You Republicans have done this to yourself...
I think you'll get all three Obama's as described in the 1st post, depending on which way the polls are going. I speak as someone who's lived through Blair. Shame we dont have the same limit on executive power over here as you do there. 12 years of Thatcher now 12 years of Blair and we're still pretty much in the same crapper as we were then albeit with different bogey men.
If Obama is elected things will, indeed, change-
We will no longer have one half of one percent of the population control 65% of the wealth. We will no longer wage war in Iraq. We will move towards alternate sources of energy instead of the destruction of our fragile offshore eco systems. We will empower people of color to embrace the system rather than distrust it. Our air will be cleaner. Our civil rights will be restored. Our streets will be safer. We will balance our budget. Jobs- GOOD jobs, not the service jobs created by Bush-O-Nomics- will once again put America to work. We will use stem cell research and within two years we will have cured cancer and parylisis. We will restore money for the arts and create a whole new generation of artists. We will respect 26 of the 27 Constitutional Amendments rather than 1 of the 27.
Things will be better, believe me. :)
If Obama is elected things will, indeed, change-WTF?
We will no longer have one half of one percent of the population control 65% of the wealth. We will no longer wage war in Iraq. We will move towards alternate sources of energy instead of the destruction of our fragile offshore eco systems. We will empower people of color to embrace the system rather than distrust it. Our air will be cleaner. Our civil rights will be restored. Our streets will be safer. We will balance our budget. Jobs- GOOD jobs, not the service jobs created by Bush-O-Nomics- will once again put America to work. We will use stem cell research and within two years we will have cured cancer and parylisis. We will restore money for the arts and create a whole new generation of artists. We will respect 26 of the 27 Constitutional Amendments rather than 1 of the 27.
Things will be better, believe me. :)
If Obama is elected things will, indeed, change-
We will no longer have one half of one percent of the population control 65% of the wealth. We will no longer wage war in Iraq. We will move towards alternate sources of energy instead of the destruction of our fragile offshore eco systems. We will empower people of color to embrace the system rather than distrust it. Our air will be cleaner. Our civil rights will be restored. Our streets will be safer. We will balance our budget. Jobs- GOOD jobs, not the service jobs created by Bush-O-Nomics- will once again put America to work. We will use stem cell research and within two years we will have cured cancer and parylisis. We will restore money for the arts and create a whole new generation of artists. We will respect 26 of the 27 Constitutional Amendments rather than 1 of the 27.
Things will be better, believe me. :)
i dont know if i should laugh, or fear that there are more that think like this.
If Obama is elected things will, indeed, change-
We will no longer have one half of one percent of the population control 65% of the wealth. We will no longer wage war in Iraq. We will move towards alternate sources of energy instead of the destruction of our fragile offshore eco systems. We will empower people of color to embrace the system rather than distrust it. Our air will be cleaner. Our civil rights will be restored. Our streets will be safer. We will balance our budget. Jobs- GOOD jobs, not the service jobs created by Bush-O-Nomics- will once again put America to work. We will use stem cell research and within two years we will have cured cancer and parylisis. We will restore money for the arts and create a whole new generation of artists. We will respect 26 of the 27 Constitutional Amendments rather than 1 of the 27.
Things will be better, believe me. :)
Fear. There's no shortage of believers like that. (Note, your use of the word "think" was not appropriate, as there was no "thinking" involved in that)
You Republicans have done this to yourself, ya know- and now you're trying to scare people that eight years of Obama could possibly be worse than the eight years we suffered under Bush, so we're better off with four more years of the Bush surrogate, McCain, in charge?
That's a tough sell.
if we're going to have an honest discussion here.......considering racism.......considering how this country loves and carries guns......and how many kooks we have walking around due to liberal judges...the assassinations of kennedy, kennedy, and king (KKK....odd isn't it?).........do you *really* think obama will last 4 years in office? it's the question everyone asks...and nobody talks about....
so I'm asking........what do you think the odds are of a black president being assasinated in office?
If Obama is elected things will, indeed, change-
We will no longer have one half of one percent of the population control 65% of the wealth. We will no longer wage war in Iraq. We will move towards alternate sources of energy instead of the destruction of our fragile offshore eco systems. We will empower people of color to embrace the system rather than distrust it. Our air will be cleaner. Our civil rights will be restored. Our streets will be safer. We will balance our budget. Jobs- GOOD jobs, not the service jobs created by Bush-O-Nomics- will once again put America to work. We will use stem cell research and within two years we will have cured cancer and parylisis. We will restore money for the arts and create a whole new generation of artists. We will respect 26 of the 27 Constitutional Amendments rather than 1 of the 27.
Things will be better, believe me. :)
he's muslim(i think),WTF? Really?
Education: 56 B$
(K-12) 31 B$
Medicare: 386 B$
Medicaid: 202 B$
SocialSec: 608 B$
WTF? Really?
People still believe that?
WTF? Really?
People still believe that?
note i said i THINK.....not sure.....After the controversies over not one but two of his reverends, and people accusing his church of being racist?
he's muslim(i think)
Heh. Sorry, but you've just lost any credentials to ever have any of your posts taken seriously again. Ever.
I try not to get too involved in these conversations - its not really my election (although as a US resident and tax payer, it does impact me greatly).
It does amaze me though that from a nation of 300million+ people, the best candidates they could come up with are Obama and McCain. I'm actually more disappointed with McCain - Obama is a kind of Democratic wet dream and its no real surprise he got the nod even though there's very little of any substance to him.
McCain, on the other hand is just utterly uninspiring. I'm sure he's a straight up guy, but I don't know if he's 'leader of the free world' material. Plus he's too old.
dred.. I will not have a "breakdown" I am pretty immune.. I will move out a ways and let him pick over your bones.. by the time he gets around to me the pendulum will swing the other way.. that is.. if he even gets a chance to screw anything up at all.. He is far too wishy washy cult of personality type to ever rock the boat too much.. the worst he will do is raise inflation and interest rates like carter did and.. appoint worthless activist lefty judges.
correl... please tell me how you think osamabama is going to accomplish any of the things you mentioned. Just one of em..
lazs
and dred.. I vote in every election that I am allowed.
lazs
Ahhhh...you are the CEO of a huge corporation...you brought the company outta ruins....you are a true leader....you make millions and millions of dollars...why oh why would you want to be president??? ego? Could be the only thing....what great corporate leader would want to be president...you would have to have a hole in your head.This is why we have no good candidates for president!!!
The ultimate responsibility is to run the country like you would a good sound business.
Instead, we see waste in the government every day. Waste that is ruining the country.
The ultimate responsibility is to run the country like you would a good sound business.
Instead, we see waste in the government every day. Waste that is ruining the country.
You Republicans have done this to yourself, ya know- and now you're trying to scare people that eight years of Obama could possibly be worse than the eight years we suffered under Bush, so we're better off with four more years of the Bush surrogate, McCain, in charge?
That's a tough sell.
The solution? Conscript random people to run the country for a little while. People who don't want to run the government, and don't want the government ruling them would be the best at the reigns.
Yea that's the funnest part of it all. Obama would have to be pretty damn bad to do worse than Bush has the last 8 years. The second post was saying something about the economy tanking under Obama. Ummm hello the economy has already tanked under Bush. You can't send all the jobs over seas and run your entire budget on borrowed Chinese money while waging a war that has cost us insane amounts of money and not have the economy go to crap.Even McCain is better than Obama.
BTW Larz you say Obama will break promises? Well of course he will all politicians lie to get elected. Bush is no different, he promised all kinds of crap to the Religious Reich that he never followed through with. He also didn't fund our schools after he promised he would.
Sorry Obama would have to be pretty bad to be worse then what we already have and McCain has already shown his true colors by flopping on everything he stood for to say anything in order to get the Republican nomination. It's funny how you guys forget how much McCain has flip - flopped since the beginning of this election campaigns.
Even McCain is better than Obama.
Even McCain is better than Obama.
Ahh maybe two years ago I could have agreed with you, but McCain has caved in on what he believed in and shown that he will do and say anything to get elected. That means he will just be another puppet just like Bush is now.Even just a year ago, when he was the underdog in the Republican primaries. He's certainly changed since he won the nomination.
The disaster would be Obama nominating 2-4 SC judges that will vote their liberal opinions rather then the Constitution.
correl... please tell me how you think osamabama is going to accomplish any of the things you mentioned. Just one of em..
lazs
I think we can forget about the 18th amendment. :aokThe 21st amendment wouldn't make much sense if we did that, would it? :)
Crockett you really think Obama's no puppet?
If Obama is elected things will, indeed, change-
We will no longer have one half of one percent of the population control 65% of the wealth. We will no longer wage war in Iraq. We will move towards alternate sources of energy instead of the destruction of our fragile offshore eco systems. We will empower people of color to embrace the system rather than distrust it. Our air will be cleaner. Our civil rights will be restored. Our streets will be safer. We will balance our budget. Jobs- GOOD jobs, not the service jobs created by Bush-O-Nomics- will once again put America to work. We will use stem cell research and within two years we will have cured cancer and parylisis. We will restore money for the arts and create a whole new generation of artists. We will respect 26 of the 27 Constitutional Amendments rather than 1 of the 27.
Things will be better, believe me. :)
blahTake 1% from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and it adds up to 11B$ or so, or 60%+ of the entire NASA budget. Instead of crippling NASA, he could imperceptibly reduce everything in those three social programs (a much better suited source, too, considering how inefficient they are) and pay for whatever his education reforms are, half a dozen times over.
nope... he will try to keep us from having vouchers because he owes the teachers union..
He will raise the price of energy and stop all exploration and nuclear power and any move toward energy independence because he owes the whack job environmentalists.
He will continue to try to destroy the second because he owes sorros.
He will tax every one of us more than bush did and he will decrease the military while making every other part of the government bigger because.. because he believes in big government.
He will appoint anti American judges because he hates the constitution and the old white men who drew it up.
He will play the race card every time someone doesn't agree with him.
He will fold like a cheap card table under a fat lady at every poll that comes out and spend more time making useless and meaningless speeches than any pres we have ever had.. he is after all.. an orator.. and empty suit.. a talking head.. he is a great reader of teleprompters and he knows where his talents lie..
he is arrogant tho and will step on his own genitals a lot.. he is so arrogant that he thinks he can come up with a good sounding and meaningless explanation for every outlandish thing he stumbles into.. He will be caught trying to speak for himself from time to time and have to spend ten times the effort to try to explain what he "really" meant.
lazs
He will play the race card every time someone doesn't agree with him.He's never done that. The media has, but his campaign hasn't.
Long periods of one-party rule, after all, are quite rare in American politics. Since the ratification of the 22nd Amendment, the same party has held the White House for three consecutive terms exactly once. This is no accident. Political movements tend to weaken when in power. They grow corrupt and unresponsive; internal fissures form and widen; the problems they were asked to solve fade from view, and the electorate turns toward new dilemmas that require new thinking.
Welp....perhaps if the Republicans had done a better job the past eight years America wouldn't be throwing them out of office.Because it's all about which party is best, not what's actualy done. Koolaid wars indeed.
Obama is what we get for Republicans not doing their job. The citizens gave them total control for 6 years. We have a 6 year old war, no border control, high fuel prices, record deficits, social security and a stumbling economy. Its almost a certainty that Obama will win in November. The Democrats will gain seats in both houses of Congress.
The US economy is a massive beast and it will adjust to high energy prices and will recover, probably next year. The Iraq war will wind down. Its not too big a streach to see that Afghanistan/Pakistan will become the focus point.
Motherland, you are aware that your avatar is Heinz Knocke, not Bubi Hartmann???Quite-I cropped it out of the cover of his book :aok
A Total piece of watermelon !
Only if you think the conservatives will jump behind McCain. I don't think so. There are a lot of middle of the road Republicans upset right now and if they fail to vote that is nearly a vote for Obama.McCain neither wants nor cares about the votes of those Neanderthal conservatives--he has calculated that he can win with 'moderates' and centrists
You guys better hope he gets a decent VP.
He'll be lucky to last 12 months.
Who? McCain or Obama? From looking at him, I'd say there's a fair chance McCain won't make it past 12 months either.But McCain will go through natural causes ;)
crockit.. two years ago I would have said that the democrats could.. would not dare come up with a worse candidate than McCain but.. they did it.. they pick a worse candidate than the last every single time. they might just have to rob lenins tomb to get a worse one next time.Eight years of office and it = two judges. Not a good deal for what it was worth.
As for nothing could be worse than Bush? why? sure he caved to the democrats a few times but really.. what has he done that is so bad? He got us a few good judges. Most who don't like Bush don't even really know why.. the media and the talking heads tell em they should is all..
lazs
Obama is going to be a great president. About time we had someone who realizes that we are all in this together. Laz all I see when I read anything you write is hate and fear.
and throwing more money to no avail at public schools that graduate illiterates.At the expense of NASA, and without as much as proposing a solution to NASA's red tape and bureaucracy problems. Pure garbage.
You guys are a bunch of glass half full pessimists. Obamas has never said anything about raising taxes,Hey at least there's no tax raise right?! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,240375.msg2921455.html#msg2921455)
we call McCain "Ahmadinecain
That was brilliant, a little whiny but still good.I linked to this
Moot whats the point of linking the same post? Ego thing?
[Obama] has clearly indicated he will raise taxes on higher income earners, he will raise capital gains taxes which affects everyone in the stock market, he has said the "wealthy" will pay more tax but hasn't defined "wealthy" and he has said he will restore progressive tax.After you said
Those are all tax increases.
Here is a sample of his voting record on taxes. He never met a tax he didn't like.
Voted YES on increasing tax rate for people earning over $1 million. (Mar 2008)
Voted NO on allowing AMT reduction without budget offset. (Mar 2008)
Voted NO on raising the Death Tax exemption to $5M from $1M. (Feb 2008)
Voted NO on repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax. (Mar 2007)
Voted NO on raising estate tax exemption to $5 million. (Mar 2007)
Voted NO on supporting permanence of estate tax cuts. (Aug 2006)
Voted NO on permanently repealing the `death tax`. (Jun 2006)
Voted YES on $47B for military by repealing capital gains tax cut. (Feb 2006)
Voted NO on retaining reduced taxes on capital gains & dividends. (Feb 2006)
Voted NO on extending the tax cuts on capital gains and dividends. (Nov 2005)
Rated 100% by the CTJ, indicating support of progressive taxation. (Dec 2006)
You guys are a bunch of glass half full pessimists. Obamas has never said anything about raising taxes,Do you not see the connection?
Nice cut and paste Rip. :lolRip and paste or not, all truth in that comical email. :rock
My fellow Americans:very nice
As your future President I want to thank my supporters, for your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor's relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change.
I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush's youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing.
I would also like to thank the Kennedy's for coming out in support of me. There's a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. and Teddy killed a female employee with whom he was having an extra marital affair and who was pregnant with his child. And I'm not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and figuratively.
And I'd like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support. Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House.
Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt.
I say things that sound meaningful, but don't really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them. Americans are tired of thinking. It's time to shut down the brain, and open up the heart. So when you go to vote, remember don't think, just do. And do it for me.
Thank You.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.