Exactly. Out of the frying pan and into the proverbial fire.

I sincerely hope that Obama is better than I think he will be. I do want the country to succeed, but I am incredibly apprehensive of his promises and how exactly he intends to pay for them- not to mention his stance on gun control (black guns are bad! ban them!)..

[QUOTE=Wookie06, March 27, 2008]Damn, I can't believe that he [Obama] is so bad that I would be happier with the combat tested Hillary. Maybe the super delegates will select somebody other than either one of them. Hopefully not as either one of them will lose HUGE to McCain .[/QUOTE]

*munch munch*

Hmm, I don't envy him today, those words taste rather bitter.

Does anyone have a link or something to a downloadable video of McCain's concession speech? I was really impressed with it.

With streaming video being king nowadays I can't find one (There's an HDTV torrent of Obama's speech out there, but no such torrent for McCain's).

Why do you want a video of an old man talking? Just talk to a grandfather.

Latis has never been to a Glasgow tenement.

Because it's a good speech and I would enjoy having it in something other than ****ty low-quality youtube streams.

Okay.

Demonoid has it... as an avi that someone transcoded from a youtube flv :downs:

Didn't the crowd boo McCain at his concession speech?

No, they booed a couple times when he brought up Obama.

Classy Folks eh?

That has more to do with the site owner banning me after his personal biasis against me clouded even a most rudimentary ability to comprehend my posts in a particular thread. That and the fact that I realized the main reason for being a frequent poster at Massassi no longer existed, and hasn't for some time.

My belief that the American people would select McCain over Obama was partly based on my theory that when it came down to it people would select the person who has a long record of honorable service and experience as opposed to the man with limited experience, a questionable past, controversial personal friends and advisors, and expressed values downright contradictory to the founding principles and documents of this country.

McCain was never my choice for the candidacy but I honestly hoped he would perform better. I always knew that there were significant obstacles for McCain to surpass in this campaign and I chose to have an optimistic attitude. Obama won, I believe, mostly due to pop culture and race but, regardless, he won.

I have had a fear that this country will continue its leftist slide mostly due to dumbing down and continued dependence on government to provide. I really don't see an end to this trend until America wakes up as things continue to get worse.

So, in short, my posts of an inevitable McCain victory were based mostly on an intentional over-optimism because it is simply not in my nature to be as pesimistic as the average liberal. I would gladly eat the proverbial crow if I still frequently posted here. Instead I will continue to lurk and only post in the rare instance that something really peaks my interest.

I would also like to add that the man who said this before the election "...this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.” for some reason felt the need to lower the bar in his victory speach, "We may not get there in one year or even in one term...There will be setbacks and false starts."

And last, but not least, the Obama National Anthem, sung to the tune of the Soviet Anthem:

All hail the messiah
Obama, Obama
The path to the new socialist motherland
Our savior, our savior
Obama, Obama
The leader more famous than Lindsay Lohan
Bow down and praise the one
Give him your money and your guns
Give us a country
That makes your wife proud
Lord Barry heal the bitter ones
White and Clinging to faith and to guns
Hope for the change of the hope of the change!

Research on YouTube if you like.

<quote>I have had a fear that this country will continue its leftist slide mostly due to dumbing down...</quote>

Yeah, because the Democrats are the ones dumbing us down. Let's not forget the Republican VP candidate that doesn't understand what the Vice President's job actually is.

Lol "research on youtube"

My research sources are far more varied than just youtube. Infowars, Prison Planet, Free Republic, Stormfront, and Conservapedia are all very reliable sites for relevant information.

Actually it had nothing to do with bias and everything to do with you telling the staff how to do their job and admitting to trolling.

If you don't like it, as I said before, you can feel free to stop visiting. If you keep it up, I'll walk you to the door. I have no interest in debating this with you especially in a public format.

Hahahaha. Obama wins in a landslide and Wookie claims it's pop culture and race. It couldn't possibly be his progressive politics, level headed attitudes, competence, and public image?

And I'd leave it to you to hint his ties to terrorism. It's typical for you to follow those awesome talking points instead of actually having an original opinion.

And if you think Obama is socialist, you're daft.

You've got to be ****ing kidding me....oh hell no. I voted for him. I'm going to go shoot myself now.

What are you talking about? I'm sure if he had any ties to terrorism we would have heard of it by now.



If you can find a reference to the Obama Anthem on those sites, knock yourself out. The YouTube versions are bound to be better, though.

I read in a Youtube comment that Obama announced Reverend Wright as his chief of staff.

According to my extensive research of youtube comments, I have determined without a doubt that "Bush did 9/11" and that us "sheeple" need to "open our eyes".

Wow you obviously don't understand what "Socialism" is.

I love that xkcd strip


In other news, world leaders and countries happy/optimistic while about half of America has the exact opposite reaction.

That's because other world leaders and the other half of America doesn't care if we're taxed to death and deprived of firearms?

Hahaha.

Fox News reports Sarah Palin didn't know Africa was a continent (LIBERAL MEDIA ALERT).

Now I find that really hard to believe, and it sounds like McCain staffers are just playing the blame game, but what the hell?

That's not true and my post isn't pointed.

[I.e. I didn't intend to make an implication (that Republicans are being silly or whatever); I just wanted to report the links haha]

Haha, yeah

I just accidentally found the picture when I was looking for the Daily Show screencap with the picture of Babar, and I was like "WHAT THE HELL"

If it's any comfort, the picture was on a white supremacist blog complaining that Barr sold them out

I was debating between voting for him and writing in Ron Paul.

Now I'm glad I wrote in Paul.

...

Pretty much, actually. They're not busy clinging to guns and religion, so they're free to look at the world how it actually is.

This is a bizarre moment for the world. For what seems like such a long time, America has been the centre of ridicule and stupidity. Once upon a time, the world actually respected America and the idea that we might have cause to do so once again is very strange indeed.

We'll have to go back to picking on Belgium instead now.

If we want the respect of foreign nations, we have to respect ourselves first. Americans take no pride in the things we do. We buy foreign automobiles, but instead of making our vehicles better we complain that those dirty Japs have stolen the market, and so forth.

No we don't.

America makes cars for Americans. They are big, grunty and powerful, have automatic gearboxes and are suited to long straight roads and are designed for superior comfort.

Japan makes cars which suit urban environments, as do almost every European manufacturer, hence we have manual gearboxes, tight suspension and small wheelbases.

So yeah, respect me or something.

Not to change the subject, but that is one thing that annoys me about american car manufacturers lately: they don't make trucks with manual transmissions anymore! What's the deal with that? At least I can still get Jeeps with one, but it seems like big trucks nowadays only come in fancy automatics for towing.

Hahahahah, I gotta admit, I laughed my *** off when he said that. Translation: Ummm......I'm probably not going to do one damn thing I said I was gonna, so I better say this now so once everyone realizes I am not the messiah, I've got an excuse.

The automatic transmission is cause of lots of bad drivers. However, I am having a hard time seeing a Chrystler Sebring with a stick shift.

Question: What's the future of car transmissions? CVT or sequential?

(Answer: It's a trick question; cars in the future won't need transmissions on account of being electric)

Er, electric still needs transmission...