O was elected the future president, so....sm

• A different viewpoint from me - Kaydie
  • thanks, Kaydie and Dad. Blessed are - true blue
  • I think your dad is a wise man, thanks....sm - abc
  • You dad sounds like a good man... - and wise, too. sm
  • Sorry, but I cannot adapt to - Hitler, Marxist style government.
    • Thjis proves exactly Kaydie's father's philosophy...nm - abc
      • Sorry, I want to correct my post...sm - abc
    • Oh for heaven's SAKE - deenibeeni
      • get over it deeni - nm
        • You're right! - deenibeeni
      • They are clueless on purpose ... - me
      • Hello. - Get a clue. Marxist government.
        • I'm not surprised - deenibeeni
          • Deeni, please don't base all on one - Donna
            • Thank you... - deenibeeni
          • I am not the only one concerned - about our United States.
            • what are you talking about?...sm - abc
              • The new change - not what I opted for.
                • There will always be winners and losers.........nm - abc
                  • Unfortunately, the people may end up being the LOSERS!!! - nm
                    • This possibility exists, but also as McCain as president...sm - abc
              • I felt the same way at first.... - Old part-timer
                • 6.5% is a pretty strong margin for "such a poor choice" - The mandate is clear.
                  • Yes, this is to what is boils all down...sm - abc
                • McCain at the end distanced himself from Bush..... - abc
                  • I'm not talking about distancing... - Old part-timer
                    • by electoral votes - it is most definitely a landslide! - Amanda
    • I understand - see message - Kaydie
      • O was elected the future president, so....sm - abc
      • A liffle feedback on - your dad's advice....sm
      • Kaydie, I totally agree with youir Dad. s/m - pen
        • great post by 'pen', ..tolerant and openminded, thanks!...nm - abc
      • Obama supporters worried, sorry - but they are in a trance. nm
        • had McCain been elected, then you would be in a trance...nm - abc
          • No TRANCE here, many of us voted for McCain as the lesser of two evils. - nm
          • Sorry, I do not agree to a Hitler style - government. nm
    • Me either -and anyone who bothered to research - Obama would never elect this dangerous man.nm
      • Yeah he's dangerous all right... - me
        • SOMEONE RESEARCHED IT. - Our new United States. Thanks a lot.
          • LOL! - Marmann
            • Sorry, I did not see any mention - about Bush in the article.
              • That's because it conveniently disappeared. - Marmann
                • Bill was sponsored by Lugar and our new VP, Biden - Link
                  • And endorsed by Bush, which I find scary. - Marmann
            • Civilian National Security Force... - sm
              • Hope it will not turn - into a civil war.
      • No, They are willing to risk it to "save the economy" - or whatever. Character matters to SOME.nm
        • Speaking of character... - Marmann
          • I would not call that a lack of character... - sm

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Bush: New Orleans may need a decade

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- As he headed for the Gulf Coast on Monday, U.S. President George Bush told an interviewer he expects the rebuilding of New Orleans to take a decade.

Bush planned to spend the anniversary of the U.S. Gulf Coast landfall of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans after a visit to Biloxi, Miss. It was his 13th visit to the devastated area.

We can rebuild buildings, the question is can we rebuild its soul, he told April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks. We can. I believe, 10 years from now April, you and I will be thinking about our time here, and trying to remember what it was like 10 years ago

Bush came under fire last year for apparently ignoring Katrina immediately after New Orleans flooded and then flying over the city in Air Force One.

Later White House spokeswoman Dana Perrino said she wasn't aware of a specific time period but that the president has said all along that it would take more than a year to rebuild New Orleans.

In terms of like, 10 years, I don't know about exact time frame, but it's certainly going to take several years, Perrino said.

Read up on the Lincoln presidency.

Last night on Charlie Rose guests called Obama obsessed with Lincoln and determined to not let us down.

So read up, I am sure there were no "everybody gets a goodie bag" lines with him, but I will read up and find out exactly what he did do if that is my president's hero.

And since when can you predict the future? LMAO!!

Bush's policies in all areas are making it look pretty bleak.

OH BROTHER.

After seeing Cindy smooching some biker dude, maybe John should check in at home more often.

I've written a few times on this board that I think employers and insurance companies should be completely taken out of the picture when it comes to healthcare, that our very lives shouldn't be profit-driven commodities.

In my opinion, what's happening at AIG with greedy executives gives us a window into what could happen again (or probably already is happening) with health insurance companies.

I did a quick Google search and found the following two articles that address this.  The first link is more current and probably the better of the two links, but the second is worth reading, as well.  There may be better ones out there, but I didn't have much time to do my search, and these are two that caught my attention.  If you find others, please post them.

It seems to me that before a new healthcare plan is implemented for Americans, we need to insure (no pun) that greedy executives can never do this again to Americans, particularly if our very ability to live or die lies in the balance.

I plan on writing my Congressman and Senator.  I DON'T plan on having my concerns taken seriously (or even being read, for that matter).

Can you imagine -- just for a moment -- how much money could be saved by eliminating the profit factor in healthcare?  It might just pay for a new healthcare care system itself, or at least put a big dent into the cost of one.

http://blogs.webmd.com/mad-about-medicine/2007/08/ceo-compensation-who-said-healthcare-is.html

http://www.harp.org/hmoexecs.htm

Fool me once, shame on you....etc.

I feel better knowing Congress is smart enough to not believe BU_ _ SH _ _ twice from this farce of a president.

Roberts: Iraq Will Affect Future War Votes
Experience With Faulty Data Has Made Senators More Wary, Panel Chairman Says

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 14, 2005; A04

The Republican chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said yesterday that one lesson of the faulty prewar intelligence on Iraq is that senators would take a hard look at intelligence before voting to go to war.

I think a lot of us would really stop and think a moment before we would ever vote for war or to go and take military action, Sen. Pat Roberts (Kan.) said on Fox News Sunday.

We don't accept this intelligence at face value anymore, he added. We get into preemptive oversight and do digging in regards to our hard targets.

He said that agreement has been reached on the Phase 2 review that the intelligence panel is doing to look into whether the Bush administration exaggerated or misused prewar intelligence. The review may not be finished this year, he said.

The intelligence panel vice chairman, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), also appearing on Fox, called the review absolutely useful because if it is the fact that they [the Bush administration] created intelligence or shaped intelligence in order to bring American opinion along to support them in going to war, that's a really bad thing -- it should not ever be repeated.

Appearing on CNN's Late Edition, national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley said the White House is supporting the study, adding: I think that what you're going to find is that the statements by the administration had backing at the time from accepted intelligence sources.

He said that when administration statements turned out to be wrong, that was because the underlying intelligence was not true, but that's not the same as manipulating intelligence, and that is not misleading the American people.

Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), appearing with Roberts on Late Edition, said that Iraq became the center of terrorism after the March 2003 invasion.

I'm afraid we're going to see Iraq is not only the center of the war on terror, which it was not before we attacked Iraq, but now it is going to, I'm afraid, export it.

He added that Iraq has become the heartland of terrorism. It was not before we attacked.

Levin, a member of both the Senate intelligence committee and Armed Services Committee, has been a leading critic of the Bush administration's handling of the war.

Levin also said that the United States must get allies, as many as we can, including in the Muslim world because this is a form of fanatic Islam which has to be defeated by the moderate Islamic people.

In a column in yesterday's Washington Post, former senator John Edwards (N.C.), the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2004, said the failures of the Bush administration turned Iraq into a far greater threat than it ever was. It is now a haven for terrorists [and] has made fighting the global war on terrorist organizations more difficult rather than less.

The president and his senior aides have said since before the invasion that Washington went to war primarily because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was a threat to the United States and its neighbors because of his connection to terrorists. Once fighting began, they argued that Iraq was the central front in the battle against terrorism.

In his Veterans Day speech on Friday, the president turned his original argument around, saying, The terrorists regard Iraq as the central front in their war against humanity, and therefore, We must recognize Iraq as the central front in our war against the terrorists.

as far as foreign affairs go to restore credibility to the US...and that's what he's doing.  -- As opposed to the shrub method of trying to bully the world.  Get a grip and try to catch up with the rest of us.

We are all fooling ourselves if we thing otherwise.  It is literally picking the lesser of two evils.  The one thing that I can say is that at least McCain makes decisions.  He votes instead of just voting present like Obama and when Obama actually has voted yes or no.....he has consistently said one thing and voted the exact opposite.  I just do not think he has the experience or the ability to make executive decisions.  I do not trust his associations and I do not have the same values as he does.