Happy Happy Joy Joy.  A NYC politician lost an election he thought was his birthright due to shared religious belief.  Maybe there is hope after all; politicians can no inherit office once held by deceased relatives not can they carpetbag into black/brown neighborhoods to snatch dollars to give to ethnic/religious groups living outside them.  Back to the CIA spook Barry Soetero; his Milton Friedman/Reagan policies are destroying Amerikkka.  Between the illegal “wars” steering billions to the MIC/corporations;the overt destruction of public schools in favor of for-profit charter schools.  Government jobs/contracts are being stripped of wages/benefits then.  Jim Yell is correct; I’m writing in NONE OF THE ABOVE for all future elections.

People didn’t switch over to the GOP whose approval numbers are rock bottom (stop giving legs to GOP propaganda): voter turnout was just too low (at best 30% as far as I can tell). It certainly doesn’t bode well for 2012. That is what happens when no pol represent the people, people stop voting.

Obama wasn’t on the ballot.

No you vote for a third party or write in, you don’t vote for either of them. In fact the idea that they voted Republican as an alternate, now that is scary!

I LOVE IT!! Progressivism/socialism takes another huge hit in the USA.

Problem is the Republicans message so much better than
the Dems and Obama doesn’t do it at all. He gives good
speeches but as far as I can see he will lose in 2012 because
so many of us feel the way those voters in NY’s 9th District.

Even now Obama is working on cutting Medicare and he has
lousy advisors I sometimes feel he doesn’t want to be re-
elected. The Democrats could win on the issue of Social
SEcurity, Medicare and Medicaid but Obama has weakened
that strategy so much that probably won’t work for the
Democrats. I understand many congressional Dems are
opposing him messing with Medicare now. Even before his
Health CAre reform plan get implemented. He is more or
less admitting failure than his plan will stop cut the costs of
Medicare. By joining the Republicans and following their lead
on so many issues he has blown it and by not fighting for
the middle class, the elderly, the sick he has nothing else to
campaign on.

We know the REpublicans will cut cut cut and probably
dismantle Medicare but Obama is doing the same thing by
more cuts. Medicare cannot be cut to bare bones because
the program cannot sustain any more cuts.

I still ask, What is the matter with our president? Can he
really be stupid enough to still believe he can achieve
bipartisanship after all that has happened?  Is he a planted
shill for the Republicans or was he so unprepared to be a
president and is still overwhelmed by the job.

I don’t know but I do think Americans would really like to
know what he thinks, how he feels (if he feels) and explain
some of his policy decisions and why he has purposely
ignored the blight of the middle and poor. We used to think
he had some wise strategy - just wait people said to me but
in the long run I have been right in my suspicions and he
just can’t set himself straight nor does he have the needed
temperament to fight. What an ambitious naive man he was
and is.

After all that seeing lifetimes democrats vote Republican
shocked me and the result shocked me. I admit I had no
intention of voting for Obama and I now see I am not alone
but the thought of one of the Republican candidates in the
WH is just too disturbing. They are the most poorly informed
people I have ever seen. Rick Perry hasn’t even noticed that
pray did not end the Texas drought.

And what happened to the American people? Cheering for
killing 234 people. Demanding that people without
insurance should be left to die. What is happening to us?

Why do democrats think that the best way to send Obama a message is to vote for republicans?  Birds don’t shit in their nests.