My Hopes Regarding President Obama

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Registered: 08-29-2008
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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Thu, 11-06-2008 - 8:52am

They won't turn on him until the second term if there is one. They would do nothing to harm his chances for re-election.

Tell that to Jimmy Carter....




~ SW

~ SW

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 9:04am

The last time we had a Democrat president he sent troops on a U.N. "peace keeping" mission to Mogadishu. I remember our soldiers being murdered and humiliated, their naked bodies being dragged through the streets on national television. How would you have liked to be the mother of one of THOSE soldiers? After the public humiliation, our president did nothing.

It doesn't make me a hill of beans if you think my observations are "arrogant". I can't say what I think of your rantings without violating TOS.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 9:06am
The press didn't turn on Jimmy Carter. It was the suffering of the nation under his lack of leadership and huge mistakes that did him in.
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 9:25am

Let me tell you something from an "insider" who has traveled all over this country and lived in several different states.

We just recently moved here to Florida. We own a small business and came here to wind it down and start getting ready to retire. ONE day after the election Russia has threatened to put missiles back in Cuba. My husband and I had a long talk last night and we have decided to rent our house (because we probably will not be able to sell it), and move back to Texas where we can feel safer, and where the economy is still strong. We are also going to retire earlier and shut down the business, hopefully before Obama has time to do much damage to us. We have two employees who are like family. We will try to take care of them until they find other jobs.

America does have it's problems, there is no denying that, but you can't judge the entire U.S. by what's happening in Florida. Before you make hasty generalizations, travel a bit more around our GREAT country, because, even WITH all of our problems, we are still the GREATEST, MOST POWERFUL NATION ON EARTH. I pray it stays that way. And I just said a little prayer for you, too!

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Registered: 02-07-2007
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 9:30am

First, let me say that I, too, was moved by McCain's concession speech. It was dignified and respectful, and reflected the character of the man I used to admire. If he had run his campaign with that kind of dignity, and been true to who he was instead of allowing the Republican attack machine to take over his campaign, we may have seen a very different outcome on Tuesday.

Second, allow me to point out that there is NO ONE with any experience as president except someone who has BEEN president. Additionally, we can't really know WHAT a president will do once he gets in office. Did those who voted for Bush really think that he'd start an unnecessary war, allow Dick Cheney to run the White House, try to suspend the Constitution, and in general let the neo-cons dictate his presidency? Even I, who voted for Gore, never saw that coming.

Obama HAS NOT promoted a socialist agenda. That's one of the many, many, many Republican lies. Thank God the American people saw through it this time. As far as taxes, he seeks only to let the current tax breaks for the top 2% of income earners in this country expire and return to what they were under Clinton. As Barack said, the rich were doing pretty well under Clinton. I am excited that, as someone who makes far, far below $250K a year, I will get a TAX BREAK for a change. That's socialist? No. That's FAIR. Wanting to find a way to help people who do not have health insurance is also not socialist. Obama has NEVER suggested a universal health care plan. He's proposed a common sense way to help people purchase health insurance. Why does that bother you?

Finally, let me say that I cried, too. In fact, I broke down and sobbed yesterday when it finally hit me that, as Gerald Ford once said, our long national nightmare is over. Sometimes you don't realize how bad the pain was until it stops hurting. I feel beaten down by the past 8 years. I feel as if we've been at the bottom of a dark hole and, finally, after 8 long years, we can see the light of day again.

By the way, this is not a race thing for me (although I am very, very proud of my country for not allowing our racist history to keep the voters from doing what's right for the United States of America). I am as white as they come, with a German and Irish heritage. My great-great grandfather was a Confederate soldier. While I can't predict what kind of president Barack Obama will be, I finally, for the first time in 8 years, have HOPE.

~Ghostwriter, M.A.

“If, by a ‘liberal,’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people – their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties – someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘liberal.’”


~Ghostwriter, M.A.


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Registered: 11-05-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 9:35am

I truly enjoyed reading your heartfelt post, as your thoughts so dovetail with my own.


And special thanks for the Kennedy quote.

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Registered: 11-11-1999
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 9:41am

The last time we had a Democrat president he sent troops on a U.N. "peace keeping" mission to Mogadishu.


My goodness!!! George H. Bush was a Democrat!!!! Who knew?????


Or is it just that everyone knows Clinton sent the troops to Somalia?


December 4, 1992


Bush orders U.S. troops to Somalia

President George H. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia, a war-torn East African nation where rival warlords were preventing the distribution of humanitarian aid to thousands of starving Somalis. In a military mission he described as "God's work," Bush said that America must act to save more than a million Somali lives, but reassured Americans that "this operation is not open-ended" and that "we will not stay one day longer than is absolutely necessary."


http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?id=7101&action=tdihArticleCategory

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Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 9:42am

Actually, if you pay taxes, you received a tax cut under President Bush. Everyone did. I am still too weary to fight, but I'll just say that your entire post is filled with lies and half truths put out by the propagandists on the left. If you would take the time to find out both sides, your opinions could be altered.

There is no one with experience as president, but there are people LIKE JOHN MCCAIN that have many many years experience in foreign affairs and the JUDGMENT to handle them. He is also not a man who is perceived to be weak by other leaders. Therefore the country would be in much safer hands from the start, as other less powerful countries would not challenge us. With an inexperienced, man at the helm, who is perceived to be weak we are in more danger. Look what IS ALREADY happening, and he has been president elect for ONLY TWO DAYS.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 10:03am

President Bush initially sent troops there in the last few weeks of his presidency for a short in and out mission for humanitarian relief, so that the people could get food and not starve, and then Clinton took over and expanded the mission for "nation building" and put our troops under the authority of the U.N. The military asked for more troops to be able to do the job correctly, but President Clinton did not send them. He also sent Jimmy Carter over there to negotiate. Each time the military asked for more troops, President Clinton sent over "negotiators" to talk to the warlords. A bloody battle ensued where our soldiers were humiliated, murdered, and dragged through the streets naked on national TV. Then President Clinton brought our troops who were still alive home.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/etc/cron.html

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 10:16am
What is happening?

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