Steven Den Beste has some "Good News"

Kinda

Not the end of the world

I think this election is going to be a "coming of age" moment for a lot of people. They say, "Be careful what you wish for" and a lot of people got their wish yesterday.

And now they're bound to be disappointed. Not even Jesus could satisfy all the expectations of Obama's most vocal supporters, or fulfill all the promises Obama has made.

I think Obama is going to turn out to be the worst president since Carter, and for the same reason: good intentions do not guarantee good results. Idealists often stub their toes on the wayward rocks of reality, and fall on their faces. And the world doesn't respond to benign behavior benignly.

But there's another reason why: Obama has been hiding his light under a basket. A lot of people bought a pig in a poke today, and now they're going to find out what they bought. Obama isn't what most of them think he is. The intoxication of the cult will wear off, leaving a monumental hangover.

Obama won by promising the moon and being whatever you wanted him to be.
Reality... won't let him stay that way.

The main reason this will be a "coming of age" moment is that now Obama and the Democrats have to put up or shut up. Obama got elected by making himself a blank slate, with vapid promises about "hope" and "change" -- but now he actually has to do something. Now he has to reveal his true agenda. And with the Democrats also having a majority in both chambers of Congress, now the Democrats really have to lead. And they're not going to do a very good job of it. It's going to be amusing to watch.

Be careful what you wish for.

In the mean time, those of us who didn't want Obama to be president have to accept that he is. And let's not give in to the kind of paranoid fever dreams that have consumed the left for the last 8 years.

So what are the good sides of what just happened?

Indeed, we need to accept that Obama won, that he will be our president, and move from there.

Again go to the link to see the "good" news.

They're tempered by his predictions. Saddly, I can't really disagree with them. Gonna be a rough ride.

It looks like Obama won.

Baring any extremely unlikely events, Obama will be the next US president.

Jonah Goldberg has some thoughts

Look, I expect to be one of the most severe critics of the Obama administration and the Democrats generally in the years ahead (though I sincerely hope I won't find that necessary). But Obama ran a brilliant race and he should be congratulated for it. Moreover, during the debate over the financial crisis, Obama said that a president should be able to do more than one thing at a time. Well, I think we members of the loyal opposition should be able to make distinctions simultaneously. It is a wonderful thing to have the first African-American president. It is a wonderful thing that in a country where feelings are so intense that power can be transferred so peacefully. Let us hope that the Obama his most dedicated — and most sensible! — fans see turns out to be the real Obama. Let us hope that Obama succeeds and becomes a great president, for all the right reasons.

The rest here.

I wish America well, and if that requires Obama to do well as President, then that's how it goes. I would rather Obama do a good job and have America stay free and do well than have Obama screw up and ruin the country.

And it's at least worth remembering that the job of political conservatism is not simply to see Republicans win every election, it's to move the country to the right. Conceding from square one that Obama will be the most leftwing presidency imaginable is not the best way to prevent that prophecy from becoming true.

I do hope that the "Loyal Opposition" can avoid any Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Go out and vote.

Vote early too. The lines are a bit long today.

Glen Reynolds has some notes on the turnout too.
Via Glen: Jonathan Gewirtz has some advice Vote for McCain, He May Win

But, if you can vote, you should vote for McCain despite the apparent odds. You should do this because no one really knows what the odds are. The Obama campaign, the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) want Republican voters to believe that the election is a done deal and that voting Republican is wasted effort. They want to discourage McCain votes and votes for other Republicans down the ticket. They are doing this because McCain and the other Republicans still have a chance to win. That chance will be reduced to the extent Republican voters take the Democrats’ advice. Don’t fall for it, vote for McCain.

Can only Obama's supporters call him a socalist?

Technically it's Communist propaganda.
But still...

Soviet Doggies Bark for Barack

Obama supporters copy Russian Constructivist artist Alexander Rodchenko's work to make their posters.

So... it's okay to call Obama a socailist if you mean it as a compliment but not if you mean it as an insult.

How Orwellian.

If you don't want four long years of this... vote McCain.

Look who thinks he's already president.

Hotair has the link.

Jake Tapper: Why don’t you have a press conference?

Obama : I will. On Wednesday.

Obama thinks he can just run the clock down until Tuesday, and given how the mass media has constantly covered for him...

Latest Orwellian term from Obama: "Price Signals"

He only wants to use Price Signals to "change behavior".

If you don't actually think about it, it doesn't sound too bad. Then you realize that for the government "Price Signals" are taxes, fees and other restrictive actions.

Link with video.
So what does Obama want to do? Use government power to change what you can do, into something that pleases him.

Change!

Here's a specific example of Obama's "Price Signals" in action.

Say goodbye to 1/5 of the energy production in the US.

In short he wants to destroy the coal industry and make energy prices skyrocket.

Wow! Combine that with his plan to drastically raise taxes and I'm sure the US economy will go straight down the tubes.

Both links via LGF

First issue of Osawatomie, a newspaper published by the Weather Underground in 1975

Well... this is a creepy coincidence.

Zomblog has obtained an extremely rare copy of the first issue of Osawatomie, a newspaper published by the Weather Underground in 1975. Noteworthy passages are reproduced below, along with exact transcriptions. The full pages, with each passage in context in high resolution, are found at the bottom of this post.

Much of Osawatomie, which was written at a time when the Dohrn-Ayers wing of the Weather Underground was transitioning from terrorism to “working from the inside” for revolution, concerns itself with the need to encourage “organizers” who will work in “communities” and use “audacity” to bring about “socialism” in America.

Don’t believe me? Read the quotes for yourself, and see them in context on the full pages below.

Go to the link to read the article and look at the logos too