{"id":1122,"date":"2008-11-05T09:14:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2008-11-05T09:14:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:14:54","slug":"barack-obamas-victory-a-mandate-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama&#8217;s Victory: A Mandate For&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crasscommerce.com\/product_info.php?products_id=397\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crasscommerce.com\/images\/art\/political\/126-Americas-Barack.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">America&#8217;s Barack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crasscommerce.com\/product_info.php?products_id=397\" target=\"_blank\">Stickers<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crasscommerce.com\/product_info.php?products_id=402\" target=\"_blank\"> T-Shirts<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>America Is Back!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History was made on November 4, 2008, when Barack Obama overwhelming won election to become the 44th President of the United States of America. Forty-five long years after Martin Luther King&#8217;s iconic <em>&#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221;<\/em> speech, the manifestation of that dream has come to pass. The fulfillment of this dream is a declaration that we can come back from the dark days of division that characterized the past eight years, and much of the past two hundred. And it is evidence that the people, when inspired, will rise up to take back their country. Barack Obama is merely the reflection of our own hopes and dreams. We are America, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s <strong>Ba<\/strong>ra<strong>ck<\/strong><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, if the media, led by Fox News, is to be believed, then the next administration should provide some surprises. Obama was castigated by John McCain, McCain&#8217;s supporters, and the omnipresent rightist press, as a Muslim and a Marxist. His patriotism was challenged. Television anointed  experts told us that Obama would raise our taxes and ruin our economy. And this dangerously risky, untested, neophyte, even palled around with terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>But America voted for him anyway. Does that mean that a majority of American voters have just given a mandate to the President-elect for an agenda of Godless Socialism? Rejoice Pagans, for the day has come that the United States has affirmed its commitment to spreading both wealth and heresy.<\/p>\n<p>Either that or the vacant ideologies of limp-brained, bile-spewers like Bill O&#8217;Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, etc, has been fiercely rejected, repudiated, and denied.<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s Barack Stickers and T-Shirts America Is Back! History was made on November 4, 2008, when Barack Obama overwhelming won election to become the 44th President of the United States of America. Forty-five long years after Martin Luther King&#8217;s iconic &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech, the manifestation of that dream has come to pass. 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