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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You sound like you've been beaten down by the current administration just like the rest of us, only perhaps you don't realize it.
Our economy was booming under Clinton, yet you continue to blame HIS administration for what has happened in the last 2 years? Amazing. It was the REPUBLICANS who pushed for the deregulation that got us in the sub-prime mess. It was the REPUBLICANS who insisted that giving the top 2% of income earners a tax break would "trickle down" to the rest of us. Then they had to turn around and use taxpayer money to bail out the very people who they gave those tax breaks to because they were greedy, greedy, greedy. And you call Obama elitist??? Hilarious.
You're concerned about opposition being silenced??? You mean like Dick Cheney saying, "If you're not with us, you're for the terrorists"? Like others saying that anyone who didn't support the war in Iraq was un-American? Like Bush trying to virtually suspend the Constitution under the guise of keeping us safe? That kind of silencing? Yes, I can see why you'd be scared of that, but take a deep breath and go back and look at Wednesday's newspaper. Obama won, not McCain.
Please explain your Biden is an idiot comment. In what way? He is a good and honorable man, and I have never heard anyone say otherwise. How can you have been concerned about the choice of Biden but have been okay with the choice of Palin, who has SHOWN herself to be a TRUE idiot???
“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.
I really feel sorry for you. Again, may you find peace that our next President is Barack Obama...deal with it...as we all have for the last 8 years. Relax...
It's been stated ad nauseum.
That's very true, and it's one of the reasons your guy lost.
“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.
>>> It isn't the Democrats who are stupid.
Oh, but I thought they just voted for the most inexperienced guy, in American history, for President.
>>> It isn't the Democrats drinking cool aid.
Oh, but I thought they just voted for a guy who said that he'll raise taxes in a slow economy, bankrupt an entire energy industry, make electricity "skyrocket," spend trillions on socialist programs in spite of a huge deficit, and talk to our enemies with no pre-conditions.
>>> The vitriol coming from you, is sad. It's based on believing the Karl Rove tactics.
Only if reality and the promises of your candidate are "Rovian tactics." LOL!
>>> No, we aren't the stupid ones at all!
Ahem...you voted for Obama. LOL!
>>> Obama is like a breath of fresh air. The nitrous is all yours!
We'll need it to get through the next 4 years.
>>> Obama is the one who is finally concerned with the middle class.
Yeah, he bought their votes for $500. Cheap at twice the price...when you consider that many of them lost their jobs.
>>> McCain's stated policies, were exactly the same as Bush's, and we know where that has gotten us!
Growing economy...low unemployment...low inflation...and all at a time of war! Heavens! Protect us!
>>> Sarcastic comebacks aren't clever.
Some are. (blushing)
>>> They just verify how out of touch with reality you are.
Except that it's evident that we can read.
>>> I understand you could never admit even the possibility of being wrong.
Sure we can...we just have to be wrong first.
>>> That's a shame. I hate seeing that trait in people.
*where's my mirror icon?* LOL!
>>> There's no point in trying to demonstrate the truth, as it will never be acknowledged.
Uh oh...here's comes the "it's so because I say it's so" bit.
>>> So, it's time to stop communicating. It would serve no purpose to continue.
I know it's asking a lot, but you could try to come up with some facts to support your point of view rather than the constant self-assurance that you're always right. Unlike ideologically entrenched liberals, facts might actually convince a conservative.
>>> Consider yourself blocked. I will not see any more of your replies.
How sad...whatever shall I do?
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