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The sooner the better. We all think 4 years of Obama will be way too long. In President years Obama will be 88 years old in 2012.

First of all, I think that the office of President deserves respect.

Secondly, as a Christian, I believe my rightful place is to pray for the new President to be wise and to lead our nation well.

Having said that, I will oppose him on things where he is quite clearly morally wrong and to a lesser extent on the important things where I disagree with him. I am not willing to nitpick every last thing he does as I’ve seen some (not Moe) on this site do throughout the campaign (e.g. 57 states) since I think that makes us look petty in the same way that the left has been petty for the last eight years.

The bigger issue for me is WHO out there in the GOP congress is going to stand up and lead in favor of a set of issues that Americans can get behind.

Given Arizona’s laws re: employment of illegal immigrants, I’m somewhat hopeful of the Napalitano appointment (as hopeful as we could get with a Dem) and hope that we see better enforcement overall.

…and I’m not having a hard time hoping he’s a failure either, not when I contemplate how much more damage he can do in 8 (12? 16?) years than he can do in just 4.

This is, of course, assuming that we are even given an opportunity to vote him out of office in 4 years…I’m not certain that we will be.

The childish proclivity of so many, even on the right side of the aisle, pretending that it is 1824. (Note: I don’t know of anything special that happened in 1824, just picking a year long ago, far away, as it were.)
I don’t recall in my lifetime any candidate for the Presidency who made his campaign almost exclusively one of “America is totally, completely screwed up, and we absolutely MUST change, EVERYTHING!!”
And now, as the moment approaches when the man who declared “change” as the foundation of his message, without ever bothering to say ‘into what’, will take the helm, we’re expected to “give him a chance”, “be patient”.
Well, as Rush said yesterday, BS!
I want the miracle of The One ,TODAY. NOW!
At 12:00:01 I expect the stock market to jump UP 500 points, the Taliban to enjoy a moment of rational, Western style, clarity, and the World to experience a Global Epiphany of love and complete understanding of each other.
Anything less makes Mr Obama just another politician, who sang a great song, but doesn’t have a clue how to effect anything, long term, positive.
BTW, I am NOT holding my breath for any of it to happen.

I stand with Rush Limbaugh, Obama promised miracles, etc. Let them start today.

What will be first on his list FOCA or closing Gitmo or getting us out of Iraq? He is only another politican. He’s usually more eloquent, except when he uses the word aint. Hope and change, we had the same in MA, Yes we can from Deval Patrick or Together we Can. Same style, same campaign manager, same Chicago thugs.

Never seemed more appropriate….

My hope is that the office change the man.

the MSM wouldn’t tell us. It would be like watching “Weekend With Bernie at the White House” with Obama’s legs tied between the NYT and NBC.

I look at it like a game of poker (Texas No-Limit Hold-em, in this case:)

Say that we’re holding two pair and the board shows four spades. That is a terrible board to face with an otherwise decent hand. If we bet on that hand, we have a less than 1 in 10 chance of making our hand. However, we do have a chance of making our hand. Additionally, if we make that hand, it seems miraculous and beautiful and strategic when in reality it was pure, dumb luck.

It’s a thin analogy, but what I’m trying to say is that there is a chance that Obama will blindly pull the right strings at the right times and be a success as a president. I would even say his chances are better than 1 in 10. However, as a conservative, I firmly believe that the odds are always against the liberals to a greater extent than they are against the conservatives. If Obama hits his 1 in 5 or whatever the odds are, he looks like a hero and there is a greater chance of us making the same mistake, (going against the odds is always a mistake in the long run,) again.

Bring on the failure, (but may God keep us safe.)

If he continues down this endless path of massive stimulus plans, bailouts where money disappears overnight, massive expansion of government, pick-and-choose on when to apply the Rule of Law, name it, he will fail. Badly. If he cannot keep a Far Left Congress under control, he will fail. Badly.

Of course, the bloody shirt of George W. Bush will be waved until the last left-winger alive during this era drops, but that only will be effective about six months. The MSM will downplay the state of the economy and foreign affairs failures, but people intuitively know they are in dire straights or in danger. Obama promised far too much and the approach he has taken would take decades, if even then, to salvage the economy.

The MSM and the rest of the Left has cautioned patience, and “the urgency of now” has been airbrushed from Obama speeches. But this is out of their hands. People will take stock around this summer and if things aren’t improved, they will begin to turn. It’s a familiar story.

While I do hope Obama is successful, that would require dramatic deviations from the course he has charted. There have been a few, particularly on the Iraq War, but I expect they will be few and far between.

I expect he will fail, not because I hope for it but because his solutions and circumstances have set him up for failure.

“And as for myself, because I know who Barack Obama is and what he really stands for, I will oppose everything he does, and I will do so from day one. Who among you will join me?”

I will also stand against this man, because I believe what he truly believes and wants will be damaging to the fundamental principles that this country was built on.

He has a gift to pursued, I’ll give him that. He has the ability to hide his true meaning with soaring, yet concealing rhetoric. I believe the American people, with great aid by the media, have been duped.

I pray that our country suffers no lasting damage from this administration, I pray that the good people of America stand up for what is right and that their eyes are open, I pray that Obama over the next four years finds his true intentions uncovered and blocked, and I pray that conservatives in the country wake up, stand firm in their beliefs, and defeat this administration in 2012.

Obama is sweet talking and deceptive, and I will remember that.

Obama is a moral abomination. I pray that he keeps our nation safe from terrorist attacks, but I also pray that the domestic evils planned by Obama utterly fail. FOCA chief among them.

America saw fit to elect a hip, feel good candidate regardless of character or experience. Unfortunately, POTUS is a job that requires experience and especially a sound moral character. Instead we have an empty suited, egomaniac who lies like a rug.

Take Care, mailloux

and we won’t have to wait long for them.
The CBO has already released a study on the impact of the stimulus package. Not at all what we’ve been hearing, no surprise, and the effects of which are very slow in coming. It’s about power, not recovery.

Have you seen the big recovery plan for America he is touting?

Warmed over big government goo.

If he was truly a leader they would have come up with something better than this. Markets have already voted “No Confidence” in new team.

BO supporters see a halo on their Savior, who can do no wrong. If the unimaginable shall occur, then all wrongs shall be attributed to any or all of the following deficiencies: funds, support, and belief. The loyal opposition will be blamed for these deficiencies, regardless how hare-brained, impractical, or impossible an idea was to begin with.

it’s for sure.

Obama will fail because he believes this own Kool-Aid and that crap just does not work.

I for one am disgusted by all this “Hope he does a great job” clap-trap of late.

For what it’s worth, it is for reasons precisely like this that I cannot join my brethren who boldly declare that Obama is their President.

He is not mine. I have pets with more of a soul, children with more wisdom and US Savings Bonds with better maturity than the empty promise we elected to the world’s most powerful office.

Why would I claim such a man as my own?

With any luck, by October 2012, if not October 2010, the only friend Obama will have in DC will be the White House dog.

No matter what the left did, doing the same thing that they did would make us no better. We should use the next four years to show them that it is possible to support our leader and our country while disagreeing at the same time – not disagreeing by shouting out “Not my President” as many did when Bush was elected, but by striving to provide information about the truths of his actions, and spreading awareness of why alternative courses are better for the country. To support democracy is to support your country regardless of whether the person who you voted for got into office. To wish for him to fail is to wish for America to fail for the next four years – I can’t think of many things less patriotic. Show some class, people.

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Hoping Obama Presidency E…. haven’t worked the acronym completely….

Expires?…. um… ah…. Evaporates?… um…. Explodes?…. ah…..

want anything else?

What we needed was an exceptional leader with the humility to both accept disappointment and inspire confidence.

We got a blowhard and his second in command, an even bigger blowhard.

If any further proof of The One’s lack of moral compass were needed, one need look no further than the type of people he selected for his closest advisors and ministers.

To the success of an Obama presidency, I say , Pah! I spit you out!

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

we need to oppose Obama at every opportunity.

It’s not clear to me how or to what purpose I can oppose him on actions I agree are good, if the occasion arises.

Today starts the conservative revolution!

In another thread, we chastise Obama supporters and their lack of class for booing Bush, now Leon makes us all look classless by hoping Obama and America don’t succeed. Talk about cutting one’s nose off to spite your face.

Liberal policies are always failures. His arrogance, ignorance, and hubris will do him in. “Pride cometh before the fall.”

I think he actually had a sense of humilty a couple years back. I remember when the first rumblings, “he should run for president” were made, Obama himself said he didn’t think he was qualified. Since then, he’s been so puffed up by the fawning press and Hollywood that he doesn’t seem to mind the diety jokes we crack.

To top it off, he’s got a liberal Congress behind him to make sure of his failure. The nation will come begging for the conservatives to come save them in 2010 just like in 1994. I just worry about how much we’ll suffer in the mean time.