George's Bottom Line

what was that sound... oh unified voices from those who are smart in Washington all saying...

"oh...this guy looks good"

the other sound ...

silence from the morons

It is hard to imagine, but trust me-- Rush Limbaugh and his ilk will find something to bash about this. They are bound and determined to undermine this administration no matter what. Obama is going to be a great, great president and leader.

George, be careful, if Barack Obama comes to a sudden stop your face could get lodged in his crack.

So, let's get this straight: speedy cabinet appointments suddenly means he is more effective? Or does it mean he spends less time considering them? Or maybe, since he doesn't really know anybody in DC, he's just going with whoever long-time Democrats tell him to? And the market is now great because of his cabinet picks? It was down 700 points just the day before yesterday. What happens if it goes down again this week? Bipartisanship? Appointing one token Republican constitutes that I guess? And he "reached out to McConnell"? So, he makes a phone call to a Republican and now he is a model of bipartisanship? Man, I thought all the kool-aid was consumed during the campaign! I see it's still being chugged daily.

I'm not sure how you assess someone's actions when all he's done is pick his team. If that was all it took, we wouldn't need an NFL season or superbowl, we'd just let the press decide who had done the best job of picking players. Are you people serios?

Obama rocks and is a super achiever. At least one thing 53% of the Americans who took the trouble of casting their vote in the presidential election a month ago have done right and can be proud to be Americans with pride in their democracy once again. I have always been proud to be American since I became one but I had no pride in the the American administration for most of the past 8 years since the loss of Al Gore. Of course Obama has daunting challenges and the shambles left for him to take care off but a good beginning takes care of half the battles. We can hope again that the better days of America are ahead of us.

So far I am very impressed. I hope he keeps it up.

I see the haters are coming from behind their rocks early. Any good news about ours and your new soon-to-be President you will find something to bash him on. At least he is starting out on the right foot, unlike our current President who neither started or is ending on anything right.

If Barack had not started picking his cabinet you guys would be criticizing him for that. You all say folks bashed Bush and now you can do the same to Barack but the problem with that is Barack is not even President and Bush has been for 8 LOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGG Years. Bush has made his bed for America and it is not good, that is why he will be looked upon as the worst president ever along with Carter & Nixon. If you hate mongers get your heads out of Limbaugh, Hannity, and other useless radical blowhordes cr#$ks you might realize that you have one of the most intelligent Presidents soon-to-be in office in years. I believe Obama has shown that he is in touch with the American people (especially the middle working class). He is not a silver spoon baby he worked hard to get where he is, without knowing people at the top. Give the man the opportunity to do what he feels he needs to do in order to clean up the crap pile Bush and his administration is leaving upon America. It is sad to think that even in the 4 years he will be our President that if he can somewhat get a handle on this economy mess and get us on some good tracking and you haters see the difference in your life, I bet you still will have a sour puss face towards him, yet you will happily be going to the bank to deposit your increases that has been received from the fruits of his and the new administrations labor for the American people.

Haters are funny, thank God you aren't the majority!

It just amazes me how the left bashes Rush Limbaugh for being critical of Obama, yet for from Day ONE of Bush's election, we have heard a non-stop feed of highly critical, rude, denigrating bashing from the left. A taste of their own medicine must be a bitter pill to swallow, eh?.

given obambi has just recylced the Clinton team , what was there for him to manage?

anyone notice barry dropped his tax on oil profits?

he conned you

I promise to give Borat Obama all the respect that Democrats gave George Bush the last 8 years.

Mark/Jon,

You guys have been watching too much Faux News.

What is with all this negativity?

Can you ever find anything good in what Obama does.

The election is over guys.

Stop listening to Limbaugh and Hannity. They are bad for your long term health.

The only weak point in the transition is OBie.

Let_It_Begin - nobody reads book-length posts, just so you know. The left is so desperate to prove that Obama is the greatest thing since sliced bread, they will even present non-actions as the greatest non-actions ever! Face it, he hasn't done anything except retread a bunch of past appointees from the pre-Bush days. Oh yeah, and he flip-flopped on getting additional tax revenue from the oil companies.

Steve in NJ - come on dude, if you are going to single me out, at LEAST come up with something other than "you must listen to Rush Limbaugh all the time". I couldn't even tell you where to find his radio program. Believe it or not, I'm free to dislike socialists on my own, without listening to the radio. If you can't be entertaining, at least try to be original ok?

So much for change. We're about to get a repeat of the Clinton years so expect to be taxed to death.

Bush earned the respect he's gotten: 0. You Repubs seem to forget that praise or respect is to be earned or lost based on performance. There's a reason your guy, your party are in the tank. You think alike.

Speedy cabinet appointments are better? I had no idea. I remember back in school, the highest grade always went to the one who finished the math test first, right?? Oh wait a minute.......nevermind.

Jon,

Amazingly the only socialist program you ever loved is "Corporate Welfare" and the recent doling out of $0.75 Trillion to Wall Street.

Boy, you Republicans are such bold-faced hypocrites.

Brant - "praise or respect is to be earned or lost based on performance" is what you said. And so, why exactly is it that you praise and respect Obama? Because of his extensive performance record?

Steve_NJ - you are a total tool. I completely do NOT support bail-outs. As most Republicans and free-market (that's non-socialists) feel the same way. In fact, MY Congressman voted against it. What did yours do? Or don't you know? Or does your extent of political involvement end here on the abcnews message board?

So I would like to welcome the opposing views of Obama! I am all for my man Obama, but some of the comments coming from the other side make sense too. You can't have one w/o the other and Obama needs praise just like he needs criticism. And we all need to remember to stay humble and also do our part. He's leading the pack and we should follow! He doesn't get flustered or upset (visually) about those comments, thoughts and opinions not aligned with his own and we should do the same because at the end of it all we are all human and Obama will be the President of the UNITED States of America. Get used to it!!!

anyone notice barry dropped his tax on oil profits?

he conned you

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Hey Barroap, Oil has dropped to $46 a barrel since Obama has been elected. I guess the threat of the oil profit tax made big oil see the light. I guess it was you that was conned into believing that the only way to lower oil prices was "drill, baby drill". HA HA HA. By the way how much oil have we pumped out of the continental shelf since the ban expired?

hussein obama the "ass clown" ... and his wife "mrs i hate america" gets a "F" from colorado......

Let's see he's picked a great cabinet, said he does not want people yessing him, wants to have discussions and get ideas and opinions, speaks straight forward so everyone can understand him, tells what his plans will be and says he cannot undo this mess overnight, wants the public to take responsibility for their actions and help each other...gee I believe he has done more in a month than this idiot we have now has done in eight years!
Finally we have someone who speaks Enlish and doesn't have a deer in the headlights look!

Barack Obama is our President elect. He's going to be inaugurated. Whether you voted for him or not - he is going to be your President! Its your duty (Yes, your duty!) as an American to support him. You'll get a chance to elect someone else in four years. Just to be fair don't you think you should at least give him a chance? Resisting everything he does is not going to help this country.

You Republicans believe in voodoo economics(trickle down theory)and that you can grow the economy by fighting wars and messing in the internal affairs of other countries. I am an independent voter but democrats always make more sense than Republicans..I normally do not respond to Republicans because they don't have a clue and the average Republican would look you in the eye and try to justify why its more important to spend 10 billion dollars a month to support a baseless,unjust war in Iraq than to invest that same money in Education, healthcare and in growing the economy..God bless Barack Obama and his cabinet and God bless America! The Republicans are about to go! What a sigh of relief! Thank you Lord!

Balance - I humbly agree with you. He is now our president and I vow to NOT treat him like the left wing dems treated President Bush! THAT's the difference between dems and Republicans.

Pepper 3123
I would take the Clinton years anyday over the last horrific 8 years with a Rebpublican Congress for 6!
And I remember being able to live and afford things not like now!

Freedom of Speech is dead in America! If you value your time. You will walk away from this site... ABC deletes any posts that they do not agree with. "The media has succeeded in shielding Barack Obama from journalistic scrutiny. It thereby irrevocably destroyed its own reputation and forfeited the trust that generations of others had so carefully acquired. And it will never again be trusted".

To those of you who say you will give the same respect to Obama that Bush was given is pure ignorance. You can't compare them. Bush cannot even speak and how can you respect someone who got us into two wars, 9/11 happened under his watch, and the economy is in a near depression. When he first got in and I did not vote for him, I respected him, until all this mess happened. So that is pure nonsense not to respect Obama just because your Bush turned out to be an idiot!

I voted for Obama, but I'm not so naive as to think he will lead us to the promised land.

Even if he has all the right ideas - and no one can do that - there would be too many obstacles to accomplishing all them and a big hole to dig out of.

Our country is in trouble because of a corrupt Congress, an incompetent President, and a citizenship so shortsighted they could care less about the nation's huge budget deficits as long as Bush's tax cuts save them money in the short run.

Despite the fact that our health care costs are spiraling out of control and our levels of coverage are slipping, and despite the fact that EVERY other high-income country has single-payer nationalized insurance and often better care at a fraction of the cost we pay, we oppose it.

We've been sold a bill of goods for a long time and it's hard to overcome the Health Care lobby when the money to grease the politicians' votes comes right out of our pockets in the extra amount they charge to fund their lobbying.

I am looking forward to Obama's first blunder to see how all of the Messiah worshipers scramble to spin it. Just like they're spinning his Clinton Team Redux as "change". And his flips on tax hikes and other campaign promises as "pragmatic".

It's a little early to be praising or criticizing Obama. Let him get into office first and then grade him. Surrounding yourself with Washington insiders and previous Presidential candidates is not a precursor of a man being smart or dumb. Let's see what he does when he's really in charge. By the way George, you are a suck up. Wipe your nose now.

You Obama detractors are so transparently desperate to criticize anything and everyting he does. He understands that circumstances change. He cannot tax the oil industry with a "windfall profits tax" at this point in time, and you know it. There is such a thing as compromise, but you prefer to call it "flip-flopping" cause for some reason that just sounds so much nastier and you love nasty, don't you? You don't want him to succeed, no matter what he does. He is appointing experienced, brilliant people to cabinet positions to help this country get out of the mess we are in -not just the Democrats, but the Republicans too. And you guys don't like it. But you want to call yourselves Patriots?? I don't think so!!!

E_Smith: you said "Its your duty (Yes, your duty!) as an American to support him". hahahahahahahahahaha. Just like the liberals did with Bush right?? Give me a f'ing break dude!

Geecee,

I'm not talking about windfall profits, I'm talking about him keeping the BUSH TAX CUTS in place. I'm talking about him keeping BILL GATES on board, the guy he blasted during the campaign. I'm sure we'll soon hear about him keeping GITMO open. If just one of those scum bags goes free and causes hard, it will be Obama's fault.

I don't need a young kid or news organization telling me how to fair in judging anyone because that one thing my father taught me. I just wish you and your news people has done that to Mr. Bush and John. I just wonder where you dad and mon where all this time. Who knows maybe they did there job but you did not listen. Also I know my duty as an American. I wish Mr. Obama all the success in the world. God bless America.

I am looking forward to Obama's first blunder
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Hey jbjm13, if you love Presidential blunders you must have really loved the last 8 years. They were chock full of Presidential blunders. I bet you're sorry to see Dumbya leave. LOL!!

I agree with Barb. The reason Bush wasn't respected is because he was a dumb a*! who made boneheaded decisions. Unlike Emma who thinks that it's fair now to bash Obama just because it's "your turn"... we at least waited until Bush PROVED he was stupid before bashing him. You guys are just looking for stuff. Obama hasn't even taken office yet! And you're gonna try to say that's fair. Ridiculous ... we're not so stupid that we can't see thru that. Give the guy a chance, he's the best hope we've had in ages. Personally, I regard intelligence as the best qualification to get us out of this mess.

Why can't you all just shut the hell up? Obama is going to be a great president, and if you can't come to terms with that...well there's nothing really that you can do, is there =) ? Keep you're opinions to yourself, seriously. Everytime I get on a read a great article about my president they're always you rats down he criticizing it. So "Jon" and "Sad_Times" why don't you go move to Canada so nobody has to hear your bitching.

I was wrong...

the morons are still chattering ...see above.

Obama has universally been saluted for his thoughtful (not just quick), bipartisan, "not about loyalty but effectiveness in the job" choices...

so those criticizing... you are truly starting to sound just like flies and mosuitoes... annoying...and lacking on the mental complexity front.

lol

and thus we got George Bush and Sarah Palin lol

oh and jbjm

the difference is Bush sucked so the left was correct for their criticism as we see history has proven... because it was based on reality and smarts...

Rush Limbaugh and his blow hard bologne... is based on self gratification and banking on people being as stupid ...no, actually MORE stupid than as he is...lol
... just liek some of the dumb comments on here.

Vince, people who are complaining should try living elsewhere and then they would see how lucky they are to live here where they can speak their opinions.
By the way, Sad Times was on your side and mine, he wasn't complaining about Obama, he was for him. Jon was the one with the silly comments.

If it was McCain the won and was making all these choices all the haters would have nothing but good things to say. We DO need to give Obama a chance to get the ball rolling with some positive changes. While Bush was digging this hole for ALL of us the critics weren't saying a thing until McCain didn't win. I believe the best man won because we need to see change.

and as far as gitmo is concerned...no matter what happens

there is no way you can blame anyone for the fall out than George W...D!ck Cheney and the republican morons who scared us into getting here.

I have an idea...lets keep Gitmo open and put Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Rove, Gonzalez, Scooter and the rest of the idiots that are still arguing for them...

in it.

The world would love us...and peace would come over the planet.

Wow, Barack Obama has done nothing yet. But he has done nothing better than anybody else in history, according to George? Laughable.

Barb, I know right? And sorry Sad_Times I was looking at Richard's comment below yours haha

I personally don't want another of my tax dollars going to bomb another human being. As it stands I will still have to keep on paying for death and destruction, but with Obama I can see a light. It's the most comforting thing I have seen since that horrible night of "shock and awe". I feel he is not of the old-world guard, he has visions for America's future...I really don't believe those words EVER fell out of Bush's mouth, and he is of the same stock most of us American's are..diverse. He GETS it.

The real news story is that 52% of you actually think that EVERYBODY supports Obama now. While you simply ignore the fact that 48% of us do not support him and didn't drink the kool-aid. Two party system, learn it, love it. This isn't North Korea and we aren't going to buy into the "supreme leader" BS.

THE POINT of this article is to show that Barack Obama is a dedicated president-elect; and if you watched the news, and watched his conferences and interviews, you would just how much effort and thought went into building the new cabinet. He's restoring hope in a lot of people, and you people are just trying to tear it back down.

I am very impressed with how committed Obama and his team are to hit the ground running in January. His team launching a comprehensive economic stimulus plan, or any economic plan, on Day 1 makes me feel like I'm getting immediate returns for my vote. Keep up the good work.

jbjm13: " from Day ONE of Bush's election, we have heard a non-stop feed of highly critical, rude, denigrating bashing from the left."

President Bush received the highest approval rating in modern history, completely complacent coverage from the press, and strong bipartisan support from Congress in the wake of 9/11 for over three years.

We can only hope that President Obama receives a tenth the bipartisan support that Bush enjoyed and abused to explode the deficit and mire us in Iraq without reason nor exit plan.

Most of us can remember back 8 years. Don't insult our intelligence with an obvious, documented and easily proven lie like "the Democrats/press/Congress never supported President Bush."

Vince, no, nobody's trying to tear down anything other than stupid reporting that trumpets the mundane, non-actions of Barack Obama as the "best non-actions ever". Like declaring that because he picked them fast, that's somehow better. Even though it would just indicate to me a lack of careful consideration. Or exclaiming him as "truly bipartisan" because he has one Republican, far fewer cross-party picks that most Presidents in history. Or that the stock market has suddenly recovered and it's all due to his cabinet picks? The market has been hammered over the last two weeks.

All of the usual unhappy losers, sickos, neo-cons and down-right un-merican types are busy posting their complaints about the President-elect, even thoug he has no power to do anything to move our sad government out of the doldrums in which GW Bush has left it.

jon: " While you simply ignore the fact that 48% of us do not support him "

The president is the leader of the US and to make a blanket statement that you do not support him before he even takes office is pathetic. Have some respect for your country. You sound like some petulant hippy out of a 60's flick.

Republicans have great ideas, however, they do not accomplish them due to greed and their own self interests. As a Republican, I am proud we will have Obama as POTUS. His work is clearly better for this country. Many Republicans such as myself see this and have voted for him, we realized we need someone that would work for the middle class and masses of America. This is never about party lines, but about who can best serve the interests of USA. That is why he out voted McCain by millions. Unfortunatly, many are still unwilling to accept the Democracy we have to today. But fortunatly, we have a leader who will not doubt be best for America. God Bless Him and America! Yes, he got my Vote and millions of republican votes too! He gets things, done and that is something we now need.

Jon: "Or exclaiming him as "truly bipartisan" because he has one Republican, far fewer cross-party picks that most Presidents in history. "

Again, you insult our intelligence - the cabinet picks of "most Presidents in history" are public knowledge. Could you support your statement with facts - please name more than one Democrat in President Bush's cabinet. (This should be easy unless you are just making fake claims.)

All I can say is that we had better get along and support Obama....the election is over...if we keep fighting, not just about politics, but religion, race and sexual preference, the terriorists are laughing at the "stupid Americans" and will be attacking us...If we all band together and try to make this a better country...things might get better. We are lucky we have Freedom of Speech but not Freedom of Hate like some of these posts...Let's start a New Year with some peace and love for each other...we are lucky to live in this country no matter how bad the economy is right now...God Bless President elect Obama and all of us.

jhw539 - nice attempt at deflection. The news story we are commenting on is that Barack Obama is super-bipartisan because of his lone Republican. It's not about George Bush. And the fact that they both only picked one only proves my point, that these media reports on Obama are bloated worship pieces. More like pieces of sh%%.

jhw539 - and YES, I make a blanket statement that real conservatives (conservatives vice just Republicans) do NOT support people who voiceiferously espouse socialist ideals. My right, which I literally fought for, thank you very much.

Get rid of negativity, and think positive; ther are negative vibes from Mr.Limbaugh, Hannity, stop listening to them, Our new President elect is doing a wonderful job so far,we have to help him in every way we can, to bring this country back to normal. I can't wait to see him in the White House. He is surely going to bring lot of happiness in this country by putting it on the right track. we have lot of good expectations from Mr.Obama, and I wish him all the best.He is going to succeed.

Another court case tomorrow, Even IF Obama produces proof that he was born in the United States, he is STILL INELIGIBLE because he was a British Citizen at birth. This is already an established fact. Obama held Kenyan Citizenship from birth to the age of 21. The framers of Constitution of the United States did NOT want somebody with dual citizenship to be President, unless they were alive during the signing of the Constitution. This is clear. Obama was not alive then. The case will be in conference at the Supreme Court on December 5th. The question is, "Will the Justices interpret the Constitution correctly the way the Framers had intended?"

The difference is that President Bush is helping Obama in the transition. When President Bush took office from the Democrats, he had no help from the outgoing Dems and had to face trashed offices, and held over officials that did things like rob the National Archives to dispose of important records. I do wish Obama well because I want our country to do well, most Democrats are evil and only about themselves. So far, I feel positive about Obama's professional demeanor yet I am still somewhat fearful of him. He also needs to clear up his citizenship issue because I think it is a big problem being deferred as long as possible in a effort to decieve.

jkantor,

just for the record, I read Let-it-Begin's 'book-length' post.
Let-it-Begin is convinced that BO is doing well so far, and will continue to do so. Your post reflects something different: blind partisanship. So what if he hired old Clinton appointees? They were GREAT for this country. I'd be disappointed if BO hired old Sr. Bush or Carter appointees, because they sucked ballz.

Completely unqualified to be Commander in Chief

Bill most Democrats are evil? Take a good look at Cheney for one....
There are good and bad in every party, every race, every religion. To make such a blanket statement is ignorant.

I think Obama will be a great President. At least he speaks intelligently and is trying to undo this mess.
By the way, when Bush took over Clinton did not leave a mess, and left a surplus...

Mom trying to raise citizens, are you for real? Do you honestly believe that you know something from some smut peddling email you received as opposed to our entire Country's vetting process. Obama is doing great, every day I have more confidence in his ability. It was how he ran his campaign that earned my vote.

IS THIS TRUE?

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/106778-0/

jbjm13 and all other negatives - give us all a break and be positive about changes needed to pull the US out of the recession the administration finally admits we are in. As far as the economic team of Clinton's - HELLO - we had a surplus when Clinton left office thanks to the team. We now have a huge deficit - it makes perfect sense to anyone who can think independently that we want to head in that direction again. You rich people have had your cuts and benefits on our middle class back long enough. It's my turn!

jbjm13,

We will react to Obama's first blunder the same way we have reacted to Bush's scores of devastating blunders

Well, so far its only talk. We really don't know if what he says is going to work. All through his campaign he made some outlandish promises! Lets see if he's going to back up all the hype starting in January and lets see if what he claims to carry out is even going to work, considering he's a rookie senator to begin with. Not only that, he's got some tough decisions to make about war. I'm concerned because he has never served and does not have a military mind. So far, its all been a bunch of hype and good talk. Time will tell.

I always knew Barack was headed for greatness!!

A socialist whose politics are rooted in Marx and whose tactics were conceived by the communist, Alinsky

Re: Obama citizenship

This is the country that uncovered President Clinton's affair, the Nixon-Watergate scandal, Senator Edwards extra-marital affair, Mark Foley's gay sex with a congressional page, and Lindsay Lohan's sexual orientation. Do you really think that 4 years of national spotlight and investigation by FoxNews, CNN, BBC, et. al. would not have verified Obama's citizenship?? You think HRC wouldn't have used that in the primary if these lawsuits were at all true?? Even FoxNews verified it (just kidding). These lawsuits are smears, plain and simple.

mom trying to raise citizens,

With your ideas I am scared of the citizens you are trying to raise.

If we have laws in some states banning gays from raising children, I think it is appropriate to have laws banning morons and hate mongers from raising children.

Don't you think?

I agree with your post, R&F!-- The people are drinking the kool-aid, when will the facts prevail? "The media has succeeded in shielding Barack Obama from journalistic scrutiny. It thereby irrevocably destroyed its own reputation and forfeited the trust that generations of others had so carefully acquired. And it will never again be trusted". Posted by: RespectfulandFrightenedCitizen | Dec 4, 2008

jon - Just like the liberals did with Bush right?? Give me a f'ing break dude!
- So, your bashing of Obama is some sort of revenge for liberals treatment of Bush? Take a deep breath and think about that - what good will it do? As I recall, Bush was pretty popular for the first part of his administration and he did get re-elected (although that was questionable, too). Toward the end of his administration his approval rating dropped. I think most people recognize extremists (liberal, conservative, religious, political, whatever) for what they are and take whatever they're spewing with a grain of salt. - You need salt -

I'm a heterosexual male, who's also an evangelical christian. And I completely agree with Steve_NJ's post above.

Steve from NJ

I am frightened by the posts from mom trying to raise citizens and others...you have to wonder why they possess such hate and hate spreading...It's like when they said Obama was a terriorist...it's such nonsense....that is how a lot of republicans spoke because they really had no valid reason for Obama being a bad guy.
I'm from NJ too by the way....and I really believe Obama will fix our country although with the huge mess he's being left it will not be done overnight...it took 8 years to create it!

I couldn't believe that George was afraid to speak the truth about Obama because he could lose his job.
Everyone seems to believe the biggest liar anybody would know and his name is not Barack his given name is Barry he was born in Africa not the United States further more his mother married a man from Idonesia they moved to Indonesia where his step father wanted him to go to school and the only way he could do that at the time because Indonesia was at war was him to become a citizen of Idonesia so he became a Idonesian. We even saw pictures of him going to school and ABC but all of that was buried somehow and that is a fact.
There are several states that are currently in court suing Obama trying to get the real Birth Cerificate from Obama. In the first place his first name is not Barack it is Barry he took his father's name. If you don't believe me just look it up yourself on cuil.com.

Funny how those determined to see Obama fail will grasp at any straw to convince themselves they are right, even in light of evidence to the contrary. We should expect nothing less, unfortunately.

Obama could be perfect in every way and they will still call him names and find something they insist is fault. Just like pouty children.

Whatever. The grownups in the country see that for what it is.