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Congratulations President-Elect Obama

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I sincerely wish President-Elect Obama as much respect and success that President Bush was offered by Keith Olbermann and Harry Reid.

I expect the Democrat-controlled Congress will repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the first 100 days, right?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  2. I second that emotion!

    If Republicans were more like Democrats they would immediately start campaigning for the next election and doing everything in their power to undermine Obama and the Democrats. But, they wont. They’ll continue being the responsible, grown up party.

  5. thanks for the partisan, nasty comment

    Kevin – You’re thanking the wrong person. Thank Keith Olbermann and Harry Reid. After all, if Keith Olbermann and Harry Reid were remotely gracious, rational or responsible, then the comment wouldn’t be partisan or anything else, now would it?

  6. Bruce, I think it’s important that we don’t take the “same road as the Democrats in 2000” and start undermining Obama’s Administration even before it gets into the starting block… or, would it be, slip into some fashionable lycra racing tights.

    I think the GOP needs to be a rational, sane voice of loyal opposition and let the entertainers on radio & blogs do the outrage gig.

    Let’s see, there’s the promise of removing a sizable portion of the troops from Iraq in the 1st 100 days or advance a plan to do so; sorry Iraq, please see VietNam for a reference for what happens when the US pulls out before it’s prudent. There’s the promise of repealing DOMA, DADT for gays plus any restrictions on a woman’s right to choose in America and worldwide plus immigration reform without secure borders or patrols or fencing. There’s the promise of providing federal tax benefits and survivor rights for same sex couples. There’s the promise of reforming our health care system, our social security system, our medicare system, Head Start, college aid and supporting our Arab friends in the Middle East, energy credits and a whompingly big tax give-a-way for people who don’t pay any taxes.

    Obama’s gotta meet with the Joint Chiefs and get the military re-oriented to a 21st C politically correct world and maybe re-establish the draft. He’s gotta meet with the tyrants and terrorists in the world and get them to understand there’s a new, more appeasing America gettin’ their back for them. Obama’s gotta do something about those pesky, irritating, land hungry Jews, too.

    Let’s leave the snark for the blogs and radio and pundits. What’s left of the GOP needs to be focused on finding a strong, capable Chair… build talent and a war chest… be rational and sane in loyal opposition. Govern from the middle and woo independent voters while returning to a real platform of smaller govt, lower budgets, less taxes and being more concerned about middle class America, prosperity and freedom and not the fat cats on Wall & Broad.

  8. These past 5 -6 years I have learned a lot from the leftist media and bloggers. I’ve learned a lot from the opposition in Congress. Now it’s our turn to be the snarkey, mean and hateful opposition. Let’s see how grownup and thick skinned MR AND MRS OBAMA are.

  9. Oh and as the Democrats gutt the military, if Obama presides over a terrorist attack, don’t be calling on any Republican leaders and patriots to pull America’s ass out of the fire again.

  11. The following isn’t hateful or snarky, just the facts.

    – Obama believes in socialism: government planning of all banking and health care, “spreading the wealth”, taking the successful person’s earnings and savings by force to pay for the mistakes of the unsuccessful.

    – Despite his lack of overt patriotism and his stated determination to reduce American influence abroad, Obama is a nationalist: he has advocated for more power for the central government, compulsory national service, a “Fairness Doctrine” to shut down the few parts of the media to remain independent of him, etc.

    Now put them together, kids. Know what it spells? NATIONAL SOCIALISM.

    Hitler’s great mistake, from the point of a view of a leftie, would have been his stupidity in basing his National Socialism on racial doctrines. We are about to find out what non-racial National Socialism looks like and if it can last longer.

  13. I was pretty disappointed that half of the interviews were about Obama being black and the 1st black president. Being someone who didn’t vote for race, but who I thought was best for the USA, I got really sad. I realized America hasn’t transcended race, for it would mean it would not be mentioned because it was in the norm and not an issue (Leah had a wonderful quote on a previous blog about the same subject, even though it was about being gay). I didn’t hear much about how much they were looking forward to the changes possible or a new direction. It was “1st black president”. I sure hope the democrats realize other countries don’t care and that they just need to be leaders now.

    I do know racism exists – not my point. But this is the President of the United States! Please keep your focus, people.

  15. Yes, I know, I said I’d never return to this website. After being attacked personally in numerous comments, I contacted the system operator of this forum and what did he do? He wiped clean a number of comments I’d offered, none of which contained any of the hateful opinions and attacks others had laid into me.

    Now I see this site shrinking, containing just a few comments in most threads. It seems those shrieking loudest in this site have turned off so many others, that it’s just the same eight or ten commenters posting their shrill partisan opinions. The system operator failed to uphold his own rules and thus turned off the moderates and liberals and now this site is smaller than ever.

    For all you crying in your cereal this morning, get used to it. You’re in the minority for the next decade. Obama’s mandate will be tough for you to stomach.

    So, for Peter H….once again, your prognostications were incredibly off-base. It’s unfortunate that people like you don’t have the good sense to see what’s actually happening in the world; rather, you sit around looking through red glasses deluded with what’s happening outside. Have fun over the next decade; I hope you have some sense of humor…you’re going to need it.

  17. The FAR LEFT will “turn on” Obama as soon as he doesn’t tow their agenda line. He will of course bend over to their will….and NOT in a good way!

    You can already hear knocking at the back door of the white house from Bill Ayers and company.

    We must all become Watch Dogs! Last night Obama promised change and bi-partisanship.

    We shall be watching.

    jebntex

  19. Yes, I know, I said I’d never return to this website

    No one cares that you did. I totally stopped reading, after reading that one line (and then checking your author handle).

  21. #20: Unfortunately, if there is another attack, “what it will it do to the Obama Presidency” is all that his administration will concern itself with. Remember, this is the guy that attributed the actions of the 9/11 attackers to “a lack of compassion” that festered because the poor little darlings were raised in “poverty and desperation.” Obama won’t give a fu*k about additional Americans losing their lives–his policy positions show he isn’t interested in defending this country now, much less if he has a war-is-never-the-answer approach to our enemies and attackers.

  22. #15: “Now I see this site shrinking, containing just a few comments in most threads.”

    Wrong, jacka*s. GP and GPW are simply addressing topics with posts more rapidly than usual. You see, there was a national election yesterday. Also, an initiative passed requiring commenters on political blogs who use lower-case names to identify themselves to be shot into deep space. They’re testing the program to see if it will work for disposing of other useless garbage. Now, beat it. You’ve got a date with a cannon.

  23. With Obama in office and the Dems the majority in Congress, DADT should be gone within a year. Otherwise we know the Dems are just a bunch of liars.

    (I am not the Dave who commented above.)

  25. GP, well played; in the very first comment, you got Kevin to admit that his heroes Harry Reid and Keith Olbermann are partisan and nasty.

    Not that Kevin cares. He’s still under the delusion that the Messiah is going to pay his mortgage and fill his gas tank, just like the Messiah promised.

  26. What a classy way to greet a new president! Seriously, using Keith Olberaman to excuse your actions speaks a great deal about your lack of belief in personal responsibility and integrity. Because someone else acts one way should not give you license to act equally as bad. But what should one expect? You’ve spoken about the terrible vitriol of the gay left but are more than willing to be even nastier in your rhetoric.

    You’ve lost all rights to any claim on any kind of moral high ground.

  28. So many of the comments here are about vengeance. Because you think Bush received poor treatment, you think it’s okay to treat Obama badly.

    Didn’t Bill and Hillary Clinton experience 20 years of disrespect from the Right? What about the Arkansas Project? What about Vince Foster?

    But the real question is whether or not you believe that you are individuals with individual control over your actions. What responsibility do you take for your own words? Do you continue the cycle?

    Some of you are Christians? If you believe that your side was wronged, as Christians, does it make sense for you to act in the same way you claim that your enemies mistreated you?

    Dismiss religion. Look at America. African-Americans and Native Americans were treated horribly for generations. Slavery. Genocide. But don’t you as conservatives tell them that they should let go of past wrong doings and concentrate on today?

    As for ending DADT in the first 100 Days, that would be nice but so what if it doesn’t happen? That’s an artificial marker you put in place. Given the hatred shown by the Republican base to win bans on gay marriage, might Obama think it best to hold off on major gay civil rights legislation until later in the year so as not to give the Republican bigots a weapon to use against him?

    I guess the question I have for you is what makes you better than your enemies? Do you forgive and try to act better or do you continue the cycle of hate?

    The Serbs and Croats have managed to hate each other for hundreds of years. Is that the cycle you want plan to follow? It seems so.

    P.S.

    Yesterday, Barack Obama became the first president-elect to recognize gay Americans in his acceptance speech. Would John McCain have done so?

  29. #15: Some of us just don’t make comments too often. That doesn’t mean we aren’t here, reading the posts. Yesterday doesn’t change how I feel about personal responsibility, more limited government and freer markets. And I wouldn’t speak too soon about a second term. (“You’re in the minority for the next decade.”) Things can go south quickly. Just ask Jimmy Carter.

  30. NDT — High-larious.

    You see folks, “national unity” for Democrats is only applicable when they win. Otherwise, *we* are “meanspirited.”

    They attack innocent girls, babies and women — and they are the Party of Tolerance. We raise questions about Obama and *we* are racists.

    Obama will not be different. Same old, same old. I’m just glad I figured it out early on.

  31. “The FAR LEFT will “turn on” Obama as soon as he doesn’t tow their agenda line.”

    The far left abandoned him as soon as he started changing his rhetoric about Iraq and advocating more troops in other countries. I don’t doubt that they voted for him anyway but it would have been only to keep McCain/Palin from winning. It really is only the right that keeps calling him “The One”, “The Messiah” and other terms based mostly on their misunderstanding and hallucinations about those of us who support him.

  33. RE: “Now I see this site shrinking, containing just a few comments in most threads. It seems those shrieking loudest in this site have turned off so many others, that it’s just the same eight or ten commenters posting their shrill partisan opinions. The system operator failed to uphold his own rules and thus turned off the moderates and liberals and now this site is smaller than ever.”

    I just want to acknowledge that the site will not be shrinking any longer. I contacted Mr. Blatt to thank him for his article which appeared in The Washington Blade in September 2008. Thankfully I searched his name on Google and found this awesome site. I chimed in for the first time last night and made an online donation. I highly encourage others to do the same. I am greatly encouraged to be amongst some like-minded people. Thank you Mr. Blatt and Mr. Carroll for all of your hard work.

    Sincerely,

    Steve Grimsley
    Steve the Fireman

  34. You’ve spoken about the terrible vitriol of the gay left but are more than willing to be even nastier in your rhetoric.

    I dont recall anyone comparing Obama to Hitler or writing books, plays or making movies about his assasination, or coming anywhere near a fraction of the vitriol the gay left has spewed for 8 years.

    Because you think Bush received poor treatment, you think it’s okay to treat Obama badly.

    Its called precedent Blake. You made your bed, now lie in it.

  35. Seriously, using Keith Olberaman to excuse your actions speaks a great deal about your lack of belief in personal responsibility and integrity.

    I notice you didnt mention how he also referred to the Democrat Majority Leader, Harry Reid. When actually, he could have named ANY of the leaders of your party.

    What a classy way to greet a new president!

    Glad to see you admit how utterly devoid of class your party is.

  36. Yesterday, Barack Obama became the first president-elect to recognize gay Americans in his acceptance speech. Would John McCain have done so?

    No Blake, he wouldn’t have. Yes, he has openly gay staff members and yes he has publicly supported friends and colleagues who have come out as gay and yes, we have heard from his gay friends that coming out to him did not change their relationships one iota, but, since he treats people as people, not on the basis of their sexuality, I seriously doubt that he would have used his speech to point out a difference that doesn’t matter to him.

  37. “a difference that doesn’t matter to him.”

    Until you want to get married, or join the Armed Forces or adopt a child, then it matters very much

    #34 Precedent? Carter – shredded by the right, then and now. Clinton – shredded by the right, then and now. Hillary, shredded by the right, then and now. I could go on and on… The Republican party that exists in your hallucinations is NOT the one that exists in reality. Vitriol has gone both ways, both side are guilty and all your denial will not change that.

  38. Reagan, shredded by the left, then and now, Ford, shredded by the left, then and even in his death, Nixon shredded by the left, then and now. And I could go on.

    Carter was shredded because he gave us double digit unemployment, double digit inflation, and double digit interest rates. He gave us the Mullahs in Iran, the expansion of the Soviet Union, and a hostage crisis that lasted well over a year. And I could go on.

    But NEVER did anyone on the right call for his assasination, call him Hitler, a Nazi, or any of the bile the left has heaped on President Bush. Even a Democrat admitted as much in an Op Ed in the WSJ today.

    Hillary and her husband are among the most corrupt politicians in US history, her husbands presidency riddled by scandal from corrupt land dealings that landed over a dozen people in jail including a sitting Governor. Hillary fired the entire nonpartisan WH travel office to hire her cronies, she was found with both FBI files and Rose Hill law firm records in her possession illegally, she has been convicted on numeroud accounts of illegal campaign shennanigans and I could go on and on…

    But never has anyone called for her assassination, burned her in effigy, compared her to Hitler or any of the bile leftists regurgitate on a daily basis, accused her of trying to pass her daughters children off as her own, and I could go on and on.

    Vitriol does NOT go both ways anywhere even close to evenly. The DEMOCRAT party of YOUR hallucinations is nowhere near close to the one that exists in reality, and nowhere near close to as responsible and grown up as the Republican party.

    Both sides are not guilty anywhere even close to the same degree and no amount of your denial will change that.

  42. There’s the promise of repealing DOMA, DADT for gays

    One would think that if he actually gave a damn about it, he would have lifted a finger to craft legislation a long time ago. Guess it’s not as rewarding as Rosa Parks postage stamps.

    Look at America. African-Americans and Native Americans were treated horribly for generations. Slavery. Genocide.

    And who was responsible for that? Oh yeah. The party of slavery, the Klan, segregation, Jim Crowe etc.

    Yesterday, Barack Obama became the first president-elect to recognize gay Americans in his acceptance speech.

    I get it. You’re “thing” is to have smoke blown up your ass. TMI. Comrade Obama will be seen with gays or be interviewed by the gay media any time now, right? Any minute now….

  43. #34

    I dont recall anyone comparing Obama to Hitler

    Hitler made lousy paintings. Obama wrote lousy poetry. They both wrote books about their obsession with race.

    I pray that those are all the comparisons that will ever need to be made.