“The American people have spoken and they have spoken clearly,” Republican presidential nominee John McCain just told supporters in Phoenix, where he is conceding the 2008 presidential election to Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
He went on to note the historic nature of the election of the nation’s first African-American president, saying: “Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.”
McCain also asked his supporters to help “get our country moving again.” And he says of his defeat, that “the failure is mine, not yours.”
He finished with a statement that dripped with dignity and patriotism. “Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much,” he said. “And tonight I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone.”
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A true American Hero and greatly respected and loved!! Thank you Sir!!!
he’s a part of history now. it could’ve been different had he picked another running mate.
Sad day. He’s a great man!
He would have been a great president in 2000 — damn Bush!
he gave a classy concession speech.
When a Vietnam war POW loses the election to a man who launched his political career in the living room of a Vietnam dissenter that bombed public buildings in protest it becomes strikingly clear how far our culture has eroded. When the populace elects a candidate on the promise of gutting the military, forcing energy prices to “skyrocket” and distributing income from the productive to the non-productive it becomes clear how much trouble our country is in.
Where do I sign up for the free gas and mortgage payments?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0sugseJfg
It’s past 5 am, and I have been up all night. I live in England, but my two teenage sons are in Montana. I watched all the results for them, for myself, for my two little girls whom hold dual citizenship.
I thought of all four of my children and wept, hoping we can get this wonderful coutnry on track again, to be the great nation I know we are.
Please, let’s put the ugliness that has been on this blog for months aside and celebrate together. No matter who one voted for, we are Americans, the citizens of the most wonderful and amazing country on earth. Let’s embrace change and know that America’s star will shine on.
God Bless America.
8….The half of the country that didn’t vote for Obama are going to have a difficult time forgetting the incredibly hateful and disgusting manner in which the left has treated Bush for the last 8 years. It’s easy to ask people to “put the ugliness aside” now that it’s a leftists turn to take the president’s chair. Pray that we show Obama more respect and decency than the left has shown President Bush and most recently, Governor Palin. Though I can’t see how Obama could possibly be treated any worse than they were.
John McCain is a class act through and through!!! Too bad Governor Palin lost it for him.
9 - Let’s not forget the way Bush divided the country in his bid for re-election in 2004. He blatantly used class and cultural warfare to win, and the country is sill in ruins because of it. Whatever treatment he received from the left was a reaction to the unforgivable way in which he further divided this great nation. Now Obama will have to work hard to repair the damage Bush has created.
6…..sad, isn’t it? The decline always begins with disintegration of culture first. We’re seeing it unfold right before our eyes. With a childlike naivete, the American left thinks the world is cheering for us, completely ignorant to the fact that what they really applaud is our new Obama led sprint toward mediocrity and diminished importance on the world stage. A gutted military. An economy soon to be suffocated with toxic taxation. Energy prices on the verge of “skyrocketing”. Exploding unemployment due to the mass exodus of business to more sensible shores. And on this night the balance shifts—not from Republican to Democrat, but from United States of America to China and India. True Americans mourn the accelerated loss of a truly great nation our ancestors sacrificed so much for. The rest gloat and count their new entitlements paid for by the labor of others. Is it worth it?
^^ WTF? Everything you claim will happen is already happening - under Bush!!!!! Wake up!
11….It was a one sided war perpetrated by the left. Bush even reached far enough across the aisle to work with the extremely left wing Ted Kennedy on education. Bush gave a larger tax break to the middle class than he did the rich. It was the left including treasonous characters like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi that worked to undermine Bush at every turn, even it meant cheering against our own country—in the war and with the economy. Don’t forget it was democrats that declared the war lost and The Surge a failure before it began. Of course they were wrong and we have since won the war—no thanks to them. It was democrats that continued to talk down the economy to score political points even after Bush inherited a recession from Clinton and we suffered through the economic fallout of 9/11. Until the economic meltdown orchestrated by democrats like Barney Frank and their friends in Fannie Mae this country led by Bush came out of the dotcom bubble/9-11 recession and enjoyed record unemployment and protection from further terrorist attack. To blame Bush for the hatred directed at him by the left is dishonest and ignorant of history and akin to blaming a victim of sexual assault for being too trusting of strangers. No president deserves the abhorrent treatment he has received by the left.
13….Obama wants to cut military spending while at the same time our rivals in China and Russia are increasing theirs. Obama also wants to cease development on our missile defense systems—our only protection against an attack by a rogue nation like Iran who btw has tested the ability to fire missiles from standard cargo ships just a few miles off our shores in int’l waters. Obama has also admitted that energy prices will “necessarily skyrocket” due to his imposed taxes on energy. Just what effect do you fathom that will have on the economy? Of course, Obama also promises to raise taxes on businesses, who any economist will tell you will then pass the costs onto consumers in the form of higher prices or relocate overseas where taxes are far cheaper. Just what do you think that will do for economic growth and unemployment? You see, what you fail to realize is that redistribution of income doesn’t create more income, it just shuffles the same money around. It’s antithetical to growth. If you think these are problems now under Bush, just wait. Under Obama, unemployment will be approaching 10% by next year (not counting Obama’s new “civilian national security force”, of course.
#14 - The country did not inherit a recession from Clinton. In fact, we had economic prosperity during his two terms and had a budget surplus when his term was completed. And Bush never reached across the aisle to anyone and has been known for not reaching across the aisle for the last eight years. In fact, he helped to further divide the nation in his 2004 re-election bid by evoking class and cultural warfare. The nation is still at odds today because of it. And the middle-class receiving bigger tax breaks than the reach is laughable. Bush pays lip service to the middle-class by claiming they will benefit for his tax policies, but he’s all about giving tax breaks to big business and corporations. The middle-class will never feel the affects because “trickle down” economics DOES NOT WORK! And his war HAS failed because he had NO EXIT STRATEGY! And let’s not forget the trillions of dollars we are now indebted for thanks to Bush and his uncontrollable spending and bailouts. Bush has completely broken the country, destroyed our moral standing in the world, threw us into an economic recession, increased terrorism around the world thanks to our occupation in Iraq, and has exploded the national debt. He deserves every criticism he gets.
16….You are demonstrably wrong. It is a fact that Bush inherited a recession from Clinton after the dot com bubble burst. Even professor Joseph Stiglitz, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, admits that “the economy was slipping into recession even before Bush took office, and the corporate scandals that are rocking America began much earlier.” Look it up. It is also a FACT that Bush reached across the aisle on many occasions. Even the NYTimes says “Mr. Bush has turned to Mr. Kennedy, the longtime Massachusetts senator who is his most ardent liberal Democratic critic, time and again to push the biggest items on his domestic agenda: education, prescription drugs and the immigration bill that failed last week. The president began courting Mr. Kennedy early on, with an invitation to a movie at the White House. He renamed the Justice Department headquarters for Mr. Kennedy’s brother, Robert. He was the host of a black-tie dinner to honor the senator’s sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of the Special Olympics, when she turned 85. In May, he sent Mr. Kennedy as part of his official delegation to Northern Ireland.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/washington/04allies.html It is also a fact that the “rich” pay a higher percentage of the tax revenue than they did under Clinton. http://www.heritage.org/research/taxes/bg2001.cfm Further more, the economic meltdown was caused in large part by democrats resistance to republican efforts to regulate fannie mae. FACT: Bush tried 17 times to regulate fannie mae and was rejected by the democrat controlled congress each time. And as for your assertion that terrorism has increased under Bush, you conveniently ignore the fact that we were attacked by al queda repeatedly during the Clinton years. Since 9/11 we haven’t been attacked at home once and al queda is a fraction of what it once was. BTW, notice that I back up my arguments with facts. Perhaps you should try doing the same. You might just learn something.
Nice speech, McCain. Congrats, Obama! Let’s get the wheels rollin’!
I don’t think it would ever be easy to give a speech after you lost the biggest race of your life. McCain spoke incredibly well and he took the loss with great dignity. While I disagree with many of McCain’s policies, I don’t think he’s a bad person. He’s had a good political career so far, and not many people get to stand where he is today, so even though he has lost the election he has achieved a lot. I do think that if he hadn’t chosen Palin as his running mate, things could have been closer. I still don’t think he would have won though, Obama has awakened and inspired this nation like never before. He was a winner from day one in my opinion.
#9. Bush should have been impeached at the very least. The hateful Bush has been treated these last 8 years…. That is a laugh. Please go away now. You are the ever fading minority of people who do not represent what America really stands for. Thank God.
Hey Repugnicans, have some WHINE with your cheesy remarks. You lost. LOSERS.
20…”That is a laugh. Please go away now. You are the ever fading minority of people who do not represent what America really stands for. Thank God” Really? Is that your position on “minorities”, that they just “go away”? How progressive and tolerant of you. Actually “hairball”, I believe it’s your bigoted vision of how “minorities” should be treated that is “fading” away as clearly evidenced by the results of this election. But do enlighten us oh bigoted one, beyond your wishful banishment of the “minority of people” who dare think differently than yourself, just what does America “really stand for”? Do tell. This should be good.
21….Even in victory, you libs manage to display remarkable hatred. At least you’re consistent. Way to represent. By the way, don’t confuse numerical superiority with intellectual superiority. At one time the majority of Russians thought the Bolshevik Revolution was a good idea too.
16….Where are you at “Anon”? What’s wrong? The actual facts don’t gel with your MTV educated view of recent history? Facts are a bitch, aren’t they?
“don’t confuse numerical superiority with intellectual superiority” I didn’t when this happened in 2004. Actually, your posts have gotten so ridiculous that I am showing them to my friend for a good laugh. Goodbye Anonymous.
“Hairball”, how convenient of you to completely dodge my question in post #22. Rather than have your quaint little viewpoint challenged you’d rather share your baseless opinions with your friend who no doubt thinks in the same oxygen starved manner as you do. I’ll even repeat the question for you. Just what does America “really stand forâ€? Let’s find out if there’s a brain behind “hairballs” pathetic insults.
I don’t know if this is what hairball meant– but what I took away from the comment was that, with projected Senate and House majority for the Dems, a clear message has been sent to the Republican party. It’s time to re-evaluate your message, platform, target audience, etc.. People are calling for reform– Democrats and Republicans alike. People from both sides of the aisle have become unhappy with the performance exhibited by the last 8 years. Now it’s back to the drawing board.
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I think John McCain was gracious and classy here. I’ve always respected him greatly– he is a good man, and truly believed he had America’s interests at heart (even if I disagreed with his platform). I can appreciate that. I did not feel the same way about Palin. I agree that things might have been a little different had he picked a different running mate, however the outcome would have been more or less the same.
27….Republicans didn’t lose because their message need re-evaluating. In fact, most Americans, particularly productive, tax paying Americans, agree with conservative positions on individual issues, from tax policy to national defense to illegal immigration. Reasons why Republicans lost include 1) McCain isn’t a conservative candidate. In fact, he’s been the democrat’s favorite republican for years. 2) 80% of journalists consider themselves moderate to extremely liberal. http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics.asp thus accounting for the extremely biased reporting, which has been especially one-sided during this election. Even Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the media itself has acknowledged this to some degree. Which is why Obama benefitted from the economic meltdown despite the fact that it was caused in large part by democrats, including Obama himself who received more money from Fannie Mae than any other politician during his Senate career. Of course, the media completely disregarded this and led the ignorant masses to believe it was Bush’s fault despite the fact that Bush and other republicans tried repeatedly to regulate Fannie Mae, only to be blocked time and time again by democrats. One an even playing field, Republicans would win every time.
^^anonymous, you are so full of gloom and doom and anger and bitterness that you should probably just kill yourself. Yeah. Right now. Because frankly, I do not know how someone as twisted and furious as yourself is going to survive the next 4 years. So save yourself all this trouble, and all this posting. Just back away from the computer. Find one of those guns you’ve been stockpiling. Load it carefully, and put the business end in your mouth. Taste that? Yeah, that’s the sweet, sweet taste of relief. It can all be yours. Just pull the trigger.
Now Sarah Palin can stay the heck off my TV
Poster #28: Democratic control of both the House and Senate does not point to lack of support in the Republican base for McCain, but a nation-wide rejection of Republican policies. Look at my state (NY)– first Democratic Senate majority in… what 40 years? It’s an incredible feeling. (Maybe we’ll finally get major budgets passed on time…grr)
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All is happy at my house :o).
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29….And I’m the angery, bitter one? Wow. You liberals are just so full of hate. It’s rather unattractive.
31…..you’re fooling yourself. Almost half the country still voted for a crusty old 72 year old Republican. Again, issue by issue, most of the country still agrees with republican positions—strong national defense, low taxes, educational reform including vouchers, limits on late-term abortions, etc. etc.
you libs really are as classless as i thought.
congrats on the victory. i’m on obama’s team now too. unlike you guys, i respect the office, and this nation’s citizens, left and right. but this is what i’ve always said…i will never root for troop death milestones, failure, hurricanes to destroy cities, financial markets to crash, so i can feel redemption about my own views. i recognize that what’s good for america is good for obama and vice versa so i am on board.
but, the gloating and perpetual hatred coming from your side speaks volumes.
also, i can’t wait until arasto’s blog deteriorates because the political season has ended and his repressed, ‘gaping hole’ has nothing else to drive page views.
go usa!
RE: 32.
Dude, I’m just suggesting an efficient and graceful way to exit your no-win presence here. C’mon, try it!
His concession speech was brilliantly written. I am sure he regrets makin Sarah P his pick for she ensured his loss. God Bless Amercia
That was a very classy, moving speech by McCain.
35….why do you feel so threatened by a challenging view that you feel the need to banish my presence from the discussion? Intelligent people with well thought out opinions don’t fear diversity of thought. They welcome it.
re: 39. The only one who’s challenged around here is you, doofus. This is a celebrity and fashion blog, not a political blog. No matter how much you want to clog up every single fucking post with your loony right extremist rantings. Can’t you find a real political blog to haunt? Or do all the legitimate ones ban your crazy ass when you rear your head and post your drivel?
Arasto should have permanently banned you months ago. Lucky for you he’s a tolerant guy. And easily amused, apparently. I guess he kept you around as the court jester…