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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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 12:00pm

*****sighs***** What would you say to a compulsive gambler who played poorly, lost steadily, but kept plowing more money into the game? Would you endorse continuing the same cycle? If so, then read no further.

If not, why ever on earth would someone reason that human lives should be spent the same way? That's what Bush has done in Iraq. What's more, he has perversely and stubbornly changed the definition of "winning" in ways which ensure that more lives will be lost, more money spent, with no visible end in sight. It's called "mission creep". We did something similar in Vietnam. Colin Powell saw the waste, learned the lessons, and enunciated them in what came to be called the Powell Doctrine.

"The "Powell doctrine" holds that the US should go to war only as a last resort and then only with overwhelming force. In his article "US Forces: Challenges Ahead" in Foreign Affairs in 1992-93, Mr Powell posed a number of questions to be asked by US policymakers before launching a war. Is a vital national security interest threatened? Do we have a clear, attainable objective? Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analysed? Have all other non-violent policy means been exhausted? Is there a plausible exit strategy? Have the consequences been fully considered? Is the action supported by the American people? Does the US have broad international support?"
http://tinyurl.com/6efufj

Bush, Rumsfeld, and most of the neocons paid no real attention to Powell or his doctrine, and used him as a dupe to lead the U.N. to believe that Iraq had mobile weapons manufacturing units in the desert. Lowdown, dirty, rotten scoundrels--the whole lot of them. They railroaded through UN resolution 1441, fear-mongered about "mushroom clouds", doctored the intelligence, and took the nation down a shameful path.

Perpetuating their gross errors of judgment will NOT somehow change dross into gold. Even the so-called "surge" didn't actually result in our troops being able to leave Iraq and therefore could not really be called "success", IMHO.

Gettingahandle


Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.


Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.

Gettingahandle

Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-27-2001
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 12:10pm
Not in my media market.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-27-2001
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 12:13pm

Great post.


I agree with you - it takes great courage to break barriers.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-06-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 12:25pm

I agree with you.

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Registered: 04-18-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 12:30pm
I think there were too many lies spread about Obama (ie. that he consorted with terrorists, a Muslim, etc.). None of this stuff was true. A lot of these lies were spread through mass emails.
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 12:34pm
They were "all over it" by protecting him and sliming Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinski, and making excuses for him and trying to make people believe that it really wasn't true. When irrefutable evidence came out, they had no choice but to cover it, but they tried to put him in the best light possible.
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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 12:35pm
diplomacy first...
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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 12:38pm

>>> HA! I can take a joke. The market has been on a roller coaster for a bit now and will continue. So place the blame where you want it, but a simple look at the past few weeks and a calendar will show you that it happened before there was a President -Elect Obama.

Many experts said the market was reacting to the PROBABILITY of a President Obama. Now that it's a done deal, the markets have tanked for the past two days...i.e. since learning the news. But I'm sure that Russia's aggression starting just hours after the election is just a coincidence too.

Oh, and true let it out...but the 'tongue' is something and it canl affect you mentally, emtionally and physically. Just because you spew it on IV doesn't mean you are at peace. 4 years is quite some time 'my friend'.

Um...what?

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Registered: 11-15-2007
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 1:00pm
May peace be with you...too much energy is wasted debating with you...may 2012 get here fast for you. OUR President will be Obama...

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