Post by Cepha on Feb 10, 2009 8:36:51 GMT -5
Harry Reid? Decent guy, but too liberal for me.
Nancy Pelosi? I really like her strength and she has a "set". But on the wrong side of too many issues.
George Bush? In my heart, I feel that he's not a bad guy...but an underachiever that was "chosen" by The Republican Party more than Republican people. He's done great works (especially in Africa), but he just wasn't fit to be President.
Barney Frank? Now there's a good man with a good heart. He really is a strong, give it to you like it it, well intentioned person.
I'd like to see someone call him the "F" word (the same word used to describe a cigarette butt in England) to his face...Barney would probably lay them out flat and he deserves that respect. He is a homosexual man that doesn't flaunt it or throw it in anybody's face (just as heterosexuals shouldn't flaunt our own sexuality).
John Boehner? He's representative of everything that's wrong with The Republican Party. He's still living in the 50's. He's going to be the end of The Republican Party.
Michael Steele? Great guy. Really honest. I believe that if Republicans actually follow his lead, he will bring in more people to make the Republican Party more representative of the Country's population, but as it stands now, Americans just don't see things how Republicans do.
Ted Kennedy? Good man. Just out of touch like Boehner.
John McCain? If he had run his Presidency with the grace and the dignity that he gave his concession speech, he would be one of the greatest Presidents this country has ever produced, but his inability to do that during that "John McCain", the one that I grew to love decades ago before he was running for Prez, shows that he too was unfit to win and was far too unstable and unpredictable...and right now, we need stability, not instability.
The fact is that a good way to judge a potential President is to judge them on how they run their campaign and McCain's campaign was too infiltrated by Republican Extremists who I believe took The Straight Talk Express off the tracks and towards the end, began to sabatoge him...they did after all hate John McCain before he ran for President because he did call them out on a lot of stuff.
And now..."Barry". I honestly love this President. He made such a strong case for the Stimulus Package and his honesty cost him points with the extremists on both sides of the parties.
But here's the thing...while Americans are not supportive of the Stimulus, but are still supportive of the President...why? Because they have faith in him. Even if they can't understand how it will help us, they do respect how he reigned in the (for lack of a better term) "crap" that the Democrats tried to put in it.
Americans support the package by the same margin that they voted for The President (52% of Americans) and they still support The President by 2/3's.. President Obama's rating has actually gone up again, but it'll go down and up depending on the issue being handled. I believe it's up to 67% now.
For all of the RWE's cries of pork, it turned out that there isn't one earmark (pork) in the Plan. Not one. Their using their old tactics of just saying things and expecting people to automatically believe them. That's why President Obama set them straight yesterday...the failed tactics of the past will not be allowed in our future.
The President not only straightened out The Republicans, but he also gave the Democrats a tongue lashing too on the old way of doing things.
We all now need to take a breath now and just relax and be "Americans". We need to come together and to stand behind him and to support him. This doesn't mean that we abandoned our personal principles and desires and our common sense and reason, but we have to put our anger and bitterness over the campaign.
We went through a touch two years in this campaign. The previous 6 years were so destructful to our country and we are being re-born now.
I am so proud to hear President Obama's former adversaries show him respect now as they refer to him as "President Obama" and "The President". We don't have to "pretend" to love each other and hold hands and sing Kumbaya, but we need to start respecting each other.
God bless our country, our new President and his family and all of us. We're going to have to go back to being a United States of America where we were once a Divided States of America.
Nancy Pelosi? I really like her strength and she has a "set". But on the wrong side of too many issues.
George Bush? In my heart, I feel that he's not a bad guy...but an underachiever that was "chosen" by The Republican Party more than Republican people. He's done great works (especially in Africa), but he just wasn't fit to be President.
Barney Frank? Now there's a good man with a good heart. He really is a strong, give it to you like it it, well intentioned person.
I'd like to see someone call him the "F" word (the same word used to describe a cigarette butt in England) to his face...Barney would probably lay them out flat and he deserves that respect. He is a homosexual man that doesn't flaunt it or throw it in anybody's face (just as heterosexuals shouldn't flaunt our own sexuality).
John Boehner? He's representative of everything that's wrong with The Republican Party. He's still living in the 50's. He's going to be the end of The Republican Party.
Michael Steele? Great guy. Really honest. I believe that if Republicans actually follow his lead, he will bring in more people to make the Republican Party more representative of the Country's population, but as it stands now, Americans just don't see things how Republicans do.
Ted Kennedy? Good man. Just out of touch like Boehner.
John McCain? If he had run his Presidency with the grace and the dignity that he gave his concession speech, he would be one of the greatest Presidents this country has ever produced, but his inability to do that during that "John McCain", the one that I grew to love decades ago before he was running for Prez, shows that he too was unfit to win and was far too unstable and unpredictable...and right now, we need stability, not instability.
The fact is that a good way to judge a potential President is to judge them on how they run their campaign and McCain's campaign was too infiltrated by Republican Extremists who I believe took The Straight Talk Express off the tracks and towards the end, began to sabatoge him...they did after all hate John McCain before he ran for President because he did call them out on a lot of stuff.
And now..."Barry". I honestly love this President. He made such a strong case for the Stimulus Package and his honesty cost him points with the extremists on both sides of the parties.
But here's the thing...while Americans are not supportive of the Stimulus, but are still supportive of the President...why? Because they have faith in him. Even if they can't understand how it will help us, they do respect how he reigned in the (for lack of a better term) "crap" that the Democrats tried to put in it.
Americans support the package by the same margin that they voted for The President (52% of Americans) and they still support The President by 2/3's.. President Obama's rating has actually gone up again, but it'll go down and up depending on the issue being handled. I believe it's up to 67% now.
For all of the RWE's cries of pork, it turned out that there isn't one earmark (pork) in the Plan. Not one. Their using their old tactics of just saying things and expecting people to automatically believe them. That's why President Obama set them straight yesterday...the failed tactics of the past will not be allowed in our future.
The President not only straightened out The Republicans, but he also gave the Democrats a tongue lashing too on the old way of doing things.
We all now need to take a breath now and just relax and be "Americans". We need to come together and to stand behind him and to support him. This doesn't mean that we abandoned our personal principles and desires and our common sense and reason, but we have to put our anger and bitterness over the campaign.
We went through a touch two years in this campaign. The previous 6 years were so destructful to our country and we are being re-born now.
I am so proud to hear President Obama's former adversaries show him respect now as they refer to him as "President Obama" and "The President". We don't have to "pretend" to love each other and hold hands and sing Kumbaya, but we need to start respecting each other.
God bless our country, our new President and his family and all of us. We're going to have to go back to being a United States of America where we were once a Divided States of America.