OBAMA WINS!
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- ukit0
In his first major move as president-elect, Barack Obama has asked Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a tough-minded tactician with West Wing experience, to serve as his White House chief of staff, Democratic sources tell Politico.
Emanuel has said to friends that he wants and will take the job, but it was not a done deal as of early this morning. Obama plans to move swiftly with his transition announcement and could name Emanuel this week, the sources said. He then plans rapid-fire announcements on his economic and national security teams.
- CALLES0
BREAKING NEWS!
I HEard Oliver Stone Is Already Working On The Script For His Next Movie
B.O.
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- Can't wait to see Denzel play Obama. ;)D_Dot
- lolscrap_paper
- Will Smith - HAS to be..mikotondria3
- watch it be morgan freeman for some reason loldeadfinch
- Chiwetel EjioforMimio
- gramme0
I found this to be fair, even well-written.
- ukit0
Bush is giving a press conference right now...kinda surreal to hear him praising Obama.
- well what else is he gonna do?gramme
- I actually think Bush likes Obamahallelujah
- ItTango0
So, anyone remember this? Hmmmmm?
http://www.qbn.com/topics/428892…
- TheMagicSheep0
- Does you has hi-res?mg33
- i am now down with america.********
- ukit0
I gotta say, for the first time in my entire adult life, I'm really proud of my country:D
- uan0
ukit...and all the others too...today you have all reason to be REALLY proud of you american people! thank you for making the right choice! now we all hope to step into the right direction...for a better tomorrow, worlwide!
- ********0
@Ukit -- I said the exact same thing to my girlfriend last night. It was monumental I was happy to be alive to see it come to fruition.
The Republicans got their way with Prop 8 though.
- janne760
"No George, i'll bring my own furniture..take yours out.."
"what do you mean there's no KFC near the White House? Really..?"
"Oh, you are joking..."
"Oh btw, George, when i said tax relief for 95% of the people, i didn't mean you, you'll be with the other 5.."
"Anyway, take all your daughter's stuff with you too, mine don't want those countrystar and rodeo posters on the wall..."
- BusterBoy0
Must be nice to have a President that isn't a total embarrassment...and one that can actually string more than 2 words together in an articulate manner.
- janne760
Neat Freak
At a Dairy Queen in Wapello, Iowa, the Senator wipes up some spilled ice cream.
- janne760
omfg, he's changing colors!
- janne760
great photo!
- BannedKappa0
word
- janne760
Attention Getter
Iowans listen to Obama speak during a town hall meeting in Chariton.
- CALLES0
so.... the relationship between obama and bush is kind of the relationship between a tv producer and a motion designer
tv Producer: here is a turd... polish it
designer: i hate you
- ukit0
Biggest Losers and Winners:
Losers
President Bush. Not to pile on, but his unpopularity probably doomed John McCain and has thrown the GOP into its worst identity crisis since 1964.
Steve Schmidt. McCain’s main strategist was brought in after a shake-up to hammer Obama hard every day, and he did that with gusto, hatching the highly effective “Celebrity” ad equating Obama with Paris Hilton. But McCain never seemed comfortable being an attack dog, and Schmidt’s mid-campaign testosterone boost turned off independents, young voters and women. Meanwhile, the base never believed the Arizona senator was one of their own — even when Schmidt succeeded in persuading McCain to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Schmidt is also largely responsible for cloistering McCain from the media, forcing the candidate to give up the straight talk give-and-take that defined him in his previous presidential run.
Rudy Giuliani. America’s mayor began the year as the Republican front-runner by making the case for the big-tent GOP approach. He ended it as a caustic Republican attack dog at a time when GOP partisanship has turned off the very independents Giuliani initially attracted. There are rumors he’s mulling a gubernatorial run, but his national reputation has taken a major hit, and his once-thriving consulting business is said to be in trouble.
ACORN. A huge national voter registration effort gave the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now a chance to shine on the national stage. Instead, ACORN’s sloppy oversight of voter registration efforts created a major embarrassment for Obama and other Democrats who had admired the group’s work on behalf of low-income tenants and blue-collar workers.
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.). The National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman was dealt a lousy hand, but the former casino executive didn’t play it particularly well, according to his fellow Republicans. He struggled to raise cash and sparked a last-minute firestorm by suggesting Palin wasn’t ready to govern.
Bill Kristol. The former Republican White House aide-turned-New York Times columnist was one of the loudest voices in favor of invading Iraq. And he was among the first to suggest Palin could be McCain’s savior. It proved to be a brilliant move. For about two weeks.
James Dobson. As pollster Peter Brown says, “Even evangelicals have 401(k)s.” Dobson, head of the powerful group Focus on the Family, was a dominant force in 2004 when Bush and Karl Rove fired up the conservative base by organizing around culture-war issues. Dobson’s opposition to abortion rights and gay marriage still resonate with many GOP voters, but he had far less impact in a year when Americans were more focused on the tanking economy.
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.). Loser, with a big caveat. Reid and other Senate Democrats were willing to tolerate Lieberman’s support of McCain — but Reid couldn’t abide the Connecticut independent’s appearance at the Republican convention, where he questioned Obama’s fitness to command. Reid has already called Lieberman to task, and insiders predict he’ll strip him of the chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee. But Democrats can’t go too far in their payback — they still need him on key issues, and his centrist philosophy still means he’s a factor in cloture votes.
Ronald Reagan. John McCain invoked the Great Communicator as his idol — and many in the GOP believe a return to Reagan-era conservative populism provides a path back to relevancy. (His visage still adorns the National Republican Congressional Committee’s home page.) But Democrats claim the economic crisis has called into question central tenets of The Gipper’s fiscal philosophy, including wide-ranging tax cuts, supply-side economics and deregulation.
Winners
The Axe Squad. Critics said they were too nice, too vague on the issues, too obsessed with the youth vote and too dependent on all those penny-ante Internet donors. But Obama’s core group of Chicago advisers, led by former reporter David Axelrod, has created a new paradigm for post-Rove campaigning. Instead of exploiting wedge issues (as Rove did) or micro-targeting demographic niche groups (as the Clintons and their pollster, Mark Penn, did), they focused on exciting a new base of young people, educated whites and minority voters. Get-out-the-vote wizard Steve Hildebrand built a hyperdisciplined field army. Axelrod and campaign manager David Plouffe gracefully parried questions about Obama’s race and experience. Communications chief Robert Gibbs oversaw a press operation that combined a Clinton-style rapid response team with a Bush-style aversion to off-message chatter and leaks.
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Now they’ve got big fat new majorities. What will they do with them?
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). With moderate Republicans toppling in the House and Senate centrists such as Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) struggling to survive, the Maine Republican waxed her Democratic opponent by 22 points. Reid will have to woo Collins on every big social and economic policy if Senate Democrats want to hit 60 on major votes.
Michelle Obama. Remember when Democrats fretted she’d be her husband’s biggest liability? Or when GOP operative Roger Stone promised someone was about to release a devastating video of the first-lady-elect making racially charged comments to Louis Farrakhan? Instead she proved to be a forceful, funny, appealing surrogate.
Howard Dean. Dean may have screamed his presidential hopes away in 2004 and then underperformed as a party fundraiser, but Barack Obama won, more or less, using a new and improved edition of the DNC chairman’s playbook. Hillary Clinton’s aides derided Dean’s “50-state strategy,” but they were caught flat-footed when Obama’s neglect-no-state organization led to a February winning streak in sparsely populated caucus states, giving him an insurmountable delegate lead. Dean collected tens of millions of dollars over the Internet; Obama scooped up hundreds of millions and owned the airwaves in the campaign’s final days.
Andy Stern. The head of the 2-million-member Service Employees International Union — arguably the most powerful labor leader in the country — came out early for Obama. And he delivered on Election Day, especially in union-friendly western Pennsylvania. What does he want in return? Card check and health care reform. “During the first 100 days of the 111th Congress, we’re going to dedicate 50 percent of our staff and resources to passing priorities for working families like the Employee Free Choice Act and health care for all,” he wrote this summer in the Huffington Post.
FDR. He’s the new Reagan.