[Vision2020] Obama

Wed Nov 5 22:38:59 PST 2008

Roger,

Riddle me this...why is it that the unstoppable juggernaut Democrats always have so much power (even when they're in the minority) to pass whatever policies - no matter how perceived detrimental to America - and yet the Republicans are always so impotent to roll all these bad policies back?  The Republicans warn about the impending Freddie Mac / Fannie Mae implosion and yet they are powerless to do anything to prevent it even when they have full power of the White House and Congress.  The interesting thing to me is that the Republicans with full power had no trouble changing the bankruptcy laws to become more Draconian and yet with Wall Street melting down, they were pretty darn quick to find $700 billion (with a b) previously unavailable dollars to rescue / bailout irresponsible Wall Street firms most of which still have billions of dollars set aside to pay out all those juicy bonuses to their undeserving employees.  I agree with you wholeheartedly that the key to Obama's success is to govern from the near center, convince his party to move to the center (good luck with that) and also work in cooperative manner with the Republicans (good luck with that too, but I think the Republican minority may be amenable to some compromises).

Also of note is that Rush Limbaugh's key to a Republican resurgence is for them to move further to the right.  Good Grief!  Does neither side understand that when the pendulum swings very to either the right or the left, that in the next election or two, it swings just as far in the opposite direction?  Maybe not and we'll just keep oscillating from one party to the other every 8 years.

-Scott

From: suehovey at moscow.com
To: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com; lfalen at turbonet.com
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 22:18:18 -0800
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Obama

Hear!  Hear!

Sue H. 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Donovan Arnold 
  To: lfalen 
  Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 6:57 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Obama

        Roger,

        The reason Obama won is because they tired of Republicans ranting 
        and raving and blaming everyone for their mistakes rather than owning up 
        to them and working with others to better the country.

        Obama cannot make a disaster of the nation because it already is a 
        disaster. Obama has been hired to clean up the mess. 

        Bush and his cronies have destroyed the US economy, the world's 
        faith in the US, and the Republican Party. 

        The Republican Party will continue to shrink and become more and 
        more of an obscure politically powerless party until they 
        discontinue their negative attitude and nastiness toward everyone 
        that dares disagree with them.

        Obama will not try to govern from the 51% of the population on the 
        left, as Bush did from the right. Obama will have a much larger 
        coalition, and be more inclusive, not exclusive as Bush has been. 

        Obama will be President of the United States, not President of the 
        Blue States or just the Red States like our current President. 

        Best Regards,

        Donovan

--- On Wed, 11/5/08, lfalen 
        <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:

        From: 
          lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] 
          Obama
To: letters at dnews.com
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: 
          Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 10:26 AM

Obama won for there reasons. 1. A brilliant campaign (Alelrod may deserve the
credit here). 2. A more than 3 to 1 money advantage. 3. The economy melt down.
This last one is pure serendipity for Omama. If Kerry had been elected last time
this would still have occurred and no one could blame the Republicans.  The
seeds were sown when Carter signed "The Community Reinvestment Act "
into law. This laid the groundwork for ACORN and Obama to pressure banks into
making loans to high risk people. With Obama advising ACORN they took Citibank
to court over discriminatory lending and won. 
McCain and some other republicans sounded an alarm about Freddie and Fannie in
2004. Obama, Franks and Pelosi said Freddie and Fannie were just find. None of
this is to excuse the vultures on wallstreet. All of this aside Obama's is
truly an American success story. He went from rags to riches and archived the
highest elected office in the land. This is a great tribute to him. He now has
it within his grasp to become a truly great president if he will govern from the
center right to the center left. If he reverts to his political roots and
governs from the hard left, it will be a disaster for both him and the nation.
It is his choice. Who he picks for a cabinet may give us some idea in which
direction he is heading.
L. Roger Falen
Genesee
DN Advisory Board Member

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