Radicals like Jessie Jackson wanting to remove his gonads don't matter. He has to make things happen.

He isn't even the president elect yet. The electoral college could still elect someone else and it hit him. What John McCain said about letting the Bush Tax cut (actually the Senate Tax cut, they wrote it) makes sense now. John doesn't sound so senile now. And BO has now gotten religion. They get mad when I use his middle name Hussein so I have shortened it to BO. Tax cuts are good, even the Bush Tax cut as he lied and called it. He is now going to let it expire on its own. Radicals take note. He backed out on one of his campaign promises. He wasn't worth the 600 million you paid to buy the election for him. Want to know what happened? An hour after he made the announcement the stock market was up 250 points. I can just see BO looking at his advisors. "McCain was right. What else was he right on? I can't tell George and Michael that we aren't going to do what we promised. They will not buy the election in 2012. God, Sara is out there. She may not be satisfied with me out of the White House. She will gut me. It will be worse than having Jessie Jackson here. He just wants to make two external incisions. Michelle thought it was a good idea. She doesn't want to be burdened with another baby."

And so it is in transition.

Barak Obama has been elected the 44th president of the United States. The campaigns to the Whitehouse were the best thing to watch on television. The current political scene with Obama appointing his cabinet and Whitehouse staff, the feeling of reconciliation expressed by all the pundits just doesn't cut it as entertainment. I miss the bloodletting, name calling and frequently stupid things done during the campaign.

True, conditions in the United States could not be worse. The stock market is down, unemployment is up, housing starts are down and foreclosures are up - and radical Muslims still want to destroy us, the big three automakers are on the verge of bankruptcy with congress reluctant to "bail them out". In other words, there is no new news.

What should have happened is that the day after the election the new president is sworn in and combines his policy making with cabinet appointments. GWB has been missing in action anyway, hidden away trying to rewrite the constitution through executive order.

So, this lack of news has forced the recycling of news. Why else would Sarah Palin make the news each night?Why are the republicans still talking about her affect on the election?

The republicans and the democrats are fighting about the automaker bailout. Paulsen has said that he is leaving about $350 billion bail out dollars to the next administration since he doesn't know what to with it. No new news here, partisan politics as usual.

In actuality, the American people have to hold on to their hope a little longer - till January 20th. With Obama's talent and intellect, there might be some new news. Maybe.

Or, not because of ineptitude, but because of complexity, the American way of life continues to decline? Are we setting Obama up to fail? Are the hopes of the American people beyond reach? Or, is Obama right. With a unified country, a willingness to make things work, this broken country will heal. My bet is that with faith in our leadership, we can do anything. Recovery is around the corner. But we must keep our expectations reasonable.

Reports of Sara Palin's 11 million dollar book deal should be donated to the Republican Party for the irreparable damage caused to the GOP ticket. That said, should we think women are intelligent enough to know that Governor Sara Palin appears to be the same woman? It appears she has been selected as pawn. One who has now sacrificed her family and reputation by the John McCain.

She appears to be the cheap line that a shallow guy uses in an attempt to get her phone number. In this case, it was to assist in obtaining presidency of the United States. Her mere presence, although refreshing, was no more wanted by the GOP for anything other than an attempt to give Washington back to the good old boys that she has fought in the past.

Her 11 million dollar book deal has caused her to lose focus of the purpose of her selection to begin with. Prior to the election she had the one of the highest approval ratings in the Country. She failed miserably by not paying tribute to Hillary Clinton or Geraldine Ferraro, as Gulliani did during her acceptance speech during the Republican Convention.

We should step back and take a look at this picture. Can anyone realistically have imagined Senator John McCain taking the advice from her on National Security or any number of complex financial policies that we face? We all can assume that would be the equivalent of telling our Parents how to drive. We can also assume, based on Senator McCain's well known temperament issues, he will most likely respond to her by saying “I've been doing this since before you were born”.

    There are three good reasons I like Barack Obama;

1. He's a genuine guy, who I would trust my kids (if I had any) with.
2. He gives off this aura of confidence and respect.
3. He didn't really openly attack anyone (with words, of course)
   

    If this little article can't change your mind about Mr. Obama, then maybe the next four years will. Heres to a beautiful four years under the Obama Administration! Hip-hip-hooray! Hip-hip-hooray!

As the primaries, then the general election fights wore on and became progessively (regressively?) negative, I began to get heartily sick of the entire process. When Obama secured the Democratic nomination, I realized he was the best choice for our embattled nation to move forward with. Our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the financial meltdown/recession and other issues have sent our country reeling. I listened to speeches, debates and positions being staked out at rallies. I heard people all over our country buying into the lies about Obama--"he's really Muslim, not Christian", "he associates with known terrorists", "he's not part of the 'real' America".

I'm sorry, but what did I just hear?? The man speaks to the experiences and issues I have faced for the past eight years! Okay, so he was born of an American woman from our heartland and an African man from Kenya. Our country is filled with descendants of immigrants from Germany, China, Ireland, Poland, Japan, France, you name it. When the "other campaign" was digging into the mud, pulling up worm scum and flinging it at Obama, I was ashamed to be associated with the "real" America. Obama lived through poverty after his father left. His mother took the time and trouble to educate and point him in the direction of becoming a curious, inquisitive citizen of this country. So did his "toot".

I had a job as a professional, a social worker; after suffering from burn out I lost that position, as well as another I accepted immediately afterward. I decided to work from home as a fund raising director. This was immediately after 9/11, when our financial markets turned downward after the attacks in New York and D.C. Our economy took a hit then, which means employment prospects for professionals like me were slim and getting slimmer. I eventually found work as a research associate (calling survey respondents from a CATI system and recording their responses to my questions). I did this work for 18 months. Sorta' paid my bills. I became an Activity Director for one of the retirement communities in my home town. Sold cars. Returned to school and earned my bachelor degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. Sold insurance. Now I'm a tutor. A writer. For the past eight years, I have routinely held at least two jobs simultaneously while raising two boys.

Now the economy is back in the toilet, figuratively speaking. I have two degrees under my belt and it's taken me nearly two years to find my current position!

Our current administration actively promoted deregulation and allowed financial companies, mortgage giants and banks to mix home loans and securities into one very unattractive stew. Potentially millions of families could lose the family homestead; jobs are vanishing as if magicked away by Harry Potter's wand; the retail sector is reeling; the auto industry is teetering on a sharp precipice; and McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are "sound". My income is minimal, just about enough to pay my monthly bills, but "not quite". Thus, three jobs while I finish raising my 18-year old.

We are caught in two wars, one necessary and the other a folly. (Think Seward's Folly and nickname the "non-war" in Iraq as "Bush's Folly".) Over 4,000 of our best, brightest and most productive young men and women have perished because of the lies of the Bush/Cheney/Rove administration. My oldest, when he graduates from New Mexico State University in May 2009, will very likely follow his fellow service men and women into active service. Scared? After reading the latest on the unrest in Iraq in today's New York Times, you betcha! His kid brother wants to follow in his footsteps. I only hope that the folly imposed on us in Iraq will be winding down by the time my oldest finishes his officer's training. Don't get me wrong -- I applaud anyone who wants to serve their country in our military. It's a choice filled with sacrifice and honor. I'm a former military wife. Lived in Germany back in the 80's. What sticks in my gullet is knowing that a young man who spent seven years of his life earning a degree in Mechanical Engineering, with a supplemental math major, could have all that blasted away by an IED.

That's why I am so excited by Barack Obama's election to the presidency. I watched his press conference last Friday. His responses to all questions were thoughtful and respectful. His campaign ads (the ones where he spelled out his plans for our economy and health care) were equally well thought-out and expressed. No negativity toward the Republican ticket. When he was attacked and smeared with the Ayers paintbrush, he didn't respond in kind. After he remarked on making contact with living presidents and he made his remark about seances, he called Nancy Reagan immediately after his press conference and apologized for offending her. He thinks about his childrens' needs and health as in finding a dog with low allergy-inducing potential because Malia has asthma. He is sensitive to the nuances of being a President-Elect and trying not to step on the toes of the current President (whatever he, or we, may think of Mr. Bush). He knows he has to act quickly to make choices which could turn our financial mess around.

So, yes, I'm excited. I voted early and I voted for Obama. My son's vote canceled my vote out. Mine canceled his out. Whether red state or blue state, our entire country is facing a sea change, and I can't wait to see what's going to happen!

During all of the presidential campaigning, I could not figure out just where my family fit in.  We take care of our own responsibilities.  We do not want a handout from the government.  I can not understand why we would want a president who wants to find more ways for the government to bare the financial responsibility of its people.  What exactly are my duties to my fellow countrymen?   Who am I?  Since I have been old enough to understand the political verbiage that is proclaimed throughout past and present elections, all I can divulge is that the Republicans generally help the wealthy stay wealthy, and the Democrats seek to keep the public dependent, in essence, they keep the poor, poor. Just who am I?  I am not wealthy, and since I pay my bills myself, I am not poor, but who am I? 

Are we the only working family in America that does not mind paying for our own health benefits?  Are we the only ones who think handouts are destroying the workforce and character of the working class?  Is it wrong of me to think you, too, should bare you own load and not that of those who do not.  I see it on a weekly basis, people who quit good, stable jobs only to file for welfare and food stamps.  I have stood in line at the grocery store behind individuals with buggies full of groceries, diapers and alcoholic beverages, only to pay with their EBT (food stamps) card.  It is strange how they can afford the alcohol, but the government is buying the groceries, but who am I?  Is it wrong to think that a person’s children are not the state’s responsibility? 

Who am I?  I like paved roads and protection from crime.  I pay my taxes because it is my duty.  I do not mind paying the weekly insurance premiums in order to keep our family’s health looked after.  But who am I?  I am a thirty year old, married, working mother.  I do not have any problems with the health care coverage our family pays for.  My husband and I both work full time.  We pay our taxes and our bills. We have a combined income of less than $80,000 per year.  We do not receive or ask for governmental assistance.  We are not looking for extraordinary ways to get out of our debt.  We own two vehicles that are both ten years old.  We live in a small house in a very small town in South Georgia.  We are both slowly educating ourselves to give us other opportunities of employment, should we have the need or desire for such.  We are not defeated nor are we hardly disheartened by the stock market tumble.  We live our lives the way we can afford to.  Who am I?   I’ll tell you, I am not a Democrat.  I am not a Republican.  I am not a Libertarian.  I am not Joe the plumber.  I am not an idealist.  I am an American, doing what I was taught Americans do:   love their GOD, love their country, treat people well and take responsibility for themselves.  Though I know who I am, throughout all of the campaigning, I could not figure out where I belonged, and it just has me wondering, in the eyes of our President-elect, who am I?

President-Elect Obama won this election for two main reasons: The economic crisis that fell at a most inopportune time for republicans (though Democrats had a hand in causing the crisis), and because September 11th caused republican leaders to succumb to corruption while the eyes of a distracted president were turned overseas. The far left agenda is not one that rings to the ears of Americans as it does to other, mostly European nations. And why should it? Our country has become great, not on those principles, but on (though most liberal democrats won't admit) substantially more conservative values and principles. The Obama campaign was well run, however, and their monetary budget allowed them substantial gains in the election. The American people did not vote in this election over values and issues. They voted to get the republicans out of leadership, because the republicans did not do a good job of explaining to the public what was actually going on. The media did not help either, as it continues to polarize itself on either one side of the party line or the other.

The republicans did not help themselves either. They got away from their roots and their values and nominated a candidate who holds "watered down" conservative principles. If the republicans want to rebound from these losses, they are going to have to get back to their conservative values and principles and get away from the "rotund belly" corruptions.
In one of his opinion articles, Dick Morris made the observation that the new leaders of America are held without much wiggle room to push their agenda by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by the economic crisis in America, leaving them without much practical space to use their power. In this writer's humble opinion, when has anyone known the far left to be practical? They have waited too long for this chance to worry about details like wars and crises. They will push their agenda, and we will have to wait and see how the American people respond to it.

On one more note, the treatment of Governor Sarah Palin has been atrocious. The poor woman has been subject to aggressive negative actions by both parties and the media, and is now being blamed for Senator McCain's election loss. When will it end? Is she subject to this abuse for the rest of her career? While the country has taken a metaphorical step forward with the election of an African-American president, it has taken that step right back in its treatment of a woman.

Obama was born to a white mother and a Kenyan father, making him an African American, mixed race. The rights movement is a big part of Obama's legacy, as he is the first black president this drew many issues of racism into the presidential contest. Yet Barrack Obama never really referred to the rights movement. It was obvious that there was some aspect of prejudice against him with many links to "Osama Bin Laden" being attributed towards him. His main rival, John McCain, also tried to associate socialism with him as well. Barrack Obama's bid has gone from low to high, with skeptics saying that America wasn't ready for a black president, yet his popularity rose and rose.

The new president means new policies and a new direction for the country and so the world. He will have a new team influencing his decisions on the current finical crisis to what role America is going to play in cutting greenhouse gasses. There will be new laws and new benefits for Americans yet he is also most likely to remove some of the things that have served American society for a long time.

It is impossible to say how Obama is going to respond to the new job and in which direction he takes America. It is also impossible to tell whether it will be from the better or worse for any person, yet American citizens have chosen their next president and are going to have to live with that for another four years. As the new president elect gets ready for his inauguration a few issues will definitely be on Barack Obama's mind, including the very fist decision he needs to make... what will the design of the carpet in the Oval office will be like.

America has gone away from its original foundation. Whatever happened the Christian based country that we have strayed so far from? America needs to change. When our founding fathers decided to break away from England, they wanted a religious based country. As Americans today, we have gone so far away from this, we can't even see it in our daily lives anymore. Our government is corrupt.

Our lives are filled with sin. Our people are blind to this matter. The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are not just some old documents that we have turned away from. They and God are the building blocks of our country. They shouldn't be ingnored and pushed out of our daily lives. They should be what America stands for and our pride and joy. The government is turning away from all of the foundations that our fore fathers fought and gave their lives for to preserve.

We shouldn't waste their lives by ignoring their great efforts for our freedom. Our freedom is a gift from God and should be used for his glory. It shouldn't be used as an excuse to sin and turn away from reality. Immigrants are coming to our country because they respect us. We should give them something to respect! We are a world power. We can be an even greater power if we re-ally ourselves with God. The great country was built on Christianity and it should stay built on Christianity.

Wake Up America!

I am proud to say that in my life time people have finally been able to look past the color of someones skin and see the real person that they are. I am proud to be part of this! America has spoken! We have chosen who we believe is the best person for presidency. We now know that in America all things are possible.                    "We welcome you Mr. Barack Obama"!

Barack Obama is a strong, proud man. He is also a good man. He is not afraid to show his vulnerable side by shedding a few tears to show his love for his gram for all the world to see. This proves that he is a caring, considerate, loving human being. He shed the tear for his wonderful gram and still was able to go on, stay strong and win the presidency after she had passed away.  Many men have a hard time showing their feelings, it is wonderful to know that Obama isn't afraid to show his true feelings to all the world. I hope that he continues to be open to the public and take the time to explain to the United States people what he is doing. This is a historic and wonderful victory!

"Let's tare down these walls of racism"! Let's move on to a new United States of America. Let's start looking past the color of peoples skin and make this world a better place for all.

I have so much built up energy as I write this, I can already feel the wonderful changes that are ahead for the United States of America. Martin Luther King would be proud to be a part of this history happening today. We all should be proud!

To the republicans that are sad today please put on a smile and lets move on "together" as a whole. Together we can change the world! We can make a difference!

President elect Barack Obama is our forty-fourth president of the United States, he was able to appeal to all age of voters. Many young people voted for the first time. Obama is a pioneer, a historian and now our President. This proves that you can be who ever you want to be.

Welcome president Obama!