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[wombat2u2004]

Edwina's Secretary, Have you ever thought of running for president?

Blu never did answer the question as to what lawsuits were being filed against Sarah Palin? That was suppose to be one of the reasons why she stepped down?

It would be nice if some presidents, elected officials would step down & it has happened in the past & some were even impeached.

Hee hee......some people have so many assumptions, they assume this and they assume that.....but really now.....do they know as much as they would have us believe ???? Naw. They are just hot wind. From what I have seen, the person in power at the moment is making a proper mess of things. I'd like to see someone take over the reins who is a little more humble than the arrogance that leads you all at the moment....someone who is not afraid to have a go. I personally believe that the USA hasn't had a good president since Kennedy, and that can only be a reflection on the majority of voters who have empowered these people since JFK's demise.
Arrogant people always support arrogant people.....so your asking if a certain person here should stand for president ??? What for ??? Things would never change. The USA needs someone who knows what they are doing.

[Marigold2]

Kennedy was not president long enought to really make a change.
Clinton was a good president. America was strong, jobs were plenty, we were not in debt. Leaders of foreign countries respected him, admired him and feared him. And came Bush...............
Obama inherited massive unemployment, two wars, banks going under, a nation of people without health care who could not afford to get well or become sick less they lose their life savings or home.
Most Americans if you ask them were happier, wealthier, and more optomistic about their lives under Clinton then Bush.
Obama cannot change 8 years of Bush in 2 years. Change takes time.
People need to change their attitude as well. As Kennedy said
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".
Well we are sending our sons and daughters to the Middle East to die that is what we are doing for our country Mr. Bush.
Tell me Wombat exactly what is it that Obama has done that you don't approve of?

[pomtzu]

Tell me Wombat exactly what is it that Obama has done that you don't approve of?

Well, I'm not Wombat, but I have an answer for this question - for what's it's worth:

He took the oath of office!!!! More than enough said on this topic, I believe! Of course, it's just the opinion of little old me.....

And BTW - it's President Obama - not Obama. At least he deserves the respect of being acknowledged as such.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

This is just an observation on my life but for some odd reason whenever we have a democrate in office, my life gets harder. (yes, I have voted for a few)
(like no raise in my disability for 2 years because they say there is no inflation. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Wish they would shop for groceries for themselves once in a while instead of having their hired help do it for them)

One thing else I have observed: when everyone gets harping on cutting spending the first things they want to go after is Social Security and Medicare but never ever have I heard a word about them reforming Welfare!!! (nor about taking illegels off the system that they just granted benefits too a few years ago.)
Just saying!

One thing our president has done, is let everyone and their dog drill off our shores but not let the US companies do it. Hence we are being held at the mercy of other countries for oil. Just peek at the price of gas.

[pomtzu]

This is just an observation on my life but for some odd reason whenever we have a democrate in office, my life gets harder. (yes, I have voted for a few)
(like no raise in my disability for 2 years because they say there is no inflation. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Wish they would shop for groceries for themselves once in a while instead of having their hired help do it for them)

One thing else I have observed: when everyone gets harping on cutting spending the first things they want to go after is Social Security and Medicare but never ever have I heard a word about them reforming Welfare!!! (nor about taking illegels off the system that they just granted benefits too a few years ago.)
Just saying!

One thing our president has done, is let everyone and their dog drill off our shores but not let the US companies do it. Hence we are being held at the mercy of other countries for oil. Just peek at the price of gas.

I hear ya' and I'm with ya' - 150%!

No raise in my Social Security check for 2 years because the cost of living has not gone up enough to warrant it? Oh please - give me a break. I'd sure like to see these decision makers, live on what I do. My supplemental healthcare insurance went up, my car insurance increased per statewide increase, take a look at the price of going grocery shopping, my car doesn't know what it is to go to the gas station for a fill up ($20 at a time only!), I just received notice from my trash removal company and we are being forced into recycling per state law (at a fee of course), and I could go on and on.

Nope - we seniors sure don't need a cost of living raise. We're happy as clams with things as they are...........

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Here in Kansas quite a few years back, our congress decided to live on food stamps for one month. They somehow thought the ones on food stamps were living high on the hog so to speak. They though it would be a snap. Mind you, you can only buy human food, no toliet paper or toothpaste or things like that with food stamps. I had to go on them for a short time while my disability was being determined. I got $75 a month.

the congress couldn't even make it through one month. the sissies

[momcat]

Two years ago my son spent 14 days in Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Venice with the International Scholar Laureate Program as a member of the diplomacy delegation. It was a few months before the Presidential election. Mike had the opportunity to talk one-on-one with a diplomat about what problems the next president would face. The diplomat told him it's going to take YEARS to undo the damage done by the Bush administration. The delegates, who represented our best and brightest, experienced a lot of anti American sentiment while there. The advisor told them not to take it personally because it wasn't aimed at them as individuals, it was because Bush was so intensely despised by other countries.

[Marigold2]

Exactly, and you will find this theme over and over again. Folks the world has strunk. Now a President's job is not just taking care of the US but managing to get along with an entire world. With the internet and our more sophiscated weapons this is a far different world then Kennedys time or even the first Bush's time.
The changes in medicine too have altered our values and morals. Test tube babies once science fiction, cloning, stem cell research. These things have changed our lives but not those people in the Middle East that don't even have clean water to drink.
A President needs to understand all this and so much more. He needs to be feared and respected, admired and also become a friend and trusted statesmen.
Obama has that ability, Bush did not. It will take a long time for the Bush jokes to end all over the world and for the world to get to know and respect this new man and his wife. They are a gem. And I am very proud of our President.
He is a good man and his wife from all I have seen and heard is truly a good and intelligent women.
If he fails at something it will not be for a lack of trying or intelligence. It will be due to people like Rush would said they wanted Obama to fail.
It will be morans like Huckabee who say he lived in Kenya.
It will be the people who believe he was not born in the US.
These people who believe this sort of thing. They will try and make a good man fail and a country suffer. These are people who don't think things through. Sheep who believe the insanity.
Let me ask you good people of PT when canidates run for office the mud slinging is INTENSE is it not? Nothing is held back. Detectives are hired to find dirt from 20 years ago.
They look into past love affairs, children, grandparents, old jobs, college, grade school, churchs they look at every little itty bitty part of a persons life trying to find the goods.
If there was any proof at all that Obama was NOT born in this country then it would have been brought to light and he would have been disquilified way before he won the the election, way, way before, yet people still believe this. Do you honestly think the Republicans would have not shown proof of this during the election if they had it????
Huckabee reminds me of a KKK, how dare there be a black in the White House, why he lived in Kenya don't ya know? And then all those hints about not being born here.
We finally have a good and decent man in the White House, a man without scandal.
Let us support him and make the US strong, healthy and a country to be proud of again.

Two years ago my son spent 14 days in Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Venice with the International Scholar Laureate Program as a member of the diplomacy delegation. It was a few months before the Presidential election. Mike had the opportunity to talk one-on-one with a diplomat about what problems the next president would face. The diplomat told him it's going to take YEARS to undo the damage done by the Bush administration. The delegates, who represented our best and brightest, experienced a lot of anti American sentiment while there. The advisor told them not to take it personally because it wasn't aimed at them as individuals, it was because Bush was so intensely despised by other countries.

[Grace]

Two years ago my son spent 14 days in Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Venice with the International Scholar Laureate Program as a member of the diplomacy delegation. It was a few months before the Presidential election. Mike had the opportunity to talk one-on-one with a diplomat about what problems the next president would face. The diplomat told him it's going to take YEARS to undo the damage done by the Bush administration. The delegates, who represented our best and brightest, experienced a lot of anti American sentiment while there. The advisor told them not to take it personally because it wasn't aimed at them as individuals, it was because Bush was so intensely despised by other countries.

Very interesting. Our neighbor's daughter was in Austria for a one year Fulbright Scholarship the last year of President Bush's term. She and the other American students were subjected to a lot of anti-American sentiment. It was so bad that most of them opted to come back to the USA for their second year of post-grad work.

And nothing has really changed - has it? We're still killing innocent people; still trying to impose our policies on others.