Mona, Mona, Mona! You (and just about everyone else who seems to be enraptured by the sound of President Obama’s name) are going to be sorely disappointed… or at least I hope so. The man certainly has presence, he’s a masterful orator… but the same things could be said about Adolf Hitler. Yeah, yeah, I know, Hitler caused much evil in the world, but in the thirties, before he started paying his benefactors in human blood, he was worshiped as much as Obama is today. Nobody knew what he would do in just a few short years. Nobody knows what Obama will do either.

Shouldn’t you liberal types wait until after the man has actually done something before you fawn all over him? You’re smarter than that Mona! Step back a bit and try to be objective.

History is ultimately everyone’s judge. After fifty years when Martin Luther King’s FBI file is unsealed, there will likely be some disappointed people out there. He wasn’t the Messiah and neither is Obama.

I get very nervous when the public seeks to make a god out of a man. At best, there is massive disappointment, at worst, there is great evil afoot.

I pray for disappointment.

Well as of now he IS your president. Know something else, he will do a pretty good job. Prior to this afternoon he has already been working hard at his job. I’ve never seen any of our previous presidents work as hard as him from the day they are elected up until the day they are sworn in. Some may not like it but he is here now, he is not going anywhere, he will work hard and he will do a good job.

I didn’t vote for Obama, but he won anyway. That happens sometimes, much to my dismay! So now I’m going to support him, and I honestly hope he’s a great President. The US needs a great President right now. I was in grade school when Jimmy Carter was elected. I was too young to understand at the time what went wrong, but I was old enough to see that everything turned to ^@%# after he took office. Some people say Bush is worse… I’m not so sure. Bush did some good things. I can’t say that about Carter. Well, anyway… when Reagan took office, he made a lot of enemies right from the start. But, things started getting better, right away. And most of that wasn’t due to anything he did, it was due to what he said. He told people that the future was going to be better, and he told them why. That’s the kind of President I hope Obama is, even though his policies will be very different.

Mona, I think he will try to get something done in the Middle-East, fairly soon. That’s a huge problem, and he probably won’t want to postpone it because he will have the most “good will” in the beginning of his Presidency.

D.T. Gamble:

“Know something else, he will do a pretty good job”

… and you know this HOW?

“Prior to this afternoon he has already been working hard at his job. I’ve never seen any of our previous presidents work as hard as him from the day they are elected up until the day they are sworn in.”

… doing WHAT exactly? How many presidents have you actually seen doing anything before they take office? I submit that until they take office, they are not working as president, they are only preparing… if even that.

“Some may not like it but he is here now, he is not going anywhere”

He may be here now, but he certainly will be going somewhere one way or another. No man is president for life in the US unless he/she dies in office. In eight years or four years, or maybe even less, President Obama’s term of office will end and history will judge him just as it did his predecessors.

Dale: You hope the President will be a disappointment. May I ask why?

Ahmed:

Certainly you may ask! How else to learn but to question?

Understand that I did not vote for the man. I voted for the Libertarian candidate, judging the difference between the two main candidates to be their complexions, both being far to the left of where I would stand politically. Shade of skin is not the way to decide an election so I voted my conscience instead.

As to why I hope President Obama is a disappointment. Well, his supporters seem to be expecting the man to pull the troops out of Iraq by the end of next week, close the prison camp in Cuba the following week, make the economy boom again, close all the coal plants and replace them with “green” energy producers, invent a car that runs on water and produces no pollutants, walk on water and heal lepers on the front lawn of the White House. Jesus could do such things, without any consequences, but Obama is not Jesus, he’s just a man like everybody else. I will not worship a man.

When people seek to make a god out of a man, bad things happen. Either the man fails to fulfill the great expectations of his supporters, thus garnering their disappointment or he rides a tide of misguided love, worship, devotion, etc. to a very lofty perch where he gains more power than any man ought to have. Shortly thereafter, blood starts flowing in the streets… absolute power corrupts absolutely. History has illustrated this time and again… the most recent one probably being LBJ and the previous one being Hitler, though Pol Pot and Idi Amin deserve dishonorable mentions.

The government that governs best, governs least!

The changes that Obama professes desire to implement within my nation would destroy it from within much more effectively than any nuclear war could do. It doesn’t really matter anyway because we are going down hill fast on a train with no brakes, a full firebox, and a monkey wrench on the safety valve. Obama would not be able to change the course even if he could somehow manage to do the things he is expected to do. In any case, I do not want him to make the changes he seems to be advocating.

I want my government to get out of the lives of its citizens. I want my taxes reduced. I want my freedoms restored. I want a constitutional republic re-implemented. The supporters of Obama do not want these things, by and large. They want the opposites. If they don’t get them, they will be disappointed.

I want them to be disappointed.

Clear?

Sorry… I tend to use idioms that are obscure at times. This one would make more sense to an American of my generation or a few generations back.

“because we are going down hill fast on a train with no brakes, a full firebox, and a monkey wrench on the safety valve”

This is a metaphor for American society in general. The idiom refers to a steam locomotive, which is fired by coal/wood and has a safety valve that will release pressure in the boiler before the boiler can explode.

A monkey wrench is an antique adjustable wrench. In times past captains of steam launches and railroad engineers could maximize the output of their engine by the expedient of hanging a weight on the safety valve, frequently this would be a monkey wrench. This would increase pressure in the boiler and make the engine produce more power. It was exceedingly dangerous to do, so it wasn’t done unless it was worth the risk of blowing up the boiler, which could and did scald people to death.

Sorry all for the long a$$ post, as you can see I did my reserach.

The young people – and the old people – often do dream. The problem is WHAT they dream. Hamas’s dreams of genocidal slaughter will never make ANYTHING better.

Zvi, thats right, but it seems like the Zionists’ dream of genocidal slaughter seems to come true all the time.