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Thanks for stoking the fear. Posting a 26 second video clip and insinuating that the lady depicted is a lazy-do-nothing just furthers the cause of those that see right through this type of attact.
Like the rest of America wasn't struggling to put gas in their car or pay their mortgage. You got it right, 10% of the population is dragging down the entire economy. :RollieEyes:
Want2Stay
Uh huh.
And I wonder how many members of Congress are themselves IN that "ugly 10%" that has been dragging down the entire economy?
Tell you what, let me keep my taxes that the government confiscates, and maybe I COULD pay my mortgage AND put gas in my tank since they have not allowed any drilling or refineries or anything else for that matter that might have led to independence instead of dependence upon countries who don't like us very much to DICTATE the cost of oil.
You want an "economic plan" that just MIGHT help all the middle class who DO pay taxes?
STOP ALL foreign aid for 1 to 5 years and return the money to the people who have paid taxes. START with "charity begins at home," and let the people decide for themselves who to help.
STOP ALL foreign aid for 1 to 5 years and return the money to the people who have paid taxes. START with "charity begins at home," and let the people decide for themselves who to help.
Obama's already calling for the destruction of the power industry, calling for Goose Stepping Jackbooted Brown Shirts to patrol the streets under the guise of "security", going to take people's hard EARNED money and buy the freeloaders' votes.
"The Kreignacht is coming again." That's an exact quote from the owner's mother here who survived Nazi Germany as a little girl.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Thanks for stoking the fear. Posting a 26 second video clip and insinuating that the lady depicted is a lazy-do-nothing just furthers the cause of those that see right through this type of attact.
Like the rest of America wasn't struggling to put gas in their car or pay their mortgage. You got it right, 10% of the population is dragging down the entire economy. :RollieEyes:
Want2Stay
I do not believe that this clip insinuated that she was a"lazy-do-nothing".
What I got from this clip was that there are people that think that Obama is GOING TO SAVE US ALL....well maybe not all of us, just those that make under a certain amount
Me46 FWH42 Married 19 yrs EA 4/07 - 4/08 (Confirmed by polygraph that it had not gone PA) Dday1 4/13/08 Dday2 8/8/08 S26 S16 D10 Trying to Recover
Obama's already calling for the destruction of the power industry, calling for Goose Stepping Jackbooted Brown Shirts to patrol the streets under the guise of "security", going to take people's hard EARNED money and buy the freeloaders' votes.
"The Kreignacht is coming again." That's an exact quote from the owner's mother here who survived Nazi Germany as a little girl.
So you're saying Obama has the skinhead vote all sewn up, then.
Why can't there be COMPASSION for Peggy Joseph? Surely we all know that the President will not pay her mortgage...
But what's wrong with her having A DAY IN THE SUN?
I'm HAPPY for HER having such a great day!!
I'm sad if she really thinks Obama will take these worries away. The compassion is because she really believes that Obama will make those concerns go away.
If that's what she really believes, that she won't have to worry about gas or her mortgage, then she is deluded.
Why would anyone in their right mind just want to be be happy with her?
It's like saying to someone who believes Santa Claus is going to bring the #1 toy, when we know that "Santa" can't afford to buy the toy that has been sold out for years, that we should just be happy for them.
Why should I be happy that someone is likely going to be disappointed, or has unrealistic expectations.
Life is not just about emotions. Just because she feels happy and is having a great day doesn't mean that day or those feelings are built on a solid foundation.
Here at this website, we see the aftermath of emotional lead decisions based on fantasy feelings.
How is what she saying any different from fog babble of a wayward spouse? Both believe the bad can not happen to them. That this OM/OW/Candidate is different from the others. That they'll meet all of my needs, take my worries etc.
Sorry, I see her thinking in this interview to be little different from the wayward spouse who is agog about her affair and how fun and full of hope it is.
We all know the future will bring reality, and the reality will be far more painful than the false euphoria that happens during the affair.
If we really cared for folks, would we allow them to build up such a euphoric state based on false hope?
To be clear, I'm not for either McCain, nor Obama. I think they both offer false hope. So I'm anti BOTH of them.
My compassion for her is that I feel sorry that she will likely be just like the affair partner who thinks the OM/OW will meet all their emotional needs and the euphoria of the affair/campaign will be the way day to day life goes.
In neither case will that euphoria translate to day to day life.
Obama REALLY can offer her HOPE and INSPIRATION for a NEW UNITED STATES of AMERICA!!
I see her as being, like me, if we dare to use MBers' analogies for a woman at a campaign rally, a BS... who did not give HOPE for her marriage because I BELIEVED in A PLAN.
You can't gather from that brief snippet what that woman is REALLY basing her HOPE upon...she is obviously caught up in the MOMENT..
I'm happy that she is HOPEFUL..no telling how downtrodden her life has been...
She may not be able to ELOQUENTLY communicate all that she heard...
She listened to an ENTIRE SPEECH...and was only interviewed briefly...
I made it happen..a joyful life..filled with peace, contentment, happiness and fabulocity.
Obama REALLY can offer her HOPE and INSPIRATION for a NEW UNITED STATES of AMERICA!!
I see her as being, like me, if we dare to use MBers' analogies for a woman at a campaign rally, a BS... who did not give HOPE for her marriage because I BELIEVED in A PLAN.
You can't gather from that brief snippet what that woman is REALLY basing her HOPE upon...she is obviously caught up in the MOMENT..
I'm happy that she is HOPEFUL..no telling how downtrodden her life has been...
She may not be able to ELOQUENTLY communicate all that she heard...
She listened to an ENTIRE SPEECH...and was only interviewed briefly...
She attended an Obama rally, heard his speech and says, "...I won't have to worry about putting gas in my car, I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage..."
Those things will still be issues on January 20th, 2009, regardless who is elected.
I predict she will still have to worry about those issues on January 20th, 2013 as well.
No candidate, Obama, McCain, Bob Barr, Ralph Nader, or even me can take those worries away.
PS: Most folks DON'T recover their marriage. So while there may be hope in MB, I think that hope is for a relative few people.
Most end up NOT having a recovered marriage. Most end up divorced.
Like MB, I think this woman will be like most and still struggle to put gas in her car and pay her mortgage, regardless who is elected. If she is struggling today, like she seems to be saying, she'll likely be struggling in the future as well.
I recommend the book "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl, one of my favorite books..how he survived in a concentration camp...HOPE..and I quote..
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The prisoner who has lost his faith in the future-his future-was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future; he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and become subject to mental and physical decay
I made it happen..a joyful life..filled with peace, contentment, happiness and fabulocity.
I recommend the book "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl, one of my favorite books..how he survived in a concentration camp...HOPE..and I quote..
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The prisoner who has lost his faith in the future-his future-was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future; he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and become subject to mental and physical decay
Oh, I have hope for the future, just not based on any elected official.
If one's hope or hopelessness is based on elected officials, it's false hope, period. That's true if you are for Obama, McCain, Barr, Nader or any other candidate for any elected office.
I'm not without hope. I simply don't believe hope can be elected.
