I thought the vote in California (and other places previously) sickening, how can one group of people have the power to decide on the human rights of another group which engages in perfectly legal practises.

Putting it bluntly, what does gay marriage or any gay rights have to do with you?

That said, I thought that President elect Obama favoured civil partnerships not marriage for gay men and women, or is this just as bad?

Frankly, and this is another issue, but I voted for McCain because of his many years of experience, but I think that many people voted for Obama simply because he’s black. I know that had he lost the election, that everyone would be saying that it was because he is black. But I think that, as nation, we felt that it was time to prove to ourselves that we could see past the color of someone’s skin and vote for them anyway. Now we’re all patting ourselves on the back for being so great that we elected the first black president in the history of our nation.

Sure, it’s great, and wonderful that our country has come that far, but did we really elect him for the right reasons? I don’t give a hoot what color our president is. He could be purple, for all I care. I want a president that has had decades of experience in the areas needed to assume such a critical role. I just don’t think the majority of America voted for the same reason.

Now, I hope that in four years, I have been proven wrong. Let him prove me wrong.

All of you made good points, except for that first comment….you guy are stupid for even selling crap like that.

As for putting my pouty face away, I’m still not happy that Obama won, let me be very clear on that. I don’t agree with most of the things he said, or stands for. But, I will say this I want to give him more of a chance than the pouty liberals have given GWB (whatever your opinon of him is…) over the last eight years. I really think the only way things can get better in our good old US of A is if some one, or one of the sides has to take the high road and get on with life. What has monaing about the 200 election done for the nation for the last 8 years…not a darn thing!

Who knows how Obama will act once he meets reality, so that’s where I’m taking a chance on him. I hope he can do a good job….I would hope all Americans would hope that as well. We also need to learn that there are winners and losers in life, and that is part of life. The great thing about this country is that in 4 years if he does turn out to be a dud, we can vote for the other guy.

As for Obama winning by a landslide. I have to disagree with that. The results have him with a squeek in the majority category, which tells me the nation is still a moderate, down the middle kind of place.

Bush received 51% of the vote in 2004 and “barely” won, but Obama received 52% and it’s a landslide. Nope, no bias there.

7.9 million votes isn’t that big of a landslide.

As I have posted, Obama won by using conservative ideas just as Clinton did in ’92. It won’t matter when the Liberal Left Congress pulls him further and further left. When that happens then nobody is going to get a tax cut, not even the ones who don’t pay taxes. (at least for now)

Seriously, it would be tough for me to rank him a success in general terms. However, I might be willing to rank his handling of individual events a success. But, I’d be judging each of those independently.

Here are a few items I’d like to see him do, although I doubt he’d even pause to consider them:
- get the USA out of the UN
- kick the UN off USA soil
- abolish the IRS and implement the FairTax
- eliminate all federal spending on state projects
- end Social Security (although I would accept replacing it with personal retirement accounts as an interim step)
- implement a line-item veto
- eliminate the endowment to the arts
- eliminate the national education group (whatever it is called)
- build the fence along the Mexican border
- streamline the road to citizenship (but don’t give any breaks or free rides to illegals already in the USA).

I’m sure I could come up with more, but these are a good start.

Thanks for asking!

Come January, he’ll be my new President, and for the sake of the country I desperately want him to succeed, both morally and as Commander in Chief. At the same time, I hope his left-wing proposals end in dismal failure. I don’t think this is mean-spirited or hypocritical.

As to GO’s categories, that’s a tough one because we know there will be a difference between his intent and actual accomplishments. Also, try as we might, he doesn’t get a blank slate. I don’t like him or his path to the presidency. I think he’s the worst kind of politician, no matter how skilled he might be. That opinion probably won’t change. But I will teach my children to pray for and respect those in authority.

I would be pretty impressed, though, if during his administration, the budget was balanced (w/o totally gutting the military) and the country was kept safe.

As I don’t know how to open a threat on my own, I’d like to use yours to do a little poll, regarding the coming Obama presidency.

Given that most of you are dy-hard conservatives and don’t like to see a Democrat in the White house anyway, what are the measures you would judge Obama’s presidency. Let’s form four categorys in which you might put him, after the term:

1. He was a democrat and one of the worse kind, a real nuthead, even below my bad expectations (as some of you might se Carter).

2. He was a democrat and met my bad expectations exactly (as some of you would see probably Johnson)

3. He was a democrat, and I still don’t like him, but hey, he did some things well and the country was solidly managed (as some of you might see Clinton).

4. Hey, he was a Democrat, but for that he did quite fine (as some of you would probably see FDR or JFK).

Please don’t cling to the examples, I gave. Everybody might see the names differently, I hope you understand, what I wanted to say.

But what is your measures to finally categorize Obama at the end of his term? What are the things to watch?