JCC [Reactions] U.S. Presidential Election Day 2012

My parents are Boomers and hardcore Democrats. They either don't really understand my criticisms of the Democratic Party or dismiss them as me asking for perfection. They're smart people, but for some reason drone strikes, the revolving door, the military-industrial complex, tepid healthcare reform, etc. don't bother them nearly as much as they do me or even at all because Obama is great or at least better than McCain or Romney. That disappoints me.

 

Apparently the Florida ballots have finally been counted and Obama won by 100,000 votes. Whew!

 

Going back a ways but I just thought it was interesting to show the pockets within those 70-30 blocks.

Secession- waste of time to discuss, it's just an insignificant sliver of the population yelling, "Look at me!"

 

George Allen rules out further runs for political office.

 

What is it with the Karl Rover superpac saying it will expand? I thought superpacs were just a election tool. Are these now political think tanks that can milk billionaires for promises of tax cuts and world domination?

 

Rove wants even more money for the 2014 midterms, that's all.

I doubt he's going to get it.

 

I love seeing that pig that taught itself to walk Rove on the hot seat.

What was his genius prediction? Popular vote to Romney and 279 electoral votes? You would think billionaires would be smart enough to not invest twice with a guy that provided a non-existent ROI on their 1st 300 million.

 

FOX just compared regulation under Obama to "black mold"... nice.

 

Stay Classy Fox.

 

i like this guy, but i never felt much enthusiasm coming from him throughout his run. maybe he's just a chilled out, low-energy dude and that's just the way it is.

 

Exactly. Him and Kaine both have public personas that tend to be more on the relaxed side.

 

How do you like a guy who called someone 'macaca?'

 

I'm conflicted on this sort of thing. In some areas, I think you have a point. In others, though, I think the realism/realistic expectations has merit. In particular, look at how insane the struggle to pass and implement the ACA has been. There was an undeniably tremendous cost to the political capital of his first term, and it was legitimately quite difficult to work out even aside from Republican opposition. I'm not sure anything much more substantial could have been achieved. A public option, perhaps, but that would have been more symbolic than the sort of wholesale transformation of the system that I presume you would desire.

 

i don't know a single person that hasn't done at least one ****ed up thing in their lives.

 

I'm not really blaming Obama alone for this.

 

gee i hope he's banked enough Political Capital this term to stop murdering american citizens in drone strikes. maybe he can spend a little Political Capital on something nice like ERA or a public option

i know i blew all my Political Capital on video games last month

 

So Romney blames his loss on the moochers.

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...ies-youth-women-for-election-loss.php?ref=fpa

Good riddance to this bastard.......

 

I like how he thinks college loan debt forgiveness was "a gift." Yeah, it's forgiven after 20 years and as long as you made the minimum payments. Still can't include it in bankruptcy nor does the "gift" cover the majority of the people who default on such debt. Oh, Mitt.

 

I don't think he can win with that kind of arrogance. It's just another example of--

oh, right. he lost. it's like you could see it coming from miles and years away.

 

In the words of my grandfather...."Can't trust those goddamn mormon bastards."

 

It's a wonder how someone who had this low an opinion of a huge portion of the American people lost this election.

 

The Hard, Religious right of the GOP wants us women barefoot and pregnant so that we can't vote, make minorities jump through hoops so they can't vote, and leave everybody poor and uneducated so that white men can buy their lies and vote for them. And the rest of the GOP goes along with it so they can get into power.