A very cool interactive page with newspapers from around the world announcing Obama’s win: Obama Grabs Headlines
The next President of the United States – The Big Picture
Photos from Election night – Barack Obama’s Photostream on Flickr:
I loved McCain’s speech. It was the old McCain. The guy I knew before he hugged Jerry Falwell and George Bush. Before he embraced the agents of intolerance. The man who knew what Conservatives stand for. Less government in our lives, be it social engineering or fiscal responsibility. I hope he returns to the Senate ready to go as the old McCain.
Unfortunately, we are not purple everywhere.
I propose that we punish the FOX Network for its hatchet job on Sarah Palin.
So, the uninformed become even more uninformed about the world around them? I’m not sure if it’s funny or not.
In one of the most ironic, mind-bending, eye-twitching series of columns I’ve seen in a while, Michelle Malkin speaks about the “smearing” of Palin:
Sunken ships loosen bitter lips. The failed McCain campaign, for all its high-minded talk of honor, duty, and courage, is now teeming with unscrupulous gossip-mongers.
It boggles the mind that they must thrive on this hatred and petty bitterness. That they can’t speak of the honest criticisms that were lobbed at Palin in terms of political criticism. It wasn’t the damn towel, it wasn’t the rumors about Trig, most people didn’t care about that stuff. They still don’t get it. Malkin and her ilk threw all sorts of accusations and smears at Obama and it didn’t matter. We knew it wasn’t true. (Most people aren’t that stupid, so you can stop treating us as if we are.)
It was Palin herself. It was in the answers she gave. It was her positions. It was in her personality. It was the raw hatred that came dripping from her mouth every time she spoke. It was the way that her rallies seemed to turn into angry mobs – And most of us didn’t get that from the media, Michelle. We watched the rallies without commentary on YouTube. We talked to online friends who attended the rallies. It’s sad that your readers can’t see that.
It’s especially sad because I am one of the voters who was not on board the Obama express until Palin appeared at the convention. I watched her speech hoping to find something I liked. I found the opposite. She horrified me. It was the entire GOP convention that pushed me straight over into the Obama camp. We would have voted for McCain, but not for her. She put a nail in the coffin of the hateful right wing of the GOP.
I would love to see Conservatism return to its platform of less government in our lives, both fiscally and socially.
