It seems that most people on YA were for Obama before the election saying how proud they are to live in a changing nation (which you must admit the US is improving on the issue of race), and how great it would be to have a African- American President. But now that he has won, it seems that people are quick to judge Barack and talk down about him.
For example: now people are saying
1. Well, he not really black, he%26#039;s mixed ( which still is a accomplishment, because he would be the first president that isn%26#039;t 100% white) but dont want to talk about the one-drop rule. Remember that? If a person had one-drop of black blood then he was black, hmm how quick we are forget.
2. The election was illegal because he isn%26#039;t a U.S. Citizen ( Come on, do you actually think that through out the whole election period, no one checked to see if he was a U.S. Citizen.
3. He is a horrible president, who is a hypocrite and should be impeach (ummm... he just was sworn in as president, so he really hasnt done anything hypocritical, or bad)
As Martin Luther King said %26quot;this nation is a 10-day nation, we praise and cry now but in 10 days everything will be back to normal%26quot;. I hope that this nation does not judge Obama too quickly, give him some time, even he has said that the problems of this nation is not a quick fix, it will take time. Now in about 2 years if he has does not meet any of his promises or at least some attempt to, then you can bash him all you want, that%26#039;s want we did to Bush. But don%26#039;t be too quick to judge.
PS: I%26#039;m not a democrat or republican, I stick to issues not parties or race. And I think anyone that choose party or race over issues is a poor excuse for a voter.|||The nation will turn on Obama when the media (mostly TV) decides it should. He is a complete creation of the media in the same way a studio creates a Clint Eastwood or other hero. They can take him down with the same techniques they used to create him. It is all in the editing and presentation formats and repeating it over and over.
If I had their tools, I could have you hating the Easter Bunny and loving pedophiles in six weeks. It is a sad state of affairs but true. Remember when Hillary Clinton was still their early choice. She was portrayed as the gal that the blue collar guy would like to have a beer with. Could anything be further from the truth. That was the image they were putting out there folks. Total fiction!|||90 to 180 days.|||no the %26quot;RACIST%26quot; folk have|||Six months........TOPS!!|||You make some great points, even some I%26#039;m guilty of.
However I won%26#039;t judge him good or bad until he%26#039;s done something. So far, he hasn%26#039;t done squat except have the most expensive inauguration in history while in the midst of a recession.
Only time will tell if he lived up to the hype.|||I totally agree with you on this one.|||Apr 15th.|||1. Most blacks are mixed. So he%26#039;s still black. He%26#039;s AFRICAN black anyway which makes him being mixed all the more irrelevant.
2. Thats been debunked. People say the earth is flat and that we didnt go to the moon. People will talk.
3. See #2|||100 days.......then his rating will fall|||Only pure idiots.|||They won%26#039;t.
The real question is, will you be man enough to admit it everytime Obama does something right?|||They will turn on you as soon as you become unpopular Ask Hillary Clinton|||Hopefully under 24 hours.|||we turn on him as soon as he doesn%26#039;t meet exactly 115% of his promises. we set ridiculously high standards, and we expect everyone to reach them. i want to see the people who set those standards live obamas life for a day! and the real question is, how long until the KKK makes a threat against obamas life?|||he is our president ,|||The question should be how long will Obama turn on America.|||Sure, Obama%26#039;s speech was great (and super duper long) but he didn%26#039;t write it. He has a speech writer you know.
I%26#039;m accepting him as my president and I wish him well, but if he does how I think he will (considering I highly disagree with his policies) am I allowed to say I told you so?
Why do we need to spend four times any other president has spent on inaugural balls and such, when my dad is trying to make enough money to buy us food? That doesn%26#039;t make sense.
Right now, he needs to stop talking about it and just fix it. We don%26#039;t need to hear what we%26#039;ve heard 54635349875978 times already. We know our country is in bad shape, blah blah blah. We%26#039;ve known this for how long now?
So, I %26quot;hope%26quot; Barack Obama does well, for this country needs a major %26quot;change%26quot;. The quotations pointing out the words he thought he needed to use one million+ times during his time running for office.
I hope people can understand that him being half black doesn%26#039;t make him a worse president or a better president. The darkness of your skin doesn%26#039;t effect how you act as a person.|||I hope no one %26quot;turns%26quot; on Obama but I hope that we are allowed to seek truth and speak the truth if Obama is good or bad. We should not be censored and we may be because of the %26quot;race%26quot; that is in this %26quot;race%26quot;.
I genuinely hope he makes positives changes for us but only time will tell. I do not want the world to think that Obama will make our mortgages, bills and payments go away and wait for a handout. But it seemed many thought it may be ... which saddens me. We need revitalization and confidence in our country and our economy. So, we can all do well -- financial responsibility is what I hope Obama stumps and not %26quot;spreading the wealth%26quot;.|||2 months.|||I would say until he starts making huge mistakes and puts our country in jeopardy which may or may not happen.|||They already did. Have you not been listening to the racist diatribe prevalent here?|||Delusional, moronic, simple-minded conservative droids have always been saying those things and they will continue to do so since they have no respect for fact or honesty. Looking at the real world, polls show that something like 80% of the people approve of how he has handled the transition. You are drawing your conclusions from the thoughts of a very small (about 10% according to the latest polling) number of people who have nothing better to do than spread their hate and misinformation on forums like this. Looking at reality, it is plain to see that the people have not turned against him and most realize that we are a long road to fixing what has been destroyed by the failed conservative agenda, thus they are willing to give him some time before judging him (delusional conservatives notwithstanding)|||He will have to screw up worse than President Bush has which is an even more daunting feat than rescuing our nation%26#039;s economy. I wish all of the haters would just shut up or move to Canada. There are mmore supporters of Barack Obama than there are people who don%26#039;t support him---that%26#039;s precisely why he won the Presidency. People really need to give him a chance to work before they yell out frivolous impeachment threats that have no real reason behind them.
I love my President and I%26#039;ll support him until the very end!!|||Don%26#039;t you guys hate it when Democrats say they%26#039;re independents? I%26#039;m surprised nobody shot him today (I was actually hoping for it)
I would like to correct you on something. #2 states that people say he%26#039;s not a US Citizen. You would be wrong there. We know he%26#039;s a citIzen BUT he was not born in the United States which would normally disqualify any candidate. But alas we live in a world full of lies and deception and he was not forced to show his birth certificate. Now some of you are going to say %26quot;He did show it, he did!%26quot; THAT WAS CLEARLY A FAKE! Don%26#039;t worry republicans, there is a pending lawsuit to be heard tomorrow in fact (that would be the best birthday present ever)|||The REAL folks already have.|||Wall Street Weighed in today on what they think we are screwed.
