Muscatine

My two cents worth.  It's very difficult to unseat a president, so the closeness of the race was in some way a positive.  The governorships and retention of congressional numbers prevented this from being a Democratic version of the 2010 "shellacking".  However, when a guy like Obama who has been so incredibly poor at his job can't be beaten, it leads us to believe that perhaps race and entitlements are playing more into the picture than we had suspected they ever might in the "home of the brave".  Romney was not a strong candidate, and the question now becomes do Republicans move to a stronger conservative stance, or do they throw their principles into the wind and move to the middle?  I hope for the first. 

The stock market in the past few days is a pretty good indicator of the lack of confidence the marketplace has for the next four years.  Compromise cannot just be what it has always been....Democrats just insisting that Republicans move to their position.  If that doesn't happen, if Obama feels like he's being given another free pass to accomplish nothing and spend us into oblivion, then I truly worry about the future of this country. 

Sounds like goodf advice and observational candor.

Just a side note though. this very same assessment would have been just as relevant each and very election since 1988. especially 2000 and 2004. Minus the massive tax cuts, over a decade of endless job exportation, trickle down wealth redistribution, unfunded drug program, unfunded iraq and afgan wars, helped bankers and brokers rob us blind, tried to privatize SS, and offer paths to citizenship. Corporate profiteering in the trillions now, without any payback to hard working Americans, A BILLION spent on elections, lobyists dream scape, with bought and paid for politicians on every corner, but yup pretty astute.

We should have been afraid like this person for the last 30 YEARS. But now--- with all that clean slate ahead of him, it's obozo's doing. The wheels of this bus have been stuck in the muck and trenches of these snowballing issues with the then new culture of deregulation ansd wealth building for the top ten% since reagan left office. It is why I prayed McCain win in spite of his running mate.

Yup it's all this guy's fault.

From four years ago and this date forward the nappy-haired half-white boy carries the blame.

The true taste of regret stands in the wake of time and virtue.

Nothing ventured nothing gained unless you are the focal point of the wealth builders needs of power and avarice. That isn't who this guy was, is, or will be. That dear sir was left to twist in the wind four years ago.

Today that nasty taste comes from the past.

Lincoln is spinning in his box.