I have been saying this election was a fix time and time again.
Some of us smelled it since the time Dean had a phone conference and Pelosi told impeachment protesters that it would be more productive to concentrate on taking the White House. The quid pro quo between the so called two parties was in place. Cheney was unelectable, so his cousin, Jr.jr was the deal.
Now, after the fact, the proof is more obvious. This is going to be a list of evidence
No charges for interrogators.. 
Barack Obama‘s incoming administration is unlikely to bring criminal charges against government officials who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush presidency. Obama, who has criticized the use of torture, is being urged by some constitutional scholars and human rights groups to investigate possible war crimes by the Bush administration.
via Insight Analytical – the unrecognized foreign policy that will help Obama (Bush’s) 
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (IPS) – While much of the world and many of his U.S. supporters are expecting a sharp break with his predecessor’s foreign policy after President-elect Barack Obama takes office Jan. 20, they may be surprised by the degree of continuity between the two administrations.
And then there was the economy – via Riverdaughter 
Senator Abstract Painting finally told us what he really represents. In short, banks and financial institutions get all the money in the Treasury; little people losing their houses? Ehhh, not so much:
President-elect Barack Obama said in an interview on the CBS program “60 Minutes” on Sunday that one of his top priorities will be to “restore a sense of balance” to the regulation of financial markets, but rejected the idea of a so-called “new New Deal” for America.
And that’s why Hillary needed to be stopped.
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November 18, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Grail Guardian
Hillary is not a Socialist, Marxist, or Communist. And that’s why Hillary needed to be stopped.
Hillary listens to We the People and tries to represent us. And that’s why Hillary needed to be stopped.
Hillary has a vast knowledge of world affairs, and understands that the US is the last bastion of freedom and the last great hope. And that’s why Hillary needed to be stopped.
Hillary would have been re-elected easily in 2012. And that’s why Hillary needed to be stopped.
Hillary is married to Bill Clinton. And that’s why Hillary needed to be stopped.
Hillary doesn’t have a penis. And that’s why Hillary needed to be stopped.
November 18, 2008 at 1:46 pm
edgeoforever
Obama ain’t a socialist, marxist or communist either. Far from it. He is Jr.jr – Cheney’s cousin. More of the same.
November 18, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Grail Guardian
Perhaps not, but he certainly hangs around a lot of them!
November 18, 2008 at 7:15 pm
makana44
When you own the White House – and yes, the White House is a consumer good to a Bush Pioneer (or Super Ranger or who knows what secret designation lies beyond that) – then you own the U.S. Treasury, too. The Pioneers were responsible for Obama’s first $100M, and a goodly portion of the subsequent half $billion he raised after that; which literally bought him the Presidency.
Break down the $1.5 trillion spent on Bush’s middle east wars and and the nearly $trillion (and counting) for the Bushian/Obaman/Pelosian/Reidite/Frankian bailout, you’ll find that the primary beneficiaries are a virtual Who’s Who of Bushian buddies. Obama and ‘The New Dems’ are their BFFs as well.
Throw in the the windfall profits reaped by the oil companies through the precipitous rise in oil prices wrought by the Bush/Cheney follies, and you’ll clearly see how both the country’s treasury and GDP were serially raped by those for whom greed knows no bound. Our “Worst President Ever” is their “Great Princeling” in a pantheon all his own. And now “The Lightbringer” shall continue the pattern without skipping a beat.
The deal has always been to run on ‘The Change’ that is ‘No Change.’ Witness the ongoing cooperation between the Democrats and Bush ever since 2006, and even earlier, and right through the Bailout.
Uncle Bill never played by these particular rules. The biggest sin imaginable for a Super Ranger+, is a President who leaves a Treasury with more money in it than when he entered office, and no gratuitous wars, and no major giveaways to the beast that never has enough. And Hillary would have done the same. Before Indiana and North Carolina she even dropped all pretense, realizing they were beating her anyway, when she declared open season on the oil companies. Recall if you can, how liberated and exhilarated she appeared on Stephanopoulus.
The ride is over now. No more suspense. The Treasury is theirs. How can you prosecute that which you condone and will continue. (FISA anyone?). The New Deal is the same as the Old Deal which is to say “No Deal” at all except the one you made to put you in power today.
November 18, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Stray Yellar Dawg
B.O. was chosen and annointed in order to throw the Left a bone. We don’t really know what he is. And neither does he. He is whatever will serve his own opportunism at any given moment. If it is convenient for him to be a socialist… he will join Rev. Wright’s church. If it is more adventageous that he be a warmongering imperialist… he will suck up to Cheney.
Whatever.
The truth is, the Left was getting too uppity in the wake of the war crimes of GWB / Cheney/ and Powell. Something had to be done. The kool-ade was thus concocted and Jr.jr. was singled out to feed it to the masses.
There is a reason he is called “The Messiah.” Marx was right. Religion is, in fact, the opium of the people. Provide the people with a Messiah and you can do whatever you want to them.
So that is where we are now. The Left has it’s golden boy in the White House. They relax their watchdogs and… the war crimes continue.
Except for one little problem: PUMAs.
November 18, 2008 at 7:54 pm
edgeoforever
Makanna 44
Thanks for the comprehensive answer. I didn’t want to bother.
But for anyone still doubting: the previous record of Wall street contributions was W – as incumbent. Obama surpassed it since August. Add to that farma, telecoms, defense contractors – and they are all there – before most of us even knew this guy was running for anything. It was the same with W.
November 18, 2008 at 7:56 pm
edgeoforever
Stray Yellar Dog
The bone is in appearance only. The other party was taken down by their most incompetent figurehead, it’s the other side’s turn.
November 18, 2008 at 8:23 pm
ONE PARTY NATION!
You’ve got it figured out!
We’ve got only a one-party state, like Mexico.
The Dictator Party state!
November 18, 2008 at 11:24 pm
murphy
jesus edgeofforever, that is chilling.
November 19, 2008 at 6:33 am
Stray Yellar Dawg
“The bone is in appearance only. The other party was taken down by their most incompetent figurehead, it’s the other side’s turn.”
Tis true. The illusory bone is a mere distraction. The Left will go to sleep now. Having imbibed (or snorted) the Messianic kool-ade.
The RW will rise. And we are already seeing what that looks like….. in the passage of Prop. 8. In California of all places! Chilling!!!
If Obie were truly a progressive, he’d be speaking out. Against the misogyny and gay hatred. Alas, he will not. If he did I’d be shocked….
November 19, 2008 at 11:45 am
NewOrleansPuma
edgeoforever: Obama’s social policies and plans are socialistic. He is a socialist like George Soros is a socialist.
For the people, you take what we give you if you do what we say…for the ruling top few, we do what we do for the benefit of us and you be grateful you still have bread, you slime rinds. Socialism in our time, the time of so called globalization, is bodied out differently than when countries like ours and others had our financial resources within borders for the most part. So called Globalization is nothing more than 19th century Adam Smith unbridled capitalism played on the world stage across countries with no allegiance to country and no necessity to have any. Countries and p-eop-le are merely resources of production to be manuvered as we have been so in the last two months to the benefit of the the global billilonaires, Soros and among Bush supporters as well..Barack Obama is indeed a new breed, but he is old and dangerous because of the new vehicles of world financial players …for which he and yes, Bush were, have been and will forever be the mouthpiece and the willing implementor. Barack Obama is a FRAUD…no more no less than Bushand Cheney…but more so in his pseudo committment to those “below”.
What the 1% world financiers began in Bush and his father , actually, they will finish and complete with Obingo.
November 19, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Mary
Manchurian
November 19, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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