The streets of denver are wild tonight.  People cheering, horns honking.

That rush of uplifting hope you felt at 9pm pst tonight?  That was the collective cheer of hope that rushed through the country when hearing the news.

Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States of America.

You didnt feel it?  Thats ok. You can watch if you want.

Or you can be a part of the solution.  Its up to you.

Obama will win the election with a larger margin of electoral and popular vote than George Bush ever did.  Does he have a mandate?

I dont think so. I think he will win by 6 or 7 percent after all the vote is counted, but when you talk about mandate, the electoral college is irrelevant.

Obama talks a very good centrist game.  I think hes going to have to govern from closer to the middle.

Is this the end of the culture war?  Is this the end of the republican party as we have known it?  Seriously, think about it:

John McCain was never a hard core righty until 2001 or so.  He knew he had to start sucking up to the right wing scum that Atwater and Rove had so heavily courted.

Today, they realized they created a monster.  We have heard about all the finger pointing, but frankly I think McCain lost it when he picked Palin.  I am sick and tired of listening to Pat Buchanan talking about the 10 point bump in the polls, then the economy hit blah blah blah.  She would have still been interviewed by Gibson and Couric.  They did not vet this woman.  She did not do her homework after she was picked.  She was an absolute disaster for the ticket.

I have never experienced anything like this.  The cheering in the streets of Denver, the happiness in the air and the general feeling of relief.

The end draws nigh.  Not the end of the world.  The relief that the end of having extremist right wing division rammed down our throats.  The relief that a common sense administration and congress was on the way.

Yes people.  It was a mandate.  Not a huge mandate.  not a 500 to 38 mandate.

But it was way bigger than either Bush win and you all know it.  When you go to bed at night and stare at the ceiling, you know that this was a resounding referendum on the last 8 years.   There is even a possibility that the democrats will achieve a filibuster proof majority.  If not now, for sure in 2010.

In retrospect, I laugh at myself for panicking.  For even thinking that after the last 8 years that our country would elect John McCain and that preliterate moron, Sarah Palin.

But I did.

And no.  We are not a center right country.  More on that later.

I was going to entertain myself with another vitriolic invective filled with generalizations and thought changing rhetoric but after a week or so since my last entry, it seems that the people most deserving of it have done my work for me.

Certainly, many of these fabulous citizens of the United States of America deserve special coverage.  For your own entertainment and my editorializing here are what I think to be some of the top stories in the last week.

1.  Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R) 6th District in Minnesota.

If memory serves me, it is considered proper etiquette to refer to a congressman in the third person as “The Honorable” as in “The Honorable Michele Bachmann”.  I think if you watch the now famous Chris Matthews interview with her, honorable will not be a word you would use.  I urge you all to watch this outstanding interview:

Not to detract from the absolute hilarity of watching this doe eyed botox queen jackass lean into a punch with her chin, it is fair to say this woman is a moron.  People who vote for people like this are morons.  Michele Bachmann was listed in Esquire Magazine this month as one of the worst congresspeople in office.  This is a woman who had Disneys Aladdin banned from a public library viewing because some people might see its usage of witchcraft as inappropriate.  I personally dont like watching people cry, but if she loses her contest, I will thoroughly enjoy watching her cry at her concession speech.  Her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, has received 1.3 million dollars in donations since the interview and the RNC has pulled all of its own ads supporting her from the state.  It may be too little too late, but I have faith in a reconvergence of sanity in our country.  The race is now officially considered a toss-up.

Since we brought up Michele Bachmann, we certainly must bring up this years round of Republican fear mongering, we can mention the McCains robocalling campaign and this weeks deployment of smearfest v3.8.  According to this weeks robocalls, we have Mayor 9/11 Rudy Giuliani telling us:

Obama will be soft on criminals, doesnt support federal sentencing guidelines for sex offenders, drug dealers and violent offenders.

FACT:  Barack Obama does, in fact, support federal guidelines for sentencing. Dont trust me, check his website

Obamas Plan to lower taxes on the middle class and “spread the wealth around” amounts to socialism

FACT:  Obama will return the tax rates to the Clinton era tax rates. The mere notion that we have a progressive tax system is DESIGNED to “redistribute wealth”.  This has been the system since woodrow wilson implemented the income tax.  For those who are home schooled, Woodrow Wilson was president during World War I.

FACT:  John McCain voted AGAINST George Bush’s tax cuts back in 2001.  I say again:

JOHN MCCAIN VOTED AGAINST THE BUSH TAX CUT THAT HE IS FIGHTING TO SAVE TODAY.

Syllogism would heretofore conclude that  John McCain a socialist.  Republican logic, however, is a special breed of logic.  Home schoolers might understand the term “opposite day” better…or the ever ready “I am rubber you are glue” defense.

FACT:  (uh oh.another fact for the same argument) 98% of small businesses earn less than 250,000.00 per year.  Therefore they would be NOT ONE EXTRA DIME.

2. Colin Powells endorsement.

Remember Colin Powell fuckers?  He was your darling back in 2001.  In 2002 he was conned into walking into the U.N. with Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz’s fable about Saddams Weapons of Mass Destruction.  Remember that, you fuckers?  Yes…since that day, Powells career took a nosedive and our President, backed by 50 million mouth breathing morons in 2004, have sent 4000 american men and women to die in that middle eastern shithole in a ham fisted plan engineered by chickenhawk Donald Rumsfeld.

Mission Accomplished.

Sunday Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama.  He said nothing that a majority of Americans haven’t been saying.

3. Sarah Palin the clothes horse
I understand that its expensive to be a woman. I believe this to be another method of social engineering.
Is there some reason, however, that she needs 150k worth of clothes for 8 weeks? Furthermore, I contend that spinning your “joe the plumber” fables at rallies in Louboutins and Dior is somewhat of a dichotomy.
“Oh come on, John, you are making a mountain out of a molehill”
I merely bring this up as yet another indication of GOP double standards. How does it look to be greeting the right wing base in their clothes from Target and Monkey Ward in 4,000.00 worth of duds?
Furthermore, how do you justify that IN YOUR HEAD? Is it safe to assume that she doesnt think about it?
I think that Sarah Palins expenditure (20grand!) in airfares for her kids to attend state events they werent invited to speaks volumes about the clothing issue.
No. She doesnt think about it. God has seen fit to do this for her.
Have fun at your depositions this week, honey.
I have read numerous articles (some slanted, some not) regarding Obamas seeming inability to “close the deal” on this race. Quite frankly I am still apprehensive myself. While California is a blue state lock for Obama, we will still be voting.
However what I find more telling is how stupid people still are, especially after the last 8 years, regardless of the current economic nightmare. Here is a story you will love – watch Palin supporters during the VP debate:

Nice

Look how people laugh when Joe Biden chokes up a little bit. Just after, notice Palins complete inability to even momentarily empathize. Mother of the year.
A woman in Ohio was recently quoted as she planned to vote McCain because she is of the understanding that Obama “…thinks people like us are trash…”.
Of course Obama never said that. In the helping field, this statement would be called a “transference”. A transference is what people do when they feel a certain way about themselves but prefer not to acknowledge it. Instead they “transfer” this feeling to someone else, in this case, to Michelle and Barack Obama.
There is a new NBC interview of McCain and Palin that will be released fully in the next 2 days. I look forward into leaning into that one.
Todays definition of the day:
Socialism: Paraphrasing – this is where the government owns everything. Look it up in a dictionary.
We are fighting for our very lives. Be vigilant. Have hope.

John Lyle

I got some hatemail this morning from my facebook page.  James B, a nurse from San Diego, decided to troll the facebook group “Sarah Palin doesnt know shit about fuck”.  I display his first email to me as such:

I removed his last name to protect him from his own stupidity and highlighted the time he posted.  Also note that I am

1.  A Crazy Liberal

2.  A socialist

Apparently he was really mad.  Or really bored.  Or both.  Maybe the WoW servers are down.  Here is his second email 2 MINUTES LATER.

Apparently I am unemployed, leaching off the wealthy and am a socialist waste of life. Ironically, James is the one who is up at 2:28am trolling a silly facebook group sending hatemail.

I was in fact, in bed.  I will certainly not dignify the statement with how many hours I put into work yesterday.  However I went back to my house that I bought with my hard earned money after a full day and put in some more work from home.

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Here we are witnessing the witless and vitriolic renderings of the uneducated.  Take note of the lack of specifics – empirical evidence is not the hallmark of the neocon wingnut – frothing and barely intelligible despite the availability of spellchecking, “IM Speak” and buzzwords such as “Socialist” and “Liberal” are tossed about with wreckless abandon.  They are masters of “modem courage”.  They would never speak this way to people in real life. Their bookshelves are filled with material written by the “Literati” of the right wing:  Coulter, Kristol, Frumm, Hannity, O’Reilly.  They seek out the hate merchants for their material.  Their television experience consists of Faux News. Anyone who doesnt see the world as they do are “socialists, lazy, liberal, unemployed, unproductive”.They clearly dont read much, as I didnt actually start the group….however as I mentioned earlier, the evidence isnt important to uneducated troglodytes such as James

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For the record, James response was based on the following set of FACTS as I laid them down in the group “Sarah Palin doesnt know fuck about shit”

FACT: McCain didnt pick this stupid brain dead fucknozzle. Tim LaHaye and James dobson (Those champions of constitutional law and compassion) did.

FACT: Her “Stunt Value” wore off after the Charlie Gibson interview

FACT: The Levi/Bristol Palin wedding is NOT a shotgun wedding – its more likely a 7mm winnie mag or 30-06 wedding.

FACT: John McCains judgement was gone the moment he announced LaHaye and Dobsons pick for running mate

FACT: She will singlehandedly make the republican party irrelevant for a longer period quicker than George W Bush

Cletus from San Diego has nothing except name calling, as you have seen.

It sounds alot like the McCain campaign, doesnt it?  Ironically, James is a nurse by profession.  Wouldnt you all love to have him caring for you in surgery?  What if he finds out you are a transient or on medicare?

Your parents must be so proud.

Pussy

Yes you. All of you gas sucking, Arab loving SUV Driving Road Hogging Self Important Lemmings:

Call me old fashioned. I learned to drive a volkswagen beetle in Mexico when I was 14. We were spending several weeks in Mexico. I learned to drive on the runway they used in the movie “Catch 22″ where there wasnt anyone else and I couldnt kill anyone except myself.

Can one of you morons explain to me where you learned that it was OK to drive your beast of an automobile in a manner that makes truckers look like a scene from “Driving Miss Daisy”?

Before you take offense at me for calling you morons (just get over it. You know its true AT LEAST every time you put gas in your car), consider todays experience of mine. As I was merging onto the freeway, clearly ahead of the lovely yummy mummy in her X5, I put on my right turn signal (thats right, the onramp lands in the middle of the freeway, so cars actually have to LOOK where they are going).

The turn signal clearly means to her “Speed up so i can keep him from merging.” She is quite successful in her tactic, as I am unable to speed up or slow down to get into the lane I need. My heart began to pound as the drama unfolded. My offramp was a mere 600 feet away, and I had no where to go. Was I going to have to drive an extra mile before exiting the freeway or could I perhaps negotiate with this woman for an extra 12 feet of space for my little PT Cruiser?

Things looked grim for me. I thought for sure I was lost. I started to sweat. I started to swear, thinking about how much the extra 2 miles would cost me in gasoline. I wished for this womas death…how dare she take food from my family’s table!

But I was saved. I was saved by, of all things, the cell phone. In a split second, she looked down and snapped open her cellphone (no doubt the bejewelled Paris Hilton kind). As she became immediately lost in the importance of her conversation, she meandered just enough for me to squeeze in.

Did she relent? Did she finally decide that the extra 12 feet she consumed would not garner her enough of an advantage to wherever she was going that she could be generous to me?

I was relieved when the answer came clearly with the sounding of her horn. She had NOT intended me to win our imaginary powerstruggle over NOTHING. She was angry that I caught her sleeping….behind the wheel of her 4,000 lb BMW Mastodon.

I won her. Neener Neener. Sure, she might have moved over a lane, sped up and flipped me the bird (with her other hand holding the cell phone, not the wheel), but I won her.

She will return home and have the gardener pick the remnants of bigwheels, roadkill, small children and mobile hot dog carts from the fender and grill of her car. She will thrash around in bed, knowing I won her…keeping her from her destination by a whole .3 seconds.

Whats worse….is that she wont do any of that. She will think Im just an asshole and forget about it. She will never learn. She will put 75.00 worth of gas in her tank every 3 days and never think about the men and women dying in a middle eastern shithole while Halliburton and the Oil Companies get rich off of the morons like her.