Morning In America

Sustained gain in stocks? Dow down 1000+ points in Jan. HMMM

Dow down 1000 and change in Jan., Sustained market? Hmm.

How you can you possibly say that "Reagan is the president that Barack Obama is most closely modeling himself after?" The only thing similar between Obama and Reagan is that Obama inspires secular progressives - a small minority to which you belong - like Ronald Reagan inspired the rest of the nation. As a matter of substance, they are nothing like each at all. You're a smart woman. I have got to believe that you understand that Ronald Reagan's vision of "Morning in America" is diametrically opposed in numerous ways to what you and other progressives hope an Obama presidency will bring to pass.

But because Americans generally reject secular progressive ideas and values, you attempt to prop up this failure in the marketplace of ideas with poorly constructed appeals to truly great ideas, hoping to borrow from their credibility. Barack Obama is a smart, articulate, and extraordinarily inexperienced President Elect. And your infatuation for the man couldn't be more obvious to anyone who reads you or listens to you. But, please, let him stand on his own two feet, and quit with the comparisons to Reagan. Obama hasn't yet earned comparison with any former president, much less Ronaldus Magnus!

Eleanore is as clueless as ever. She has mistaken Obama's "determined calm" with someone who is devoid of any answers to any serious problems his new job brings... and is trying to BS his way through it. Actually, they both are clueless.

I wonder how long it will take Eleanor and the hypnotized cool-aid drinkers to wake up and realize that the Charlatan's broken promises don't amount to any type of "Change". It was simply a slogan to get a fraud elected.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

We as a people are at the apathy to dependence stage.

Let him accomplish something first before comparing him to Reagan, but with his track record in Illinois and the senate I???m not overly hopeful. Honestly, I see more Carter than Reagan.

Today is December 3rd. On December 3rd, 1971 the Pakistani Army pogrom of innocent Bengali Muslims finally stopped in a land which is now called Bangladesh. Over 3 million Bengali Muslims were killed by the Pakistani Army. Thousands of Muslim women were raped. That is the brave Pakistani Army that the US depends on. A fitting tribute to this genocide is being planned in Dacca, Bangladesh. The world must never forget

December 3rd 1971- the beginning of the end of the genocide of the Bengali Muslims perpetrated by Pakistani Soldiers. Over 3 million Bengalis were murdered. Let not the world forget.

Expectations are very high for Obama to work miracles on a system rife with partisan hatred, but bonded by personal greed. In Washington, government works for those who work the system best. They keep score by the amount of money they can make from a government of insiders, by insiders and for insiders. The President can try to fight the system or he can go along. It really makes no difference in the end because the result will remain the same. The Congress, the lobbiests, and the special interests always prevail. They get the money for themselves and laugh at the voters who think they actually are represented. The only way Obama can change the system is to destroy it. He won't be willing or able to do so. Another administration just means another gravy train for most of the same people. The banklords, the businesslords, the warlords, the farmlords and the landlords will still be in charge. Lord have mercy! Because they do not.

Why do you like to compare and make analogies between them? Obama is still not in office yet. What is the point in making a comparison? The fact is like all previous presidents Obama will eventually let us down because the president is not the real power, it all depends on the lobbyists, campaign donators and other influential parties who will sway the president around.Eleanor, you are just as naive as Sarah Palin.

What a terrible thought the author has, another president that will step in and double the national debt. Reagan and W have both been puppet regimes, who wants or needs another one of those?

"a defeat abroad" How is handing a largely stable country to a democratically elected body of leaders a defeat? Yes, it is taking much too long, and yes, there are problems, but this cannot be called 'defeat'!

Reagen is an excellent model for a leader. His party hid behind his love of America. Obama must lead America in a new environment. He understands minorities and the poor. He can open a new world to people who have been left out. America has so much unused resource that can open new markets. All Americans must step up to new leadership. Reagen is a good model but with a new view.