By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
The polls close in less than four days, with Barack Obama poised to become America's first black president. The mood of the country?
Democrats are eager and waiting to control the presidency after eight long years of George Bush.
Obama has some responsible plans on energy and foreign affairs to get the nation going in the right way again.
Republicans are resigned to losing, thanks in large part to a miserable campaign run by John McCain, topped by his pick of the unqualified Sarah Palin.
But if and when Obama becomes president-elect, reality will start to sink in for all Americans.
Obama, especially, will have to begin laying out plans for exactly how he's going to accomplish his goals -- especially with the help of a Democrat-dominated Congress.
Obama can't lose his fervor for bipartisan efforts to attack America's deep-rooted problems, especially when it comes to the economy.
And Obama will have to resist going along with the excessive spending plans being concocted by ultra-liberals such as Nancy Pelosi.
An Obama presidency is around the corner, but no one knows exactly what will happen when the prize is finally his.









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Outlawed SNL skit
You've got to watch this SNL skit the Democrats tried to "pull" from the whole internet! Too much truth for thier liking!
http://msunderestimated.com/SNLBailoutSkit.wmv
Thats a hoot
Sarah Palin unqualified? She is far better qualified than Mr Muslim is to be president, hands down
obama has bought his way this far
If it were not for the corrupt media and obama's ill gotten campaign funds, he would be losing by mucho more. He is dirty and sneaky and will not be good for this country. The unethical media are electing this man, not the american public.
My letter to all the media... sent to many and even to the obituary columns under "Journalism is Dead"
Dear Mr. Editor,
I know you and your paper really don't care what the general public thinks, because if you did, you would uphold what you are expected to follow as professional journalists. You and 90% of your counterparts have skewed this election by not reporting the news but by relaying to us, the general public, your ideas and preferences, causing the American people to be mislead.
Most of you do not even try to hide the fact that you favor Obama, and have reported mostly favorable stories on him and unfavorable on Senator McCain. You and your cronies are a disgrace to the word JOURNALISM. You have slimed and degraded an American hero who has fought for you to have the right to say what you say. Censorship is not far from your future with your messiah in office
We shouldn't have to remind you that the function of the journalist is to improve and educate readers/viewers by widening individual views, by expanding their vision, and inevitably by getting away from narrow self-interest
Since the development of professional journalism, you have been expected to follow a code of journalist conduct that requires you to follow standards, some are as follows:
Use multiple original sources of information, especially if the subject of the report is controversial;
Check every fact reported;
Find and report every side of a story possible;
Report without bias, illustrating many aspects of a conflict rather than siding with one
Decline gifts or favors from any subject of a report, to avoid the appearance of being influenced;
Abstain from reporting or otherwise participating in the research and writing about a subject in which the journalist has a personal stake or bias that cannot be set aside.
By anyone's standards, even the lowest of the low, you have not even kept within the spirit of these standards.
Your ethics in journalism have flown the coop. You aren't journalists; you are a public relations firm for Obama.
You all should all be fired and go work for Obama.
I, for one, have lost all respect and trust in the media and I'm sure I'm not alone. I know many many people who have given up on all of you and have since refrained from reading the newspapers or watching the obama networks and are now enjoying more quality time with family and friends. I hope the entire main stream media go broke and shut down. Good bye and good luck to the lot of you.
The destruction of this nation lies at your feet; I don't know how you sleep at night.
Disgusted reader
...your right
I say that picture too...and guess what else...it was the only picture that I have ever seen with Sarah where her mouth was shut!
I think I will download it and put it next to my toilet seat.
Southern smiles and world peace,
Sharon/BabyBoomerQueen
http://www.BabyBoomerAdvisorClub.com
YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN or should I say
PROPAGANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Good last ditch effort but it isn't going to work...
Southern smiles and world peace,
Sharon/BabyBoomerQueen
http://www.BabyBoomerAdvisorClub.com
Yeah? I saw a picture of
Yeah? I saw a picture of McCain with Joseph Stalin on the internet tubes and on several websites too which is actual evidence, yeah. It's real for sure, he's old enough. Trotsky and Lenin were in the picture too! McCain's for sure a COMMIE! And Sarah Palin, she was just a baby then ,but she was in the picture also. Chairman Mao took the picture, yeah.
Our Press Corps ShouldThoroughly Investigate and Report on This
So today we hear about Obama’s Aunti Zeituni who Obama so affectionately talked about in his book and who lives in a slum in Boston. If he hadn’t used her image in his book, I wouldn’t really expect him to keep track of her and to help her. But he did use her and yet he doesn’t even care enough to be sure that she is safe and he can’t even get her an inexpensive little apartment somewhere away from the slums? (I honestly don’t care that she’s here illegally. I do care about the stunning hypocrisy of the multimillionaires, Barack and Michelle Obama. They are such tools.)
And then in the article about Aunti Zeituni the AP casually mentioned that in her homeland of Kenya, there was rioting and bloodshed earlier this year. Yes there was, and the rioting was at the instigation of the Marxist Odinga, Barack Obama’s first cousin, who Obama helped to try and get elected last year to the presidency. Obama campaigned both in person (no time to visit his brother tho) and from his United States Senate Office. And Kenya is a democracy (which Obama was trying to replace with a Marxist dictatorship). Fifteen hundred people died during those riots including Christian women and children who were burned alive in their churches. (Contrast this reality with Obama’s smooth talking temperate façade. Talk about a wolf in sheep’s clothing.)
Presidents have enormous power, and most of what they do is done behind closed doors. That’s why it’s so important for America to have a basically good person who is who he says he is in that office. And Barack Obama is not a good person. And Barack Obama is not who he says he is.
A few days ago, Obama said that if we don’t want to pay higher taxes to help other Americans then we are selfish.
Barack Obama is the selfish one, and a hypocrite and a very dangerous man.
Wow, JA this is getting
Wow, JA this is getting really over the top. I can imagine you were hyperventilating when you wrote it. you'll lose your credibility if you skew your data that much.
Obama is the Selfish One - Not Us
During his speech last Wednesday, Obama said that his “fundamental belief” is that “I am my brother’s keeper”. But what about his younger half brother George Obama? He’s in his twenties. He lives in a slum in a hut in Kenya. He wants to become a mechanic but doesn’t have the money. When he met Barack in 2006 he said it was like talking to a stranger. And although Barack Obama makes millions of dollars a year, he has never lifted a finger to help his brother. The duplicity of Barack Obama just shocks me. He is a smooth talking phony.
A few days ago, Obama said that if we don’t want to pay higher taxes to help other Americans then we are selfish.
Barack Obama is the selfish one, and a hypocrite.
They are Oversamplng Democrats - Just Get out and Vote.
Ignore the polls. We are seeing the full blown efforts of Chicago's Daley Political Machine, the most corrupt in history.
They are trying to discourage Republicans. They want us to stay home. Don't fall for it. Just get out and vote.
As for Barack Obama, he is a full blown socialist. His Mother, Father and Grandfather were Communists. His friends are all hard leftists (or felons). Of course Obama shares their views. They were his mentors and dearest companions. And socialism has a perfect 1000% failure rate. We don't need it or want it for America.