Grading Obama's Transition

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.