awesome clip Kryo.  Loved it! 

I'm all for it, but the truth is President Obama has already made some interesting choices that the Media has not really been pounding on. Take the Secretary of Treasury pick. The guys failed to pay for 4 years, claiming he should have paid attention more to what he was signing. Funny when he claims to have used a computer program the first 2 years than a a professional to do his taxes and , well what a coincidence, they both failed, not once but twice each. BTW, did I mention this is the same guy who will be controling (or something like that) the IRS? I wonder what would have happend to those $34,000 had no one found out about it?

The previous president told the world it should cower in fear, that terrorists were everywhere. I like seeing a politician appealing to the better nature of people. It's a refreshing change. His background is utterly irrelevant to that.

Considering how badly McCain lost, you must have a very limited circle of friends. You need to get out more - befriend some Obamanists and get a feel for them beyond the politics. It won't condemn you to hell if you know some atheists/non-practising folk.

The confidence he's bringing is important. The current financial crisis is still a crisis of confidence; if the Obama messiah complex can cause people to consider it over, the US economy would be restored. Modern economics is built on faith, and Obama seems to inspire it in spades. That's a useful ability right now. What he will use it for is another question.

Exactly.

On the Bush/Obama speech mistakes thing - I suspect Bush stands out more because he's Texan, and much of the world considers that accent to be innately tied to bucolic stupidity. When Bush mispoke he merely reinforced an existing perception and stereotype. The Chicago accent is more of a northern one, which doesn't have the stigma of obnoxious New Yorker or idiot southerner.

Of course, this isn't an area of sociolinguistics I'm particularly familiar with, so I could be completely wrong.

Good on you Modman.

Short memory, apparently.  He hardly lost 'badly' my friend.

Yeah, 58 million friends just ain't what it used to be.

not exactly, even my grandmother who is a die hard Dem voted for Obama but doesn't like him.  She actually thinks he could be the Anti-Christ.  When I asked her why she voted for him she says she didn't really.  She just voted straight Democratic Ticket.....so not so much for him but for the ticket. 

Exactly.  I saw a post election map marked county by county across the U.S. and by looking at it there was much more red than blue.   If someone from Mars were to look down and make a prediction looking at the very red map they would have been quite surprised to see an Obama win. 

Wow Cacto your article sounds like most of the "objective, unbiased" media here in the US. I think if Obama asked the press corp for a hummer, most of them would be fighting each other to see who could get his zipper down first.

No person on earth gets my support with campaign promises and speeches. I never understood the idol mentality in the sense of people fainting around pop stars, or actors.  My father is my hero along with a few select people I've met along the way. If Obama has you creaming your jeans, that's wonderful. It take more than what I've seen so far to impress me.

Give the Daily Show credit - Bushwhackers to Obamawhackers overnite.  Great bit.  Thanks, kryo.

You guys really need to get out more and see what the people in our country are going through.  If they see Obama as the person who can gontinue to give them the hope that they are looking for and telling them positively that their lives doesn't end despite what so many are going through, who are you to come in with your pessimistic outlook and tell them otherwise?  Let us not forget how many detractors President Bush had in the beginning, and yet they gave him a chance to see what he would and could do, and of course he proved some right because he messed up in some ways.  Im sure you will all be crowing when Obama messes up, no one is perfect, so give Cacto props he wrote a really great article   for being an outsider looking in and telling it with a dose of reality!

I don't recall a recount, or it being decided in the courts. In terms of recent US presidential elections, it was practically a landslide. But yes, in more normal terms it wasn't so much a bad loss as a convincing one.

Oh come on. You can't seriously tell me that you don't count among your friends people whose politics wildly differ from your own, including a couple who might support Obama. If everyone you know is 'scared' of Obama, you need more friends. I'd like to think my friends don't share a single emotional response to any issue, let alone elections.

Well yes, but I imagine they would be even more surprised to see that Earthlings had made northern America viewable as a political map from space.

Wonderful. Your dad makes you cream your jeans. Incest is one of many, many topics I have no desire to get google search referrals from. So bugger off.

Exactly. Hope is the cheapest upper around. I wish I had more of it.

Funny?  Ummm, uhhh, ahhh, umm, ahh, uhh, umm, uhh, ahh, uhh, ahh, ummm.......

That is funny?

But you recall one in 04?  Or are you just a Gorite?  I dont recall one in 64 (big), 68, 72 (that one was huge), 76, 80 (another landslide electorally), 84 (huge), 88, 92, or 96.  I would say you have a very limited memory.  I cant say I remember any before 64, as I was too young or not born.

Tell ya what, I'll bugger off, when you solve all the problems in Australia first. Are there too many liberals there that they need to swoon over this president? If people of other nations worried half as much about their own leaders as they do about the US, the world would be a better place. Tell me, how many people in the US do you think even know your prime ministers name? Why? Because for the most part they don't care. I like Australia, was there in 82, lots of "friendly" people (what is your mom's name?), but I'm uninterested in its politics, that said,don't you have a Brittany Spears or Jonas Brothers fan club to gush over? G'day mate.

I know they're not strictly speaking all your friends, but the left here pretty much shared a single emontional response to Bush's election - hatred.

Had 4-5% of voters gone the other way, we'd very likely be talking about President McCain (gotta allow for that EC thing).  That's not what I'd call a landslide, but relativism is a way of life for the left.

Well, since we're all having fun being petty I want in too! This election was actually the widest margin in favor of one candidate since the 1996 election.

-popular vote-

2008-  Dem: 52.9% Rep: 45.7% (7.2 % margin in favor of Dem)

2004- Dem: 48.3% Rep: 50.7% (2.4 % margin in favor of Rep)

2000- Dem: 48.4% Rep: 47.9% (0.5 % margin in favor of Dem, Rep won on electoral college/supreme court decision stopping florida recount and granting presidency)

1996- Dem: 49.2% Rep: 40.7% (8.5 % margin in favor of Dem)

1992- Dem: 43% Rep: 37% Floppy-ears: 18.9% (6 % in favor of Dem)

1988- Dem: 45.6 % Rep: 53.4% (7.8 % in favor or Rep)

LOL.  This is a wonderfully ironic article.

Apparently there were a LOT of people jealous of Bush then...