The next Pres has this to consider

[thisoldman]

<p>National Debt
<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120183030007834031.html?mod=myyahoo_module[/url]”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120183030007834031.html?mod=myyahoo_module&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>which one of the problems that I have with W, and will constrain the next Republican President. (maybe a Democrat President too).</p>

<p>Since I have a S who will be entering the job market this year, I am concerned about his prospects in the technical fields:
<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080201/sc_nm/science_funding_dc_4[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080201/sc_nm/science_funding_dc_4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>What to do? I’m rooting for Repubs since they got us into the problem, and they will get us out-I hope.</p>

[marite]

<p>Jeffrey Hart, former speechwriter for Nixon and Reagan is endorsing Obama.

But even in this unsettled campaign season, the conversion of Hart – speechwriter for two Republican presidents, former writer for the National Review, and patron saint of the notorious Dartmouth Review – to Obama’s banner is cause for a double take. Nancy Hart said she believes her husband is emblematic of a larger class of old-school Republicans disenchanted with the status quo.</p>

<p>“People who are disgusted with Bush,” she said. “A lot of them are.”</p>

<p>And so it is that Jeffrey Hart counts himself a member of Obama’s “new American majority” – a group of voters the Illinois senator says are fed up with the partisan excesses and wrangling of the last two decades and eager for a practical, cooperative approach to the issues that have divided Washington.</p>

<p>“It turns out that these political parties are not always either liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican,” Hart, a 77-year-old with thick white hair who lives in Lyme, said in an interview at his home yesterday. “The Democrat, under certain conditions, can be the conservative.”</p>

<p>Hart’s estrangement from George W. Bush’s brand of conservatism – which Hart describes as “radicalism,” citing an expansion of federal spending and aggressive foreign policy – began some time ago. After voting for Bush in 2000, Hart says he supported Sen. John Kerry in 2004. In the 2006 Congressional elections, Hart cast a ballot for Democrat Paul Hodes – not Charlie Bass, the Republican whom Hart had voted for six times — out of frustration over the Iraq War, which he says has been mishandled.

<a href=“Valley News”>Valley News;

<p>And so is Moveon.org</p>

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3.2 Million Members Nationwide Mobilize to Get Out the Progressive Vote for Senator Obama</p>

<p>Group Has Over 1.7 Million Members In Super Tuesday States</p>

<p>In a resounding vote today, MoveOn.org Political Action’s members nationwide voted to endorse Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for President. The group, with 3.2 million members nationwide and over 1.7 million members in Super Tuesday states, will immediately begin to mobilize on behalf of Senator Obama. The vote favored Senator Obama to Senator Clinton by 70.4% to 29.6%.

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<p><a href=“http://moveon.org/press/pr/obamaendorsementrelease.html[/url]”>http://moveon.org/press/pr/obamaendorsementrelease.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[JustaMom]

<p>What is the saying I hear so often…“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”</p>

<p>Sorry, thisoldman, I disagree when you say: I’m rooting for Repubs since they got us into the problem, and they will get us out.</p>

<p>Now I’ll roll up my soapbox and move along…</p>

[SouthJerseyChessMom]

<p>Former Fed Reserve Chairman endorsed Obama----</p>

<p>From Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Volcker said in a statement today. “However, it is not the current turmoil in markets or the economic uncertainties that have impelled my decision. Rather, it is the breadth and depth of challenges that face our nation at home and abroad. Those challenges demand a new leadership and a fresh approach.”</p>

<p>He concluded: “It is only Barack Obama, in his person, in his ideas, in his ability to understand and to articulate both our needs and our hopes that provide the potential for strong and fresh leadership. That leadership must begin here in America but it can also restore needed confidence in our vision, our strength, and our purposes right around the world.”</p>

<p>Mr. Volcker, a Democrat, was appointed to the Fed chairmanship by Jimmy Carter in 1979 and replaced – with Alan Greenspan – by Ronald Reagan just a couple of months before the 1987 stock market crash. He is widely respected among central bankers, Wall Street and economists for breaking the back of inflation in the 1980s – at the cost of the deepest recession the country has seen since the Great Depression. An economist, he was earlier president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1975 to 1979 and an under secretary of the Treasury from 1969 to 1974.</p>

<p>ThisOldMan,
Are the Republicans going to get us out of this fiscal mess, the same way they intend to get us out of Iraq???</p>

[coureur]

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<p>I’m rooting for Repubs since they got us into the problem, and they will get us out-I hope.<<</p>
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<p>Huh? What kind of logic is that? Why should we expect anything from the Republicans except more of the same?</p>

[thisoldman]

<p>The elephants have to more CHANGE to win and to solve national problems. This Beast has more to gain and more to loose if a Republican candidate wins in November. We can feel, see, and hear the Republican candidates say that they are Reagan R’s. No one is saying they are loyal W or last year’s GOP. </p>

<p>I am no fan of Reagan who lied to us on the same topics as W. But I have hope.</p>