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View Poll Results: Do you agree that Obama is the President of the US? | |||
Yes! Obama Is the guy! | 18 | 66.67% | |
No! I'd rather see McCain as President. | 3 | 11.11% | |
What? Who? I don't care.. | 6 | 22.22% | |
Voters: 27. You may not vote on this poll |
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05-11-2008, 02:15 PM | #1 | ||
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I'm quietly confident about the future.
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05-11-2008, 04:08 PM | #2 | ||
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Location: Calgary, Canada
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Obama might make a popular leader of the EU (given how europeans answered polls). As the US president, he leaves much to be desired.
He cannot even keep half of his promises. He was swept into power as a secular messianic figure, but as president, he will be revealed as merely human. Except for refusing to burden abortionists with caring for infants that survive abortion, he has made no principled stand as a legislator, and has often merely voted 'present', during roll call votes. Before being elected president, his two greatest accomplishments were two autobiographies-- as a legislator, he has done barely anything. For his social programs, he would need to borrow vast billions of dollars, as the president of a country that owes over 9 trillion dollars, in federal debt, or increase taxes to crushing levels (and we all know how well that worked for the postwar United Kingdom). Once Obama grasps the full horror of the credit crisis, he will probably wish that he lost. Every president since Carter has been trying to postpone the economic meltdown of the US due to the gross imbalance of trade, and the exploding federal debt past the next election. With the burst bubble of the US real estate market and the credit crunch making it difficult for anyone to borrow money, the US federal government has to sell (not counting Wallstreet bailout packages) a trillion dollars of debt instruments that only have a yield of 1.5%. As voters are, as a group, hampered by short memories, if the financial disaster finally comes to a head while the democrats control the presidency and both houses of congress, the democrats will bear the full blame (they will have no cause for complaint, as those same voters allowed the democrats to blame Bush for the housing bubble, caused by Clinton and democratic politicians). Obama has promised to tax the rich to help the poor. He will either do nothing, or people who thought that they were poor will discover that they are not only not poor enough to receive help, but rich enough to pay more taxes. I ticked the box for McCain, as there was no box for 'Not Obama' |
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05-11-2008, 06:03 PM | #3 | ||
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Spokane, United States
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He is a symbol of peoples rights. The downtrodden,the weak. We needed some color in the white house for some time. Enough of these dumb, inbred hillbillies in the office for 200 yrs. If I have insulted someone I apologize but will not retract my statement. I am white and I DO NOT support HATE! I hope that he stays for a long time. God bless him and GOD BLESS AMERICA.
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05-11-2008, 08:53 PM | #4 | ||
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President don't mean shit (take Civics class you idiots) and Obama ain't got shit on Nelson Mandela.
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05-11-2008, 09:55 PM | #5 | ||
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Saint Catharines, Canada
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Kennedy meant hope for a lot of people. Probably more than Obama. Before long, the number of US troops in Vietnam went from 800 to over 6000. Then he got shot. Let us pray history does not repeat.
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06-11-2008, 07:38 AM | #6 | ||
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That being said, it was pivotal for his being remembered as one of the best presidents, ever. The efficacy of the secret service has increased a great deal since then, so it would be difficult for a would-be assasin to get such a great shot at Obama (not that anyone is safe, just that he won't be in a slow moving convertible passing buildings with openable windows). Therefore, Obama will likely be judged not for what he might have accomplished, but for what he actually does. As first black presidents go, I think Colin Powell would have clinched it in 2000, running as a republican. He would have been a much better president than GW Bush, but, for reasons of his own, Colin Powell did not want the job (I seem to recall there was an attempt by the republicans to court him as their candidate). |
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06-11-2008, 08:23 AM | #7 | ||
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