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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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-04-2003
Wed, 11-05-2008 - 9:28pm

ITA!!! Sorry, I had to highlight the best parts of your posts in blue.


<<We did very well for a very long time in a Capitalist society.


And we will continue to do so, as we did under FDR, who saved the Capitalist system, and as we did under Clinton, when the Dow rose 8,000 points.


The biggest looming threat to this country

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-04-2008
Wed, 11-05-2008 - 9:28pm

>>Obama was not elected because he was moderate. He was elected because half the people were convinced that the Republicans caused the meltdown of the economy.<<

you make this sound like Democrats are easily led. I know we're both in FL. I don't know where you are but where I am it has been brutal. One Obsession DVD in my newspaper the week of 9/11, one Obsession DVD in my mailbox the same week, one Obama:Hype DVD in my newspaper last week; the past month has brought almost daily flyers in my mailbox (when I think of the trees used I could spit) with messages of hate, fear, and disdain for Obama from all different groups including McCain and the RNC. Robo-call daily for 2 weeks. I watch MSNBC and every commercial break there was Rev Wright. McCainiacs were banking on us to hide under the bed but Florida still turned blue. If I hadn't educated myself and looked into the false claims I would've voted for McCain too.

Think about it, if everyone thought Obama was the bogeyman, would the economy have mattered?

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Registered: 04-02-2008
Wed, 11-05-2008 - 9:33pm
Very well said!
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Wed, 11-05-2008 - 9:36pm
Let's hope both parties have learned this, the fighting and do nothing does nothing for this country.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Wed, 11-05-2008 - 9:42pm
That is what makes me the most nervous for him.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Wed, 11-05-2008 - 9:50pm
With Biden's information I will be on vacation starting July 20th (I usually go up to the cabin that week but I"ll be more prepared).
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Wed, 11-05-2008 - 9:51pm
Yep and they chewed him up and guess what today they are talking about him favorably again.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-05-2008
Wed, 11-05-2008 - 9:55pm

We need Obama. He has great ideas that will help this country. It will be slow going at first, but we'll see better times, I believe. It is time there was a young family in the White House again, and time a non-militant president is in charge.


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Registered: 04-04-2003
Wed, 11-05-2008 - 10:02pm

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I still agree with your previous post (even though the numbers quoted may not have been exactly right). I hadn't had the chance to see any coverage about the US election since last night so I wasn't aware of the final tallies. That being said, even though the numbers were off....This is still a mandate. Certainly better than any seen in the last 8 years.


As for the "your side won" statement you had commented on....I think it's clear that AMERICA won (and by extension, many

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-03-2003
Wed, 11-05-2008 - 10:08pm

And therein lies the most recent

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