Barack The Savior?

I guess you forgot Obama is not the outsider you think he his.
He has been friends with some of the most well connected idividuals in D.C for a long time and he has been living in D.C for
the last four years. I know you are intelligent but your emotions have blinded you from the facts.
Do you know UFO exists and that the Clintons were kept in the dark.

Obama knew all about government secret agencies and the exsistence of UFO's before he became President. There are very few people in
Government that have access to the world's knowledge. It is shared amongst an elite few and they are very
secretive. When Truman was informed that UFO's were discovered a special part of the military was asked to analyze the material that was found.
This military hired top scientists who were sworn to secrecy. Over time these technologies were adopted by
defense contractors and slowly released to the public. The people who run these entities work in conjuction
with the CIA. Only people at the top of these agencies know whats going on. Knowledge is power and "Power is knowledge"(eddiwhere 08). If the public
had access to even a fraction of this knowlege these elites have, then there would be a panic. UFO's is just the tip of the iceberg. The President represents these
elites and this is why they help protect this knowlege. It is like if someone discovered the original arc of the covenant and the original ten commandments.
For example Muhammed was not visited by GOD but rather SATAN. Muhammed confused Satan for GOD. IF he thought GOD WAS SATAN then he would not follow his
will. Think about it. The devil is very cunninPart of Evil is deception. If God had passed his message on to Humans. Would Satan not do the same. It is very difficult for
humans to think like this. Muhammed thought God was telling him to conquer the earth until everyone became a Muslim and recognized there was only one GOD ALLAH.
Satan is very powerful and very cunning. TOday we have people committing suicide in the name of ISLAM. THAT is what Satan intended to do. THis is his way of fighting
GOD. ANd he did it in a genius way. He disguised himself like GOD and used Muhammed as his conduit.
Muhammed confused Satan for GOD. IF he thought GOD WAS SATAN then he would not follow his will. Think about it.

This is why MUHAMMED was so successful because he really believed he was carrying out the will of GOd and justified murder in his name.
IF you read about Muhammed's life you will see that what I am stating is backed by facts.

IT is hard for us humans to think outside of our '"domain" because we have been indoctrinated to think a certain way until knowledge hits us.
Here is another example. If you bend space you can cross dimensions and therefore can literally step from one world to another without any time going by.

One of the pundits on the morning news panel shows made a reference to the fact that all of the bailouts are going to the top???banking institutions and corporations. All of this money will require oversight and accountability that will suck out more money. Why not just send $20K to every adult who pays taxes or qualifies for tax credits? Let us spend, save or invest the money as we chose. This is the bailout for everyone. Bankers can do what they want with their money. Car manufacturers can do what they want with their money. Workers who are laid off or put out of work because of bankruptcies, etc. will have $20K for retraining, health, etc. Congress could decide to make reinvestment of the $20K in stocks, health insurance, cars, mortgage payments fax-free. Others would pay income tax on the $20K. There would be no additional bureaucracy to direct trillions of dollars into the economy that would evaporate before ???real people??? would see any benefit.

Considering the 2000 election was stolen from Al Gore by the Supreme Court and that Bush never won the popular vote, I'll let the mandate set by Obama over McCain speak for itself. And as for the previous fella, just goes to show ya that another Democrat is gonna have to spend another full term cleaning up the mess caused by Republican incompetence. Happened in 1933,'93 and is gonna happen again in 2009.

Obama doesn't want to save Capitalism. I agree with the other poster who said that. He is Marxist and wants to destroy capitalism. How long before we hear "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". I bet Obama says it in the first 3 months.

I guess Ron White is right: "You can't fix STUPID"

This article has many errors. FDR did not institute socialism. Socialism is the ownership or control of the means of production by the workers, or by the people generally. FDR applied some light Welfarism here and there. Neither the government of Hoover nor the government of Bush 2 was laissez-faire; the "free market" was and is a term of propaganda. Obama will not change things much on his own; he is cautious and conservative.

come watch hirsch re-write history (FDR saved capitalism by imposing socialism.) and totally alter the fundamentals of economics.

We don't have "free market absolutism", not by a long shot! We have government interference at every step, and what we are witnessing today is the market rebalancing, as it always does, like it or not.
At the root of the curent debacle is Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, two government entities, created by the congress and overseen by OFHEO; congress forcing banks to lend to borrowers not credi-worthy in the name of affordable housing; interest rates kept too low for too long by the Fed, thus debasing the currency and flooding the markets with too much money, giving banks the incentive to be creative; excess leveraging of 40 to 1 in financial institutions allowed by regulators; huge budget deficit caused by reckless spending of taxpayers' money by congress; interference in the energy market, since congress has closed off many domestic sources of energy, forcing us to buy it overseas at a huge cost.
As for GM, one reason it is close to bankruptcy is the cost of healthcare for its employees and retirees. Businesses started offering healthcare to their employees years ago when government imposed wage controls, as a way to make up for the shortfall. Now it is expected, but it hurts companies' ability to be competitive on the global stage. Here again, we see interference from the state, not the free market.
The idea that everything would be peachy-peachy if it were run by the government is cute but, alas, not borne by the facts.

Whether or not Obama can save 'capitalism' or not remains open to conjecture but it is highly unlikely that Americans will feel the effects of any improvements that he might bring about for at least two years.

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If that is the case then Democrats will lose their seats on mass, Obama will most likely be a one termer and he will be considered as having been a gross failure.

Rice is now viewed as having been a failure on all fronts

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If Obama comes to be regarded as a failure then the question that begs to be asked is, "what effect will it have on the chances of an Afro-American being elected to high office in the future?

Great article about these most tenuous economic times for our nation. Americans understand the seriousness of the matter which is why President-elect Barack Obama will be heading to the White House on Jan 21st. The failure of the Bush administration to expand and grow our nation's economy as well as to identify it's vulnerabilities and correct them before economic catastrophes occur, is one that should never be repeated. The lack of hands-on leadership and clear understanding of economics and the need to adjust poliices based on leading economic indicators is likely something Americans will not see in the new incoming Obama adminstration. Not only was it the Bush administration that failed to take the initiative, but so too, were the GOP congressional members who stood in silent support of this current President, namely a Sen. McCain who agreed with Bush 90% of the time. McCain clearly does not understand the complexities of the global economy, as the foundations of our US economy were not strong.

The politcal party in power gets to set the economic agenda, and the bloggers who comment that our nation's current economic situation can be blamed on past presidents is just plain naive. There is no such thing as absolute capitlaist, socialist, or communist economies in existence within our global economy. Any person who took a high school or college level Economics class knows that fact. So all of these comments about the US economy being "purely" capitalistic and the proposed re-distribution of wealth by our incoming President is hogwash. If that is the case, what exactly is the $700 billion bailout of our nation's financial system by the Bush administration? If these bloggers truly want our US economy to operate on a strict capitalistic model, then there would be no bailouts whatsoever. if that were to be the case, I can only imagine what kind of chaos would be occurring on Wall St at this moment. The most "purely captialistic" economies in existence today are the simple supply and demand markets of impoverished nations in Africa, which none of us bloggers would probably want to experience, in place of what we currently have here at home.

Presdient-elect Obama and his economic advisors have the daunting task of fixing the most powerful capitalistic economy on Earth. As President-elect Obama said, "it will not be easy and it may not occur during his first term of office", but it is something the American people have confidence and hope that his administration will fully succeed at achieving during his terms in office. It is time for our nation to move ahead. It is time for change. God Bless America.

Nice try Mr. Hirsch but you have it completely, 100% backwards. The salient question is not whether Obama can save capitalism but whether capitalism can save Obama. The president-elect, you see, now has to deliver and no matter the size of their majorities in Washington there is one set of laws that Democrats will never be able to change - the laws of economics. Capitalism, quite inconveniently for big government collectivists like yourself and much of the rest of the left, is the only path to broad and sustainable economic growth and the prosperity that Americans have come to enjoy as a result of it. The more bailout and stimulus failures we see the more that the government-as-savior myth (and its liberal sugar daddies) will be revealed. The difference between now and the last time we faced this (Jimmy Carter circa 1978) is that compliments of cable and the internet everyone is watching and there are many sober voices to make sure that we all know just which philosophies are steering the ship. If you think Republicans are down now, just wait and see what will happen to Democrats if they govern like FDR or Herbert Hoover. They and their anti-business, anti-growth economic policies will indeed drive us into the abyss and you'll be lucky to win the White House again before 2100.

This is absurd! Obama is a Marxist. He has no interest in saving capitalism. You compare him to Roosevelt? This is just too much!

Yes, wilsan - that is why it is called "newsweak".