Wave against Obama?

[Muskan]

Now that we’ve made history by electing our first African-American president, what has changed? On first blush, not much, especially when it comes to our schools. Indeed, as the spiraling United States economy takes precedence, education is moving to the back burner, though sadly it was never really on the front burner during the campaign. Meanwhile Washington high society is swooning as chatty lifestyle stories document the courtship of Barack Obama’s daughters by a bevy of exclusive private schools. Am I the only one who is outraged here?
Again, I feel compelled to point out, one last time: Sarah Palin was taken tirelessly to the mat for every detail of her personal life — her mothering skills, hunting proclivities, reading habits (such as they were), the wacky names of her children, her pricey outfits and even the height of her heels. By contrast, the Obama family’s move from toney Chicago private school (chosen before presidential security was an issue) to toney Washington private school draws little national commentary. Why? Because for the ruling American political and professional class, not to mention the news media, sending one’s child to public school is unthinkable; and has nothing to do with public education policy. (Love that Teach for America, though! And universal preschool — it’s great! Computers! Innovation! Stimulation! Richard Branson! Aspen Technology Conference! Blah, blah blah.) ...
Our activism has evolved from blogs to street rallies to benefits and political action. Our first mom, Angel Zobel-Rodriguez, is running for school board. She has amassed no war chest, she has only us volunteers to help: the official position she put down on her application is “parent.”
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/public-school-parents-unite/

Are people feeling desperate to see the changes?
or are they realizing that it doesn't matter GOP or democrats, if people want the change, they need to bring it on their own, instead of looking for some president?

At the end, the article says,

Our activism has evolved from blogs to street rallies to benefits and political action. Our first mom, Angel Zobel-Rodriguez, is running for school board. She has amassed no war chest, she has only us volunteers to help: the official position she put down on her application is “parent.”

It’s just a start, but we have time (my youngest is in first grade). And like the Democrats now in charge, we have the Internet. As parents long disenfranchised from the national public education discussion, we’re starting to realize true change is up to us.


Seems she is sincerely desperate and frustrated too. She can't wait till 20th of January you know!

Furthermore, what changes will Obama bring in the promises he was reiterating during his campaigns?

The national debt is going to be too much for USA. It was already above 10 trillion in October, and with all these $700 billion bailout plans, The National Debt is going to increase further. Also, financial sector is demanding more.

The US financial system still needs at least $1 trillion to $1.2 trillion of tangible common equity to restore confidence and improve liquidity
in the credit markets, Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Paul Miller said.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/International_Business/Financials_need_at_least_1_trillion_Analyst/articleshow/3736315.cms (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/International_Business/Financials_need_at_least_1_trillion_Analyst/articleshow/3736315.cms)

It is quite sure that the $700 billion support will be increased somehow. And may be this is also a reason that lawmakers are not interested in helping GM through the bailout money package!
Anyways, during all these proceedings, I see weak chances of Obama reducing taxes on middle class, and increasing taxes on people earning more than $250k, because I think the number of such people is going to reduce significantly.
So I guess Obama may try to reduce his limit from $250k to $120k, he will increase taxes to that group and will try to help the people below that limit (as previously was pointed out by some media persons and Biden). Afteral, Obama need to look after the help package for the unemployed too.
And what will happen to the plans of universal health care during all this?

[mkemse]

Only time will tell on Obama's success or failure he still has 90 some odd days til he takes over, but more important we gave him the Oval Office, we did NOT give him a Magic Wand to clean up the messof the last 8 years, he did not create it, he is inheratingi t

[Muskan]

he did not create it, he is inheratingi t

actually now, america is facing reality.

Time won't tell Obama's succes or failure after 90 days, it will take four years for time, to decide if he was any better of the whole 43 presidents before him.

Not a single one of the previous president was right, and they kept inheriting the wrongs of the predecessors.

Bush kept following the WRONG of Bill Clinton's Kosovo spree, and repeated it in Iraq.

Obama is planning to follow Bush's spree, and is planning to repeat it in Afghanistan.

And what the "Haajis" think about him?
They say, Obama is hypocrite and traitor.

Al Qaeda aimed at undercutting the enthusiasm of Muslims worldwide about the American election, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a “house Negro” who would continue a campaign against Islam that Al Qaeda’s leaders said was begun by President Bush.
Appealing to the “weak and oppressed” around the world, the Qaeda deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, said in a video released Wednesday that the “new face” of America only masked a “heart full of hate.”
For years, the terrorist network sought to fuel anti-Americanism with prolific audio and video recordings vilifying President Bush as the leading American “crusader” against Muslim nations. The election of Mr. Obama, a black man whose father was from a Muslim family and who himself spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, has muddied Al Qaeda’s message.
The Qaeda leader described the victory by Mr. Obama, who has called for a troop withdrawal from Iraq, as the American people’s “admission of defeat in Iraq.” But he warned Mr. Obama that the United States risked a reprise of the Soviet Union’s failures in Afghanistan if the president-elect followed through on pledges to deploy thousands more troops to that country to carry on the fight against Al Qaeda and its Taliban allies.
And in a blunt personal attack on the new president, Mr. Zawahri painted Mr. Obama as a hypocrite and traitor to his race, comparing him unfavorably with “honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s black Muslim leader. ................
American officials said they believed the video was authentic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/world/middleeast/20qaeda.html?_r=1

I hope he will get some relief in the next term to do "some" changes he was promising for. And that depends only if he does not do anything more worse than what his 43 predecessors did.

[mkemse]

he did not create it, he is inheratingi t

actually now, america is facing reality.

Time won't tell Obama's succes or failure after 90 days, it will take four years for time, to decide if he was any better of the whole 43 presidents before him.

Not a single one of the previous president was right, and they kept inheriting the wrongs of the predecessors.

Bush kept following the WRONG of Bill Clinton's Kosovo spree, and repeated it in Iraq.

Obama is planning to follow Bush's spree, and is planning to repeat it in Afghanistan.

And what the "Haajis" think about him?
They say, Obama is hypocrite and traitor.

Al Qaeda aimed at undercutting the enthusiasm of Muslims worldwide about the American election, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a “house Negro” who would continue a campaign against Islam that Al Qaeda’s leaders said was begun by President Bush.
Appealing to the “weak and oppressed” around the world, the Qaeda deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, said in a video released Wednesday that the “new face” of America only masked a “heart full of hate.”
For years, the terrorist network sought to fuel anti-Americanism with prolific audio and video recordings vilifying President Bush as the leading American “crusader” against Muslim nations. The election of Mr. Obama, a black man whose father was from a Muslim family and who himself spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, has muddied Al Qaeda’s message.
The Qaeda leader described the victory by Mr. Obama, who has called for a troop withdrawal from Iraq, as the American people’s “admission of defeat in Iraq.” But he warned Mr. Obama that the United States risked a reprise of the Soviet Union’s failures in Afghanistan if the president-elect followed through on pledges to deploy thousands more troops to that country to carry on the fight against Al Qaeda and its Taliban allies.
And in a blunt personal attack on the new president, Mr. Zawahri painted Mr. Obama as a hypocrite and traitor to his race, comparing him unfavorably with “honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s black Muslim leader. ................
American officials said they believed the video was authentic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/world/middleeast/20qaeda.html?_r=1

I hope he will get some relief in the next term to do "some" changes he was promising for. And that depends only if he does not do anything more worse than what his 43 predecessors did.


I am not sure ANYONE could be worse the Bush over the last 8 years, Bush is making Nixon look like a National Hero
I havce even heard many say andthis has nothin to do with Biden'sremark, that Cheney may be thr worst and most dangerous VP we ever had

But nobody could be worsethen BUsh
If thre first Bush had succeeed with getting rid of Saddam, I wonder where we would be now?? W is simply finihsing up the job his father was not able to complete

[Muskan]

But nobody could be worsethen BUsh

Clinton was no better than Bush, so by your idea Nobody could be worst than Clinton.

Saddam was wrong and he deserved death sentence. But international laws were broken by Clinton and Bush both. And neither Clinton nor Bush were any better than Saddam himself.

The worst president was Abraham Lincoln on all accords, bush could have never matched the wrong Lincoln did. He caused 622,000 american deaths.
With Hillary being secretary and potentially strong to avert Obama decisions as she wants, I don't see good future for Obama.
And well, its just the start of Obama (which will start from 21st jan), after four years, we will see where he sits in the biggest destroyers list of America. On his part to play, he is 44rth, lets see what rank he gains after his performance.