The time for celebration is short. The path of what's needed to fix the ills we currently face is long, steep and will have many twists and turns. The planning for a permanent government is apparently well underway and we'll learn more in the days ahead. Our new President will need support from all of us.

Our President-elect spoke to us almost without exultation, expressed the hope we all yearn for, and soberly asked for the help and support from all Americans.

I hope we can heal the political devisiveness of years past and of the recent campaign. I trust our new leaders will establish the proper priorities. I am encouraged that we may return to world leadership. And I pray for their good judgment.

Godspeed Barack Obama.

Historical night indeed. Lets just hope all get behind him. Was very nice for once to see McCain tell the poeple that were booing to stop at his speech. I was so gald to Obama win Floirda also. Alot of people showed their trust in the system and him as a person.

Moderate Republican Woman -- Me.

So furious with what had always been my party.

Yet, somewhere deep in my heart, still weighing all of it. Fiscally conservative me. Thinking about it all too hard. Weary of those robocalls, firing shots targeted at inducing paranoia. "Is that all ya' got?" I would ask and hang up before the robot did.

Finally, on Monday afternoon, I quite simply pictured how I would feel this morning. I pictured both scenarios.

I voted for the winner.

I went with hope.

Boomer

Boomer, although I too am a Moderate I voted for McCain. Neither would have been my choice. I didn't have strong feelings about the election, didn't stay up to see.

But I agree again Boomer. We will all hope for a better tomorrow.

I don't think most people grasp the consequence of last nights election. Believe me, they will.

dk, I am one of those who does realize what the consequences of yesterdays election are and I pray I am wrong.

Karen

Originally Posted by Guest

Boomer, although I too am a Moderate I voted for McCain. Neither would have been my choice. I didn't have strong feelings about the election, didn't stay up to see.

But I agree again Boomer. We will all hope for a better tomorrow.

That's OK, GG. Mr. Boomer canceled my vote out. So I guess we were not responsible for Ohio.

This decision was so difficult. I considered not voting at all. I finally did all I could do.

Hope.

Prayers.

Hope.

Boomer

I don’t think God Speed is in order as much as asking for God’s forgiveness.

He is in favor of socialized medicine.
He is in favor of raising social security taxes
He is in favor of raising capitol gains taxes on business
He is favor of raising income taxes.
He is in favor of killing unborn children at will.
He is in favor of reducing our military by at least 25%
He is in favor of moving money from one segment of the population to another.
He is in favor of completely changing most of the core principles that have made this the most successful nation in the world.
He is not a capitalist.
He is not a supporter of Israel.
He is not pro-business.
He is not in favor of energy independence or drilling for our own oil.

I don’t see how any of this can be good for our county and it frightens me that some actually think it is. Change is what we wanted and change is what we are going to get.

I am truly depressed today.

DK..
You forgot to mention that the dems also will now control the house, the senate and Pres. Elect. BHO.

That is a scary scenario but there will be no one else to blame for failed programs AND on the other hand they should get all the credit for any successes.

dklassen and Karen, you are so right. It shows how much our country has changed. To top it off, Al Franken is only 571 votes behind Norm Coleman. Even though 100% of the vote is in I'm sure they will keep recounting until Franken gets the win. What a great night for George Soros, ACORN and the media.

Originally Posted by dklassen

I don’t think God Speed is in order as much as asking for God’s forgiveness.

He is in favor of socialized medicine.
He is in favor of raising social security taxes
He is in favor of raising capitol gains taxes on business
He is favor of raising income taxes.
He is in favor of killing unborn children at will.
He is in favor of reducing our military by at least 25%
He is in favor of moving money from one segment of the population to another.
He is in favor of completely changing most of the core principles that have made this the most successful nation in the world.
He is not a capitalist.
He is not a supporter of Israel.
He is not pro-business.
He is not in favor of energy independence or drilling for our own oil.

I don’t see how any of this can be good for our county and it frightens me that some actually think it is. Change is what we wanted and change is what we are going to get.

I am truly depressed today.

I had hoped that the misleading falsehoods and slandering would stop after the election, but I was wrong. Maybe a year from now all you conservatives will see things a little differently.

Falsehoods and slandering? Are you serious?

He himself has addressed all of these things during his campaign. I am just restating his platform.

Originally Posted by rekop

I had hoped that the misleading falsehoods and slandering would stop after the election, but I was wrong. Maybe a year from now all you conservatives will see things a little differently.

I completely agree with you Rekop, although I think it will take more than one year to dig us out of the mess he's been left with.

Originally Posted by chelsea24

I completely agree with you Rekop, although I think it will take more than one year to dig us out of the mess he's been left with.

I whole heartedly support the notion of the OP and really do hope that Obama proves me and the almost half of the country who voted against him wrong. However, I think it is a bit presumptuous to assume that all Republicans will just hop on the bandwagon and "get over it". Afterall, a huge part of the "mess" that Obama inherits is the political divisions that are still in this country. This mess is a direct result of the Dems who couldn't get over the 2000 election and have been making unfair allegations (yes, there were some fair ones as well) against Bush and Republicans for 8 long years. Those wounds will take time to heal and post like the above will not help that process.

That’s precisely the other phenomenon that will occur over the coming years. No matter how far BO runs us into the ditch, the media will always blame Bush. I can hear the quotes now. “Well, BO tried to fix it but Bush had things so screwed up there was no way it could be fixed. It was way worse than anyone ever told us.”

If you really take a hard honest look at the last 6 years, the economy was actually very strong even though we are fighting two wars. The FACT is, things started to turn when the Democrats took control of congress and we all know that congress are ones that control the purse strings not the president.

The second FACT is that the failure of Freddie and Fannie was the direct result of Democrats blocking regulation to fix the problem. You can’t ignore the facts; the Freddie and Fannie live congressional hearings are on YouTube for everyone to watch. During those, the Democrats even accused the Republicans of being on a witch hunt when they tried to fix Freddie and Fannie. What happened two years later? They both failed in a big way and the Republicans got blamed. How does that work?

BO made it abundantly clear every single night what he intends to do with our tax code. It WILL kill business and crush the economy. But it will somehow always be the Republicans fault no matter what he does.

I'll sign off now and stop commenting. We'll see where we end up.