Comments on: Get Over It: 10 Challenges President Elect Obama Faces Going Forward

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:34:37 +0000

#nancy →
If only government worked like that. The problems come in with the confiscatory nature of taxes and the imposition of one person’s will on another.

By: nancy (aka money coach)

nancy (aka money coach) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:32:35 +0000

Can I ask something that I’ve never quite understood, as a “left coast” Canadian? When I think ‘government’, esp ‘good government’, what comes to my mind is something like “working together as a society towards common good”. Civility. Acknowledgment of our interdependence and our need, again, to “work together” as a group.

But I often get the sense that in the States, “government” is a kinda dirty word. And it seems to be associated with a fear that civil rights will be impinged upon, whereas to me – maybe even ‘us’ in Canada – it’s associated with protecting civil rights (well, Albertans might not agree).

Am I off base here? Don’t mean to change the trajectory of the comments, just questions arising from some of what I read.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:12:47 +0000

#FFB→ Don't get me wrong, I agree that both parties are very different from how they started out. Democrats in particular aren't the same group they were when Kennedy was in office! I just don't agree with the statement that one party has a particular problem more than the other when it comes to divisive issues such as racism. Democrats have just as big a problem as Republicans on that issue and to try to pin it on one party is uninformed and inaccurate at best, intentionally deceiving at worst.

By: FFB

FFB — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:27:05 +0000

Obama has one year to make an impact. Right now Senate and the House are a democratic majority. He has a year to use this to his advantage. I voted for Obama because I do believe we need some sort of change. But interestingly I wonder whether he would have had the support he now has if say Gore were elected in 2000? Anyway I think many people hope that things change. Of course a big part of this is looking to ourselves to change. Hope only goes so far. As for taxes, it would be nice if mine weren’t raised but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did go higher. I think it will be tough for Obama, as it would be for McCain as well, to not raise taxes with all that is going on in the economy. Even if Federal taxes aren’t raised many will probably state and local taxes raised.

And your comments about Republicans freeing slave and such…Look both parties are very different from what they were when they started out. What really is a Democrat or Republican nowadays? It seems there are so many different factions within each party. There’s such a black and white view of each party but really they aren’t black and white; there’s a lot of gray in between.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:08:41 +0000

#Jenni→
Just a couple of things. First, Obama had MUCH less experience dealing with Congress than McCain and volumes less in bi-partisanship than McCain. Obama doesn’t need his father to help, he has all the Clinton cronies already there, ready to lend a hand. I still don’t understand the constant references to Bush…who wasn’t running.

As far as racism goes, it was the Republican Party that freed the slaves. It was Republicans that put a black man, then a black woman as secretary of state. Democrats stood in the schoolhouse door to prevent blacks from registering.

And you haven’t lost your Constitutional rights. If you’ll check, you’ll see that the Congress voted FOR the war and voted to fund it. Democrats and Republicans. You’ll also note that the “domestic spying” campaign decried by the media and Democrats was to listen in on known terrorists receiving calls from known sponsors of terrorism. Don’t you wish we had done that sooner, say September 10th?

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By: Jenni

Jenni — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:43:34 +0000

I voted for the guy, and being he has more experience being in and working with the congress, will be of a lot of help. Since he has the a little more experience than Bush did going in, and doesn’t have his father there to help with the in crowd there, who come from money. Covert and overt racism has always part of Americana, and especially in the Republican party. Although they would deny it, but their actions speak louder than words. A lot of the mainstream all grew up with the same stereotypes, and as much as they say they don’t believe them, their actions state otherwise. So you don’t get what you see with some, you watch what they do, and the way they say things, and see them for that, not the”we are all Americans” jargon, which we all hear all day long. And hats off to the young people to stand up for their rights and let their voices be heard!! Just hope and pray we can get our constitutional rights back, and our economy back up in action, and not lose our dollar’s value more with more bale outs. Either you voted or you didn’t, your a member of a party, or not, either way take responsibility for your actions, even no actions is a action. Now we have to make the best of what we got, and take Kennedy’s words to heart, of “not what our country can do for us, but what we can do for our country”.

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By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:48:16 +0000

#Carla→
No matter how you slice it, half of us didn’t want him. But like I’ve said in comments above he’s now the President and we have to support him as Americans.

Nothing I said was untrue. He is inexperienced. He does have a history of raising taxes. He does have hordes of followers that see him as the one who will save them from everything from hurricanes in the Gulf to mortgage foreclosure.

But in spite of all that. He IS the President Elect. And though I will disagree with him (and voice it – it’s my right and responsibility), I will support him as an American. We’re all in this together and we don’t have a choice!

By: Carla

Carla — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:32:19 +0000

David, you took the words right out of my mouth. Might funny how when Bush was elected in 2004, he didn’t face such harsh criticism about the way he handled the previous four years, now we’re putting Obama down before he’s even moved into his new home.