Congratulations President Obama!
Just a few hours away...some great coverage this AM on MSNBC with a panel including Colin Powell and Tom Brokaw.
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Congratulations President Obama!
Just a few hours away...some great coverage this AM on MSNBC with a panel including Colin Powell and Tom Brokaw.
We'll see how new it is. Seems to me that it will be the same old same old just with new faces.
God bless North America and Barack Obama to initiate a new era, a new order.
With the Obama will be life in U.S. worse, like past years.
you`ll see!!!
I don't think that words can explain the feeling of joy that I have in watching what's transpiring today. This is absolutely the most amazing thing I've ever seen come to pass in my life.
To put this into perspective, an African-American family is moving into the White House. I house that was built by members of an enslaved race. We have a history as a nation that is more diverse and rich than anywhere else in the world. A history that began with an act of unimaginable evil that we have slowly but surely been working our way out of with each passing decade.
We should all be extremelly proud today because we have come full circle, and as the greatest country on the planet we have finally made the statement to the rest of the world that says we've grown up.
Bush entered office with a project ten year surplus which he quickly gave away to the wealthiest 1% of Americans in the form of tax cuts. Just as quickly the surplus disappeared and the economy started its eight year decline. Bush’s “Ownership Society” and his appointment of regulators in every branch of government who didn’t believe in regulation sealed our economic fate. Meanwhile he and Cheney have us pouring trillions of dollars down a dry hole in Iraq; trillions that the administration never put in the budget reports in the interests of political (er…national) security. Why Iraq. No one knows. Iraq was one of the only secular governments in the Middle East. Saddam has no truck for Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda was in Afghanistan and Pakistan; but Bush decided to look for his keys under the street lamp. Under Bush/Cheney America became shamefully known as a state that practices and condones torture. The definition of navigable waterway was modified to get around the clean air and water act. Fema was deemed a needless waste of government money and political hacks were placed in charge of it. We lost a city because of it. Money was so tight, States couldn’t dedicate money to needed infrastructure repairs. Bridges collaped.
Anybody would do better than Bush. It’s going to take years to clean up the mess he made. Our infrastructure needs to be revamped, we have to figure out how to make the best of the chaos we caused in the middle east. We have to somehow fix an utterly broken economy. I’m sure things are going to get worse before they get better, no matter who's in charge. I prefer someone who can put a subject and a predicate together and form a complete thought. A thought that pragmatically addresses the good of the people, rather than one that merely reformulates a nineteenth century economic ideology.
Trish, it't time to start ignoring these weak arguments now. Obama will be the President in about an hour. None of this stuff matters anymore. The last thing on my mind atleast is someone saying that Obama is gonna fail. Especially if were talking about comments made by someone from another country who's opinion REALLY doesn't matter at all because it's not ever his business.
I'm just saying, by continuing to argue with these people about something like that you're just giving there words power in thier minds.
That Bush stuff was good information during the campaign process but it's old news now. We're in the here and now, and need to help OUR (as in American's - for the foreigner) President to be successful.
a breath of fresh air. a man with a moral backbone. his roots are based in middle America where most of us live. he has a nation behind him and a world of problems in front of him. we are in unique times never before seen in this world. we, as Americans, hold as much responsibility for making change as does Obama. i pray that we are as strong and as committed as our new President. we are a fickle society whose opinions change with the wind. it's time for us to stand up and do what is right. we must fight the urge to give in too soon. so many wish to chase the all American dollar (greed) rather than working to help their fellow man. i wish the best for our country and society. can we truly meet the challenge?
Very well said JonnyT. A better way to end that though would have been to say that "we have to meet the challenge". We owe it to the generations following us if nothing else. There's just no other option other than putting up the fight to save our country.Quote:
Originally Posted by JonnyT
I hear ya, defame. Onward and upward.