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Loose Ends III -- More on Obamaha

November 07, 2008 8:45 PM

Remember Obamaha?

Well, turns out the electoral contest wasn't all that close after all.

But regardless, the Omaha World Herald is calling Nebraska's 2nd congressional district for Senator...er, President-elect Barack Obama.

"The electoral count now stands: Obama, 365, McCain, 162," the paper says. "Only Missouri’s 11 electoral votes remain up in the air."

- jpt

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Ron Powell - You need to get out of the house more often, change your channel from Fox News once in a while, move the dial on your radio around from Rush, Hannity, & Mark Levin, and stop focusing on the lies they tell on FreeRepublic. Start looking at facts instead of lies and innuendo.

You say Judicial Watch is investigating President-elect Obama. So What??!!! While JW has been an irritant to the last two presidents, they certainly do not have any executive, legislative, or judicial power whatsoever. Their right-wing hackery and conspiracy theories scare no one.

And, if you want to talk about the most corrupt President ever to be elected to office, I suggest you look at the corrupt thug who was reelected to office in 2004! Watch the preemptive pardons and immunity start spilling out of Bush's office around the end of Decemeber in an effort to keep most members of his administration out of jail!

Oh, and get a life!

Posted by: ddc2008 | Nov 9, 2008 7:52:39 AM

Obama is probably the most corrupt person to be elected president. Why did he refuse to release the names of his donors? McCain had no trouble doing so. I'm not a Republican, I'm an American who is troubled by the election of an anti-America corrupt bigot with his clone wife, a liar who is a product of the Chicago political machine, well known for its lack of ethics. Now if anyone says anything negative about him it will be because they're a racist. That's the game the Demos have played forever. obama has already appointed some of Bill Clinton's corrupt cronies to key posts. A chill ran down my spine when he was elected. I'm an independent (ex-democrat) by the way. I didn't like Bush nor McCain but this is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Obama is still under investigation by Judicial Watch. His past associations are an indication of his character...crooks, commies, and con-men (and a terrorist) to name a few. Good luck America.

Posted by: Ron Powell | Nov 9, 2008 6:41:45 AM

The media, Obama supporters and anti-Americans are to blame for allowing Obama to buy this election with money from terrorists, and handing him in a silver platter our great nation. Obama is the first Arab-American President, NOT Black or African-American President. Let's see where the first attack comes from? I'm pretty sure the Obama supporters will continue to celebrate and gloat.

Obama's "money" could not buy enough NO votes on proposition 8 in California. The ban on same-sex marriage was defeated in California, Arizona, and Florida! All is not lost. I rather lose an election than lose my soul!

Posted by: Annonymous | Nov 8, 2008 3:57:45 PM

Funny how Republicans were calling Bush's 2 barely won elections "mandates". He barely won the electoral college AND the popular vote both times.

Obama blows McCain out by 192 EVs, 7.7 million popular votes, flips 9 red states blue (even one EV in Nebraska) and some of you STILL can't call this a mandate??? LOL!!! So when the black guy wins the standards get changed again, huh? It's only a mandate win a white Republican wins by the skin of his teeth?

Posted by: Rob | Nov 8, 2008 1:32:20 PM

It's like the final nail in the Coffin...
Obamaha??? Who'd a thunk????
As for Obama's Dad's 1/2 Brother's wife??? I'm sad for them both. Any decent person in this Country would do everything they could for family. Yes laws need to be followed. What decent person among US has not been taught that family comes first??? Obama now finds himself in a no win situation. If it were me I'd try to find a back door to help without letting anyone know what I did...

Posted by: Chapman | Nov 8, 2008 10:56:42 AM

The GOP may whine, because I guess they think that is their job.
but after the train wreck of a gift they gave us the last eight years.

president obama, with the help of the rest of the country, who realized how wrong things were. and we want to make them right. we will help president obama do a good job. and put this country back on the correct path again.
the Gop may complain because they think that is the role they should play.
but they will benefit also.

Posted by: one planet, one people, please | Nov 8, 2008 10:05:23 AM

It's going to be so nice to watch the GOP losers whining for the next eight years. Payback time losers, enjoy it...

Posted by: Peter Jackson | Nov 8, 2008 9:48:03 AM

We won. It feels so odd to say something I have avoided for sooo long.
We won and by doing so my country is the winner even those who have been made afraid by the GOP.

Posted by: Grissom | Nov 8, 2008 9:41:00 AM

Hard to beleive that 56 million idiots wanted to keep things the way they've been for the last eight years. Sarah was the perfect know-nothing candidate for the moron "value" voters.

Posted by: Bob | Nov 8, 2008 9:00:09 AM

It do not care. He won; that is it.

What I am looking for now is a signal that the far left and right can both jump ship, so he can go about the business of leading from the Center Right and left. Compromise is what has been missing from politics.; enough of the crap that was ushered in with Nixon.

Ideologues look at the Middle East I have had enough of you people attacking my government, and political system. Both camps frighten me.

Posted by: Thinking | Nov 8, 2008 8:52:09 AM

What a joke, Obama does not belong in the White House.

Posted by: ml | Nov 8, 2008 8:09:16 AM

POTUS-ELECT OBAMA will let the proper agencies deal with his aunt, right down to packing her a lunch

Posted by: one planet, one people, please | Nov 8, 2008 7:20:50 AM

will the Almighty Obama do the right thing and make sure his aunt that he did not know about gets thrown out of the country with a bag lunch.

Posted by: Ron | Nov 8, 2008 6:55:30 AM

I love hearing all these GOP sour grapes. Boo hoo, wingnuts. You can whine about ACORN and liberals all you want for the next 4 years. But I've looked at your bullpen for 2012 and I'm not losing a minutes' worth of sleep at night.

Posted by: rbyanes | Nov 8, 2008 5:56:07 AM

The only that concerns me about the elections results is that there were so many idiots who voted for the repackaged John McCain (or maybe I never understood what the "old" McCain wanted). Face it he had poor choices for a VP and he picked an idiot who's one virtue is that she chose not to abort a pregnancy.

Posted by: Mr. Coffee | Nov 8, 2008 5:35:11 AM

The democrats (Obama) bought the presidency, so much for getting money out of Politics. I have the feeling we will be paying for this for along time. We already have more government than we can afford. A fiscal crises thanks to the democrats, forcing a trillion plus in Bail Out that so far has done nothing. This President Elect and Congress will be a rolling DISASTER mostly because they won't be able to control themselves or their spending. The Iraq War will be cheap in comparison and all that just to buy votes.

Posted by: Philip V. | Nov 8, 2008 4:02:17 AM

without an EC all the rural areas of this country would be without any stake in the national offices of our gov.

Posted by: No EC are you kidding?? | Nov 8, 2008 2:24:34 AM

Somehow it's more inspiring with McCain's and Palin's loss than with Obama's lopsided and heavily bought win.

Posted by: young_voter | Nov 8, 2008 2:15:04 AM

I'd imagine a heavy ACORN presence in the district...

Posted by: Concerned in OH | Nov 8, 2008 1:33:31 AM

The popular vote went for Obama, the electoral vote went for Obama. He Won. The electoral vote is outdated and should be done away with. The people have spoken, so get over it and support democracy that we live in. Neither side will ever win because our system is set up to get rid of the elected who we do not agree with. And the shape this country is in now, Al Capone could have beat McCain. We have a new President, to be, and hopefully he can help motivate this nation because if he does not we are doomed by greed.

Posted by: Mike in Ky | Nov 8, 2008 1:11:41 AM

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