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Naysayers should give Obama a chance

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People in Montrose are talking in hushed tones about the changes President-elect Barack Obama is going to wreak.
He is going to end all the oil and gas production on the Western Slope and put thousands of people out of work. He is going to socialize our country, Marxist that he is. He is going to take away guns and tax us into abject poverty. Will he be everyone’s president, or will he favor just a few?
These thoughts and concerns are the same ones spouted by the conservative talking heads on radio and Fox News. The radical, right-wing rantings of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly are laced with lies and exaggerations. They tell you what they think you want to hear.
I wonder if any of these naysayers and doomsday predicters have ever really listened to what Barack Obama says.  I suggest they take off their blindfolds, remove their earplugs and open their minds. Listen to what he is saying. Watch him interact with his family. Observe how he truly cares for people, all people.
Did you pay attention to how well he networked and organized his campaign?  He is no fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants leader. He is intelligent, educated, sensitive, concerned and caring. He thinks things through and plans ahead.
If you, who are so worried about the future under President Obama, will give him a chance to show his mettle, he may just surprise you with his ability to run this country and turn the economy around.
HOLLY VON HELMS
Montrose

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8 Responses to “Naysayers should give Obama a chance”

  1. Sullivan
    Posted November 28th, 2008 at 7:30 pm  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    I agree that criticism of Obama should be reserved actions, not perceptions.

    I also think Holly drank the Kool-Aid. “he truly cares for people, all people” and “He is intelligent, educated, sensitive, concerned and caring. He thinks things through and plans ahead.” How can you criticize somebody who is going to fix all of the problems in the world?

    I am taking bets on when he goes back on his middle class tax cut. Will it be before or after inauguration day? My personal feeling is that it will be March 1st.

  2. roland
    Posted November 29th, 2008 at 9:54 am  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    I also think that “sullivan” drank the kool-aid.
    Just a little bit of double-talk, sullivan, don’t you think?

  3. Sullivan
    Posted November 29th, 2008 at 10:44 am  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    I am not criticizing Obama, I am just being a realist. Mr. Obama organized an incredible well oiled political machine. I admire him for it. It made people like you and Holly forget reality and drink the Kool-Aid. There were times when the true Obama slipped out. No machine is perfect. Now the election is over and some form of reality has to kick in. Obama promised everything to everybody. Something will have to give, that is just the way of the world. My prediction is that the middle class tax cut will be one of those things.

  4. bullishfrog
    Posted November 29th, 2008 at 10:48 am  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    The election is over. No need for the letter writer to keep campaigning. Declare victory and move on.

    Sullivan, the middle class tax cut will happen. There is no question about it. Even if he had not campaigned on it, given the current condition of the economy, the tax cut makes sense.

  5. Sullivan
    Posted November 29th, 2008 at 12:42 pm  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    I don’t think so.
    - A new president and congress won’t come into power until January. By then the 2008 tax will be over and it would be almost impossible to affect much of a change.
    - We are in an economic cycle. This phase is more severe than most, but it is still a cycle. We should be seeing some positive indicators in the first half of 2009.
    - The tax cut would be for 2009, and not have any impact until late 2010.
    - The gov’t has spent a bunch of $s on recovery. Short-term good thing, long-term bad thing. Need to pay it off at some point.
    Just my thoughts, I could very well be wrong.

  6. bullishfrog
    Posted November 29th, 2008 at 1:25 pm  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    Sullivan, the odds that a very substantial tax cut will be quickly enected next year is 99.999999999%. Having campaigned on it, what possible reason could Obama have for reneging on it given the current economic slump?

    And the tax cut for 2009 can be effective very quickly by changes to witholding schedules.

  7. Classof52
    Posted November 29th, 2008 at 10:59 pm  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    What data did you use BFrog to calculate those odds? Don’t I recall that you are an engineer of some kind?

  8. Rv.Wright
    Posted December 14th, 2008 at 2:02 pm  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    Yes we can!

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