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| Sun, 11-09-2008 - 7:34am |
It hasn't been a week yet since Obama became the President-elect, but I'm already hearing, and seeing
| Sun, 11-09-2008 - 7:34am |
It hasn't been a week yet since Obama became the President-elect, but I'm already hearing, and seeing
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His administration was responsible for lowering the marginal tax rate to 10% for the poorest taxpayers, establishing the child tax credit at $500/child and then expanding it to $1000/child, expanding college tax credits significantly for families with students in college (these credits phase out as income increases), establishing the deduction that allows low income families to get a tax credit for contributing to 401k plans.
Wow, Thats interesting.
MikieMom
MikieMom
Thank you for pointing out some of the positive things he did.
I know we only hear about the
(regarding whether the practice of referring to the president as "Mr." is disrespectful)
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I've been puzzled by this thread. My parents, old timey southern conservatives, taught me to use "Mr." as a term of respect. In a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ways, a country that draws its presidents from its citizens (not a royal lineage), I think it's a bit out of keeping with our democratic ideals to insist that a president always be called by the title that identifies his employment status, lest we be considered "disrespectful". My husband has a PhD, but most people call him "Mr." (when they don't call him by his first name), unless he's being addressed or referred to in a professional capacity. I would not expect a president to be introduced to the U.N. as "Mr. Obama" (too informal), but don't find it out of place in an editorial or news article about his tax policies. JMHO.
While we should take everything promised in a campaign with a grain of salt (including the negative mud thrown between one candidate or another), we shouldn't allow this administrations failures to be excuses for cynicism.
There's another side to it, also, in
Thank you for that. : )
Nobody can know what's in someone else's heart or how they feel about their country, and so it surprises me that people would even try to question something like patriotism.
"It's "Queen" Elizabeth
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