Ok. It’s official. Barack Obama won.
We are now in opposition, in many ways a much, much easier place to be, politically speaking. We can simply point to the broken campaign promises – of which there will necessarily be many. We can educate people as to why they just might want to reconsider at the next opportunity.
We can pull together and forge a better message, a better theme, a better direction for our policies.
We can not descend to the bitter, vitriolic levels of the left, however. We do have to be better and present a better, more rational choice. We have to be gracious in defeat and never gloating or boastful or needlessly graceless in victory.
But we also have to carry on with first principles. We represent the belief that government is very seldom the solution. Rather it is usually far more often the problem.
We have to point out that spending more for the sake of spending more does not work. Rather, spending more wisely is the right answer.
We have to point out that Washington does not spend money. It spends our money.
We have to point out that we do not work to support the government. Rather, government should work to help us succeed.
We need to point out that it is not government’s place to give a handout. Rather it is the place of the government to give a hand up.
First principles. In loyal opposition.
Congratulations, President Elect Obama.
Hear! Hear!
And remember, it was they who taught us, “Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism”.
In the category of news-you-can-use: How to Obama-proof your investments.
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While I normally do not like using anonymous sources, I have to in this instance for personal and political reasons. This advice comes from a “Forbes 100 richest” investor friend who is risk-averse and has been thinking about Obama-proofing his portfolio.
“The main theme is not to invest in America,” he says. “That means non-USA oil and gas companies. The antidrilling prejudice and windfall-profits enthusiasm will drive the United States to actually import more oil, and while investors flee U.S. names, winners are Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro…”Also watch out for bubble in U.S. solar and wind start-ups, since government subsidies will accelerate and swindles of all kinds will thus multiply…Avoid financials like Charles Schwab since Obama believes in rewarding ‘work not wealth,’ so people who work at investment houses and their private clients will be taxed more to demotivate investment. The government should invest and individuals should not invest. That is a constant theme from the Obama camp.
“Non-U.S. health care: New, free medical-care program will kill drug prices and kill discovery budgets as science shifts from disease (no money) back to recreation. (You will pay for Viagra.) Thus non-U.S. drug companies will benefit from the United States getting rid of the drug-discovery business.”
Unlike yuri’s “smart people” who now run the US, I have no money to invest. But I could always go “John Galt” and simply feed at the public trough from now on.
All I’m going to say is that the office deserves respect.
“We are now in opposition, in many ways a much, much easier place to be, politically speaking. We can simply point to the broken campaign promises – of which there will necessarily be many.”
Personally, I’m hoping for as many broken campaign promises as possible from the Affirmative Action President. That can only bode well for capitalist America.
“We can not descend to the bitter, vitriolic levels of the left, however. We do have to be better and present a better, more rational choice. We have to be gracious in defeat and never gloating or boastful or needlessly graceless in victory.”
BS. Or have you forgotten the past 7 years of Bush=Hitler? So I’m going with this for the next four years (or less if he gets indicted/impeached): Not in my name, Obama, you lying, commie, rat b*stard. That’s as much ‘respect’ as I can muster and as much as that man deserves.
The question of how nasty we can be in talking about the next president is pretty much moot. Criticism of Pres. Messiah will be socially unacceptable, treated as a form of hate speech. We’ve already learned that criticism of his economic views is crypto-racism. Expect more of the same for the next 4 years or more.
“We can simply point to the broken campaign promises – of which there will necessarily be many.”
He started backing up on them this morning…………”We may not be able to get it done in 4 years but certainly by the 2nd term”
“All I’m going to say is that the office deserves respect.”
I plan on giving the new President the same amount of respect that he gave to Bush
I’m just sitting back and enjoying the fact that, with a Democratic Congress and a Democratic Executive, they’re going to have a very hard time blaming everything on Bush and the Republican Party – especially those things, like the sub-prime mortgage mess, that were almost exclusively their fault. They will have to own every failure from now on. They aren’t used to being in this position so it should be interesting. To paraphrase that venerable presidential mentor, Jeremiah Wright, the Democratic chickens will be coming home to roost!