Who cares what religion he is? Do you honestly believe that Christianity is so holier-than-thou? Have you never heard of the crusades, or Hitler? More people have been tortured and killed in the name of the Christian faith than in all other religions combined. Quite frankly, I hope he is Muslim, or Jewish, or atheist or agnostic. Being a non-Christian does NOT equal terrorism or Godlessness.

Thanks for the info.

Do you think we should look at the our foreign policy before we look at economy? Since that is one big cause to a lot of problems...

Either way... keep an eye on Obama with me. We will see what he eventually offers. Remain skeptical, as i will. But he does deserve a chance...

I think that the whole world has their eye on Obama. I can't imagine the stress of that.

It's a tough call - foreign vs. our economical crisis. The war is eating up our money and taking lives. Yet, we can't abruptly end it. I don't have the wisdom to know best on this.

But...Obama is showing signs that he is looking at our financial situation.

Oh no doubt he's looking at it. But i wish he would phase troops out of everywhere. I also wish he hadn't mentioned wanting to "give more civilian and military aid to third world african countries". I hope he backs down on that.

As far as the economy goes, Obama would be wise to cut spending where he can, as soon as he can. When you lower taxes for everyone, people have more money, and will therefore be able to spend more.

He would also be wise to end the printing of money, and direct some of the spending towards cutting down our deficit, as a lot of our taxes go to the payments...

He did mention a stimulus package. (Sounded a little like Bush's) Which is a good idea for a temporary fix. It buys time for a plan...

Obama kinda screwed himself by voting for the Stabalization act though. When we feel the affects from it, it will hurt.

But, he is still inexperienced, and has a learning curve to overcome. He's not dumb, so if he really wanted to, he could help us.

As you mentioned earlier, he's got a BIG mess to clean. Even someone that cleaned it aggressively would take 10 years probably... And that's in congress, and the president agreed on GOOD, DRASTIC, conservative ideas...

I've heard about the stimulus check. It does sound like what Bush did. That will only help for a few months. Hmmm...Christmas. lol

His inexperience doesn't trouble me that much. He will have his advisers and he's smart. I'm more troubled by any new president having to deal with all that's going on now.

This is from the Obama site:

Barack Obama will responsibly end the war in Iraq:

Immediately upon taking office, Obama will give his Secretary of Defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: successfully ending the war. The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased.

That was written before Iraq said it wanted us phased out.

Yup, i read that in his home page too. But i wish he applied to that foreign policy in general, not just iraq.

Iraq may have just been a political move to excite followers....

Inexperience doesn't bother me either. He hasn't had the opportunity to prove himself yet... He will though.

And BTW whether this was his plan or not, Iraq phased withdrawl began a month or two ago... (Supposedly)

"Expand our Diplomatic Presence: To make diplomacy a priority, Obama will stop shuttering consulates and start opening them in the tough and hopeless corners of the world – particularly in Africa. They will expand our foreign service, and develop the capacity of our civilian aid workers to work alongside the military."

"Fight Global Poverty: Obama and Biden will embrace the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty around the world in half by 2015, and they will double our foreign assistance to $50 billion to achieve that goal. They will help the world's weakest states to build healthy and educated communities, reduce poverty, develop markets, and generate wealth. "

"Support Foreign Assistance to Israel: Barack Obama and Joe Biden have consistently supported foreign assistance to Israel. They defend and support the annual foreign aid package that involves both military and economic assistance to Israel and have advocated increased foreign aid budgets to ensure that these funding priorities are met. They have called for continuing U.S. cooperation with Israel in the development of missile defense systems."

-www.barackobama.com

He definitely doesn't want a noninterventive policy...

He used to have his plans on sending more troops to Afganistan in there. As well as plans to go after high priority targets in Pakistan...

But lets hope he wises up...

Has anyone here ever seen the friezes at the SCOTUS building?

The South Wall Frieze includes figures of lawgivers from the time before Jesus and includes Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius, and Augustus.

The North Wall Frieze shows lawgivers from the time after Jesus and includes representations of Justinian, Muhammad, Charlemagne, John of England, Louis IX of France, Hugo Grotius, Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, and Napoleon.

The figures represented there were not all Christians. What they had in common was...wait...I am not going to say what they all had in common.

Maybe those of you who are so concern about Muslims and others not like you should give it some thought and who give us the basis of our current law and government.

I invite you to search those names and find out about the people who shape law and judicial thought.

You might learn something.

Pardon Reisko!!!

We'll See what He Does in His First Year! I'll Remain Skeptical until then

I don't know how he can clean up the hole our country is in. I think it is going to get real tough before things get better.

People who are in over their ears in debt are going to have a very tough time. We are going to have to insist on keeping our jobs in this country with quality products. Build affordable houseing. Educate all children equally and well. Institute Service to Country. Stop impoverishing people to have health care. Build mass transit so we don't need to burn fuel we don't own and pave the majority of farm land so we have to import food. Realize we can not police the world or bring vets home to live the rest of their life unemployed because we don't have accessible much of anything because we write laws and don't enforce them even 30 years later. We can put robots on the moon but we can't recycle the majority of our trash or create technology to reduce costs. That is a lot to expect Obama to do in one or two terms.

Yes, he faces enormous challenges - the war, the economy and the high unemployment rate. I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. Fixing the economy is going to be a long, hard road.

Sorry that you lost your job, but it wasn't because of the democrats. It's who is in office right now!! Can't you realize that or are you too brainwashed too?

He's got a huge job to do and was left some horrible problems to clean up. Unfortunately, the skeptical republicans aren't going to be happy unless he performs a miracle.

soooooo....I thought you believed in the separation of church and state !... ...actually...I think he'll do a good job...in time the economy will start picking up as is usually the case in a normal business cycle...right now it's in a downturn...in my case...as long as he doesn't govern too far to the left socially...I'll sit back and be the good Catholic boy that I have always been...

The Republicans are the ones who created all this mess . They should be thankful that he is trying to clean their farce of 8 full years .

Obama has a a long and hard route to follow to clean a bit of all the Republicans' mess that he inherited .

All good point "Ted Nugent For Presindent" Independent Party Animal!!!

I personally think he should do something with the Reagan doctorine "The War on Drugs", its totally destroyed the prison system, I think they need to end the sentencing guidelines and use common sense

Thank you....I did not have to say it

LINDYY

This is a prime example of thinking that will wreck this country...