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If you could stomach Bush and his cronies for eight long years, give president elect Obama a chance to get sworned in first before you start your negative criticism. Is it a BLACK thing? This is for all you idiots that think the man can work miracles after a Bush screw up and you wanted to put another Bimbo in the Whie House ? PLEASE________________

How can we be elitist and lazy liberals @ the same time? Your arguments are empty and smack of desperation. Ever been laid off because it seems alot of you have no perspective. Good luck in life and god bless.

I hope the senators will vote one way or another for the Auto Bailout, instead of voting present.

This is for Pam from Eugene, OR. I am sure you will have better luife when barack comes to power. Please stand by for hand-outs. No need to work. You can stay at home and you will get checks in the mail. Have good life.

THANK YOU... all we can do is pray for the man and our country... and pray that they can watch Bush close enough to stop him from completing his MISSION to destroy this country in the name of making himself and his cronnies richer than they already are. After all... they will be able to afford to jet off this planet when it gets TOO HOT for life here! The rest of us could just fry for all they care!

Did you say Paulson and Bernacke just went on an extended vacation in Dubai with $700.000.000 of the Americans taxpayers money?I hope CNN can catch up to them.

Annjell.... you said it all, my dear! Shut my mouth, Girl... or Guy... you said it all! *LOL*

The three automotive companies spent themselves into bankruptcy to get out from under the unions. They did this with the full knowledge and compliance of President Bush and the outgoing Repubicans in Congress. They will go bankrupt, reorganize, and the union will be out. See if I am right.

Without jobs, this county will go nowhere fast. We need to kick start this economy fast, like yesterday. One of the problems i see with this is that President Elect Barack Obama cannot do much officially until he takes office inaugaration day January 20, 2009. Current President Bush may do whatever is possible, without getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar, to make things difficult for Obama so that he, Obama, does not credit for any early success. After all, good old boy Georgie boy does not want anything to tarnish his legacy as he exits the stage.

GET IT DONE. YOU HAVE ENOUGH BS,. PROMISES NOW DELIVER.

I just hope that Congress gets moving fast if they really want to help this country!

As for the current administration, your time is almost up!

Don't let the golden doors of the White House hit you on the way out.

He doesn't need any help. He'll fail all by himself. He doesn't care about hard working taxpaying Americans, Just low lifes who refuse to work and live off the taxpayers. You'll see.

I think Obama could give a hand for the Economic crisis but now American People lose everything so People need a positive plan to Stimulate this Crisis from the USA and G20 before Obama will take office in January.
Please,Bush Administration and G20 ,should you make a decision can help this Crisis Because People are very touch,Immagine if somebody lose his Job,his House,his Car.....
IT MEANS THIS PERSON LOSE HIS LIFE,OH! BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND G20 IMMAGINE YOU ARE THIS PERSON I MENTION AND MAKE A DECISION TO HELP THOSE PEOPLE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
PEOPLE HOPE!
THANKS!

Congress can get started but, without a 60 seat democrat senate there will be no serious change.

The republican party is not going to give up on cheap labor, defunct social programs, or tax shelters for the rich as long as they have a filibuster to block progress.

They have already shifted the wealth to the top few percent so they can sit back and obstruct while enjoying the good life.

While I do still have a job, I feel sympathy for those who do not and whose unemployment benefits are about to expire. No income, no savings and no help from the Reptilian party in Congress to extend the benefits.

Very sad, that they are willing to force families into a desperate situation just because NOW they want smaller government.

The U.S. is holding it's breath until Obama is our president.In the meantime Pres.Bush it seems, is doing everything he can to show Obama who is the boss.I wish we could just impeach him and be done with his reign of terror on this country!

PALIN VOTED FOR OBAMA.......Google her interview at the voting polls...when asked who she voted for she quoted her right to privacy......she could not say herself because she knew it was a lie AND GOD WOULD NOT APPROVE OF THAT!!!!! True Christian to the end!

We all have the responsibility now to be educated on what is going on in Congress. We need to be supportive of those who favor positive change and support ideas that will lead this country out of financial turmoil and onto stable ground.

PALIN VOTED FOR OBAMA.......Google her interview at the voting polls...when asked who she voted for she quoted her right to privacy......she could not say herself because she knew it was a lie AND GOD WOULD NOT APPROVE OF THAT!!!!! True Christian to the end!

Its OK, I'm sure Mr. Obama...Ivey League Graduate can out think a ignorant "C" college grad

If Obama's request for what to do about the economy to President Bush failed after he did what the democrats wanted by throwing more money at it, you Bush-haters would blame Bush and not Obama who pushed the policies. Also Obama wants all the money thrown at the economy now so he can use it against the republicans in 2012 about the deficits. Let the companies fix themselves through bankrupcy court and no way Americans should bail out people who got mortages for homes they could not pay for in the first place. Let them work it out with their mortage company. We have people around here who say on the radio that they do not have to pay their house payment or car payments since Obama was elected and will take care of them.

We will not survive unless the republicans START putting our
country first. They MUST work will ALL of congress to try
and right their mismanagement of the last eight years.
They must stop their postering, finger pointing, ego trips,
negativity and start doing what is right.
I have yet to hear them talk about or admit any responsibility
for what has happened to our country,
Americans we must shot loud and clear that we have had
ENOUGH!!!!

This president must be protected at all costs. He is very important to the world's near future. He is important to this country's well-being. And he's important to me.

ON 1/21/09, OBAMA WILL BE OFFICALLY IN THE DRIVERS SEAT. EITHER HE WILL END HIS OFFICE WITH THE FAME OR THE BLAME. THOUGH I AM A HILLARY SUPPORTER, I WOULD LIKE IT IF OBAMA DOES A GOOD JOB, BUT AGAIN IT WILL BE THE FAME OR THE BLAME AT THE END OF THE STORY. GOOD LUCK AND REMEMBER JUST BECAUSE I DID NOT VOTE FOR BARACK THIS TRIP IN FOUR YEARS IT WILL BE MY HONOR TO VOTE FOR HIM OR MY SITUATION THAT PREVENTS ME FROM VOTING FOR HIM.

2012

Please remember Barack is not our President yet. Bush still has control and he WILL do a lot more harm before he leaves office in 2 months.
Obama will face huge challenges helping America recover from the near fatal condition Bush will leave us with.

It will be difficult to remedy the Barack Market. The first step will require admission that Frank's promotion of Fannie and Freddie and deadbeat debtors caused the crisis.

I feel that Obama really feels the pain of Americans. However, I feel the GOP will do everything in its power to make Obama fail. Should this happen, I don't believe the GOP will ever be forgiven for this and they can kiss the entire party goodbye. Afterall, there are other parties gaining more attraction – Independents.

I say this, because, now that Bush is leaving office, he is doing everything he can with deregulations to destroy the economy. Now I am hearing the credit card companies are getting ready to raise interest rates on credit cards – REALLY?

I truly feel that the GOP is trying to govern and rule like the middle eastern countries – like, say, the Ayatollah's and Imams. Why is religion taking center front in our elections? They've taken prayer out of the schools. However, with the recent behavior of these churches, maybe, just maybe, this was with good reason. So can we now take it out of politics?

I believe if Obama has to spend his first term reversing all of the laws, regulations, executive orders of the Bush administration, he deserves a second term. Not only that, we, the American people have no idea what have really taken place here – we won't know until the new administration takes office. This is because, what is supposed to be news is not really news or just excerpts of the news.

Sad, but true, I have to look at BBC and Bloomberg to balance what I see on any news I watch. Why, because, instead of news, we get Britney Spears or Sarah Palin shoved down our throats. I subscribed to cable news to get news, not to listen to soundbites about the likes of Britney or Sarah.

You want to talk about Sarah, then talk about why she treated your newscasters like they were the paparrazi. Talk about why she likes to control the interview. Talk about why you are still covering her after she called you guys jerks and stinkers. Talk about her lack of education and her resemblance to Jack Kingston of Georgia. Talk about how she's a motor mouth – talking but not saying much – gee, she gets on my nerves.

It's so good to know that we'll have a president who's focussed on us, for a change. The GOP doesn't deserve to be in leadership, they've squandered the trust between the government and the people. They need to be in exile for awhile.

of course I am not referring to when, as in the case of LBJ/RMN, the incumbent steps down or decides not to seek another term...
then again, we all know the results of those elections following too.

Oh, I was kidding BHO!
Whip our 'esteemed' Congress into shape-we need resourceful legislation that will help stimulate our economic growth and alleviate our woe!

Some of you people are funny predicting a Hillary Clinton plot to overthrow Obama in 2012.
If there was ever a moment in our electoral history when a Party member challenged their own incumbent for the Office of the Presidency after his first term...and prevailed, no less, tell us about it.
I am curious.

The whole idea is absurd. The Party may as well admit the failure of their own Administration and hand the power over to the Enemy.

Boy, I am glad I dont have a lot of extra money to do much more these days than read some of this stuff. So entertaining. Hold that thought BO about economic improvement.

One major issue I don't see discussed is the very basic fact that housing values were 'falsely' increased, based on the funny loans giving the impression that buyers were able to afford the much higher home prices. What needs to happen is the financial institutions eat the 'false' increase in home value so that we balance out. If we continue to pretend that a $200k home is worth $350k with extended payments, the homeowner will still take a loss when selling, since few people will be able to afford the property in the real world. Which will still bring down home values across the nation.

Am reading FDR by Jean Edward Smith now and the parallels between what faced FDR in 1932 and what faces Obama in 2009 are uncanny. If Obama is half the President FDR was we'll make it out OK. Big difference then is that Congress and the public were eager to cede responsibility and power to FDR to make the decisions. Don't think that will be the case for Obama. Every move he makes will be blasted by the far right whether it is a good move or not.

President-elect Barack Obama's White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel has apologised to the US-Arab community for remarks made by his father.
I got this news from BBC. CNN, why don't you publish such news just because it is negative. You are biased.

President elect Barrack Obama
Please research the major car companies and learn how much money they make in foreign countries. You must know a ford made in Mexico pays no taxes nor do they pay a tarif for the cars the import into the U.S.
Why do the American based car manufaturers get to show huge losses, and pay no taxes while at the same time are reaping huge profits from
their products made abroad? Does it make sense to give these vultures mare money to keep on expoiting the Americans

Do not give illegal immigrants access to our social security benefits as the democratic congress is trying to do...we are tired
of these bleeding heart liberals giving in to illegals. Stop this
injustice now, President-Elect Obama!

The election of Barack Obama had the effect of prying open a window in a stale room. You can breathe again. Not everybody, of course. The neoconservatives are in shock. Suddenly they have no administration in Washington. The White House is enemy territory, soon to be staffed by people who do not see the world in black and white.

It is my experience that you can't be that hopeful of the future when faced with such depressing news unless you have faith in a higher power. When you persevere through trials, God builds your character, which produces hope in circumstances that crush many and a faith in God that will NOT disappoint.

Energy runs the Economy and the Enron Scheme for Oil under Bush bankrupted the world.

Now that Bush and the Gang of Energy theifs have gone bust the price of oil is ALMOST down to pre-Bush levels.

It wasn't supply and demand it was corner the market and get rich quick now they are all so happy the world is bankrupt.

Unfortunately after listening to some of the Republican party members it doesn't look like they have a grasp of the current situation in the U.S.

If they decide to let GM and the other 2 auto companies go down the result will not only be the loss of Millions of jobs for Americans but it will also be a loss of Government revenue required to keep these unemployed people solvent with unemployment benefits etc.

With most manufacturiing jobs being held by people with high school educations or less will mean their chances of finding employment at a living wage almost impossible for a long time to come.

The Republican rhetoric that new businesses can be started will be of no consequence to the millions of automaker related job losses as most will not be able to start up their own businesses or work at any new businesses than might be started.

why didn't he work to fix the economy while he was in the senate. Let's hope he's more successful as a President than he was a Senator. Name one thing he did to help the economy wile as a Senator, oh that's right he took tons of money from Freddie and Fannie. Got it!

Currently, Washington is helping to "bailout" the large companies. That's good in itself, but, the American people need help also. Get the money down and back into the consumers hands and the economy will prosper. Some call it socialism, some call it spread the wealth, some say welfare, etc, etc.... No matter what you call it or how you look at it, the people need money to spend to build the companies back up. Lots of people are losing their jobs through no fault of their own. If people are not spending, it serves good for no one...

"Many have compared the obstacles that face him to those Franklin Delano Roosevelt confronted when he won the 1932 election".

Who are the many? The MEDIA (cover page of Time)? Historians? I would think that nearly all the people have no clue about the "depression" let alone that an election was held in 1932 three years after the "crash".

Time for Minority rule.....White people should chill!

May God bless and keep him safe! Our economy is a big challenge for us. I can't wait for him to have the rains on January 20th, God willing. President Obama will be good for our country. God Bless America!!

For those asking what change because of the posts that are due to be given to the politicians, I don't think either of them have ever held a job that the President is going to give them

Clinton has never been a secretary of state=change
Kerry has never been an sos=change
Bill richie sos=change
susan rice sos=real change
hagel sos= real real change

What else do you people want. I am sure some of you were among those that said Palin is one of them despite her unqualified stature......

did he not say that there was only one president? so why not wait until 1-20-09.

A man with a sound plan and the judgment to make the right decision to inspire America and to get things done.

An inspiration to all.

Dear President elect,

We the citizens of united states, we love you!

Mr. President: we will rise!

It's always darkest before dawn. Weeping may endure for a night (8-years), but joy (Change) will come in the morning! It will take some time, since Rome (Bush Devastation) wasn't built in a day, 'but we as a people will get there!'

We are praying for you; and prayer is more powerful than anything else in this world!

Go Dems Go; in Jesus' name!

Yes We Can, Fired Up Ready to Go.

isn't obama still being paid to be a senator, maybe he should also be working with the senate instead of urging others to do the job. or is he too good to do the job he's presently being paid to perform? maybe the paycheck should be returned since he's not earning it for the intended purpose, maybe return the last few years checks since he did say he's been campaining for over 2 years.

the 'lame duck' will 'forget' how to sign his name. nothing will get done until the republicans are out of power, after jan. 20th. republicans are more worried about their 'brand', than solving our nation's problems. they should have kept the motto of 'separation of church and state'. anyone who doesn't look or pray like them is 'immoral' or 'terrorist sympathizer'. they made the war against al-quaeda, a 'religious war', by their pathetic attempts to smear president barack by portraying him as a 'closet' muslim with terrorist's ties. turns out he's more 'american' than any of them. the rest of us recognize this,and the republican 'brand' will never recover.....

maybe he should start with firing barney frank, he is key in the whole meltdown and then he hould quit staffing his administration with people who took money from fannie/freddie.

I can't blame him we need action now not 2 months from now.

Good to see President elect take lead.,,,,