CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA!

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA!
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Fri, 11-07-2008 - 12:35am

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-18-2008
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 12:43am

Thanks. Congratulations to Australia, too.



However, given the current economic situation and the damage of the last 8 years, there are many would say he’s taking on a poisoned challis.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-23-2002
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 1:09am

Thank you for your support! I have definitely been inspired by this election moreso than any other election. :)



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iVillage Member
Registered: 11-01-2008
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 1:14am

I appreciate your support.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 1:33am
Thank you on behalf of my little corner of America.

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 2:46am

I'm hopeful that an Obama administration will reach out to our friends and allies worldwide and will offer and take good counsel.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-09-2008
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 8:39am
Gee, thanks. Unfortunately, I don't think he is up to the job. But, we will see. I just hope that his being a mulatto is not the high water mark of his presidency, as it is at this point.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 9:35am

Well, each to their own opinion I guess.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-04-2003
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 10:44am

My feelings are/were exactly the same as yours.

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However, since then I've noticed the same old rhetoric, the same old knee-jerk partisan hatred and divisions along with many people already calling Obama's presidency a disaster months before he's even taken the oath of office. So the "transformative" part remains to be seen. It appears that this may just be far too much to expect.

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I'm sure that the honeymoon will be over soon especially if as I expect, Obama might govern more from the middle thus quickly angering folks on the furthest ends of both parties. They are always the ones who squawk the loudest and with today's 24 hour media who's motive is to fill all that airtime and attract the most viewers/profit....these are the voices that will be heard (and rehashed and regurgitated ad nauseam).

Considering all that any new president will have to face, I'd already though that whoever the winner would have been, even if they did the best job that could have possibly been done, they will probably only get one term because I don't think the problems the US is facing can be solved in only one term and the public are notoriously fickle, impatient and many are just plain uninformed. Politicians whose motivation, over and above what is best for the country will just feed into that to attain or keep themselves in power at all costs.

Add to that, the toxic influence of the internet (with its wild rumours, uninformed bloggers and crazy extremists) and I can't see the amount of balanced support he is going to need lasting all that long.

NOTE TO SELF: Stay off the internet (it's way too depressing).

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-04-2003
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:03am

If what I believe of Obama is true....he, more than anyone is capable of doing the tough job the next president will be facing (relatively unscathed). THAT'S if he is actually allowed to, or if the big noise machine can put aside their inner agendas/differences to view the issues and potential solutions with an open mind. This is anyone's guess.

I like the way Obama was able to stay above the fray, stick to the high road and stay focussed on what's important to the extent that he did throughout the campaign. I was heartened that a lot of the public was eventually able to appreciate that....If he can do this as president with the public still recognizing these strengths of character....Maybe there's a chance of fixing a lot of the mess left behind.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-09-2008
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 3:55pm

It just means half black and half white, as Obama is. He is almost universally referred to as an African American, which gives the impression that that is all he is.

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