Well the big day has come and gone and America has a new president elect. Not my favorite choice to be sure. For that matter and as I have posted more than once, the opposition candidate didn’t really grab me either. B Hussein Obama will be America’s 44th President. In reflecting back on the campaign, I feel it safe to say it’s not so much that Obama and the liberals won but rather that McCain and thus the conservatives lost.

I think the cartoon “Mallard Fillmore” said it best when he mused in a recent installment that now McCain can stop pretending to be a conservative and Obama can stop pretending to be a moderate. Clearly after the primaries were over, both candidates moved to the right in order to garner votes. McCain moved right to try and recapture the Republican base and Obama to fool the “Joe Six-pack” conservatives and independents.

More accurately I think McCain lost the election, not just because he was the worst possible choice for his party but because he let the opposition dictate the course of the election. Though the election of the first black to the nation’s highest office is historic and nothing short of monumental. Many people like me who voted against the Junior Senator from Illinois did so not because we’re closet racists but because we disagree with the candidate on the many issues on the basis of principle. McCain failed to distinguish himself and his party from the opposition on issues, instead choosing to become the “Demagogue-Rat Lite” candidate.

No one can deny that the Demagogue-Rats had the unabashed support of the liberal mainstream media. They, having lost the two previous presidential contests were hell bent on reasserting their relevance. I feel it safe to say they did so at the cost of their very souls. They ignored the shortcomings of the liberal candidates wholesale and went all out to destroy the opposition. I think it safe to say that never before in the history of American politics has the media sought out to destroy a private citizen the way they did “Joe the Plumber” simply because he had the guts to question their candidate the way they and the opposition refused to.

Oh, it’s true that McCain picked up on the issue after the fact but the truth of the matter had been known from the outset of the campaign that Obama was a far left radical. The man “CHOSE” to associate with criminals and Marxist radicals the likes of Rezko, Wright, Ayers, etc. Obama’s defense of the associations just doesn’t wash. They are more than just people who live in his neighborhood or happened to have business dealings with.

As Robert Knight noted “When the media chooses to ignore important issues, it is up to the candidate to raise them. But McCain was so busy distancing himself from Bush that his own (change) theme was barely distinguishable from Obama’s.” Furthermore he had numerous issues handed to him on a silver platter that he either ignored or pounced on far too late.

Chief among these is the current financial mess. The left with the assistance of their propaganda arm “the liberal mainstream media” pounced on corporate greed and McCain wanting to be a populist followed suit. But the real culprits in the mess are members of the Demagogue-Rat party who refused to investigate the looming messes at Fannie May and Freddie Mack. McCain never seemed to understand that the media was undermining him at every turn and his choice on how to handle the crisis is proof alone that he was not the right man for the job.

So now B. Hussein Obama will be our next president. What will the results of an Obama presidency be? There is little doubt that he is a shrewd politician and just as he ruthlessly cleared the competition out of the way during the campaign, he’s more than likely to use the same tactics to deal with any problems he’ll face on the horizon. First of all, he’ll silence his critics. Just as he muzzled Hillary and silenced McCain, he’ll make it impossible for anyone to question his decisions or motives.

President Obama is an unabashed Socialist, if not an outright Marxist in his political orientation who will likely use the same bait and switch tactics to lay the blame for all the nation’s woes at the feet of his predecessor and the Capitalist system. He ran his campaign not so much against McCain as he did against his predecessor. As such, he will blame the outgoing administration for as much as he possibly can and for as long as he can. He should be able to get a few good years worth of press out of his allies in the media. As long as they are on his side, expect fawning press coverage no matter how much farther south the economy goes! I expect that will last at least through the mid-term elections if not beyond.

Those tax cuts he promised all through his campaign, forget about them. That was all smoke and mirrors. You can’t promise all the spending programs he has and not have a way to pay for it. As “Slick Willie” Clinton did only sixteen years before, expect an announcement sometime after the New Year that no tax break is coming! He’ll have the luxury of being able to blame it all on the Bush Administration. Add to that the “Bush Tax Cuts” expire in 2010. Don’t expect a renewal! All of our taxes are going to go up and sharply. The President Elect has a lot of people to pay off and it’s going to cost all of us plenty!

As taxes go up, expect productivity and the number of jobs to go down. Expect the stock market funk to continue on its wild ride for the foreseeable future and I expect it to go down more than it will go up. Furthermore, Obama's support for the unionization of businesses across the board without the use of secret ballot will add to the funk. As more and more small and medium sized businesses are forced to unionize, expect more and more of them to either go out of business and or move overseas to more favorable business climates. Prepare yourselves for a “quite probable” second Great Depression and soup kitchen America.

Lastly, the “Gaff Meister” and plagiarist extraordinaire, none other than the future Veep, Joe Biden has predicted that the Obama Administration will be tested by a terrorist attack or similar incident within the first six months of taking over. This prediction came only days after they had been briefed by the Bush administration on the potential threats the country faces. He’s also on the record as saying that they’re not going to be seen as handling it the right way, which probably means they’re going to appease the attackers! Somehow this too will be blamed on the Bush Administration. Perhaps the war stretched our military too thin to respond or something along those lines. His weak response will only embolden our enemies further.

My predictions for America’s immediate future are not based on having gazed into a crystal ball or by having consulted the stars or even a medium. They are based on common sense, a common sense that has for the moment, left the American people. Behold America; dark days are looming on the horizon. And that is not a racist pun! These are dark days with worldwide implications. As the American consumer pulls back out of necessity, so to will the global economic picture darken. Europe has been in an economic funk for a decade. Emerging economies in China and India are not yet ready to take up the slack. To put it simply, “We’re all in for a very bumpy four year ride!” Thanks for nothing John McCain!