Thanks for your kind words. There was a time not too long ago when tracking down terrorists was my main job. I sincerely hope that the new president does not “have to change his pants” when the terrorist threat reports are presented to him. We all may disagree with a thousand things proposed by this guy during the campaign, but I will tell you we had better hope that, in this instance especially, he quickly develops nerves of steel. The man will have the lives of all of us in his hands. Forget politics. Those who are religiously inclined should pray that he makes the right decisions at the right time.

What I personally found so sad during the past eight years is that, after the tragedy of 9/11, GW Bush made a whole lot of right decisions on the counterterrorism issue and never seemed to get a lick of gratitude from the opposition — just a pile of crap at every turn. On many other things I was never a big fan of GWB. But, by all that is holy , I and my family and you and your family and everybody else in this great country did NOT become terrorist victims during the rest of his watch. Give credit where credit is due.

If you were a fly on the wall, I suspect you might see the in-coming president, after being fully informed on the war against terrorism, turn to the out-going president and say: “Mr. President, I know we savaged you pretty badly during the campaign but, having seen all this, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping all of us safe.”

Mr. Obama is about to become a part of that exceedingly small fraternity where, as Harry Truman once said, “The buck stops here.” In this case, he will have to do everything he can to ensure that the “buck” does not have American blood on it when it arrives at his desk. Let us all hope he succeeds. Whatever you make think of Bush, in this particular instance he will be a very hard act to follow. This is being told to you by someone who has seen the handiwork of terrorists. It is not something to be taken lightly, no matter where you may stand on our political spectrum.

I would love to be a fly on the wall in the oval office the first week of Obama’s Presidency. My, my, my, is he in for a big surprise. He’s going to have to work, non-stop. He’s going to have Reid, Pelosi and Shuman(sp) yakking and whining in his ear non-stop. No more teleprompters, no more crowds of thousands cheering at his every breath….he’s in for a rude awakening. Oh, and when he gets the daily briefings on terrorists threats against the U.S., he’s going to have to change his pants.

OBAMA SUPPORTERS — You won this round. Be happy for yourselves. Get to work on the political promises made during the campaign. But please stop coming onto conservative-oriented blogs to gloat and call names. It is very unbecoming and ungenerous of you as the victors in a hard-fought contest. Some of you are beginning to remind me of the barbarians who conquered Rome. Instead of being satisfied with that conquest, they sacked the place. Real nice of them. I am sure they were remembered fondly for that. Take a lesson from the generosity of Americans after we defeated the Germans and Japanese in World War II (talk about a bitter fight). We helped them to rebuild and to establish democracies under their own control. We did not crap all over them — with the exception of the most cruel and unforgiveable war criminals.

CONSERVATIVES AND OTHER OBAMA OPPONENTS: We lost. They won. We’ll live to fight another day. Start organizing. Review the good points and the bad points of the battle just concluded and adjust accordingly. Do it in a calm and rational fashion. That is not to say that you should drop your opposition to the plans and policies of the new office holders. Quite the contrary, fight damn hard as the “Loyal Opposition” to stave off those things you sincerely feel may hurt the country. But stop the outrageous name-calling. Get serious and apply yourselves in ways which do not needlessly expend your energy as hate will invariably do. Is what the other side did to Bush for eight years something you really wish to emulate? You’re better than that. Good armies don’t talk alot. They just fight efficiently and effectively and keep their emotions largely in check while doing so.

AFRICAN-AMERICANS: Celebrate. You have made history that will resound through the ages. You might be surprised at how many of us who oppose Obama on political principle also harbor a satisfaction that African-Americans have climbed over a great racial barrier and helped to fulfill finally one of the earliest promises of our democratic system. At least for the moment, cast aside the politics and let the rest of us celebrate with you. You also might be surprised to find that very many of us really don’t give a damn what color Obama is. You should count that as a victory in and of itself. You might find that someone like me — an old white guy — would have jumped at the chance to see Michael Steele or someone like him on the ballot. Sure I support him because of his political views. But I must admit that, in his case, his color did indeed count for me but only in the fact that it would have given me great satisfaction to have been more closely linked to you in the climb over that final barrier. So please stop with the racial backlash. Please stop with the “rascist” and “redneck” slurs. Build on what you have achieved. Obama has a tremendous task in front of him. He will not be helped if he has to contend with an undercurrent of continuing racial antagonism among the people he serves. Like many of you, I grew up in the era of Martin Luther King. Ask yourselves how he would have handled this great victory. Would he have sought to calm the situation or would he have lorded it all over the other side because of past differences? I think you know what the answer is. He was a genuine American hero of the first magnitude, and heroes tend to do the right thing.

LIBERAL WOMEN: What gives with you all? You had a similar chance to crack a great barrier by nominating and electing Hillary. Many of you turned it down. I can’t fault you if you did it because you felt Obama had a better chance of winning. That’s politics. But, then, along comes Sarah Palin. She also represented a chance to begin cracking that barrier. What did many of you do? Instead of responding with grace and with recognition that another one of yours was now so very close to the top, you trashed her with a viciousness seldom seen even in our rough-and-tumble politics. She was called names that I wouldn’t address to a streetwalker. She was totally dissed by many, and you either participated in that feeding frenzy or stood by as the media and liberal males verbally violated her in every way possible. So you didn’t agree with her political ideology. Was it beyond you to simply state that you stood in political opposition to her viewpoint and to calmly and rationally work toward victory for your side. Was it necessary for some of you to call her “stupid” and “brainless” and even, as some have done, “trailer trash”? Why in the world would you stand by and let any woman be scourged by the media and party operatives as she was — her pregnant daughter; the so-called Troopergate thing; one lousy interview with Katie Couric; etc. Did you not notice that the males in the campaign were able to escape a lot of that same stuff? Talk about a double standard! And you bought into it for political gain!

ATHEISTS AND SELF-ANNOINTED RATIONALISTS: Go home! Nobody wants to hear your rantings and ravings about Christian believers. You have become downright Pecksniffian and increasingly insufferable. If you want to follow the atheist or rational path, fine. If you feel it necessary to debate with Christians over the role of religion in our national life, feel free to do so in a calm and reasoned manner. But knock off the sneers and the insults. Knock off the snide remarks about what you believe to be the gullibility of Christians. You show yourselves to be purely a bunch of pot stirrers who appear to take a perverse delight in raising the hackles of others. We’ve got enough problems in our country without you trying to foment religious wars. And, incidentally, in all your ranting, when did you ever attack the beliefs of our Jewish or Islamic brothers? And when did you ever zero in on all those great African-American preachers and congregants who believe in the same Bible as other Christians? No, you have to ding on white, conservative Christians only. Not that I advocate an expansion of your attacks, but the absence of them does demonstrate that you have a real cowardly bent.

Nuff said.

Can’t agree more.

In fact it was just not his attack on Nancy that was bad, it was the fact he said he has spoken with all of the fomer Presidents, and then had to correct himself and say well at least those that are living. Also, it was not Nancy who did such things, it was Lincoln’s wife and Hillary who talked about doing stuff like that.

The COMPOST just pushed it off as no big deal.

It is just those kinds of unscripted gaffes that feed the impression among many of how elitist and out of touch Obama really is. The Democrats are looking more and more like the party of retribution.

I didnt vote for him, but we do have him now and have to live with the guy for 4 years. I think the first year will be very telling. How he handles the economy and the war his first few months in office will be very interesting. He’s really got a lot on his plate and plenty of opportunity to fall on his face. I hope he doesnt, I really hope for him to succeed but I’m not optimistic that he will. People of all religions and lack therof should be praying to someone/something for him to succeed as he’s gonna need it.

for those popping in here to gloat, you didnt win…he did. please return to the crazies on the other site (all 5 of them) and you can wallow in your “victory” there (or wallow in the pig slime like the pigs you are) sorry, I couldnt resist

I meant what I said because that is truly how I feel. As for being gracious in defeat, I was not defeated, the republicans were not defeated, the American people were defeated. There is no grace in watching your country devolve into a third world banana republic. Now the pinko slime come on this site and want to make nice with us after having called us every imaginable insult. Ha! They (you?) do this because the obomanation actually won - a calamity even they never expected and they realize now we will do to them what they did to Bush, ie. tear him down so he cannot govern and they are sh##ing their pants. I will extend to them the same courtesy they gave us and so will the rest of my conservative brothers and sisters if they have any wits about them. I am only getting warmed up and their incessant provocations only fuel my desire for vengeance.

The obamanation stole the election and lied, lied, lied.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1108/Obama_apologizes_to_Nancy_Reagan.html

Man, I am glad I did not vote for that buffoon.

obama and joe, a gaffe a minute.

Tell me why people move from high tax, high crime areas etc like liberals do? Because liberals destory areas with their high taxes and criminal friendly areas.

Is it ironic that as soon as libs start to move into the area, taxes go up, crime goes up, smells go up, and traffic gets worse. Yup, you libs sure are special.

Keep it up and you will have nowhere left to go because liberal policies lead to a poor standard of living.

Don’t worry once your “one” has two years in office people will be flocking to the GOP.

Does the sight of a gun make you wet your pants and make your limp wrist go even more limp? HA HA.

Oh, how is your fellow anti-Semtic Congressman doing? You know Mr. Moron? Or, how about the former KKK member, Bryd, how is he doing? Do all you libs hate Jews? If not why do you keep electing people who are anti-Semtic and KKK members? Talk about the party of hate.

I agree it’s gotten out of hand. With people popping in to dog McCain and proselyte for Obama it’s getting old.

Why is it so important to you to insult and debunk other people’s religious beliefs? It is disturbing that you just don’t seem to be able to let go of this issue. Could it be a cry for help, or just attention?

I’m not Elvis or James whoever the hell that is. I’m sure we’ll have a hard time convincing those fools on the other blog for sure.

I’m curious, do you open carry and find occasion to “show” your weapon when someone has behaved badly toward you in public? I guess you are right. If it were holstered, then it wouldn’t necessarily violate any code, though I don’t know. Or maybe it violates some other kind of law about implicit threats.

Is it really necessary to be so nasty? I think Rick is deluded about Obama, but I am not attacking him for his delusions.

Are you talking in your post about religion or about the Democrat Party?