OK, To Those of You on the RIGHT - Its Now OFFICIAL!!

Yawn! That tired lie again? If Bush "Stole" the presidency from that scam artist, lying sack of crap Gore, why wasn't he considered the rightful candidate by the democrats the next election. Put the lie to bed before you look like an idiot.

I won't open my mind to lies and stupidity. Gore lost EVERY recount in that election, so the whining baby cried to the courts.. Then he whined because the courts told him that they wouldn't change the rules midstream just because he can't handle losing. Gore has since become one of the biggest scam artists and lying sacks of bovine entrails in history. In his film he showed how the earth would continuously warm up (remember the graph he showed? The end of it went up so steep he needed a scissor lift to rise with it). But as we can see from REALITY, temperatures have gone DOWN! Something his lies didn't predict. If Prs. Elect Obama turns to him for advice on the environment, it will be yet another lying bit of scum in his checkered associations. No thinking person gives Gore anything but scorn. Let's hope Prs. Obama does better than those he chooses to surround himself with.

Open your mind! These allegations have been proven true a number of times, and particularly in Florida, where it was a very tight race, and many ballots were "lost". Gore was not the candidate the next time because his focus had changed, and he was not the same as when he ws running for office. As an ecologist, many of his ideas, speeches and behaviors have changed, as he sheds the not-exactly-always-honest trappings of politics. Time and commitments changed him.

I'm certainly hoping and praying for the same thing you are, Ted. I can't speak for any other Democrats but I know I don't intend to blame Bush for anything Obama does wrong, if that's what you mean, like Bush blamed the economic problems of his Administration on decisions made by his own father...lol! He said our current problems are due to decisions made over a decade before he took office so that would be Bush 41, right? Annie

Actually, most of the first year or so of any administration has more to do with the previous administration than the current one. Why? Because it takes that long for a new administration's policies to get passed, implemented and start to really effect things. I've always been entertained by how reactive we have become. Congress or the Fed does something and we expect the changes to happen almost before the policy changes. If things don't change immediately, we call it a failure, then when change does occur, we wonder how it happened.

As far as I'm concerned the "nightmares of the past 8 years" were all media hype including how things progressed in Iraq, so I suppose things may go better now.. or may appear to.. yet I can't forget 9/11 wasn't a response to those 8 years.. no matter how much some would like that to be true.. and global warming concerns are sure to influence the economy.. I say, should we give Prez Obama as much of a fair shake as George W got?

Nice try, but you didn't seem so eager to stop the bad mouthing when you made those crude comments about McCain earlier today. Just admit that you're more than happy to badmouth McCain now that the election is over, but you want all the badmouthing of Obama to stop. Just admit your hypocrisy and we'll all feel better.

I'm not so quick to jump on the band wagon, and dance in the streets - - my concern is where Israel is concerned. There are already plans in the making in the new administration, to "slice up Israel" and Jerusalem in particular, which is wrong. Israel just wants to live in peace and be left alone. History shows that the Palestinians want more and more, and still will not be satisfied. History also shows that the Palestinians want ALL of Israel, because of their hatred for the Jews. And then there's little former President Carter over there right now, meddling in these affairs, with which he has no bussiness doing. Like Jesse Jackson - he needs to stay at home and promote peace HERE ! There's no way that Mr. "O" will be able to carry out all of his plans, and I think we'll see a lot of his bringing in the opposite of what he said he'd do. But he is my president, and I'll not dishonor him, and will be praying for him.

Hey, that's a good way to look at it - we've been on a collision course these past eight years and if something isn't done we'll crash and burn. Time to apply the brakes! Annie

You're both right, unity isn't going to be easy and I think one of the reasons is that nobody wants to be the one who "blinks". I know I've been guilty of criticizing Bush and other Republicans and I must admit, especially as long as there's a myLot and there's a politics interest in myLot I'll probably do it again but I think the saddest and most unfortunate thing that's happened these past 16 years is that it's gone beyond politics and simply disagreeing on issues and policies and turned ugly and personal. I'm not sure exactly when or WHY that happened, I'm only sure that it did happen. Annie

The 2004 election was all based on fear. The D1ck Cheney himself said if we didn't vote for them we'd likely die! I can't believe people fell for that. Annie

Annie, might I remind you that there were about as many US troop deaths during the Clinton administration as the Bush administration? Might I also remind you that for most of the Bush administration the economic indicators were (on the average) on par with the Clinton administration? The only reason it was a nightmare is you wanted it to be one.

Ted, that was a nice try! http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_more_soldiers_die_during_bill_clintons.html I sure didn't "want" to live a nightmare the past few years and neither did any of my friends and relatives. I guess the rewriting of history has begun in earnest. Annie

Maybe it wasn't a nightmare for you since you're not in the U.S. How many men and women have you lost in the Iraq War? It certainly wasn't a nightmare only to the Democrats down here in the states. I'm so sorry you have such prejudice in your heart and can't accept that your neighbors voted for a black man but I can assure you nobody I know voted for him "because he was black" but I'm very sad to say I know some who voted against him for that reason. FYI, the Democrats controlled Congress by the slimmest of margins since 2007; Bush took office in 2001. The Republican controlled Congress for Bush's first six years were ignored by the Administration and they allowed him to walk all over them for fear of being accused of being unpatriotic so they rubber-stamped everything he wanted (as did some of the Democrats as well) and went running with their tails between their legs. Yes, Saddam is now out and NO I didn't say I wish he was back in but I do wish we'd have gotten Bin Laden when we had the chance and that the intelligence hadn't been manipulated to get us into a war with Iraq which was already planned long before 9/11 and which took our focus off Afghanistan enough for the Taliban to regroup. Annie

Taskr, our economy was not solid until two years ago! Exactly what are you blaming the Democrats for, with their slim majority that couldn't come close to overriding a Bush veto? What Bush did sign he altered with his signing statements! What "improvements" in our airport security? The fact that now old men and little girls have to take their shoes off or be searched yet time and time again people have managed to get through security with things that aren't supposed to be allowed? As far as my "rehashing my hatred", are you going to say you and several others haven't been doing the same thing towards anyone on the left? Anyway, when I post something in the politics interest it's because it's relevant at the time I post it. Bush and Cheney are still in office so they're still making news; Palin has still been in the news. I don't recall having much to say that's been negative about McCain since the election so I don't think I've rehashed any hatred towards him. Annie