Impeach Barack Obama???

A new wave of Facebook groups has suddenly sprung upon us, apparently aiming to save democracy from .... elections?

Here are but a few of these choice Facebook selections:

• Impeach Obama
• Impeach Barack Hussein Obama
• Impeach Obama - Save American Democracy
• One Billion People To Impeach Obama

As one must have a Facebook account to view these groups, allow me to save you the trouble.

An all-caps snippet from IMPEACH OBAMA!!!!!!!! 1,000,000 STRONG!!!!, explains what the fledgling Facebook movement is all about:

LETS GET THAT IDIOT OUT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE!!! WE ARE SCREWED IF HE WILL BE THE LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY!!!!!! EVERYTHING WE HAVE EVER FOUGHT FOR WILL BE FOR NOTHING. THE WAR IN IRAQ WILL BE IN VAIN, GUN RIGHTS WILL BE JACKED UP! TAXES WILL SKY ROCKET! WE WILL HAVE A WEAK MILITARY! HE WILL WANT TO DONATE EVEN MORE MONEY TO HIS ACORN TERRORIST GROUPS!!!!!! STOP HIM!!!!!! I KNOW THAT THIS GROUP WILL NOT PUT MCCAIN AND PALIN IN THE WHITE HOUSE BUT AT LEAST WE CAN PROTEST AGAINST HIM! ALSO I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYONE ELSE BUT I AM ALSO SICK OF BEING CALL RACIEST FOR NOT LIKING HIM JUST BECAUSE HE IS BLACK! NO ONE CALLED PEOPLE RACIEST WHEN BUSH WAS PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE WAS WHITE! NOW WHY THE HECK ARE THEY DOING IT NOW???? EVERYONE IS NOW CONSIDERED A RACIEST IF THEY DON'T LIKE OBAMA! GET OVER IT AND QUIT GETTING ALL DEFENSIVE ABOUT US BEING RACIEST!!!

(Note that this group proudly boasts 669 members, and thus has a mere 999,331 to go).

The more cynical might prefer joining the flagship Impeach Barack Obama group, which borrows its raison d'etre from William Norman Grigg's Why Obama Will Be Worse Than Bush:

"I'm of the view that all presidents should be simultaneously inaugurated and impeached, and that there should be a streamlined procedure to expedite their conviction and removal from office upon each president's first documented violation of his constitutional oath."

Democrat-Bashing 2.0 has finally arrived.

Who says America's conservatives aren't savvy about the internets? (!)

(This, of course, is nothing - just wait until Hillary Clinton is named Secretary of State...)

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Video: Canadian Progressive Bloggers On Obama

Meet the Bloggers...

At a November 2, 2008 gathering of Progressive Bloggers in Waterloo, Ontario, I spoke with three Canadian writers, Deb Prothero, Omar Ha-Redeye and Jennifer Smith, who shared their thoughts on Barack Obama, the U.S. election and the future of America.

Here's the video:

Jennifer Smith's political commentaries are housed at Runesmith's Canadian Content.

Omar Ha-Redeye can be found at Slaw and Law is Cool.

Deb Prothero, who hosted last Sunday's event, writes at Seeing Red in the Southwest.

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Landslide

I think 2-1 in the electoral college counts as a landslide, don't you?

You may toss laurels my way for predicting this for the past year including the end-of-race tightening of the polls that would mean nothing in the end.

Welcome to the Obama era.

Now we'll see how good a prez he is. I expect paper shredders will be in high demand at the Out-in-the-Bush White House in the next 70 days.

The president-elect's November 4th speech was also interesting.

Barack Obama has made the same speech so often he gave it without teleprompter notes so far as I could tell.

Just off the cuff and thoughtful. An unlikely candidate indeed. Six months ago, TV news nitwits were unable or unwilling to pronounce his name properly and many others were dismissive of him as too presumptious in the face of the presumptive natural order as determined by the powers that be. But this bee - as in dance like a butterfly and sting like one - turned out to be Barack.

On the BBC, one Black American commentator told the story of how Black mothers would tell their children they could grow up to be anything - an astronaut, CEO, movie star. But if the child said he or she wanted to be President, the child would be told to think of something else. Now, this man said with tears welling in his eyes, Black parents could say being President was possible.

Among the most important qualities Sen. Obama brings to the job of President is his ability to inspire trust. The financial and other global crises plaguing the world are the result of selfishness and arrogant actions and leadership. Without trust, there is no credit and without credit no business and without business there is conflict and war.

America is the only leader of the world and this relatively young man is being given one of the most amazing opportunities of any leader in 50 years.

What President Obama brings to his nation and the world will undoubtedly, almost by definition, set a very different direction for the world.

Where he points others will follow.

As a candidate and as president-elect, Obama said again he is not the solution - the solution lies in each and every one of us. Whether or not President Obama will have the right solutions to our global problems is unknown. In asking that each American contribute, however, we can feel confident he has the beginnings of the right answer.

- Barry Brown, Toronto

Barry Brown is a journalist and Pulitzer prize nominee with writing credits for the Washington Times, New York Times, Globe & Mail, among other publications. While he gladly offers unsolicited advice, he is not a lawyer. The views expressed are those of the guest blogger, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wise Law Blog and its authors.

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William Ayers Responds

William Ayers has emerged from a self-imposed cone of silence with this Washington Post interview:

CHICAGO, Nov. 4 -- William Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader who became an issue in the 2008 campaign, said Tuesday that he is not close to Sen. Barack Obama and that Obama's opponents had turned him into "a cartoon character."

Ayers, an author and education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said he thought the accusation by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin that Obama had been "palling around with terrorists" was absurd.

.... "It's all guilt by association. They made me into a cartoon character; they threw me up on stage just to pummel me," Ayers said. "I felt from the beginning that the Obama campaign had to run the campaign and I had to run my life."

... Ayers blames the "liberal media" for failing to dismiss the Republican assaults. He called the media's performance "kind of shameful" and likened the situation to the 2004 episode when Swift Boat Veterans for Truth created a narrative that helped doom the candidacy of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.).

"The dishonest narrative," Ayers said, "is that guilt by association has some validity."

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Pundits

Ezra Klein recalls the golden age of the American "values voter:"

Ackerman asks, "Remember in 2003 and 2004, when there was all this talk about how the Democrats were in danger of no longer being a national party?" I do remember that. I also remember how Democrats had to get religion if they ever wanted to be competitive again. I also remember how they had to appeal to the white heartland by nominating candidates more culturally recognizable to rural voters. Instead, they went in the opposite direction, running a candidate who was recognizable to the majority coalition Democrats hoped to have in 10 years. It seems to have worked out pretty well. It's almost as if pundits don't really know what they're talking about.

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Video: Barack Obama - The Victory Address

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Barack Obama Wins the U.S. Presidency

Barack Obama is the President-elect of the United States of America.

At 11:00:01, MSNBC made the call.

It is an historic, emotional, defining moment.

America is experiencing a rite of passage.

Savour it.

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Today in America

The world is watching.

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Springsteen: "I Want My America Back"

More from Cleveland - Bruce Springsteen does "The Rising" for Obama.

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Video: Springsteen 'Working on A Dream' in Cleveland for Obama

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Change With a Capital "O"

Outside America, that is what the world wants....

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McCain and Fey on SNL

NBC.com has Saturday Night Live video of John McCain and Tina Fey (as Sarah Palin) online here:

Truly funny.

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Video: Obama Congratulates McCain on Cheney Endorsement - "He Earned it"

(h/t - AMERICABlog)

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The YouVote

Digby reports that the much ballyhooed surge in youth voting, long-anticipated as providing a decisive advantage to Barack Obama in this week's Presidential election, has not yet materialized in early voting.

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"This is an Illusion"

This TPM post on comments tonight by Senator John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis:

From McCain campaign manager Rick Davis's campaign memo just out this evening, discussing why Obama's decision to run ads in Georgia, Arizona and North Dakota is a sign the McCain camp has him on the ropes ...

Expanding the Field: Obama is running out of states if you follow out a traditional model. Today, he expanded his buy into North Dakota, Georgia and Arizona in an attempt to widen the playing field and find his 270 Electoral Votes. This is a very tall order and trying to expand into new states in the final hours shows he doesn't have the votes to win.

Translation: The fact that Arizona has moved into the toss-up column is a devastating development for Obama.

... reminded me of this guy.

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Greenwald on Palin on Free Speech

Salon's Glenn Greewald, on the Republican V.P. nominee's recent musings about the First Amendment:

...so dumb that it hurts.

Mr. Greenwald is, perhaps, the leading legal voice of the U.S. progressive movement.

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Palin - Plumber 2012

Three words that must never again be spoken...

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"Joe The Biden"

A new lexicon emerges from Senator McCain...

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Palin As President?

The website, that is.

Have fun.

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Video: Closing Argument - Obama's Unity Message

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