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some14some
Obama may overcome recession but not vicious depression called "Bush Depression" that world is experiencing once-in-hundred-years. No quick remedy except confidence building, that is the only hope people have about Obama.
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timorborder
What a beat up, the guy isn't even on the job yet. Either the rest of the world is impatient, or this news story is the result of a slow news day.
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rajakumar
Once in 10-8 decades, we get Balloon scams falldowns. Once in 10-8 decades, we also get confidence building hopes via new deal-hope Obama.
Money can't buy hope. Hope,aspirations,inspirations and genius creativity is what buys people.
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telecasterplayer
Didn't they see him at AIPAC last June?
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USAFdude
You must be patient. Obama himself has already said fixing the bush mess will take time.
A cross between Superman and Merlin?! No Democrat ever said that; we're far more realistic. Doesn't mean we don't have hope. Admits he won't be able to keep all his promises? Show me where President Obama ever made such a statement. Impeachment by the end of next week? Hardly. Looks like the "liberal-leaning-media" has shown a bit too much conservative influence. Sad.
That's the fault of "people", not Obama. "People" need to grow up.
Thank you, george bush. 'Nuff said.
Very well said, Senor Carstens. Too bad a handful of Americans can't have your wisdom.
So do we, Mr. Cole, so do we.
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SushiSake3
"Though much of the world will party through the night Tuesday after Obama is sworn in as America’s 44th president — just as it did when he was elected — there are signs the ardor is cooling as the sheer weight of his challenges sinks in."
After 8 years of Republican/Conservative-sponsored bush failures and mismanagement, this really shouldn't be surprising.
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wuzzademcrat
Obama's effigy was torched again today in Beirut. It's like they don't believe in unicorns or something.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//090118/ ids_photos_wl/r3971600501.jpg/
Meanwhile, in his own hemisphere, Hugo Chavez is saying Obama has the stench of Bush about him.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE50G2F420090117
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IcingDeath
Man, I agree with that 73 year old woman. I feel sorry for Mr. Obama. This is one helluva problem he is gonna have to deal with. The last president to have this much stuff on his plate was FDR, and it took him damn near 4 terms to get things on the right track. Speaking of FDR, what a lot of people fail to understand is that he didn't stop the depression...he only kept it from getting worse and implemented safeguards so something like that wouldn't happen again.
Again, I don't envy the work that the incoming president has cut out for him. But, with all things, there will be nay sayers and critics. Luckily though, most of us live in a place where criticism is dealt with with counter-criticism instead of death.
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kinniku
This article just goes to show how silly people can be...
If the 'weight of his challenges' has not already 'sunk in' that that just shows the people who feels this way weren't thinking about it seriously enought to begin with...how could anyone not notice the 'weight'up to now?
Ummm...Obama has 'admitted' no such thing...
Well, many of us, including Obama himself, were not dreaming and have been realistic all along. Maybe you just need to 'wake up'.
I could go on and on. It is ridiculous that some are already reacting this way when the man hasn't even been elected. It is like they were just dropped down on to earth from outer space and lack in the basic knowledge of world events...Give Obama a break and a chance for heaven's sake...
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taniwha
Barack Obama will turn old and grey long before the US economy pulls itself back on to its feet. The root causes to the financial crises are political as well as economic, and so long as the Democrat/Republican front for the American ruling elite stays in place so too will America's nasty domestic situation.
At the risk of sounding immensely cynical this last election became an utter farce, a veritable treasure trove of minorities were proffered as Party candidates. Offered the chance to have the oldest president, to the first women president, to the first black American actually the first non-white president of America it was the representative of arguably the one group that had the longest history of shabby treatment that won the presidential race.
It remains though. unmistakably, a standout point of where minority politics has taken America from the 1960's until now, minority rights have been all about highlighting the ability of representatives from non dominant groups in the political spectrum to be able to drink from the same trough as the dominant majority. This has meant the creation of an entire middle class of black Americans, and yet the prisons remain more than 70% full of young black Americans, the majority from the working class.
The agenda all along has been to drive class politics from the foreground, right out of the picture in fact. Reality is, Obama stands for the ruling class, his entire presidential race if not even from his initial grooming as a political footsoldier for the ruling class, was financed by the private financiers and corporations. Obama's speeches now are almost entirely devoted to wiping away any allusions his earlier presidential campaign speeches intentionally promulgated.
Obama's speeches now make clear his interests are in defending the rights of the priviliged over the rights of the working class who are and will be increasingly, those who will suffer the most as the recession deepens and lengthens. The fact is, Obama stands for the interests of the wealthy and the corporations. Any president who would be elected if it was to be other than Obama would stand exactly for the same.
So don't for one moment, think with George W Bush no longer in office everything all that was done during the past 8 years will begin to be undone. Some things will improve of course, starting with the presidential speeches themselves, but other than that things will continue to move along the path the US ruling elite decided the country to go on more than a decade ago. Wars, lots of them, the continued erosion of civil rights, the gutting of wealth from the towns and communities of the country itself. And really, it can be summed up by stating simply what American foreign policy will continue to exact on the outside world, American domestic policy will replicate on its own people.
Obama's presidency does not ensure there will be no substantial change, it simply means it will be profit making as usual, only it will be this time with a far more eloquent leader than that previous in office that is now leading the pillaging.
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kinniku
taniwha,
Why, you certainly are a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day, aren'tcha?
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wuzzademcrat
If Obama gets too popular he threatens the status quo in Europe. EU elites will quietly get the media to just repackage the invidious, rabid, knee-jerk anti-Americanism that apparently passes for deep thought there. They are decades or more likely centuries away from electing some one like Obama.If you follow such things you saw it during the primaries, Euro Lefties palpably discouraged by the progress Obama made, since it shoots down so many of the trite stereotypes they need to cling to in fear and awe of US "hyperpuissance."
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taniwha
Yeah, well, what can I say? If it helps any I wish like hell I have been entirely wrong. But since beginning my posts here in 2000 my sources have proven to be entirely correct. It is a real bummer though, isn't it?
The upside though is that there is an alternative, and the kind of portentous future I have been describing which for the most is now becoming reality, and the near more terrifying future awaiting us doesn't at all have to eventuate. But it will, if things don't change. Really change, and very quickly.
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wuzzademcrat
"Yeah, well, what can I say? If it helps any I wish like hell I have been entirely wrong. But since beginning my posts here in 2000 my sources have proven to be entirely correct. It is a real bummer though, isn't it?"
If you saw it all coming, as you claim, and didn't invest accordingly, I would say so. Yes, bummer, man.
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SuperLib
My expectation is to get closer to the old adage that "What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise." Obama isn't perfect, he isn't going to solve everything, but in the end I think he's going to get us just a little bit closer to being as good as its promise. As a 30-something cynic who normally scoffed at the idea of a politician being a leader and thought that the days of Kennedy and Roosevelt were long gone, I have to say that I have a certain excitement about the situation that I never though I'd have after an election. And for now, I'm going to ride it for all it's worth.
T minus 30 hours and counting... America's back, baby. Hold on to your hats.
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taniwha
Wuzzademacrat --
True very true. Not surprisingly I have indeed invested accordingly. This is the point of my posts. It is vital to understand what is happening so that one can invest their 'assets' accordingly.
In fact if anyone intent on managing their capital did pay heed to the warnings my posts drew attention to since 2002 they would have greatly benefited. But of course, I have been not been focusing on the topic of investing in stocks, properties and commodities above.
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usaexpat
The rest of the world is finally getting a clue that Obama is a moderate and will (as is a president's duty) put the interests of America first. SuperLib: I think I'm feeling much like you are that while not perfect maybe we have a chance to be a great nation again.
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SuperLib
Yep, Obama is a moderate. And I'm going to enjoy the dropped jaws from the left and far left when they finally realize that. But I'll always thank them for helping him get elected. Besides, they'll always have Bush to talk about. ;)
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taniwha
A moderate captain at the helm of a destroyer still has the mission to complete.
May make no difference at all to those who think this financial crises will blow over in a couple of years or even in ten years. If you think this then you do not understand just how f****d the world economic system is at this point, and just how inadequate the measures taken so far are in being able to deal with the root cause.
Go watch a video of Peter Schiff on Youtube to get a picture of what is happening and what the future holds, for the US at least. Of course I don't follow Schiff's solution, principally because his medicine would be poison to the entire working class, and ultimately to the world as a whole. Nevertheless he does has the ability to describe lucidly the reality you and millions of deluded Americans, are simply not facing up to. There seems to be about umpteen dozen videos on Youtube focusing on him - including one remarkable one where CNN apparently cuts off the video link as he is in mid prediction on the US economy.
Obama will be at the helm when the new administration slices and dices all social welfare services, including medicare and medibank, education, and the care of veterans.
Obama will also as I imply here be at the helm of new major wars which were already planned by the hawks in the US war wings well prior to the Bush administration coming into power. Obama despite his pre-election promises will not be ending the war in Iraq, in fact it will likely blow up again very soon, will be fanning the war in Afghanistan into something far bigger, likely sucking in Pakistan, and of course Obama speeches have recently made it clear a direct military strike upon Iran has not been taken off the list of things-to-do before Christmas 2010.
The only jaws that will be dropping in response to Obama's leadership several months from now, will be those that remain deluded about the reality of the nature of America's fraudulent two party system, AND the reality of the state of health of capitalism itself today.
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