Thoughts on Obama Shared With Charlie Rose Last Night

Congratulations Jake!

Congratulations, Jake.

If truth be told, you are the only correspondent that I can tolerate these days. Yeah, there were days that it seemed like you had a few too many sips of the Obama Kool-Aid but for the most part, you kept a pretty even head. If you had any tingles running up your leg you hid them well. :)

Maybe with your new position, you can encourage other correspondents to get back to the basics of journalism which means covering the news, not making or interpreting the news.

Good luck!

George Will notes that GOP carnage in the past two years has produced losses so steep for the Republicans that you have to go back to the Depression to match them, and the reason the house of cards fell so quickly was because, as Henke noted, the rot was so deep. This is not a cosmetic problem for the GOP. This is systemic.

That is what is so damned entertaining about the short-term circular firing squad- it really symbolizes how deep in denial some of these folks are. These guys are delusional if they think the problem was an insufficient number of Red State mugs on the Palin plane and inadequate fealty to the cause. The problem is not inadequate adherence to unnamed “principles,” the problem is that they simply have no principles. They have slogans. Nothing symbolizes the slogan driven tactics over strategy GOP quagmire quite like one of my favorite episodes from the last election- the tire pressure gauge imbroglio.

There was nothing that really summed up the idiocy of the GOP quite like Rick Davis and company passing out tire pressure gauges in an attempt to mock a common sense approach to dealing with one of many aspects of the energy crisis. I am sure it will surprise no one that the brain trust at Red State was issuing action alerts for this, too.

In short, America got seduced by the Republican sweet talk, we took them home into our bedroom for some good times, and instead of performance, it turns out the Republicans have a serious case of electile dysfunction. Rather than hold true to their “principles,” they chose to sit on the edge of the bed for eight years and tell us how good it was going to be, and we lost interest and fell asleep.

When we woke up, we realized that in one way, the GOP had kept their word, in a sense- we did get screwed. And we then had our own payback on Tuesday:

"One of the things that's been remarkable to watch with Senator Obama, with President-elect Obama, as I made this journey with him, and other journalists made the journey with him, from February 2007, his announcement in Springfield, Illinois to last night in Grant Park, is to watch how he has grown into the job...."

Jesus, Jake, get a room!

Looking good, sounding great! I have become a big fan!

Blues, it was BECAUSE of 9/11 that President Bush changed our policy from being reactive to one of being proactive. Thus the decision to push the UN Security Council to issue a final ultimatum to Iraq attempting to convince Saddam Hussein that it was in his best interest to comply with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire. When Saddam Hussein again refused to comply, and after the UN Security Council made it known that they had no intention of following through on the threat, President Bush terminated the cease fire.

jake, you look soooooooooo gooooooood!!!!

:-)

I hope you will not forget to ask tough questions from Obama. I think it's time to stop baby sitting Obama, he now needs to show us that he deserves that 52% vote!

I hope you will show Chris Mattiews, what a real journalist looks like

Please folks, quit touting McCain as a military or foreign affairs expert, did anyone listen to what he said in the debates and on TV. McCain started promoting the invasion of Iraq only 2 months after 9/11.

Hey, now that Obama won, I would be happy if he listened to McCain on military issues alone. The surge worked, Obama knows it (but couldn't admit it - tactics)...maybe he will look to McCain, the real champion of the Iraq war.

Jake, thanks for sharing and you did a TERRIFIC job, but Charlie Rose is a wonderfully beautiful person and such a brilliant man!

Congratulations, Jake!

Gov. Palin is now being used as a scapegoat, when in fact it was Gov. Palin who energized the Republican base; and the base remained energized right up to the very end. Within the Republican Party it was mostly moderate and liberal Republicans who had a problem with her because they felt she was too far to the right (the inexperience claim was really bogus since she had more executive experience than Sen. Obama). YET the base of the GOP is Right. And she was "Right" on all of the issues. You Obama supporters don't understand that Mitt Romney did not have the support of the Republican base--if you recall he didn't do that well in the primaries. In fact, much of the GOP base stayed home during the primaries due to the disappointment with the choices.
NOTE: Had Gov. Palin been in the mix during the primaries, she might have actually won the GOP's nomination.

The McCain/Palin ticket did AS WELL AS any Republican ticket COULD HAVE DONE with McCain on the top of the ticket.

Sen. Obama won the election because of: (1) His charisma and charm; (2) His great ground game--a testament to the skills that he learned as a community organizer; (3) The historical significance of his running; (4) The mainstream media bias--we learned more about Gov. Palin in 2 months than we learned about Sen. Obama in 20 months on the campaign trail); (5) The economy; (6) The anti-war sentiment of the electorate; and (7) The low approval rating of President Bush--and the Obama Campaign, Democrats and the mainstream media's success in portraying Sen. McCain's run as synonymous with a Bush third term.

Anti-Obama people have been saying that Obama supporters thinks Obama is the Messiah. (I have yet to hear a democrat say that.) But you guys must think he is if you think that he can change the finacial crisis just by being elected. Come on guys, it's over. McCain is a great man, a real hero and this nation will always love him for that. Can we move on?

Thank you for sharing the video with us. I enjoyed it.

Barack Obama, the president elect is smart, capable and inspirational. He is the better candidate for the job.

Keepyourheelsdown,

I wasn't going to comment on your comment but then decided you might perhaps benefit from my comment even in your every day life. it goes as follows?
I don't think teddym should give up that notion at all. When somebody makes a decision and when you consequently weigh the quality of their decision, you wouldn't/shouldn't only be concerned with the short term consequence of that decision but should really be agonizing over the long term effects as well.

Sure, Gov Palin might have helped with Sen McCain's poll #s soon after the convention but that was only because she was barely known. That might have been a great approach had the election been held a week after the convention. But it wasn't and there was ample time to get to know the non-convention Palin. Even without the whole hindsight is 20/20 thing, McCain should have thought of it enough to determine if Palin would stand the test of time, which she didn't (with or without the economic crisis). I personally don't think that McCain would have really missed that conclusion had he spent more time with her. And that, I believe, is what teddymaniac is saying when he talks about the Palin Effect.

congratulations Jake

If you need to decompress and still have a little sense of humor left, the Onion strikes again.

Keepyourheelsdown - I suppose you stopped looking at Palin's ratings after mid-October.

teddymaniac,
Please dont give us this silly notion that Palin did anything other than help McCain. After picking her, he went UP in the ratings, not down.