This is what will happen.
President Obama and a Democrat Congress Will....
by owenfieldreams 143 Replies latest jw friends
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Seeker4
As I tell my Republican co-worker, Obama will solve all the problems that the clusterfuck known as the Bush Administration has foisted on America, turning us into a second rate world power with a government hated and despised the world over.
I never thought I'd hear debates about how much Americans can torture their POWs, for christ sake! We're America, not some South American drug cartel.
Look what we've become in 8 short years.
Bush and his handlers have managed to eat up our economic surplus, plunge us into devastating debt, sink us into at least two never-ending wars that have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and are leading us to $4 a gallon fuel oil and gasoline prices while the value of the dollar drops like never before. All this while they made themselves wealthier and put the wood to the nations poor and middle class, giving the tax breaks to the wealthiest few. They also failed to protect us from financial institutions that used unscrupulous policies that have created the most serious housing foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression.
I am so much worse off financially than I was eight years ago.
I'm exaggerating a bit, of course. I know Obama won't solve all our problems, and I know that Bush can't be blamed for all our problems either. BUT Obama gives me a sense of hope that I might be proud of my country's government once again.
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snowbird
Smells a little bit like bribery, no?
The profoundly realistic Master gave an excellent illustration concerning this all-too-frequent behavior.
From The Message Bible:
Luke 16
The Storyof the Crooked Manager
1 -2 Jesus said to his disciples, "There was once a rich man who had a manager. He got reports that the manager had been taking advantage of his position by running up huge personal expenses. So he called him in and said, 'What's this I hear about you? You're fired. And I want a complete audit of your books.'
3 -4 "The manager said to himself, 'What am I going to do? I've lost my job as manager. I'm not strong enough for a laboring job, and I'm too proud to beg. . . . Ah, I've got a plan. Here's what I'll do . . . then when I'm turned out into the street, people will take me into their houses.'
5 "Then he went at it. One after another, he called in the people who were in debt to his master. He said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'
6 "He replied, 'A hundred jugs of olive oil.'
"The manager said, 'Here, take your bill, sit down here—quick now— write fifty.'
7 "To the next he said, 'And you, what do you owe?'
"He answered, 'A hundred sacks of wheat.'
"He said, 'Take your bill, write in eighty.'
8 -9 "Now here's a surprise: The master praised the crooked manager! And why? Because he knew how to look after himself. Streetwise people are smarter in this regard than law-abiding citizens. They are on constant alert, looking for angles, surviving by their wits. I want you to be smart in the same way—but for what is right—using every adversity to stimulate you to creative survival, to concentrate your attention on the bare essentials, so you'll live, really live, and not complacently just get by on good behavior."
Ain't that something?
Incidentally, I once used this Scripture to confound a person who was needlessly prying into my financial affairs.
Sylvia
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journey-on
http://thegreatestcountryonearth.blogspot.com/
Whoever wrote the above blog thinks very much like I do. This is what I don't like about
Hillary or the Democratic party......Robin Hood economics!
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NYCkid
OwenFieldDreams, I'm surprised number 8 wasn't, "Obamba is a Muslim and is the AntiChrist foretold in the Bible," which seems to be circulating among radical rumor mills. If you're a former JW, you need to avoid letting poltical pundits put radical and untrue ideas in your head just as the Watchtower writing department did. Think for yourself for a change, because you sound like a puppet (word for word) for pundits featured on Fox News, CNN and the like. Many of the ideas of the current Republican and Democrat candidates are far from perfect, especially in the wake of the mess Bush Jr. is leaving behind, but we need to recognized that the power of the President is limited by the checks and balances placed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Any substantial changes to the tax or health care systems will need to be approved by Congress. Bush and Cheney did have some success in expanding their executive powers, but thanks to a Democratic congress, some of those attempts were thwarted. By the way, what's wrong with a black president of the U.S.? Do you have a problem with blacks? NYCkid
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journey-on
Any candidate that makes all the rich, fat, stupid white guys this nervous gets my vote!
If this isn't a racisist bigoted remark, I don't know what is!!
What if someone had said: "Any candidtate that makes all the poor, pitiful, ignorant black guys this nervous gets my vote!" Bigotry is bigotry...period. Shame on you.
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BurnTheShips
If this isn't a racisist bigoted remark, I don't know what is!!
Sssshhhhhhh!
Give them rope!
BTS
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lesterd
Lets not forget dissarming the American public
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BurnTheShips
Lets not forget dissarming the American public
As a bitter, clingy American, should I vote for Obama?
Bitter, Clingy Gun Owners of America
I’m a bitter/clingy gun owner—and I’m happy about it!
Obama, the great healer of America, the hope of our nation, came out last week and whizzed on millions of Christians and firearm fans calling us bitter Cling-Ons to religion and guns. I, personally, wasn’t insulted because I really like God and my rifles, and I make a good living off my rage.
Yes, when I heard BHO blast us in front of his sassy San Fran crowd and attempt to put a dig into us plebeians, I thought, finally, this man has spoken the truth, unlike all the rest of the stercore tuari he’s been spewing about his dear pastor, his home boy, Bill Ayers, and his audacity of hype.
Matter of fact, I think he’s rather spot on describing me because I’m one PO’ed Christian who owns guns—nice guns and very many guns. And, yes, I’m rather clingy with them. I’m not alone either, as there are millions of other brothers, from other mothers, who really, really are endeared to our God-given right to self defense and firearm fun. Can I hear a big amen, my brothers?
Yes, Barack, you may rightly call millions of us men “clingy” because the truth is, when the workday is done, boys just wanna have guns: guns to hunt with, guns to look at, guns for personal defense and a few zany lead spewers should al-Qaeda, or the anti-Christ, or any foreign or domestic threat, or Godzilla ever attack America, we, the clingy ones, will be ready to rock in a hard place, guaranteed.
Here are eight factoids I found that also cause backwards little old me to clutch my wood and metal friend called the gun:
1. In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
2. In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
3. Germany established gun control in 1938, and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
4. China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated
5. Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
6. Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
7. Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
8. Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.
As the old adage goes: “With guns, we are citizens. Without them, we are subjects.” Therefore, I’ll cling to my gun because I really enjoy being a free bird and truly hate kissing someone else’s backside, but that’s just me.
So, Barack, since you threw that supposed insult at me and millions of other gun-needy Americans, I am going to react by doing the five following things:
1. I am going to walk up to my gun cabinet and hug and kiss all of my rifles and shotguns and tell them they are really good guns no matter what any far-left liberal lug nut says about them.
2. Since I just finished my new book, How to Keep Thugs and Bad Boys Away from Daddy’s Little Girl (Thomas Nelson, December 2008), I need a break. Let’s see, what can I do? I know, I just got a custom Ruger #1 elephant gun in 450/400 Nitro Express. I think I’ll go out and celebrate with it in the South Florida swamps next weekend. Clingy me is going to baptize it in wild boar blood as a sort of a cordite warm-up pitch before I go bear hunting in Maine this summer, aoudad and mountain lion hunting in West Texas this fall, and Cape Buffalo hunting in Africa the summer of ‘09. I’m so clingy!
3. I’m going to buy the new Ruger .380 LCP for my lady because she, too, is also kinda clingy.
4. I’m going to cling more to God and Christ than I ever have before.
5. I’m going to vote for John McCain.
BTS
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CaptainSchmideo
Any candidate that makes all the rich, fat, stupid white guys this nervous gets my vote!
If this isn't a racisist bigoted remark, I don't know what is!!
Wasn't meant to be racist, just an observation...
I'll revise my statement. Some of the Obama haters haven't been fat, or necessarily rich, or particularly stupid. But they do seem to be taking all their cues on how to react to Obama from pundits and demagogues that fit into this category.