An Emotional Election Outpouring

Good job. You have made every comment I know is true. It will be 2010 AT LEAST before this is over. We need to help some companies become viable, not shut them out.Our approach must be measured and smart-- Obama won not just on an anti-bush platform, but on his own merit as well

It will be an interesting decade. I just hope I will survive it with some sort of pension.

Continue to look forward to your insight

Debbie of CA 7:06PM November 16, 2008

Nah, I say let Obama have the White House - He paid good money for it - Even if the money wasn't his.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 8:32PM November 10, 2008

When socialism was mentioned during the campaign I personally took it to be an election tactic and it was ,just like the other absurd things that were said from both parties during the heat of the campaign.

Some went as far as parading the Russian flag to denote socialism after Barack Obama won the election.

Call it socialism , tax brackets sharing the wealth it is nothing new .I pay more taxes than some and others pay more than me from because I/they earn more period.

http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm

If the same taxes that were reduced a couple of years ago are reinstated what makes it socialism.

Like the taxes were reduced so they can be increased unfortunately the person increasing the taxes might not been the one I voted for .

There are better things to worry about good people

Mike

Mike of KY 4:23PM November 10, 2008

Obviously there is an emotional outpouring that has spilled across the globe. TV crews asked Americans sitting in cafe shops in Europe, Middle East and Asia, and they said they felt

safer now that the U.S. will soon be governed by Baraq Obama.

Surely, not "A Beacon of Light" as mentioned above by Neil Cronin, but on a course out of George Bush's warmongering landscape, unending wars, and with the Bush surrogate

John McCain out of the picture.

But the outpouring of euphoria will not last long, unless Obama moves quickly to show the world that he is ready to reverse the U.S. foreign policy from the "Might is Right" hegemonic mentality of George Bush's years.

Then, Obama has to start on January 20, 2009 with an executive order abolishing the term "Enemy Combatants" and disband the "Military Commissions" for such detainees created by George Bush. Then, he must restore the rules that mandate that any person arrested by U.S. forces at any location in the world must be classified a POW. They will have the right of "Habeas Corpus", and they will arraigned before judges in the U.S. District Courts.

That will bring back the U.S. on par with all other countries in the world which obey their Treaty Obligations under the Geneva Convention, and will facilitate the order of the U.S. Supreme Court on the rights of U.S. detainees that the Bush administration refuses to implement. Obama won't be able to restore the respectability of the U.S. around the world if he doesn't abolish torture, water boarding, and infinite imprisonment of citizens of other countries without any proof of guilt in a civilian court of law.

Then, Obama must act to prohibit the killing of civilians in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and places that still haven't come into the light of publicity. Again today, Afghan president Hamid Karzai blasted the U.S. military for killing 14 Afghan security guards of a road construction company for no reason [he rejected the U.S. military excuses].

No doubt the world has been aghast with the thousands of civilians killed by careless U.S. military operations.

For 8 years the people of the world massed in hundreds of thousands wherever Bush landed overseas to denounce him as barbaric and criminal. That global and Emotional Anti-War Outpouring against the U.S. has taken a U-Turn now with an Emotional Election Outpouring for Baraq Obama's election.

But now that the Emotional Election Outpouring is over, Obama must deliver to both the domestic expectations on the Wall Street and the economy, and to the global expectations to stop the global U.S. warfare. And to succeed, he must shift to a foreign policy of peace and reconciliation within the International Treaties and the Human Rights Conventions. Nikos Retsos, retired professor

Nikos Retsos of IL 2:55PM November 10, 2008