Posted on 11/07/2008 11:50:37 AM PST by NoRedTape
As the giddy minions gear-up for "President-elect" Obama's news conference today and the transition of power over the coming weeks, what is your view of the new "President-elect"?
Do you consider Obama "Your President"? Will you partake in past conventional acceptance and show respect for him holding such Office? or.. will you decide to not support him as President?
Personally, I do not consider him my "President". Obviously, this pains me because as an American I would want to feel great about supporting whomever is duly elected. But Obama was pushed through, in my opinion, not vetted - just shuffled through the process by the Liberal Press (lamestream media). He was NEVER challenged on the negatives of his associations and never even specifically took the time to answer questions on his Birth Certificate or to answer the Flag pin controversy or his 'hands at his waist' during the National Anthem. The largest issue of divide is his stance on abortion. Secondly is his liberal influence which terrifies me in how he might handle the placement of Judges on the Supreme Court and the many other, but still critical lower Courts. Thirdly is how he might dilute the Military and mishandle the War.
Who is this President-elect to you?
Is he "Your President"? If so...........why? And, if not..............why not?
He is the president elect and so shall be until Jan 20th 2009. I will respect the fact that he was elected and I will not do as many of the liberals have done to President George. W. Bush. I will not attack him unfairly and I will not disrespect him when he takes office.
I may not like the fact that Obama was elected POTUS but I will respect him.
He’s not my president first of all because I’m a foreigner, but the question remains and it is a very interesting one.
For all I loathe him (I am happily suffering an acute form of Palinitis), I would have to say yes, because I participated in the contest. I voted and by doing so accepted to lose.
The caveat is that there is excellent reason to believe that he broke the law in his campaign financing.
But what are the alternatives to loyal opposition, hard work, rugged conviction, healing wounds, and raging on with redoubled conviction?
Were Obama to put in place his internal army, the famous one with equal funding as the regular armed forces, then I would consider a New Republic (France is on number 5, my Italy is probably on N° 27). There comes a time even for that, but I’m not sure that preventive action is proper on the home front against a guy who won an election against an opponent who conceded defeat.
So, yes, not my president, but most unfortunately president of my country... and lots of vigilance.
You said — “you just said that. oh, wait, it was in another link.”
Yep..., I went down the latest 10 new threads and I think about half of them were vanities... LOL...
So, I started asking why we’re getting all these vanities all of a sudden, when we’re not supposed to be doing that, but rather commenting on news articles and either commending and/or correcting them — to educate everyone else.
Again, our comments are supposed to be on the basis of existing news articles — and we can either approve and/or disapprove of what is said in them, and add any additional information necessary...
When I see his birth cert., he will be my President. For now, he’s just D.C.’s answer to Jim Jones.
No and hell no!.....There was to much damn fraud in his run to the white house for me to say he’s my president....Are you kidding? Just take a look at all the money he got from all over the world! It was all illegal!
The media never touched any of this! Yet, Sarah Palin can be dragged over the coals by the media for wardrobe charges to the taxpayer? Besides, he never explained his plans or anything in his run to the white house. How in hell do you elect anyone who doesn’t tell you what he’s going to do? This is a farce! The only time he said anything is when not behind a teleprompter and he slipped up with his comments like “spread the wealth”.
Are liberals really this stupid that they go so easily to socialism?
At this point all I can hope for is that he is a typical self serving politician only concerned with his legacy. On that point I’m hoping he’ll govern as a centrist.
Of course he will be. I’m a citizen of the U.S., and he’ll be the President. It will be his responsibility to be *my* representative.
RE: “My president will never be a marxist king.”
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I hear THAT! I plan to ignore the a**hole for the duration of his term, whatever it may be.
I don’t mind the vanities. We’ve just had the holy crap kicked out of us and there are those in power in our own party now out to destroy Governor Sarah Palin. Free Republic is more to me than just news articles and reports. For the time being I say allow vanities. But here is a compromise. Perhaps Jim Robinson would allow a seperate Vanities page and display it prominently in the forum. That way those of us who wish to talk to one another can do so without frustrating those who would rather jump right back into articles and news reports.
For myself, I need the fellowship of conservatives right now. This is not going to be an easy four years and it isn’t just Obama. We are facing some scary times financially.
As for Obama being my president. Whew. Yeah, he is president elect. I’m an American. That means he will be my President. And I fully expect this man and his administration to:
1. Rub out any and all dissenting voices. i.e. Fairness Doctrine. Drive By Media, and the destruction of lives as he attempted to do to Joe the Plumber.
When this happens, I will fight back against this thug, this socialist, who has now been elected as President of the United States. God help us all.
He is my President as long as he defends the Constitution of the United States. I will fight him on policies that are detrimental to our soverenty as a nation, and stand ready to disobey any laws that will seek to destroy capitalism. It he shows himself to be a Marxist, the second american revolution will be underway.
Folks, I need your help. I am looking at becoming an ex-patriot in 2012 years if we don’t win. Where is the best place to retire to? I have been thinking about Australia but I hear that it is difficult to immigrate there as they actually are trying to keep out the Muslims and blacks so they just don’t let anyone in. Any other ideas?
Well, he’ll be THE president in January.
And he says he’ll be MY president. But I don’t really want him to try too hard to fill that role.
Yeah, make sure all the vanities appear in *one place* — the place I don’t ever have to look at again, or see them creeping up again and again and again... thank you... LOL...
Obama will be the President of the United States. Period. It begins and ends there. It is not a question of my President or not my President. He heads the executive branch of the federal government. George Bush is not my President but President of U.S. Very important distinction which unfortunately most Americans do not get. It is often discussed whether someone is qualified to run the country. Even “conservatives” get into these discussions. President should not be running the country. They authority should be limited to running the executive branch of the federal government.
Do you consider Obama to be "Your President"?
Not yet. As others have said, he has not taken the Oath of Office.
Once he has, then yes. He will be my President. I'm an American. He holds the office. That's the way it works.
Doesn't mean that I can't work to fight his agenda. I have to respect the office, but I don't have to go along with every fool idea he tries to push.
I have disagreed vehemently with W. He was still my President. I sure as heck disagreed with Clinton. Didn't have much time for GWHB, either. I even had some pretty strong policy disagreements with Reagan from time to time. Doesn't mean any of them ever stopped being my President.
No, and i won’t accept him until he coughs up a birth certificate and answers the questions about his citizenship.
The same way Rev. Wright is my minister.
No due to known problems with ACORN I do not feel he was elected by legal voters of America thus he is not nor will he be the elected President of the USA. Remember “Selected not elected!” ;)
Is he even a citizen?
Liberals never called President Bush ‘President’ so I guess it’s OK for me to call this clown Mr. Obama - or better yet, “Mr. God Da^% America”
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