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Date Posted: 18:45:06 01/17/09 Sat
Author: Peter
Author Host/IP: 216.222.255.195
Subject: Change We Can Believe In?

Is it surprising that Change We Can Believe In turns out to be no change at all?

President-Elect Obama's choice for Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, has acknowledged failing to pay some $38,000 in taxes over a 4 year period. Once again we see that if you are rich and well connected you are above the law...now there's audacity. Rewarding this behavior...now there's audacity. This is the least of the disappointments in an administration that has not even begun. Cabinet pick after cabinet pick are the same old tired choices. Audacity of Hope is subservient to "pragmatism". The president Obama is frequently likened to is John Kennedy...another president considered a "pragmatist". This pragmatism led to the Bay of Pigs Fiasco and our stepping squarely into the quagmire of Viet Nam. The great achievements of Kennedy's New Frontier, Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid were Great Society achievements not New Frontier accomplishments.

Audacity? Selecting a tax evader to head the department that collects taxes is truly Audacious.
Audacity? Selecting Rick Warren to offer the "inaugural prayer"is truly Audacious.
Audaicty? The knee jerk, poll driven reaction of inviting Gene Robinson as an offset to Rick Warren is truly Audacious.
Audacity? "One President at a time" on touchy foreign policy matters but not when it comes to requesting Bail Out Bucks is truly Audacious.

I wish the President-Elect nothing but good fortune and success. I canvassed for his election while I had the Audacity of Hope...Now I'm looking for a Change We Can Believe In.

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Replies:

Congratulations ... -- From the Church Lady A.K.A. T.W.P., 16:48:43 01/19/09 Mon
- What are you doing the next eight years, Adolf? -- Prairie Dawg, 10:21:39 01/23/09 Fri
  - Biting at your heels -- T.W.P., 18:47:29 01/24/09 Sat
Hopeful and optimistic - but.... -- Ned Depew, 10:58:22 01/20/09 Tue
- Je suis en accord -- Bill, 10:57:36 01/21/09 Wed
  - Re: Je suis en accord -- D Jam (150-200 days), 13:43:06 01/21/09 Wed
    - D'Jam - keeping the nightmare alive... -- Ned Depew, 09:51:09 01/22/09 Thu
      - Re: D'Jam - keeping the nightmare alive... -- D Jam (a purple lipped arab?), 14:36:44 01/22/09 Thu
        Islamophobia..... -- Fred, 18:33:49 01/22/09 Thu
      - Re: D'Jam - keeping the nightmare alive... -- Rick, 01:24:28 01/23/09 Fri
        Re: D'Jam - keeping the nightmare alive... -- D Jam (200 days max), 18:20:47 01/23/09 Fri
    - It would help the discussion if posters would identify copied material. This post was copied verbatim from the anti-muslim website "FaithFreedom.org," -- Frank Mullen, 10:51:00 01/26/09 Mon
      - It would help the discussion if posters would identify copied material. This post was copied verbatim from the anti-muslim website "FaithFreedom.org," -- D Jam (plaguritis), 14:25:18 01/26/09 Mon
        The Myth of forced Islamic Conversions -- Fred, 21:17:56 01/26/09 Mon
        Re: The Myth of forced Islamic Conversions -- D Jam (camps-Nohide law USSA), 20:58:16 01/27/09 Tue
        Re: The Myth of forced Islamic Conversions -- D Jam (et al, all real), 21:21:11 01/27/09 Tue
        Re: http://proliberty.com/observer/20070405.htm -- T.W.P., 19:25:46 01/29/09 Thu
        Thomas has a different take on HR 645.... -- Fred, 22:28:29 01/27/09 Tue
        Re: Thomas has a different take on HR 645.... -- D Jam, 14:42:58 01/29/09 Thu
Congress "pulled a bono" long ago -- D Jam (Thomas? (ignorance)), 14:33:42 01/28/09 Wed

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