My Hopes Regarding President Obama
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| Wed, 11-05-2008 - 7:56am |
Last night I was pretty depressed. I cried when John McCain conceded. I prayed for our newly elected President Obama, and for our country.
I started thinking about this man with the paper thin record, and thinking of his words, "I'm a pragmatist", and I started to feel a glimmer of hope. Is it possible that he won't push an ultra liberal socialist agenda? Food for thought, maybe his "present" votes were votes cast so that he wouldn't "tip his hand"? Maybe in good conscious he couldn't vote to the extreme left but knew that if he didn't he could never make it as far as he needed to in the extreme environment where he was traveling up the ladder to the white house?
We really know nothing about this man aside from his thin record. Maybe he won't be the Socialist leader that we expect. Maybe, now that he is in a position of power, he will seek good council and steer our country in the right direction rather than the wrong one.
I'm praying for that, because I don't want to see the country brought to her knees with another great depression and oppressive laws that limit our success and our freedoms.
I think we conservatives should put our money where our mouths are and start praying that this man will see the light, and lead our country well. I much prefer this scenario than the Jimmy Carter scenario on steroids which messes up the country so badly that he will not serve a second term and set the African American cause back for another generation.

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Along with a number of important steps that have been made in race relations, this is a momentous step forward. It's hugely significant. However, like the ending of slavery, or the civil rights movement, it won't put all the racial issues at rest....but it will help.
I forget who said this, but last night while I was watching the coverage an African American
<<She re-energized the entire campaign and brought some true conservative values to it. >>
You see, I don't think she is a "true conservative" (any more than bush is)....That hasn't been seen for quite a while. I have a great respect for true conservative values....Hers were some sort of twisted version. I truely hope that the GOP finally return to true conservative values. She may have infused some energy and briefly tunred it back into a race....but in the end, I think she tunred into a huge liability and
Many believe that Obama will govern as a centrist. Time will tell.
It seems that everyone has flip-flopped their attitudes from the 2000 election -- including me. After Bush was elected, all I saw was gloom and doom ahead for America. I felt anxiety and despair much like what I imagine most Republicans are feeling today.
In 2004, many Democrats on this board were accused of "wanting America to lose." More recently, Sarah Palin said "Just once I would like to hear Barack Obama say he'd like America to win." I guess the theory is that Democrats have wanted the worst for America simply so that we could say "told ya so" to those who supported Bush. Of course, that is ridiculous -- we always wanted the best for America no matter who was in charge.
I am keeping this in mind here, today, because it seems like many conservatives are so distraught. They seem to be so eager for Obama and America to fail just so that they can say "told ya so." But I am sure that's not the case just as it wasn't for me in 2000. We have come full circle, and I finally get it.
Thank you for your thoughtful post and your willingness to wait and see what kind of leader Obama will become.
Hear, hear.
Think so? Maybe the fact that this happened within hours of Obama's election is just a coincidence...
"Speaking within hours of Barack Obama’s election, Mr Medvedev announced that Russia would base Iskander missiles in its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad – the former German city – next to the border with Poland.
He did not say whether the short-range missiles would carry nuclear warheads.
Taking advantage of the world’s attention on the US elections, Mr Medvedev also cancelled plans to withdraw three intercontinental ballistic missile regiments from western Russia by 2010.
In his first state-of-the-nation address, Mr Medvedev said the missiles would be deployed “to neutralise if necessary the antiballistic missile system in Europe”. He added that Russia was also ready to deploy its Navy off Kaliningrad and to install electronic jamming devices to interfere with the US shield, which relies on a radar station in the Czech Republic and ten interceptor missiles in Poland.
The President failed to congratulate Mr Obama or even to mention him by name during the 85-minute address televised live across Russia.
Mr Medvedev blamed the US for the global financial crisis, saying that the rest of the world had been “dragged down with it into recession”. He said that the era of American dominance after the collapse of the Soviet Union was over. “The world cannot be ruled from one capital. Those who do not want to understand this will only create new problems for themselves and others,” he said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5090077.ece
>>> It seems that another quality of Republicans of late is the sentiment that if you're not for McCain, you must be for Obama, and that's simply not the case. Obama is not "my" guy. I don't like him, didn't vote for him. So much for that argument, huh?
And yet you spoke so forcefully AGAINSTt..."the Republicans. I've also heard your rhetoric throughout...it's pretty clear that you're with "them."
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