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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Then you'd be incorrect.
>>> I can't resist saying this: You really need to take a break. You're working yourself up into a lather over nothing.
Only if you consider the appointment of a socialist neophyte to the Presidency, who's inexperience will place the country and our allies in danger, to be "nothing."
>>> It's going to be okay, really.
Sorry, but reassurance from someone who bought "hope and change" hook, line and sinker isn't particularly comforting.
>>> As much as I despise Bush et al, I learned that. Our country is in bad, bad shape, and I hold the Bush administration largely responsible, but the sun comes up each morning. Our country didn't collapse.
It's nice that the left can be so hypocritically upbeat AFTER their candidate won, but again, your placing the blame on Bush only serves to demonstrate how grossly ill-informed you are on the issues. In the past two days, I've asked at least 5 libs to specifically tell us what Bush, whom they blame, did to get the country in such "bad, bad shape. I suppose that I'll get silence back from you as well.
>>> We have a chance to come together and get things right. You'll have your chance to elect another conservative president; democracy works that way.
Again, the hypocrisy of the left is staggering...simply staggering.
>>> Really, slow down and take a deep breath. You're going to wear yourself out with all of this blather.
Not at all, I'm like an "Olympian of blather." LOL! I'm just pacing myself for the next 4 years. ; )
>>> Over and out...
10-4 good buddy.
Oh please, just give it up already......these comparisons are ridiculous.
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We had this here in CO, it lost by a landslide.
>>In the past two days, I've asked at least 5 libs to specifically tell us what Bush, whom they blame, did to get the country in such "bad, bad shape. I suppose that I'll get silence back from you as well.
Nah, here you go:
The Iraq War
Torture
No Child Left Behind
Cheney
No-bid contracts with Haliburton
Refusing to sign the Kyoto treaty
John Bolton at the UN
Illegal wire-tapping
Mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts
Donald Rumsfeld
Alberto Gonzalez
Plame's outing
Medicare Drug Program
Mismanagement and underfunding of Afghanistan
Overuse of understaffed military forces
Non-funded mandates
Horrific treatment of our Iraq vets
An $8.2 trillion debt
Emergency management after 9/11
Alienation of much of the rest of the world
Mismanagement of diplomacy with Iran and North Korea
A nearly $1 trillion trade deficit
Gitmo
Secret prisons
Some bizarre expansion of presidential authority
I could go on, really I could. Anyone should feel free to disagree -- or add your own! I'll be the first to say that he's not entirely responsible for each item on the list. I'm kind of a "the buck stops here" kind of gal though, and given his assertion of presidential authority, I'd say he can handle most of the blame. He's asked for it.
>>Not at all, I'm like an "Olympian of blather." LOL! I'm just pacing myself for the next 4 years. ; )
By all means, then, have at it.
Laura
>>> Yes, sharing some more of that warm, fuzzy feeling you Republicans have been using to make your party more inclusive.
What makes you think we want our party to be inclusive? LOL! We'd rather keep it to people who think, and keep it a party of values and standards, not turn it into the $5-all-you-can-eat-smorgasbord that is the Democrat party.
>>> While you're busy blaming the stupid people,
The stupid people deserve every thing that's coming down the Obama-pike.
>>> you might want to make sure that includes those individuals who orchestrated your candidates candidacy,
I agree there...the folks running the McCain campaign blew it several times.
>>> the candidates themselves for blowing the message,
The only message they blew was not shoving Rev. Wright in Obama's face or pushing hard enough on his other shady connections. Obama is a scumbag and the world didn't get to hear it...but there's word that the press will turn on him later in 2009...let's see how it goes.
>>> and the party for being so hateful in general that many people couldn't stomach supporting it at the polls.
Better check the split on the popular vote before making it sound like "the country" couldn't stomach the "hate." It was YOUR guy who was out spinning lies, breeding hate and running a gutter campaign, and the libs who were out there with an utterly disgusting spear campaign against Sarah Palin. The left deserves every bit of scorn it gets.
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I'm not posting just to humour you. I've always seen the pragmatist in Obama.
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