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Now. I know we're not supposed to gloat in the forums. But off... have you? How? Why?

Man the election is over and we're still talking about it.

I'm glad I decided to take up smoking....waaayy too much stress.

Man the election is over and we're still talking about it.

I'm glad I decided to take up smoking....waaayy too much stress.

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*Puts Wilgrove's cigs out*

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*Puts Wilgrove's cigs out*

Relax, it's American Spirit, all natural.

Relax, it's American Spirit, all natural.

*replaces with chocolate cigarettes*

*replaces with chocolate cigarettes*

*discard it and lights up another AS*

I haven't done any real life gloating because there aren't any McCain supporters where I live.

It was all massive fail. The democrats really thought they were going to have some good gloaty times and lick sweet salty tears when McCain lost. Just like Republicans enjoyed their tears when Herman Munster lost.

But as usual, democrats are well behind the times. Like most conservatives they don't set trends. By the time they scored their victory, nobody cared.

welll i DID consider wearing a head scarf to the poker table on the day after the election. the day of the election i had been playing with a republican who had insisted that obama was the only presidential candidate ever who would not have been qualified to be a secret service agent (a variation on the "obama couldnt get a security clearance" thing) and i spent the rest of the game talking about spreading the wealth...

but no, i havent been gloating. its too hard to gloat on the beach.

(yeah i know there is no connection between head scarfs and socialism but it would have been an obama misinformation thing)

I haven't done any real life gloating because there aren't any McCain supporters where I live.

I saw a McCain/Palin lawn sign. I laughed.

No gloating listened to a lot of complaining, a whole lot of whining, and even some crying... I felt to bad to gloat.

(So I collected the tears in a glass vial and am ging to sell them on Ebay!)

Now. I know we're not supposed to gloat in the forums. But off... have you? How? Why?
I haven't voted for a winning Presidential candidate since I discovered the Libertarian Party. I consider gloating acceptable whenever we show up on the ballot.

I haven't voted for a winning Presidential candidate since I discovered the Libertarian Party. I consider gloating acceptable whenever we show up on the ballot.

So, how hard was it to miss the Indies and sail from Europe to it? :p

(Yeah, yeah, I know. Bad joke. But I don't care. ;) )

I don't hear much in the line of gloating-more hand-wringing and crying that Prop 8 tanked than anything else. Of course, it's kind of hard to gloat when an election is a referendum on an unpopular president, your opponent is despised within his own party, the economy collapses a month and a half before the election, and you still only swing 51% of the popular vote.
Then again, the graciousness demonstrated by the Republicans in defeat also had a hand in blunting the gloat factor of this election-it's hard to gloat when the nastiest thing said about your victory was Ralph Nader's meltdown on Fox.

I don't hear much in the line of gloating-more hand-wringing and crying that Prop 8 tanked than anything else. Of course, it's kind of hard to gloat when an election is a referendum on an unpopular president, your opponent is despised within his own party, the economy collapses a month and a half before the election, and you still only swing 51% of the popular vote.
Then again, the graciousness demonstrated by the Republicans in defeat also had a hand in blunting the gloat factor of this election-it's hard to gloat when the nastiest thing said about your victory was Ralph Nader's meltdown on Fox.

I find it harder NOT to gloat when, for the last eight years, Republicans have been calling US-haters (and so on) whoever dared to disagree with them. I want my pound of flesh from some people, and assumed others (as pictured by Rall) would want the same.

and even some crying...

Ooo! Where? :D

So, how hard was it to miss the Indies and sail from Europe to it? :p

(Yeah, yeah, I know. Bad joke. But I don't care. ;) )
Damned edge of the world kept getting in the way.

I find it harder NOT to gloat when, for the last eight years, Republicans have been calling US-haters (and so on) whoever dared to disagree with them. I want my pound of flesh from some people, and assumed others (as pictured by Rall) would want the same.
It takes two to tango, though. For satisfying gloating, you'd have to find a Republican who A) Thinks an Obama victory is the end of the world (as a lot of liberals felt about Bush's presidency); and B) Hadn't already come to accept Obama's presidency as a back in October or September.
There just aren't that many out there.

It takes two to tango, though. For satisfying gloating, you'd have to find a Republican who A) Thinks an Obama victory is the end of the world (as a lot of liberals felt about Bush's presidency); and B) Hadn't already come to accept Obama's presidency as a back in October or September.
There just aren't that many out there.

I see... You have a point there. Damn. :(

My hypothesis is that whatever Ted Rall thing is in the OP will be an utter abortion of art, writing, comics, and human decency.

Edit: Hypothesis confirmed.

Ooo! Where? :D

On Ebay! 100% pure, only $50/mm.

My hypothesis is that whatever Ted Rall thing is in the OP will be an utter abortion of art, writing, comics, and human decency.

Edit: Hypothesis confirmed.

Wait. You had to edit the post to note the confirmation? Why not simply look at the first post first? o_O

It takes two to tango, though. For satisfying gloating, you'd have to find a Republican who A) Thinks an Obama victory is the end of the world (as a lot of liberals felt about Bush's presidency); and B) Hadn't already come to accept Obama's presidency as a back in October or September.
There just aren't that many out there.
You obviously havn't been to Alabama.

Some guy who had been out for a week to take care of his wife came in for one day and the next day he was leaving to Nashville for a doctor's appointment for his wife so I can only conclude he came in to work to talk about politics. He had several 10 minute discussions with all the other narrow minded conservatives around him about how Obama was going to turn the US into Soviet Russia. And about how Obama supported terrorists and wants to institute an SS.

Man the election is over and we're still talking about it.

I'm glad I decided to take up smoking....waaayy too much stress.

Yeah, we are. It's called being interested and involved. Sorry if that offends you.

I don't hear much in the line of gloating-more hand-wringing and crying that Prop 8 tanked than anything else. Of course, it's kind of hard to gloat when an election is a referendum on an unpopular president, your opponent is despised within his own party, the economy collapses a month and a half before the election, and you still only swing 51% of the popular vote.
Then again, the graciousness demonstrated by the Republicans in defeat also had a hand in blunting the gloat factor of this election-it's hard to gloat when the nastiest thing said about your victory was Ralph Nader's meltdown on Fox.

Meltdown? He simply said we won't know if Obama will be more like Uncle Sam or Uncle Tom. Now for what seems like too many people, the ability to see that remark for what it was -- trying to make people remember that Obama has promised that things in DC will be different under his administration, and vowing to hold him to that promise -- is almost deliberately antagonistic. The asshole who interviewed him on FOX (can't remember his name, just that he looked and sounded like an archetypical spoiled brat) was WAY out of line by just leaping on the racial aspect of the analogy instead of WHAT NADER MEANT. I know that's a common occurrence on FOX, and I'm not surprised at it, but I thought NSG would have more sense.

And yes, I voted Nader. I owed him one from 2004 when I was far more enthused about voting for him in place of John Frankenstein and knew my state was blue, but was relentlessly hounded by my family when I let it slip that I wasn't voting for Kerry.

Trust me, there are gloating liberals out there, but not nearly as many as there have been gloating conservatives, at least in my experience. Conservative gloating is actually more tolerable because it's predictable and reliably banal. Liberal gloating seem more obnoxious because liberals are supposed to be "inclusive" and other buzz words -- gloating is anathema to the purported character of liberal or progressive thought, so it sounds more to me like fingernails on a blackboard.

It does make me wonder, though, why bother gloating at all? Obama has likely already had the meeting in the basement of the Oval Office where they show Presidents-elect a film of the Kennedy assassination from an angle that nobody has ever seen before. Any change will be superficial.

Damned edge of the world kept getting in the way.

And those damned dragons from the "here there be Dragons" signs all over the map.

You obviously havn't been to Alabama.
No, I haven't. Thanks for playing Where Fiddlebottoms Isn't, the game that gives you a 98% chance of winning!

No, I haven't. Thanks for playing Where Fiddlebottoms Isn't, the game that gives you a 98% chance of winning!

Ooo can I play?

I guess the secret nuclear bunker this sign refers to

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