The Inauguration

[Dean Taylor]

Last week 1.8 million people assembled in Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration.

From what I hear, only 14 of them missed work to be there.

 

[Waxman]

Hey, all I know is one of my employees said: "don't worry, the new president's going to come in and fix everything.". This was on a day where I had a frozen sewer line. One day later it was fixed. Proof established, Case closed.

 

[Bubbles Galore]

My wife was so exicted she cooked dinner that night. WooWoo! Change is in the air!

 

[Whale of a Wash]

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams

 

[I.B. Washincars]

I will have to say that my business had been in the tank until the inauguration. After that day business has been booming.

 

[ted mcmeekin]

In keeping with "change" and "new ideas", my wife and I drove to Kentucky last week and purchased a 40 yr old "New Idea" spreader to manage our horse manure. I got the idea from a farmer's internet photo of a similar machine captioned "Obama Wealth Spreader"

Ted

 

[Patrick H. Crowe]

Dear Posters:

I admit to being hesitant to add anything to posts about the inag. when all of them seem to be critical or sarcastic. I know the response is apt to be something along the lines of: "Don't you have a sense of humor?" "Can't you take a joke?" Get a life - -on and on.

There are many attempts at humor which tell far more about the joker than the subject of the joke. There are many topics where only a person of questionable taste would dare attempt mockery or sarcasm.

In my view this election and the subsequent actions of the new president are such a case. These posters, while 100% free to say almost what ever they like, have exposed to me their crudeness, sour grapes and proved themselves to be poor losers. Here's just a touch of the reality.

Following a "conservative " president who gave us more debt than nealy all his predcessors combined, a man who 70% of Americans thought had the country going in the wrong direction - - we elected Senator Obama.

It was historic for many reasons. Not at all a topic meriting the sarcasm and scorn of the posters with so little taste.

Did you observe how happy he and his wife looked? Do you realize how he got there? The genius it took? The man's credentials are so staggering compared to posters on this forum - - those who graduated from Harvard Law let us know; those who were president of the Law Review there - - let us know.

OPRAH got him to run. This gal is genius level. His first week in office is a joy to behold.

So my message to my cheap shot posters: GROW UP.

Patrick H. Crowe

 

[rph9168]

Dear Posters:

Did you observe how happy he and his wife looked? Do you realize how he got there? The genius it took? The man's credentials are so staggering compared to posters on this forum - - those who graduated from Harvard Law let us know; those who were president of the Law Review there - - let us know.

Patrick H. Crowe

You continue to refer to him as a genius. Please verify. Why didn't he release his grades or any other academic achievements? Is he shy (doubtful) or would they have been embarrassing?

There is no doubt of his predecessor's unpopularity and Obama's success in getting elected. How much of that success was achieved by the circumstances surrounding the past administration, the economy and poor campaign by his opponent? How much was a product of his political handlers and the strength of the Democratic Party? You give him much credit for things he had little or no control over. I call it the luck of the draw, not genius.

We can all hope that he can succeed to make things better. That does not mean we have to swallow the dribble you put out as fact but rather as the boasting and exaggerations of one who sees his own abilities as far beyond any of us "posters on the forum".

You ask us to "grow up". I ask you to "get real".

 

[Sequoia]

Sour grapes

The King of "sour grapes" during the Bush presidency has now ... morphed .... the formerly sour grapes into fine tasting wine.

Enjoy your drunken high Mr. Crowe.

Your hangover is awaiting.

Embrace it when it comes.

 

[mac]

Please do not doubt the wisdome of the man behind the curtain, Mr Crow. He is far wiser than anyone here. And he has the grades to prove it ! There's just these nagging little details that I can't seem to figure out, such as why did congress belittle the auto execs for flying into DC in 3 private jets, but thought it was just wonderful when 600, yes 600, private jets flew in for the big ball?

 

[MikeV]

Our former president was mocked, ridiculed, lied to, lied about, harassed and harangued by the liberal media and I never heard Mr Crowe say a word in his defense. Pres Bush never once wavered from his duty to keep this country safe even though he got opposed by the Dems on every move. Did I agree with every thing he did....no.
Now someone pokes a little fun at Obama and you are up in arms about it. This is typical of the liberals who think that bipartisanship means agreeing with them.

 

[Greg Pack]

The man's credentials are so staggering compared to posters on this forum - - those who graduated from Harvard Law let us know; those who were president of the Law Review there - - let us know.

Hmmm, other notable Harvard attendees include George W. Bush, Robert Rubin (who just resigned in disgrace after helping tank Chittigroup), and Henry Paulson who as head of GS, help contribute enormously to the to the I bank failures by pushing for increased leverage. Yep, those Harvard people are some smart cookies

His first week in office is a joy to behold.

What part did you most enjoy, Pat? His abortion funding plan? Promotion of "Turbo Tax" Timothy Gietner, a man who either lied or badly botched his return as the Secretary of the Treasury? His order to close Gitmo and send many suspected terrorists back to their home countries? Or was it the recommendation of a $825 billion dollar economic stimulus package , about 3,000 per person in this country added to our collective debt?

 

[Washmee]

You couldn't make this stuff up

Here are some of the ideas that our liberal leadership thinks are going to be an economic stimulus plan.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashsb.htm

Democrats may have eliminated provisions on birth control and sod for the National Mall in the "job stimulus" -- but buried on page 147 of the bill is stimulation for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases!

The House Democrats' bill includes $335 million for sexually transmitted disease education and prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

I guess things will be booming at the Bunny Ranch. I'm thinking Bill Clinton might be behind this one.

 

[cebo]

When a politician from a different party replaces the old one it reminds me of the old Who song. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Pat don't forget I only took Bush 8 years to do what his predecessors took 230 years to do - double the size of the federal government.

 

[Patrick H. Crowe]

Cebo:

Please remember President RR did the same thing, i.e. gave us more federal debt than all presidents before him combined. There were two differences. RR promised to balance the budget with 2 years of his election, never even came close. GWB started with a surplus, so he had to first eliminate that.

Patrick H. Crowe

 

[Patrick H. Crowe]

cfcw:

My claim about Harvard, especailly Harvard Law, is that a person has to be very bright and accomplished to be admitted.

My basis for the claim is that I was in high school and college education for more than four decades. I know what was required to get into Harvard. The average SAT scores were public information, (in the range of 1250 but varied some from year to year - - that's VERY bright but since the definitions of genius vary, some maybe not quite at that level, though close) I looked at the records of our students who apploed, though few did because most knew they had no possible hope of admission.

Moreover two of my four kids went there. I visited with the admissions director. My other two had no hope of acceptance. My older son graduated there and finally left after 12 years there. He was Ph.D a.b.d.

How tough is it to be elected president of the Law Review? My younger son is a lawyer (not from Harvard) and he tells me it is extremely difficult. It almost guaeantees the student his choice of jobs. Obama was that.

Let's see if he can clean up the Bush mess.

If all you were trying to point out is that not all Harvard grads got into the law school and very few of those who did, were president of their Law Review and many have had troubling records - - then I agree.

Patrick H. Crowe

 

[cebo]

Pat,

Go back & read the constitution. The house controls the purse strings - guess who was in control of the house. Just like our current president RR had to fix the crap of his predecessor. We'll just wax over the ficticious suplus comments. After 10+ years of ignoring facts you win. The federal government has not run a suplus since the 60's. All that is trick accounting. All those evil corporations forced to have pension plans (aka ponzi schemes) by the unions are bashed because they are underfunded by a few million dollars are not in the running. Last wild a$$ guess on how underfunded social security is - anyone, anyone - about 50-70 trillion, yes trillion dollars. I feel sorry for my great, great grandkids (if they are not in waterworld from global warming by then) but what the h-ell, you and I will be sod monitors by then.

Respectfully submitted- Cebo

 

[cebo]

PC,

BTW since you have a lot of confidence in Harvard scholars then I assume that you are a ardent supporter of the fair tax. Their economic gurus have signed off on the fair tax (fairtax.org). I know you have written your esteemed statesman from the heartland and urged support of this bill. This is about the only thing (except complete lack of government intervention) that will start to correct this mess. The economy has a hangover much like what we've endured in 81-82; 89-92; and 00-01. Leave us alone and we'll get dig out. If the feds keep giving us the hair of the dog much like FDR did the crap will drag on.

Also, if GW is responsible for our current banking crisis who was responsible for the S&L crisis around '90?

 

[pitzerwm]

What I'd like to know is where did a doper in CA gets the money to go to Columbia and Harvard, then take a $40K a year job and be able to buy a $1.6M house. Your right, he must be a genius. IMO Oprah might have helped him get elected, but she had nothing to do with his raise to power. He is on a mission and time will tell how bad it will be for all of us.

 

[rph9168]

Time will tell but his short time in the Senate, lack of administrative experience and background in Illinois/Chicago politics is a bit frightening. I think many voters went for the image that was projected because the substance was very weak. Most of his appointments have been marginal at best. We may end up with one of the weakest, inexperienced administrations in the history of the country. It's like a major corporation hiring one of their accountants that had been on the job for only six months to run the company.

Like many have said, I really hope he is successful because our country needs it but I have some serious doubts.