room for all. Eight years was enough. phew. Can we finally dig in and get some sh*t done????!!!???

Thanks for doing the dirty work of tuning in and reporting on the Fox coverage. After 8 years of Shrub (and already a bellyful of our own 'Shrub Lite', Stephen Harper), I'm maxed out on the blinkered, unprincipled, mealy-mouthed, callous, dissembling arseholes ruling our continent. I just don't have the stomach to listen to them or the talking heads who prop them up.

Even as a Canadian who was not able to cast a vote, I am beyond relieved that McCain/Palin didn't win, not so much out of fear of McCain as for Palin. This was like potential Shrub deja vu all over again, someone coasting to the top on nothing more than a bit of folksy baloney and self-deluding, overweaning ambition. I kept shaking my head and thinking, please, stop the madness. And did anyone notice, last night, during McCain's concession speech, how she grudgingly stepped back to let the man speak? She didn't deserve to be on the same stage as McCain. Give her the hook! I kept thinking. (And Tod looked like he'd had enough of the dog-and-pony show and couldn't wait to head back home and jump on the snowmobile.)

I am relieved that Obama won, and stayed up late to watch his speech. Finally, after years of appalling buffoonery, someone I don't have to mute! Someone who seems actually to have thought about things, who has worked for what he has, who had a track record of doing good things before the thought of running for President had crossed his mind. What a concept.

So here's his chance and he's earned it. I wish him all the luck in the world. (And I'm also really looking forward to the intelligence, poise and self-confidence of the future First Lady.)

Well done.