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    Presidential campaigns are wrought with overly dramatic pessimism and optimism, and we've seen that in this forum. This is for you to make some specific predictions about Obama's Presidency in the 4 or 8 years he is in office.

    Some of you think Obama will change Washington. Will he, and how?

    Some of you have claimed we're on a fast track to socialism. What specific changes will occur during an Obama Presidency that will take us down that path?

    Will the Dems gain or lose seats in 2010? It is likely that Obama's first two years will have an affect. Predict his success in the first two years and beyond.

    Where will we be with regards to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. in four years? Will we be in a better position with education and/or health care?

    Predictions about Obama raising the dead, appointing members of the PLO to his cabinet or ushering in the End Times are also welcome. But this thread will be bumped in two or four years so be prepared to have your predictions revisited.

    If any such predictions have been made in other threads (the more outlandish, the better) please repost them here.

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    The night my family business died, thanks to Senor Hope.

    Thanks America.
    There's one. T Park, be sure to keep us posted on how your business is affected by the new President.

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    that whottt won't leave like he said

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    we will be a weaker nation with him as President.
    Obama received lots and lots and lots of money from Wall Street. and we are weaker for government dependance - and anticipated cuts in our military budget ( 25% rumored)

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    You got it wrong Manny. Fairness doctrine is on the stove right now,
    front burner.

    Pelosi, Reid and Obama want the right shut up. And they can do it with
    this one bill. And it is one of their priorities. Just like Barney getting
    things ready for the military cut. And the lefties will go for it.

    Like Global warming is another their little pet projects. But first and
    foremost, hang on to your wallet, the tax increases are going to come
    shortly after they take office. All in the name of getting the government
    back on it's feet. To with the citizens. Government "investments"
    are the name of the game.

    Always remember something. Part of the game plan is to throw something out to the media and see how the country reacts and right
    now they are not getting any bad vibes about tax increases and
    fairness act.


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    You got it wrong Manny. Fairness doctrine is on the stove right now,
    front burner.

    Pelosi, Reid and Obama want the right shut up. And they can do it with
    this one bill. And it is one of their priorities. Just like Barney getting
    things ready for the military cut. And the lefties will go for it.

    Like Global warming is another their little pet projects. But first and
    foremost, hang on to your wallet, the tax increases are going to come
    shortly after they take office. All in the name of getting the government
    back on it's feet. To with the citizens. Government "investments"
    are the name of the game.

    Always remember something. Part of the game plan is to throw something out to the media and see how the country reacts and right
    now they are not getting any bad vibes about tax increases and
    fairness act.

    Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday defended the so-called Fairness Doctrine in an interview on Fox News, saying, “I think we should all be fair and balanced, don’t you?”
    Schumer’s comments echo other Democrats’ views on reviving the Fairness Doctrine, which would require radio stations to balance conservative hosts with liberal ones.
    Asked if he is a supporter of telling radio stations what content they should have, Schumer used the fair and balanced line, claiming that critics of the Fairness Doctrine are being inconsistent.
    “The very same people who don’t want the Fairness Doctrine want the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] to limit pornography on the air. I am for that… But you can’t say government hands off in one area to a commercial enterprise but you are allowed to intervene in another. That’s not consistent.”
    political critique=pornography???

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    the single most scariest sight in America.



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    Americans and their wallets are going to need a giant jar of this to make it through all of Obama's socialist programs he crams down our throats.


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    Americans and their wallets are going to need a giant jar of this to make it through all of Obama's socialist programs he crams down our throats.

    It's all doom and gloom... ain't you glad you don't live in the US?... oh, wait...

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    i don't think that will be needed. the tingling of the leg sure as has made it to the anus by now.

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    Americans and their wallets are going to need a giant jar of this to make it through all of Obama's socialist programs he crams down our throats.
    Such as? Also, give specifics on how these programs will affect income, the economy, etc.

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    Americans and their wallets are going to need a giant jar of this to make it through all of Obama's socialist programs he crams down our throats.

    Americans with fat wallets voted for Obama

    http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1

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    Yesssssssssssssssss! (we can)


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    It is going to be very interesting watching him now that he has to actually govern instead of just promising hope and change.

    Reality is gonna be a .

    We will see just how much you guys like him within a year when he comes back and tells you:

    * The deficit will be more than $1 trillion a year for several years
    * The country needs a massive new fiscal stimulus
    * The housing market will continue to decline through at least 2010
    * Interest rates and taxes will eventually have to rise (after the economy stabilizes)
    * Weak corporations have to be allowed to fail
    * Millions of homeowners will lose their house
    * Unemployment will probably rise to 10%
    * The government simply cannot "bail the country out" -- not because it lacks the will, but because it lacks the power

    Oh yeah...all those things I promised you in the election? woops. I lied.

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    Presidential campaigns are wrought with overly dramatic pessimism and optimism, and we've seen that in this forum. This is for you to make some specific predictions about Obama's Presidency in the 4 or 8 years he is in office.

    Some of you think Obama will change Washington. Will he, and how?

    It's going to be more corrupt and more easily influenced by outside elements than it ever has been before.



    Some of you have claimed we're on a fast track to socialism. What specific changes will occur during an Obama Presidency that will take us down that path?
    We are on the fast track...reguardless of what Obama actually does or doesn't...just the fact that he was elected proves we are on the fast track.

    There is a full fledged socialist in congress...Joe Biden is a socialist.

    Our congress is socialist.

    The government is going to be running our lives and telling us how to live them to a heretofore unheard of degree.


    As for the governments assuming control of many of our industries...there is a movement towards government control of industries, it's just not the American government.



    Will the Dems gain or lose seats in 2010? It is likely that Obama's first two years will have an affect. Predict his success in the first two years and beyond.



    Where will we be with regards to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. in four years?
    Iraq is pretty much over. The only point is do we leave when we want to or in agreement with the Iraqis.

    Will we be in a better position with education and/or health care?
    Depends on the type of education you are talking about...

    As for the healthcare...I doubt much is going to change.


    Predictions about Obama raising the dead, appointing members of the PLO to his cabinet or ushering in the End Times are also welcome. But this thread will be bumped in two or four years so be prepared to have your predictions revisited.
    He's going to empower and legitimize dictatorial regimes world wide...he's going to be friends with them.


    There aren't going to be any more bad guys...outside of Republicans and Christians of course...just misundersood revolutionaries that we should try harder to understand.



    Oh..and I believe this government is definitely going to attempt to make drastic alterations to the second amendment.

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    whottt thinks the NBA CBA is more capitalist than socialist

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    I predict he will be the best President we have had in a long, long time, of course, right-wingers like yourself will likely disagree, but I also predicted that SA's Mayor, Hardberger, would win and be a pretty good mayor and thats turned out to be pretty accurate..

    Yeah, I'm gonna have to go ahead and predict that Phil Hardberger will win a runoff for Mayor of SA. Castro's campaign has been too slimy and Schubert's campaign under-spoken, and I want a reformer in City Hall and not just a successor of the status quo.
    Nbadan on Spurstalk in 2005

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    It's going to be more corrupt and more easily influenced by outside elements than it ever has been before.




    We are on the fast track...reguardless of what Obama actually does or doesn't...just the fact that he was elected proves we are on the fast track.

    There is a full fledged socialist in congress...Joe Biden is a socialist.

    Our congress is socialist.

    The government is going to be running our lives and telling us how to live them to a heretofore unheard of degree.


    As for the governments assuming control of many of our industries...there is a movement towards government control of industries, it's just not the American government.










    Iraq is pretty much over. The only point is do we leave when we want to or in agreement with the Iraqis.



    Depends on the type of education you are talking about...

    As for the healthcare...I doubt much is going to change.




    He's going to empower and legitimize dictatorial regimes world wide...he's going to be friends with them.


    There aren't going to be any more bad guys...outside of Republicans and Christians of course...just misundersood revolutionaries that we should try harder to understand.



    Oh..and I believe this government is definitely going to attempt to make drastic alterations to the second amendment.
    You sure you wanna be making predictions after your great success predicting the election?

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    whottt thinks the NBA CBA is more capitalist than socialist
    Whottt doesn't know what a socialist is - Proof: he thinks the Nazi were socialist - how someone who got the 08 election so wrong can have any cred here is besides me...

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    Whottt doesn't know what a socialist is - Proof: he thinks the Nazi were socialist - how someone who got the 08 election so wrong can have any cred here is besides me...
    He doesn't. Most of the time I just pass over whottt heavy threads

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    whottt making predictions? Yeah, this will end well ...

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    You sure you wanna be making predictions after your great success predicting the election?
    Of course...look it was a pretty bad miss, but it's still just one miss...I'm 4-2 now and that's still better than most people I know.

    Most of the people talking now got ing owned badly in 2004....for instance Nbadan. Did they shut up? No...


    The way I look at it...even if I was wrong about the election, I'm not wrong about Obama.

    I mean I expected W to lose in a landslide in 2000, he didn't, but that doesn't mean I was wrong about how ty of a President he was going to be....

    Sometimes the American people up...this was a worse up than 2000 though...although without that up this up likely wouldn't have happened.



    The question now is will the Republicans respond as the Democrats did by becoming tier than the Republicans? If they do..who knows, I might wind up voting for Obama in 2012.

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    Whottt doesn't know what a socialist is - Proof: he thinks the Nazi were socialist -
    Damn dude...there were tons of socialist elements in the Nazi movement.



    how someone who got the 08 election so wrong can have any cred here is besides me...

    I don't really give a if I have cred or not...it's not like this forum is full people whose opinions I respect...I don't care if their guy just won the election.

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    [QUOTE=whottt;2877758]It's going to be more corrupt and more easily influenced by outside elements than it ever has been before.




    You mean it's gonna be more corrupt than our INSIDE elements in the outgoing administration..... Oh MY!

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    obama ran the same campaign and policys australias new PM kevin rudd ran...that was more family and economy policys, didnt talk much about the war besides pulling troops out. both inherited the job at the wrong time expecially the depression in the economy...just look at the smear campaigns the opposing parties will run to blame them for the incompotency to solve problems...

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