What the hell is the “Office of the President-Elect?” And why is it still attacking McCain?

Okay, it’s one thing to take your campaign website, http://change.gov/ transfer it to a dot-gov domain, and invent an “Office of the President-Elect” out of whole cloth.

But now we’ve got Sen. Obama standing in front of a podium, in front of the world, for his first transitional press conference with an official-looking sign that reads “Office of the President-Elect.” Is that the official seal of the U.S. on the sign? Do they have authority to use it? What other make-believe offices are they going to invent between now and Inauguration Day? I can’t ever recall in my lifetime any mention of such an office. Can you?




Question: Why is the Office of the President-Elect’s .gov website still attacking the “McCain plan?” Here’s the screenshot in case they scrub it…

They are afraid Obama isn't as much in control as they would like?...........almost 50% voted against him.

Welcome on BearPit. Do you also post at the evil IAP?

Because Obama realizes he has to actually come up with "change" now so he tries to distract his followers by attacking his opponent.

He won by 8 million votes. He won be an electoral college landslide. He controls the house and the senate, and soon the supreme court. He IS the president-elect, he WILL server TWO terms, he DOES have an OFFICE, he wants to be a STRONG LEADER ans project confidence. He is even YOUR president-elect? Now be good little right winger Americans and let our president-elect WORK HIS MAGIC.

He won by 6%, let's be reasonable here.........1% more than by which President Bush won.

The only way he'll serve two terms is if he wipes out any ability for the public to kick his a.s.s out of office once they see the real Obama. He'll have us in a deep, deep depression, IF we're even still on the map after an attack from AQ, while he'll still be wandering about the W.H. trying to decide which tie to wear in order to beg them again to NOT attack us AGAIN! That is YOUR president-elect. He's not mine.

How does it feel, leftie, to have your guy bashed? He's in for it for the next 4 years, and there is plenty of reasons to do so. The MSM has been covering up his gaffes during the election, but once he's on the airways, it will be impossible for the U.S. not to see what an idiot he is. Of course, he could hogtie the media.........that wouldn't be beyond him, and it's a solution for his problems. He or his Chief of Staff could threaten to shut down any media outlet that spread "lies" about the fool. Once again, he's YOUR president-elect. Not mine.

You've all gotten what you ask for. Enjoy.

SN, I grew up in DC in a political family. I understand electoral politics. I understand there was a revolution in the last 2 years and now we have the supreme court. I understand Obama is not perfect and will make mistakes but I also am fully confident he will make noticeable improvements in 4 years and his chances of 2 terms are excellent. What you don't get is that MOST Americans see in Obama the great potential of being the best president of our lifetimes. You are free to be a bitter loser all you want, and that is what you are going to be for at LEAST 8 years, I guarantee it.

Shouldn't the president elect know how many states the country has?

As I said: Enjoy. You've asked for it.

And, no, Avenger, it isn't necessary to know facts like that...........just re-write history books to reflect the new information. Thanks to the leftists, our kids are so dumbed down, they wouldn't notice the difference. Perhaps, Obama really thinks there are that many states........he's of the generation of which I'm speaking, as well as the younger ones after him. <sigh!>

Idiots electing idiots.

Only an idiot like you would entertain that thought for a second.
Palin, on the other hand, is a certifiable dumkoff.

At least she knows how many states this country has.

Give it a rest. It was a brain fart from Obama and if you had a brain (I know you don't) you would shut up about it.

The MSM has been covering up his gaffes. This is just one of a few that got out. You have a total idiot, with a man behind him pulling his strings. I saw the look of incredulility in his eyes, and the shock of actually having the responsibility upon his shoulders when he realized he was going to be the POTUS. The next day, he looked like hell with bags under his eyes.

This guy is a total idiot. What a few years. We'll see what the MSM and foreign investors have to say when he can't fulfill his promises, and you don't get what you want. The backlash, unless censored by his bullies, is going to be big.

If we are even still standing as a nation by then, thanks to AQ. Liberals have a hard time making up their mind, wringing their hands in attempts to appease so they won't appear to be "meanies" to the world. BAM! It's over! We've been attacked and hamstrung, with a ninny at the head of the U.S. that can't talk without a pre-written speech in front of him on a teleprompter. He's just going to have to go ahead and let Rahm, his Jew bully, talk for him instead of standing behind him and whispering into his ear.

Good one, his Jew bully. Always knew you were an anti-semite. Clearly an anti-black racist as well. Go back in your cave for at least 8 years. You are pathetic.

TQ, you're the racist for bringing color into every argument. We think of Obama has a human being, but YOU are the one who thinks of him as a black man, someone different then others. Good job you racist scum!

No boosted turnout in this electionposted at 11:10 am on November 9, 2008 by Ed Morrissey


Election Details


Politico reports that estimates of voter turnout continue to decline in this year’s national election. At first, some predicted a turnout of 137 million. Now the estimates have declined to the point where the percentage of eligible voters would be the same as in 2004, but only if one accepts the idea that we’re still missing millions of votes from the final total:

Despite widespread predictions of record turnout in this year’s presidential election, roughly the same portion of eligible voters cast ballots in 2008 as in 2004.
Between 60.7 percent and 61.7 percent of the 208.3 million eligible voters cast ballots this year, compared with 60.6 percent of those eligible in 2004, according to a voting analysis by American University political scientist Curtis Gans, an authority on voter turnout.

He estimated that between 126.5 million and 128.5 million eligible voters cast ballots this year, versus 122.3 million four years ago. Gans said the gross number of ballots cast in 2008 was the highest ever, even though the percentage was not substantially different from 2004, because there were about 6.5 million more people registered to vote this time around.

The historic candidacy of President-elect Barack Obama, as well as the emphasis his campaign put on early voting and Election Day turnout, led many media and academic pundits to speculate that voter turnout this year would increase dramatically. In the run-up to the vote, even John McCain’s top pollster, Bill McInturff, joined other experts in predicting that turnout might surpass 130 million.

I wrote about this on Wednesday, when MS-NBC tried to argue that a 20-million vote deficit between the predictions and the total counted to that point would get erased by the West Coast, even though most of those votes had already been counted. Five days after the election, we still have yet to surpass 123 million votes, and nationwide 99% of all precincts have been counted. Only Washington and Oregon have any significant number of precincts still out (8% and 3%). At worst, that might represent 400,000 uncounted ballots at this stage.

Let’s add the 400,000 to the current vote totals. That would make the vote total 123,176,039 votes cast for the presidential race — far below the estimates given by so-called experts even today. With over 121 million votes cast in 2004 and over six million new voters registered in the last four years, that’s a rather disappointing conclusion to the longest presidential race in American history. That would mean that only a third of new voters bothered to cast ballots, or that a lot of previous voters withdrew from the process this time.

So what happened? Obama got six million more votes than John Kerry and John McCain got slighly under five million less than George Bush. Given the efforts at new registrations, it looks like Democrats turned out well, while a significant chunk of Republicans stayed home. Democratic GOTV efforts worked better than in 2004, but it didn’t produce a landslide. Republican GOTV efforts had been in full swing, but in the end, the ticket simply didn’t produce the excitement needed to carry the GOP to victory.

This doesn’t delegitimize the victory that Barack Obama won on Tuesday, but it does help demythologize it. Obama didn’t inspire any boost in participation in the election process throughout the entire population. The nominal gain seen will probably show as a slight decline in percentage participation among elegible voters from 2004, once the dust settles.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/09/no-b...-this-election/

One Door Opens, while another closes, wherefrom, the end is just the beginning.

Laughable.

You beat up on Lieberman (a Jew) and called him a traitor on the other forum because he supported McCain, and rant for pages on the other forum about the blacks in California because they helped swing the vote against gay marraige, but I'm a racist because I criticize Obama and Rahm? (cough!)

You're hypocritical and pathetic, TQ. Not me. You switch with the wind against anyone who doesn't see things your chauvanistic way, calling names, insulting, and slurring.

Just thought I'd point that out, you nutter.

There is no offical office of the PRESIDENT ELECT... That does not stop the messiah as he can just make stuff up as he goes

Its gonna be a fun 4 years.


I voted for him just so I can see him, Pelosi, Reid, and biden destroy liberalism

Saw this on the site that Reaganite posted and thought it was rather a good reply about Obama's being disliked because he's black. BTW, he's only half-black.

But, I digress:


Well said, and my sentiments EXACTLY!