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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

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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 8:57am

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.

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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 9:19am

Wow, Thats interesting.

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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 9:56am
Yes, many of the republican side would like to lead everyone to believe the problems we face now were caused by our new president elect - anything other would mean they had to look inward to their own party for an explanation. hmmmmmmm

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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 10:26am

Thank you for pointing out some of the positive things he did.


I know we only hear about the

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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 10:59am

(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.

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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 12:07pm

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.

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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 1:21pm

There's another side to it, also, in

 

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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 1:29pm

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.


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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 4:17pm

"It's "Queen" Elizabeth

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Mon, 11-10-2008 - 4:23pm
I remember being taught in my 8th grade English class that it was rude to refer to someone by their first name unless you personally knew them. So for me, "Barack" would be rude, but "Obama" is perfectly acceptable. I wonder if that is the same everywhere.

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