Comments on: Obama’s Acceptance Speech: Shameless Pot-Shots

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:36:40 +0000

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your comments!!!!

That kind of common sense rebuttal is what we need for everthing he says. I agree with absolutely everything you’ve said here!

You know, Obama might not be a bad president. Years from now. When he’s actually not quite so fresh and naive. Those qualities are great for a lot of jobs, but not the presidency. If someone is going to be on a steep learning curve, I’d rather they not be doing it in the Oval Office and especially not during these times. With age and experience really does come wisdom, and this is an area where wisdom and not just wide-eyed optimism are really going to be important.

Being a military wife, I am really concerned about Obama becoming president right now. It is also incredibly frustrating to think that the majority of Americans listen to sound bites instead of facts, and somehow believe that McCain=Bush (they are nothing alike) and that this economy is Republicans/Bush’s fault… without reading enough to know that McCain sounded the alarm on what was happening and tried to do something about it quite a while ago, while being shot down by the Dems.

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By: Chris Berry

Chris Berry — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:28:49 +0000

The thing I find most audacious about Obama is the way he proposes to do everything single handedly. I’ll help our automakers retool…I’ll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. Is he running for President or King?

By: Stan

Stan — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:36:05 +0000

I agree with the points in the blog. I watched both Obama’s and Biden’s speaches and came away wondering how in the h*** they can talk out of both sides of their mouths like that.

On one hand they try to say how much better things will be for everyone under them with efficiency and then on the other they go into how many programs they will be creating (not explicitly, but with discussion of things the government should fix). Or in Biden’s speech dealing with his fathers advice about picking yourself up through hard work and determination followed by his observation that the government was just standing by without helping these people who weren’t getting back up.

Overall, if I thought that the tax burden would remain the same and the Obama Utopian existence would happen I would vote for Obama. However I haven’t seen that happen in the past with massive government overhauls (thinking FDR and LBJ) so instead I will be voting for my pocketbook.

By: Jeff Barnett

Jeff Barnett — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:45:36 +0000

I agree our energy policy needs a thorough overhaul, including encouraging alternative fuel research, but I won’t throw out all my other principles to ensure the energy sector thrives. The same goes for the mortgage industry.

And if you’re going to bring up energy policy, the constant subversion of the will of the people by Nancy Pelosi in not allowing a vote on drilling doesn’t give the Democrat party any moral high ground in the matter.

By: Jason Yates

Jason Yates — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:41:51 +0000

I’d say we have a tradeoff here. On one side, our country can continue entrenching ourselves in foreign wars and the Middle East. Our country can continue squandering the wealth of our nation. Sending a trillion dollars every year out of our country, into places like Venezuela, so they can fund leftist groups in South America and buy millions of dollars of arms from China. Or into Russia, who find it easy now, rich in petrodollars to suspend freedom of speech and democracy, and disappear political prisoners. Or into lovely places like Iran, who are using their oil and natural gas wealth to fund nuclear weapons programs. Lest us not forget Iraq either, Iraq awash in oil money managed to develop weapons of mass destruction and produced the worlds 4th largest military; costing us thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. Or the lovely Saudi’s, Kuwaiti’s, and Qatari’s who flow their oil riches into charity groups; whose goal is fund madrassas who are creating the next generation of terrorists, teach them how the West and democracy has failed, martyrdom and death to the infidels, and all there is, is Islam. The same charity groups who helped 20 Middle Eastern men come to America, pay for room and board, and flight school so they could learn how to fly commercial jets but not land.

On the other side, as a small portion of a complete energy policy, our country can help make efficient cars and alternative energy more affordable; and in doing so, increasing the economies of scale, eventually making them cost competitive. Helping make a sector accounting for over 50% of our oil usage more efficient; and in the process, help keep a trillion dollars a year from leaking out of our country, and instead flowing into alternative energy sources made right here in the USA.

By: Ren

Ren — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:28:13 +0000

You don’t think you’re being a bit too cynical? I mean it was only a 45 minute speech.