Check out the different attitudes between Bush and Obama right after their elections:

[jenmito]

Obama was asked by a reporter today: ”What sort of mandate do you have, do you believe?"

Obama: ”We had a decisive win...and so I don't think there is any question we have a mandate to move the country in a new direction...But I won 53% of the vote, that means 46, 47% of the country voted for John McCain...It's important, as I said on election night, that we enter into the new admin. with a sense of humility and a recognition that wisdom is not the monopoly of any one party..."

Bush after his squeaker "win": ”I earned capital in this election and I intend to SPEND it."

How refreshing!

[FrenchieCat]

1. Obama is the anti-Bush!

Bush won his last election by 2 points....and didn't even win his first.....yet asshole acted like a mac truck driving through the Constitution. So glad when he's gone.
Can't.come.fast.enough.for.me.

[jenmito]

2. Yup. He's the Bizarro Bush!

I can't WAIT 'til he officially takes office. (He's already the guy people are looking to anyway.)

[Sanity Claws]

15. Bush stole the 2004 election and he knew it

Let's never forget that he never won a presidential election legitimately. I want the history books to put an asterisk next to his name, questioning his legitimacy.

[lunatica]

16. Let's just call it the Bush Error

And may it go down in history along with the McCarthy Era as an American history aberration.

[LSparkle]

3. His "political capital" comment was one of the most cringe-worthy ...

What a bloviating, pompous, entitled asshole! Even if you
leave out the fact that Ohio was STOLEN, he only "won" by
a nose, yet he acted like it was a landslide ...

"I earned capital in this election -- political capital --
and now I intend to spend it, as is my style ... " Still
makes my hair stand up on edge. Fucking RatBastard can't
be gone fast enough for my taste.

[jenmito]

4. I agree...

The second I heard him say that I hated him even more!

[booksenkatz]

5. A cartoon I made in 2000--->

[jenmito]

6. I love it!

Great cartoon. I love the song, too. Both the original and the words YOU put to it. :)

[Canuckistanian]

7. Bush knew he had pulled it off

He KNEW that if he got the presidency without challenge, he was home free. I think he was expecting more of a fight.

Gore could have stopped him.

[jenmito]

8. Yeah...

same with Kerry (but he chose not to fight for OH).

[Canuckistanian]

10. Gore actually fought more than Kerry

Gore took it all the way to the USSC.

Kerry? Not so much. Ohio was dirty and Kerry CHOSE not to fight it.

[jenmito]

12. I know...

very disappointing.

[gordianot]

9. Gore could have stopped him, he also had a traitor in his midst Joe Lieberman.

Strange how that traitor has managed to stick around.

[Canuckistanian]

11. In all fairness, Lieberman didn't betray Gore

But he WAS strangely silent.

Maybe THAT said something.

[gordianot]

17. Joe did not support recount efforts in Florida.

[anigbrowl]

13. Bush's 'political capital' remark was in 2004, not in 2000.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode10/usc_sec_10_00000113----000-.html

[jenmito]

14. I thought so. I never said otherwise but I guess I implied it by not calling it

his "RE-election."