It has been a rough year. My partner and I started off doing well. In April, we purchased our first home! It was an exciting time. Two months after the purchase, my partner was laid off from his customer service job and the very next month, I lost my management job also. We were both veterans of our companies and did not see it coming. We've managed to keep it together so far. My partner has taken a job as a waiter and I'm still looking for a new position. Things are getting tight.
The situation was emotionally exasperated when the news of the failing economy started to come through. Compound all of it with a death in the family and several unforseen expendatures...
Then the election was over... Suddenly, I knew what real hope was! I know that the President Elect has not done anything to affect me personally yet, but still- everytime I hear him speak or everytime see the first family together I am inspired. I feel almost euphoric with this new and fresh energy. The coming administration definately has an uphill climb in front of it; but even before an oath has been sworn, I am uplifted. I am excited. I know what it means to be hopeful.
So, what if anything has P-E Obama done to earn your trust or respect? A good speech? A slick message? A barrage of TV ads?
I understand your point of view, but I can honestly say that you're the only person I know who is more excited about this man than before the election.
Through the course of this campaign season, we learned about the anemic plans he's concocted with help of over 300 advisers. We've learned about his dubious associations. We've learned about his past voting record - and the clear disparity between his message and his previous actions. And finally, we've learned about how important having an obscene amount of money in your coffers can be when you're desperately trying to buy an election.
You are a college graduate, which statistically uplifts your income bracket. When you do go back into the work force, President Obama will take more of your money than President Bush did. Will that help you pay your mortgage? He says this is untrue, but history speaks loudly - when we face a steep budget deficit and a president proposes massive spending increases, taxes must rise to fill the void. First Senator Obama's campaign said he only wanted to raise taxes on those making above 250k. Then 200. Then 150. We know where this is going. How long until Americans making as little as $42k a year to support a family are burdened with a tax increase? We know the rhetoric, but we also know that reality rarely matches it.
Also, our country is as divided now as it has been in decades. This election has effectively marginalized everyone and anyone who has not signed on to the most blatant coronation of any candidate in history. Even JFK was not swept into office with such clear inevitability. At least if you weren't a fan of JFK, you weren't labeled a racist or stupid.
Be cautiously optimistic about what to expect. Every incoming president faces crises, which bring them back down to Earth. Luckily, Senator Biden already warned us to beware of impending peril upon the coronation of P-E Obama. If there is any question lingering at all about how important decisions will be handled as we forge into the future, we need only look to the past.
How has Senator Obama handled major decisions? What has he done for middle class Americans? What legislation has he championed? What bipartisan efforts has he led? When has he taken the chance to put country before party?
The answers should not inspire much hope for change.
Make that two people you know. I voted for Obama largely because your candidate didn't sem to be anywhere near Presidential and his running mate became a national punchline.
However, after the election, I truly felt we have done something different. It was like a weight was lifted from our shoulders. Just a breath of fresh air. If we're going off pure experience, Abraham Lincoln had less experience and look where he wound up in any list of best Presidents.
That being said, Obama will take roughly the same percentage that President Clinton was taking during the 1990s. He's just going back to the previous tax policy. I don't really agree with it, but I can clearly see why in today's day and age, somebody making $45,000 a year deserves a little break over somebody who is making $500,000 a year.
I also don't understand where your seeming disdain comes from. Obama graduated at the top of his class from Harvard Law, McCain near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy. Obama could have taken any job he wanted, making well over $300,000/year as a recent graduate. Instead he chose go to back to Chicago and help the local communities.
Sorry but that says something about a man's character.
If you have not had time, I suggest you read Newsweek's 7 part feature on the campaign. It is really eye opening.
Barack Obama is the President Elect. It's over. Why not try to be hopeful? Why must you continue to locate the negative in everything?
I come on the blog for some good insight, instead I get nothing but talking points I just saw on Hannity's side of Hannity & Colmes.
Well, I don't watch Hannity and Colmes but I do watch a lot of news and read a lot of policy memos.
I am NOT a talking point political operative for the right, and I'm not going to stand for people constantly suggesting that I only feel the way I do because I'm missing some key piece of information.
That's not going to fly.
I AM trying to be hopeful, but I'm going to hold Barack Obama and anyone and everyone working in his government as accountable as they should be. I'll question any comment or policy or piece of his history that I wish. I'll ask the hard questions that the media hasn't. And I'll stand up every day in every way to those who would bury me for it.
So if you want to come to the blog and offer a dissenting opinion on a viewpoint or policy, then I welcome that with open arms. Of course, I'm not right always. But I'm not going to allow implications against my motives or character to stand on my own personal workspace. Surely you understand.
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It has been a rough year. My partner and I started off doing well. In April, we purchased our first home! It was an exciting time. Two months after the purchase, my partner was laid off from his customer service job and the very next month, I lost my management job also. We were both veterans of our companies and did not see it coming. We've managed to keep it together so far. My partner has taken a job as a waiter and I'm still looking for a new position. Things are getting tight.
The situation was emotionally exasperated when the news of the failing economy started to come through. Compound all of it with a death in the family and several unforseen expendatures...
Then the election was over... Suddenly, I knew what real hope was! I know that the President Elect has not done anything to affect me personally yet, but still- everytime I hear him speak or everytime see the first family together I am inspired. I feel almost euphoric with this new and fresh energy. The coming administration definately has an uphill climb in front of it; but even before an oath has been sworn, I am uplifted. I am excited. I know what it means to be hopeful.
God bless you, President Elect Obama.
Chris,
It has been a rough year indeed.
So, what if anything has P-E Obama done to earn your trust or respect? A good speech? A slick message? A barrage of TV ads?
I understand your point of view, but I can honestly say that you're the only person I know who is more excited about this man than before the election.
Through the course of this campaign season, we learned about the anemic plans he's concocted with help of over 300 advisers. We've learned about his dubious associations. We've learned about his past voting record - and the clear disparity between his message and his previous actions. And finally, we've learned about how important having an obscene amount of money in your coffers can be when you're desperately trying to buy an election.
You are a college graduate, which statistically uplifts your income bracket. When you do go back into the work force, President Obama will take more of your money than President Bush did. Will that help you pay your mortgage? He says this is untrue, but history speaks loudly - when we face a steep budget deficit and a president proposes massive spending increases, taxes must rise to fill the void. First Senator Obama's campaign said he only wanted to raise taxes on those making above 250k. Then 200. Then 150. We know where this is going. How long until Americans making as little as $42k a year to support a family are burdened with a tax increase? We know the rhetoric, but we also know that reality rarely matches it.
Also, our country is as divided now as it has been in decades. This election has effectively marginalized everyone and anyone who has not signed on to the most blatant coronation of any candidate in history. Even JFK was not swept into office with such clear inevitability. At least if you weren't a fan of JFK, you weren't labeled a racist or stupid.
Be cautiously optimistic about what to expect. Every incoming president faces crises, which bring them back down to Earth. Luckily, Senator Biden already warned us to beware of impending peril upon the coronation of P-E Obama. If there is any question lingering at all about how important decisions will be handled as we forge into the future, we need only look to the past.
How has Senator Obama handled major decisions? What has he done for middle class Americans? What legislation has he championed? What bipartisan efforts has he led? When has he taken the chance to put country before party?
The answers should not inspire much hope for change.
Make that two people you know. I voted for Obama largely because your candidate didn't sem to be anywhere near Presidential and his running mate became a national punchline.
However, after the election, I truly felt we have done something different. It was like a weight was lifted from our shoulders. Just a breath of fresh air. If we're going off pure experience, Abraham Lincoln had less experience and look where he wound up in any list of best Presidents.
That being said, Obama will take roughly the same percentage that President Clinton was taking during the 1990s. He's just going back to the previous tax policy. I don't really agree with it, but I can clearly see why in today's day and age, somebody making $45,000 a year deserves a little break over somebody who is making $500,000 a year.
I also don't understand where your seeming disdain comes from. Obama graduated at the top of his class from Harvard Law, McCain near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy. Obama could have taken any job he wanted, making well over $300,000/year as a recent graduate. Instead he chose go to back to Chicago and help the local communities.
Sorry but that says something about a man's character.
If you have not had time, I suggest you read Newsweek's 7 part feature on the campaign. It is really eye opening.
Barack Obama is the President Elect. It's over. Why not try to be hopeful? Why must you continue to locate the negative in everything?
I come on the blog for some good insight, instead I get nothing but talking points I just saw on Hannity's side of Hannity & Colmes.
Anonymous,
Well, I don't watch Hannity and Colmes but I do watch a lot of news and read a lot of policy memos.
I am NOT a talking point political operative for the right, and I'm not going to stand for people constantly suggesting that I only feel the way I do because I'm missing some key piece of information.
That's not going to fly.
I AM trying to be hopeful, but I'm going to hold Barack Obama and anyone and everyone working in his government as accountable as they should be. I'll question any comment or policy or piece of his history that I wish. I'll ask the hard questions that the media hasn't. And I'll stand up every day in every way to those who would bury me for it.
So if you want to come to the blog and offer a dissenting opinion on a viewpoint or policy, then I welcome that with open arms. Of course, I'm not right always. But I'm not going to allow implications against my motives or character to stand on my own personal workspace. Surely you understand.