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To: ajtj99 who wrote (89742)	11/5/2008 1:48:16 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 116555

I'd agree with that except the last President to inherit problems of this magnitude (imo), Abraham Lincoln, got reelected. Obama clearly has been elected as such an historic juncture in our Republic; whether he's up to the task remains to be seen. With realistic public support instead of non-stop partisanship which is all I've seen for the past 16 years, there may be a flying chance things will turn around. There simply never was, nor is, any way for the US to continue to eat the rest of the (developing) world's lunch. It's all a matter of whether we make a graceful transition or a chaotic transition. So far, we've chosen magical beliefs which have lead straight to chaos. Will we continue to make such choices? Time, as always, will tell.

To: ajtj99 who wrote (89742)	11/5/2008 2:52:08 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Hoover left FDR with an economy in shambles, so FDR was only a four term President. .

To: ajtj99 who wrote (89742)	11/5/2008 9:49:30 PM
From: NOW	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Moving to Montana Soon I swear to the baby Jesus gazing peacefully upon the world from his crèche that if the election of Barack Obama makes America "socialist," then this blog makes me Tom fucking Clancy. I mean, here you have a dude who basically says he's going to tinker a little bit with the marginal tax rate and try to close some corporate loopholes (yeah, uh, bon chance, yo), but who otherwise promises to invade Syria and Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iran and the Moon and Kupier Belt, to expand the death penalty to include absentee fatherism, and to have the NSA eavesdrop on everyone in the universe. Ohmigod, America has been taken over by a dude who believes in American primacy and hegemony, who calls Israel our double-super-BFF-forever, who embraces a narrative of National Greatness that should give Canadian bagman David Frum the biggest only hard-on he's ever had. Is "socialist" the new "urban," i.e. a mere euphemism for "black guy." Are we really in for four years of the chest-puffing closet cases of the putative right trying to convince us that a Wilsonian (but black, which would've bothered Wilson, too) is some kind of crypto-Leninist?" whoisioz.blogspot.com