<p>There seems to be no way that McCain can win this election.
Obama is going to mess up our country so much with his quixotic economic policies, including ‘universal’ health care and taxing the rich, he will destroy this country in four years.
The only way we will get back in shape is when America, as a whole, grows a brain and realizes that Obama was one of the worst presidents in our history and elects a Republican to office in 2012.
Most of my friends in college have no idea what the hell they are talking about when they say they support Barack Obama. They talk about him bringing change from our current destitution, they don’t understand that just because Bush is president now that we must have a Democrat to improve things.<br>
McCain is the man we need for the job, not Obama!! However, I admit, that I would have been happier with Romney running for President.
My family earns under $250,000, so I am not some angry rich person- just someone who understands we need the wealthy to support the economy. In this day and age, $250K isn’t a lot of money.</p>
<p>I voted for McCain (lucky to be an ‘October baby’), not that my vote mattered much in Michigan.</p>
<p>the last time people elected a Republican president it didn’t go so well iirc.</p>
<p>sidenote: i just can’t stand CNN’s Campbell Brown. She’s doing absolutely NOTHING, just sitting there being a pretty face and passing the work to John King who’s working the magic wall tremendously well. she can’t do **** but probably just wanted to get her face onscreen and take some of the credit.</p>
<p>I don’t comment much in political threads but I am just so excited and happy that Obama won. It’s just amazing to see such a thing happen and to see and be a part of one of America’s most historic moments.</p>
<p>yes even though i’m not american it just brings a tear to my eye knowing how historic it is and watching so many people’s dreams fulfilled on television</p>
<p>I agree screwitlah, and the childish behavior is actually one of the reasons why I don’t make much comments regarding politics. Some people just get too emotional (I’m not saying anyone in particular I’m talking about people in general).</p>
<p>Btw, though I didn’t support McCain, I have to say that he delivered a very good, powerful speech.</p>
<p>Politics and partisanship aside, it makes me extremely proud, as an American, that an African-American has been elected to the highest office in the land (and let’s face it, the most powerful position on earth). It really closes a certain chapter in American history (throughout the struggles that blacks have overcome from slavery to the civil war to emancipation to the civil rights movement) and is a promise to open a new chapter – for that I feel extremely good and I wish him the best of luck. Something to bear in mind: he is OUR President. It makes no sense to wish him ill – it’s like cutting off your nose to spite your own face – if he ends up becoming a great President and leader, who wins? The American public and our country. Put another way, if he fails, what do you “win”?</p>
<p>Having said that, I have serious misgivings with regards to many of the policies he is espousing.</p>
<p>This country has serious challenges to face and overcome. Perhaps he is the leader this country needs – though one thing is clear: tax and spend is NOT the answer – though this now seems like an inevitability.</p>
<p>Bush kept our national security strong- do you think Obama is going to keep doing that?
He said he would keep looking for bin Laden to get people to vote for him but it has been obvious from the start that none of his focus is on the war of terror. He sees Americans as vulgar and lacking in class- socialism would ‘soften’ our hard ‘cowboy’ edge and make us more like Europe.
I think Bush was more so an unlucky president than a horrible president.
Also just because Obama’s politics are not the same as Bush’s politics doesn’t mean he will automatically be a better president- I would be very scared of having him in power.
However, I could see how he could become very popular, he is going to keep people happy by giving them welfare checks and they will vote for him because they don’t want to work.
On the other hand, if they really want to get welfare that badly, maybe our economy will work better than having such lazy people working. Not everyone on welfare is unfortunate and unable to find a job, that is a lie.</p>
<p>I am excited and inspired by last night’s results. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who will be eager to see President Obama fail. He will not be able to keep all his campaign promises. He will be required to lead a country that is in worse shape than it has been in for many, many years. President Bush inherited a balanced budget, a prosperous economy and a country with a decent amount of respect world wide, all of which were thoroughly trashed in 8 years. To say we enjoy increased security as a result of the Bush’s efforts is to engage in a fiction. The invasion of Iraq and the torture and incarceration of suspects in ways even Senator McCain deplored have all been a recruiting bonanza for extremist groups. Bush’s initial response in Afghanistan was appropriate–his invasion of Iraq exceeded Al Queda’s wildest hopes. </p>
<p>So Obama inherits a situation that is far worse than it should be. And I think we are all culpable in some way. We have exercised poor personal economic practices. We allowed our representatives to sit by while Bush led us into an invasion that had no historical or national defense justification. We allowed political bullies to quash dissent under the guise of patriotism and to employ politics of selfishness and fear. I opposed the invasion of Iraq, but I did not write one letter or place one call to my congressman. I did not submit one letter to a newspaper editor expressing a dissenting view. The intimidation tactics of false patriotism were successful, in part, because I (and many others) did nothing. </p>
<p>I am inspired, as I said, but worried too, that this mess is too much for any president to fix in 4 or 8 years. But I will figure out ways I can pitch in, through a more responsible personal life, community or school volunteer work, and taking more ownership of my representation in Washington. I think Obama can get us going in the right direction, but only if we take some ownership in this reclamation project.</p>