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In the spirit of gloating, I went over to FoxNews.com to find out what all the racist Republicans are saying about the election.  This was an open thread called “Why did Obama win?”  Can you guess which responses were most common?  Here’s a hint:

Comment by Tiffany November 5th, 2008 at 9:19 am

Obama won because of all the blacks that went out to vote for him, even though the majority could not describe a single policy of his. He also won because of the homeless- who came out in record numbers to vote for Obama- they all want some of that redistribution of wealth!!
Thanks to the dems we now have a president who is also endorsed by the terrorsits and ji-had!!

 That’s right, ladies and gentlemen–Obama won because he’s black.  This is easily the case because of this country’s long history of black presidents.  *forehead smack*

 Comment by JD November 5th, 2008 at 9:27 am

I agree with Tiffany and they probably could not name who his running mate was until they seen it @ the polls. I also woke up sick to my stomach this morning and am scared what is to come………..

(emphasis mine)

What makes this day better than it already is?  Knowing that all over the country, Republicans are sick to their stomachs over this.

What was that?  The spirit of unity?  Alright, I’ll share my thoughts on America being united:

Fuck.  You.

How’s that?  Should I pull out an offensive image to make the sentiment clearer?

Republicans in this country have been political bullies since they gained power.  They’ve been corrupt and malignant in their authority.  They’ve championed the idea of preemptive war while using it to declare war on a country that posed little or no threat to us on false pretenses while letting the Taliban regroup instead of wiping them out completely.  They’ve failed to bring those responsible for 9/11 to justice while inflaming the crazy and belligerent religious fanatics in the Middle East.  They’ve desecrated America’s moral authority by authorizing and defending the use of torture on prisoners.  They’ve trampled over the Bill of Rights and the writ of habeas corpus, the cornerstone of legal rights in the United States.  They’ve ruined our relationships with countries all over the world, while turning a blind eye to the atrocities and shenanigans committed by the Chinese.  Thanks to them, we’ve lost all the soft power accumulated through the Reagan, Bush 41 and Clinton years, and have lost our moral authority and credibility in the world.

Among a myriad of other things, they’ve failed to regulate financial markets which, through greed and opportunism, led to the credit crisis and the downfall of our economy.  Under their leadership, gasoline prices reached record highs in an already strained economy.  They’ve boldly granted no-bid high-dollar contracts to their corporate allies in broad daylight,  with no shame or sense of responsibility.

The Republicans have pushed for a regressive social policy and have at numerous times employed authoritarian police state tactics in controlling the population.  The 2004 RNC in New York City is a brazen example, but not nearly as much as the authorization of illegal domestic spying and the excessive use of Executive Privilege to cover their misdeeds.  They’ve expanded the power of the central government to include the Department of Homeland Security, a monolithic Goliath of neverending bureaucracy to take over operations we already had agencies for, while insisting that the Executive Branch extends into all corners of the government… and yet, they deny the Vice President of the United States is a member of this branch when it suits their purposes and conceals their crimes.  Let’s not even get into the response to Katrina or their reckless approach to North Korea and Iran.

This does not end here.  Bush and his administration need to be tried for their domestic crimes and their war crimes.  They need to be pursued, they need to be punished for what they’ve done wrong so an example is set and a deterrent is present.  It doesn’t matter whether they’re Democrat or Republican–all human beings are vulnerable to corruption.  If there is not a clear, visible deterrent that shows the politicians they are not protected, we set a very dangerous precedent for future cases.

The Conservative ideology has so utterly and categorically failed.  Come January, they should be included in discussions but excluded from any type of authority whatsoever.  They are completely devoid of credibility at this point and the onus is on them to convince us otherwise.  They deserved this defeat.  The sooner they acknowledge that, the sooner America will be willing to trust them.  To do that, the dangerous Neo-Con movement needs to be stamped out of the Republican party–completely.  Cut the extremist rhetoric and come back into the mainstream, Republicans.  We miss your rational side.

While I’ve but touched the surface of their incompetence and corruption, I’d like to talk about the campaign they’ve run.  They built their campaign the way they operated during this administration:  on fear and lies.  This is positively the shadiest, sleaziest campaign I’ve yet seen waged, and yet people defend it.  Your party actively and publicly sought to intimidate and suppress minority voters, but you didn’t make a peep.  When Sarah Palin’s campaign stops turn into hate rallies, the vast majority of sycophants on the right don’t bat an eye.  At times, the campaign has been blatantly racist and divisively fearmongering as they attempt to portray Barack Obama as a Muslim terrorist and manage to keep a straight face when pushing the idea that he’s not one of us.

No, wingnuts, you’re not “one of us.”  You never were.  The hatred which motivates you had no place in this election and it certainly has no place in this country.   But things can be different for you if you let it.  Unlike you, we want you to be “one of us.”  We don’t see you as a lost cause because you think a certain way or because you vote for a different party.  We can agree to disagree, but we cannot accept the kind of hateful, vitriolic lies you’ve either spread, accepted or turned a blind eye to this year.  No matter which applies to you, you’re complicit if you did not do something about it.

My final thoughts on unity:  we don’t want it to end like this; we want to be united.  But no reasonable person will call us united while this kind of attitude exists.

 

Tags: 2008 General Election

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