Post-election thingness

[thebratqueen]

Today has been a nice fall day, with rain and relaxing. My week was insanely busy with post-election squee and a HUGE project that had me staying late on Thursday. So do a whole bunch of nothing today has been nice.

I'm sure by now you've seen Change.gov, which is oh so shiny and reminds me of things like yes, we are going to have a president who

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[alasandalack]

my friend Charlie is one of those people you're wondering about. she says he's not really the president because he was born in Kenya and his grandmother knew it which was why he had her killed, at which point i yelled, "OH FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!" and she subsided (briefly) into hurt silence.

[hohaiyee]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[apocalypsos]

Oh, you mean like this?

[thebratqueen]

Ha!

[elementalv]

At a guess, I think some of them may just be waking up to the fact that they enabled Bush to put much more power into the Executive branch than it ever should have had and are now wondering how they can argue that just because Bush had that much power, it doesn't mean Obama should.

I look forward to the day when Obama mitigates Bush's attacks on the Constitution (and civil liberties, for that matter) and restores a measure of balance. It would be nice if he could set it up so that sort of power grab can't happen again, but I don't think it will be possible.

[hiddenw]

Well, the same folks that declared Bush's 2004 win as a mandate would balk at the idea of calling Obama's win a mandate.

So in short: Hell, no. They will be all about criticizing the President now. Which is fine with me since I never thought criticizing the President was unpatriotic, but they did. I guess there justification for it will be what you suggested - "...they find some way of saying that Obama's not the real president without ever understanding how their reactions relate to ours"

[kaydee23]

On election day or the next day Ann Coulter posted a blog that ended with a suggestion that Conservatives should treat Obama with the same amount of respect that Liberals treated Dubya with. Sean Hannity is calling him "Bam-Bam."

I a lot will act like them. "'They'" didn't respect Bush, so we're not going to respect Obama."

[tinylegacies]

You know what kills me about that though?

In 2000, when Bush STOLE the election, the liberals did respect him. And after 9-11, his approval rating when through the frakking roof.

And then he drove shit into the ground and THAT'S why people don't respect him now.

They aren't even giving Obama a chance.

[jcalanthe]

In 2000, when Bush STOLE the election, the liberals did respect him.

Not the liberals I know... I can't say I've felt a moment of respect for him, aside from very briefly when I first heard about him as someone with a history of drug & alcohol abuse & thought (foolishly) that this might mean he was saner about alcoholism & drug abuse than most politicians.

[bethbethbeth]

Rush Limbaugh is still calling Obama a "thug," so I'm guessing it's going to be a long wait for any respect for our new President.