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To: Cogito who wrote (93880)	11/5/2008 3:36:02 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541421

"It's a little too soon to say that he has failed at it." No, it's not Subject 57591 LOL

To: Cogito who wrote (93880)	11/5/2008 3:49:25 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 541421

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, but I already have a very good idea how he'll govern. Although it is difficult knowing anything at all since he really hasn't said much. I do know he voted "present over 135 times when faced with tough decisions. I do know he doesn't do everything he says he'll do........public financing. I do know he told a concerned citizen, who was later vilified by democrats and the liberal press for daring to ask a question, that he wants to "spread the wealth." This is not something you want to hear if you're a small business person....which I am. I don't think Obama knows or cares that I have been voluntarily spreading the wealth for years, as have my clients, and let me be clear.......I don't need a politician telling me how to do it or that I'm not spreading enough of my wealth. In fact in some abstract human way.......I actually resent it. Where is my compassion and understanding? Over confiscation of the fruits of labor by politicians goes against everything I believe in, so I'll remain sceptical and watch. If anything.....we need to lower the corporate tax rate in this country, and bring it more in line with European rates otherwise companies are going to move over seas and take jobs with them. (Ireland comes to mind) I cannot help it if his kind of redistributive thinking does not bring the country together. And because 58 million other Americans did not vote for him, I think they agree with me. I hope he doesn't plan on asking me or them to abandon our principles so we can "all come together" because it just isn't going to happen. It would be nice to have a consensus all around, but thinking people do not believe him and also do not expect the pie in the sky promises we know he'll break. We know he's set himself up for failure, and he won't get away with blaming the Bush administration when he inevitably does. Politics just isn't fair.