THOUGHTS ON OBAMA’S INAUGURATION, BUSH AND AMERICA
Saviour. Redeemer. Our Salvation.
These are all words I have heard used in the last 24 hours to describe, not Jesus Christ, but Barak Obama. I wish I were exagerating, but I’m not. In fact, if you watch MSNBC long enough you would come away with the feeling that Obama is some kind of messiah.
Actually, he is just our President. He is just a politician. Skilled, but inexperienced. And he is our President.
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh the other day and felt a little put off by the way he seemed to dismiss the historic implications of Obama’s election. This is a great moment for America. All of America. That must be acknowledged, regardless of how you feel about Obama’s politics. We’ll have plenty of time to judge his policies and how he handles the awesome responsiblities he now faces, but for now we should take a few moments to pause and reflect on what this moment means to all Americans and especially black Americans.
George W. Bush is a class act. History will no doubt judge him favorably and there will certainly be some blemishes on his record, but the man is upright. I’ve been reading about the transition process lately and how it makes the Clinton’s leaving office look like a bunch of frat boys trashing their house because the dean kicked ‘em off campus. Bush not only demanded cooperation, he initiated certain aspects of it. He’s is first rate in my book.
The Other Side Says: January 20th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
people on this site don’t put too much emphasis on spelling or grammar, and normally it is a moot point. but to misspell baraCk obama’s name is disrespectful and lazy. it will be interesting to see the tenor of this site as obama’s first term gets underway.
to those who may criticize obama, it is not obama who is raising the expectations. also, these are trying times that needs pragmatism and patience. i hope that people will give obama time to implement his programs before speaking ill.
Floyd Abrams Says: January 24th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
an alternative way of looking at all of this can be found here.
http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/speakingoffaith/20090122_buddhaintheworld.mp3
Thought-provoking, at the very least.
Rick Badman Says: January 24th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
The Obama administration is off to a fast start like a tornado tearing through Kansas with even more potential for destruction. But we shouldn’t think that everything he is doing is detrimental. It could be used to our advantage and could help destroy the man.
Take the closing of Gitmo. On the surface it looks bad. But when you consider what could happen, it could blow up in Obama’s face and that of liberals. If the prisoners are placed in federal prisons among the general population, there may be skinhead and angry inmates that will view them as enemies that must be killed. They will inflict prison justice on them and do what our soldiers weren’t allowed to do; kill the enemy even if the enemy is disarmed.
The prisoners won’t have all the individual treatment they have been given at Gitmo. There may be some prisons that will force them to eat what everyone else eats even though it may be forbidden to Muslims. And forget about the care they have been given at Gitmo. They might be lucky to survive. After a few deaths in prisons at the hands of Americans that think they are serving their country by exterminating our enemies, watch for the Muslim countries to scream about “Obama the Butcher.” They will blame him for sending them to die at the hands of infidels.
Then there is the “stimulus” package. If it becomes a bottomless pit of spending and unemployment exceeds 10%, watch for people to complain. If the Democrats are foolish enough to call for another “stimulus” package, (that’s like asking will the sun come up in the morning) we may be in for a plunge that will clean house of Democrats and Republicans that support Obama’s misguided plans and programs. By 2011 we may have more Republicans in the House and Senate than we have Democrats there today. If Hillarycare is promoted and Republicans take control, think how throwing away a couple trillion dollars will affect the Congress.
The other day a friend of mine said she thought Obama would be our greatest president. America wanted change and is getting it. I reminded her that Germany wanted change and got Hitler. Russia wanted change and got Lenin and Stalin.
The mainstream media pushed Obama and got him into the White House. If he fails, they will look like fools. That could be why they want to silence conservative talk radio before the Obamanation becomes an abomination. If talk radio is eliminated at a voice of opposition, the liberals will have more freedom to spew their garbage and possibly misshape history into “fictionstory.” What happened in the past never happened and what is happening now is not actually happening unless the “right people” can interpret it for you. If you think things are bad, you are wrong. Bad is good and if the future looks bad, that means there will be more opportunities for “good” to happen. And of course they are the only ones qualified to bring good things about.
If Biden is right and we are tested in the near future, watch for the public to turn on Obama if things fall apart. And if he ends our use of coal and energy prices spike plus we have national blackouts, we have the potential of experiencing a second civil war. But according to fictionstory experts, it will be a great time of potential victory for Obama and liberals.
The Other Side Says: January 26th, 2009 at 5:22 am
republicans are pathetic. democrats won more seats in the house and senate and the presidency. get over it conservatives, your policies were thoroughly rejectd by the american people. it hasn’t even been a week into obamas’s first term and republicans are already obstructing a mandate for progressive ideas.
you don’t have to agree with obama but you at least have to allow him time to change america. republicans damaged america and obama has to fix it. to have them turn around and criticize everything obama does is petty and pathetic. rush limbaugh said that he wants america to fail under obama. if he’s the voice of conservatives they don’t deserve to be in power for a long time.
The Other Side Says: January 27th, 2009 at 3:13 am
not to belabor the point, but democrats won the election based on their ideas to save america. so why would republicans dare to complain that they’re not getting enough of what they want?
THEY WANT OBAMA TO FAIL. if obama’s plans don’t work, republicans will pounce and blame obama. if america gets attacked because of bush’s failure with the war on terror, republicans will blame obama.
its all about trying to retain their power. but a party without any ideas is doomed to be in the minority.
Alford Morgan Says: January 28th, 2009 at 12:01 am
I am against Jimmy Jefferson Obama’s agenda. Obama is nothing more than a Chicago polical thug with a coat of furniture polish. Worry not, libs are their own worst enemy, cases in point, Pelosi (get your condoms here), Reid (we stink), Illinois Gov Bragobitch (I did nothing wrong), to just name a few. Sorry libs, President Obama has conned you guys out of your panty hose. Mmmmm if I don’t pay my taxes is that just a hiccup or Liberal cranial flatulence.
Jenn of the Jungle Says: January 28th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
“THEY WANT OBAMA TO FAIL.” -Moonbat commenter
Yes, I do. I 100% want Barry to fail. For Barry to fail that would mean less wasteful government spending on social programs and the like. Less Government. No “fairness doctrine”. Yes, Oh yes I want him to fail.
“republicans are pathetic. democrats won more seats in the house and senate and the presidency. get over it conservatives, your policies were thoroughly rejectd by the american people.”
Interesting. You are right of course that they won more seats and that Republicanism has been rejected by the pathetic excuse for Americans that are the left in this country. It doesn’t make Republicans pathetic it makes LIBERALS pathetic.
Need an example? Take California. I live here. This state is over run by tax and spend libtards. That’s all people elect in this state. We’ve got our sanctuary cities that are causing schools and hospitals to be shut down. We’ve got out myriad of social welfare programs. Why just tthe other day in the paper they were actually bitching that more people didn’t sign up for food stamps.
We are more in debt than we ever have been due to the spending and plans wrought by the flaming leftist majority of our state lawmakers.
YET, the idiot liberals in California KEEP voting for more of the same. And Obama is the king of more of the same when it comes to the failings of what is now Libtard policy.
I weep for our future.
Kaiser Says: January 28th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
The Other Side, please. Do not treat the Republican Party like the devil incarnate. You must know as well as we do that the Democratic Party is just as liable to screw up America as the GOP. Regarding “its all about trying to retain their power”, mof course it is. That’s the objective of both parties, of all parties and political organizations. It is really annoying when you continue to demonize the opposing side.
As to your other comments, of course we secretly want Obama to fail. Then we can say “I told you so” to all his snotty, in-your-face supporters. The other part of us wants him to do well; after all he is the president and we certainly don’t want our country to continue on the downward spiral.
I have to say though, I think all the voters who look to Obama as a savior are going to be severely disappointed. I think they are placing way too much on his shoulders. The taller the ladder, the harder the fall after all.
The Other Side Says: January 30th, 2009 at 1:26 am
jenn, what party is the governor of california?
to kaiser, of course both parties can screw up america. but when one party so thoroughly ruins our country, its the other party’s turn to use their ideas to fix america, or at least the end of the other party’s turn. one party shouldn’t get rewarded for failure. thats what happened in the last election. america voted to see progressive ideas and how they work to change america. and when obama wants to implement those ideas, republicans stand in the way. obama is actually reaching out to republicans who aren’t need to pass anything. he took out the “contraceptives” portion of the bill and added tax cuts to appease republicans. he talks with the minority leadership to try and get things done and what is he left with: a watered down bill and no republicans voting for it.
the problem i have is that republicans whine when the stimulus bill has liberal ideas. when conservative ideas are added, they want more. they expect to get their way even though they’re the minority. when one set of ideas, tax cuts, don’t work, its logical to try new ones.
obama isn’t going to save america, he’s going to prevent it from getting worse along with setting a course for future success. what do republican want and expect to happen when they so thoroughly lose an election?