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Ok I am going to speak up. I personally did not like a lot of what Obama was saying. Though it was impressive that he got out the vote more so than anytime in the last 60 years. That is both amazing and a good thing. Why? Because basically it has caused the American people to finally stop being apathetic about voting. It also showed a lot of people that their vote counts. Now regardless of them being dumb or ignorant of things,it will cause them to vote again in the future and maybe in a more informed way.
Also before people start with the sky is falling. I want to state something mentioned by a political analyst. Basically two things need to be kept in mind.
The Democrats will have to be careful in pushing the Democratic agenda if they go to far then in two years in the Senate elections tables will be turned. It happened in the Clinton administration.
Obama is still inheriting the economic situation as well. There is no room for raising tax's until the U.S, returns to a growth economy. That is almost 3 years out at the soonest.
If things do not turn around in the next 4 years then American voters will turn on him. This happened in California with the Govenator . He was voted in promising change from the mess that Pete Wilson inherited and made worse. He was not able to fulfill a lot of his promises and his popularity has sunk.
Obama will most likely move closer to center than people realize for the sake of running the country.
In the end we will see but its not the end of the World. I hope he is able to do the right things and not be as socialist sounding as he was in his campaign.
Of course most candidates do not make good on any of their campaign promises anyways.
Oh and for edacious about the bailout plan. Ah we dodged the bullet on going into a depression because of it. You may not like but it saved our asses. Oh and do not even compare us to Japan in the late 80's. Japan's financial system is ten times worse than ours is our could ever be. There are so many back door deals and graft its crazy compared to the problems we have. Seriously.
In the end Its time to move forward people and work towards our future. Lets put the differences and dislike behind us. The U.S. is not going to change tomorrow. Its not going to change that much in 4 years. Bush has done a good job of destroying our position in the world lets hope Obama can make it more positive.
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