AmericaPANIC: Picking Up the Pieces After the Republicans Wrecked America

And then, on November 5th 2008, AmericaPANIC ended. We won.

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I started AmericaPANIC to fight the good fight against what I saw as the forces of evil - namely the hijacked Republican party and the disgusting and cynical McCain/Palin campaign.

That battle is now over. We have triumphed.

It was encouraging to see Senator McCain give a gracious concession speech last night, even though many of his supporters showed their true colors. And I expect only bad things from Sarah Palin and the GOP coming up. I doubt they've learned their lesson.

And I don't expect an apology.

But now, it's time to move on. I'm not a supporter of the Democrats as much as I'm against the Republicans, but I feel it's now possible to see positive change in DC. And I believe the next few days, weeks, months and years will be truly inspiring under President Obama.

I've started a new blog as of today, a work in progress, and I call it "Soot and Ashes". It's at http://sootandashes.blogspot.com or www.sootandashes.com. Call it a think tank for the regular guy. We'll discuss all the good stuff. Or as I say today:

"A centrist blog hitting on all the good stuff: Politics. Economics. Fiscal Policy. Foreign Policy. Moral Issues. Culture. Investments. Religion. Humor. Life."

It's time to dig ourselves out of this mess.

It's time to hope again.

Peace out.

Even though 48% of Americans wanted to keep their country on a course of ruin, the world celebrates Obama's victory

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If the world got to vote, Obama would have won 90% of the vote.

And yet 48% of Americans just don't get it.

I wish those 48% would travel beyond the borders of America, which I doubt many of them do. America should be trusted. It should be respected. It should be admired. It should be that shining city on a hill.

George Bush and Dick Cheney and the Republican Party destroyed that trust and goodwill these past eight years. They destroyed the American brand around the world.

And now, in a moment, that trust and goodwill has been restored. Now let's see if Obama can get it back for good.

Obama Victory Sparks Cheers Around the World

Across the globe, in concert halls and ballrooms, in plazas and beach parties and busy streets, the citizens of the world hailed the election of Barack Obama as a stroke for racial equality and voiced hopes his presidency would herald a more balanced, less confrontational America.

Here's President-Elect Obama's victory speech - November 4, 2008

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The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you – we as a people will get there.

There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

Juan Williams on the Obama victory

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AmericaPANIC Congratulates President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama. America thankfully chose hope over fear.

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The good news for Obama? The bar is set low. Really, really low.

The bad news? George W. Bush, the GOP (and many of Obama's fellow Democrats in Congress) wrecked America, spent all the money and demoralized the nation.

Thanks to Bush's incompetence and corruption, Obama's got his work cut out for him.

But no matter your politics, I think you can be proud to be an American tonight. This was a race for the ages. And the better man, and better campaign, won.

FLASH: EXIT POLLS HAVE OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS IN A LANDSLIDE

2008-11-04T20:04:00.001Z

I like giving you tomorrow's news today, so figure I'll give you tonight's news tonight. Just a few hours early.

So, did you all vote?

Join the liveblog over at HousingPANIC at 7pm EST / 12am GMT

Should be an interesting night!

Hope doesn't pay the bills. Hope doesn't fix the problems. But it's a start. And unlike fear and negativity espoused by the GOP, it wins elections

2008-11-04T13:09:00.002Z

Join us over at housingpanic tonight at 7pm as we liveblog the election results and Obama landslide.

Go vote.

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2008-11-04T06:12:00.000Z

Uh, actually, Americans would like a President who has thought about governing

2008-11-03T15:19:00.000Z

John McCain wanted to be President all his life. He built up a fake personae, he spent the past eight years running, but I don't think he's ever actually planned to govern.

Which is a good thing. I think the American people sensed that. Because a McCain administration would have been a disaster.

The pursuit of power corrupted John McCain. It turned him into an unrecognizable piece of sh*t. He would have been a terrible president.

And the American people, including the members of his own party, told him to go home.

Build your own map and predict the Obama electoral blowout count

2008-11-03T14:34:00.000Z

In a total blowout, if EVERYTHING goes Obama's way on Tuesday, his max would be 468 to 70. But that would include a few states like MT and ND, where Obama is close or tied but man we'd be in cats sleeping with dogs stage to see states like those vote for Obama. After all, there's more black people on Obama's bus than in Montana.

But these are strange times.

If on the other hand EVERYTHING goes McCain's way on Tuesday, and people lied to the pollsters, I see him still losing 260 to 278. But that's giving McCain all the close states, like OH, FL and MO.

In the end, Obama will win it and his electoral count will be between 333 and 366.

This race is not even close, no matter what Fox News and Dick Morris would have you believe.

So play around with the map yourselves, and get on record with your prediction.

Besides their own incompetence, incoherence and corruption, there were two big things that destroyed the Republican Party forever.

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1) The Internet: Which allowed the Democrats, the party of the people chipping in $25 at a time, to significantly outraise the Republicans - the party of the rich and business

2) Early Voting and Vote-by-Mail: Which allowed poor and middle class working people who couldn't take four hours off on election day to vote (including some poor old people too)

The Republicans successfully restricted voting for decades, since they knew if the masses were allowed to vote they'd never win another election again. And I don't think they ever saw the internet, and internet fundraising, coming. Millions of people giving $10 beat a much smaller group of lobbyists, rich people and companies giving $1000 any day.

The genie is out of the bottle.

And the GOP, unless they radically reform, is dead.

John McCain is going to get destroyed at the polls on Tuesday, and he knows it by now. So will he go out with class and honor, or not?

2008-11-03T07:11:00.000Z

It's all over now for McCain.

He ruined his reputation. He destroyed his party. And he ran the most cynical, negative and disgusting campaign for the presidency in US history.

So, will he lose with honor, dignity and class, or will he be the mean, spiteful, cynical, negative prick we've had in our living rooms the past few months?

And same for Sarah Palin. It'll be interesting to hear her concession speech, since she really has only one thing on her mind.

2012.

Two days until the election. How about those medical records, Sarah Palin. What? Got something to hide?

2008-11-02T20:52:00.003Z

[UPDATE - THEY LIED. WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET THE RECORDS. PRETTY AMAZING, HUH?]

Here's Rick Davis, the piece of sh*t lobbyist who ran John McCain's campaign into the ground, explaining why Sarah Palin would not face the press

2008-11-02T20:42:00.002Z

If you want to know why the GOP will not win a general election for a generation, just look at Rick Davis.

Mean
Arrogant
Corrupt
Stupid
Closed-minded
Ignorant
Afraid
Negative

Why John McCain put an idiot like this in charge of his campaign, I'll never understand.

But I'm sure glad he did.

Serious candidates for President and VP go on Meet the Press. They hold press conferences. They're not afraid to be interviewed by a free press.

2008-11-02T20:23:00.003Z

And then there's the sad and pathetic case of Sarah Palin.

And Fox News.

This kind of crap should disgust you. Male and female. Left and right. It's wrong. It's un-American. And as of Tuesday, it will not stand. America deserves better. This is a joke.

John McCain should be ashamed of himself, and of his campaign. And Sarah Palin? Well, I think she's simply too stupid to understand.

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

2008-11-02T16:34:00.001Z

Special AmericaPANIC Video Montage - The Downfall of the GOP (and America) 2001 - 2008

2008-11-02T12:25:00.008Z

America will recover, slowly.

The GOP will not.

Here's an awesome Saturday Night Live sketch with Bill O'Reilly. Oh, wait, hang on. What was that? Huh? You mean this was REAL?

2008-11-02T08:06:00.000Z

Here's another Saturday Night Live sketch, this one on California's Prop 8 marriage act. Oh, wait, huh? You mean THIS ONE is REAL too?

2008-11-02T07:47:00.002Z

It is kinda funny that a nation with a 50% divorce rate is going on and on about protecting marriage.

Hypocrites much?

I did enjoy this ad though. Reminded me of the ones for the WWF. Or monster truck pulls. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!!!

Anyone seen George Bush? Maybe at a McCain rally? Or one of the House or Senate races? What, nobody's seen him? Gee, why do you suppose that is?

2008-11-02T06:08:00.001Z

Oh, that's right, when you and your party wreck a country and devastate the world, I guess it's best to stay out of sight and out of mind.

You do realize that John McCain is running as the REPUBLICAN candidate for president though, right? You know, the party headed for the past eight years by GEORGE W. BUSH. And supported 100% by the likes of SEAN HANNITY and RUSH LIMBAUGH, with its own broadcast news network FOX NEWS.

Come on America. Wake the f*ck up. Show this party the door.

A Presidential Vanishing Act, by Design

WASHINGTON — It’s the week before Election Day. Do you know where your president is?

Probably not, and that is by design. With Senator John McCain lagging behind in the polls and many other Republicans fighting for their political lives, the nation’s top Republican — President Bush — is intentionally lying low this week, and is likely to do so until after Americans cast their ballots to pick his successor.

What future does the GOP have with this base, these few remaining states, and this misguided focus?

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* Ignorant
* Uneducated
* Mean-spirited
* Born-again but un-christian
* Closed-minded
* Anti-environment
* Rich
* Big business
* Anti-science
* Incompetent
* Cronyism
* Racist
* Anti-women
* Big spenders
* Massive deficits
* Anti-children (i.e. future generations)
* Arrogant
* Hated and laughed at around the world

I could go on. I'm telling you, if I was the Product Manager in charge of the Republican Party, I think I'd be looking for a new job. They're asbestos. They're Exxon Valdez. They're Chernobyl.

But because I'm nice, here's some repositioning clues for the GOP, if they'd ever like to emerge from the political wilderness. Think of them as Tylenol, after the poisoning. Or Coca-Cola Classic, after New Coke:

* Green
* Pro-science
* Self-reliance
* Cooperative
* Balanced budget
* Anti-spending
* Low-taxes (for all, not just the rich)
* Pro small business
* Pro separation of church and state
* Pro middle-class
* Pro law enforcement and gun control
* Pro constitution
* Pro civil liberties
* Pro privacy

But hey, I'm not holding my breath. The GOP has been hijacked by ignorant fools, born-again nutjobs and corrupt lobbyists. They'll be out of power for a generation, unless they nuke themselves and start over.

The GOP dies this week.

Let's all dance on their grave.

Here's Sarah Palin, who could be President of the United States of America in a few weeks (god forbid), getting punked

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Enjoy.

Man, what an idiot.

And then Dick Cheney came out of his cave to make sure McCain and Palin got destroyed on Tuesday

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Thanks Dick.

Try not to destroy the country (any more than you already have) these last few weeks, OK?

Folks, when the history is written, I'm not sure the United States of America has ever seen a more destructive, corrupt and downright evil government official than Dick Cheney.

History will be brutal.

And so will his retirement. I see lawyers. Lots and lots of lawyers. For the rest of his life.

Shouldn't George Bush (and Dick Cheney) have given a speech like this one a few months ago? Shouldn't the Republican leadership have demanded it?

2008-11-01T16:09:00.005Z

The Republicans should have taken care of business and cleaned up their own house, like they did back in '74.

But not once has Bush apologized. Not once has a Republican leader called for Bush's resignation or impeachment. Not once has this corrupt and incompetent administration admitted their faults and their crimes and their mismanagement of the foreign and domestic affairs of the land.

The voters will now do what the Republican leadership should have done months ago.

And because they, the GOP, did not do the right thing, they will be punished, severely. Possibly to never return.

The Republican party, yet again, has lost the trust and respect of the American people.

Good riddance.

History will be brutal.

Serious Question - what's up with the people in the red states?

2008-11-01T07:52:00.002Z

Here's Dick Morris, who loves high priced hookers, detailing how McCain may win

2008-11-01T07:50:00.000Z

It's interesting that folks like Dick Morris are even paying attention to the nationwide preference percentages.

Uh, Dick, there's this thing called the Electoral College. After you're done shagging your hookers, you might want to look at it.

(Isn't it fun when GOP weirdos like Dick Hookers Morris and Bill Falafel O'Reilly get together?)

Meanwhile, as Morris previews, watch the dying GOP throw everything they've got at Obama this weekend. Some really, really nasty stuff.

So Sarah Palin said she'd release her medical records. Yet there's just three more days until the election and still no files. Hmmm....

2008-11-01T05:41:00.000Z

No medical records. No press conference. No Meet the Press appearance. And yet this idiot could still be President of the United States in just a few short months.

43% of the American people are truly hopeless. They'd vote for a turtle if was the GOP candidate.

So, why no medical records?

Got something to hide?

George Bush will likely pardon Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, Harriet Miers, Karl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld. Should Obama warn him not to do that?

2008-11-01T00:39:00.001Z

I think if Obama gets the message out now that if Bush pardons any of the criminals in his administration, that Obama won't protect Bush himself against future criminal prosecution.

Pardons? Sure, go ahead, but you'll go to jail yourself Mr. Bush.

Otherwise, you'll see Bush pardon every person who ever worked for him.

Watch for this to be the big story soon, leading up to the Glorious Final Day.

The stench of a loser.

2008-10-31T21:56:00.002Z

And then, after America was raped, it turned on its rapists

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Unfortunately, the rapists run free, and cashed in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while America burned.

But a slim majority of Americans (finally) wised up, and tossed these discredited hacks and their party overboard, for the time being.

History will be brutal. And these rapists should be hounded for the rest of their lives. Rocks and garbage. Pies to the face. Anything and everything to show them that their smut is no longer welcome in the land of the free and the land of the brave.

And they can spend their loot in hell.

"If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War"

2008-10-31T20:47:00.001Z

"If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets."

-Author Erica Jong, October 2008

Here's McCain advisor and former Sec. of State Lawrence Eagleburger throwing Sarah Palin (Idiot) under the bus.

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"I don't think at the moment she is prepared to take over the reigns of the presidency. I can name for you any number of other vice presidents who were not particularly up to it either. So the question, I think, is can she learn and would she be tough enough under the circumstances if she were asked to become president, heaven forbid that that ever takes place?"

"Give her some time in the office and I think the answer would be, she will be [pause] adequate. I can't say that she would be a genius in the job. But I think she would be enough to get us through a four year... well I hope not... get us through whatever period of time was necessary. And I devoutly hope that it would never be tested."

Should Elizabeth Dole, the sleaziest politician in America today, be sued for defamation and slander?

2008-10-31T03:09:00.009Z

[UPDATE - KAY HAGAN JUST FILED A SLANDER LAWSUIT TODAY AGAINST ELIZABETH DOLE. BRAVO.]

Insinuating that your church-going former Sunday school teacher opponent is an atheist and voicing over "there is no god" at the end of the commercial as if it was her opponent is easily the most despicable and shameless political ad in American campaign history.

Elizabeth Dole is a Republican candidate stooping lower than I ever thought even a Republican could. Although it's not too surprising given that she's married to hatchet-man Bob Dole, and holds the seat of one of the most disgusting Senators of all time, Jesse Helms.

If this is allowed to stand, what's next? Ads that proclaim your opponent is a child molester? With a voice impersonator saying "I like to molest children" while a picture of the candidate is showing?

Shameless. And if not illegal, at least grounds for a civil lawsuit. This is the very definition of slander.

The Republican Party should call for this ad to be taken down, and should apologize on the behalf of its candidate since she doesn't have the sense or the class to do that herself. The US Senate should censure Elizabeth Dole when it reconvenes. Kay Hagan should file suit for defamation and slander. And John McCain should also disavow this ad.

But don't hold your breath for any of that. Since that would be the right thing to do.

Above all, the people of North Carolina should show Elizabeth Dole the door. And they should loudly protest her wherever she goes, for the rest of her life, unless she apologizes. Elizabeth Dole is scum, and she should be treated like scum by all Americans, left, right and center.

Representative Chris Shays, Republican-CT: "He (McCain) has lost his brand as a maverick; he did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign"

2008-10-31T00:09:00.000Z

John McCain - America's Biggest Loser. A scum-of-the-earth politician who has been exposed for the fraud he is.

Nice to see the GOP throwing him under the bus.

Now let's watch the GOP throw itself under the bus.

Just for laughs... here's the worst and most ineffective political ad of all time, thanks to the dying GOP. Enjoy!

2008-10-30T22:26:00.000Z

He had a dream. And on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, it will finally be realized.

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Here's Obama's prime-time ad video in case you missed it

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Poor McCain. He just can't compete.

Elizabeth Dole. Fascist.

2008-10-29T22:34:00.002Z

Watch this race. It'll be nice if the folks of North Carolina reject the gutter politics and Anti-American Fascist behavior of Elizabeth Dole.

She disgusts me, and she should disgust any free-thinking patriotic American.

The Republican Party - The Party That Wrecked America, and Pretended Like They Were The Party of God In Order To Fool Ignorant Suckers Into Voting Against Their Own Economic Interests.

This is called kicking them when they're down

2008-10-29T22:29:00.000Z

One word.

Landslide.

Here's Barbara West, a local GOP operative (oops, I mean "reporter") in Florida, interviewing for her job with Fox News

2008-10-29T14:36:00.000Z

SHOCK VIDEO: A sad view from Sean Hannity's America - the land of racist, ignorant and dangerous fools

2008-10-29T09:45:00.000Z

I hope Obama doesn't do any more open unsecured events, like the one he's planning for election night in Chicago.

It's just too dangerous out there. This video should convince you of that.

Thank you John McCain. Thank you Sarah Palin. Thank you Karl Rove. Thank you Sean Hannity. Thank you Rush Limbaugh.

You wrecked America. You and your army of angry, misinformed, un-American, pretend-Christian, dangerously ignorant fools.

I seriously can't believe how disgusting parts of America have become.

Enjoy as the McCain campaign goes into total and complete meltdown

2008-10-28T20:01:00.003Z

John McCain will never recover from this humiliating defeat.

His reputation is in tatters. He'll be known as the scoundrel who ran the most disgusting and evil campaign in US history. Kids a hundred years from now, when they hear the words "John McCain" or "Sarah Palin" will think "fraud", "idiot" or "low point for America".

Goodbye John McCain. You lived a good life and built a good reputation, and then you destroyed it in a desperate and humiliating quest for power.

America hates you. America laughs at you (and your idiot of a running mate).

Go away.

FLASH: BARACK OBAMA WINS US PRESIDENCY IN HISTORIC 369 TO 169 ELECTORAL LANDSLIDE, GOP SWEPT FROM POWER AS INCUMBENTS ROUTED IN HOUSE AND SENATE RACES

2008-10-28T12:42:00.009Z

Tomorrow's headlines here today.

We would like to congratulate Barack Obama on his historic landslide victory over John McCain, and hope he governs as he ran - as a centrist, competent, collaborative, coalition-building, inspirational agent of change.

America is in a world of trouble after eight disastrous years. It's time to get us back on track, and let America be America again.

I love Fox News

2008-10-28T07:36:00.001Z

It's fun watching them as it all falls apart.

They get louder, nastier and more pathetic every day.

Damn fine entertainment though!

This is what a historic leader sounds like

2008-10-28T06:24:00.003Z

Hope for a hopeless nation.

Just in the nick of time.

And then, as predicted here, Sarah Palin (Idiot) helped cost John McCain the election

2008-10-28T04:43:00.000Z

Sarah Palin helped destroy the party that destroyed America.

Interesting.

And then the GOP, the party that wrecked America, was completely and forever destroyed.

2008-10-27T23:11:00.006Z

It's fun to go back and read the Republican trolls and their misguided predictions. I don't think they saw it coming.

America's not embracing the Democrats, don't get that confused. Nope, America is simply kicking the Republicans to the curb.

The GOP has been destroyed.

It will never, EVER, come back.

The national Republican Party is now dead.

Goodbye Rush Limbaugh. Goodbye John McCain. Goodbye Sean Hannity. Goodbye George Bush. Goodbye Karl Rove. Goodbye Fox News. You are completely and forever discredited. You wrecked America and you are now dead.

That said, the former members of this dead and discredited party will resurface, and they'll likely form new political parties. Some might even stay under the old "Republican" banner, after the GOP civil war. But the GOP as you knew it is now dead.

Good riddance.

Never before has a political party, and their ignorant and misguided supporters, done so much damage to America. And the Republicans are now competing with the German Nazi Party for the banner of "most destructive political party in world history".

Good riddance.

History will be brutal.

And then Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the GOP's most powerful Senator and currently up for re-election, was found guilty of taking bribes on all counts.

2008-10-27T22:08:00.005Z

Enjoy jail Ted.

And thanks for wrecking America.

Funny though that Stevens took less than Palin did. Maybe she'll join him one day...

Vote 'em all out folks. Every last stinking one of 'em.

2009 - 2012 could have been the most dangerous time in world history. If Americans had been stupid enough to elect John McCain. Whew.

2008-10-26T14:20:00.000Z

Get your predictions in... Who'll be the 2012 GOP nominee for President?

2008-10-26T09:02:00.000Z

Here's a few names for ya. First, the reformers, that would have a chance of putting the GOP back on track in 2012:

1) Lou Dobbs
2) Michael Bloomberg
3) Jeff Flake
4) Joe Scarborough
5) there's gotta be more? who am I missing?

And then the standard same-old, same-old right wing GOP hacks, that would go down to a Mondale-like defeat against Obama/Biden:

1) Newt Gingrich
2) Sarah Palin
3) Bobby Jindal
4) Mitt Romney
5) Tim Pawlenty
6) Mike Huckabee
7) Bill Frist
8) Mark Sanford

My prediction? Same-old, same-old, and the GOP puts up Mitt Romney who'll get slaughtered. Or they'll go with new and fresh and put up Jindal, who'll also get slaughtered, being that he's a far right wing loon. Or they'll go back-to-the-future with Gingrich. That would be fun, but of course, he'd get slaughtered too.

Then, in 2016, after a decade out of power, you'll see the young centrist reformers make their move, against some boring Democratic nominee like Mark Warner. And that'll be an interesting election.

More from John McCain. A sad, sad man, and a shadow of his former self.

2008-10-25T20:58:00.000+01:00

I don't think John McCain could have run a more cynical and dishonest campaign.

It's nice to see the majority of Americans soundly rejecting this bullsh*t. Even Fox News and conservatives are calling for McCain to stop.

But will he? Nope. Because he has no shame.

And he also has no class, and nothing left of his reputation.

It's amazing what the quest for power will do to a man.

One more time, just to rub her nose in her incredible ignorance and stupidity, here's the brilliance of Sarah Palin on full display

2008-10-25T12:40:00.000+01:00

Oh, enjoy the new ending.

In America, a closed-minded society, you can't be an Arab and be President. You can't be a Jew. You can't be a lesbian. You must be a Christian male

2008-10-24T20:37:00.000+01:00

Can you be anything besides a Christian married white male and be the GOP nominee?

Apparently, not for the remaining ignorant, racist, sexist, narrow-minded, under-educated and frankly embarrassing folks still out there supporting the disaster that is the GOP.

"No mamn, he's not an Arab, he's a decent family man"

As if being an Arab or Muslim is being some kind of degenerate. A killer. A terrorist. A deviant. Someone to be rounded up. Someone who should be shot, or lynched.

Man, the hijacked GOP disgusts me. Modern day Nazis, pursuing their agenda for a dominant superior race and religion.

AmericaPANIC would like to congratulate John McCain for running the most disgusting and undignified campaign in American history.

2008-10-24T08:27:00.000+01:00

When the country was looking for a leader they could believe, an optimist, a calm and steady hand on the wheel...

The Republicans offered up John McCain.

Hey, if you're gonna go out, go out big I say.

I feel sorry for McCain though. Truly. He will regret his actions over the past few days and weeks for the rest of his life. He has no honor, he has no shame, and he has no dignity. And once you've lost those things in a reckless and ruthless quest for power, you can't get them back.

Wow. John McCain gives America some straight talk, and lets all of us know what we knew - that Sarah Palin (Idiot) was a "cold, political calculation"

2008-10-23T20:44:00.000+01:00

John McCain makes me sick.

I don't know if I've ever been more disgusted by an American politician, more than I am today disgusted by John McCain. Not George Bush. Not Dick Nixon. Not Ed Meese. Not Dick Cheney. No, today, John McCain is the Worst Republican of All Time.

Who'd of thunk?

AmericaPANIC Quote of the Day

2008-10-23T05:30:00.001+01:00

"She (Sarah Palin) said that small towns, that's the part of the country she really likes going to because that's the pro-America part of the country. You know, I just want to say to her, just very quickly: f*ck you"

- Jon Stewart, October 19, 2008

So the GOP spent $150,000 on clothes for Sarah Palin. LET THEM EAT CAKE!!!!

2008-10-22T15:40:00.005+01:00

Like I said, if you're going to go down in flames, go down big.

You will be shocked at the electoral count in a couple of weeks. You'll be shocked at the hard-core GOP states that go blue.

Why?

Because John McCain, Rick Davis and Sarah Palin ran the worst presidential campaign in modern times. A campaign so out of touch with what's going on in America, that you get things like this.

And blowing $150,000 on clothes (my god, that's actually hard to do) was just par for the course.

LET THE BASTARDS EAT CAKE! MCCAIN/PALIN 2008.

(side note since the MSM won't report it - that $150,000 must be treated as ordinary income for Palin and taxed accordingly. At the 28% bracket that's $42,000 cash that the hockey mom will need to come up with. Any other treatment would be pure tax fraud, and Palin would be liable for fines and jail)

Gov. Sarah Palin's wardrobe has provoked admiration and envy. Politico has now uncovered evidence that the Republican National Committee paid $150,000 for a shopping spree that started in early September "to clothe and accessorize" the governor and her family. It's all there, buried in federal financial disclosure records, including:

* $49,425.74 from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York
* A $75,062.63 spree at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, site of the GOP convention

That's more than the $125,000 that Alaska taxpayers pay the governor.

Two weeks left - isn't it time for them to put out the Osama bin Laden "I endorse Obama" video? You know, like the one that lost it for Kerry?

2008-10-21T06:08:00.002+01:00

Just wondering.

I haven't heard them announce the expected release date yet, like last time.

I truly have no comment

2008-10-20T21:35:00.001+01:00

An AmericaPANIC message for the 'journalists' of America. YELL YOUR QUESTIONS AT SARAH PALIN. DO NOT BACK DOWN. DO YOUR F*CKING JOBS.

2008-10-20T19:34:00.005+01:00

Having a major party VP candidate not take one press conference before the election is un-American. It's sexist, it's shameful, and it must not stand.

If Sarah Palin and her handlers in the McCain debacle won't let her take questions from a free press, then the questions must come to her. DIRECTLY AT HER. SHOUTED AT HER. SCREAMED AT HER UNTIL SHE EITHER ANSWERS OR SLITHERS AWAY AGAIN IN SHAME.

So come on 'journalists'. You failed America with Iraq. You failed America with the housing crash. And you are failing America again with your subservience to the McCain/Palin handlers.

You are the fourth branch of American government. You are the voice of the people. And if you WON'T SHOUT YOUR QUESTIONS FROM THE ROOFTOPS AND FROM THE BACK OF THE BUS, then you are failures.

Do your f*cking jobs. For a change.

And shame on McCain and his campaign managers. You are gutless, you are sexist, and you are un-American.

Here's Obama in Feb 2007 announcing his run for the Presidency. And now look where we are. Nice job America. For once you made the right choice

2008-10-20T18:16:00.000+01:00

AmericaPANIC Serious Quote of the Day

2008-10-19T22:13:00.000+01:00

"More than any single factor, McCain's bad judgment in choosing the inarticulate, insular and ethically challenged Palin disqualifies him for the presidency."

- Salt Lake Tribune, endorsing Barack Obama over Palin(Idiot)/McCain, October 2008

Serious Question: Why did John McCain go to the Dark Side?

2008-10-19T18:02:00.002+01:00

Don't you think that if John McCain had ran as John McCain that he could have actually had a halfway decent showing?

Instead, we got this pathetic, dangerous, classless and undignified disaster of a campaign.

What happened to John McCain?

Because this new John McCain, and maybe this REALLY is the true John McCain, is downright disgusting.

Colin Powell on Obama: "I think he is a transformational figure. He is a new generation coming ... onto the world stage and on the American stage"

2008-10-19T15:52:00.002+01:00

FLASH: John McCain finally allows little Sarah Palin (Idiot) to hold her very first adult press conference!!!

2008-10-19T11:52:00.001+01:00

Oh, sorry, that didn't happen. It was just one big joke. You know, like the real McCain/Palin(Idiot) campaign. The one currently making a mockery of America while insulting women everywhere.

John McCain, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the dying GOP can't stop this.

2008-10-19T08:15:00.003+01:00

Something has changed.

Americans woke up, said enough was enough, and demanded their country back.

Just in time.

It's a long road back.

Suck on this, Republicans. Your day is over. The people are reclaiming their country.

2008-10-18T22:47:00.003+01:00

It should be clear by now that Sarah Palin is an idiot. That's fine. But do you all realize how close she truly came to becoming President?

2008-10-18T22:10:00.006+01:00

This was a very, very dangerous time in American history.

After eight years of destruction under a total moron, a man suffering from serious Oedipus issues and controlled by forces of evil and darkness, to suffer four more years under a similar conditions may have proven fatal for America - and the world.

Armageddon avoided, perhaps?

We do have three more months of possible Bush mischief. But at least we won't have to deal with the possibility of having Sarah Palin get the nuclear codes. A person who is easily the most ignorant person ever to have a shot at the Presidency.

Oh, a few reminders as parting shots:

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

- Article 6, the United States Constitution

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

- The First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Enjoy the video.

Here it is folks. The most ignorant woman in America, (soon-to-be-former) Congresswoman Michele Bachmann R-MN. Even more clueless than Sarah Palin.

2008-10-18T18:18:00.004+01:00

You want to see an anti-American Michele?

Look in the mirror.

You, dear, are a disgrace to America.

And no, being an idiot is not an excuse.

Looking back at it, doesn't the whole Sarah Palin (Idiot) debacle seem like some kind of bad movie?

2008-10-18T16:04:00.001+01:00

Peggy Noonan on the dumbing down of American politics, and the biggest idiot of all - Sarah Palin

2008-10-18T06:03:00.007+01:00

Here's Peggy Noonan, Reagan's former speechwriter, on the dumbing down of politics, and the queen of the idiots - Sarah Palin.

On the dumbing down:

More than ever on the campaign trail, the candidates are dropping their G's. Hardworkin' families are strainin' and tryin'a get ahead. It's not only Sarah Palin but Mr. McCain, too, occasionally Mr. Obama, and, of course, George W. Bush when he darts out like the bird in a cuckoo clock to tell us we are in crisis.

All of the candidates say "mom and dad": "our moms and dads who are struggling." This is Mr. Bush's former communications adviser Karen Hughes's contribution to our democratic life, that you cannot speak like an adult in politics now, that's too austere and detached, snobby. No one can say mothers and fathers, it's all now the faux down-home, patronizing—and infantilizing—moms and dads.

Do politicians ever remember that in a nation obsessed with politics, our children—sorry, our kids—look to political figures for a model as to how adults sound?

And on Palin the Idiot:

But we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office.

It's unclear whether she is Bushian or Reaganite. She doesn't think aloud. She just . . . says things.

This is not a leader, this is a follower, and she follows what she imagines is the base, which is in fact a vast and broken-hearted thing whose pain she cannot, actually, imagine. She could reinspire and reinspirit; she chooses merely to excite. She doesn't seem to understand the implications of her own thoughts.

No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us.

In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It's no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism.

Hard-core-Republican Chicago Tribune endorses Obama, says McCain put his campaign ahead of his country with stupid Palin pick

2008-10-17T22:48:00.003+01:00

It really is nice to see the adults in the Republican party, the few that are left, admit the error of their ways, and put their country ahead of their destroyed party.

Maybe it's the first sign of redemption. Admitting they were wrong. Or maybe it's just that Obama is such a superior candidate for President.

Here's excerpts from the Tribune's historic endorsement today - the first non-Republican ever to earn their approval.

FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE EDITORIAL BOARD Tribune endorsement: Barack Obama for president

On Nov. 4 we're going to elect a president to lead us through a perilous time and restore in us a common sense of national purpose.
The strongest candidate to do that is Sen. Barack Obama. The Tribune is proud to endorse him today for president of the United States.

This endorsement makes some history for the Chicago Tribune. This is the first time the newspaper has endorsed the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
The Republican Party, the party of limited government, has lost its way. The government ran a $237 billion surplus in 2000, the year before Bush took office -- and recorded a $455 billion deficit in 2008. The Republicans lost control of the U.S. House and Senate in 2006 because, as we said at the time, they gave the nation rampant spending and Capitol Hill corruption. They abandoned their principles. They paid the price.

We might have counted on John McCain to correct his party's course. We like McCain. We endorsed him in the Republican primary in Illinois. In part because of his persuasion and resolve, the U.S. stands to win an unconditional victory in Iraq.

It is, though, hard to figure John McCain these days. He argued that President Bush's tax cuts were fiscally irresponsible, but he now supports them. He promises a balanced budget by the end of his first term, but his tax cut plan would add an estimated $4.2 trillion in debt over 10 years. He has responded to the economic crisis with an angry, populist message and a misguided, $300 billion proposal to buy up bad mortgages.

McCain failed in his most important executive decision. Give him credit for choosing a female running mate--but he passed up any number of supremely qualified Republican women who could have served. Having called Obama not ready to lead, McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. His campaign has tried to stage-manage Palin's exposure to the public. But it's clear she is not prepared to step in at a moment's notice and serve as president. McCain put his campaign before his country.

Obama chose a more experienced and more thoughtful running mate--he put governing before politicking. Sen. Joe Biden doesn't bring many votes to Obama, but he would help him from day one to lead the country.

It may have seemed audacious for Obama to start his campaign in Springfield, invoking Lincoln. We think, given the opportunity to hold this nation's most powerful office, he will prove it wasn't so audacious after all. We are proud to add Barack Obama's name to Lincoln's in the list of people the Tribune has endorsed for president of the United States.

Third Obama/McCain Debate - SNL Version

2008-10-17T22:22:00.001+01:00

Too bad the McCain campaign and the GOP are now dead. They sure were good for comedy. Even if they wrecked America.

Washington Post endorsement: "Mr. Obama has the potential to become a great president."

2008-10-17T07:38:00.002+01:00

Mr. Obama is a man of supple intelligence, with a nuanced grasp of complex issues and evident skill at conciliation and consensus-building.

At home, we believe, he would respond to the economic crisis with a healthy respect for markets tempered by justified dismay over rising inequality and an understanding of the need for focused regulation.

Abroad, the best evidence suggests that he would seek to maintain U.S. leadership and engagement, continue the fight against terrorists, and wage vigorous diplomacy on behalf of U.S. values and interests.

Mr. Obama has the potential to become a great president. Given the enormous problems he would confront from his first day in office, and the damage wrought over the past eight years, we would settle for very good.

Obama at the Al Smith dinner last night

2008-10-17T06:51:00.001+01:00

Some pretty good material.

Get used to your next president folks. He's gonna be in your living rooms for the next eight years.

For most Americans, here's what it comes down to. They don't want McCain in their living rooms for the next four years. He's a creep and he's an ass

2008-10-16T23:18:00.003+01:00

In these out-of-control, falling-off-the-cliff times, after the Republicans wrecked America, people want a calm, positive, steady hand on the wheel.

And that's why Obama will win in the biggest landslide since 1984.

John McCain, on the other hand, is a liar, an ass, a jerk and a Grade-A son-of-a-bitch. He's unsteady, he's erratic, he's negative, he's angry, and he's frankly unelectable.

Nice job GOP. If you're going to go down in flames, might as well go big.

Huckabee, Mr. Likable, would have been interesting. Romney, Mr. Economics, would have had a chance. But no, you went with a loser. And now, you'll simply go away.

Goodbye.

Here's the third and final debate. Have at it.

2008-10-16T09:19:00.001+01:00

It's time for America to be America again.

2008-10-15T18:10:00.005+01:00

It's been years in the making.

And now, it's here. The long shot of long shots, and now the ticket is a winner.

Enough Americans surprisingly wised up, finally, pulled their heads out of their rears, stopped listening to Rush and Hannity and O'Reilley, and said enough was enough. It was time for a change. A BIG change. And a good one. Even though change is tough, and messy.

America and the world can now start on reconstruction and rebuilding, after the most disastrous presidency in US history. It'll take some time, but the healing begins in just three weeks.

George Bush and the Republicans wrecked America.

But we can rebuild it. We have the technology.

And we'll have an inspirational, intelligent, grounded, once-in-a-generation leader who can get it done.

And for the haters and doubters, give the guy a chance. You might be surprised.

It's time for America to be America again.

A shining city on a hill.

John McCain and Sarah Palin - too stupid to know what they're doing is wrong?

2008-10-15T11:39:00.003+01:00

Even though he was a total failure in school, I get the sense that McCain is smart enough to know what he's doing is wrong.

Palin though, being a confirmed mental midget, and having an absolute joke of an education, is definitely too stupid to know. Actually, she's about as dumb as the idiots showing up at her rallies right now. If not dumber.

Regardless of their limited intellects, both are obviously lacking a strong moral compass, one which would have pointed them away from this immoral and un-American garbage.

Three more weeks. If we can make it. Three more weeks.

I've gotta give it to the GOP and NAR - they are really quite good at what they do. You know, spreading lies, tearing the country down, that stuff

2008-10-15T08:05:00.004+01:00

Too bad for them though that the nation finally wised up - at least enough of the nation that is. There are still 40% or so out there who don't get it. And probably never will.

It is kinda fun to watch the dying GOP turn on each other, before they go their separate ways

2008-10-14T21:08:00.004+01:00

This party will splinter into two or three new parties over the next decade

1) The Neo-Cons
2) The Libertarians
3) The Ultra-Religious Nut-Cases + The Racist South

Get some popcorn, and enjoy the GOP blowing up.

The McCain campaign is a historical disaster. But don't listen to me. Listen to the Republicans.

2008-10-14T18:54:00.002+01:00

Go ahead...

2008-10-14T17:57:00.000+01:00

I'm not sure why Al Gore is in hiding during this election, because this 2006 speech speaking out about Bush & Cheney breaking the law is a classic.

2008-10-14T01:24:00.000+01:00

Come on out Al.

Kick the GOP when they're down and kill the monster once and for all.

Presidents of the past fifty years in one word

2008-10-14T01:08:00.001+01:00

JFK - Cuba
Johnson - Vietnam
Nixon - Watergate
Carter - Iran
Ford - WIN
Reagan - AIDS
Bush - Iraq
Clinton - Blowjob
Bush - Iraq
Obama - Cleanup

Here was the SNL Obama/McCain debate in case you missed it

2008-10-13T06:16:00.002+01:00

Much more entertaining than the real one...

Would you like to see what a true as*hole looks like? A mean, evil, horrible person? Well, here's Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager and lobbyist

2008-10-12T21:20:00.002+01:00

I'll let this video speak for itself.

AmericaPANIC calls on Sarah Palin to remove herself from the GOP ticket, and to apologize Barack Obama and the American people

2008-10-12T05:18:00.006+01:00

Sarah Palin is a national disgrace.

Just when you thought the GOP couldn't sink to new lows, they go out and sink to new lows.

The past six weeks have been six of the most shameful and embarrassing weeks in American political history. And last week was the worst, thanks to Sarah Palin and her handlers in the McCain campaign.

We went to a whole new level of political scum when the GOP vice presidential candidate insinuated that the Democratic nominee was essentially an un-American Muslim terrorist.

Yes, she is ignorant, and an undereducated unintellectual incurious fool, but this is no excuse. She should be ashamed, John McCain should be ashamed of her, Americans should be ashamed of them, and she should withdraw. And if she doesn't withdraw, she should be loudly opposed anywhere she rears her head.

The American people are going to withdraw her anyway in a few weeks, but for the good of the country, and to help avoid something truly tragic for the nation, she should apologize, repudiate her own hateful remarks, and withdraw.

She is a disgrace.

__________

"Attacking Obama for his toleration of Bill Ayers is legitimate. Attacking him for not dissociating himself from Jeremiah Wright earlier is legitimate. Attacking him for raising taxes is fine. But associating him with "terrorists" in the context of large, angry crowds isn't. Calling him a traitor and someone who seeks to put US troops in harm's way in an emotionally fraught time isn't. Not immediately and strongly rebuking crowd cries of "terrorist," "kill him!" and "treason" isn't.

McCain must loudly and clearly disown and disavow this rhetoric soon. Or we all may live to regret it more deeply than we can currently imagine."

- Republican columnist Andrew Sullivan, October 2008

AmericaPANIC Serious Quote of the Day

2008-10-12T05:15:00.002+01:00

"As public figures with the power to influence and persuade, Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all. They are playing a very dangerous game that disregards the value of the political process and cheapens our entire democracy. We can do better. The American people deserve better."

- Rep. John Lewis, while comparing the McCain campaign to George Wallace's campaign, October 2008

Here's John McCain, running as a Communist now, and his great idea to use your money to discount the mortgages of gamblers

2008-10-12T03:21:00.002+01:00

Call it what it is.

Communism.

McCain wants to use $300 billion to "put a floor under home prices", buying mortgages at the face value and letting gamblers (and their lender) enjoy the new lower market price. Obviously not understanding what contracts are, what the free market is, or that high home prices were and are the problem, not the solution.

What an idiot, my friends. What an idiot.

And I have no idea what's happened to John McCain. I think he's truly lost his mind. Because he sure has lost his way. How anyone even in the GOP can support this guy any longer shows you how clueless that crowd must be.

I've never seen a more desperate candidate for president in my life. It's amazing what desperation does to a man. He'll sell the last thing he has left. His soul.

Well, at least they'll say that in a time of immense and historical national crisis, he was consistent in his incompetence

2008-10-11T20:41:00.003+01:00

The worst president ever.

And we all paid the price.

The Great Unwinding and Panic of 2008 will make many consider issues greater than money

2008-10-11T19:56:00.003+01:00

It's too bad the current Republican Party pretended to be the Party of God to get the votes of the ignorant.

Because the party of money and greed probably is riding a camel at this point.

AmericaPANIC Serious Question of the Day

2008-10-11T15:41:00.004+01:00

If John McCain and Sarah Palin (Idiot) somehow amazingly win this election,

(fill in the blank ____________________)

AmericaPANIC Quote of the Day

2008-10-11T11:47:00.002+01:00

"That's what happens when we have idiots running our country and idiots who vote for them."

- Anon HP poster, October 11, 2008

I'm not sure about Fox News anymore. Is it a discredited joke, or is it simply evil?

2008-10-11T08:01:00.003+01:00

Free thinking aware people: It's a joke, and yes, in some ways, it's evil

Idiots: I believe everything they tell me to believe, because I'm a mindless, ignorant idiot.

And then another true Republican threw John McCain and Sarah Palin (Idiot) under the bus. And rolled over 'em a few times.

2008-10-11T06:52:00.004+01:00

Here's Chris Buckley, from the National Review. And it's nice to see these true Republicans put country above politics, and admit what we all know is true:

McCain and Palin (Idiot) are unacceptable, disgusting, dangerous, and a national embarrassment.

Now if we can just get Frank to admit that too, I think we could all move on.

Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama

by Christopher Buckley

I am—drum roll, please, cue trumpets—making this announcement in the cyberpages of The Daily Beast (what joy to be writing for a publication so named!) rather than in the pages of National Review, where I write the back-page column. For a reason: My colleague, the superb and very dishy Kathleen Parker, recently wrote in National Review Online a column stating what John Cleese as Basil Fawlty would call “the bleeding obvious”: namely, that Sarah Palin is an embarrassment, and a dangerous one at that. She’s not exactly alone. New York Times columnist David Brooks, who began his career at NR, just called Governor Palin “a cancer on the Republican Party.”

John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?

Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.

AmericaPANIC Serious Question of the Day

2008-10-10T18:06:00.003+01:00

What's crashing faster:

A) The Dow
B) The McCain Campaign

And then the sheeple finally came to understand that George W. Bush was the Worst President in the History of the United States

2008-10-10T14:15:00.000+01:00

"Bush has now tied Richard Nixon's worst rating ever, taken in a poll just before he resigned in 1975, and is only 2 points higher than the worst presidential approval rating in history, Harry Truman's 22 percent mark in February 1952"

- CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

John McCain is a dark, mean, hot-headed, unstable man. But hey, you knew that anyway, didn't ya?

2008-10-10T07:35:00.001+01:00

Oh, he's also a terrorist, a Muslim, he eats little puppies and he doesn't wash his hands after going to the loo.

If McCain wants to play dirty, then dirty we will play.