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Let's give a million to each person living in the U.S.A. Sounds like a cheap bailout. Approximately 350 million.

Georgians:

Remember to vote for Jim Martin for Senate!

Early voting is today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. Election day is December 2nd.

I cast my vote today; the line was not very Democrat friendly. Get out your vote to help us on our way to a filibuster-proof majority!

Obama's cabinet is 1/2 lobbists and 3/4 Clintonians. Clearly a complete betrayal of America's vote for change..

Quit spending taxpayer's money on bailouts. THese bailouts are going ot be painful for a long, long time. Letting these companys fail will be painful at first but will be the best in the long run.

So soon smart, so late wise. This will be the legacy of the Obama administration.

Dream team or blast from the Clintonian past??

Surely the liberal MSM jousts with those huge pinheads...

to all posters (mostly the far right ones) regarding Change – Let me know who you think McCain would have picked and what "his change" would have looked like.

Change to me is leading away from the past 8 years – I didn't have any problems with the Clinton group.

I believe our newly elected President is very intelligent and taking on a team that he deems best for meeting this nations current problems – he isn't going for on the job training – that would not lead to any changes we need – we just need better & smarter policies – and he's smart enough to move with the tide – he doesn't keep iron clad "rhetoric" he is going to back off raising taxes on big business for now – at least until he can see that everything is going to work as well as it can under these dire circumstances.

America can be sure that its economy is going to grow and develope in a positive way because it's in the hand of a man and woman that care for their families and their surroundings, oh and also supported by men and women of the same cut.
God bless America for this wonderfull time to come where everybody is equal ans sharing the wealth they all created together.

C'mon folks, let us all take a deep breath and give the man a chance....!!! Some of you need to get up off your laurels and make your own way clear.. nothing is gonna fall from heaven and be picked off the earth to feed ya... Give President Elect a chance, if you stop whining & complaining, life might surprise you too!!! Hey we may not all be dems and yeah it's quite ok being rep. and still supporting the leader elect of the country, all of us ought to, because he is the leader of our country, that's what America is made up of, all kinds of people, now doggone it let's give Obama a chance to make America and Americans proud again.... I believe he can

1. Which Party has controlled the White House for the last 8 years?
2. Which Party has controlled Congress for 6 of the last 8 years?

I am appalled at how desperately the Republicans seem to want the President Elect to fail, even before he takes office. They are disappointed that his selections thus far have not being as 'liberal' as they expected. That is not patriotic. Get a life!

"Obama on Saturday offered an outline of his economic recovery plan to create 2.5 million jobs by 2011, saying American workers will rebuild the nation's roads and bridges, modernize its schools and create more sources of alternative energy."

And just who are these workers going to be? How many people who have lost their jobs in the banking or mortgage industry are going to be qualified to build roads and bridges?

What a joke...

@Veronica, CA – Haha! Are you really that ignorant? Obama must be SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. before he actually has any power to do anything. You haters are so ignorant.

In the end, it won't make that much difference. The reason, Bush was asleep at the wheel, or incompetent, or just didn't care, or indulged corporate America. When you get rid of the disease, their is spontaneous healing.

To A Canuk – First of all he has, as yet, done nothing but talk about what he's going to do. And yes, he can talk a good game, he was just elected President of the United States. That of course only proves he knows what people want to hear, it does not prove he can do anything about anything. That we all need to wait until 1/20/09. If you lived in the U.S. you might know that all the Cabinet posts he's chosen people for have to be approved by Congress. He cannot sign a bill into law, or even officially nominate the people he has picked for his Cabinet until 1/20/09. Then there are Congressional hearings and back-room deals and votes and all that before anything can happen. All he has done so far is re-instate (or propose to re-instate) the Clinton Administration, Hillary could have done that. I don't remember the Clinton Administration as something that needs repeating. Do you remember what your dollar was worth when Mr. Clinton was President? Do you really want THAT repeated?

all a bunch of republican party and clinton party picks,so far, at least in any of the important positions. out of 300,000,000 people in this country,we're gonna get change from the same people got us into this? we aint stupid,barack! give us what we voted for ,please! if withdrawal from iraq doesn't begin ,soon after inauguration,his support will drop a good deal. PLEASE STOP PICKING THE SAME OLD PLAYERS, TO PLAY THE SAME OLD GAME, OR YOU CAN ONLY EXPECT THE SAME RESULTS! YOUR WORDS!

For all of you who complain about President-elect Obama's handling of selecting his cabinet and your portents about the future of the country simply because Obama was elected; since you do not share in the hope and desires of most of America–Obama won the popular vote by a wide margin–I have one solution for you, find another country to live in. Maybe you will find life better there, and from a distant shore, you can rant and rage about the plight of America and feel sorry for the rest of us still here. IDIOTS!!!

The DREAM TEAM will do a fabulous job. It's a new day America.

NO!!! Don't change anything!! Gas is like $1.67 today... Hopefully soon food and heating and home prices and taxes will also drop!!! Let it fix itself please!!

Obama is a very intelligent person whether people want to admit it or not. He is doing a superb job thus far, especially considering the mess this country is in and the fact he is president -elect and has not even taken his oath yet to be President. Obama continues to beat the odds in spite of all the negative, hateful comments that continue to be made against him. He has taken a lot of crap from the right wing and some silly dems too, however, he has risen above it all and I am sooo glad he will be our next President. It is going to take someone who is a visionary, intelligent, hard working, and yes knows how to pray to help lead America out of the wilderness. I want everybody to remember WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. IF OBAMA FAILS, AMERICA FAILS BECAUSE A HOUSE DIVIDED CAN NOT STAND. You are suppose to pray for your leaders, please start acting like the Christians that most in this country claim to be because some of you should be ashame of yourselves! God Bless you President Obama!

Dear naysayers. What's the problem? Give this incoming administration a chance and then criticize what is, not what you think will be. Change means a change in attitude, also, on the part of the electorate. All the hate. All the negativity. All has to change if this country wants to grow in stature in the eyes of the world and be the beacon of democracy it can be. Give it a holiday rest, already. You can start up in earnest come January 20th. And, if not, here's my suggestion. Make some suggestions. Who would you pick for these posts? And why? Go for it.

Bob:

You're right, there is a large number from the Clinton team. They are the ones who led this country to have a SURPLUS before your guys, you know, SQUANDERED it and nearly ran us into the ground.

Oh, and zgomer, it's Obama, not "Obuma" So, who is the idiot now LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave- I find it ridiculous that only now that you're guy Obama was elected President do you ask for everyone to "work together" as Americans. I guarantee you did not have the same opinion during bush's years in office. Then again, you would not be a typical Liberal if you weren't hypocritical right?

zgomer November 24th, 2008 11:23 am ET

Dream team…oh please you media morons! You have all the answers, Obama can't do wrong! This isn't a 'dream team" it is a mightmare and you morons will find that out soon enough, most of Obumas stooges are from the Clintons past and we are going to go through what we did when that wimp Carter was in office, we are going backwards fast! You moronic media freaks just shut up, you make us sick! The Washington Post lost another 900 subscribers I hear! LOL! See you morons will feel the effect too…LOL!
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Darth Vader just called. He's trying to seduce you to the dark side. He said something about you and him ruling the galaxy, or somthing like that.

Obama could put Jesus himself on his team and someone would complain about it.

Also, I love how he's not in office yet and being blamed for not doing anything. At least there are those that are level headed enough to know that this will take a long time to fix. But, I'm sure that on Jan. 21st, 2009, that the neocons will be complaining that he hasn't fixed anything yet.

"He's had a whole day in office. Why hasn't he fixed all these issued that he said he was going to do? Change my arse!"

Will someone please explain to me what zgomer was talking about? He talks about Clinton people, yet conveniently forgets how well the economy did under Clinton and then talks about how Carter was a wimp? Where's the connection?

So many conservaties, including all the talk radio types like Rush, have been saying since something like this since the election:

"If Obama is so great, why is the market tanking? I thought the Messiah was going to fix all our problems, etc."

Then Obama names his economic team, and the market goes up 700 points in two days. Sounds like he did pretty good to me.

I feel encouraged by he pragmatic and sensible way Obama is proceeding.

Obama is proving why he was the best choice for president! God bless our President Elect and God bless America!
Now come on you Republican sore losers, back your president elect, you are the ones that always speak about being American, patriotic blah, blah, blah. Now put your money where your mouth is! So far your interpretation for American leaves me bewildered!

WOW.........OBAMA'S DOING PRETTY GOOD ......CONSIDERING HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE AND IS JUST A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER !!!!!!
WHATTA YA SAY NOW....REPUBS ??????

So much for Obama's "CHANGE"... most of his high level appointments are old time politicians... including a large number from the old Clinton White House.

The CHANGE candidate is now the elected figure head.

DAVE:
Calling people morons is not going to promote unity. Take a page out of Obama's play book and chill out.

He has a great team behind him (mostly from Bill Clintons admin) no real change that he promised. Should have voted for Hillary if the dems wanted to bring back the Clinton admin. In the end of his 1st term he will not get re-elected. He promised to many things that got him the white house and he will use the economic crisis as an excuse to not live up to most of what he promised.

Unfortunately the dream team, thinks that strengthening unions is a dream come true with cardcheck loss of the secret ballot, and they think raising taxes on job creators is the right thing to do, and mandating healthcare on businesses struggling to make a profit is the right thing to do, and closing our borders to trade is the right thing to do, and raising capital gains taxes so that less money is invested in the US markets is the right thing to do, and increasing government spending by another trillion dollars is the right thing to do.

I don't call it the dream team, I call is the highway to a Depression team, or better yet the nightmare team. Goodbye American way of life, hello dictatorship according to our new laws dictated by Marxist BO.

mike November 24th, 2008 11:52 am ET

Yep – "January 20, 2009 can't get here soon enough" The sun will finally shine, birds will sing, the world will instantly love us again, all of humanities ills will disappear and angels will descend from Heaven to bless us!! One person with a few washed up Clinton-ites is going to do all this for us. Wake up, doesn't anyone remember the double-digit inflation that these same "experts" brought us last time?
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WAS IT AS BAD AS THIS ADMINISTRATION IS LEAVING THINGS?

Pathetic just pathetic you and those like you!
You are nothing more then obstructionist!

And another thing Terry in NY
you complain about the Democratic congress not doing anything for the last two years. Well if you had been awake you just might have heard something about Bush vetoing everything that the Democrats tried to get through the house. So before you start complaining get some education on how the US political system works...OK Buddy

REPUBLICANS STOP HATING AND BEING A SORE LOSER.
CHANGE = IN OUTDATED PLOLICIES
CHANGE = IN TACTICS
CHANGE = IN DIRECTIONS, ECT,

WHY DO WE HAVE TO KEEP SPELLING OUT WHAT CHANGE MEANS. YOU REPUBS KNOW WHAT CHANGE IS, YOU JUST WANT SOMETHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT. HOW SAD DO SOMETHING TO HELP.

I suppose there will always be ignorant idiots like ZOOMER
Check it out moron. The Clinton era had billions of dollars in surplus. And you complain because Obama has selected the best and the brightest?
Who would you like in place. Joe the plumber I suppose, or that moronic dipstick sarah (I can't see what's going on behind me) palin.
Still there is one thing about idiots like ZOOMER.....................
You make the rest of us look really good

Thank God-(no, thank Messiah-)-I get to quit my job and get my "share of the selfish Rich people's money". After all, they don't deserve to live high on the hog while I watch them enjoying productive, ambitious lives! What was GWB thinking to let that happen? after all I am a liberal victim!

I read somewhere he is more inclined to favor the "trickle up " economic approace over the "trickle down". We all know what happens when you favor big business and wealth everyone else gets "trickled on".

The best way for US govt to demonstrate that it is not abetting more gamblers or wall street thieves is to tax all capital gains at 50% by calculating them based on the lowest price of stock in the past 6 months incase they sell within the next 3 years.

The capital gain taxes can be reduced to normal levels after 3 years, this will ensure that shortsellers, speculators and wall street money launderers stick their necks also and dont exit the market by making quick bucks.

The hard time will be gone soon.

I swear "Obama-faith" has replaced "environmentalism" and "global warming" as the latest new-age hippie cult-religion. It's faith for the faithless, salvation for the secularist. Anyone who does not believe in the great and most merciful Obamessiah is vociferously branded a heretic. This cult is getting scarier by the minute. Don't take my word for it, simply read the glowing, dewey-eyed, vacuuous posts to this thread. Have any of the Obama-flock actually read about Jonestown? The Jonestown faithful sounded like many of today's born-again Barack-ians. Maybe it's time for a trip to your public library.

Better get Hillary's ok on this before he announces anything.

I am confident Barack Obama will be good for the USA. However, he needs help. So, as a starter, we all need to stop out criticisms of him before he even starts. Remember....he only is President-Elect and has no real powers at the present.

Wouldn't it be great if all Americans started thinking positively about politics and life in general. We have become a nation of grouches!!

CHANGE. Anything that leads away from the policy of GW Bush and the reThuglicans is change for real.
Go Bama/Biden

For those that are still stuck in NARROW mode....Wake up and smell the coffee! Time has changed but you MORONS haven't. Lets unite for the sake of the country and the values we hold as americans! God Bless the USA!!!

Looks as though Obama has a lot more on the ball than our previous President doesn't it. Obama certainly is taking this job a whole lot more serious than Bush ever did.

I'm sorry, any administration that gushingly talks of a nearly-trillion dollar bailout can hardly be called a "dream team."

Gee, we're up to nearly three trillion now and things don't look any better. How about letting failures, well, fail? Nope, we're going to give billion dollar "do-overs" to the same effed up managers who caused the problems in the first place. This is the new definition of insanity.

Load your gun, the new revolution's begun.

Obama–and twelve more Presidents–and we should be able to have a balanced budget.

We're establishing a seriously flawed precedent for becoming a corporate welfare state–and our leaders are making things worse every time they pull out the "bail-out" checkbook-and start uttering billions of dollars in checks–they do not have in the bank.
The banks–still haven't recovered and may need another $300 billion. The auto industry has already pretty much convinced them they need $25++ billion they're preparing to award. The transportation sector is already lining up their support for a big bailout, as is the grocery and retail sector. Next will be the hotels, motels, and healhcare facilities. Publicly traded companies–are supposed to be voluntary aren't they?
If so–our political leaders will end up owing every American (including several dozen million who are not born yet) to pull this travesty off.

Lets all just hope that Obama has selected the best and the brightest to get us on the path to economic recovery.

zgomer Im sure your a REAL genius. Hey, if you dont like what the media says then turn off the tv/computer, and quit clogging up the air with your ignorant statements.

Why doesn't anyone start a GOV plan to rebuild the states hit by the Hurricans in Louisiana and Texas. This would help factory jobs buid windows, door knobs exct. and the works for plumbing, roofing street building, and many other jobs. this would be a great start to fill in the gap between now and when Obama takes over and startes the GREEN plan on making wind and solar jobs.

They all sound very qualified and ready from day one! I pray that God blesses President Obama and his total teams to be very successful

Yep – "January 20, 2009 can't get here soon enough" The sun will finally shine, birds will sing, the world will instantly love us again, all of humanities ills will disappear and angels will descend from Heaven to bless us!! One person with a few washed up Clinton-ites is going to do all this for us. Wake up, doesn't anyone remember the double-digit inflation that these same "experts" brought us last time?

The only people who state "Where's the change?" are republicans and people who didn't vote for Obama. Everyone who did vote for Obama knows that "change" represents change in Leadership and failed policies. Obama is not going to put nameless people in his Administration with no experience just to please you idiots who think "change" represents a change in people.

Grow up!

Why would anyone cooperate with the Dems policies? They've blown it the last 2 years under their watch in congress. They now control every branch of government. I'll bet in 4 years we're no better off unless they change they're attitudes and ploicies.
Barack's already looking for a fall guy in case his ideas fail.
Any administration with a Biden or Clinton certainly can't be called a dream team. Where's all the change you promised Barack???? What a joke that was.

It’s getting very old that the republicans have continuously insulted and criticized Obama for all that is going wrong today. From unemployment to the stock market, yet he isn’t even President yet.

Obama has no power yet, it’s George Bush in command (so to speak) and yet you criticize Obama for the problems. As if the US was doing great up until a month ago and now that Obama is the President “elect” you somehow feel that none of the problems that we are facing today has anything to do with the current administrations decisions and rubber stamping republicans.

Oh wait; it’s all the democrats fault, although they have had control of congress for only 20 months now out of the last 8 years.

You criticize everyone he picks for his administration regardless of their ability to get things done repeating the criticism about how they're not change. You forget Obama will be the boss, it is his agenda they are going to follow, not their former bosses.

But due to the very nature of your closed minded, narrow views you don’t have the ability to see the bigger picture.

Face it; you will criticize anything and everything he does regardless of what stance he takes because he isn’t a republican. You secretly want him to fail therefore hurting the US and its citizens.

Now that’s just plain unpatriotic and un-American.

No matter how you feel about the current state of our country, I want to wish everybody in the blog-o-sphere and HAPPY THANKSGIVING. We are all AMERICANS and we must unite behind this man or we are Jacked(CNN won't let me cuss!). Peace and again Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!

I see hope for ourr country, but it will not be instant. It will require hard work for all Americans.I am very happy that we haveObama/Biden about to take office. All these industries we are bailing out, I hope Washington makes sure that these executives cut the fat from their benefits, pay as regular Americans pay for their health care and other benefits, absolutely no bonuses, bring their salaries into more normal aspects before cutting the regular work force. Washinton should not allow these companies to keep all the executives while reducing the everyday people. Cut the fat from the top and trim the fat with regular workers.

Building Infrastructures: smart move.
Why?.
With the world economy in the mess, it unlikely that any "export-oriented" sectors are going to get much growth, since most countries will be hunkering down.
That said, the best way to spread liquidity around in the US is via internal infrastructure programs. That will put US in better shape to compete when economy goes up in 2 years time.
It will be money well spent and everyone will be able to savor the fruits of such effort at state and national level.

I voted for Obama. And, I'm not regretting or second guessing my decision one bit. One of the major reasons I voted for him was his ability to do something right with the economy and so far I'm pleased with his decision. Maybe now we can all (GOP & Dem) work together to put the country first.

Cudos to Obama for planning some bold moves to help America get out of the current mess but everyone has to remember if the GOP balk at his plans then the U.S. will just continue to spin it's wheels and sink further into the looming depression.

Obama seems to be putting together a fine team to advise on how to fix the economy. Stimulus packages are nice and needed as they are intended to put a shot in the arm to jolt the economy. Their effects wear off, however. The real question is what will be the economic policies put in place to keep our economy strong, growing, and prosperous long term. This includes having a smart well-educated society with good work ethics that's capable of innovation and strong leadership as well as fiscal policies surrounding taxes, tariffs, and treasury. I for one will be watching closely

Dream team...oh please you media morons! You have all the answers, Obama can't do wrong! This isn't a 'dream team" it is a mightmare and you morons will find that out soon enough, most of Obumas stooges are from the Clintons past and we are going to go through what we did when that wimp Carter was in office, we are going backwards fast! You moronic media freaks just shut up, you make us sick! The Washington Post lost another 900 subscribers I hear! LOL! See you morons will feel the effect too...LOL!

this man continues to make progress going down in history as a man who made an economy stronger through a ressesion

All these republicans are complaining about the amount Obama proposes for bailing out our Country, but they didn't seem to mind spending "trillions" to fund a war so that Haliburton and other "groupies" of the neocons made their fortunes which were added to the national debt. I'd much rather bail out our citizens than the grouplies of the neocons.

Obama's choice of Cabinet Members shows that he is indeed ready to "hit the ground running". So much for the nay sayers during the campaign.

Obama better hurry up and fix the economy I'm hungry

The financial industry is destroying America; and the Bush administration has done nothin but help them. What about the other 99% of Americans? Do you plan to help them too?

Why do we pay taxes if not to help ourselves?

Lower taxes and smaller govenment is not the answer. We are NOT mature enough to do without leadership. Proof – just look at the state of America today.

I think ANYBODY other than Paulson would do a better job of getting those funds out and actually being used for the purpose they were intended. Please, 1/20/09 can't come soon enough!

Yes WE can!!

Another $700 bil? When are we going to see the tax cuts for 95% of Americans? Let's hope his economic plans are indeed effective.

President Elect continue with a steady hand. I'm confident in you thus far. I'm sure if you make a mistake there will be some fairweather fans but keep pressing on. Don't take your eye off the ball for one moment.

my hope is gone, i only pray that someday i can get it back. i have great trust in our new president, but what a mess our world is in, God help us all.

This article is so wrong. As at last night, there was no more money to spend, Palson spent the last $350 Billion to bail out Citi Group.

What a mess we are all in.

Let's get this party started right! We should be proud of ourselves. We made a SMART choice!

Obama/Biden '08

This team will have one of the biggest jobs in Washington – and I feel confident they will succeed.
Our country is in dire straits...and the current administration is helpless. They have no clue.

In times of crisis, I really hope that the GOP put America first and cooperate with the new administration in order to enact legislation in a timely manner that will help America and the rest of the world get out of the mess that Bush and deregulation created.

Just think: If McCain had won, we would now be hearing from his economic advisor, Phil Gramm, about being a nation of whiners. John would be telling us about his magic pen that he will use to veto legislation, and Joe Lieberman as sec. of state, would be telling us how he is securing the borders of Israel with a chin link fence.

It appears Barack Obama is making very intelligent decisions.
Although the media continues to question it, they are the only
ones. You know, got to keep things stirred up.
But, unless the republicans decide our country nees to be put
first, it is going to be a long, hard struggle.

Jan 20 2009 Cant get here soon enough, Finally someone Intelligent and cares about his Country and the Condition its in. NO MORE LAME DUCK BUSH!! YAH YIPPIE YAHOOOO!!!! THE FUTURE IS LOOKING BRIGHTER!