Strength Of Character

(Even More) Thoughts
Headlines we never saw: Obama Re-elected, America NOT a racist country after all!

Post election RedStateVT is sharply critical of Republican strategists Dick Morris and Karl Rove for completely botching their election predictions. At the same time, we neglected to mention New York Times columnist Nate Silver who we, among others, excoriated for what we perceived as heavily biased forecasts. Of course he was right and those on our side were wrong. In fairness, Silver deserves his victory lap. 

The Obama Effect (RedStateVT's description of how Wall Street will react to a second Obama term) is now easily within reach. Friday could be the day where the market reaches -500 points. And it would only have taken three trading sessions!


All Over
Overall, he's seen his support drop in 41 states and the District over the past four years, and he emerged the winner Tuesday by one of the narrowest margins in the popular vote. (Washington Examiner, 11/8/2012)

A very Liberal friend of ours (yes, we have many!) sends us a cartoon of President Obama sitting at his desk in front of a giant representation of the word MANDATE. Knowing our obvious pain at the election results, this is as far as he goes in spiking the football, for which we are grateful. But "mandate?" Obama won, Romney lost. We get that. But "mandate?" What rational person could construe a result wherein Obama received 50% of the popular vote, down significantly from 2008, as a mandate? When fully half of the country votes against you? Folks, we cannot have an intelligent discussion about the problems that America faces when you say things like this.


Hallway
They speculate that he will return to the corridors of finance, where his reputation as a savvy chief executive and investor remains unblemished. (NYT, 11/8/2012)

This is how the New York Times now describes Mitt Romney. Yes, the same New York Times that joined Obama and the Democrats in a relentless campaign of maligning Romney's business career. Now they tell us his reputation is unblemished. The Times is a farcical publication.


Opening Night 
A jittery U.S. senator-elect Elizabeth Warren gave one-sentence answers, ducked questions and even passed one on to Gov. Deval Patrick in an awkward first press conference since the election.

Warren spoke for a total of less than four minutes during the 11-minute press conference — the rest was taken up by Patrick and reporters’ questions.

After being asked her first question — how she’d protect defense spending — Warren was silent as she turned to Patrick.

“Defense spending is you,” Patrick prodded Warren.

“Oh, that’s mine,” Warren replied. (BostonHerald.com, 11/8/2012)

Congratulations Massachusetts! Well done!


Page-By-Page
Congressman-elect Joe Kennedy III, the fourth generation of his legendary family in politics, said he’s taking a page or two from his late great-uncle Ted’s playbook to make friends and influence people in a GOP-controlled House: get to know people, and find things you agree on. (BostonHerald.com, 11/8/2012)

Such "playbook" which also includes boozing and womanizing? Congratulations Massachusetts! Well done yet again!


Government Motors
Suzuki’s announcement this week that it will no longer be selling cars in the U.S. makes it the 10th major brand to disappear since the start of the century. Of those, one was a Ford brand, one was a division of Chrysler, and the remaining eight all were either subsidiaries of or close partners with General Motors. (caranddriver.com, 11/8/2012)

One of the crowning achievements of Obama's first term! You remember, when he took billions of dollars of taxpayer money and 'saved' GM. Based on this article, it sounds like Obama made a very wise investment, not. What was it Mitt Romney said to Obama during the debates: "You picked all the losers."