Of course, you are making a very uneducated smear. A duo that thinks they know it all would surround themselves with “yes-men” like the current administration. Why hear opposing opinions if you know you are right?

It’s been illustrated that Obama likes to hear a number of different viewpoints so he can understand an issue better. Of course, most conservatives seem think that considering options shows that you are weak.

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America has been involved in the Middle East before and after Bush….long long before…and that problem will continue until the end of the world….Mccain or Obama…it will go on…and we will be there…and we will be underappreciated for it.

I think the biggest change we will see in the short term is simply which side is griping….

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This is what drove away the majority of the centrists. That sway vote is so delicate and the portrayal of her as some type of anti-feminist with no experience and exploitation of her purported failed decisions was just enough to spell defeat for the Republicans in the undecided states.

I have said it before and I will say it again, socially liberal democrats could never win an election in any state without the daily support of the headline writers who only praise liberal ideals and their supporters in the headlines and only criticise and exploit the short comings of socially conservative ideals and their supporters. It’s a cliche to blame the media, but if the sway vote is what decides our elections, then the media is the reason for the season of Obama, even Hillary agrees with us on that one.

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What we really have here are disgruntled people who failed and they need someone to blame because they just can’t accept their own part in the failure.

It’s really time for you leftys to stop the whining and all the putdowns, unless you want it pointed out each and every time Obama misspeaks — not that I think the opposition here can keep up that kind of whining to the extent you leftys did and still do. You said you were all about change. Well, where is it? Because quite frankly, if your goal is to pull the country together — and make no mistake about it, it isn’t together — this is not the way to do it.

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YOu would seem like that too if you were asked to repeat the MCCAIN party line day in day out.

She was a good speaker, and delievered her speeches well. If anyone is to blame, its McCain and his campaign for misuing her.
From day 1, Palin energized the base so much that the comparison became not Mccain vs Obama, but Palin vs. Obama. They chose to stifle her instead, and thus lost the election in my opinion.

If your going to take a big risk on a rookie, you gotta be willing to play through her faults instead of stifling her. Itd be like bringing Evan Longoria or Geovany Soto up and having them ride the pine all season.

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* Whether Africa was a country or a continent!

* What countries are party to the NAFTA!

Never mind everything else, if true, that right there is frightening!

No, American voters weighed Palin, and she was found wanting. She was a political lightweight, and will rate an asterisk in the history books.

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Outsassed: “Did you even realize that McCain won nearly all of the centrist (moderate, undecided) votes on Tuesday, or are you simply clueless?”

The Pew Research Center says you are wrong: Obama got 60% of moderates, and 52% of Independents. Inside Obama’s Sweeping Victory

Outsassed: “With all the talk in the MSM about the record number of young people (and voters overall) casting ballots this past Tuesday, in reality the same number voted in 2008 that did in 2004, and young people comprised the exact same percentage of the vote.”

The same Pew study shows 66% of 18-29 year olds voted for Obama, a 12% increase over Kerry’s percentage in 2004. And the non-partisan CIRCLE finds Youth Turnout Rate Rises to at Least 52% with 23 Million Voters Under 30, 3.4 Million More Young People Vote than in 2004, Young Voters Account for at Least 60% of Overall Increase, 18% of All Voters Were Young

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I’m sure Outakst will find that worthy of a “whoo-hoo.”

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In terms of fiscal conservatism, people do tend to become more conservative as they grow older. However, the social conservatism important to many here will gradually fade. When gay marriage was debated in Canada, pollsters found a sharp difference of opinion at the age of 40. Under 40 had no problem with the idea and those over 40 were extremely resistant to the idea. One’s political ideology, religion etc did not matter it was age. Both young conservatives and young liberal supported gay marriage and as they grow older they may become fiscal conservatives but their social attitudes will not change. Thus for the Republican party to have mass appeal it will need to drop social conservatism unless it wished to be reduced to an Ozark-Appalachia rump.

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