So Obama voters....

[HowardRoark]

All good except for the most important position of all, Secretary of State.

Of all the choices possible, Hillary was arguably the worst.

I think it's awesome. really I do. You elected a "career politician". What did you expect? The most politically correct choice, of course. As Rush says, "keep your enemies closer".

Hillary can't run against Obama in 4 years. Now she's part of his administration.

It was a stroke of brilliance.

You lost all credibility when you said "As Rush says...."

You lost all credibility when you said "You lost all credibility when you said "As Rush says...." "

[packinpatland]

This is the same guy who said Obama went to 'fix his birth certificate', when he went to visit his grandmother for the last time.
Yeah, Rush is credible.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102308/content/01125106.guest.html

[BallHawk]

Ted Kennedy 1980

Kennedy blew his shot at getting the nomination before people even went to the polls. With the way Carter's administration was going he had to screw up not to steal the nomination from Jimmy. Kennedy just padded his stats at the end to make it look like the primaries were somewhat close.

So unless Obama starts producing 30% approval ratings, I doubt we'll see/would of seen any competition from within the party.

But, hey, it doesn't matter who runs, right? Jindal's gonna destroy whoever runs against him.

[SkinBasket]

This is the same guy who said Obama went to 'fix his birth certificate', when he went to visit his grandmother for the last time.
Yeah, Rush is credible.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/dai...106.guest.html

And yet you bought right into the Palin's teenage daughter as the mother of the retarded kid theory.

[packinpatland]

Me? No, I didn't.

[Joemailman]

Re: So Obama voters....

Do you like Obama's Cabinet so far? So far it has many Clinton era folks (Clinton, Rahm), and a Bush hold over (Gates). It doesn't seem to have to "Change" he was going to bring. I read an article he may even extend the Bush tax cuts now, and abandoning the gays in the military issue. It appears Obama is bring himself to the center. It's a move that helped Bill win re-election so probably a smart move.

Did people really think he was going to pick Dennis Kucinich as Secretary Of Defense? He's surrounding himself with qualified people even though they may not agree with him on everything. That alone qualifies as "change" from what's happened the last 8 years. As for the Bush tax cuts, they expire in 2011, so Obama has the option of doing nothing and just letting them expire.

[sheepshead]

ahhh the first in a long list of already and soon to be tired apologists. So, anything this guy said during the campaign is thrown out the window now? Interesting.

[packinpatland]

"ahhh the first in a long list of already and soon to be tired apologists"

No, that would encompass the past 8 years.

[Zool]

"ahhh the first in a long list of already and soon to be tired apologists"

No, that would encompass the past 8 years.

You forgot a 0.

[sheepshead]

"ahhh the first in a long list of already and soon to be tired apologists"

No, that would encompass the past 8 years.

Dubya has been accused of a lot of things, waffling and going back on his word have not been among them.

[sheepshead]

President-elect Barack Obama has shelved a proposal to slap the oil and gas companies with a new windfall profits tax because oil prices have dropped so much in recent months, the transition team confirmed today.

“President-elect Obama announced the policy during the campaign because oil prices were above $80 per barrel,” a transition aide said. “They are currently below that now and expected to stay below that.”

Obama’s proposal had called for using the proceeds from the tax to give American consumers an energy rebate worth up to $500 per individual or $1,000 per married couple.

As Thomas Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, put it: “A windfall profits tax is bad policy at any price.”

Another Obama shift:

Asked whether the energy rebate plan had likewise been put on hold, the transition aide said the rebates were included in a middle class “rescue plan” Obama released last month.

That plan calls for a permanent tax cut of $500 for a worker or $1,000 for a family, with the Internal Revenue Service using 2007 tax returns to send out the checks. Tax cuts also would be extended to seniors.

The policy shift came to light after officials at the American Small Business League noticed that the windfall profits tax language had been removed from the transition team’s Web site in what the group called “an unceremonious and abrupt manner.”

[sheepshead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PMxnyRssy0

[packinpatland]

You're right. Obama will be the complete ruination of life as we now know it.

[sheepshead]

Just not what he promised. We knew we were getting change, the 22nd amendment to the constitution told us that. He said he would close gitmo, but he has no idea what to do with these guys. This freakshow of a cabinet is a laughable embarrassment and even criminal in the case of Holder.

[swede]

You're right. Obama will be the complete ruination of life as we now know it.

Oh now...

I caught a little bit of Hannity and Colmes last night and the cabinet appointments have created some hilarious reactions. Hannity was basically saying that the whatever Obama is doing it will end up being bad even if it looks good and anything that Obama is doing that might be good will be done for the wrong reasons.

I agreed more with Bill Bennet who was saying that he liked some of the appointments and thought the words and actions of Obama's transition team were positive. Bennet was fully expecting that all these things would come into focus later on as we learn how Obama has been garnering political capital at this time in order to screw us with it at a later date. However, and I agree with this is big however, Bennet said that we must at this point be willing to accept that it remains a possibility that Obama is currently showing us a lot of political skill which could be used to create a very successful Presidency.

The odd thing for me is that Obama has been behaving pretty much how I expected McCain to govern.

So I offer grudging acknowledgment of Obama's work thus far.

I however reserve the right to say that I told you so should Obama actually end up to be the ruination of life as we now know it.