"Ken Marino" wrote in message
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:37:53 -0800, Capt. JG wrote:

"Ken Marino" wrote in message
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President(elect) Obama, despite my aprehensions, has my full support. I
sincerely hope he makes all of us on the right forget all of the
shortcomings we feel he has to do the job. I will be among the first to
give a formal apollogy if he starts to do things that help get this
country started in the right (no pun intended) direction. My question
is why does he have to wait 3 months to start. It would be very easy
for him to say in one of the many interviews he is bound to give--"A,B
and C are a couple of ideas I have for getting us headed in the right
direction. After all, his followers and he all said he was the man to
lead us out of this mess. If that is so, he must have had at least a
few ideas of what he was going to do to help. Suggest them now. Dem's
have control of both houses, so there shouldn't be much resistence.
Even if plans are drawn up and Bush refuses to enact them, the details
and necessary legislative work could be done, only needing his
signature in January. Why wait till January 20th to start the ball
rolling? And if he publically talks about his ideas, he has no worry
that someone else might take the credit. Show us you meant it when you
said you were the man America needed to get out of this mess, Mr.
Obama. Start now building the confidence this country needs in you.
Things will only get worse if we wait.


Why do you think he has not done much of what you suggest? He has. You
need to watch something besides Fox once in a while. However, as he
said, there's only one Pres. at a time. So, he's got to be careful not
to get ahead of himself.

I think that there must be something wrong with me. I sit here and write
down that it seems a man that ran on a platform that stated he was better
prepared to help get the economy out of the mess it's in than his
opponent, is not allowed because of protocal to even suggest ways out of
the mess. And everyone says that even if he had the end-all solution that

Nothing wrong with you. In some respects it's true that presidents-elect
must wait. However, he has suggested and is working in the Senate still. You
might want to give him a couple of days to get some rest. He's been
campaigning for nearly two years. He'll do better with a short break.

would solve the problem tomorrow, it is wrong to suggest that solution and
let the people in this country know what is going on. Because it isn't
deemed politically correct. It's more correct to let the country go 10
weeks further down the drain. Then people talk about the fact he is
rushing through another stimulus package (first one didn't work). And he
wants to bail out the auto makers after critisizing the baiout of the rich
banks. We need new ideas. He said the existing ones didn't work and is
repeating them. What new ides are we going to see and when? If any. He is
our president (elect). I don't want toturn sour on him like happened with
Clinton and Bush.

Well, you just got done saying that he's not doing anything and now you
suggest that he's doing something wrong. Many people are talking about the
need for a middle-class stimulus package, and it seems like the ones who are
opposing it live in the White House. Lots of people including that
high-functioning moron in the WH think we should bail out the car companies.
I'm not sure we should or shouldn't, but I am convinced that the
middle-class needs help.

You're wrong about him saying the current one didn't work. It's too early to
tell, and no one knows yet. We've already seen some of his ideas throughout
the campaign. For most of them, he has to be president first, since he's not
yet president.

No one wants to turn sour on a president. Even though I thought Bush was a
huge mistake, I tried hard to give him the benefit of some time. Right after
9/11, I thought he might actually step up to the plate and do the right
thing (didn't know or care if I had known about the My Pet Goat sh*t). For a
while, I thought he did fine. Afganistan was the right place... and then it
all went to hell with Iraq. He did the opposite of what he was as
governer... he was a divider.

We all hope (or we all should hope) that Obama can do something... inspire
us all to be less partisan and more involved in the solutions we need.
Neither he nor any one individual can fix the deep problems we have.


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