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1.22.09 @ 6:01AM

CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE
Re: Peter Ferrara's Obama's Responsibility:

I can assure you that the people will not hold Obama responsible for any failures of his doomed presidency, contrary to the dreary refrain of this article. The news and entertainment industries have invested billions in his messiahship and Joe Biden warned his people during the campaign to stand with the new administration as the crises it faces in its early months unfold. Excuses ad infinitum will be summoned to defend Jimmy "Malaise"
Carter II. Just as FDR profited from a protracted depression, so will Obama. Yes he can!!

No, the very people who voted for air headed speeches about change and hope voted for a socialist cradle to grave vision and they will reap it in spades -- the bankster bailouts started by Bush are proof positive that Americans do not hold anyone responsible for failures. The road to serfdom under totalitarian tutelage is the change and hope Obama elusively referenced for the intellectual elite and at that point holding anyone responsible will be an invitation to personal danger.
-- David Bonn

ANTICIPATING THE BOSS'S WHIM
Re: David Hogberg's The New Boss:

We missed a great economic opportunity my friends. When one starts compounding the slavish media coverage interspersed with all the gushing interviews of hope-filled voters and sycophantic celebrities, we conservatives needed some relief, some sign of real hope:

We should’ve bought stock in a barf-bag company.
-- P. Aaron Jones
Michigan

If at the very moment of innermost acceptance, half-black, half-white Obama chooses to identify himself as black instead of a proud American mongrel (like most of us), what hope is there that Martin Luther King’s dream of a color-blind society will ever eventuate here? None, apparently, judging from the statements of many Democrats perfectly happy with the divisive status quo.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

Barack Obama has been my President for less than an hour, as I write this, and I have already noticed great changes! To my list, David Hogberg adds that entrepreneurial activity has spiked in our nation's capital, though I'm sorry he didn't get his free T-shirt.

Has anyone else noticed:

. the price of gasoline is below $2 per gallon
. victory has been achieved in Iraq
. Israel and Hamas have reached a cease-fire
. Mother Earth herself seems to be cooling
. personal responsibility is back in vogue, as Americans in record numbers purchase guns.

Forget his first hundred days -- what else has this great man in store for us in his first hundred minutes?
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

THE LAST HURRAH
Re: Lisa Fabrizio's Ho-Hum for Hollywood:

Ms. Fabrizio is partially correct that the Left greatest (vindictive) triumph was bringing down President Nixon (through holding him responsible for his actions), but she is assuming the game for W. is no longer afoot.  Alas, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder has made himself clear:  water boarding is torture.  Torture is illegal and was so under the Bush administration; therefore, Bush and his agents perpetrated numerous criminal acts. The next logical step in this chain is to prosecute the offenders.

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