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Congratulations President-Elect Obama

By: The Directors (Diary)  |  November 4th, 2008 at 11:25 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Only a few years ago, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing to uphold affirmative action policies at the University of Michigan, speculated that the time would be ripe to reconsider racial preference policies in thirty years, after the nation has had more time to progress.

Thirty years came quickly.

The nation has moved beyond what was. We congratulate President-elect Obama on a well fought battle won well.

We also thank Senator McCain and urge Governor Palin to stay involved and engaged. (Pssst . . . Governor Palin, we’ve got room for one more contributor here if you’re interested.)

We now look forward to the fight ahead and we do intend to continue the fight for America.

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  • Hammer2008

    You have my family’s prayers. Govern well and do right by our troops. You will be there Commander-in-Chief.

  • wt259

    I will give him all the respect that has been given to GWB over the past 8 years. He has earned nothing less and deserves nothing more. I will always respect the office of POTUS, but he deserves nothing. Respect is earned, not given.

    • Hammer2008

      (sorry, listening to the Pledge of allegiance and national anthem ‘there’ in Chicago)

      • Moriah

        Thank you for working hard to get your candidate elected, for taking an interest in the future of our country.

        I spent my day today as a poll worker here in Arkansas. We were swamped — some people had two and three hour waits to cast their vote.

        I was so happy to see people willing to spend so long in line, sacrifice their free time, to make sure they exercised their combined right and responsibility to vote and make their voices heard.

        I didn’t care who they voted for — I was just so happy to see people get out and vote.

        Thank ALL of you for getting out and voting, thank you for working to get the candidate you thought was the best one get elected, thank you for doing your best for your country.

        Even if we may disagree as to what we think is the right thing for our country, I admire and respect all of you for caring enough about your country to do everything you can to make it better.

        • bs

          lets not respond like the DKos crowd. The Golden Rule is still a smart philosophy to follow.

          • JHancock

            at least Bush cut my taxes. Sorry but the future Obama envisions and stands for-I want nothing to do with. Bread and circuses for all…so goes the fall of Rome.

          • JoeG

            If you hadn’t registered yet, then you probably are a troll.

          • PhxG

            elsewhere, not so much. From me, he will get everything that GWB was given.

          • aaronbg

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        • charliej

          Respect is accorded to the office and the man chosen to occupy it along with support via prayers.

          Having said that I will humbly join the Directors in the fight for our country and what we believe in (and having a potential leader that can field-dress a mooose wouldn’t hurt.)

          A proud resident of one of the reddest counties in GA and my hope is that God will continue to Bless America; especially now in our greatest time of need….

          • bs
          • Crowe

            I will not congratulate him on a “well-fought” battle, nor “fought well.”

            The MSM won this for a man who is demonstrably different from the man who ran.

            Jen Brunner won this for him in Ohio after a truly banana-republic-style election system.

            He ran as conservative, though he is not.

            He received less proportional scrutiny in two years than Sarah Palin did in three months.

            I feel truly sorry for our troops who will, on January 20, become subordinate to this man. Your pay is about to go down. Your respect is about to go down. If you thought Clinton raped the military, giddyup.

            The only silver lining is that this died-in-the-wool Marxist was elected before he was truly able to affect the change socialists would desire. If he was elected in eight or more years he would be a truly dangerous politician. As it is, he is an unaccomplished and inexperienced politician.

          • wt259

            not responding like the dKos crowd. He deserves nothing more than the respect the office is due. And the drive-by media will soon realize what they have wrought on this country. I do agree with what the Obamunist just said in his victory speech, his victory wasn’t hatched in the halls of Washington, it was hatched in the living room of Bill Ayers.
            Puh-leeze, he just quoted the Declaration of Independence, a document that he reviles. Chants of “Yes, we can”? Sorry, if you want to go there, “No, I won’t”!

        • PhxG

          nt

          • kchand
            1. For bringing Chicago-style political corruption and intimidation to a national level.
            2. For raising untold millions of illegal foreign and domestic campaign contributions through a system without even modest levels of controls.
            3. For effectively hiding your complete disregard for the Constitution and its irrelevance as written by old, white, European males centuries ago.
            4. For calling for a “fundamental transformation” of America and effectively labeling it, “change”, while really pedaling an old and discredited
              Marxist agenda of wealth redistribution and a political philosophy that government should manage its citizenry by taking from each according to his ability and distributing to each according to his needs.
            5. For insisting that the Bill of Rights was a modest first step and that a second Bill of Rights is needed to guarantee that all Americans are beneficiaries of certain goods and services regardless of whether they were earned and regardless of whether they must be confiscated from others.
            6. For proving that dishonesty and corruption can, at least sometimes, overcome honor and integrity.
            7. For proving that symbolism can prevail over substance and competence.
            8. For proving that playing the ‘race card’ can still be an effective strategy in the 21st century.
            9. For pinpointing a defining moment in history where American exceptionalism has peaked.
            10. For preparing the world for America’s unilateral disarmament.
            11. For proving the Founding Fathers wrong in their belief that a free press would not be collectively corrupt.
            12. For proving the Founding Fathers right in their grave concerns about the “tyranny of the majority’.
            13. For demonstrating that we really don’t need to be our brother’s keeper, or our aunt’s or our half-brother’s.
            14. For demonstrating that charitable giving need not be an individual choice but done through government with the requisite government surcharge, of course.
            15. For demonstrating that class-warfare can be an effective political strategy.
          • gclaghorn
          • DRP

            undercuts any moral authority you could gain by giving him the respect that the moonbat left crowd didn’t give GWB.

          • gclaghorn
          • gclaghorn

            …how the trolls respond to our requests that they be banned. You’d think they would know better to go under the radar.

          • gclaghorn

            That didn’t take long, at all.

    • KyleH

      Dear Directors:
      Please ban new accounts for the next couple weeks. I fear the gloating trolls will be excessively thick. I am sick enough of the this garbage from the MSM. We don’t need it here. I want some place I can come and be among friends.

      • tcprath

        I can not yet respect the decision of the American Voters. I can not yet respect the future POTUS. My respect for him has yet to be earned. I can say that I will do my best to continue with an open mind, but the feeling of mistrust has already been ingrained by the campaign. I wish Obama the best, and I promise that my prayers will be with him, with me, with America. Respect is to be earned and not given. Earn my respect, and prove my fears wrong, then I will emphatically admit that I am wrong. Until then, I remain a skeptic…A bitter American clinging to my guns and religion. A watchful eye is still necessary to ensure our rights.

        • Gekster

          I know its over. I aint that stupid. I wish I were.
          Remember all the negative stuff about the new, unknown, and untested George W. Bush in 2000? Just think of all the negative stuff they said abut the now historic George W Bush.

          Will they say the same about another historic unknown,

          Mr. Barack H. Obama?

  • pwest

    I want to tell everyone how much I’ve enjoyed these past few weeks. We did our best, but it was not good enough. So, we pray for President Elect Obama, and for our nation.

    We do not join in with the circular firing squad; we become introspective, find out how we lost our bearings, and regain them. First and formost, we must move again toward those Conservative ideals which we have strayed from.

    We must find our voice, and find A voice who can speak to a nation!

    I love you guys, and I mean it! I will be back!

  • generalgrant

    Hopefully, America’s first Marxist president won’t accomplish what he says he wants to do.

    • dbecraft

      at this point. I hope Europe survives this decision (along with the Middle East).

      • aardpig

        [Oops, someone beat me to banning you, but no comment for you. ? NS]

        • OccamsRazor

          To Obama: That you will not veer even further left than your campaign promises.

          To Redstate:

          Thanks for being my mental elixir online. Thanks for fighting in what really matters. Thanks for being my home.

          I leave both sides with Roosevelt:

          “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat”.

          • aardpig

            …they’ve had socialist governments on and off for years, with no obvious meltdown. Why should it be any different for the US?

          • OccamsRazor

            and my hand reaches out further than yours. ;)

  • JPH

    That he might not be able to deliver “in one year or even one term”. Wow, that was quick.

  • Mr_Write

    I can NEVER congratulate a man who won an election by cheating, bullying, lying, stuffing the ballot box, and all the other things Obama did to pull this off.

    I will pray for this country, that it might survive this foul marxist’s regime.

    You might say I have no class, but let me remind you that it was Obama that flipped off both Hillary and McCain. He is both immature and a creep. He is not ready for the challenges facing him and his cronies, and believe me, our enemies will take advantage of this!

    • wt259

      forget the World Court, and UN command of US troops. I will counsel my son, a Marine GySgt to get out! He doesn’t need to be looking over his shoulder to see what the World Court or the UN thinks of his decisions to keep his Marines alive. And he doesn’t need to go to Darfur or the Congo, because it would make the Obamunist feel good to see our troops there.
      Clinton caused a large drain on the senior NCO’s and Officers in the military, it will only get worse under this regime.

      • KyleH

        I think such a policy would cut down on his work.

        • wt259

          this country has never been about socialism. At least, until now. Personally, I won’t work to give money to some d—wad who won’t work to provide for himself. If that becomes un-American, arrest me.
          And when you come for me, bring friends, lost of friends.

          • Doc_Holliday

            but America is broken. We have a population of young voters that vote for president the same way they vote for their favorite American Idol. We have an America that has defeated war heroes in almost every election of the last several decades.

            We have an America that believes individualism, self reliance, and God given rights are subservient to stimulus checks and the “cool factor”.

            We have an America dominated by anti-intellectual entertainment, millions won on game shows by being smarther than a 5th grader, and people who all know Oprah, and few know Sowell.

            We have an America dominated by a MSM that is so hateful to Republicans, they are simply a branch of the left wing movement. We have and America where the NEA and radical professors indoctrinate our young while bashing our civilization until it is of no value to them at all.

            We have an America so worried by lawsuits, fear mongering, attacks of racism, that we have lost all control of immigration and we have failed to require immigrants to assimilate, as their precursors did.

            I think in many ways, the genie has already left the bottle. I think we have failed to keep the Republic Franklin gave us and warned us to covet. I think decadence is what lead us to this point. Decadence, in all its manifestations ended Rome, and could end our Grand Experiment.

            I am not talking about gays or even abortion, I am talking about a populace that as a whole failed to study our forefathers, failed to learn why were were special, and lost the reason to defend something they no longer cared about.

            Maybe we can turn this around. My prescription will always be Goldwater-Reagan libertarian-conservatism. But our problems as a nation now are that we no longer speak a common language, rhetoric, logic, history, to so many they are as foreign as Jakarta or Boise.

            Without a common heritage, without a desire to keep the Republic, how will we ever come together? Our party has failed miserably, the facts are there. But this is not 1964, or 1976, this is 2008, and it is quite possible that the Silent Majority does not just need a leader, but it simply has ceased to exist.

          • Gekster

            “Respect is accorded to the office and the man chosen to occupy it along with support via prayers.”
            You are spot on, as they now say.
            He is not the one I voted for.
            But he is now my future President.
            And listening to the local news, he won because Barack ran a great campaign. Not that the MSM said that Barack was the best thing since sliced bread. Not that I’m that old.

          • dbecraft

            Seems like this is normal politics…heh.

            Let’s congratulate the winner and hope for some spoils…geez.

            Can’t we all just get along…well no damn it! These guys believe in everything that we despise! If you don’t actually believe that, then just say so…

          • Crowe

            I only singled out Ohio because it’s the state where I am. I have no illusions that Ohio was the only state with massive voter fraud.

            And it looks, at this late hour, that Obama quite possible did not win Ohio.

            I suspect in a fair election he didn’t win PA or FL either, but I don’t live in those states so can’t speak with the same authority.

            But I stand by the other stuff I said: not a fair-fought fight; not a great victory for the MSM’s chosen and un-explored candidate.

  • wmt1974

    The office deserves all the respect it is due, and I pray, clinging to my bible and mossberg 500 that our new president elect with govern with humility and wisdom.

    • Thomas

      It’s been a great night, you got an unqualified blank slate elected President of the United States (and taught us that not only can you beat something with nothing, but Americans actually prefer the nothing), and now, because sex is, well, physically not an option, you need an orgasm somehow.

      Being banned would do it.

      Well, we aim to please.

      Gimme one sec while I figure out how to work the new guns. (I’m still an RS 2.0 junkie.)

      • DRP

        I know the election just ended with a loss, but settle down and go walk around the block or something.

        • NightTwister

          Wonder what they remind us of…

          • ajl3

            Lost of friends?

          • QueenOfCups

            That was really heartwarming. They have the rest of their lives to learn about the issues as they live out the results of today’s vote.

          • itrytobenice

            That is how I feel. I don’t think I can even understand my fellow countrymen. How they could vote for someone who is diametrically opposed to all that is good and honest and trustworthy and free is beyond me.

            I will never stop resenting the fact that they have imposed him on me and my family.

          • PhxG

            nt

          • hoagy

            I’m starting to wonder if the 70% of people that disapprove of GWB are right.

          • wt259

            Teacher. Give me a C on the spelling test. Or better yet, take the A away from someone else and roll it into my grade and give us both B’s. Isn’t that the Obamunist way?
            And DRP, I did walk around the block. Just a little disappointed in the supposedly educated people in this country.

          • jonreagan

            I am not proud of my country.

          • PostalMed

            of POTUS, like I did when Bill Clinton occupied the office. I will respect the man when he earns it. If he does not earn my respect, he will not have it. If he behaves like Clinton, he will earn my scorn. But whether he earns my respect or my scorn, I will be relentless in my opposition to those policies he wishes to implement that I feel will destroy this great country that I love so much. And I ask nothing more or less from everyone else who calls themselves conservative.

          • generalgrant

            they’ll believe it when they feel it and we should be the first people lined up to say “I told you so.”

          • generalgrant

            The Dems weren’t magnanimous 4 or 8 years ago, but now we’re expected to be? That’s a bunch of BS. Yeah, he won. He’s the president, but I won’t support him and I hope he fails in trying to turn this country into France.

          • Jack_Serious

            So if you cheat, lie, and manipulate big enough to win by a “larger than expected” majority then it’s a noble win? Geezzzzz!

            Respect the office, not the man.

            Crowe has it right.

      • lonebeagle

        I decided that Obama’s win has made my life simpler. I got home and tossed out all of the charity mail that I was collecting–I always donate to a number of charities at the end of the year.

        This year I’m not going to donate a dime except for a couple of exceptions. Since Obama promised the world to Americans and promised to take care of the poor, sick, homeless and those people who don’t pay any Federal Income Tax, there is no reason why a conservative and conscientious citizen like myself should give any of my HARD EARNED MONEY to charities.

        I’m going to print up a letter and send it to each charity:

        Pay $50 to [fill in the blank], signed
        Barack Obama

        Since Americans were so stupid to believe the “chicken in every pot” campaign that Obama waged, then I figure that the people who voted for this idiot should help out the poor and needy.

        I’ve had it with being abused, maligned and insulted.

        To hell with Obama and his liberal fascists. Let them take care of the needy.

        Oh, that’s right, until quite recently Obama and his wife only gave about .01% of their income to charities.

        Black people are singing in the streets. They seemed to believe that they have been delivered to the promised land. They don’t seem to realize that Barack will not be able to buy all of the blacks in this country an education, get out of jail card, house, car and a job.

        The news media did everything in its power to lie and distort to get Obama elected. Obama is an absolutely pathetic person who doesn’t have an ounce of integrity or character.

        We will now see how the liberals will fix all of the problems in this country.

        • 1stRichard

          Clearly most say the liberal media and the congressional blame game over the war to economics have done more to defeat McCain then Obama and I have the same opinion. I simply can not bring my self to say congratulations for something that was not earned.

          Also what I am seeing in the forums and blogs now is much more hatred from the left, you know the same old drivel ?wet start Johnny is dead? and the ?We killed Bush? but now with cheers and jubilation. In contrast the empty suite is preaching hollow words of unity, made hollow by his foundation of supporters and lies.

          Much like age is the price of wisdom Obama has yet to earn respect and I support ?I will give him all the respect that has been given to GWB over the past 8 years.?

          Obama has some big issues ahead and I can only hope there is not too much on the job training mistakes.

          The right will be watching closely

      • RedChevy64

        This congratulations crap needs to stop. This freak is a illegal fundraising, ACRON vote stealing, gansta thug. He stole this thing and should be frog-marched from his slum-lord Rezko bought home. I wish him and his ilk nothing but to rot in a Kenyan jail. “Thye bring a knife, we bring a gun.” Wake up you pansies, you’ve be took.

  • JonasNightengale

    Then tomorrow, you stand up for the principles of conservatism and move forward.

    Anyone ready to run on the Change train in 2010?

    And if you ever need to get your Ire going again, just play a few Rev. Wright sermons and remember what you’re fighting against.

  • gotteeth

    Obama…you’re an embarassment to this country! You represent the slippery slope of “style over substance”…nothing more.

    Taking advantage of good hearted Americans is your only skill…you vacuous empty suit!

    Socialists, Marxists and Populists have no place in this country.

    May your true colors quickly become apparent.

    This veteran’s salute will be for America, NEVER for you!

    If my comment is deemed disrepectful by the good people at Redstate, and I’m banned…so be it.

    dubito ergo cogito
    cogitio ergo sum

    • jdripper

      congratulations my ass. I am not like you people I guess I hate to lose.

      He is not now or ever will be my president. Nor will any Dimocrat have my respect.

      They have lied, cheated, stolen, done everything except murder to get where they are and I will not yield.

      We either stand up and fight or we become a footnote in history. We cannot no longer by little milquetoasts behaving like wimpy Oliver Twist begging for more gruel.

      Stand up and fight.

  • w_i_c_k

    This is my first post to RedState. Since my political leanings are center-left rather than to the right, I will only post when appropriate and never to be a troll (and frankly I think ‘appropriate’ posts from someone on the outside of this community like me should be few). I visit RedState because I appreciate the high level of the discourse here.

    I just wanted to express my great respect for the graciousness of this site at what must be a difficult time. This is not meant to gloat or take pleasure at your expense. In defeat, you are living up to the highest ideals of America, wishing the new president well but recommitting to the fight to make America better.

    I’d also like to concur with those who have posted that respect is earned rather than demanded. Certainly the office of the POTUS deserves our respect. Barack Obama must earn it. I hope he does but only time will tell.

    • JSobieski

      I mean its not fair at all. For people who want to live under an Obama-like government, they are always free to move to a place like France or Germany. In other words, they have options.

      We on the other hand do not. Where can a redstate American go?

      It does make me resentful at times.

      • BlueLandRed

        This wasn’t a nail bitter. The election wasn’t lost in Ohio. The final numbers (from this point in time) looks like Obama got at a minimum 338 EVs up to 370 or so. Yes, our election process is a mess… but there isn’t any ambiguity in this election.

  • RedChevy64

    This congratulations crap needs to stop. This freak is a illegal fundraising, ACRON vote stealing, gansta thug. He stole this thing and should be frog-marched from his slum-lord Rezko bought home. I wish him and his ilk nothing but to rot in a Kenyan jail. “Thye bring a knife, we bring a gun.” Wake up you pansies, you’ve been took.

    • finaljeopardy

      I’ll carry your books to the self-criticism class when we’re in the reeducation camps, too.

      • finaljeopardy

        Did the Fairness Doctrine start all ready?!! I’m going to be ill.

  • AzHat

    I have never been prouder of John McCain than when he spoke tonight. He clearly took the high road that no politician
    has trod in the last several decades. I knew that he was above the fray, as he has been all campaign, but this was
    concrete proof. Yes, I wish he had jumped in the mud with the rest of the “win at all cost” crowd (his country’s future at stake and all…), but he showed us tonight what it means to be an AMERICAN.

    I am also a true American, and will from this day forward call our next President “Mr. President”. And I encourage all true Americans to do the same. Us true Americans should leave the name calling and vitriol to the trumpeteers of the last 8 years. It will (and does) speek volumes.

    So, from this day forward… HE is our President, and I will defend him and his (my) country to my last breath.

    • JoeG

      No one believes anything he says.

      So coal miners don’t fear when he says that he will bankrupt the coal industry. How else could he still win Ohio and Pen.

  • generalgrant

    Bush never got one. The Dems for 8 years said he was selected and not elected and illegitimate. They obstructed his agenda wherever they could, (even when they voted for it – like the war).

    Obama’s socialist policies will ruin this country and we shouldn’t act as if he gets to do what he wants because he won and elections have consequences. If this and the 2006 election teach us anything is that we can’t roll over and be “honorable.” We need to stand up and show that we have a pair. That hooey! Nice guys finish last. The Dems have been relentless in their attacks on the GOP and now they have a friggin near super-majority. And this isn’t about revenge, either. It’s about fighting fire with fire, getting conservatism back on track and rescuing this nation from its horrible mistake.

    • Jack_Serious

      • Tamblin

        Assuming Fiscon is your cup of tea (and that mainland China doesn’t take a heavier hand).

  • hunter

    For running the grandest money laundering internet scam in history. For stuffing ballot boxes nation-wide.
    For hiding who you are from the American people.
    For turning a free media into a lapdog.
    For despising our Constitution.
    For hiring FNMA crooks to leadership roles in your campaign.
    For turning a freedom loving people into a mob.
    Congrats for nothing.

    • charliej

      I’ve always tried to live and follow the golden rule; it’s extremely hard at this point in our history to do that; but follow it I must for my soul and children’s sake..

      I do not support the policies, ideals, plans etc. (what little we know anyway) of our probably future president but I will not denigrate him or the office; nor stoop to the depths of hatred and disprespect shown by the idiots on the other side.

      I can only hope and pray we have a future…

      • QueenOfCups

        and if you notice, they are figuring out you have to go conservative to survive and are moving to the right.

        • kyle8

          I am going to be on every blog and forum constantly and I mean CONSTANTLY, condemning and demeaning every misstep this socialist makes. And mocking his brain dead supporters.

          Payback is a bitch.

          • Moriah

            … I made a special effort to thank the people who by their ages were likely voting in their first presidential election.

            Of course, I thanked everybody for coming out and voting, because the lines truly were horrific.

            I’d been asked to work at this precinct at the last minute, because a lady’s husband had been hospitalized. I’d not gotten to early vote, so I got to my precinct by 0700 and was the third person in line. At 0735 when I had voted and left, the line was through the outside doors.

            When I got to the precinct where I would be working at 0745, the line there wrapped around the building.

            We got caught up to having everyone who was waiting being inside about 10:30, but there was a line the entire time. When 1930 rolled around, the line was wrapped around the building again.

            We got the last voter checked in about 2115 and I was relieved, even though I offered to take over another station so one of the other people could go home.

            It was a long day, but it flew by — when you’re working nonstop the day always goes by fast.

            I was the youngest worker in my precinct by far — I am only 28. Even though the ladies and gentlemen I was working with teased me and called me kiddo, I could tell they were happy that a young person was willing to dedicate their day to making our democracy work.

            This was my first time as a poll worker, and if I keep my current schedule I plan to do it again in the future. I work weekends now, so I had the day off, and I can’t think of a better way for me to have spent election day.

          • PaRep

            I Have to much Reverence for the Office to which He has been elected to & the past occupants of That Grand Office

            I will sadly disagree with most Of his Policies, But will do so with the respect for the Office & it’s Current occupant unlike sadly a lot NOT ALL but a lot of the Lefty’s

            In the 4end Election day is like the Championship of any sport 1 teams fans are Ecstatic & the others teams Fans are crestfallen