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Originally Posted by Platapus
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Originally Posted by Skybird
But of course: in case of Obama there is the IF. It remains to be seen if as president he would put his deeds to where his mouth is (not sure if that phrase is correct?). the brains he seem to have for sure. And that may be enough to search and find the experts he need to help him over fields of politics where he is unexperienced.
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No you phrased this correctly. If Senator Obama gets elected he will have a pretty big bill to pay the first term. People will be looking close at him. I don't mean the Republicans whom I predict will be harassing him starting 22 Jan (Look for the Barack Obama countdown calender in your stores by Christmas 08). I am talking about the Democrats. The Democrats and the citizens of the US will be waiting and watching for this change that Obama has been promising.
The American people can be a tough audience once they elect a President. They want to see results, good results, and they better come sooner than later.
So no, you were quite correct. Using another American idiom. Senator Obama can talk the talk, let's see if he can walk the walk. |
The Republican Party enjoyed a majority in the House of Representatives as well as the Senate- along with the office of the President for 6 years. Six years when they had their way and ran roughshod over any who stood in their way. They had the means and they had the will to impose their wishes upon America, her economy, and her people. And that is just what they did.
Look at where we are today because of it. Americans losing their homes at a rate not seen since the great depression, financial institutions driven by greed and now about to collapse under the weight of that greed, unemployment at higher rates than we have seen in two decades, good paying jobs lost and replaced with service sector jobs that do not pay a living wage, an attack on the middle class that has been as unrelenting as it has been unheralded, undeserved and unfair. An attack upon our very Constitution and our rights such as I had never believed possible in the United States. The PATRIOT act was closer to an act of treason and it had absolutely nothing to do with patriotism!
The war in Iraq was the wrong war, wrong place, and for the wrong reasons. The "War Against Terror" has been on the back burner for too long. The War Against Terror was the right war, right place, for the right reasons but today our soldiers in Afghanistan fight for their lives and are told that no support is available. No reinforcements are forthcoming. You are on your own. That in itself is evidence enough for me just how misguided and inept George Bush and company have been- how vulnerable they have left our nation.
In debt to our gills and unable to sustain the war on terror with the resources needed. For Heaven's Sake, what did they spent the trillions of dollars on and what have we gotten in return?? War, poverty, disillusionment and hopelessness???
Barack Obama does represent change and that is what I believe he will deliver. He offers hope to a country in need and he offers us an opportunity to fix what is broken in our country. BUT, in order to make that change possible, we must do for him what we did for George Bush- give him the means to accomplish the task.
Today, the only people who trust America less than our traditional allies around the world, are her own citizens. The Republicans and George Bush have behaved as if they would never have to pay for their foolishness, but the time has come at last.
Give Barack Obama a strong majority in both the House and the Senate and let him impose
the will of the PEOPLE around here for a change.
For a change we can believe in.
I believe in Barack Obama and I approved this message.
