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Hmmmmmm.....
Isn't that interesting.
Just keep that attitude until the midterm election.
Maybe there is an end in sight for this Obama nightmare.

I'm with Jean1183 on this one....on the LJWorld voting yes will make people automatically think you voted for the big "O". Many don't realize most of the really offensive liberal people who post on here, don't even live in or near Lawrence. More conservatives in Lawrence than many realize.

Hopenchange!

In February of 2008, I stood with the 80 percent of Democrats
at our local caucus who supported
Barack Obama for the nomination. In November of 2008, I
joined half a million Kansans and more than 66 million
Americans who voted President Obama into office.

Today I applaud the work he has done in his first year as our
nation's leader. Of course, I don't agree with every decision
he has made or every direction in which he has chosen to
devote his attention. But he is one heck of a cool operator,
and some important differences are becoming evident in
the way our country faces challenges at home and abroad.

Do we have any doubt who is the commander in chief of the
United States? Our military leaders are expressing their
views and providing their data, but the President is in
charge of determining when, where, and how to utilize
our armed forces intelligently. Has our image changed
among the other nations of the world? America won the
Nobel Peace Prize this year.

Are our economic priorities changing? Congress,
in concert with the administration,
is moving swiftly to save our economy by enacting
responsible health care reform as well as laws to
stimulate green initiatives and support a new era of
growth with a solid infrastructure of faster, safer
transportation and more responsible banking
mechanisms.

Is it hard to make these changes?
Just listen to all the media noise and extreme
rhetoric in favor of the status quo. Read the accounts
of how complex a duty it is in 2009 to protect President
Obama against death threats from homegrown
American terrorists. And, in the midst of all these
criticisms and challenges, observe the calm grace
of the first politician in many years who truly
respects his political opponents.

I am glad that I voted for the first U.S. president
who understands the need to reinterpret and refresh our
democracy in the new context of the 21st century.

Yes. Lee Mercer, Jr. will always get my vote.

I have no doubts about my choice of presidential candidate. I am increasingly dubious about my choice of local newspaper.

Ah, unless you meant in the next election. Hopefully that's what you meant.

Voted for Obama and would do it again, a thousand times over! It hasn't been a year yet and I think He's trying his best. All those who want to criticize and snipe from the sidelines need to "GRAB A MOP". Quit your belly-aching and help clean up the mess made by the last administration.

"Quit your belly-aching and help clean up the mess made by the last administration."...

Unfortunately grammaddy your comment is counter productive for Republicans. If they pitch in and help they have no foundation for their complaints. The only way for them to succeed is to see that society is worse off with the Dems in power. So they complain, criticize and reject anything Obama puts forth, whether it is beneficial to us or not.

grammaddy says, "Voted for Obama and would do it again, a thousand times over!"

Hey, that's the same slogan for Acorn!

"If they pitch in and help they have no foundation for their complaints. The only way for them to succeed is to see that society is worse off with the Dems in power."

Problem is how much that sounds like the Dems from about 2003-2006.

America got the Nobel Prize? You get a prize for apologizing and talking to people who in the past/present and most likely in the future who lie, cheat and steal from their own people without conditions. When has it ever been okay to side against the Jewish people and Israel when they are in a fight for survival surrounded by multiple countries who have throughout history wanted to make them a parking lot. Why is it okay to purchase homes you can not afford, buy a new ipod/dvd system/new gaming system/big screen TV all on credit every time they come out with a new model and create a huge personal debt you have to file bankruptcy. Why is it okay for a bank to buy up a bunch of debt that will compound until it creates a crisis on the chance they will still turn a profit when they sell it to some other sap.

We are just as much to blame for some of these problems as the president but the whole party system is in shambles anyway because you have people claiming to be Repub or Dem because they have it written on a card but they vote like the opposite. I was pleased to see more independents running in this cycle because they were able to speak their mind without being restricted by their parties.

Nothing about health care will change until you get the tort reform and that won't happen because too many lawyers on both side of a case are getting paid.

Heck yeah I'm disappointed. I was fooled by Obama. I thought we'd be pooling together our paychecks by now and then divvying it all up equally among us. And we don't have universal healthcare yet? Whats up with that? Not what I voted for.

RiverCityConservative (Anonymous) says…
“Many are conservative–you just know from little cues and signs when you talk to them and see the surroundings.” This is a pretty interesting sentence.
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I think the cues & signs are supposed to work like similar to what the original Christians did with the fish sign.

The difference between them, though, is that the original Christians were actually persecuted and the rightwingers who incorrectly claim to be conservative imagine that they are the ones who are persecuted.

You have to remember that Obama has been given less than one year to try and change what Bush screwed up in 8 years!

I am one that says if you voted for Bush during his second term, you should not be proud. We wouldn't be in this deep of hole had Kerry been elected 4+ years ago. That pure and simply dirty campaign tactics which Bush's own publicist would tell you was the strategy going in. They had nothing to laud, they could only attack and it worked.

ksjayhawk74 - For some reason or another, my bet is that at least 45,000 Americans are going to die next year with or without Obamacare. Say what you want, Sara is a fox. I think the next time you see her out on the campaign trail, you will see someone different. She has my vote.

“Many are conservative–you just know from little cues and signs when you talk to them and see the surroundings.”

Five cues you are in a conservative's driveway:

1.) 1996 or older Ford Explorer in driveway with deep scratches in bumper and oil dripping onto the driveway

2.) Tons and tons of children's toys in bad disrepair strewn about the yard, both neighbors' yards, and the gutter out front

3.) A security company sign in the flower bed by the front door, albeit one from a company that went out of business several years ago

4.) A "Don't Mess with Texas" koozie setting on the front porch surrounded by at least 13 empty half-crushed beer cans.

5.) The siding is falling off the side of the mobile home.

TomShewmon,

You'll be able to trade in the '89 Bonneville for the '96 Explorer soon enough. Just give it time at the ol' low-end job.

"Participants also said Obama had referred to this week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in which 13 people were killed. His remarks put in perspective that the hardships soldiers endure for the country are "what sacrifice really is," as opposed to "casting a vote that might lose an election for you," said Rep. Robert Andrews, D-N.J."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091108/a...

In other words, the weasel-in-chief just told members of Congress to vote in a way that makes him look good, not to listen the people that sent them there to represent *THEM*. I certainly hope the Obamanation can take his own medicine, and is prepared to lose the next election because he rammed this snake oil down the throats of the people he is supposed to be working for.

When do you turn 2?

And please tell us all, ksjayhawk, how this bill is going to bring us all affordable healthcare? Maybe the public option, that the CBO says will cost more than private insurance?

Oh, I forgot - what with increased taxes (for someone else), and raiding Medicare (from someone else), what you meant to say was more affordable insurance for *YOU*, right? As long as someone else pays your way, you're fine with that. Typical liberal.

The intelligence of a non-Obama vote is proven with every passing day of his arrogant and irresponsible administration. Not a Palin fan, either, but we can only hope for more opposition in Congress to be elected in a year and for a return to American ways in 3 - if there's an America left by then.

I didn't vote for McCain, but I wish I had. I thought Bush was a very poor President. I had some hope for Obama, but that is all gone now. He has done an awful job. He is being ruled by the Democratic leaders of Congress and he has chosen too many extreme left wingers for advisors.

He had done poorly on foreign relations and his domestic agenda is worse. He has not followed through with too many promises.

I had hoped for someone less right that Bush and the pendulum has swung way too far. I has hoped for a stronger leader and the pendulum just stopped at incompetent.

I get so tired of hearing the broken record rhetoric from the right spinning over and over again. Gramaddy was right, if you don't like it grab a mop and help clean up the mess left by GWB. To quote Alan Grayson, "Lead, follow or get out of the way."
This includes you Tom. If you feel so strongly about all of this why don't you run for office? You seem convinced that there are just HORDES of people out there that feel the way you do. Prove it big boy!

Mess of GW? What part bothered you so much? The unemployment near 5%? Deficit spending much lower than today? Less home foreclosures? Are you talking about the end of Bush's second term? You mean when the democrats took over the congressional budget? Obama voting for the spending? WOW! That is so strange.

How do you know a democrats car? It's the old junker with the bumper stickers all over it.

Their house? Its the one waiting for someone to come cut the grass.

LOL!!!!! Just joking. Payback is fun
Their body? Its the overweight one.

Can't we have a fair and balanced debate? This is our country and we have to work together, not waste all of our time pretending that we follow the news based solely on the fact that we post on a highly insignificant poll. Educated discussion is not synonymous with ljworld opinion poll

BlessedSap,

Think about it for a second. I'm serious.

How many countries in the world have multiple currencies?

No, I would have written in Romney.

Yeah, well, liberals, congratulations to you, & to Darth Pelosi & your unrealistic health care bill. Hope you like bigger tax increases. May this blow up in your faces as our economy continues to tank. Change I can believe in? Whatever!!!!!!!!!!!

fhd99:

Do you have a memory? Do you not remember December of 2008? Banks and Insurance companies declaring bankruptcy? The economy has improved drastically since your little boy Bush was in office.

No sir, you are the one that has no creditability.

Go make up crap somewhere else.

Funny how the Neocons want to blame the past 10 months on O'Bama, but they won't take credit for what happened in the first nine months of the Bush administration. 9-11 DID happen on Bush's watch.

The current economic disaster also happened on their watch. Funny how they are now "experts" at claiming to be able to fix what they never saw coming in the first place.

mom_of_three, you're absolutely right. The sad reality, though, is that when people like myself despise the over zealous control our government has on our lives, we are vilified because we don't like those policies. Yeah, well if there are people here who don't like what I said earlier (babboy), too bad. This is a free country. Get over it!!

Neither party had a decent candidate. The parties choose who they want, behind closed doors, and they're all playing us for chumps. They're probably having a good laugh at our great expense.