Republicans are still a little sour , you lost , except it ...
Republicans are still a little sour , you lost , except it ...
That would be accept it, not except...good grief.
All that needs to be said of Obama is that he has achieved a mandated majority of the vote. I know I have vetted him since 2004, and am absolutely comfortable sleeping at night knowing he is our next president! To those of you worried about his race: I hope you enjoy being the new minority in America. To those of you saying it is wrong to know and talk to your enemies: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. There is nothing any of you can do to change the fact that America has spoken, and that we will have a new direction in America. Like I've heard from many of the people who have supported the ideals of the last 8yrs I say to you: If you don't like it here, then you are free to leave at any time...
I am a republican but I voted for Obama because I fee that if something happened to McCain given his medical background I do not feel Palin is the right person to be sitting in the most powerful office of our country at a time like this. If she had a few more years under her belt as a senior polital figure, I would have voted different. Beside the fact that I felt Mit Romney should have been the Vice President candidate for the republicans.
How many years of experience does Obama have?
Obama was in the Senate enough to say Present! I agree, he does not have as much experience in government as Palin, but no one seems to care about that! They only care that he wants "Change!" Well just because I "change" a diaper does not mean the next one won't also be full of poop!
For the first time I finally feel like our country is heading in the right direction. For the first time I actually believe in what a politician is saying, and I have complete faith in him. I hope Obama stays true to his promises because he has a lot to live up to. I'm so happy that FINALLY we have a president who can do a lot of good for this country. And for all you people out there who are whining and mad that McCain lost -- please, stop making completely innaccurate, ignorant statements because you're pissed your candidate did poorly. Everyone has a right to their own opinion, but to make innaccurate statements that have proven to be untrue, shows how un-informed and ignorant you really are. We had to suffer for 8 years with a president we didn't want. Now it's your turn to squirm. Except unlike Bush, Obama will actually benefit you and this entire country.
Politicians say what they say and promise what they promise to get elected. You say he is the first politician you ever believed and then in the same comment you say you hope he keeps his promises? What kind of logic is that?
to bostonforchange. These are not inaccurate statements or emotionally charged feelings of loss. You will cringe if your parents die on the Obama watch. The interitance tax will drop to 500,000 from it's present 6,000,000 instituted by GWB. It will cost you over 150,000 in cash. Practice making your zeros, you have never written a check so big before. Ray from L.A.
Have all of you who DID NOT vote for Obama not realized he didn't win that election and turn states like VA from red to blue states because of the color of his skin!! That kind of thinking is why the Republicans LOST!! We as AMERICANS were looking for that ray of HOPE!! I've never seen so many as emotional and proud and hopeful as when JFK was around. We voted for him because he touched our hearts and minds!! All McCain gave us was fear and intimidation and racism, all the things from our past as a nation that we are trying to RISE ABOVE!!
Luna, you hit the nail on the head. I am more proud than ever to be an American and I know the ignorance is not as rampant as it looks on this site, if it were Obama would not be President.
ROLLING EYES.. IGNORANCE TRULLY SHOWS IN YOUR COMMENTS.
ROLLING EYES.. IGNORANCE TRULLY SHOWS IN YOUR COMMENTS.
I am always astonished when people refer to the good ole days of JFK...he was a womanizer and hawk who escalated the Viet Nam War!
I wish you all would sit back and if you could with an open mind and look at what you are saying. You call him black, what about the white in his blook? What happened to that? Did it just disappear because someone (maybe him or his (white) family began checking the black (african american) under race at an early age, maybe to help him associate better with a single race because prejudism is so strong in our era. Or maybe it was himself who felt the need to "belong" and felt more comfortable with black/african americans and therefore checked that box as to race. At any rate, he is still white and no matter which box or which race he "chooses" he cannot be declared as black or white and omittting the other, because God made him outh of both. Kind of like taking Christ out of Christmas (X-Mas) isn't it?
Obama won because people vote their pocketbooks, plain and simple. Look at the ouster of every past party in power based on the economy. With a better economy the outcome might have been different. It is what it is.
He has no experience and it looks like we are about to get a warmed over Clinton administration if the cabinet picks go anywhere near what the media is predicting. Giving all the keys to the Federal government to the Democrats is a mistake we will soon regret I'm afraid. Pelosi and bunch are about to open your pocketbooks...I do love the fact Obama already made the excuse "it might not be a year, it might not be in the first term..."already setting himself up for a second term and having the excuse ready if he doesn't deliver. We'll see what someone with his inexperience is capable of accomplishing.
batman817: How did the economy get in this predicament in the first place? It wasn't like this 8 years ago, was it. As for the comment about setting himself up for another term, his actions will do that. He is simply managing expectations. Rome wasn't built in a day and the US can't be rebuilt in a day. I'd rather he take his time and be thoughtful and careful in his decision-making process as opposed to "Ready, Fire, Aim" like W.
Said nothing about what shape it was in prior to now or eight years ago. Just made the comment that people historically vote their pocketbook for the party not in power. Again, if you check the budgets for the years Clinton was in, Social Security is used to offset the deficit. It is a standard Democratic political tool to claim things are better than they are. And technically the Clinton administration enjoyed the benefits of the economy handed to them by the prior administration, as most administrations do. The tech bubble burst under Clinton, so no one can say the good economy was all his doing either. It is a combination of a lot of different long and short term things.
WHATS GONNA HAPPEN WHEN THIS COUNTRY GETS TESTED FROM THE MUSLIM NUTJOB EXTREMEISTS ? OBAMA SAID HE WANTS TO SIT DOWN ACROSS THE TABLE FROM THEM AND "DISCUSS". WHATS NEXT, IS HE GONNA GET DR. PHIL UP THERE AS AN ADVISOR ON HOW DO DEAL WITH THOSE PSYCHOS THERE IS NO DISCUSSING WITH THOSE PEOPLE. THEY WANT TO KILL US AND HE WANTS TO FIND OUT HOW THEY ARE FEELING. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE !!! PLEASE SOMEONE RESPOND TO THIS POST AND AGREE OR COUNTER MY VERY VALID POINT. WE MUST BE PREPARED AS A PEOPLE WHEN THIS ALL GOES SOUTH AND OUR NEW PRESIDENT ELECT IS STANDING IN THE WHITE HOUSE WITH THAT "DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS" LOOK. I SURELY HOPE THAT I AM COMPLETELY WRONG ABOUT OUR NEW PRESIDENT. I WILL SUPPORT HIM BECAUSE I AM A PATRIOT, I JUST HOPE HE DOES THE SAME FOR ALL OF US.
Have any of you "Can't talk to your enemies" spewing morons ever heard of this very wise statement? Keep your friend close, and your enemies closer...
JEDBENSON - have you been in a fight before? If you knew your enemy would any of these have happened 1)avoided the fight 2)have an overwhelming advantage because you knew your enemy. By the way how do you gather intelligence if you do not communicate with your enemies. What do we know about North Korea and Iran. Same thing happened in Afghanistan and Iraq.
PEOPLE , THE ELECTION IS OVER--------------------------------- STOP THIS BICKERING..................................IF YOU TEND TO YOUR OWN BUSSINES YOU WOULD BE BETTER OFF. THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REP,IS THE PLACE TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT IF THERE IS TO BE ONE. AMERICA IS A PLACE OF ALL RACES AND WE CALL OUR SELVES................AMERICAN......................... DON'T WE?...........................LETS ALL PULL TOGETHER AND BE PROUD OF WHAT "OUR COUNTRY CAN DO AND WILL DO" ...........BMGP
OH AND ONE MORE THING ALOT OF PEOPLE WHO SAY THEIR "OBAMA SUPPORTERS" ARE NOT LIKE 'ROLLINGEYES' NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!! THEY SAY THAT TO GET ATTENTION AND THEN TRY TO START CONSTERNATION!!! NOT NEW FOR 'WHITE' FEMALES (ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTH)
So the republicans have a problem with PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA'S choice for chief of staff!!! That is ridiculous! Why would PRESIDENT OBAMA want a republican to run his WHITE HOUSE???!!! The republicans want to get someone close to Obama to try to undermine him so that his 4-years will not go well and so they can create turmoil or make it seem he can't handle his business. !!!! I LOVE THE WAY THINGS ARE STARTING AND I HOPE THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL CONTINUE TO BE BUILT IN A MANNER THAT INSULATES THE PRESIDENT!!! ONCE THINGS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED AND HIS POWER IS CEMENTED WITH HIS CRONIES THEN WE'LL BEGIN THE BIPARTISAN OPERATION BUT NOT NOW WHILE YA'LL STILL GOT THE LITTLE FEELINGS FROM ELECTION - SO JUST CALM DOWN ITS OVER!
I think it is about time for a secession, where are the balls of the south when you need them? We will never agree on our differences, we might as well fight each other about it and let the victorious side decide what is right for us. America vs. Amerika on the battlefields of our homeland, interesting proposition. Obama is your president, not mine.
We have been there and done that.... and guess what we were fighting over...drum roll... slavery.....
and they say we havent come a long way.... they may be right after all....
civil war is on the rise....
Then you can move to mars.
I think the first thing President Obama should do is cancel the food stamps and review the welfare of the people and give them work to help our economy move, this are the people who supported him.
Most people would be shocked to find out much of government spending actually goes toward social programs such as food stamps and welfare. I am very much for people working and making a living for themselves however there is an abundance of waste by our government that has nothing to do with social programs. An example is the notorious "bridge to nowhere" supported at one time by governor Sarah Palin od Alaska. Millions of tax payer dollars are spent on wasteful and useless in an effort to keep certain segments of America working while failing to address the needs of mainstream America. Industries need to be created that will keep jobs in America. Corporations need to see the need to keep jobs here in America. No sane individual wants to rely on social programs.
I supported Obama and make over $150k. Actually White College Graduates supported him at about 60%. Look it up before you make assinine comments.
unless you have been on the system, don't make assumptions on the system! It is hard as heck to get off of because they base your income on your GROSS income not your NET EARNINGS after TAXES. So you can make $20,000 and get no assistance, but in reality you are making $15,000 because of taxes and yet you are expected to pay for yourself and your family on $15,000 in income. There is no way to make more money because you need to have money to put your kids in Daycare (which costs $7,800 per year if you are paying $150 per week) so you are technically losing money by trying that way.
I can guarantee you have never had to live on the system if you speak like it is so easy to get off of! Try it once and see if you have the same opionions!
I am not even close to being on welfare and I completely supported him. He has stated numerous times, that if you need a helping hand you are going to have to do something to earn it. Most people who need assistance want to work, but do not make enough to have things like health insurance. Health insurance is not a luxury. Just because they are your server at a resaurant does not mean they are any less important. What makes the wealthy so much more important than the poor. Let me guess you are a Christian?
well, you can whatever you want to say, if he decided to pick Kerry for Sec of state, so be it. 'cos I trust Obama's judgement to your judgement.
Yeah. The same Obama judgement that he used with Rev. Wright, Ayres and Dohrn, partying with the PLO and with remarks calling people in PA "bitter" and saying others just want to "cling to their guns and religion"... And you should be so proud of being able to use words like 'cos...says a lot about your judgement.
Heyjude20 - it's ignorant people like you who have clearly not doen their research. You think that Obama is going to take your money and give it to some poor, lazy guy. DO SOME RESEARCH! Please don't forget that Obama is NOT Black, he is half black, and that doesn't matter anyways. We voted for candidates, not for a color of skin. I am a white female who voted for Obama because we don't need another Bush term. Obama is a man for change, a positive change, for EVERYONE. Blacks, Whites, Gays, Straights, even if you didn't vote for him, he will be your president too. Stop making this a race issue when it's clearly not. It's about electing a qualified candidate that you believe has your best interest as well as the country's best interest at mind. I've not met one person who thinks he's the next "Messiah" but I do think that he will bring much needed change to the government, and won't be providing "handouts" to black people because they are owed it. You cannot believe how stupid people who voted for Obama? Please read your own ignorant comments and think about that. Read a newspaper, a book, do some research, and support your new President because as Americans, we all have the right to our opinions, and we have the right to vote for OUR candidate. He's a qualified, dignified, intelligent man, who can pull this country in the right direction, and get us out of the rut that GWB put us in. Like Obama said, it's not going to happen in a year, maybe not in one term, but if we all work together we CAN fix the economy, and this country.
Lose the ignorance and you might see what's going on.
okay White Female Obama supporter... tell me exactly what kind of change is Obama going to make.. ?? And how do you think your going to benefit from this man as President?? and dont give me the politcians ass kissing speech, I have heard that one. I just want to find out, from such an intelligent white female as yourself, what you read or heard about the changes Obama will be making... oh and by the way I want to see Positive changes he is making.. so name a few... in detail of course...
Sarah-Tempe; If you have a parent that dies on the Obama watch that has some wealth, you will sing another tune when you are writing a check to the U.S. Treasury for 125,000. You'll say but my parents estate was only worth 350,000, how could I own so mush in inheritance taxes.
we are going back to the Clinton days and beyond. This post is from Ray in L.A.
You tends to know God, but you forgot, the first and the greatest commandment of God, I will remind you, it revolve around love, to love God and love your neighboor. if you love the next peeson as God wants usto love, you will see God's glory and perfection in him or her, not his/her color. you need to go back to the basis otherwise you might miss heaven 'cos of not loving
I wonder what it's like to be completely and unteachably ignorant. I am consistenly amazed at some of the mindless comments I see from moronic right-wing extremists. You owe it to yourself to do your own research and come to your own conclusions, don't just blindly follow whatever Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly tell you to think.
Obama supporters are all the same, doublestandard and doubleimined. You point the finger at the Rep, when in fact you and many of you who voted for him didn't even bother to check out the issues. Why don' t you ask around, what group are you speak of specifically? Didn't your elect canidate have majority vote of minorities? Do you think they all researched this, no, they also watched into the CNN or MSN reporting (remember that the media is bia to liberals.) How dare you accuse Rebs of doing what you already have done. Remember you got the title as being koolaid drinkers and far left loons, not the republicians. Many Obama supporters voted for Obama uninformed and should have never voted peroid, it's a wasted vote. But many are easily decieved and led like sheep, go figure? So take a good look at your own party on that one. Another questions you cannot answer, WHAT CHANGE IS HE GOING TO BRING SPECIFICALLY? HMMM? IM WAITING?
How dare we point the finger? How dare you call a madated majority of America blkind? Your president of 8 yrs never one by such a margin, and trust me I've done my homework in every election! I've also measured the success of 6yrs of republican rule in the US, and found it extremely lacking and naive. To slash and spend with such irresponsibility, and watch the national debt double is beyond reproach. Especially when you were handed a Surplus! We cannot afford to have Republicans holding the national credit card anymore. I know your feelings are hurt right now, but don't worry you will have 4yrs to get used to change... =)
I thought running for president meant you where all gun ho american. With Obama not putting his hand over his heart for the national anthem and wanting to change the american flag because he doesn't believe in it and what he thinks it stands for sounds like communists or on the worst end all gun ho Muslim !!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Rumors are great. He's not a muslim, have you talked to him personally to ask him if that is true, if not you shouldn't be say it. Accusation, how do we know if you are not a muslim
Excuse me janewhite
I did absolutely nothing to your peole and I resent you trying to put the guilt on white people. I had nothing to do with slavery. My ancestors came from Eastern Europe so you take your slavery bs and you know what you can do with it. That is the motive behind every black person - SLAVERY SLAVERY! I don't know if you read the papers but Slavery is over so deal with it. Every group has suffered, including the Jewish people but they educated themselves and became the chosen people. The Jewish people are the top scientists, accountants and other top professions - they did not cry EXTERMINATION EXTERMINATION! They educated themselves and never need the gov't to give them handouts. So again take that slavery crap and shove it
But seriously not all Black people want handouts. Here you go again with these uneducated blankey statement. You are really uneducated and you are honestly UPSET that Obama won the election. Do you see that he won by a huge margin over McCain. Blacks are still not the majority in this country there were other groups voting in this election. Why do you think there are NO Educated, qualified Black People in this country you must really live in a BOX that is very much closed. Stop being so angry.
Toria 34, He will run the country off his experience now that"s funny.
521 Just as funny as you are. Will he not have qualified employees around that he has appointed to do their job. Like your employer. WOW common sense. Think my friend
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