George's Bottom Line

So where's the CHANGE????

All these people are politicians who are Washington insiders. No surprise--we know he owes favors to everybody.

He could have at least picked some brilliant economist out of the Wharton School or some other institution who would focus on the economy and not his political possibilities. We need fresh people, not these worn-out, used-up, did-nothing-so-far people.

I knew his CHANGE was a big lie to get elected. Four more years of the same old shiX.

And what are you going to be in the Obama administration, Georgie?

You kissed his butt more than anybody so I felt sure you'd get a Cabinet position.

"I knew his CHANGE was a big lie to get elected. Four more years of the same old shiX".

What a crock of B.S. Change also means not kissing the NeoCons and big business Arses. Let a man get to work Jan 20th. God knows we have had 8 years of a Mama's baby boy who has screwed the pooch while the blithering idiot NeoCons drooled and smiled.

I am trying to wait to see what his change will be. When he said change I thought he would bring in all new people not the past clinton admin. I will still wait and reserve judgement.. but he needs to make some changes quick.

It's SO nice to have Jimmay Carter back in the White House. I mean NOBODY has done more to help improve the countries standing overseas and financially than than helplees little man Jimmy Carter (er. Barack Obama) Folks do a little research into what the 70's was like, compare that to today and what Obama is proposing. Tell me with a straight face and without laughing that isn't the case after a long examination. If you are intellectually honest with yourself, if now one else, you will see the folly of what is to come over the next four years. Bush was brought in to create this mess, Obama was put in to finish us off! Isn't it nice how bipartisan our politicians can be when they benefit off of the backs of our labor. Just think what could happen if WE had controll over our money and NOT Washington DC!!!

You're absolutely right, George. Those who can't see how the value of experience complements the apparent change of a leader with fresh ideas are naive and/or foolish.

Who the heck would want a learning curve right now - when this country is a mess? We need smart, experienced people. Not ivy tower blowhards, but people who know how to get things done. I'd have little patience for people fumbling around and making mistakes. Give me wisdom and intellect so we can focus on the solutions.

Obama brings change because of his ideas - which are vastly different from the irresponsible and unreasonable (not to mention short sighted) deregulation of Phil Gramm and company - there's your change, people.

Firstly, 9 out of 10 of the idiots posting criticisms about the perceived lack of "Change" never supported Obama in the first place...so all of those who are currently posturing as if they were somehow betrayed by false promises during the campaign can...how should I say...suck it, basically. Change is about improvement, not wholesale reversals. Keep what works, change what doesn't...it's so simple even a child can grasp it easily. And yet there's a parade of bitter detractors (losers) that will persist with these moronic charges. Maybe change is about competence and sound judgement. Maybe change is about ideology. Best yet, maybe change is, and should be, about results, and it's too early to pass judgement on that yet. But even if that change, the real, important change, comes, some jackass will still be complaining that Obama still puts his pants on one leg at a time just like everyone else and how can that be change? Maybe if Obama filled his cabinet with complete unknowns (no experience or demonstrated competence required), and then have everyone walk on their hands...

NMSands

If you can't see the change...you need new glasses.

It is like saying... a coach actually is taking most of the same team and actually running new plays and better positioning... and players from other teams...

and saying "where's the change?"

if you do not see the change...then I am glad you are not the one picking the coaching staff.

Good morning to you mr george, I watch your program every sunday mornning, I like it because you tell's it like it is,Now I hare about Balling the banks out? well who is going to ball we elder older peoples out? when the overdraft charges as high as they are,do you know that if we be overdrafted for the amount of Just $1.00. we be charged the sum of $35.00? Plus a $8.00 a day until our next check come on the 3rd of each month? I have a friend of mine whole check was taken one month for a overdraft of $5.00, because he could not pay it off before the next check day which was on the 3rd of each month,Now if the banks is all that broke, well where is all of that money going?
Thank you
Joseph Rosenthal
Josephrosental@sbcglobal.net

Yes yes.Obama seems to be making WISE decisions picking these heavyweights and EXPERIENCED people that KNOW HOW to get results.He is making decisions that will effect our economy and standing in a positive manner.He is picking people who know how to get the job done.Thank God we have a president that is coming to Washington who realizes that he needs tested Washington hands on deck to get us moving in the right direction.He has the insight and leadership to know how to mobilize the right people.He did it in his well managed campaign and by all appearances he'll do it in his presidency.Barack Obama is a natural leader.GOBAMA!!!!

NMSands:
No one needs a brain surgery to understand what it means by "CHANGE". The meaning of it is not to bring new faces. It is quite simple; do it differently.

No one can bring the real change if they do not understand what they are doing,

I salute our Pres. elect Obama, he is moving on the right path. He is appointing very experienced people and with no doubt they are going to deliver.

Open your eyes widely and watch the "CHANGE" coming. Its going to happen.. Trust me and him!

change we can believe in - yeah right

Scintillating commentary princess phillip.

"Who the heck would want a learning curve right now"
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Obviously the country does. Otherwise we would not have elected a man with ZERO experience in running a government and barely a few months of "experience" at being a US Senator.

This is not surprising to those of us who have been saying he has no experience since the beginning. He has been campaigning for past 3-4 yrs, he has not been gaining expereince in how to govern or how create a government.

When Thomas Jefferson said that "people get the government they deserve," it was more than just a clever turn of phrase. It also was not an isolated insight but a timeless truth, one expressed by many others.

Did anyone see "24" last night and the woman President's speech - she grabbed on that line.

I am 50 years old and I have not seen or heard people say, "someone for the people is finally in office." Now having said that, the events of the day will dictate much how what Obama will or will not be able to do. I haven't seen people (black and white) this excited since JFK.

hey freak - take it easy. i was just pointing out the fact i heard obama say about 10 million times over the campaign that Mccain is an insider and it's eight more years of Bush - i'll bring the change you need. Then he chooses HILLARY CLINTON for Sec of State, are you kidding me?

So many of you are clamboring "Where's change, Where's change??!!??"

Well duhhhh. The Change is here in this article. Competence over ideology. Quality over congruence. Discussion over division. Educated strength over monolithic power. Look, ya yutzes, change doesn't necessarily mean untested, unproven, flashy, take-a-wild-chance ventures that have little hope of success. Often change means a shift of direction toward more well-thought-out alternatives. If you're expecting Mohammed-from-the-mountain-top revelation, get over it. Enjoy a new experience with the presidency: thoughtful competence.

SteveWilson,

I'm 49 and was born in 1959, I'm rather curious how you were so observant of the reaction to Kennedy as a 2yr old.

Freak,

Get used to the idea that the CHANGE you voted for is not coming. Obama ranted & raved about certain economic issues for months, let us see if he gets to Jan 20 before he has to publicly state that he is NOT going to double the capital gains tax as he said he would throughout the campaign. There are millions of people who have very long term investments in the markets, 20, 30, 40 yrs who only have a small window of time left to pull their money out before the next tax year begins.

The last thing the markets need now is huge number of long term investers who now need that money (Remember, the first phase of the baby boomers is now retiring!). These folks are not going to just wait and hope that Obama does not double the capital gains tax!

"Look, ya yutzes, change doesn't necessarily mean untested, unproven, flashy, take-a-wild-chance ventures that have little hope of success."

Strange - That is exactly what the country voted for on Nov 4th.

Great. The real CHANGE is coming to Washington. It is a combination of Star Power and Brain power. These people will do everything to get us out of this econnomics mess and move in the right directions and the best way forward.

Yes, it's the Change we can believe in.

Great. The real CHANGE is coming to Washington. It is a combination of Star Power and Brain power. These people will do everything to get us out of this econnomics mess and move in the right directions and the best way forward.

Yes, it's the Change we can believe in.

IAT,

post it a third time and maybe Tinkerbell will come and spread the dust!

It's so comforting to know that barry is surrounding himself with people far more qualified then he is to run this country.

I.A.T.S
I can honestly see you being one of the more enthusiastic people drinking jim jone's kool-aid.
repeat after me...
yes we can
yes we can
yes we can

you obamabots are scary!

I should think the OUTCOME of bringing together familiar faces is the change we should seek. After all, what would total new-comers to the scene do? It takes those who knOw what happened, when, and how to fix it. Needless to say, there are some bright new minds out there. But, in the current mess we're in, it's no time for experiments. He can do that later.

I really don't see how a Billary-Obama administration is going to succeed. Hillary is obviously the power behind the throne.

Of course he is reaching out and recruiting talented and experienced people. Change is not about assembling a team of novices and rookies! That would not only be irresponsible, but downright crazy. Change comes from attitude. Change comes from direction. Change comes from the tone set by the leader. Change comes from a philosophy of leadership. Change does not come from a bunch of rookies!

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TO ALL LOYAL AMERICANS this is how you should fly your flag this great nation is about to face its toughest hour for the youth and the poor have spoken.the youth of america i have seen first hand and a wi game is not the answer the poor are poor couse they want to be the hand outs are easier to get than the sweat needed for a hard days work.i personal followed a home less man in dallas heres his day 5.00 am they put him out of a free shelter.walks 2 blocks injoyed a free breakfast with hot coffee(i paid $1.29 at knox truck stop for a cup.after honey buns coffee and he walks across from the shelter and starts to pan handles this continues until about 11:00am only stopping to visit the local beer store where about noon he goes inside a soup kitchen and injoys a lunch,i dont know what he had but probably better than the cold bologna i had. i located him back on the corner about 2.10 pm where the rest of the day he drank and pan handled until returning to the shelter at 5:pm to eat dinner and sleep at the shelter.all this is fine but this man more than likely recieves food stamps,which are sold for drugs or beer,also i bet he recieves a goverment check every week the shelter provides health care free from baylor and wadley also a bus is at the shelter every week for dental i personal have a wisdom tooth thats killing me about $225.00 dollers to pull and this is whats killing america they are no longer productive members of society and abuse the system its at all levels in the welfare system from disability to child care.we take care of illegals,ship tons food and money to foreighn countries that hate us they can get all the fancy names people that you want AMERICANS or shall i say like me and the ones i talk to no longer want to support these big cities with there homeless or forieghn countries help your neighbor not a african or haiti save your money for your children or grandchildren the american dream is earned not givin to you by a goverment hand out,i am middleclass and they say we are in a bad way well i disagree,the new blackberry sold well,that new vampire movie twighlight did well people are still buying large amounts of alchohol,i see plenty of cars with big rims costing thousands of dollers on them plenty of bling to go around every one still has a cell for still paying texting bills heck i bet someone out there struggling is still paying a high dsl bill only bad decision makers are struggling. most people the goverment is saying are struggling are sitting at home wife with 2 or 3 kids on section 8
a lot of them illegal getting foodstamps wic ssi and hitting every church up they can find while there boyfriend or husband who they claim does not live there to recieve all this.i have a solution do not have more kids than you can afford to raise i personally do not want to raise little jose or tamica why do we have i or we as taxpayers have to bare that burden,i didnt open her legs,i did not impregnate her so why do i have to pay for the doctor,infamil,food,school or any other normal things that come with responsability,this is why america is broke,if i msspell please excuse me i am indigent.this is why goverment should not control the U.S and exactly why OBAMA will bring this nation to its knees

just for the record,bringing the troops home will not stop those terrorist.they will follow you here,they have been fighting since jesus.it will only bring them here and couse us to be like europe.does any one share my opinion i have more of low level corruption by so called helpless middle class

William J. LePetomaine

Wow... you have been drinking the kool-aid for a looooong time.

yes we can give out more entitlements

yes we can have a peace pipe with ahkmandenijead

yes we can spread the wealth around

yes we can follow barry O right off a cliff...

LOL, liberals. Keep stokin' that hatred

liberalshateamerica: your name shows your ignorance of US History. Liberal Democrats got women the vote. Liberal Democrats created Social Security. Liberal Democrats got the 8-hour work day. Liberal Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act. Liberal Democrats created the New Deal. Liberal Democrats worked us out of the Great Depression with legislation and programs. Liberal Democrats passed equal opportunity for the disabled. Liberal Democrats ended the war in Vietnam. GET A CLUE!

So we're worried about change before he's even in the White House? Oh, you're all saying that because he's picked people who've worked in DC before, I get it. Sorry for the sarcasm, but has anyone noticed how brilliant these people are? If anyone can change things it's these people so just hold on to your pre-judgements for a while.

And speaking of change, how about the average IQ in the White House? Isn't it going to go up a few points at least? That's the best start to a new administration that I can think of. Try to keep that in mind.

William J. LePetomaine

Liberals like Lyndon Johnson? A VERY outspoken racist who only passed the legislation because he had to.

Or how about George Wallace, the most notorious segregationist ever.

What about Byrd, he was a real winner.

Liberal policies of entitlements extended the depression to last 10 years when the market could have worked itself out in 2.
You want credit for the new deal- you can have it!

Republicans have Martin Luther King and Abe Lincoln in our corner. Looking back, I don't even recognize what the dems used to be "ask not what your country can for you but rather......." has turned into barry's "spread the wealth around" entitelment socialist policies.
Change is a comin!

man i am dum i thought ww11 got us out the depression by selling bombs planes bullets and other things to our allies did they pay us back?and the other things man look at social security
look how we left vietnam same way we are going to leave iraq getting shot in the ass as we are leaving good way support troops and america but we have become a shameless nation watch tv

I have to say, this bit is priceless.. especially when coming from an Obamabot.

"Who the heck would want a learning curve right now - when this country is a mess? We need smart, experienced people. Not ivy tower blowhards, but people who know how to get things done."
- soapboxmom

This is what the educated half of the country was saying BEFORE the election.. but you didn't listen then and voted for Obama anyway.

William J. LePetomaine

As for ending the war in vietnam, you are right, it was the democrats who bound Nixon's hands in assisting the South Vietnamese after America said it would if the North became agressive again.
As a result, MILLIONS OF SOUTH VIETNAMESE WERE SLAUGHTERED BY THE NORTH. Students were forced to hang their teachers. Hundreds of thousands were forced into "reeducation camps".
Funny I don't here liberals like you, Jane Fonda, Mike Moore, sean penn, talk about those things though.. You are too busy praising and hanging out with America's enemies, like hugo chavez.

am i right fdr 1933-1945 things really didnt get any better until 1940 when we started to supply and finance our allies and then 1941 men(mostly white then)left for war this created huge gaps in the workforce and also this let blacks and women more into factorys and got americas war machine working more jobs filled more people working more money in taxes being paid and im not to sure but wasnt the workforce created by fdr becouse they had no welfare foodstamps ssi wic they rationed i believe what a concept

"Who the heck would want a learning curve right now - when this country is a mess? We need smart, experienced people. Not ivy tower blowhards, but people who know how to get things done."
- soapboxmom

Soapboxmom.....do yourself a favor...grab a dictionary and look up the word PARADOX....

You will find enlightment there!

Dear George,

Do you have any idea what will be the role of John Carry?

with regards

Alex

didnt fdr also just take by passing a order take all private american gold from them to help just took peoples gold and made it illegal to own sounds like katrina guns and new orleans

Not being an American, I may not quite understand what change means to Americans. But I think change does not necessarily mean changing people. In fact, changing people does not really matter if ideas and methodology do not change. I think the Obama change really involves changing the way things are done in Washington, changing ideas and not necessarily changing people. In any case, the Obama team is not the Bush team so even there, change is really coming to America. There is also a big change in doing things - surely.

phillipc...at least you tried to make a point this time (barely).

Mike_C...de Tocqueville said that “in a democracy, the people get the government they deserve"...not TJ.
liberalshateAmerica...you confuse the terms "democrat" and "liberal". Please look up the term "dixiecrat". Also your screen name makes it hard to take you seriously.
iamready...FYI only Finland paid back US war debt and they did it in WWI and WWII. Furthermore your rant is as racist as it is stupid. "Rims" and "Cellphones", "Jose" and "Tamica", pretty transparent...I wonder how much these programs are actually costing YOU since you seem to have enough free time to follow the homeless around all day and chronical their experiences. Maybe you had to pull that wisdom tooth because your mouth is so rotten with hate. You can tell the innocent children of poverty that mommy should have "shut her legs", etc...but that won't feed or educate him so don't be surprised when he cracks your skull at an ATM machine someday. My favorite part was "...if i msspell please excuse me i am indigent". Your spelling is atrocious (even misspelled the word misspell...priceless). Indigent means poor by the way...not righteously angry, that's indignant. The irony is so rich my stomach hurts. I also see you favor our presence in Iraq. How do you think that expense compares with entitlements? Don't worry...I will tell you...

And now some budget facts for our hateful "saltine" buddies like iamready who think America is screwed because a poor child of color might get a meal or a vacciantion at the state/nation's expense:
According to The Budget for Fiscal Year 2008, Historical Tables, total outlays for Means Tested Entitlements in 2006 were $354.3 billion. This was 2.7% of GDP and includes Medicaid, food stamps, family support assistance (AFDC), supplemental security income (SSI), child nutrition programs, refundable portions of earned income tax credits (EITC and HITC) and child tax credit, welfare contingency fund, child care entitlement to States, temporary assistance to needy families, foster care and adoption assistance, State children’s health insurance and veterans pensions. If we exclude Medicaid, health care for children and veterans pensions it is 0.89 % of GDP, or $117 billion. This represents approximately 7.5% of total non-Social Security receipts to the Federal Government. So, for every one of your tax dollars to the Federal Government, about 7.5 cents goes to these programs. The average taxpayer had a tax rate of 12.45% in 2005, so if we multiply things out we see that about 0.93% of the average taxpayer’s income went to non-medical “welfare”. Meanwhile the US budget for Iraq in FY 2007 came to 4,988/Iraqi. This is triple Iraq's per-person GDP. It's like spending $121,000 per person ($484,000 per family of 4) in the US.
DO YOU GET IT NOW? That's right, some brother's rims and cell phone didn't ruin our economy as you are so fond of thinking you simple-minded, hateful rube.

William J. LePetomaine
THE BEST ARE FROM BIDEN AT THE BOTTOM...

Blacks "are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both of body and mind."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Co-founder of the Democratic Party (along with Andrew Jackson)
President, 1801-09

"I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding states between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good--a positive good."
--Sen. John C. Calhoun (D., S.C.), 1837
Vice President, 1825-32
His statue stands in the U.S. Capitol.

"If blacks were given the right to vote, that would "place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored Negro in the country upon an equality with the poor white man."
--Rep. Andrew Johnson, (D., Tenn.), 1844
President, 1865-69

"Resolved, That the Democratic Party will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made."
--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1852
Blacks are "a subordinate and inferior class of beings who had been subjugated by the dominant race."
--Chief Justice Roger Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856
Appointed Attorney General by Andrew Jackson in 1831
Appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Andrew Jackson in 1833
Appointed to the Supreme Court by Andrew Jackson in 1836

"Resolved, That claiming fellowship with, and desiring the co-operation of all who regard the preservation of the Union under the Constitution as the paramount issue--and repudiating all sectional parties and platforms concerning domestic slavery, which seek to embroil the States and incite to treason and armed resistance to law in the Territories; and whose avowed purposes, if consummated, must end in civil war and disunion, the American Democracy recognize and adopt the principles contained in the organic laws establishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as embodying the only sound and safe solution of the 'slavery question' upon which the great national idea of the people of this whole country can repose in its determined conservatism of the Union--NON-INTERFERENCE BY CONGRESS WITH SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA" (emphasis in original).
--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1856
"I hold that a Negro is not and never ought to be a citizen of the United States. I hold that this government was made on the white basis; made by the white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men and none others."

--Sen. Stephen A. Douglas (D., Ill.), 1858
Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, 1860
"Resolved, That the enactments of the State Legislatures to defeat the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, are hostile in character, subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their effect."
--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1860

"The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and, sir, by no legislation, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction."
--Rep. Fernando Wood (D., N.Y.), 1865
Mayor of New York City, 1855-58, 1860-62

"My fellow citizens, I have said that the contest before us was one for the restoration of our government; it is also one for the restoration of our race. It is to prevent the people of our race from being exiled from their homes--exiled from the government which they formed and created for themselves and for their children, and to prevent them from being driven out of the country or trodden under foot by an inferior and barbarous race."
--Francis P. Blair Jr., accepting the Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1868
Democratic Senator from Missouri, 1869-72
His statue stands in the U.S. Capitol.

"Instead of restoring the Union, it [the Republican Party] has, so far as in its power, dissolved it, and subjected ten states, in time of profound peace, to military despotism and Negro supremacy."
--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1868

"While the tendency of the white race is upward, the tendency of the colored race is downward."
--Sen. Thomas Hendricks (D., Ind.), 1869
Democratic nominee for Vice President, 1876
Vice President, 1885

"We, the delegates of the Democratic party of the United States . . . demand such modification of the treaty with the Chinese Empire, or such legislation within constitutional limitations, as shall prevent further importation or immigration of the Mongolian race."
--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1876

"No more Chinese immigration, except for travel, education, and foreign commerce, and that even carefully guarded."
--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1880
"American civilization demands that against the immigration or importation of Mongolians to these shores our gates be closed."
--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1884

"We favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the Chinese exclusion law, and its application to the same classes of all Asiatic races."
--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1900

"The repeal of the fifteenth amendment, one of the greatest blunders and therefore one of the greatest crimes in political history, is a consummation to be devoutly wished for."
--Rep. John Sharpe Williams (D., Miss.), 1903
House Minority Leader, 1903-08

"Republicanism means Negro equality, while the Democratic Party means that the white man is supreme. That is why we Southerners are all Democrats."
--Sen. Ben Tillman (D., S.C.), 1906
Chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs, 1913-19
"We are opposed to the admission of Asiatic immigrants who can not be amalgamated with our population, or whose presence among us would raise a race issue and involve us in diplomatic controversies with Oriental powers."

--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1908
"I am opposed to the practice of having colored policemen in the District [of Columbia]. It is a source of danger by constantly engendering racial friction, and is offensive to thousands of Southern white people who make their homes here."

--Sen. Hoke Smith (D., Ga.), 1912
Appointed Secretary of the Interior by Grover Cleveland in 1893
"The South is serious with regard to its attitude to the Negro in politics. The South understands this subject, and its policy is unalterable and uncompromising. We desire no concessions. We seek no sops. We grasp no shadows on this subject. We take no risks. We abhor a Northern policy of catering to the Negro in politics just as we abhor a Northern policy of social equality."

--Josephus Daniels, editor, Raleigh News & Observer, 1912
Appointed Secretary of the Navy by Woodrow Wilson in 1913
Appointed Ambassador to Mexico by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933
USS Josephus Daniels named for him by the Johnson Administration in 1965
"The Negro as a race, in all the ages of the world, has never shown sustained power of self-development. He is not endowed with the creative faculty. . . . He has never created for himself any civilization. . . . He has never had any civilization except that which has been inculcated by a superior race. And it is a lamentable fact that his civilization lasts only so long as he is in the hands of the white man who inculcates it. When left to himself he has universally gone back to the barbarism of the jungle."

--Sen. James Vardaman (D., Miss.), 1914
Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources, 1913-19
"This is a white man's country, and will always remain a white man's country."

--Rep. James F. Byrnes (D., S.C.), 1919
Appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941
Appointed Secretary of State by Harry S. Truman in 1945
"Slavery among the whites was an improvement over independence in Africa. The very progress that the blacks have made, when--and only when--brought into contact with the whites, ought to be a sufficient argument in support of white supremacy--it ought to be sufficient to convince even the blacks themselves."

--William Jennings Bryan, 1923
Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, 1896, 1900 and 1908
Appointed Secretary of State by Woodrow Wilson in 1913
His statue stands in the U.S. Capitol.
"Anyone who has traveled to the Far East knows that the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results. . . . The argument works both ways. I know a great many cultivated, highly educated and delightful Japanese. They have all told me that they would feel the same repugnance and objection to have thousands of Americans settle in Japan and intermarry with the Japanese as I would feel in having large numbers of Japanese coming over here and intermarry with the American population. In this question, then, of Japanese exclusion from the United States it is necessary only to advance the true reason--the undesirability of mixing the blood of the two peoples. . . . The Japanese people and the American people are both opposed to intermarriage of the two races--there can be no quarrel there."

--Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1925
President, 1933-45
"This passport which you have given me is a symbol to me of the passport which you have given me before. I do not feel that it would be out of place to state to you here on this occasion that I know that without the support of the members of this organization I would not have been called, even by my enemies, the 'Junior Senator from Alabama.' "

--Hugo Black, accepting a life membership in the Ku Klux Klan upon his election to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Alabama, 1926
Appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937
"Mr. President, the crime of lynching . . . is not of sufficient importance to justify this legislation."

--Sen. Claude Pepper (D., Fla.), 1938
Spoken while engaged in a six-hour speech against the antilynching bill
"I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. . . . The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union."

--Robert C. Byrd, 1946
Democratic Senator from West Virginia, 1959-present
Senate Majority Leader, 1977-80 and 1987-88
Senate President Pro Tempore, 1989-95, 2001-03, 2007-present
His portrait stands in the U.S. Capitol.
President Truman's civil rights program "is a farce and a sham--an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I have voted against the so-called poll tax repeal bill. . .. I have voted against the so-called anti-lynching bill."

--Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1948
U.S. Senator, 1949-61
Senate Majority Leader, 1955-61
President, 1963-69
"There is no warrant for the curious notion that Christianity favors the involuntary commingling of the races in social institutions. Although He knew both Jews and Samaritans and the relations existing between them, Christ did not advocate that courts or legislative bodies should compel them to mix socially against their will."

--Sen. Sam Ervin (D., N.C.), 1955
Chairman, Committee on Government Operations, 1971-75
"The decline and fall of the Roman empire came after years of intermarriage with other races. Spain was toppled as a world power as a result of the amalgamation of the races. . . . Certainly history shows that nations composed of a mongrel race lose their strength and become weak, lazy and indifferent."

--Herman E. Talmadge, 1955
Democratic Senator from Georgia, 1957-81
Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, 1971-81
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."
--Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1957

"I have never seen very many white people who felt they were being imposed upon or being subjected to any second-class citizenship if they were directed to a waiting room or to any other public facility to wait or to eat with other white people. Only the Negroes, of all the races which are in this land, publicly proclaim they are being mistreated, imposed upon, and declared second-class citizens because they must go to public facilities with members of their own race."
--Sen. Richard B. Russell Jr. (D., Ga.), 1961
The Russell Senate Office Building is named for him.

"I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes."
--Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, 1961
Kennedy later authorized wiretapping the phones and bugging the hotel rooms of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"I'm not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods. . . . I have nothing against a community that's made up of people who are Polish or Czechoslovakian or French-Canadian or blacks who are trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods."
--Jimmy Carter, 1976
President, 1977-81
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2002

"The Confederate Memorial has had a special place in my life for many years. . . . There were many, many times that I found myself drawn to this deeply inspiring memorial, to contemplate the sacrifices of others, several of whom were my ancestors, whose enormous suffering and collective gallantry are to this day still misunderstood by most Americans."
--James Webb, 1990
Now a Democratic Senator from Virginia

"Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."
--Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D., S.C.) 1993
Chairman, Commerce Committee, 1987-95 and 2001-03
Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, 1984

"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation."
--Sen. Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), 2004
Chairman, Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, 2008

"You cannot go into a Dunkin' Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent."

"My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth largest black population in the country. My state is anything [but] a Northeastern liberal state."

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African American [Barack Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy."

"There's less than 1% of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4% or 5% that is, are minorities. What is it in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with."
Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., (D., Del.), 2006-07
Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, 1987-95
Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations
Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, 2008

Bonus quote:
"It has of late become the custom of the men of the South to speak with entire candor of the settled and deliberate policy of suppressing the negro vote. They have been forced to choose between a policy of manifest injustice toward the blacks and the horrors of negro rule. They chose to disfranchise the negroes. That was manifestly the lesser of two evils. . . . The Republican Party committed a great public crime when it gave the right of suffrage to the blacks. . . . So long as the Fifteenth Amendment stands, the menace of the rule of the blacks will impend, and the safeguards against it must be maintained."

--Editorial, "The Political Future of the South," New York Times, May 10, 1900)
Mr. Bartlett is author of "Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past," to be published next month by Palgrave Macmillan, which is available from the OpinionJournal bookstore.

What a bunch of sour grapes and sore losers. The majority of Americans voted and chose Barack Obama to be our next President - period. Get over it.

why would we not include medicaid,medicare.i know a brother as you say that was shot in a drug deal gone bad now he draws a check from the goverment and never worked a day in his life,child care huh what if you have no children why would you want to pay for someone elses child care and only a bigot would think child of color all races you can throw all goverment stats out there you want facts be known i could use that 7.5% on all my taxes i pay give to vets there the reason you can read stats they at least tried while your getting stats please get me some on how many illegal aliens of all races have died in this nations defence so my friend only a person of hate is fueled by the need to say you are hateful the plain truth is we should not have to care for the burdens of other people,companies ie countries america needs think of america were a line of proud people now we are a land of bail outs keep drinkin the snake oil of the world for all nations have drunk of the wrath of her fornication and the kings of earth have committed fornication with her and the merchantsof the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies

there for shall her plagues come in one day,death and mourning anf famine and she shall be utterly burned with fire
so no i dont favor iraq and sure you can tell mommy keeep here legs shut i did to my daughter didnt ask any one to feed her or my grandchildren or the education huh what about the parents no worry about the atm also gun and as far as indigent read between the line you mentallity is poor=uneducated therefor misspelling but who really cares its people who try to protect these poor innocent children of poverty the whole point is there not as poor as you folks make them there committing fraud against the taxpayer man you bleedin hearts the screw everything into race i couldnt spell chinese or russian names or even crackers like my self the point is you can throw all the money big wigs nad everything else out there at this crisis it wont help until we stop the low level crimes such as fraud against our goverment and fyi im not for iraq i just dont want a bunch terrorist over there saying the defeated the usa becouse then you have a bigger problem

THANK YOU LIBERALSHATEAMERICA

To all the GW Bush and McCain Republican fools, Get over it, you lost. We democrates got over it when GW and his Carl Rove cronies stole the votes in 2000 and by the grace of God we survived, bearly. Now sit back and watch as the real progressive change take effect.

"Get over it, you lost. We democrates got over it when GW and his Carl Rove cronies stole the votes in 2000 and by the grace of God we survived, bearly."

Yet another whining crying liberal....8 yrs later...still whining....

He won...PERIOD...Same as Obama Won!

This is what i mean by liberals alwyas always living by "DO ASI SAY, NOT AS I DO"

They want support for Obama, but even now 8 years later they are "claiming" Bush "stole" the election!

1. If that buffoon you put up for a candidate could have won his OWN STATE. He would have won! Why not ask how a guy who wants to be president can't even carry his own state and then his supporters whine about the outcome for a friggin decade!

2. Thank God Bush did WIN. I want to throw up every time I think of a President Gore being in power on 9/11/01. It owuld have taken that fool a week to figure out his first response after needing at least 25 polls so he would know what to say & do.

3. Yuo dont have to like Bush at all, but every single American owes him a big Thank You for keeping this country safe ever since that day!

There much change-first a cabinet developed prior to January-a cabinet that is diverse in political ideaology and experience is very new. The cabinet has developed in a way not seen for a very long time. Obama has set the table for people to have their thinking challenged among each other and that is great. You get a variety of ideas and components working that create great ideas.

The economic committee is powerful with old and young ideas, it is very balanced.

Obama is smart and isn't afraid to be challened-

See the bad losers are out in force again.

A vote for Obama is a vote for Hillary I wish I would of known that BEFORE the election.

After the way Hillary and George ambushed Obama in that debate, I'm SURE there will be no cabinet position for Georgie. At least Hillary got on board in the end, and I have forgiven her all of her transgressions. I'm absolutely certain she will be a great Secretary of State! :)

OMG, why don't the right wing blow hard sore losers just shut the heck up already. What a bunch of whiney babies who think they are so smart. Well, you are not so smart now, eh? After your administration practically ruined the country. COUNTRY FIRST, my rear end.

i guess i can go out there, have 8 babies, 8 baby daddies and ofcourse the gov, will spread the wealth around.COOL AID DRINKERS GO GET A JOB.

I understand everyone wanting to see radical change and see that immediately in his cabinet picks. However, we can't lose sight of the fact that there are still a bunch of politics to play here and he's picking some people who can get things done. The key is if he expands now, since he brought in some political sway already, and actually brings in some intelligent, studied individuals who have the people at heart instead of the greed we've seen over the last decade or more.

No matter how much some of us want radical change, there's just as many on the other side who want something else. Politics is about compromise, no matter how unfortunate that is sometimes.

I'm thrilled at the return of intellectualism and sound political practice. There's politics that's good for society and politics that's bad for society. Obama's brand of politics is the right way to lead this nation forward to the benefit of the average American. We can only get there by conducting politics in a manner of greater unity and forethought. There will certainly exist conflicting interests, but if we can all get into this boat together and find ways to negotiate win-win outcomes rather than winner take all scenarios, then we're simply more efficient at progress.

Obama by taking in a former rival is not simply paying back those he owes. OK, he's doing that too. Regardless, this is good for all of us. With this he is diffusing tensions among those that supported Clinton for being Hillary or for being a woman. It’s also an olive branch to the Sarah Palin believers. This also enables synergies. This team is greater than the sum of its parts.

The Bush team was actually worse than any single individual could have been on his or her own; quite amazing.

McCain may not have been too bad a president; better than Bush (fairly easy to do). But Obama is clearly the best politician in a lifetime. And he is not just the best himself. Regan (may he rest in peace), was better at self-promotion. But instead, he is the best politician for the country during any times, whether we are looking for change or not. This is the kind of president we need, consistently, regardless of the sway of the economy.

Republican campaign scare tactics were not enough to overcome the writing on the wall: THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAD TO GO. Of course, Obama really won because of the economy, which is only 10% Bushes fault. The other blame we can pass around liberally among the private sector, Republicans, Democrats, Joe Six-pack and even OPEC (why not?).

So even though we as a country only lucked out in electing this next greatest president because the economy happens to be bad in November of an election year, we did it. And that's what matters.

Well, well. We'll all look back on this one day, smug with righteousness. The Dems for their landmark vote for change, the Republicans for knowing that the total change promised really wasn't possible after all.

And Washington will go on, as it always has, until the next President is elected. When it will continue on, as it always has.

I'm a lifelong Democrat; never voted outside the party and never missed a vote, until this time. Because I couldn't swallow Obama's promises of true, genuine, fundamental change. Will things be a little different? Maybe. Will they be enough? Resoundingly, no.

I think, at the end of the day, it will be the will, determination and hopefulness of the American people that will deliver change, not the Obama administration. Our willingness to curb our own excesses, be mindful in our work practices, be resolute in doing what matters will win the day, irregardless of Beltway policy.

About the only credit I can give Obama right now is he's rallied people, including some new to the idea of cause, around a common message. Problem is, at some point he has to select his cabinet, get sworn in, and actually do something. I suspect it'll be all downhill from there, and it won't just be disgruntled Republicans lined up to criticize, but it will be those who voted for him and actually believed that he'd deliver on his grandiose promises that will be the most vocal.

You want a prime example of change? Americans, fed up with rising fuel prices, drove less. Now look at gas prices today.

We hold the real power--doing the right thing, living within our means and taking personal responsibility for this mess will fix it. Stop waiting for Obama to do it; he's too busy enjoying the real prize for him, the cult of personality, and as he put it, "Tell me what to say and I can sell it." He's not going to be of much help to you either.

It's our mess to fix, and it's our success to squander if we don't.

He said:"We need to change from the old and tired Washington policies"...and never said what would be the new policies. He said:"We need a tax system that is fair to the hard working American families"...but never said what changes to the existing system would be made. He said:"We need to get our troops out of Irak now"...but never said how he would accomplished it.

Yesterday he was asked about removing the Bush tax breaks and what other steps he would take to straighten out the economy and he answered: "I'm waiting to get a recommendation from my economic team".....Good grief!

Change we can believe in? I guess I'm already changing my opinion about THAT ONE.

But Obama is clearly the best politician in a lifetime.
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LOL, hold on there. I agree he is the best "CAMPAIGNER" we have seen in very long time, but he has done virtually nothing but campaign since 2003!

He has a very very long way to go to pass the presidents of my lifetime. I was born in 1959.

Star power? Maybe. Brain power? Thats questionable. Stephanopoulos, what planet are you living on?