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Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 | 2 a.m.
Barack Hussein Obama can begin his second term liberated by the confidence that he is already a landmark figure in American history. His task is not to manufacture a legacy but to leave his successors a nation that is more tranquil because it finally resolved arguments that roiled it for decades. Whatever happens in the next four years, Obama will forever be our first African-American president and our first biracial president. He has won two successive popular-vote majorities. Andrew Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt, both of them icons, are the only other Democrats who managed this. Obama fought for and signed ...
E.J. Dionne is a columnist for the Washington Post.
Mr. Dionne is wrong. President Obama's vision for the country is a government that provides its people everything for nothing, whether they are eligible in need or not. Just ask and the government will provide. This is not a vision, it is a nightmare. It undermines the greatness of our country and our standing in the world. Do you want an insight into President Obama's thinking? Recall the open mic with Russia's Medevdev.
CarmineD
President Obama has had a remarkably positive and influential impact on Black communities all across America.
Carmine:
Stop the negative talk already. Get over that Obama won the election and move on. Bigotry and bitterness (and constantly crabbing about Obama and his presidency) makes a person ugly inside and out. And makes you sound like a crotchety old man shaking his cane at anything he doesn't agree with or like.
BTW - WTH are you bigots going to do when a Hispanic AMerican wins the Presidency?
A new start? How about taking our Constitution and current laws seriously?
Munch, you're out of line again. Carmine and the rest of us are not bigots by simply having fair-minded AMERICAN values based on the Constitution, our laws, our traditions.
Det_Munch et al:
I nailed it right on the head. All the pundits, republican and democrat, are saying President Obama's inaugural address is exactly as I said in my post above: In our face, big government in our daily lives.
CarmineD
"BTW -... what are you bigots going to do when a Hispanic AMerican wins the Presidency?" @ Det_Munch
Depends what political party he/she is with! ;-)
CarmineD
Carmine said :
A lot of stuff the folks on the wrong side of history say.
I say :
It was a beautiful American day yesterday watching the first family enchanting America. The shame of it is that you couldn't enjoy it. Biden was pretty cool too. Jimmy Carter was there with the beautiful Roslyn, Bill and Hill, Boehner sat next to Michelle, and Harry gave the mmost boring toast in US history.
Sorry you had heartburn...
"Sorry you had heartburn..." @ Jeff
Words don't give me heartburn, food does. Fortunately I was not invited to lunch. At 3000 calories, each meal is enough to feed a homeless person in DC for a week. Truth be told, there was nothing on the menu that was desirable to me save the dessert.
CarmineD
"Carmine said :
A lot of stuff the folks on the wrong side of history say." @ Jeff
You are making stuff up by putting words in my mouth.
CarmineD