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He has no confidence in what he was saying. But that's cool, the rest of
us believe he can do it! He's da man!

He is as of Tuesday next and a year later he'll own the situation as his.
Should the country be favorably impressed with his first twelve months,
Republicans will be where they were when FDR died.
A permanent minority.


He owns it now, AFAIK. And he needs to work extra hours to do everything
he promised.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ng-nation.html

Obama can save us, says America as polls show wave of optimism sweeping
the nation
By David Gardner
Last updated at 1:50 AM on 17th January 2009

Barack Obama moves into the White House on Tuesday amid a surge of
optimism that he can turn America's battered fortunes around.

The President-elect went back on the campaign trail yesterday to try to
convince the public that his new £565billion rescue package will revive
the U.S. economy.

He was hoping to win grassroots support by meeting workers in Cleveland,
Ohio, in the industrial Midwest.

Mr Obama has already scored his first big victory in Congress, winning
Senate approval on Thursday to spend the second half of the Wall Street
bailout fund.

If his new rescue package is passed as expected in mid-February, he will
have an unprecedented war chest to use against the most dramatic slide in
the U.S. economy since the 1930s.

The incoming president has a lot to live up to, with polls suggesting that
the public has higher expectations of him than for any recent U.S.
president.

According to a survey published last night, 71 per cent of Americans
believe the economy will improve during the first year of the Obama
presidency and 65 per cent said they think unemployment will drop.

Asked about cash-strapped Wall Street, 72 per cent said they thought the
stock market would recover.

Some 63 per cent were confident that their personal financial situation
would improve.
'He cannot not succeed. He has to succeed because the world really depends
on him right now,' said Richard Kern, 51, who works in a home remodeling
business in Bernalillo, New Mexico.

'We're all hanging in by the treads of our shoes, waiting for the economy
to break. We need good news.'
There was solid support for Mr Obama's recovery plan in the Associated
Press-Gfk survey, with 58 per cent saying they believe it will bring
significant improvements to the economy.

....blah blah blah. He needs to put his crackpipe away and get to
work....take off running now, burn the midnight oil, etc. He wants us to
push him, so he's going to get all the cooperation he asked for. It would
be unpatriotic to give him a pass when he has such good feelings about
himself.

Anyone got any good recipes on how to cook and serve optimism? Interest
rates? Borrowing power?

Alfred E. Obama is our president. I wish him well, because a lot of
people's lives hang in the balance. Starting off by spending money he
doesn't have, not identifying and punishing the ones who spent us into this
mess, and placing his confidence on the optimism of the US citizen sounds
just more than a little Pollyannish.

Get government out of our businesses, homes, and lives. Let capitalism and
the free market dictate who lives and dies, who eats and who does not.

I am in a wait and see mode. Am I optimistic? Yes, and no. I want our
country to continue on a good track, and I know that all won't be on that
train. But it was high time that some freeloaders were kicked off in the
first place.

All the promises. All the rhetoric. All this BS of "Office of the
President Elect". Hooey. Show me something in the Constitution or written
law that shows that office to be anything but a hallucination of the holder.
Do just as all the other presidents have done, and wait until inaugurated.

And comparing him with Abraham Lincoln? Pardon me while I puke on my shoes.
Let history write the final verse on that one.

Let's see where all the media, pundits, and commentators are in six months.
But mainly, let's see where all the people who really matter, the citizens
who use Usenet and who blog, are in relation to their position now The
Messiah.

Just another empty suit.

Steve