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sparkycrash · 01-20-2009, 07:06 PM

The blame game.....assign fault and bias...make complex things simple.

You don't want things divided yet your inflaming comments about what the democrats are going to do does just that. As YOU said, plenty of blame to go around. We've spent a lot more than we've taken in in the last eight years. To Damn the people trying to figure out whats next is not admirable.

If you havent noticed, we have a few more problems than your SS right now, and we need some courageous and smart people to make the right moves. and by the way, I am a Republican.

Crash.

Brucelee · 01-20-2009, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by sparkycrash

The blame game.....assign fault and bias...make complex things simple.

You don't want things divided yet your inflaming comments about what the democrats are going to do does just that. As YOU said, plenty of blame to go around. We've spent a lot more than we've taken in in the last eight years. To Damn the people trying to figure out whats next is not admirable.

If you havent noticed, we have a few more problems than your SS right now, and we need some courageous and smart people to make the right moves. and by the way, I am a Republican.

Crash.

How is what I said inflamming? If you found it so, it might say more about you than me. What I said was that I fear what Obama might do. That is simply so. If you don't fear it, you don't. Fine with me.

I haven't dammed anyone. You need to go back and read what I wrote.

To me, my SS is important. I have paid into that system against my will for over 45 years, so I expect SOMETHING back. Do you suggest that this is some way inappropriate????? Should I just forget about it because BO thinks he has a better way?????

When you find the 'courageous and intelligent" people with the magic answer give me a call. I will be the first one to applaud.

However, having watched these pols for the better part of my life, I am appropriately skeptical.

sparkycrash · 01-20-2009, 07:25 PM

"Lets watch those Dems spend the money we don't have. Ought to be awesome"

"BO is getting to give me the old screw job"

Enough said

Jaxonalden · 01-20-2009, 07:46 PM

Everyone is acting like Obama is going to pull out his magic wand and everything is going to great. Our financial situation in this country is in the crapper and Obama is going to take another $750B and flush it down the toilet. When will the bleeding stop and let the nature progression of failure start? Let new company's start where these blood suckers left off.

Bailing out private company's is BS! If they failed to secure their company's future before, whose to say they won't blow this money? All they're going to do is shore up their retirement accounts that were lost in the market and then retire to some island, laughing all the way. And we the tax payer will be left with no jobs, no healthcare, no home and no one will give a ********************!

Brucelee, give'em hell.

Lil bastard · 01-20-2009, 08:16 PM

Obama has already reneged on just about every promise he made on the campaign trail. Hmmm... another Politician merely telling us what we want to hear?

Change?? Seems like the only way to get a job in DC these days is to either be an ex-clinton staffer, or a tax cheat! Biden (2nd longest sitting member of the Senate) is change? Hillary (with no transparency of Foreign contributions to Bill's 'Foundation - just watch... this will be Obama's 'Haliburton') is change? Richardson is change? (ooops, I forgot, Richardson is under indictment...Obama's 1st scandal?) Panetta is change? Timothy Geithner, nominated as Sec. of Treasury (overall executive in charge of, amongst other things, the IRS, cheated on $34k in taxes) is change?

Prison at Gitmo decision delayed. War to continue, except this time in Afganistan (think Iraq is a 100 yr. war? Just ask any Soviet about Afganistan). Middle class tax cut - delayed. Bush Tax cuts (tax breaks for the Rich) - not repealed as promised, but instead will be allowed to expire in 2010...maybe. Chu (sec. of energy nominee) calling nuclear power 'evil', and on and on.

Admittedly, the country as a whole is despondent after 8 yrs. of GWB, justified or not (perspective), and the country was prepared to elect a blind, deaf, one-legged dog named 'Lucky' rather than any GOP candidate. But, the fact is that Obama is untested and insulated from criticism by the 'Race' cloak he wears. People are more enamored by the thought of Obama than actual fact... the realities bear this out.

Well, he has a lot to live up to, and a lot of problems to solve. Whatever your thoughts, he's the guy now and we all have to hope that he is up to the job - our futures depend on it!

Use your brain and the facts - not the soundbites and commentaries from network talking heads.

If he's up to the job, it will become apparent soon enough. If not, don't allow a herd mentality or racial guilt to blind you of that fact! Currently, you may support him or oppose him. But, only time will prove you right... or wrong.

If Obama wants a 2nd term (and what President doesn't), make him earn it, don't simply give him a pass because 'at least he's not GWB', that arguement now belongs to history.

roadracer311 · 01-20-2009, 09:05 PM

I'm just excited to have a president that can speak well.

As a former physicist, it killed me to listen to the leader of the free world mis-pronounce the word nuclear (he said nu-cu-lar for 8 years, and either no one dared correct him, or he just didn't care that he was making us all look stupid).

Barack Obama is a really really smart guy, with a huge challenge ahead of him. I really believe he's going to do the right thing, and make the best of the situation we're in.

nefarious986 · 01-20-2009, 09:49 PM

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ekam · 01-21-2009, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by roadracer311

Barack Obama is a really really smart guy,

So tell me, if he's so smart, why is he a smoker? Everyone knows smoking is bad for you right?

Brucelee · 01-21-2009, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by sparkycrash

"Lets watch those Dems spend the money we don't have. Ought to be awesome"

"BO is getting to give me the old screw job"

Enough said

The above is called a PREDICTION, based on what has been said so far by the Democratic party leaders and BO himself. I will be delighted if they prove me wrong and enact a sound economic and energy platform.

Color me cynical.

If that is damning someone, then so be it.

Brucelee · 01-21-2009, 06:09 AM

The worst thing was Pres. Johnson's raiding of the SocSec money to fund the "Great Society" which established the monstrous federal bureaucracy that we now enjoy. We certainly don't need more of that if we are to stay a free people. Obama seems to be proposing larger govt. We will wait and see.

Yes, and instead of anyone thanking those of us who funded the "great society"
we are normally bashed and told, "you haven't done enough!"

Makes you want to give until it hurts, right?