Obama to Name Napolitano, Peña, Daley to Transition Team

It's a shame that Republicans are so biased and filled with hate that not one commenter here from the right wing appreciated or noticed Obama's pick of Napolitano. Fact - polling shows that more Arizonans would have selected Napolitano for President than would support McCain as President. Hmmm...

Obama is trying to reach across the party lines to unite our country, and all you right wingers can do is complain about Obama without any substantiated or viable reason.

I am an ACTUAL conservative (smaller government and no wasteful government spending) and Christian, and I am SICKENED by what the Republican Party represents now. I am a white conservative, and I voted for Obama based on his experience, his policies, his philosophy, his character, and his ability unite as seen throughout his campaign. The GOP needs to clean up its act and end the smear and fear politics that utilise lies in order to push forward a platform of policies that benefit only the wealthy and those who care nothing about our county's future, and use the ignorant masses to vote against their own interests.

I am a patriot and conservative, and I am glad to see the US elect someone who will help heal the wounds inflicted upon America by the divisive and unpatriotic tactics of the current GOP. God Bless America and God Bless our newly elected leader, President Barack Obama.

NY Times: Cheney & Bush rev up their Wrecking Balls
nytimes — Cheney, Bush and the White House cabal are busy issuing regulations which favor their friends, at a pace unheard of in history. You can bet their shredding machines are running full blast, and that computer files are being erased or modified at a record pace. INVESTIGATE. PROSECUTE. CONVICT. IMPRISON.

Voltear - NOW you want everyone to ignore the fact that he's black? That was the entire premise for his candidacy and his win. That WAS the big Change!! Now, it's done and we all have to live with it. He is inexperienced, untested (his courage under fire is limited to weathering verbal attacks on his policy - and he showed a remarkably brittle jaw in the face of THAT!!) He has demonstrated extremely poor judgemnt in his past associations and work efforts, as well as a latent dislike for AllThingsAmerican. Not a good bet for a President. We're stuck with the guy who sold the country on Black Is Change; you cannot take it back now.

pefros, try to get the point of the analogy, not the specifics.

A hopeful American and Obama Supporter, Josephine, writes:

"The majority of Obama's funds were given by ordinary people giving $25, like I did. So that is DEMOCRACY people, that is how it works."

Maybe. Or Maybe not.

According to what the Obama Campaign told the Washington Post, ( one of the Main Stream Media Newspapers who backed Obama openly) the following is true:

1. Contributions under $200 were not reported to the Federal Election Commission as to who they came from. Unlike other campaigns, the Obama campaign did the minimum reporting allowed by law – and names, addresses, employers, etc. on any transaction less then $200 are not required by law.

2. The vast majority of the Hundreds of Millions of Dollars collected by OBAMA campaign came in over the Internet. This includes both large numbers of transaction over $200 dollars and those under $200 dollars which came in over the Internet.

3. The Obama Campaign said they did not record who's credit card, checking account, check card, debit card or gift card any transaction ( large or small ) that came in over the internet was charged against. The Campaign said they did not believe that such information was even collectible over the internet. Other past democratic campaigns told the Washington Post this last claim by the Obama campaign was not correct - such information was available as part of an internet donation.

4. The Obama campaign indicated to the Washington Post they relied only on the information the individual keyed in on the Internet as to the Name of the Donor, Address, Donor's employer, etc.

5. The Obama campaign never attempted to see if the name & address keyed in matched the name & address on the credit card / bank account / check card / debit card / gift card used to make the transmission. The Campaign instead indicated they did not even attempt to capture the name on the credit card / bank account etc.

The Bottom line here is that neither Josephine, nor the Federal Election Commission, nor - according to the Obama Campaign - does the Obama Campaign really know where that money came from because they did not even attempt to collect any objective information about the source of the money.

Only what some unknown person, in some unknown country, keyed in - or had a computer generate and submit - on the other end of an internet transaction.

Could the Obama Campaign have collected this information - of course - internet businesses collect credit card names and billing addresses all the time.
The Obama Campaign however claims they did NOT and that it was not their goal to do so.

I also am hopeful - but I also do not know who financed the Obama campaign and I do not attempt to deceive myself into thinking I do.

A Supporter of former candidate Obama moves into campaign attack mode and spouts facts that are intended to confuse everyone:

"if the name and address supplied with a credit, debit, checking account number etc. does not match the bank will refuse the authorization"

The Washington Post Newspaper, The Obama Campaign, and I all agree with that fact.

But it is totally irrelevant to what the Obama Campaign told the Washington Post they did. With the name and address information associated with the credit card.

The Obama Campaign claimed to the Washington Post that a separate name and address was keyed in as the name and address of the Donner and they did not even attempt to collect the name keyed in to the bank or check if they were the same.

So we are all in agreement on that.

You also wrote "if even Obama doesn't really know where the money came from".

Again we agree, "if" is the question here. I will leave it to the educated thinker to answer the question what are the reasons you would design a system where you could deny knowing your donners were violating Federal Election Law.

By the way Federal Election Law makes it a felony for very rich people to give more than a very small amount ( small to them ) to a US politician.

Federal Election Law also makes it a felony for non-US Citizens to give any money to a US politician.

My point here is that we do not know, and may never know, where the vast majority of the money came from because of the system the Obama Campaign created to track the source of the money.

I will not pretend that I do, or the Federal Election Commission does, or you do.

Contrary to the intent of Federal Campaign Finance Law objective information about where money for the Obama campaign came from is not available from the Federal Election Commision. Only the name and address information an anonymous donor on the other end of an internet transaction wanted you to think donated was reported ( in some cases they may even have wanted their own name to be reported).

Hitler? Good grief - you think Obama is going to roll the tanks into Mexico?

Get a grip on reality.

"Only a fool would hope the leader who represents him/her to the world would fail."
Posted by: Reality Check
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Here's an analogy for you:
If you're a German citizen during hitler reign and you don't support him, is that makes you a bad German ? unpatriotic ?

As someone who is biracial I want to thank everyone here who acknowledges that Barack Obama is and was born both Black and White. It is a grave disservice to his mother and grandparents to remove them from his victory and celebration by only recognizing his African heritage. Who he is and the man he's become is because of the influense of his mother and grandparents.

Today is a new day and a new start for America and it's time we stopped forcing multiracial Americans to choose a piece of their heritage instead of embracing all facets of it.

I actually believed McCain's speech last night. It came from the heart. If he would have campaigned the same way the outcome may have been different.

What we all need to do now is get behind Obama no matter what our differences and make this country what it once was. I know we can do this because after 9/11 this country stood as one people.

Both candidates were so gracious last night, then I come here and read all this hate! Please, take a deep breath and give it a rest. Anyone who was not stirred by both candidates pleas for unity need to go back and listen to BOTH speeches. Our country needs to pull together. I did not support Obama, but I honestly hope that he can do a good job of pulling this country out of the ditch. We all need to do what McCain and Obama both asked us to do, support our next President. There is middle ground and I hope we can all find it!

Again, you show great logic. And I can agree with what you say. But McCain has never been in the Oval Office. I am not one to argue over who is right. I just hope that we both have the same goal for our country. Greatness. Lets be American

Some of the comments I've read here are very disturbing, but not surprising. Obama hasn't even been President-elect for 24 hours yet and he's already being bombarded with slurs and hate by the ignorant neanderthals who hope he fails just so they can say "I told you so!". America will heal and succeed in spite of the lunatic rants

The biggest drop ever in the stock market on the day after the election...arrrgh.

Obama stop the drop!

1 bluestocking

That is fine but he is putting is cabinet togther and will have his first meeting tomorrow about our security.

I wish him well but smooth talking doesn't work.

For starters, ask not what Obama can do for America, but what America's journalists can do for Americans. They can stop referring to Obama as a "black" and an "African American" President. George Washington was not called “the first white President.” None of the other Presidents is called a "white" President, although Clinton is sometimes humorously deemed "the first black President." So Obama being described as a "black President" and "the first African American" President reveals a double standard; it is also discriminatory. How on earth is he "black," given his "white" mother? What would his mother have thought about her son being called "black? Does this description not exclude her contribution to her child's identity? Is this not a second implication of racial discrimination? World, wake up and smell logical reasoning! Cease regarding people's anatomy--their type of reproductive organs and their skin colors--as politically significant. Focus, instead, on their intellect and values--their empathetic disposition, critical thinking skills, and commitment to linguistic clarity and logical consistency. This is what Obama is asking Americans to do for Americans.

I agree. McCains speech was one of the classiest speeches I have heard. He really showed he was an American, not just a Republican. I voted for Obama, but I now see that McCain is and will be with Obama every step of the way and America may come together to rise out of the shadow we have been put into

David King

We know what McCain would do as he has a history and he is consistent with that history.

Obama has no history.

I know, from the last two presidential elections, the sinking feeling of worry and disappointment many are feeling today, so I won't belittle that by saying "get over it" or "if you don't like it, just leave" as I heard in 2000 and 2004. John McCain's concession speech was gracious and inspiring, the best I've ever seen him give. I hope his supporters can follow his lead and wish the best to our new commander-in-chief, for the good of our country.

Jane -
You are correct. No one can know until actions are shown, but is that not true of every candidate? Can you tell me how John McCain would of done?