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youtube.com - 11/5/2008

President-Elect Barack Obama in Chicago (video)

— youtube.com — Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4th, 2008 in Chicago.... (more) President-Elect Barack Obama in Chicago (video)

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powerlineblog.com - 11/5/2008

Ten theses on President-elect Obama

— powerlineblog.com — The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States calls for reflections far... beyond these provisional thoughts, but here are ten: 1. The original thesis of the Obama candidacy was that, in a multiparty field, he could ... (more) Ten theses on President-elect Obama

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corner.nationalreview.com - 11/5/2008

Congratulations And Thanks

— corner.nationalreview.com — 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 ... (more) Congratulations And Thanks

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Congratulations, Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... and to our country for not having let the wrong reasons deter it from making the wrong choice. I’ll never be a fan, but I swear I’ll never take a nutroots posture either in relishing his failures because it helps my party. Like it or not, he’s my president. As a great man once said, country first.

War and Piece — Ross Douthat : Like many conservative writers, my good opinion of Barack Obama diminished somewhat over the course of the campaign. Part of this was the inevitable hardening of the partisan arteries that takes place during a Presidential year, but part of it was that Obama's particular gifts - his combination of charisma and thoughtfulness, and his ability to project sympathy for positions he does not himself hold - created unreasonable initial expectations for the kind of actual compromises he might make with conservatives. [...] So I was disappointed in Barack Obama, but I ...

Late-Night Election Thoughts
Newshoggers.com — ... I know that some are congratulating Obama on his win, such as our own John McCain. Yes, that’s fair, but if you listened to the concession speech the reasons this is such a “great moment” is because Obama is black, not because he was qualified, or even able to handle the Presidency. As I said before that makes this election even more pathetic. It was all about electing the first “Affirmative Action” candidate to office. ...

11/5: Yes, He Did
Blogometer — ... in Obama's victory: "It's going to be very liberating to be able to fight bad policy from a completely honest standpoint. Meaning, conservatives would be able to confront terrible ideas, like the bailout bill, head-on without having to worry about what the Executive branch might do to undermine the concerns." OBAMA IV: Mandate? What Mandate? Several conservative bloggers are arguing that Obama's victory should not be seen as evidence that the country has moved left: An exception is Douthat , who believes that Obama has won a mandate: "[Obama's] campaign wasn't addressed to ...

Opposing Loyally
Fraters Libertas — ... right-wingers were compared with fascist brown shirts in the Weimar Republic, with the implication that it was only a matter of time before we would be seeing violent street battles in the place of political dialog. Surely now that Barack Obama has been elected president this cauldron of Republican rage must be boiling over into outright hostility and anger? Let's take a quick look at how some various right-winger bloggers and pundits are reacting: The semi-repentant neo-con Ross Douthat : And then, of course, there's the fact that Obama has just been elected President of ...

MORNING READ
News — ... composition has shifted from being more Republican to being more Democratic, writes Contention's John Podhoretz . Turnout sucked, perhaps because Republicans stayed home, writes kos . FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Okay, Now Govern - Jonah Goldberg, The Corner [image] Sour Loser - John Derbyshire, The Corner [image] Gird Your Loins, Conservatives - Michelle Malkin [image] Post-Election GOP Agenda - David Bernstein, Volokh Conspiracy [image] Congratulations, President-Elect Obama - Ross Douthat [image] Senate Trio - Jennifer ...

The Right Reacts
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — From the losing side of the blogosphere. Ross: I was disappointed in Barack Obama, but I also realize that his campaign wasn't addressed to me: It was addressed to the constituents of a potential center-left majority, and that's the majority he won tonight. Whether this majority holds together will depend on how he governs, but for the moment he has achieved something that no Democratic politician has achieved in a generation: He's carved out a mandate to take America at least some distance in a leftward direction, and he has left the conservative ...