Comments on: Has Obama Changed the Race?

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:56:45 +0000

As a former Republican, I can tell you that you won’t get a Reagan from the current party. The GOP today is not the party of Reagan. Reagan believed in fiscal responsibility. He understood that it was okay to say out loud that you’ve made a mistake as long as you fix it. Not this GOP.

By: Ezra

Ezra — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:46:24 +0000

In retrospect, from within Obama’s 100 days in office, we are seeing a rapid transition to socialism, just as many predicted.

My prediction is that the economy will continue a cycle of plateau and plummet, and end up strongly resembling the Carter years. So, look for a Reagan…. No, PRAY for a Reagan that will allow free-market economies and will roll back punative taxation and oppressive regulations. (Again, very Carteresque era we are entering.) Also, expect that –whether Republican or Libertarian–congress will flip, like milfoil on a hot, summer lake, and the pelosian era will sink. We can only hope–and pray.

By: Has Obama Changed the Race? at Hoteles Nicaragua

Has Obama Changed the Race? at Hoteles Nicaragua — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:07:57 +0000

[...] Has Obama Changed the Race? If you had asked me, before today, what the single most important issue would be in the upcoming presidential election, I would have said the economy, hands down. For purposes of the election, its more important to voters than Iraq, than health care, than the environment (though clearly those issues are intertwined with the economy). But that was before the speech – you know the one that Im talking about. Im referring to the speech that Obama made at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia [...]

By: Mory

Mory — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:44:21 +0000

Actually I mentioned Jimmy Carter Pres. election campaign only to highlight the similarities with Obama campaign today. Obviously, Jimmy Carter’s was elected with a great amount of hope but his presidency was a complete failure, I was not suggesting there was a connection to Obama success if elected President.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:54:27 +0000

Mory, you’re right about my memories of Carter. I have only 3 real recollections about his presidency:
1, Gas lines. We lived in the rural south and I remember driving to town for gas.
2, Mortgage rates. I didn’t understand them at the time but I remember my dad complaining about the cost of our house (my parents have lived in the same house since I was 4 years old).
3, Iran hostage situation. Every night, for as far as I can remember when I was a kid, my parents put NBC Nightly News on the radio at dinner. I remember the “countdown” on the hostage situation – John Chancellor was the anchor.

By: Mory

Mory — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:40:15 +0000

You are probably too young to remember the campaign but Obama reminds me of another candidate that became President – Jimmy Carter. Jimmy was the great liberal Democratic hope of the time, he was about change and he was an outsider who was very smart , and who had a great deal of support especially from the South. Obama is a lot more gifted of a speaker – closer to another name from the past, Adlai E. Stevenson than Jimmy – but they both have some strong similarities in their campaigns regardless of race.