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……although I have to admit I do like the header graphic - almost Greek Goddess style.

Awwwwww, but now I can’t leave it alone. You went and did it. “He’s a great role model for American-Americans.”

Really ? I never thought of him that way. Do you wonder why ?

I guess if you can call a role model a person who would hang out with admitted domestic terrorists, sit in the church of a racist, hate-filled preacher for 20 years calling him a life-mentor and then vote multiple times to not give any care to babies born from botched abortions… then well, I see your point.

Oh well….. Maybe we’re all missing something.

Cheers !

But I can’t bring myself to demonize Barack Obama, even though his voting record in the Senate makes me shudder.

Then don’t. I don’t hate Barack for following his self-interests. In fact, I picture him getting up each morning and laughing about the contradictions he’s fairly sure he’s going to get away with in the upcoming day.

What drives me bonkers is the the degree to which the US has rolled over for him, and will accept anything he says. Not only the MSM, but also folks I deal with everyday, that things will get better starting Jan 20. When I ask why, they don’t have an answer other than “it’s gotta be better”.

I’m very conservative. I have grave concerns about the government bailouts. I think the economy needs to cleanse itself. I believe there is, let’s call it, a culture struggle. And I think traditional America is losing it. To the detriment of our society and its institutions.

Then stick to your principles. There’s nothing wrong with a dispassionate but persistent advocacy of conservatism. As long as you do it and stay true to yourself.

Your tone implies that the only possible objection a rightward blogger could have to our President-elect is based on pure partisanship.

But he’s been a public figure for 4 years and a candidate for two of them, and he’s said a lot of unfortunate thing and taken a lot of objectionable positions.

I suspect that conservatives in general will tend to give him some space insofar as his roles as head of foreign policy and commander in chief. Moreso than liberals ever deferred to the current President.

We all want him to be successful as President insofar as the country succeeds. He has numerous policy stances that should be torpedoed starting on day one.

Sorry you are out of work and have to blog, I don’t think you will make it here, however.

Now you and Bambam run along and destroy the country that my kids and grandkids will grow up in and I will try not to be too ill with you.

If you are for real, and I have serious doubts about that, you are part of the problem, not the solution.

Have a nice day

I don’t think anybody HATES the guy. But honestly, as an American, I don’t root for his success. in MOST areas. The reason for this is simple: I believe his ideals run counter to the ideals of our country. Success, for Barack Obama, would, in my opinion, mean that we, Americans, lose.

I don’t get the “he’s smart” routine. Just because someone can give a good speech and went Ivy League doesn’t make one smart. That is one mantra of which I have tired - “But at least he’s smart”.

I know several Ivy Leaguers myself and while they are book smart, I certainly wouldn’t want them running the country. All of them voted Obama (even the Republican ones) because of a combination of his Ivy League status and their belief that Sarah Palin was the village idiot that the Left portrayed her.

I know these folks, wouldn’t call them friends and a lot of it has to do with their time spent at the Ivies. They look down their noses at those who don’t, deeming them incapable of doing anything more than serving up french fries at McDonald’s. I can’t stand being around them for longer than a few minutes at a time - or around their children in whom they have instilled the same attitude. The Ivies are infested with these kind of people - they are the main reason I transferred from an Ivy after one semester. I don’t regret that decision one bit.

I think Barack Obama has benefited from being in the right place at the right time and sold a bunch of suckers on his mantra of “change”. I think time will prove he is nothing more than an empty suit and an extremely partisan one at that.

You are so confused. You are rooting for his success? Success as Barack Obama defines it or as you define it? If you are truly a “conservative” as you claim his success is exact opposite of what you might define it to be? If your definition of success matches Barack’s definition of Success then you are definitely a far-left socialist.

… what do you mean by “success”?

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 To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it.
      - Margaret Thatcher
NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”

I can’t stand people like you. Smug, self-satisfied hypocrites.

(use your best whiny, sissy faced voice for this…) “I’m sorry, but I just can’t beat up children and take their candy.”

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t cheat just so I can win.”

I’ve been around people like that, and what they are really doing is accusing someone else of doing precisely that without having the guts to come out and say it. If you don’t hate him, fine. Who cares?

I don’t hate him. I don’t even know him.

I do think that if he enacts the policies he wants to enact it will set the prosperity and values of our country back in terrible ways, if it doesn’t outright destroy us. That’s not hate. That is a willingness to recognize that the morals and policies of our elected leaders matter.

So shove off.

then you know you are really over the line. Blow out to sea somewhere.

I have plenty of DISDAIN. Yeah, I’ll say it –HATE. For anything Clinton.

Hard to stomach Howard Dean, although his role is what it is. He’s supposed to be a Republican basher.

I dunno, am I wrong to admit that Obama is my president? Even though I didn’t vote for him?

Full mea culpa on BBOW tomorrow. Seriously. I think what’s happened is I’ve defined my expectations down really low for liberals.

Thanks. I will work Israel into my mea culpa. I will put a version of it here. I’m definitely not planting a virus. Yes, I would like to see more traffic. I think I have a pretty cool blog for a beginner. Wouldn’t mind some constructive criticism of it.

I started off blogging on a conservative Vermont blog. There is such a thing, but there are only a couple of us. We don’t do the trackback thing. We don’t cross post on each others’ diaries. We don’t network. A thousand viewers a day is a big deal to us. So, I’ve learned to write a little. But I have things to learn about netiquette and also what red state conservatives out there are thinking.

lol