For those of us NOT addicted to OBAMAMANIA…

Hope and change certainly did not rescue Wall St. today, Dow closed under 8,000.

What are the odds people actually LISTENED to his words today. He said we all need to do our part. Here’s betting the same few do their part for this country, while the rest stay the damned same. Change my a@@

The time is now.
It’s time to begin our work to elect Republicans in 2009, 2010 and 2012.
It’s time to begin our work to elect Republicans to the City Council, State Assembly, State Senate, Governor, the House, the Senate and the White House.
Let’s put more Republicans in the City Council (right now we have 3 of 51).
Let’s put more Republicans in Albany (the Democrats have the Senate, Assembly and Governor).
Let’s retake the House in 2010!
Let’s defeat Obama in 2012!
The time is now.

~ your Campaign Chair, Matthew Hindin

On the contrary.. I did not vote for him,. I think he has the gift of gab. Lawyer & politician… hmmm I wonder. I held my head high since I was busy working unlike most of the unemployed who went to Washington. I also scored my biggest deal of the year. Not because of Obama but because everyone else are suckers

I share many of the same sentiments with you all…I also found it amusing that the commentator on ABC tonight mentioned that "surprisingly" there were no arrests on the National Mall.

This is not in the least bit surprising to me because the people who would have been arrested would have been the people opposed "to Obama-mania" and those people (i.e., conservatives) are not violent, obnoxious protesters when they lose. In fact, we are gracious in the face of defeat if I do say so myself.

On the contrary, had this been another Republican president being sworn in, I'm sure there would have been countless arrests of stupid "protesters" shouting nonsensical phrases & slogans in support of their cause du jour and against the Republican because that's what liberals do. They pout and scream and holler when they don't get their way. We'll see it in 2010 and again in 2012….

Fancy rhetoric and hopeful speech is nice to listen to (albeit giving false hope)but at some point we as Americans have to look at our current situation and realistically examine Obama’s campaign platform and all he is proposing/promising to do. Right now is a very difficult time for all, including myself. Right out of graduate school and trying to find a job in a career that is development/economy based, the prospect of me finding gainful employment will be a challenge. At the very least, I hope for a bipartisan approach to governance and some kind of remedy for this current economic climate. Again, being realistic, I do not have too much faith in this idea of “change” we as Americans have been force fed since the campaign began quite a while ago. I think many Americans are going to be in for a big surprise when they realize that Obama’s presidency will be more about maintaining the “status quo” instead of instilling real “change.”

Manage expectations by telling the people that voted for you it may take years to fix the problems. Well, in 4 years if the “problems” he talks about are not fixed, he will say “the problems were too sever to fix in 4 years. I need another 4 years.” It’s all rhetoritic. Ask any Lib who voted for this guy what specific policy they liked and they will say “He represents hope and change”. Well that’s not a policy. Again, voting for a guy for his speeches is weak and dangerous. Hitler gave good speeches too.

All I know is when I came home tonight, the glass of water I was drinking did not turn in to wine nor did the loaves of bread turn in to thousands of fish.

I thought Obama’s inaugural speech was good, but it should have been good. After all, making speeches is what got him where he is right now.

As a patriot, I wish him all the best. My criticism will be constructive and forthright. But as far was what he has in mind to cure our ills, I’m just not getting that vibe yet, man.

I had to pretednd that I was interested in seeing the festivities but luckily had an excuse, work needed to be done and with appointments at the time I missed it, caught the last 5 minutes. I hate how people treated Bush as he got on the helicopter, I can think of pleanty of democrats who were worse then him, Carter comes to mind. But I must say I will respect the office, as I am not an immature liberal and will not protest, can not say the same for some of my co-workers who just about acuse dme of being racist for missing the speech. talk about sore winners. I hope this does not offend any one but I jokingly said what we need to do to win in 2012 hopefully or 2016 definitly is to have some one as drastic as the dems had this year, for example a Native American lesbian, please if this comment offends any one I am sorry, its meant purely as a joke to prove we need to renerrgize our party. We need to step into the digital age and attract young voters. Conservativism is not dead we really do need to get people energized. To me its deplorable how people are treating our new president, he is not a savior, not a king, not a rock star. He is just an inexperienced senator who is now our commander in chief. Despite the fact I did not vote for him, he is our president and like McCain said in his concession, I support him as he does lead us. Lets just hope we can win back the white house. But for now do as we did during the Clinton era support our president, even if he is all just a bunch of rhetoric. Well I have said my piece, I just wish my co-workers would not torture me as much lol.

-J