1: Barack Obama

Congrats to Barack and Michelle along with the kids. Take time to enjoy the freedom, each other, and family while you can because on Jan 20, 2009 your life is no longer yours its the American People's. Be clear I wish you and Michelle and the kids the best of what this life will bring all of you. I will be keeping up with you Barack because your the President of the United States. The leader of the free world and with that comes a responsibility that cannot be matched by anyone else in this world. I expect you to govern from the middle left and not get too caught up on the middle right politics which will only play into the Republicans hand to force you into decisions your not willing to make. I do expect you to follow through with some of the campaign wishes you made not all of them simply because the country is off in the wrong direction thanks to a poor, poor and stupid man name George Bush. He is just like his father the only difference the father has brains. How unfortunate the American people voted for him twice bad enough once. Well with the stock market,. and financial markets and insurance markets going south we now know that Bush was steep at the wheel. The problems we will have to endure because America voted for the wrong man in Bush. This will be very challenging for you Barack. However, I am praying for you and Michelle to get through your first of (4) years and get through the problems you will have with the people in Congress and Senate. I will be watching you as well because I will hold you accountable just like any other voter. Since am a Independent we watch what is really happening as opposed to what the media tells us. Be prayerful and understand that God will take you through and bring you out.

The only way to straighten out our political system and to insure that candidates/elected officials are responsibly motivated to equitably and honestly represent the majority of their constituents is to take the power and influence out of the hands of the few and make the politicians dependent on the peoples??? voting without allowing manipulation by subterfuge and by those with power. The only way to accomplish that goal is to first stop money from being the controlling factor and then to increase the regulations, enforcement and penalties governing campaigning and in-office performances. The following policies could be considered for achieving those desired results.
??? To minimize the influence and power of money:
1. Have a drastically restrictive cap on what they can spend, with government providing equal allowances for each candidate.
2. Prohibit candidates/elected officials from ever advertising and/or making exhibitive promotions/statements for political purposes.
3. Prohibit candidates/elected officials from advertising and/or making statements about their opponents and/or their opponents positions, forcing them to concentrate and focus on presenting their own positions/qualifications.
4. Have a reasonable, by given office, number of equitably objective, rational and unbiased debates.
5. Require all third parties to register and adhere to rules prohibiting their representing/attacking any candidate, either directly or indirectly, and allow only their stating of their support/criticism and reasoning regarding their given positions on the issues.
6. Under penalty of fine and even loss of license require all media to provide equal time and objective, unbiased and non-slanted reporting.
7. Provide both internet and printed reporting, listed by office, with reports honestly listing each candidate???s bio (all inclusive personal, family, religious, educational, career, voting record,,,,), their stated positions of adequate but limited length on all positions which are determined to be of current interest and lastly, a longer statement by the candidate detailing what they think is their qualifications and values (all without directly or indirectly referencing their competition or their competition???s positions). These reports would be made available by request, general publication and by direct mail without any bias in availability or access.
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THE PERFECT DESIGN by SANCHEZ M GARDNER

MR. OBAMA, WHEN MARTIN HAD A DREAM, HE SAW A VISION OF YOU.

FOR MANY PEOPLE,YOU REPRESENT A DREAM THAT FINALLY CAME TRUE.

WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW,YEARS AGO SEEMED SO FAR FETCHED

HOWEVER, BEFORE YOU CAME INTO THE WORLD, YOU WERE GIVEN A SKETCH,

A BLUEPRINT PERFECTLY DESIGNED AND COMPLETE.

THE OTHER CANDIDATES WERE WASTING THEIR TIME, AGAINST THE HEAVENLY FATHER, NO MORTAL CAN COMPETE.

YOU WERE GIVEN A PLAN THAT MANY SO-CALLED LEADERS AND EMPERORS HAVE KILLED FOR HOWEVER,

NONE WERE ACTUALLY GIVEN THE KEY TO ENTER THE DOOR.

PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION WHEN YOU SPEAK, THERE'S A SPECIAL GLOW,

HOW CAN YOU TRICK A SPIRIT WITH A QUESTION THEY ALREADY KNOW?

YOUR MANNERISM IS SO HUMBLE,POISED AND BOLD,

I OFTEN WANDER IS IT YOU OR HAS AN ANGEL TAKEN OVER YOUR SOUL?

I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU BECAUSE WHAT LIES WITHIN,

WHENEVER I HUGGED MY GRANDMOTHER, I TOUCHED AN ANGEL,

IF I EVER SHAKE YOUR HAND, I'LL BE DOING IT AGAIN!!!!!!

A PERFECT DESIGN by SANCHEZ M. GARDNER
copyright 2008

YOU ARE A REMARKABLE MAN!!!!!!!

Just to kind of make a synopsis of the last million comments such I first read this a while back:

Obama won mostly because he offered what is perceived to be a "new" agenda. It's not new, but is of course a basic Left wing agenda of more government, fewer individual rights, and a general idea of a single, charismatic man taking the reins and saving us.

McCain lost because his own ideology was too scattered. Regardless of whether or not he was right or wrong, or whether Obama is right or wrong, he is still largely without a clear ideological identity.

Obama's identity was very clear inasmuch that he was promising in a vague but reassuring way that the government - with all of its trillions of dollars and unprecedented state power - was going to come to the rescue with his great charismatic leadership to ensure that nothing got off track.

More to the specific point of Obama and capitalism - to say that capitalism is dead is absurd.

Such notions are overly simple, and those that make such arguments are either fools or liars. Mr. Zakaria is a character in an Ayn Rand novel, pulling the strings to influence us for our own good so that we might get in line with his Great Man religion of state control.

"Carefully retreating from these obligations to restore a market economy"? While I certainly hope that Mr. Obama will fulfill your expectations, I highly doubt that he will. Mr. Obama has stated on many occasions that he is very much against the market economy. We have chosen a socialist to repair capitalism, and I fear that he will choose to destroy it instead.

Whatisreal?, Floridave and Forty4-where ever you are, Happy New Year!

If Barack Obama runs this country the way he ran his campaign, we have nothing to worry about.

Well in addition to your trolling in your first post to me today, before I got on, you continue to lie.

My reference to wife beating was in response to your question whether I would continue porno. Anyone with have a brain can see the meaning of my statement that I would stop that right after I stop beating my wife... It was the form of the question that prompted my use of that common response to those kinds of questions.

"As for Pia, your porno reference was infinitely more tasteless than anything I wrote."

Actually, you introduced Pia Zadora by calling Pia that, implying it was a compliment. She obviously did not know to what you were referring when you applied that to her. You said it was the first thing you thought of when you saw here name. Then you refer to some posts that are nearly two months old.

I indicated in a post to Pia that I did know what you meant by referring to one of Zadora's movies, and I told Pia she is way too classy for that name.

When you lie, people can go back and look at your posts here.

Yes, and I can see how you have tried to 'work' Pia here. Are you proud?

if 40 percent americans feel guilty about being born white -as researched by PBPACE

then god help america
lolz

I Fell proud that an african american is the most powerful person in the world.

Ok you wacky kids I gotta go now. Thanks for the insults and rejection you dished my way. It makes me love all you little twerps even more. Try to keep the tears to a minimum and we'll say you bright and early tomorrow morning.

Nah pb, I'm just going for tomorrow and New Years day. I live about 20 miles NW of Miami Beach. Yeah pia the weather has been real good. Should be a little cooler for the next couple of days. Today I noticed the air was a little cooler than the pool. I guess we can endure. Actually cooler temps. make partying more comfortable..Talk to you guys next year.

"Ewwww. Your serious about lies...ewww.
Dude, look, you're just a partisan hack coming on here trying to convince us you're some reformed republican. I can see though the baloney, however, using my spidey vision. That's ok..just don't know why you don't admit it. As for Frank and Dodd, are they as much to blame as the Repubs?? maybe and maybe not. Might point is both parties had their hands in this. Please don't try to bedazzle me with your non sequiturs and red herrings. You're a real cool, respectful customer aren't you? Except I've read some of your juvenile hijinks on this thread. So please spare me your fatherly lecture my friend. I will continue to goof and you and mess with you as long as I find it amusing. Live, learn it, accept it. You have a wonderful day my humorically challenged little buddy."

Rather than go all the way back.... Yes. I was serious when I busted you on your lie, and your gratuities that I had not introduced to you. You remain busted.

Your lame attribution to me as just a partisan hack, is also too common, and just as untrue.

You may steal my lines...you would anyway, I'm sure. Just recall that I was responding then to a lame, name-calling boaster like you. I ended that with that I don't engage in hate or racism, but I am willing to display contempt... How fitting you chose to use that one...

You Know waht, I feel very proud that a african american is the miost powerful in the world!! I personally think that all the pastors should be in the top ten because they are Prophets from God.

Barack will take office in a few weeks and start to right the wrongs of Bush/Cheney. A lot of lessons were learned in this past election year. We learned that hate didn't win and won't ever win again. What have we Democrats learned from the mouth-breather from the GOP party of hate? will we defend the President right or wrong. I personally will not defend any wrong doing by using the excuse that George Bush did it. The Republicans used even Jimmy Carter to justify Bush and Cheney's misdeeds. If it's wrong it's wrong. Let's not stoop to the level of our bottom feeding counterparts. Let's continue to use their hate against as Barack did in the campaign. In 2010 a few more GOP Senates will come our way and in 2012 a butt kicking that will make this years rout look like a sudden death overtime.

Off to south Beach for 2 days. Oh, to be 25 years old again. Happy New Years to all.