Talk of the Town

By itsme

January 20, 2009 6:17 AM | Link to this

Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.

By just another native

January 20, 2009 6:39 AM | Link to this

Unmet promises, excuses, partisan sweetheart deals…. you know the usual after the smoke and mirrors of our election process clears.

Presidents constitutionally are only a figurehead and can introduce no legislation themselves. They can suggest and lobby the Congress to do things , and act unilaterally to deploy troops for a while, but they still have to have Congress agree to it all.

President Bush didn’t do anything that Congress didn’t agree to continue.

Now everything will be Obamas’ fault.

By Josh

January 20, 2009 6:54 AM | Link to this

We all need to pray for the unborn babies who won’t get a chance at life.

By Sad

January 20, 2009 7:13 AM | Link to this

I will enjoy watching the erosion of our basic freedoms. Goodbye to the republic of the united states of america, hello Oligarchy of Obama!

By Harriette Brown

January 20, 2009 7:32 AM | Link to this

Today we will have a new president sworn in for America. He was not my candidate, but he will be my president. I pray he is successful as our president, a strong world leader, a man true to his convictions, true to his word, and that he serves all of the people to the best of his ability. I hope he continues to support the war on terror and our troops who are fighting for us, and for the ones who protect us here in the U.S. I pray he and his family are kept safe, and he pray’s for God’s guidance as he leads this country. We are living in the most perilous times in the history of the world and we need for him to be a strong leader.

For those of you who know me well you know that I am conservative to the bone. I don’t believe in abortion, but I do believe in the right to life and a woman’s right to choose the method of birth control she would like to use since there are so many choices this day and age. I don’t believe in abortion for birth control. Life begins at conception, and these precious lives need to be saved. I believe we should be able to celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas, to say Merry Christmas, to celebrate Easter and our Christian heritage and faith, that marriage should be between a man and a woman. The idea of same sex “marriages” is ridiculous to me, I will never support it. We have the right to keep a gun in our homes, people should be able to protect their families and hunt for food, but not to just kill animals and people. I believe in animal rights and the protection and rights of those who do not have a voice. I don’t think these rights should be taken away from us because we value them and others do not.

I have detested the criticism of George W. Bush and the unfairness the media and Hollywood have despensed on him. I believe it to be unjust for a man who has kept us safe, who has dealt with devastating hurricanes, natural disasters, and corporate scandals and corruptions like no other president before him. President Bush stood for what he believed, and he didn’t back down when his decisions were not popular with public opinion.

I believe we should love one another, love thy neighbor, and that red and yellow, black and white, we are precious in His sight. I do not want to be a part of racism and prejudice. We have all probably experienced some type of injustice or prejudice which was unfairly directed to us. I don’t want to be narrow minded and judgemental on a person who has not served one day yet, and has the responsibility for this nation resting on his shoulders.

I will be the first to admit that I don’t follow or understand the liberals way of thinking, but they are in office now, and I am trying to start 2009 with a positive outlook with hope for the future for this country, for my friends, my family, and for President Obama as the President of the United States.

Harriette Brown Greensboro, GA

By jay

January 20, 2009 7:42 AM | Link to this

None of it will be Obama’s fault. He’ll take the blame for his mistakes unlike the previous occupant of the WH.

And speaking of babies, I expect President Obama will make sure that the babies that are born will have adequate health care, again unlike the previous president who pretended to care about them when they were born and when they were old enough to die in his war of lies.

By JB

January 20, 2009 7:49 AM | Link to this

I must say that Harriette Brown has expressed the feeling of many, if not most, of the average American citizens. I don’t think I have ever seen a better write-up of our thoughts and beliefs. Thank you Harriette for expressing what many of us wanted to express but could not find the appropriate words.

By TTCO

January 20, 2009 8:03 AM | Link to this

He has no clue what he is getting into. I just hope the people around him do.

By SteveN

January 20, 2009 8:05 AM | Link to this

In the spirit of the Inauguration, I volunteered to work for someone that wants to watch this bunch of horse squeeze on TV. I am a 45 year old man, and have never seen so much slobbering by the media over one person in my life! While tens of thousands gather at the National Mall in DC, and millions watch it on TV, enjoy watching your freedoms erode away, your money disappear, and your jobs eliminated as we goose step together towards socialism. Yeah, this is the ‘change’ you wanted? He was elected because a lot of folks hate George Bush and the media gave him a free pass. This guy has ABSOLUTELY no record to stand on, but today he becomes President of the United States? I think I am going to roll over, cover my eyes, and go back to sleep for 4 years. Someone wake me up when this nightmare is over.

By Nickie

January 20, 2009 8:07 AM | Link to this

I, too, wholeheartedly agree with Harriette’s hopes for Obama. Unfortunately, I believe he will be a weak, inexperienced president in whom too many people have invested unrealistic dreams. When he is unable to deliver on all the promises of the campaign, implicit and implied, many of those supporters will turn on him looking to have those for fulfillment of those dreams. Today I worry for the future of America.

By KPH

January 20, 2009 8:08 AM | Link to this

AMEN Harriette Brown.

By catlady

January 20, 2009 8:26 AM | Link to this

President Bush didn’t do anything that Congress didn’t agree to continue.

Like signing statements?

I hope President Obama will be a president for ALL the citizens of these United States, not just the wealthy, the politically connected, or minority citizens. I hope he will do the wise, rather than the expedient. I hope he will surround himself with the kind of people who will give him correct information, rather than information he wants to hear. I hope he will be able to lead us in a way that will undo the damage our country has experienced, not only to the financial markets, not only in housing and jobs, not only to our reputation in the world, not only to our Constitution, not only to the environment, but also to our collective soul, so that greed will be banished and the welfare of all will be promoted.

Unlike the last 8 years.

He has a terrible, weighty job ahead. May God assist him as he leads us.

By SteveN

January 20, 2009 8:29 AM | Link to this

To be blunt, Jay, you are an idiot! It is folks like you that we are where we are today. Thanks for repeating the SAME OLD worn out lines from your liberal talking points. It was folks like you that demanded the banks make low/no interest loans to people who didn’t qualify for one that has caused the economic nightmare we are living in. It is folks like you that demand that Gitmo is closed, and terrorists that have sworn their life to kill innocent Americans are let go. Don’t give me that liberal line of crap that their civil rights are being violated! They step on the battlefield to kill our soldiers, they lose their civil rights! It is folks like you who have NEVER served a day in the military, but yet you despise a man who FIGHTS for your very right to utter your ignorance. And exactly what lies did Bush perpetrate? Was that a lie on Sept. 11th?

There was a time when folks like Jay were the VERY small minority, and his comments were pretty much kept out of public view. Now sadly, our media has become a bunch of Jay’s, and his views are shown and reported daily by the press.

All I can say is, may God bless us all, we are going to need it (Jay is probably against that too)!

By Lakeisha

January 20, 2009 8:34 AM | Link to this

I expect that President Obama will make it so that I don’t lose my house and that I have plenty of food for my 7 children and gas for my car.

By Cee Cee

January 20, 2009 8:37 AM | Link to this

I expect President Obama to put forth his best effort to fix this mess President Bush left behind. For those of you who say Obama is inexperienced, therefore, will hurt this country; take a look at the WONDERFUL state we’re in now. How can you act like the sky has fallen now that an unexperienced Democrat is in power. Look at the job the EXPERIENCED REPUBLICAN did! My goodness, give the man a chance to get in office to prove (or disprove) himself. Bush had 8 years of blunders and incompetence, yet you continue to give him the benefit of the doubt. Now that’s something I don’t understand about conservatives!

By pj

January 20, 2009 8:38 AM | Link to this

He is a human being; it will be up to all of us US citizens to make positive change happen. It will be very refreshing to have a LEADER for a change, which is what our President is supposed to be. Thank god you negative nellies were in the minority during this last election. If you aren’t part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. You and “your” president had your chance. Now we’ve got one “by the people, for the people.”

By David S

January 20, 2009 8:41 AM | Link to this

The only thing that will make the Obama presidency worse is the fact that the republicans already seem to be lining up to lick his boots. No hard questions for his nominees, almost unanimous approval of Hillary for Sec. of State (wasn’t she the antichrist back when Bill was in office?) You can count on them to roll over so long as they get all the money to kill innocent brown people in foreign lands that they ask for. Republicans have never understood that you cannot have an empire abroad without the resulting bloated empire at home too. Democrats have never realized that you cannot have a “caring and concerned” empire at home without the treachery of a mass-murdering empire abroad. Both parties suffer from the same mis-guided psychosis of wanting to fix a problem from the position that created it. It cannot be done. You either restore the republic and dismantle the empire (at home and abroad) or you go the way all empires go - to the dustbin of history. Hang on folks, its going to be a very painful ride.

By david

January 20, 2009 8:49 AM | Link to this

Very unlike Hariette Brown I have higher expectations of President Barack Obama,I will remind people that George Bush pledged to be a uniter and apply “compassionate conservatism”but we all discovered that was just used to placate the Americans who did not vote for him for a short while,after which he embraced the far right wing of his party. We had Iraq which we had no right to invade but we did anyway under the excuse that Saddam hussein was a dictator and abused human rights,there are plenty of third world countries with dictators in power all over Africa,Asia and South America,why did we choose an major oil producing Arab nation to invade? Yes Americans believe we are somehow “winning” the so called “war on terror”you have to remember only the iraqis can can unite and stand up to the terrorism,you cannot make the s**,kurds and sunnis live in harony together it has been tried with israel before it can never work You have the failed privatisation of social security which if was implemented would have seniors in soup kitchens right now,you have Katrina,and a slew of cases like the Jena six,police shootings of civilians that should have been investigated by the justice dept. Republicans love to support anti abortion but thats where it ends,you have no support for millions of children born to unwed and unprepared women who either live in poverty or are thrust into it when they have these children. As a christian,I don’t believe that Jesus Christ would be so hateful towards homosexuals or other people who have different beliefs.Where were all these conservative christians when slavery and jim crow was the law of the land especially in the South? Look at the presidential campaign,everything Barack Obama has done has been inclusive,positive and uplifting all the conservatives have had to offer is doom,gloom and slander.
As a black male,Yes I do believe in gun rights,but to say that Obama will make all firearms illegal is pure madnesss.Ibelieve in hard work,family,community and unity but George bush never gave us the inspiration to do this,all we have had these past eight years was the most divisive electorate ever,Obama has proved time and time again that he will reach out and unite us not divide us. I feel sorry for thoses who will let their hate and self righteousness consume them,Jesus Christ would never act in such a way.

By chief of smoke

January 20, 2009 8:51 AM | Link to this

I am afraid his policies will encourage laziness and deviant behavior. His election is sign that are country has lost its moral compass. I pray that the Lord would change his heart.

By sd

January 20, 2009 8:59 AM | Link to this

I expect him to WORK. Stop partying. No Camp David retreats. No golfing. WORK, WORK, WORK, until we are out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and this Recession, I don’t want to see ONE pic of Obama enjoying himself.

I like the guy, but am disappointed by this party. There is much to do and NO time to waste.

By WestSider

January 20, 2009 8:59 AM | Link to this

I didn’t vote for him, but I wish Obama the best…to have to lead a bunch of worn-out, tired, weak minded idiots in Congress like Pelosi, Reid, and now Franken and Caroline Kennedy is an unenviable task.

The problem with this country…and this will become very apparent in the coming years, is that too many people are voting. I personally witnessed on voting day at my polling station in West Atlanta (the fire station in Riverside) a poll worker go out of her way to make sure a flat-out-drunk (you could smell it on his breath) homeless person voted in this election. He was so wasted he could hardly stand and when he finished making his selections, the poll worker hit the ‘cast ballot’ button for him.

So there you go. It has been documented in this past election that some people who voted didn’t know who Joe Biden was or the Obama was against the war in Iraq.

The Left in this country, aided by the so-called ‘conservatives/Republicans’ in congress have driven this great republic of ours into the ground. The fiscal and foreign policy of the past administration furthered this collapse, so the “mess we are in” is the fault of everyone who voted for either major party.

Good Luck Mr. Obama, I’m sure you won’t do much worse…

By Georgia Native

January 20, 2009 9:01 AM | Link to this

Let me know when it’s 01/20/2013.

By david

January 20, 2009 9:07 AM | Link to this

Hariette Brown talks about corporate scandals,natural disasters,war on terror,and so on who was in office when these happened,George bush was for eight years!!while you can’t blame him for natural disasters you have plenty of evidence of mismanagement of the situation by himself, his appointees and his policies. Look at the entire world how many hungry childrenhow many devasted people are suffering and all you conservatives want to talk about is abortion and homosexuality!! how many mouths will that feed?how many lives can you save? So called liberals are the ones in all these impoversihed nations helping the innocent stand on their own two feet,you never heard conservatives talk about Liberia,Uganda or Darfur.look at the crowds during Bush inauguration?did it show you diversity that exists in modern america?

By Josh

January 20, 2009 9:18 AM | Link to this

David, “you never heard conservatives talk about Liberia,Uganda or Darfur”

Why talk about Liberia,Uganda or Darfur when we have so much poverty here in America? Let’s fix our own hunger and poverty problems first, then help other countries.

By Michelle J.

January 20, 2009 9:23 AM | Link to this

I pray God hands will lead President Obama to make all the right decisions, and let him not follow the “Presedential Trend” but make one. It’ll probably take him 2 terms to do what he wants to do. Sure a lot of people did’nt vote for him but he is America’s President he’s not perfect; he’s only human like we all are..and he’ll make some mistakes…let’s not hate on him but pray for him & his family

May you all have a blessed day on this Historical Day…stay warm

GOOD LUCK PRESIDENT OBAMA

By No Name

January 20, 2009 10:46 AM | Link to this

I hope he doesn’t waste our tax dollars by building idiotic programs that we don’t need. I hope our deficit doesn’t skyrocket from unchecked spending. I hope he doesn’t use “terrorism” and the mythical “threat to America” as a crutch to spy on our own, waste our time at the airport, and spend our tax dollars while doing it.

I don’t expect much out of him, as I never do with presidents, but I do expect the notoriety to go to his head and the resultant power trip will stick us with wastefulness, programs we don’t need to fund right now, and NOTHING getting done for the average American. Obama is no different than any other president we’ve had before.