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Un par de fotos del segundo partido del triangular.

Aguante Boca!

Don’t waste your question on something serious…

And posting will resume after December 17th.

May he govern for the next four years as Barack Obama the speech-giver, not as Barack Obama the man (his record, past votes, associations, etc).

In other words, may unicorns begin to poop Skittles on January 20, 2009.

My previous thoughts still apply, of course.

If politely asking for a photo ID suppresses votes, what effect does placing angry dudes holding billy clubs at the entrace to the polling station have on voter turnout?

My tentative hypothesis: It can’t help.

MSNBC is calling Pennsylvania for Obama. This is just on exit polls basically. Not a good sign.

Ditto for Dole’s early called loss in NC.

How do I know?

MSNBC’s “all-star” team of political analysts and Obama blowhards (but I repeat myself) just came on at 5pm…and they haven’t called the election for Obama yet.

fuel and housing will be free. also, there will be peace on earth and all the sick will be healed.

vote obama!

Despite what the Right and Left are saying about the consequences of their guy not winning, I’m optimistic about the future of our country and the world as a whole.

Yes, President Obama would be a serious setback for free markets, would revert to a law enforcement approach in fighting terrorism (that worked well in the 90’s!) and would decimate the federal courts.

And yeah, President McCain would be a disaster on immigration reform, would further limit political speech, and (just like Obama) would do more harm than good vis-a-vis the economy.

Nevertheless, America will survive.

We’ve survived recessions, depressions, world wars, a civil war, invasions, terrorist attacks abroad, terrorist attacks here at home, Nazis, Communists, and well, I could go on for a long time. America is not only a great country, it is a special one. As a friend of mine remarked, “if people are still lashing together make-shift rafts and risking their lives to come here, we’re not doing so bad.”

On Tuesday night around half of us will inevitably be disappointed. When our preferred candidate doesn’t win, don’t worry. America will not end.

Tito Muñoz vs. Alan Colmes, Barack Obama, liberalism, clientelism, et al.

Hilarious, since he just bulldozes Colmes.

Sad, because what he says is true.

First, the boy who only wanted to study sign mechanics. Ouch [video].

Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill was tired of someone stealing McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard. Turschak, with a degree in electrical engineering, hooked up a third sign to a power source for an electric pet fence Monday and also put up a surveillance camera.

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The boy’s father, Andrew Noble, upset that his son had been shocked, showed up at Turschak’s door. Soon an Orange County sheriff’s deputy also showed up at the Turschak’s home.

Second, a spoof on the Youtube celebrity “Don’t Vote…no, vote!” videos.

Redistributive Change We Can Believe In™

Bill Dyer over at Hugh Hewitt’s blog on the “recently discovered” audio of Obama talking about redistributive change:

Even back in 2001, Barack Obama was already focused on building a “coalition of power” in the executive and legislative branches that could indeed bring about a national redistribution of wealth which even the most activist courts couldn’t achieve on their own.

It’s a long analysis of the audio clip.

Dyer’s conclusion:

My first concern, upon listening to the five-minute excerpt, was that it might have taken Obama’s statements out of context. But I’ve listened to the entire hour. It’s the sort of thing that probably bored 99% of even a PBS audience, including a large number of lawyers. But whoever edited down the excerpt didn’t take anything directly out of context except, arguably, for the concluding sentence, which cuts off in the middle.

This was the narrative that McCain should have been pushing ever since…I dunno…June?

Barack Obama wants to redistribute wealth. This goes wayyyyy beyond “tax cuts for 95% of American workers.”

Duh.

But don’t take my word for it, let’s listen to Barack Obama from a year ago.