Posted By: fencerider rob on Friday, November 14, 2008
Your comparison of BHO to FDR should put us citizens on edge. FDR single-handedly prolonged the depression for at least 7 yrs, heaven help us if that is the direction 'the one' takes us in. And to have the audacity to compare him to the emancipator is flat out ludicris. He will figuratively do exactly the opposite, enslave us all to big government. I cannot fathom how you (AH) ever managed to make it so far in journalism, well maybe after seeing the electorate speak on Nov 4th I can see how you got to where you are. One word, 'sheeple'.
Posted By: Michael Peter on Saturday, November 15, 2008
Projection. That has been the lesson for me. The way we see our opponents tells us much more about ourselves and our own inner conflict.I have witnessed this in my own intense reactions to one candidate or another. How many of us really are capable of moving beyond our unconscious projections to hear and see the candidates as they are? I suspect not many. But, despite it all, we might have gotten it right: President Elect Obama does appear capable of moving beyond projections considering the best qualified for his cabinet rather than his loyal friends; seeking reconciliation with Sen. Lieberman instead of pay backs; meeting with Sen. McCain to discuss common ground for solving our nations' crises; inspiring hope for change and challenging us to be the change we hope for.
Posted By: Andrea F. on Saturday, November 15, 2008
I look forward to January 20, 2009 for our Nation. President Obama does not enter the Oval Office with a sense of entitlement but with a sense of purpose. I think that is what we as a people are most hungry for. Mr. Obama lifts the spirit of a nation bogged down isolation and exclusion from the rest of the world. His intelligent and clarity of speech includes everyone in the conversation. I think more than him owing the voters, we as individuals owe something to one another and to ourselves. We are a part of putting America back on track. That is truly the opportunity for each one of us. Instead of asking Mr. President what are you going to do for me today because I voted for you, we can ask ourselves what one thing can I do today to make our country better...whether it's making sure our kids turn off the TV and do all their homework or turning off the lights to save electricity, or checking the pressure in our tires, or not buying what we can't afford...there is something each of us can do because all the "little somethings" really do add up to change.
Posted By: History Chaser on Saturday, November 15, 2008
Barack Obama does't even know the historical facts. Lincoln cared very little for black people. He wanted to send them all back to Africa.Had he not been assassinated Lincoln would not be the icon of racial advancement. Did it ever occur to you that Obama acts the way he does because he doesn't really care? You have projected everything you want him to be on to him.
Posted By: forget the past on Saturday, November 15, 2008
History Chaser lives in the past, if Lincoln had not been assasinated, what if Washington had become King, Japan not attacked PH, on and on. The reality is Lincoln did change his mind and come to see the absurdity of slavery and the need to move past it. The ideas of the times were many but they are relegated to the dust bins of history.We, as a nation, have a moment to look to the future and be what we aspire to versus what we cling to, lets take it. Will it be easy, simple or quick, no but it is another step in collective journey.PS - I'm a white, southerner who grew up not far from Shiloh, so the past is deep within my soul but the future is what I have chosen it to become.
Posted By: Buddy on Saturday, November 15, 2008
Forget the past: Absolutely RIGHT my friend.I am a 68 (69 in exactly one Month) year old Southern BLACK Man and irrespective of what ANYONE wants to make of President Lincoln,the FACT is He signed the Emancipation Proclamation and that's "ALL" that matters.Other than this,God says clinging to the past----is "SINFUL".There comes a time to MOVE ON.We certainly can LEARN from, and BUILD on, the past but we CANNOT live in the PAST.Let it GO History Maker.You have been reading Lerone Bennett to MUCH.Its far past time that EVERYONE left the past BEHIND.
Arianna Huffington,You are a pretty thing baby.A Show stopper :)
Posted By: John Handforth on Monday, November 17, 2008
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-2433http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/aug/03/reject-obamas-senate-bill-s2433/I don't see this as a double play as much as I see it as a DOUBLE CROSS.Please read about Senate Bill 2433, because it may just come before Congress again at the behest of our next President.Where will the money come from? Even if we surrender in the Middle East, if a Bill like 2433 is enacted , you can forget about health care and start worrying about poverty growth in America.In reference to Lincoln, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation after warning the South that he would do so if they did not cease hostilities. He fully expected the slaves to rise up against the South after he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. As we all know, it didn't happen because the slaves had no organization, no weapons and in most cases no heart to do so. The slaves had been conditioned since birth to accept the status quo. It wasn't their fault. It was just the only thing that most of them knew. Those that could even read and write were in the minority.I have heard it mentioned, but have not seen anything definitive in print, that Lincoln might have been willing to provide transportation to Liberia for any slaves, after the war, that might have wanted to leave the United States. The slaves freed after the Civil War did not get that opportunity, and many of them were no better off after they were freed. The system quickly deserted them and left them in the hands of the "carpetbaggers."Comparing President-elect Obama to FDR is not really complimentary, either. FDR delayed the Nation's recovery between the time that he was first elected until we entered World War Two. The fact that so many businesses have already announced store closures before the end of the year does not bode well for the economy. The rats are deserting the sinking ship because their managers see little hope in the immediate future.I loved John McCain's concession speech and President-elect Obama's victory speeche. I had a lot more faith then, than I do now. The United Auto Workers raised $80,000,000 for President Obama's campaign. I caught part of a newscast today saying that Obama is expecting the union to take wage and pension cuts. That's not what they wanted, or expected to hear. I agree that they must do something to get competitive with Toyota, which makes good cars, here in America, much more efficiently.For the sake of our Country, I wish that I was wrong, but I expect to see a lot of campaign promises broken. The "Hope" and "Change" may just have been rhetoric.
Posted By: wahoobob on Tuesday, November 18, 2008
President Bush's and his party's downfall was inevitable.The rotting roots of failure were first put down when Dubya's puppetmaster Neocon buddies lied their way into the war in Iraq. The crop failure was assured after the first torture chamber following extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects, followed by a stream of bungled attempts at leadership, Excutive branch power grabs, felonious GOPers perp-walked to jail, hurricane victims drowning by the score while Air Force One flew blithely overhead... my God, the list of incompetence and failure goes on and on. I can't list them all.And all the while, the Neocons were smugly predicting a "permanent Republican majority" in American politics. Yeah, and the Nazis promised a "Thousand-Year Reich". Some call it hubris.Hubris is a classical Greek tragedy term describing the excessive pride and ambition that usually leads to the downfall of a hero.My dad, an earthy, modestly educated man, had a simpler, more pungent term. "Look at him," he'd say about some local fathead braggart, "He thinks his (feces is non-malodorous)." (You fill in the actual, earthier words). You could almost smell the stink when he pronounced his disdain.With Dubya's tragic (in the Greek sense) plummet into history's presidential dustbin, we can finally detect the stench dissipating, replaced by the sweet smell of competence and hope.
