Give W. a chance

"We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America."

This was George W. Bush in his 2004 victory speech over John Kerry. Sounds awfully like Obama, doesn't he?

Fast forward to 2008. 12, 000 people in San Francisco voted a proposition to name a local sewage plant after the incumbent President.



Jeffery Scott Shapiro in the Wall Street Journal writes, "the president's original Supreme Court choice of Harriet Miers alarmed Republicans, while his final nomination of Samuel Alito angered Democrats. His solutions to reform the immigration system alienated traditional conservatives, while his refusal to retreat in Iraq has enraged liberals who have unrealistic expectations about the challenges we face there."

It really stopped mattering what W. did. People had given their verdict, and he was too good for John Stewart to let go.

W. today addressed his White House staff urging them to smoothen the transition for the President-elect Barack Obama . How unprecedented the smoothening of the transition has been can be seen in contrast to the transition he himself got from the Clinton White House. Ben Feller in the Huffington Post writes, "when W. took office in 2001, some aides found their computer keyboards were missing the W key - a nod to the middle initial in George W. Bush. Staff members of outgoing President Bill Clinton were suspected and criticized for acting immaturely."



W. faced extraordinary challenges during his Presidency. Americans, on the other hand, jumped on to conclusions far too quickly. Let history give its verdict on the President, not Oliver Stone. But as a people, we were to indulge in crass slander, not informed criticism. How many times did we hear, "the guy is an idiot." First things first, he could not have been an idiot to win the American vote in 2000 and 2004.

Yes, the same America that would vote for Barack Obama in 2008.

It is an imperative that the new President is not treated as callously as the old one. Because when late night television dictates how we see our Presidents, the joke is pretty much on us.

In case you were wondering, read the Antifits endorsement of Barack Obama here. (2/1/2008)

Barack Obama is the next President

Of all the places in the world, Thank God I am in America. And I will let Barack again do the talking. Watch his victory speech from Grant Park in Chicago, IL.



From the world, from the ones who couldn't exercise the vote, we needn't have worried. America, you rocked the vote!

(FiveThirtyEight.com) Obama: 349 McCain: 189

Four hours before numbers from Virginia start streaming in, and minutes before you awaken to a bombardment of a strange phenomenon called the exit poll, here are the final numbers drawn from a composite of 14 polls from folks at FiveThirtyEight.com.

Scroll down the page for some beautifully drawn up scenarios from these numbers.

Obama: 348.6 McCain: 189.4




Here is how FiveThirtyEight got at these numbers.

An Antifits Prediction: Who takes Virginia, wins the election.

Of Manhattan, Women and Presidential Campaigns..

Thank You Adam Brooks and the makers of Definitely, Maybe.

As a young hopeful in the Barack Obama ’08 campaign, and a man who adores being in New York City, I just had to write about it.

William Haze moves from Madison, WI to New York City to work in Clinton’s 1992 bid for election as the 42nd President of the United States. And what follows is his pursuits in love and in life, with Manhattan as his accomplice.

Everybone who has made speeches in front of shaving mirrors, gone inside dingy campaign offices to be working with people who seem to have all the quirks in the world, eaten bagels for all the three meals of the day from the sidewalks of New York City and still believed in the inherent ideals that dictate the art of Politics as something for the better of the world we live in, go and watch it. If you have been involved in other liberal campaigns, you would also testify the fact that there is more than a smattering of interesting women.

Another reason to be a liberal, I guess.