Grassroots Sense

On the 4th of November 2008 Obama was voted in office. I believe that was the worst mistake this nation ever made. Here are some of the reasons. This is only my opinion.

His campaign was run on a racial platform. Obama doesn’t realize that he is the president of America. The Democrats said that if we voted against him we were racist. I also wonder what happened to good character.

I believe that Obama is anti American and anti family. Sharing the wealth, abortion, same sex marriage; is nowhere in the Bible or the U.S. Constitution. Neither does God or the Constitution gives us the right or permission to do any of these things. The change that Obama is promising is to change the Constitution. If I understand it right the Democrats wants to apply the fairness doctrine. Which is to say that the liberals have equal time on talk shows? Well I think that most of the media is liberal. Even Oprah wouldn’t have Sarah Palin on her show. Where is the fairness in that?

The sharing of wealth is wrong. This is the reason why. How do we mandate charity? Faith charity, love are gifts of God. God determines what measure you receive. In life there are many things that you have to practice to get the increase. Charity should be practiced in the private sector not the government. Nothing Obama ever said is correct or in line with the bible.

The bail out of AIG will snowball and get out of control, now GM and Chrysler want another 50 billion dollar bail out. Obama is asking Bush for this bailout and it will destroy this economy. Stock shares are falling in the auto industry.
Radio stations shares may be losing value based on what Obama and the left says on the fairness doctrine. Air America went under mainly because of liberal views. I say 70% of America does not agree with the democrats.

Mark, before the anti everything people start bashing you, let me say brilliant article. You have hit the nail on the head. Obama's campaign was run on the misinformed in almost a cult like atmosphere. I passed a group of supporters holding a life size cutout of Obama on a street corner. That is not how you elect a president and is purely shameful. I laugh when they show tickets for the inaugeration dinner are going for upwards of $21,000 a pair. Nice. I think we all should share in the wealth of that little enterprise.

@ Mark - all the bashers are just waking up...get ready.

I see two of the first three things the Obama transition team is talking about changing are two executive orders from Bush.
One to allow Federal Funding for Human Embryo Stem cell research and the other has to do with allowing counselors in Africa to suggest Abortion as an alternative.
GOLLY..Thank God Obama has his priorities in order..they just couldn't wait to get in...and legistlate more death.
I guess 3000 murders a day in this country isn't enough they want to use our tax money to fund creating newlife for the expressed purpose of harvesting it for parts.
I have a very very bad feeling about this guy.
The culture of death marches on.

@ Paul — I've been up. Mark just handed over SO much fodder, I just don't know where to start.

In response to Woody Singleton's comments -- gosh, you sure are lucky to have a crystal ball. You should charge money to tell everyone's fortunes.

Obama said he thinks abortion of okay in cases of rape, incent and medical crises. People want to point fingers and call him a baby killer, but as an intelligent person I know has once pointed out, they are ignoring the fact that dropping bombs in Iraq has caused death and serious injury to many children. Is killing only wrong in the United States?
Also I would like to comment on "Sharing the Wealth." This has been an issue for me since I have become an adult. I sat in college classes, that I had to work two jobs to pay for, sitting next to people who were getting a free ride, wic or food stamps because they irresponsibly got pregnant and kept the baby. I used to sit there and think about how I had to work so hard to pay for my education and theirs and a lot of times I had gone without food. We are already sharing the wealth and have been for years.

Death is death whether done medically or by bomb.
Innocent children in Iraq have been killed and severly injured by bombs. Sharing the wealth is already going on. I worked hard and put myself through college without financial support from my parents and had to sit next to women who were getting a free ride because they irresponsibly got pregnant and kept the baby. I worked two jobs and went without food at times so I could pay for my education and welfare baby mama's education.

Sorry, I didn't think my first post went through. This is my first time commenting.

Re: Mark

And that, folks, is why the US hasn't accomplished any serious progress over the past 40 years.

I am so sick and tired of the endless ranting and carping of you hot-button issues folk and regressives who would vote for a candidate strictly based upon his anti-abortion stand! It doesn't matter if he would further shred the Constitution, give more tax breaks to companies and businessfolk who outsource our jobs and leave the whole world growing green with nuke radiation because he doesn't know how to talk to people. Oh, no.

The only thing that really ever matters in any political contest is that we save all those little itty-bitty embryos so that they will be born as beautiful babies!!

Nevermind that once the kid is born, he or she is pretty much on his or her own. Born to parents who couldn't give so much as a whit about his existence, your average unwanted embryo stands an excellent chance of growing up on the streets, learning how to survive the only way he can, and will probably commit an act of violence at some point in the process, probably against someone who did nothing to deserve the harm, or even their own demise.

And when the time comes that the little itty-bitty embryo becomes a semi-adult murderer, you pro-lifers are suddenly the loudest screaming advocates for the DEATH penalty!! Hypocrites!!

You all can't shove off this scene soon enough, for me. You've had your time, and have nothing but drama and perpetual idiocy to show for it. (You even have the nerve to call Bush and Clinton leaders, and then belittle the youth for choosing Obama!?)

The act of facing and dealing with all of the things that really matter has been pushed off by you all onto the up and coming generations. My hope and faith is that they aren't filled with more of the same know-nothing, do-knothing, drama-queen blowhards.

I guess the title of Ignorance says it all.

Thank you Ignorance.

@Marian Short,If you still live in Ohio you should rethink where you live. Try another state. I did, and I am very glad. The way people vote for things is idiotic in Ohio. Most don;t have a clue what they are voting on either because of the way the wording is or because they are too lazy and uncaring to find out. Take for example the no smoking policy in Ohio. Do you think people really card what business got hurt by this. Did they think of the outcome? Nope. People just wanted their way with no concern of the outcome.

Mark this mentality is not only in Ohio but everywhere. It is this mentality that had loan companies giving loans to people in houses they could not afford.

It is this mentality that has prevaded the US auto industry and the unions for as long as I can remember. Hey I belong to a union so I should be set for life. I won't make any concessions,the union told me I am entitled to full health care and retirment benefits no matter if it costs the industry to buckle under to get me those benefits. Now we have to bail them out.

It is this mentality that every time I sneeze I have become pre-approved for a credit card with a $10,000 limit. If I don't want it and don't want the 5% discount as I am checking out the clerk looks at me like I have just landed from mars. New flash, I live within my means I don't want your stinkin credit card with a discount that will end up costing me money in the long run. I AM A SMART WOMAN, please stop insulting me with your stupid offers.

@ Mark - New rules - if you live out of state you can not post here anymore. But, you can smoke anywhere you care to... :)

Nice letter Woody "Simpleton"! Woody quoted "the great Joe Namath" to illustrate an inane point. Yes, the "great Joe Namath" who drunkenly fondled and groped a female sportscaster while being interviewed live on national television! Way to go Woody! And I'll bet you got a Woody when you wrote your little nonsensical drivel. Hey, Woodrow, I admire Joe just like you do. In fact, he's right there in my favorite authors of quotations. Yes, right beside Plato, Epicuris, Socrates, etc. Yep, Joe Namathius is in that mix. Woody, your mentality is that of Woodrow the Woodsman, Baranby's sidekick. I think you're really Clay Conroy....you played Woodrow, didn't you.....You fraud.

Calm down Robert. I can't believe with all that is going on the world and the editorials that is what gets you goat. Get a grip dude.

gets your goat.

Hey, Nadine, dude THIS......You're as simple as "Simpleton"...That was the mentality that elected your criminal President twice and put the country into the mess it's in. Now, Pauly, yesterday you and Pedro blamed Obama for the sinking market.....So, how about reading this from today's news:
NEW YORK – Wall Street remained weary Wednesday, disheartened by more signs of economic stress — including dismal reports from major retailers, a bleak outlook for the nation's auto industry and additional job cuts in the already beaten-down financial sector. News that the government won't buy banks' soured mortgage assets as originally planned further discouraged investors. The Dow Jones industrials fell nearly 300 points, and all the major indexes dropped more than 3 percent as the market retreated for a third straight session.

Dear Nadine: So Obama is responsible for the financial meltdown according to you and your KOOKY friends. Nice try Nadine and Pauly. Your war criminal still has 2 and a half months in office....remember....he is your SUPREME HEAD KOOK. So come on "W".....lets fix this MESS now!!!

so Davie and Robbie both think there is something magical about the date in mid January 2009? Think again...from this point on it's on Renegade's back (I didn't make that name up, the secret service did).

It's even more amazing that you think it's Georgie's fault...or Slick Willie's fault, or Big Georgie's fault...it's all the ignoramus' who borrow more than can afford or max out their credit cards , and on and on and on....

@ Paul. I'm sure Bush would like nothing better than to dump all this on Obama as of 11.04.08, but it's all his until the afternoon of January 20th. You keep harping on this idea that it's all on Obama's back now, but that is BS and you know it.

@ Nadine. Simpleton works for me.

Pauly, you just contradicted yourself:
"It's even more amazing that you think it's Georgie's fault...or Slick Willie's fault, or Big Georgie's fault..." So if it's not their fault, then how is it Obama's fault? Listen Pauly, both parties have had a hand in bringing us to the point we're at today. The Gramm, Leach, Bliley Act of 1999 (Deregulation) was bipartisan. The GOP congress got it on and Clinton signed it. Obama is inheriting a ton of mess that BOTH PARTIES are responsible for. So give him his chance to fix it. And, by the way, January 20th is not "mid January". You seem to be clueless about everything, Pauly. The Kool-Aid, yes, the Kool-Aid. The difference between you hypnotized ones and us is we're not drunk on our "party" like you are. We'll be the first to critcize Obama and vote him out if he falters. But you frauds can't escape the spell Rove put you under. You can only vote your "party".

I think "Ignorance" says it all. Not worth commenting on.
@Marian
Its not inconsistent to want to keep two evils out of our state, loan sharking and gambling.
@Marianne
I've yet to meet an intelligent person...who feels they have to inform you of that fact.

An interesting set of editorials and comments today. One thing that seems to run through most of them is the separation between the two sides of the political spectrum. It also appears that there is a consistent perspective on the right of a religious foundation. I think a Judeo/Christian foundation colors how you see the world and the issues we deal with. Someone without a religious perspective has trouble relating to the viewpoint of a spiritual voter, and vica versa. Once we accept this divide, it should be easier to tone down the rhetoric. You're not going to change my mind here, and I suspect I'm not going to change yours.

@Lisa
You might like to hear what my crystal ball says:
I think, four likely overarching results that could come from the passing of this election:
The country goes bankrupt and all of our economic and social infrastructures collapse, causing a crisis that motivates people to reformulate into several smaller countries, all loosely based on the original constitution;
Civil War in which enough people have had it and secessionist movements rise up in several states and out of some sense of a debt to history the current President feels obligated to quell the rebellion;
Things get so bad that the pressure for a Constitutional Convention is overwhelming and one is held. The result is chaos and either A or B above comes to pass;
The people do absolutely nothing but complain until we are, like a cash-rich manufacturer with a weak board of directors, ripe for a takeover, victim to the boldest and strongest political movement on the face of the Earth.
Pick your future, America!

Hey, I didn't borrow more than I could afford, but yet my house is now worth less than I owe on it, even with having put $20,000 down. That money, plus 1/3 of my 401K and my brokerage account are now gone - PFFT - zippo- I wasn't reckless, I did everything right. So who's fault is it? The government? Banking industry? All those people who played "flip this house" and lost? Walked away from an underwater mortgage? I would seriously like to know whose fault it is and who is going to fix it. Maybe I shouldn't have invested in the stock market. I think there's going to be a lot of people stuffing their mattresses instead of putting it in the stock market.

And Nadine, good for you. I, too am a smart woman. Never married, I have done and bought everything I own myself, managed my own credit. Sure, I have made some mistakes, but I don't like being treated like I am stupid. I was actually yelling at this woman who was trying to get me to refinance my house, trying to explain that I did not want to pay thousands in closing costs and extend my loan out another 30 years just to save supposedly a few bucks a month and have cash in my pocket. She said nobody ever takes 30 years to pay off their mortgage - I said, fine, well, then I'll just keep the one I've got and save the closing costs. And then there was the one who was going to give me a home equity loan based on what I thought my house was worth - sure, its worth a million dollars - RIGHT! That's just scary, I wonder how many people have done that?

@Margaret
You might consider one other cause (the primary one) for the dominoe collapse of the housing bubble, the mortgage market, the credit market, the financial markets, and now major industries. That cause was the Community Reinvestment Act signed into law by Jimmy Carter in 1977, and put on steroids by Bill Clinton in 1995.

A lot of folks in the comments need to get back on their meds, or get an orthopaedic hat.

Mark,

Let me quote Bart Simpson : "HA HA"

I own property in Ohio so thats, that for new rules.

Actually that would be Nelson Muntz. - Haaa Ha.

Well lets see now Obama's transition team says they will tackle 3 of Bush's Executive orders right-away. 2 of them will result in.....you guessed it...even more abortions.
I guess 3000 a day isn't enough for the Democrats and Barak.
I have a very very bad feeling about this guy.

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