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sensei258
This IS history in the making, and deserves to be celebrated. But, once things settle down, will he be a good president?
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rajakumar
I think we may have Obama,as one of most popular leader of USA/World in the present time.
Just look at crowds cheer him everywhere and huge number supporters not only in US and also elsewhere.
Hard for other nations or any leader to have such huge number of supporters that he has,to support his leadership.
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timorborder
Good reporting, but I think I will wait for the DVD.
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wuzzademcrat
The Guardian disapproves:
"President Barack Obama’s inauguration next week is set to be the most expensive ever, predicted to reach over $150m (£102m). This dwarfs the $42.3m spent on George Bush’s inauguration in 2005 and the $33m spent on Bill Clinton’s in 1993."
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Sarge
Fortunately for Obama, the Bush administration has laid a foundation for an economic recovery which should kick in by the end of this year.
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Sarge
"will he be a good president"
Given his background and experience, I doubt it.
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buddha4brains
Sarge, you may be right. After all, look at how much experience the MBA president had in the business and political world before he became president. Obama has even less experience.
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SushiSake3
I've got to say, I've noticed many Republicans like Sarge seem to be pretty negative about Obama's prospects (even before he has started his term), and I've come to realize it's due to the continued disasters, poor judgement and stunning mismanagement of the bush administration that people like Sarge are so negative.
GWB has set the bar so low in his 8 disastrous years of what the wildly disillusioned would call 'leadership' that it's virtually impossible to go any lower or for any future president to do any worse than bush has for that matter, hence the intense negativity, crippling pessimism and painful disillusionment of Republicans like Sarge.
That said, the good side of this bad predicament is that Obama's performance will be measured against bush's, and on that score, Obama will score more brownie points just by opening his eyes on Tuesday morning than bush has in 8 years of failed "leadership."
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SushiSake3
Heh, it's good to gloat, especially when myself, many posters on JT and millions of Americans have been right so many times over the last 8 years about bush, Americans, U.S. culture and economy.
You just can't say the same about those Republican types, though..... :-)
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Wottock_Hunt
Oh yes, that's W's legacy eh? Financial well-being. Har de har har.
Obama's really got a full plate, trying to clear up the litany of disasters Bush has left him to deal with. Good job W doesn't read papers - it's spoil his mood as his sits back in his luxury with his winsome Mrs, while his nation - and the world - reels.
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LIBERTAS
I hope Obama thinks B I G! He's going to need to.
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Sarge
Wottock: "the litany of disasters Bush has left him to deal with"
Like the Taliban controlling virtually all of Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein still running Iraq into the ground while seeking to re-acquire WMD? No, wait, thanks to Bush decisions, the Taliban are on the run, and there is a freely elected government in Iraq that doesn't seek WMD or threaten its neighbors. Obama has inherited a much better situation than Bush had in both those cases.
Sushi: "Republicans like Sarge"
I'm not a Republican, I'm a conservative. I tend to support Republicans over Democrats, though there are some Republicans I'd like to slap upside the head. No, Bush isn't one of them. In his case, I'd merely slap his wrist for supporting these bailouts.
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borscht
Hussein blocked both bin Laden and the Taliban in Iraq. The Taliban does control huge sections of Afghanistan. Hussein never had WMD - even the US CIA has said that - whether he would be looking for them now, no one knows, but since Iraq is surrounded by countries with WMD, he probably would be.
The freely elected government of Iraq is now officially in control of the Green Zone, the most highly defended, armed, patrolled, and walled off part of Baghdad. The hinterlands of Baghdad, the Iraqi government is neither officially nor militarily in control.
The economic foundation that the bush laid down resulted in 700 billion dollar bailouts to his friends in the banking industry who rushed to loan money to people who should never have been given loans but, because the bush wanted 'deregulation', got the loan and then couldn't pay it back (surprise!)
But none of that has anything to do with Obama riding the rails to Washington DC.
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Sarge
If Obama was truly concerned about the environment, he would have ridden his mountain bike from Philly to D.C. instead of taking the train ha ha ha just kidding!
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SezWho2
The Guardian reports.
wuzzademcrat disapproves.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/14/barack-obama-inauguration-cost
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tclh
Politicians of everywhere these days ALWAYS put their interests, their parties's interests first without fail, can Obama be any different? I doubt it, but he is always good talking , smooth talking as ever...wait and see, just wait and see.
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Wottock_Hunt
Sarge
The Taliban are by no means on the run. Thanks to your man George diverting men and materiel to his farcical pack of lies in Iraq, the Taliban are very much on the way back in most areas outside the heavily-fortified Green Zone. Less than 15% of Afghanistan is under control.
And because of Bush's deception moving fighting forces away from Afghanistan (where, by the by, a chap called Bin Laden was last seen - any luck catching that fellow?), a secular state has become a hotbed of Islamist feuding, Al-Quaeda central, with the entire geopolitical area thrown into tinderbox levels of instability.
Oh, and it's not free to make FUBARs of that magnitude. So this foundation for economic recovery you're talking about? I'd love to hear some specifics on that.
President-Elect Obama's riding the rails into a whole cesspool of catastrophe, created and dropped in his lap by your frat boy doofus chum, and he's going to need all the luck he can get to salvage things.
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USARonin
WottockHunt, Obama said he's gonna put more troops in to Afghanistan and focus on pursuin' Bin Laden.
Now that he's the President-elect, he'd better take care of it. That's what he ran on. He didn't win by sayin' "I don't know if I can handle what Bush left me". You shouldn't make excuses for Obama either then.
We're all lookin' forward to "change" in the right direction and Obama promised it.
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SushiSake3
Wottock Hunt - I want to beat Sarge to the draw...here goes!
"George Bush is not a doofus!" :-)
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Wottock_Hunt
Sushi - I'm going to use Sarge's magnificent debating method.
Yes he is. Get with the programme.
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Taka313
Exactly. Exactly.
Taka
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VOR
why am i not surprised that so many people are putting all their hopes and dreams in one man. its just as ridiculous as blaming one man for all the worlds problems. the media does a horrible job providing any real balance.
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Badsey
It takes a leader (and many good followers)
The way USA Gov has been acting in the last 8+ years is not good. Change is needed.
If the same people running the USA Gov had been in a real company it would have been out of business by now.
Hillary didn't get it, and neither did McCain. Obama at least provides a direction to follow. Just ending the Iraq war will be a success. Obama-Change-2009
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Sarge
Wottck: "Sarge- The Taliban are very much on the way back in most areas outside the heavily fortified Green Zone"
Wottock - Wrong country, dude! The Green Zone is in Iraq, the Taliban are in Afghanistan.
Why is it you can't admit that Obama is inheriting a better situation in those two countries than the situation Bush had when he became president?
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Wottock_Hunt
Because he isn't. Simple as that.
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