The Best (And Worst) Angry Reactions To Obama’s Re-Election

Whew, thank God this one’s over. Or is it? As should be common knowledge by now, Obama soundly won yesterday’s presidential election and the rest of the world was finally able to exhale. But to many freedom loving, socialism fearing, freeloader loathing Repubs, the battle — or revolution if you’re Donald Trump — has only just begun. From the hilariously histrionic to the depressingly daft, here are some of the best and worst election reactions the web has to offer.

Tuesday night on Twitter: Canada, Australia, Pure Incompetence

The great and terrible thing about Twitter is that it doesn’t really require too much critical thinking to gain a following. Add to that some livid, fast-thumbing conservatives who think that the recipe for their post-election repair is to leave Obama’s “socialist” nation for one with socialized healthcare and you’ve got some rich reading material.

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What Was Talked About The Most During The 2012 Elections

And now that it’s over, what do you think we wasted the most time on?

Paul Ryan, A Female’s Foe

The Article: Paul Ryan’s Promise to Make Life More Difficult for Women in Eclecta Blog.

The Text: When I’m at my most cynical, I almost believe that the Republican Party isn’t just a conspiracy to explode the national debt. It’s also a plot to force women into abortions.

In countries where the GOP dream of making abortion illegal has been realized, abortion rates are higher than countries where access is available.

In Arizona, where anti-abortion crusaders have passed some of the most restrictive women’s health laws in the country, abortion rates seemed to have increased.

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Long Live Elizabeth Warren

The Article: Truthdigger of the Week: Elizabeth Warren in Truth Dig.

The Text: The banking industry and its paid protectors have hounded Elizabeth Warren for the past decade because she is one of the few people in Washington who poses a threat to Wall Street’s control over government.

Warren is the Democratic candidate in the race to represent Massachusetts in the Senate. She is challenging incumbent Republican Scott Brown, who won the seat after Ted Kennedy’s death in 2009 called for a special election. Brown’s victory ended Democratic control of the position dating back to 1953.

In an attempt to scare the Massachusetts electorate into re-electing Brown, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg accused Warren of “socialism” in an interview with The New York Times published Oct. 21.

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Is Ohio Lost For Obama?

The Article: Obama damned as regulator-in-chief as anger runs high in Ohio coal country by Ed Pilkington in The Guardian.

The Text: It’s the afternoon shift change at the Harrison Resources mine, and about 30 miners are heading home after 10 hours shovelling for coal on an exposed hilltop in eastern Ohio. The men are dressed in an unofficial uniform of jeans, T-shirt and hard hat, and they speak in unison, too, when asked about the presidential election, now less than a week away.

“Obama’s done more damage in the last three years than anyone in the last 50,” said Brad Knight. “He and his advisers are a bunch of tree-huggers, east coast and west coast”.

“The way Obama’s handling the coal business,” said Lanny Stephen, “it looks like he’s trying to fade it out.” A third miner, Trent Sigman, chimed in: “They ought to raise the standards in China before they come after us – their standards are much less strict than ours”.

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