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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (46282)	12/5/2008 1:27:45 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Obama is too smart of a man to make the same mistakes as Bush did, which is just rely on his base and be the President for his base. He is not a left liberal as he has been made out to be by the right wing. His actions thus far has not given me any reason to believe that he is a bleeding liberal.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (46282)	12/5/2008 6:16:13 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Lizzy, Obama will just be smart. There is good liberal and bad liberal. He will pick the good liberal I think. But he will also want a more egelatarian society and I am in agreement with that. Large healthy middle class. Best for the kids and best for society. And pre school funding. Any money the govenrment spends for that, it will get back 10 fold down the road. Society has to educate the kids. He seems to know that.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (46282)	12/6/2008 11:49:41 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 149317

I agree with you on not wanting to see a boom in liberal thinking. I'd prefer we stay centrist. However, I've done a lot of reading on the Great Depression recently. My conclusion is that Keynsian economic solutions are needed to get us out of this recession and that means massive government deficits in the next two years. However, we have to also create plans to bring those deficits back under control. I believe that around 2012, we need to increase the top tax rates back to the levels they were in the 1990s.