James Brown had more honorifics connected with his name than any other performer in music history. He has variously been tagged “Soul Brother Number One” “the Godfather of Soul” “the Hardest Working Man in Show Business” “Mr. Dynamite” and even…

I can't tell if Hannity led McCain or vice versa but Hannity clearly was in lockstep
with the more ridiculous and the nastier McCain comments.

“you are a loathsome, masturbating, troll of a loser” is… not so much. Now, if there are a bunch of groups on Facebook labeled “All Conservatives are Hitler-wannabe, fascist, pansy, a-hole, mother-raping, scumbags,” then that's equivalent. And there probably are.

Bush operated his government from a 50-plus-one perspective. In his mind, he *needed* a mandate to govern. Damn the opposition, they're irrelevant, as long as Bush had a majority therefore a mandate, he push through his agenda.

Obama, on the other hand, operates from a more inclusive perspective. While the majority of his views and ideas appeal to the Democratic side of the aisle, the way he works he also considers all sides on the issues. His view of the government is not to exclude the opposition, but to include them (does not mean he'll agree with them, but they will not be shut completely out of the government). From Obama's point of view, he does not need a mandate, because his governing style precludes the concept.

As for the rest of the right-hate-radio — well, what did you expect? Although this has less to do with any specific political position, and instead is more representative of the increasingly ossified echo chambers that have been borne out of the last couple decades of partisan-only politics. I suspect that such media structures (whether on the left or right) ultimately become less and less relevant as they continue to isolate themselves from reality, becoming more and more cliquish over time. My hope is that now that some people are calling this the end of the Republican Era of politics (or at the very least, the end of the Rovian era), this hyper-partisanship in the media will begin to subside. But the pessimist in me really doubts that.

And Kim, you are going off the rails, and doing exactly what you are claiming to dislike. “even an ignoramus like Palin.” “Is it free speech or dangerous propaganda?” Especially your last statement is worrisome. It is that exact attitude, the 'if I don't like what you say and how you say it, it may not be free speech' that has become the modus opperandi of the Left to try and suppress views they don't like.

I would rather have Rush and his ilk on the Right and Rhodes and her ilk on the Left spewing at each other until their faces turn blue than to have the government try to limit their speech. Which, of course, would be un-Constitutional anyway.

We black folks are truly equal. One of us just got called a Glorious Caliphate Leader! :-p

In closing, I cheer the return of the black helicopters circling overhead. Now that the pendulum has swung, every military officer, police officer, and federal agent has suddenly and completely switched their loyalty 100% to The Worker's People's Glorious Caliphate Leader Hussein Obama, and because they draw government paychecks, have eagerly become goose-stepping advocates of enforcing order in Hussein's America.

This is information and entertainment?

The campaign is over and Obama/Biden prevailed. Even McCain the maverick pledged to work in a bipartisan way with the new administration. Obama's whole message is that we need to unify as a country– not pick out our differences because we listened to some of Rush's propaganda. The guy has an agenda which is to trash any liberal figure or cause that comes into prominence and support any conservative– even an ignoramus like Palin.

I would really like to see some serious cooperation between Democrats and Republicans / Liberals and Conservatives at this time. But that's probably going to be extremely difficult. Firing rhetorical cruise missiles at each other is much more fun.

The liberal congress would love to get rid of guns and religion. They want to legislate speech as it relates to those they dont agree with. They want to make votes in unions a non private manner so that those voting can be intimidated into doing the right thing.

I dont think socialism really is the appropriate word. Should the GOP fight them every step of the way. They damn well better if this is the kind of laws they want to pass. America rejected the War. The Economy and the GOP because of 8 years of not so swell America. They really did not vote for all these other things. They voted for change. Im pretty sure they are not voting to intimidate union members, take away first amendment rights of talk show hosts…if thats the case then I want leno and letterman gone too and Bill Maher, they talk bad about the president. Oh and we should close down MSNBC and FOX and CNN because they get on their and trash talk politicians.

Socialism? No I dont think thats where the Democrats want to take us. I think its more like a police state with them calling the shots.