Americans Believe Obama Will Deliver »
Posted By Eagle_Eye 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsAmericans are as down as they\'ve been in decades about the state of the country and its polarized politics, even as they express soaring confidence that Barack Obama will be able to turn things around.
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Eagle_Eye10 months, 2 weeks ago
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"A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds stratospheric expectations for the incoming president that his own supporters acknowledge may be unrealistic. A majority of those surveyed say Obama will be able to achieve every one of 10 major campaign promises, from doubling the production of alternative energy to ensuring that all children have health insurance coverage."
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Eagle_Eye10 months, 2 weeks ago
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""John Cooter, 62, a pipe fitter from Port Angeles, Wash., who was among those surveyed, even credits good feeling from Obama's election with making strangers on the street friendlier.
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"They kind of slow down and wave" as opposed to making a rude gesture, says Cooter, who voted for President Bush twice and surprised even himself by supporting Obama in November.
"To me, people have a whole different attitude," he says. "What he did was, he gave the American people hope.""
I have noticed this change also, there was a definite shift in Universal Energy on election night and I can still feel it, it is called "Hope" because that is all we have left.-
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Eagle_Eye10 months, 2 weeks ago
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""Not everyone agrees.
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"I don't know that he has enough experience," says Lacrecia Erwin, 35, of Morrow, Ohio, a stay-at-home mom who voted for Republican John McCain. "People think he's going to pay off their house and let them live in it. It would be nice. It would be awesome. But I don't see a lot of his promises happening."'
Of course, law of the Universe is "For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction", positive/negative, good/bad, yin/yang, heaven/hell, etc.
I like this one to: ""I was a peacenik then and I'm a peacenik now and that matters to me."
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jordan1110 months, 2 weeks ago
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Watching Obama, I have one concern so far. In reaching out to everyone initially, he will eventually find that he can't always broker compromise which is in the best overall interest of his
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intentions. There is going to come a time that he will have to back away from the obstuctionists, and possibly make enemies. My concern is whether or not he can do that. If he can't, 'change' will be a wash. -
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