HOPE. CHANGE... slogans work well.

• Yes!!!!Yes!!!Yes!!!-nm - Stardust
  • What a great speech........ - aw
  • GO OBAMA! GO OBAMA!...NM - blondie_1147
  • Just shows that majority of USA no longer truly - puts the country first. We are headed downward.nm
    • Shame on this sentiment! - me
      • EXCELLENT comment, thanks!..nm - aw
    • How is Obama getting elected ...sm - blondie_1147
      • Blondie's post says it all!!! Thank-you Blondie! nm - Stardust
  • So sad to see all the haters on this board! - NYMT
    • It's not hate, is deep concern - Kaydie
      • I agree with you Kaydie, - NYMT
    • No hate from me, just profound concern for my country. - LRS
    • It is not HATE, it is love of country and depression - to see how clueless Americans have become.nm
      • Why are people clueless?! Because they don't agree with YOU?! - NYMT
        • No. Because Obama's disastrous plans have not - hit you yet. Reality will set in eventually.nm
          • As I said above, come back to this same board and apologize when he does a great job! - NYMT
            • He is a radical.. wants to be Robin-Hood. - I know enough. O is not a good man.nm
              • Not a good man? - ExMQMT
              • Wow! I didn't know we had psychics on this board?! - NYMT
                • Those were facts. Obama has already shown he - is those things. Sheep cant see past him.nm
      • Why does Obama winning make Americans clueless?...nm - blondie_1147
        • I see the Kool Aid is working. nm - m
          • Mine is cherry-flavored, yum - Go Obama!-nm - Stardust
            • Soon, Kool-Aid may be all you can afford. - So, stock up. nm
  • YES WE CAN!!!YES WE CAN!!!YES WE CAN!!!YES WE CAN!!! - YES WE CAN!!!YES WE CAN!!!YES WE CAN!!!YES WE CAN!
    • And we'll be dancing in the street!!!nm - Stardust
      • Yippee!!!! From one hope monger to another!!!!! - NYMT
        • HOPE. CHANGE... slogans work well. - But that is all they are. You will see.nm,
          • Gloom and doom can't touch us now. - nm
            • Right, because you are too high on the Obama - Kool-aid. Dont worry, it wont last.nm
          • Yipee! la la la! Doing a HAPPY DANCE!!! - NYMT
            • Enjoy it while you can. See how you feel a year - from now when his plans take effect. pathetic.nm
              • The only one pathetic are people like yourself! - NYMT
                • Pathetic are people who would follow this phony. - Obama is a show, rock star. He has done what?nm
                  • He has been elected to the highest office in the land. - He has restored hope to a nation. (sm)
                    • Good answer! Good answer! - NYMT
                      • That he has!!! n/m - Stardust

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If Barack Obama is a reformer, he could be the first one ever to become President of the United States having done almost nothing different in the name of reform.  Consider:  What has really changed?  In a positive way? 

He did not change politics in Chicago.  By endorsing crooked machine politicians who reward their campaign donors and door-knockers with a government salary.  By backing a mayor whose aids and appointees sell city contracts in exchange for campaign contributions.  By endorsing an alderman who pulls a gun on her colleagues.  By failing to endorse the rare candidate who has a chance to win and change something in Cook County.  By covering up the excesses of the Chicago Teachers Union, knowing just how abysmal the city's public education is.  By earmarking funds for a radical Catholic priest who ecourages blacks to hate whites.

Obama did not change politics in Springfield.  You can't reform a state like Illinois by voting present 130 times to avoid controversial issues.  By teaming up with a state Senate Majority Leader whose main concern appears to be placing every member of his family somewhere on the state payroll.  By backing for statewide office a financier whose family bank lends money to organized crime.  By negotiating to minimize the impact of welfare reform.  By writing letters to get state grants for someone who just paid you $112,000.   By co-sponsoring nearly any bill that helps Tony Rezko and his friends make money from taxpayers for building uninhabitable slums where rodents roam and sewage backs up in kitchen sinks (Obama said he did not know the condition of the buildings; however, all reside in his senate district and it had been well reported in the media). 

Obama has certainly not changed politics in Congress.  You can't reform Washington by earmarking a million dollars for your wife's employer after they double her salary (this can be verified on line...I was amazed!!...if I were him I would back off the earmarks thing and lamblasting Sarah Palin...this one could come back to bite him big time).  By voting to throw away money on ethanol, farm subsidies, and the Bridge to Nowhere while much of New Orleans was still under water.  By reaching across the aisle on ethics reform, only to pull your hand back and bury it in your pocket.  By earmarking funds for your campaign contributors.  By suddenly deciding its time to leave Iraq when you start running for President.

It's not that Barack Obama is a bad person.  It's just that he's like all the rest of them.  Not a reformer.  Not a Messiah.  Just like all the rest of them in Washington.  Just like all the other liberals. Well, that is not entirely true. Most liberals in Congress know more about foreign policy and how diplomacy works than Obama.  And most of them, nearly ALL of them...believe that babies born alive have a right to medical care.

Obama's radical ties don't make him a radical.  His ties to Communists don't make him a Communist.  His ties to a terrorist don't make him a terrorist.  But his continued relationships throughout his public life show an important influence in his public career.  What ideas are so important to Barack Obama that he desperately seeks the approval of Black Commentator and the New Party, but drops the Democratic Leadership Council as it if were a molten porcupine?

These connections do not disqualify Obama from the presidency.  But they do raise questions about his judgment.  By what criteria does a man choose his friends and end up with the likes of Tony Rezko,Jeremiah Wright, and Bill Ayers?  How does he choose his advisors and end up with people who chat with terrorists, advocate reparations for slavery, and praise Hugo Chavez a a champion of democracy?

What sort of nominations does such a man make as President?  What kind of diplomacy does he pursue, give that so much of diplomacy consists of reading, understanding, and judging others' intentions and character?

That is why these ties deserve scrutiny.  If Barack Obama becomes President, his good judgment, or the lack thereof, will affect the entire country.

--From "The Case Against Barack Obama"

trying times are very powerful words.  I am just curious....do you still feel that hope and change?  So far I see government screwing us over like it always has.  Spending way too much money on special interest groups and ignoring the cries of the American people while they fly on private jets using taxpayer money and telling us it will be okay when in fact it keeps getting worse. 

I hope for a better future and I pray that change does come to our government and there is nothing wrong with that, but when you campaign on that, tell people no lobbyist will have a place in Washington and then turn around and appoint them, tell the American people that you will not tolerate earmarks and you will go line by line to make sure there is none in a bill before you sign it and then you don't even read the bill let alone cut the pork and sign it anyway........I'm not seeing change here.  I'm seeing the same political BS that our government has been cramming down our throats for years now.  I'm tired of it all.

I would give anything for a politician who I truly believed in, but I have yet to find one. 

Obama is change you can believe in until you have to take it to the bank.

Our jobs have been offshored until now because of greed.  Under Obama and his taxation of small businesses, they will be offshored not because of greed but because of survival.  

You could make a difference for our country by not voting for Obama, but instead, if you vote for him, you are selling out to deception.  You are embracing a socialist, a communist, a Marxist, a liar, a cheat, and someone who legally cannot run as President of the U.S., much less the Illinois senate.  But, you make your choice.  You believe the consumate liar and his lies who sat for 20 years under the teachings of a black racist preacher filled with hatred for the U.S., whose association with Bill Ayers is recent and documented down to the fact that Ayers himself wrote Obama's best-selling book (best-selling in the eyes of far left liberals that is), who is a documented member of the socialist party, whose friends and close allies are extremists who not only bomb innocent people and are unrepenetent but who intend to eliminate (kill) 25 million Americans who they cannot "re-educate" in communist ideaology (gosh dog it, those dreadful capitalists), who refuses to hand over a certified copy of his birth certificate and educational records (my goodness, don't you have to provide your birth certificate to any number of entities who want to know if you are legal, i.e., social security, DMVs, etc., and your educational records would show if you had received aid as a foreigner and in 1963 would have shown you were a negro instead of an African-American which Obama's falsified record shows, please speck up on history), and who thinks Joe the Plumber is so stupid not to realize that if he wants to achieve the American dream, he is going to achieve it only if he lets Obama take what he makes to give to those WHO WILL NOT WORK.  I'd like to see you, liberals, give a share of your 7.5 cpl to those who don't work as hard as you, but then with Obama, that's what you will have to do.  Don't be fooled by his rhetoric that only those making over $250,00 will be taxed.  We will all be taxed, and there will be no incentive to work for any of us because we will all have to give up a piece of our pie so those who do not work can have a piece of our pie.

Here is the dividing line, folks.  We are at a crossroads in our history.  The Lord Jesus puts it this way, "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction; and there are many who go in by it."

Choose which gate you enter, the wide or the narrow.  It not only determines your eternal destination, but it determines the destination of this country.  If anyone here calls themself a Christian and can vote for Osambo, I daresay you are a liar and cheat just as he.  One cannot be a Christian and vote for a party and a political candidate who is in total rebellion to God's Word.  That is a fact, and if you think any differently, then you, too, like the Obamanation, call God a liar.  May He have mercy upon your soul.  As He makes the rain fall on the just and the unjust because He is no respector of persons, we will all suffer as this country is destroyed and our Constitution that guarantees our freedoms is trampled just as Bill Ayers is pictured standing upon our flag in total disrespect, and we will thank you liberals that we are all in bondage, reduced to third world status, just as the Israelites were in Egypt.  Only Obama ain't no Moses but a Muslim and has no favor with God, and there will be no one to lead us to the Promised Land coming from the Democratic party. 

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRxZox4GFoIweckPDP1oRhKBlHOwD94CCDU00

This is what I am talking about.  Somebody from the INSIDE, a congressman sees our new change coming.  This is NOT THE CHANGE I opted for. 

War Crimes Even Helen Keller Could See
By Mickey Z.

In a textbook example of whitewashing, if today's America knows Helen Keller (1880-1968) at all, it's the easy-to-digest image portrayed in the 1962 film, 'The Miracle Worker.' Brave deaf and blind girl 'overcomes' all obstacles to inspire everyone she meets. 'The Helen Keller with whom most people are familiar is a stereotypical sexless paragon who was able to overcome deaf-blindness and work tirelessly to promote charities and organizations associated with other blind and deaf-blind individuals,' writes Sally Rosenthal in Ragged Edge.

But, in 1909, Helen Keller became a socialist. Soon after, she emerged as a vocal supporter of the working class and traveled the nation to voice her opposition to war. 'How can our rulers claim they are fighting to make the world safe for democracy,' she asked, 'while here in the U.S. Negroes may be massacred and their property burned?' Of course, as a woman with disabilities, she was patronized by the same mainstream media that previously championed her as a heroine. The editors of the Brooklyn Eagle wrote: 'Her mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her development.'

Keller minced no words in her responses...one of which appeared in newspapers across America: 'So long as I confine my activities to social services and the blind, the newspapers compliment me extravagantly, calling me an 'arch-priest of the sightless' and 'wonder woman'. But when I discuss poverty and the industrial system under which we live that is a different matter.'

As the militaristic frenzy spread across America, Keller appeared at New York City's Carnegie Hall on January 5, 1916. 'I have a word to say to my good friends, the editors, and others who are moved to pity me,' she said. 'Some people are grieved because they imagine I am in the hands of unscrupulous persons who lead me astray and persuade me to espouse unpopular causes and make me the mouthpiece of their propaganda. Now, let it be understood once and for all that I do not want their pity; I would not change places with one of them. I know what I am talking about. My sources of information are as good and reliable as anybody else's. I have papers and magazines from England, France, Germany and Austria that I can read myself. Not all the editors I have met can do that. Quite a number of them have to take their French and German second hand. No, I will not disparage the editors. They are an overworked, misunderstood class. Let them remember, though, that if I cannot see the fire at the end of their cigarettes, neither can they thread a needle in the dark. All I ask, gentlemen, is a fair field and no favor. I have entered the fight against preparedness and against the economic system under which we live. It is to be a fight to the finish, and I ask no quarter.'

Keller's critique of the government propaganda campaign to stir up Americans to support U.S. intervention in the war remains more germane than ever. 'Every modern war has had its root in exploitation' Keller said. 'The Civil War was fought to decide whether the slaveholders of the South or the capitalists of the North should exploit the West. The Spanish-American War decided that the United States should exploit Cuba and the Philippines. The South African War decided that the British should exploit the diamond mines. The Russo-Japanese War decided that Japan should exploit Korea. The present war is to decide who shall exploit the Balkans, Turkey, Persia, Egypt, India, China, Africa. And we are whetting our sword to scare the victors into sharing the spoils with us. Now, the workers are not interested in the spoils; they will not get any of them anyway.'

She urged workers-the ones who do the fighting and dying-to strike at the heart of America's drive toward war. 'Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought,' she declared. 'Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.'

Excerpted from the soon-to-be-released '50 American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism.' 

I should probably refrain from any dialogue and perhaps just correct posts that are obviously erroneous (like the one about poverty in the U.S.).  Correcting factual errors on their posts would probably be a full time job.  Besides I enjoy the research and learn lots!!

Thanks for reading and thanks for your comments.

nm

I normally don't post on this board, but for all of you caught up in the "Obama palooza" remember that change can be good or bad.  Be careful of what you wish for.  You might not like the change that is coming.  As an MT for one of the big companies we have seen a lot of "change" and none of it has been good.  It has all benefitted the upper management and none of it trickled down to the MTs, even though they told us these "changes" were for us.  That said, my husband and I plan to hide our money from BO by using every tax evasion strategy we can; 401K, offshore accounts, more writeoffs and hope in 4 years everyone has had enough of "change."

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/20/document-drop-the-story-behind-changegov/