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A Neo-Marxist with no experience, that used the lying media to cover who this man truly is. We tried to warn everybody because they were caught up in all the hype and completely lied too. Now you are completely right, people are seeing him for who he truly is... Remember you get what you paid for, and we got crap and now we pay.

When will people see that votes matter and how long does it take for people to get it. Turn off the TV NEWS and learn for yourself, you will start to see clearer. Don’t take people words as fact, but learn for yourselves and you will understand the deal… I have an Idea, everyone reading this, start reading American History in its truest form, and maybe you can learn sometime.

I am tired to be surrounded by sheep confused people who have NO knowledge of the truth.

Good topic.

Actually this isn't Obama's site. It belongs to the National Academy of Public Administration. As far as the web sites as a whole its one of his campaign promises. So far Obama is keeping all his campaign promises. And people seem to object that he's doing that rather than what most Presidents do which is to run for the next 4 years.

I believe that Obama planned all along to be a single term President because no President has ever had so much to do (and done it) and also managed to be reelected. Besides who would want to be President with all this stuff going down.

If he manages to reduce the cost of health care, get us out of recession and successfully transition from Iraq to Afghanistan he'll have succeeded in doing more in 4 years than most do in 8.

Finally, everybody lies, including you or at least the people you believe. Thats politics. All Obama has to do is fulfill his campaign promises and he has then fulfilled his obligation to the people who elected him.

On top of that he has to try to get us out of recession, something no one has been able to do in the US without being labeled a socialist even when its not so. Ask the Socialists if they think Obama is a socialist and they'll tell you he's not. And if you believe only in capitalist programs and no social programs you believe in a corporate republic where only the ceo's of successful corporation have the vote

azaleahs, it is good that you are beginning to see that Obama is a one term president.

Don't be ridiculous. No such thing as beginning. Every President has the option to either do the job or to use the first 4 years to run for the next 4. Obama is doing the job. If you do your job the best you can, thats what's important not an additional 4 years. If he gets us out of the recession, if he gets us out of Iraq, if he gets universal health care, if he builds an energy policy based on renewable fuels, and if he simplifies the FAFSA and enables students to get a college education without the huge student loans that have always been associated with it in the past. If he does all this in the first year of his 4 year term so that he can run for reelection during the last 3 years while pointing out that he has fulfilled all his campaign promises he win another 4 year term. But it doesn't matter if he does. If he accomplishes those things he'll have done more than most Presidents do inn 8 years.

Azalea-- Ask the Socialists if they think Obama is a socialist and they'll tell you he's not. And if you believe only in capitalist programs and no social programs you believe in a corporate republic where only the ceo's of successful corporation have the vote.

What about Putin saying the speed which we're moving towards Marxism is astouding.

Or

Chavas quoted as saying,watch out Fidel if we're not careful we'll be to the right of Obama

Its Chaves by the way. It will be interesting to see what happens in Venezuela. He's a strong proponent of democracy so presumably if his handling of things turn out badly he'll be replaced. As far as that quote goes it sounds a bit "tongue in cheek" to me. And seeing our government changes every 8 years thats a bit of a stretch for Putin to suggest that. When you have a multi party system or at least an opposition party to your own party you'd best not count your chickens to soon. Rush can say some pretty outrageous things to, but I'm not likely to believe half of that either.

Strong prroponent of democracy? You have some issues with fact.I'd suggest getting off campus for a while.

True Americans already saw Mr. Obama for what he was, a flim flam man. The rest of the population was blinded by his bamboozling because they wanted something for nothing.

They swallowed all his campaign promises. They chose to ignore their first warning, when Mr. Obama went back on his word to stay with Public Campaign Funding.

None of this is to say that McCain was the best choice. The manipulation of the primaries by the main stream media left us with one poor choice (McCain) and one "very bad" choice.

azaleahs - I am glad you have this blind faith in OBAMA. However, the truth is he is failing in everything he promised.

As Mr Obama said in his address at 100 days that President does not have power to move the ship at supersonic speed but can slowly turn it towards a right direction. I would like to see as he wrote in his book, HEALTH CARE cost can only be reduced by PREVENTION and PREVENTIVE CARE. But it is so disappointing that his very 1st bill allowing millions of dollars for the children insurance has no such provision for their PREVENTIVE CARE. All the money is a big give away to "miserable health" providers and their agents so called Insurance Co.

We know just buying an insurance doest make any one healthy. Children need to be EDUCATED to live a healthy life style so that they remain healthy. The money given to Children Insurance Co. will only take the money and keep the children falling sick and just run to Doctors and Hospitals. This money should be well spent in EDUCATION at the 4th and 5th grades along with their parents as they are unaware of PREVENTIVE CARE themselves.

I am afraid that same being done for the adults and he families with this so called reform.

All Mr Obama needs to do is to lead by eating publicly a healthy meal and not just give a boost to Beef industries by eating a BEEF BURGER.

I congratulate MRS OBAMA for starting a vegetable garden and inviting children to share with them the meal of fresh vegetables and fruits.

What Govt can do is to only write a code of conduct for a healthy life style and have Insurance co. do their business as they have been doing except that they must take any individual without their past history in their subscription. All the members of any group must be insured. Their should be a basic rate to insure a family who is a standard for a healty life style, and follows the code of conduct 100%. Any one who deviates towards less should pay more and who ever moves towards better than the code, pays less.

This will motivate ins. co. to educate their subscribers as they will make more money if people live healthy. Also this will motivate people to live healthy as their premiums will go down say 10% for every one year of healthy drug free of their living.

What Govt can do is to only write a code of conduct for a healthy life style and

have Insurance co. do their business as they have been doing except that they

must take any individual without their past history in their subscription. All

the members of any group must be insured. Their should be a basic rate to

insure a family who is a standard for a healty life style, and follows the code

of conduct 100%. Any one who deviates towards less should pay more and who ever

moves towards better than the code, pays less.

What government can do is get the hell out of my kitchen and get the hell out of my wallet .This is more social engineering BS. Go to hell .Apologist move to to VeNezuela

Democracy:

A government of the masses.

Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.

Results in mobocracy.

Attitude toward property is comunistic-negating property rights.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate. whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.

Results in demagogism license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success.

A certain Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago, had this to say about Democracy: " A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship."

A democracy is majority rule and is destructive of liberty because there is no law to prevent the majority from trampling on individual rights. Whatever the majority says goes! A lynch mob is an example of pure democracy in action. There is only one dissenting vote, and that is cast by the person at the end of the rope.

Republic:

Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.

Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.

Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.

A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.

Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.

Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.

A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of:

an executive and

a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create

a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize

certain inherent individual rights.

Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.

Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic."

A republic is a government of law under a Constitution. The Constitution holds the government in check and prevents the majority (acting through their government) from violating the rights of the individual. Under this system of government a lynch mob is illegal. The suspected criminal cannot be denied his right to a fair trial even if a majority of the citizenry demands otherwise.

Difference between Democracy and Republic, in brief:

Democracy:

a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority.

b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences

Republic

a: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government.

b: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law.

Democracy and Republic are often taken as one of the same thing, but there is a fundamental difference. Whilst in both cases the government is elected by the people, in Democracy the majority rules according to their whims, whilst in the Republic the Government rule according to law. This law is framed in the Constitution to limit the power of Government and ensuring some rights and protection to Minorities and individuals.

The difference between Republic and Righteous Republic is that in the Republic the Government rules according to the law set up by men, in the Righteous Republic the law is the Law of God. Only in the Righteous Republic it can truly be said "One nation under God" for it is governed under commandments of the only One True God and there is no pluralism of religions.

Autocracy declares the divine right of kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or unjustly administered.

Mobocracy: 1. Political control by a mob. 2. The mass of common people as the source of political control.

It is funny because the media keep saying his popularity is still way up there yet every site and blob I go on it looks like his popularity is dropping like flies...

You can't trust the media anymore you have to get your info on the net.

Media polls conducted by media trolls result in favorable results.