The Age of Obama

We are getting a clearer picture of Obama each day, especially in the foreign policy arena. It points to arrogance, weakness, and dishonesty:

Obama met with Iraq's Maliki in July 2008 and began or tried to negotiate with him BEFORE he was president.

In July 2008, at the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, OBAMA TRIED TO CONVINCE IRAQI LEADERS IN PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS THAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT, GEORGE W. BUSH, SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO ENACT THE DEAL WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL.

A few weeks before the Nov. 4 election Obama threw conservative reporters off of his plane.

In October 2008 VP candidate Joe Biden predicted an international crisis would be staged in 2009 to test Obama after he became president, and predicted that people in the U.S. would not like the way Obama handles it. FIRST TIME IN KNOWN HISTORY THAT A VP CANDIDATE HAS MADE SUCH A PREDICTION ABOUT HIS PRESIDENTIAL RUNNING MATE.

On Nov. 8, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama's private conversation with Poland's president created an international disagreement, with President Lech Kaczynski saying Obama promised to continue a missile-defense system and the transition office saying the Democrat made no such commitment.

If the President-elects plan is to undue the economics of President Ronald Reagan...which has seen the United Statesenjoy an ever-expanding economy since1983...then he will be a failure as a leader and as President. The hyperbole of the media during the Bush years always omitted two essentail facts...that until recently the unemployment figures through this Administration averageda full poiont lower than during the clinton years...and Bush faced the economic implosion following 9/11. We all do wish our new President well...but our nation will not heal if the media keeps drum-beating about a past that they continue to lie about.

Obama was given a pass so many times by so many media outlets, it was a journalistic disgrace. The media was so anxious to see him win and to oust President Bush whom they had help demonize for years. It has reached the point where it is no longer even interesting to hear what is said on television because it is so predictably liberal. The media with very few exceptions is constantly pushing the gay agenda, pretending the innocent slaughter of the unborn doesn't exist, and casting those people with traditional Christian values as stupid or poorly educated. The pen is often mightier than the sword and unfortunately this sword wielded by the media has done much damage that is almost immpossible to reverse. Too many Americans take too much of what they hear or read as truth, never admitting to themselves that the media have an agenda that they are pushing. The media are really more "newsmakers" than news reporters. The media can make something the focus or story of the day, they can pretend it never happened or doesn't exist (for example; 1,000,000 abortions per year here in THIS country), or bury a story with two sentences on page 59.

There seems to be considerable concern and pressure for the incoming Obama administration to reach across the isle, which of course the Republicans would love even though they sure didn't do it themselves, yet, in the mean time, the Republicans all seem to be focused on blaming each other for their loss, with factions within the party positioning for control and then for resisting anything the Democrats may offer. Don't they realize that their aggressive and arrogant self-focus is what caused their downfall and that the people really want a responsible focus on the real and serious problems at hand? It is past time for the Republican leaders and conservative leaders to get over themselves and start acting like representatives of the people rather than just always pursuing their private agendas.

this is truly disgusting....and blacks aren't racist and liberals aren't loons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEAYgm0Dv8

Let me add my voice to the chorus of those proclaiming Senator Obama's victory as a proud and momentous moment in American history. Anyone, of any political persuasion, who was not moved as things unfolded Tuesday night, needs to take a hard look at themselves and their true motivations.

There is now a much-needed window of opportunity for some real political unity in this country, something that has been missing for a long time.

Four years ago, I disparaged those Democrats who vowed that Bush would never be "their President", would move to Canada, etc. While the Bush Administration can rightly be blamed for many of the problems of the day, it's also true that the intransigience of the opposition contributed significantly as well.

Now the shoe is on the other foot.

My Republican friends, always the first to proclaim their patriotism, now have the chance to truly show their patriotism - by uniting behind the new Commander-In-Chief, who was selected by the system that we all hail as the greatest on Earth.

As I listened to Senator McCain's incredibly magnanimous concession speech (and heard the ridiculous boos and catcalls when he appealed for unity) it brought to mind the spectre of Robert E. Lee at the end of the Civil War, who called for his Confederate comrades to lay down their arms once and for all, for the good of America as a whole - at a time when many were more inclined to take to the hills and fight a protracted guerilla war that would have bled the Union dry. Many historians feel that without Lee's statements after his surrender to Grant at Appomatox, hostilities would have continued for years, and history would be far different now.

I pray that the supporters of the defeated side today are able to swallow their political differences and rally behind the President-elect - and show that "Country First" was not just an empty motto on political placards.

If the Bush Administration proved anything, it's that power and authority - be it political, military, or economic - is a finite resource, which is diminished each time it is used in excess, especially if used in a bludgeoning manner. The Obama philosophy of "yes we can" should be an improvement over the Bush approach of "because I can".

But either way, anyone who digs in and roots for the President to fail because he's not "their guy" - whether it's during a Bush presidency or an Obama one - is, as far as I'm concerned, about as anti-American as you can get.

What both of you idiots don't seem to understand, is Both Political Parties are to blame for the current economic crisis. We have a Republican Administration, with a Democratic Controlled Congress. Instead of both parties working together passing legislation two years ago, giving more government oversight to lending institutions; Republicans and Democrats have been fighting like children, not wanting either side to give an inch. Well, now we have a Democratic President, Democratic Controlled House of Representatives, and Democratic Controlled Senate. At the end of this first Presidential Term, the Democrats will have had almost Seven years of control over legislation. Democrats won't have the excuse of blaming inaction on Republicans. A point that will be driven home, during the 2012 upcoming campaign. So, Democrats, you think you can do better without bankrupting the country, well, it is time to put up or shut up!

What is truly a shame is people believed the tax cut and money for 95% of the country. It is also a shame they believed it was fair. However, it isn't going to happen...I guess you all forgot those 'soda in the drinking fountain" promises.

The higher the expectation, the worse the disappointment; the faster the rise, the heavier the fall; what comes fast will go quickly -- these are the golden rules of life.

If Dow continues to be of any indicator to the current economic horror, its consecutive two-day combined near 10% fall speaks volume. It is far louder than hollow words and empty rhetoric. And don???t forget that was immediately after the Election Day, practically (in one single stroke) wiping off the blank euphoria of ushering a new president who has yet to prove himself!

STOP TRUMPETING, world mass media, get down to serious work.
(btt1943@yahoo.com, Tan Boon Tee)

I get upset and dismayed whenever I hear anyone use the term ???conservative??? as a compliment or the term ???liberal??? as a derogatory. I mean I just can???t imagine where these people have been or how they missed what has been happening all around them. It isn???t that the reverse is true either, just that it is untrue and greatly misleading to view either term in those regards. Actually either term can cover both good and bad qualities, qualities that can even alternate between good and bad depending on other factors, and the proponents advocating that one is absolutely good and the other is completely bad are making a more complex picture too simple, very likely just intending to create a bias favorable to their view. Take our current financial status and the significant fault ???conservative??? thinking and the resulting ???conservative??? policies have had in the development of the drastic meltdown. The philosophies of open markets and deregulation always seemed as being ???conservative??? thinking that had real merit yet the current results would seem to indicate quite the opposite is true. That of course would be another over simplification. No doubt the philosophies, in an academic way, really do have merit but in application they obviously need a more pragmatic implementation to include enough regulation, enforcement and real control to check human nature???s propensity for greed and dishonesty, for focus on self-interest and even illegal manipulation, for the realization that ???power corrupts and total power totally corrupts???. Then of course there is the condemning as ???liberal??? the having of any government programs to help the poor, as being a ???tax and spend??? mentality of the Democrats, thus lumping everything together as a negative. Going right along with that is they then advocate that Tax Cuts and breaks for the wealthy and big business stimulates the economy and then ???trickles down??? to everyone else.

When it all shakes out it came down to the fact that black voters came out in numbers never before, and in all likelyhood never will again, except when Obama runs for a second term. To say that this election did not come down to race is hogwash, it certainly did come down to race, black people going out to vote for a black man. When the numbers are checked people will see that white people split their numbers but black voters were mostly one sided. If the shoes were reversed and the masses came out an voted for McCain on the white vote and the black vote was split, there would be cries of America is a racist country.

Why are so many Christians against abortion (I am too), but are not against war?
Isn't all killing condemed by your beliefs?