A Couple Things

Good ‘ol Robert Novak. Gotta love him (although I thought he was retired).

Here are his thoughts on Obama’s win:

The first Democratic Electoral College landslide in decades did not result in a tight race for control of Congress. […]

[Obama] may have opened the door to enactment of the long-deferred liberal agenda, but he neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed large congressional majorities.

So Obama didn’t get enough votes to have a broad mandate. Gotcha.

OK, so let’s see what Novak said about George Bush’s election in 2004:

Q: Bob Novak, is 51 percent of the vote really a mandate?

NOVAK: Of course it is. It’s a 3.5 million vote margin. But the people who are saying that it isn’t a mandate are the same people who were predicting that John Kerry would win. … So the people who say there’s not a mandate want the president, now that he’s won, to say, Oh, we’re going to accept the liberalism that the — that the voters rejected. But Mark, this is a conservative country, and it showed it on last Tuesday. [11/06/04]

Bush had a mandate in 2004. A big margin, 3.5 million votes! I mean hell, that sounds like a lot, right? Here’s the problem: Obama’s popular vote margin stands at 7,401,289 — more than twice Bush’s 2004 vote margin — and Obama has netted 63 more electoral votes than Bush in 2004.

I believe this is what you call hypocrisy, foks.

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