Comments on: “Present” for the Inauguration

By: Briney

Briney — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:59:32 +0000

Well said.

Who will respond to America’s enemies now with strength and assurance? The Democrats will be fiddling furiously as ~~Rome~~ America burns, …and Obama will manage to be present, with a complicit left-wing media fawning, “Hail to the Chief”.

What a comedy of colossal Neros.

By: Pops in Vienna

Pops in Vienna — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:57:53 +0000

Claudia,

I’ve spent several years working in various parts of the former Soviet Union. Your observation is spot on about the soviet mentality.

Many people I have met, still want to return to the soviet era. They were well cared for “slaves” on a very big plantation. Their masters provided for all their basic needs. As long as you didn’t complain, watched sports and drank vodka you’d never be whipped.

Why do so many Americans aspire to this “secure” but depressing life style?

By: Moogie

Moogie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:32:15 +0000

Secular America has voted, and now the rest of us get to sit back and see what the messiah will do. I believe he will do nothing. He didn’t do anything as a state senator (other than be “present”). He didn’t do anything as a U.S. Senator. He didn’t write any articles as editor of the Harvard Review. And despite what so many believe, he is not an eloquent speaker. He stutters and stammers and repeats himself ad nauseum. He can fill three volumes about himself, but he can’t answer a simple question: “Are you a socialist?” Beware the man who spends 15 minutes “answering” a yes or no question.

It’s one thing to have on-the-job training as a cashier at the local 7-11 store. It’s quite another to propel oneself into the highest position of power and authority in the mightiest country on this earth, and to have absolutely no proven track record of actual accomplishments. His on-the-job training may well happen at our expense.

Pops in Vienna is right – “The American President’s Guide for Dummies” needs to get published, and right away!

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By: jw

jw — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:15:55 +0000

“I have this nagging feeling that my husband and I need to be re-calculating our net worth, reflecting expected real income over the next decade or two — and the direction, the direction dictated by swelling government, collectivist programs, endless spending…”

Melanie you might also want to consider as part of your financial planning to conveniently die before the end of 2010 when the estate tax lower rate expires. After the expiration, Obama intends to return the rate to the high 55% so you can be double taxed on all your assets.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:41:19 +0000

President Obama is a con man whose skill at spinning words has served him well in his various careers. But as he pointed out early in his campaign, they are just words. He has shown that the praise “my word is my bond” does not apply to him. He wraps himself in words to hide his true self from us. His actions cannot be spun as easily as his words so in his entire career he has avoided taking direct action on anything. Instead he has been able to enable radicals to do their radical thing without ever taking direct responsibility for anything. Look at the Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers and the various boards he served on. In each case he support radical anti-American racist ideas, radical anti-American education ideas and radical anti-gun ideas indirectly but always gave himself a way to claim no responsibility.
He is a moral, intellectual and physical coward terrified that he will be found out by his actions and thus does a lot of “thinking” in the hopes that someone will push for a solution that he can support but will never actually take direct responsibility for. it will always be, “my staff” or “Congress” or the “Republicans” who didn’t do the right thing, never Obama.

You can always tell a persons core beliefs by the people he/she surrounds themselves with. Between Michelle Obama, the Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers we see that Obama is not a centrist and frankly not even a leftist but truly a socialist, racist anti-American at heart.

By: Pops in Vienna

Pops in Vienna — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:32:44 +0000

The poster “Open Roads” is spot on.

I wonder if Obama when over to Borders Books and picked up a copy of ” A Big Dummy’s Guide to Being A President” ?

It might help.

By: Open Roads

Open Roads — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:31:44 +0000

thank you for a realistic assessment of what I agree, is going to be the new reality for those of us who don’t think the world owes us a living, but would like to be left alone as much as possible to earn it ourselves. I did a four-year assignment in Moscow so your comparison strikes home and I believe is indeed apt. If things deteriorate to that extent, I believe we will make the best of it. But I am quite fearful that way too many people fully believe they have voted themselves a better future from someone else’s bank account. And that just ain’t gonna work.

By: kathy

kathy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:22:18 +0000

Well said, I appreciate your ability to put into words what I know and feel. Thank you.

By: Mac Burney

Mac Burney — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:17:12 +0000

It is comforting to find like-minded voices. I’ve checked out the White House website –the permanent campaign is off and running, and it is the same as the campaign. My expectations are very, very low. The ‘centrism’ is just theater. He told us what he intended during the campaign, and they plan to use the current financial crisis to get all their ideas passed before the economy recovers and people start to notice. Good post!