"The biggest Democratic success stories involved re-elected Sens. Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid, and new California governor Jerry Brown – all age 70 or above! The GOP, meanwhile, hailed breakthrough victories for 39-year-old Sen. Marco Rubio in Florida, 43-year old Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin, 38-year old Governor Nikki Haley in South Carolina, 42-year- old Sen. Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire, 47-year-old Sen. Rand Paul in Kentucky, and many other youthful candidates bringing fresh, conservative perspectives to high office. Moreover, with Hillary Clinton ruling out a future presidential race, Joe Biden reaching age 74 by 2016, and John Edwards utterly unthinkable, what younger generation Democratic star could plausibly succeed Obama?
The Democrats, in other words, have become a party of shop-worn retreads while the GOP bench is full of next-generation leaders of potential national stature,"
In these times I'll take the old fart experienced Democrats over the "I don't have a clue what I am doing" new crop of Republicans. Fortunately some of the new crop of tea party Republicans did NOT get elected.....we sure dodged a bullet on those. The new house is going to sound like kindergarten class with a bunch of tea partiers squabbling about things they don't understand.
Mr. Obama defended the relative lack of progress at this G-20 meeting by lecturing the press on the importance of maintaining perspective. "We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing," he said. "Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles. But they're really important singles." His Nobel Peace Prize notwithstanding, Mr. Obama has yet to prove that he is a power hitter in the league of nations. The world awaits his first home run. Mr. Obama's Mideast peace effort hasn't reached first base, he has achieved little of substance in dissuading Iran from pursuing nuclear-weapons capability, his trade policy is a slow-motion train wreck, and his vision of a nuclear-free world remains empty rhetoric.
The question is not whether Mr. Obama's influence on the world is increasing or decreasing. It is rather whether he has any meaningful influence on important world events at all.
If you all are so concerned that Democrats voted in an inexperienced president, why did you all just vote in a bunch of inexperienced congress-persons.......oh yeah, they are self described conservatives, so who cares if they have any experience or can read and write.
archer wrote: If you all are so concerned that Democrats voted in an inexperienced president, why did you all just vote in a bunch of inexperienced congress-persons.......oh yeah, they are self described conservatives, so who cares if they have any experience or can read and write.
A Congressman is one of 535 votes. You guys voted in the guy with the veto pen, and the guy who has to haul around teleprompters all over the world and get laughed at, to represent our nation. THAT makes us look like a joke, that out of over 300 million citizens, THAT is the best we could come up with.
The Viking wrote: You guys voted in the guy with the veto pen, and the guy who has to haul around teleprompters all over the world and get laughed at, to represent our nation. THAT makes us look like a joke, that out of over 300 million citizens, THAT is the best we could come up with.
Apparently so.....you conservatives didn't have much to choose from, so till you can field a candidate that offers what the people want, you get what we vote for. Bugs ya doesn't it
archer wrote: If you all are so concerned that Democrats voted in an inexperienced president, why did you all just vote in a bunch of inexperienced congress-persons.......oh yeah, they are self described conservatives, so who cares if they have any experience or can read and write.
archer wrote: In these times I'll take the old fart experienced Democrats over the "I don't have a clue what I am doing" new crop of Republicans. Fortunately some of the new crop of tea party Republicans did NOT get elected.....we sure dodged a bullet on those. The new house is going to sound like kindergarten class with a bunch of tea partiers squabbling about things they don't understand.
That's a racist statement! Archer is calling the new Republicans, many who are minorities, clueless. Clueless is a loosely used term by leftist to say "stupid." Black, Latino, and woman Republicans scare the left. The liberal minority franchise is being invaded with smart minority conservative thinkers and the libtards are furious. Libtards are thinking, "how did they get loose on us? We own the public schools, the welfare system, the entitlement system, government student loans....just how do those darn minority conservatives slip out of our bondage?"
Salt to liberal wounds:
The New Republicans
In New Mexico, Susana Martinez was elected as the nation's first female Hispanic governor. Nevada voters elected Brian Sandoval as that state's first Hispanic governor.
On the congressional side, Jamie Herrera will become the first Latino congressman from Washington state, while Raul Labrador will be the first from Idaho. House Democrats were defeated by Latino Republicans such as Francisco Canseco, who beat Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, an 11-year House veteran. Also in Florida, state representative David Rivera beat Democrat Joe Garcia, a former Obama administration energy official, to capture an open House seat - one of the few nationwide that Democrats had hoped to pick up.
In Alabama, Democrat Terri Sewell became the first black woman elected to Congress from that state. And in Louisiana, Democrat Cedric Richardson unseated first-term Republican congressman Joseph Cao, the only Vietamese-American in Congress, in a Democratic-leaning district.
In South Carolina, Nikki Haley was elected governor, becoming the second Indian-American to win a gubernatorial race. She is also that state's first female governor.
African-American Republicans also made significant gains. Fourteen black Republicans were on House ballots nationwide, almost double the number in 2008. Insurance company owner Tim Scott will be the first black Republican to represent South Carolina in the U.S. House since Reconstruction, and in Florida, veteran Allen West ousted a two-term Democrat to a House seat. He will become Florida's first black Republican in Congress since the 1870s.
Again, the attacks that Republicans are racist continue to be unfounded. Meanwhile, Democrats are bringing dinosaurs like Jerry "Jim Jones" Brown back to service. Jerry Brown, who took the California State Bar twice, has served as Cali Secretary of State, CA governor, Mayor of Oakland, currently Cali Attorney General, and now Governor elect. Wow, he's a masterful career politico. California certainly enjoy their status quo...epic fail.
Nice strawman argument....however, I never called the new conservative crop racist.....I called them clueless, I should have just called them stupid, but i was trying to be nice.
pssst.......I include the whites, the men, the women, the black, the brown, and whatever in that statement.....hardly racist, in fact it's downright all inclusive
