I NEVER thought I would say this but

[Nightjock]

Obama has made me so happy with almost EVERYTHING he says and does I am actually glad my first choice Al Gore did not run!
I NEVER, EVER in a MILLION years thought I would say that, but he is CLEARLY the right person at this point in history to help turn this country around.

AG would have been a great president too, but there really is something special about BA. I have never seen anything like it in my 48 years on the planet!

The only thing Senator Obama has not said yet (that I am waiting to hear) is "Let's get rid of those Diebold machines!"

[Mira]

1. K& R Wonderful sentiment and I agree mostly except for

Ttat there are a whole number of things Obama has not yet said that I am waiting to hear. I trust caution about what he says and promises is at this point the most important consideration.
I hear he now reads most of what he says, just to not fall into a trap of theirs in the last few days.
They ought too be quivering in their boots as he makes steady gains.
He is like the professional hunter after Butch and Sundance, where they just kept turning to each other in abject fear/admiration: "Who IS this guy?"

[TheDoorbellRang]

2. As a former Gore supporter, I must agree

I still strongly support Gore's work, of course, but after watching Obama this past year, Obama is the one who can bring that renewable resource Al talked about -- political will -- strongly into play. I'm envisioning an Obama presidency with lots of 21st century fireside chats: "Folks, here's what we need to do, and this is why..." Obama has the charisma to get people's attitudes where they need to be to get America back on track. Obama's got the brains and integrity of Gore, and I think he's got more political savvy than anyone I've ever seen. D.C. won't ride roughshod over him like they did to Carter.

[Fovea]

3. As much as I like Barak Obama

And I do really think that he will make a far better president than anyone since Jimmy Carter,
he will be called on to rebuild America from the smoking heap of free market globalism and neocon foreign policy.
To do that, he will be pressured to go down that same free market globalist road and set up the same pattern of rebuild and wait for the
children of Karl Rove to grow up and start the second neocon revolution in 2021.

First, Shaxper says in Henry IV, we kill all the lawyers. We don't need to kill the free market buccaneers,
if we allow the moral hazard to act as originally intended, they will die in the gutter, selling pencils. But of course,
that is why we are Democrats. We will not let them die in the gutter. But we should break their economic power forever
and reduce them to penury and prison for economic treason to the United States.

President Obama needs to consider the following guidelines for redevelopment and reconstruction of America:

If it is too big to fail, it is probably a governmental function. If it is not a public good, it should be allowed to fail.

Commerce must reassume a focus on human needs being fulfilled as much as possible WITHIN the communities
which tolerate their presence and on whose public goods they rely.

The welfare of the community must never suffer at the hands of commerce.

No entity that cannot die, be imprisoned, or starve can be a person.

No industry shall ever regulate itself in America again.

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At the moment, for all intents and purposes, we are in the command economy I have predicted for 2008 since about 2005.
If I could have my choice for the next president, I think it would be Robert Reich.

Yeah, I think I would jump for joy right now if I could vote for my dream ticket for the next four years.


REICH/KRUGMAN 08!

[Bake]

4. I'm a Gore fan too, but I'm thrilled with Obama!

:woohoo:

Bake