Comments on: Obama Selling ‘Hope.’ Should We Buy? http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: casey http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-66011 casey Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:10:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-66011 hope? come on. If you want something to happen, go out and do it. "Hoping" for something is like being a crybaby, and wanting someone to get it done for you. If you want "change" and you want a "new direction"...please dont go Obama's way, this is america and not canada! socialism is not the way to go! thats not a good change, or at the least anything to hope for. hope? come on. If you want something to happen, go out and do it. “Hoping” for something is like being a crybaby, and wanting someone to get it done for you. If you want “change” and you want a “new direction”…please dont go Obama’s way, this is america and not canada! socialism is not the way to go! thats not a good change, or at the least anything to hope for.

]]> By: Sam Clarke http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-29618 Sam Clarke Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:10:30 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-29618 Sally, Show where Bush lied. You can't. A false assumption based on world intelligence is not a "lie." Show where he killed, maimed, tortured. You can't, unless you equate all wars, such as WWII as involving all of those and it was the president at the time, Roosevelt, who personally did it. Can't you see how inane this is. Clarke Sally,
Show where Bush lied. You can’t. A false assumption based on world intelligence is not a “lie.”
Show where he killed, maimed, tortured. You can’t, unless you equate all wars, such as WWII as involving all of those and it was the president at the time, Roosevelt, who personally did it. Can’t you see how inane this is.
Clarke

]]> By: Brian H http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-29089 Brian H Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:21:11 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-29089 Utopia with Oblabla in charge? Heavens forfend! And pass the ammunition. Utopia with Oblabla in charge? Heavens forfend! And pass the ammunition.

]]> By: Maggie M. Thornton http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-29068 Maggie M. Thornton Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:14:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-29068 How does a power-couple, such as Senator Obama and Michelle Obama square "hope," within the families that raised them, and of which they have both spoken so often. You can bet that neither family "hoped" that their children would go to college - they were going to go to college. It appears that at least some of that education was scholarships or grants, BUT, even without them, they were going to college. If the family could not get them there, then I'm betting BHO and MO would have found a way - no "hope" involved in that important decision. Michelle Obama is the great hope-dasher, if ever there was one. She was brazen enough to tell women in Ohio to "Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse....move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry,"... Being a nurse or a social worker or in the "helping industry" - all fine careers, but so also would be corporate life. Just where do we know the Obama's fortune is invested - certainly in corporate America, right where the Unions put their monies. I would "hope" that a leading Presidential candidate would not be the most liberal Senator in the Senate. That's a proper use of the word "hope." Maggie Maggie's Notebook How does a power-couple, such as Senator Obama and Michelle Obama square “hope,” within the families that raised them, and of which they have both spoken so often.

You can bet that neither family “hoped” that their children would go to college – they were going to go to college. It appears that at least some of that education was scholarships or grants, BUT, even without them, they were going to college. If the family could not get them there, then I’m betting BHO and MO would have found a way – no “hope” involved in that important decision.

Michelle Obama is the great hope-dasher, if ever there was one. She was brazen enough to tell women in Ohio to “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse….move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry,”…

Being a nurse or a social worker or in the “helping industry” – all fine careers, but so also would be corporate life. Just where do we know the Obama’s fortune is invested – certainly in corporate America, right where the Unions put their monies.

I would “hope” that a leading Presidential candidate would not be the most liberal Senator in the Senate. That’s a proper use of the word “hope.”

Maggie
Maggie’s Notebook

]]> By: Oyster http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28987 Oyster Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:05:08 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28987 Hope is something that should only come into play when we have take steps to realize a goal. As in: I've started saving my money for that new widget and I hope it's everything I dreamed it will be when I get it. Not: I hope I get a new widget. We need plans. We need action. And we can't sit back and "hope" others will do all the work. Then and only then should hope have any role in it. Hope is something that should only come into play when we have take steps to realize a goal.

As in: I’ve started saving my money for that new widget and I hope it’s everything I dreamed it will be when I get it.

Not: I hope I get a new widget.

We need plans. We need action. And we can’t sit back and “hope” others will do all the work. Then and only then should hope have any role in it.

]]> By: Saltherring http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28832 Saltherring Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:43:14 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28832 SALLY: John (ambulance chaser) Edwards was left in the dust by his own tired, socialist, class warfare rhetoric. Americans don't need nanny-state programs that "look out for us", we need leadership that foments the ideals of personal accountability and responsibility. Government is not charged with ensuring my success or yours, but with creating an environment where all have opportunity, through positive choices and hard work, to succeed. Our government has failed us by allowing: a corrupt, ineffective, union-dominated public school system to continue to indoctrinate, rather than educate, our children welfare payments and health care for those who choose not to work our nation to be overrun by illegal aliens a corrupt judicial system that lets gang punks and sexual predators to openly roam our streets continued moral decline by not protecting the unborn and by granting special right to sexual perverts We don't need John Edwards, we need American to step up and cry ENOUGH! SALLY: John (ambulance chaser) Edwards was left in the dust by his own tired, socialist, class warfare rhetoric. Americans don’t need nanny-state programs that “look out for us”, we need leadership that foments the ideals of personal accountability and responsibility. Government is not charged with ensuring my success or yours, but with creating an environment where all have opportunity, through positive choices and hard work, to succeed. Our government has failed us by allowing:

a corrupt, ineffective, union-dominated public school system to continue to indoctrinate, rather than educate, our children

welfare payments and health care for those who choose not to work

our nation to be overrun by illegal aliens

a corrupt judicial system that lets gang punks and sexual predators to openly roam our streets

continued moral decline by not protecting the unborn and by granting special right to sexual perverts

We don’t need John Edwards, we need American to step up and cry ENOUGH!

]]> By: O'Hogan http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28792 O'Hogan Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:16:34 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28792 Speaking of John Edwards, why is it that the Democratic party can produce nothing, any more, but lawyers for their presidential nominees? Is it because the Democratic party feeds off the misfortunes and conflicts in American Society, like our legal system? Is it because Democratic politicians help lawyers enrich themselves through the laws they enact and activist judges they nominate? Is it because Democrates are more suseptable to the oratorical bulls**t which lawyer practice? Speaking of John Edwards, why is it that the Democratic party can produce nothing, any more, but lawyers for their presidential nominees? Is it because the Democratic party feeds off the misfortunes and conflicts in American Society, like our legal system? Is it because Democratic politicians help lawyers enrich themselves through the laws they enact and activist judges they nominate? Is it because Democrates are more suseptable to the oratorical bulls**t which lawyer practice?

]]> By: Believer http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28790 Believer Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:04:42 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28790 Hope is not always a bad thing. If our hope is invested in man -- or any earthly thing -- it usually leads to disappointment. If we depend on imperfect man to cure the ills in our imperfect lives, happiness will forever elude us. Angry African - I'm sorry you describe yourself as such. You speak of a burden - anger can be the heaviest of burdens - keeping us from living as joyfully as we might. I hope you find yourself one day free. Free to live joyfully no matter your circumstances. I encourage you to trust God; put your FAITH in Him. Ask Him to take the anger from your heart, and let Him lead you in directions you might never have known. HOPE will begin to grow as you see His Hand at work in your life. You'll become aware of how much He loves you. How intimately He knows you. Have you ever known such love? If not, you're hardly alone. I think Senator Obama has never known such love either. Too often in this imperfect world, relationships - ones that should have nutured us when we were most vulnerable - fail to give us the love we need. Too often man - or woman - fails us. We're wounded; sometimes for a lifetime. But there is One who will step in to fill that void. A loving, Heavenly Father. One who has known us before we were born. And His love is more than enough. It's a love so great that it fills our hearts completely - spilling over into love and forgiveness for those who had wounded us years earlier. This is true CHARITY, the greatest of the three. And we are finally, blessedly free. Hope is not always a bad thing. If our hope is invested in man — or any earthly thing — it usually leads to disappointment. If we depend on imperfect man to cure the ills in our imperfect lives, happiness will forever elude us.

Angry African – I’m sorry you describe yourself as such. You speak of a burden – anger can be the heaviest of burdens – keeping us from living as joyfully as we might. I hope you find yourself one day free. Free to live joyfully no matter your circumstances.

I encourage you to trust God; put your FAITH in Him. Ask Him to take the anger from your heart, and let Him lead you in directions you might never have known. HOPE will begin to grow as you see His Hand at work in your life. You’ll become aware of how much He loves you. How intimately He knows you. Have you ever known such love? If not, you’re hardly alone.

I think Senator Obama has never known such love either.

Too often in this imperfect world, relationships – ones that should have nutured us when we were most vulnerable – fail to give us the love we need. Too often man – or woman – fails us. We’re wounded; sometimes for a lifetime.

But there is One who will step in to fill that void. A loving, Heavenly Father. One who has known us before we were born. And His love is more than enough. It’s a love so great that it fills our hearts completely – spilling over into love and forgiveness for those who had wounded us years earlier. This is true CHARITY, the greatest of the three.

And we are finally, blessedly free.

]]> By: SALLY http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28781 SALLY Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:44:58 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28781 The man that would have looked out for all people was squeezed out of the race and that man is JOHN EDWARDS. FOr nearly eight years the murderous Bush regime has lied, tortured , killed and maimed yet where are the people who want to indoct these killers? It is reported that it was the MEDIA that eliminated Edwards. Because of MASS IGNORnce the U.S. FUTURE LOOKS MIGHTY BLEAK! The man that would have looked out for all people was squeezed out of the race and that man is JOHN EDWARDS.
FOr nearly eight years the murderous Bush regime has lied, tortured , killed and maimed yet where are the people who want to indoct these killers? It is reported that it was the MEDIA that eliminated Edwards. Because of MASS IGNORnce the U.S. FUTURE LOOKS MIGHTY BLEAK!

]]> By: manhattan skyline http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28779 manhattan skyline Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:33:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-psychology-of-hope/#comment-28779 Americans should never forget that out there or even in here there are people (of all races and not just Arabs) who have such a sense of religious fortitude and thus are persevering enough to take up flying lessons for years (yes for years) in an American flying-academy just so that they can have the skill to take a few minutes to divert a plane in flight to destroy non-Muslim lives and property. Americans should never forget that out there or even in here there are people (of all races and not just Arabs) who have such a sense of religious fortitude and thus are persevering enough to take up flying lessons for years (yes for years) in an American flying-academy just so that they can have the skill to take a few minutes to divert a plane in flight to destroy non-Muslim lives and property.

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