Not to beat a dead horse.. but the great brilliance or peointtally great error of Obama’s campaign was he ran on “hope”. Of course your definition of hope, is different than mine, is different for someone else. But you keep pumping the word and peoples heads fill with great thoughts. Now we are seeing the after effects of running this type of campaign.. pleads for patience, it will take time, tempering of expectations, chipping away at certain timelines or ideas. He has yet to even take the oath and suddenly.. the rich won’t have taxes raised for at least 2 years, we won’t immediately pull out of Iraq, etc. These are hallmark Bush ideals that he campaigned against and now he is capitulating to them. (part of me wonders if these briefings are exposing a machine he had no idea about and can not possibly control)The irony of course is these ideals are why I voted for McCain. Not b/c he was some great guy.. but I didn’t believe jacking up rates on rich people helps you in a recession. Pulling out of Iraq after all this time and money is invested.. add to that a surge that has worked, violence to troops is down to nil, why pull out now? You are almost done. I do worry a little about Obama’s base and further left liberals that will be bitterly disappointed.. again.Its funny.. b/c while my “team” lost, I feel I won b/c its the ideals and not the person that have lived on. Will be a fun ride to watch.-Chuck
Not to beat a dead horse.. but the great brilliance or peointtally great error of Obama’s campaign was he ran on “hope”. Of course your definition of hope, is different than mine, is different for someone else. But you keep pumping the word and peoples heads fill with great thoughts. Now we are seeing the after effects of running this type of campaign.. pleads for patience, it will take time, tempering of expectations, chipping away at certain timelines or ideas. He has yet to even take the oath and suddenly.. the rich won’t have taxes raised for at least 2 years, we won’t immediately pull out of Iraq, etc. These are hallmark Bush ideals that he campaigned against and now he is capitulating to them. (part of me wonders if these briefings are exposing a machine he had no idea about and can not possibly control)The irony of course is these ideals are why I voted for McCain. Not b/c he was some great guy.. but I didn’t believe jacking up rates on rich people helps you in a recession. Pulling out of Iraq after all this time and money is invested.. add to that a surge that has worked, violence to troops is down to nil, why pull out now? You are almost done. I do worry a little about Obama’s base and further left liberals that will be bitterly disappointed.. again.Its funny.. b/c while my “team” lost, I feel I won b/c its the ideals and not the person that have lived on. Will be a fun ride to watch.-Chuck