Barack Obama: New 44th President Will Face Real Challenges, Responsibilities
Barack Obama:
44th President of the United States
New President Will Find Responsibilities Replace Rhetoric
Electoral Win Solid, if Not Spectacular
Barack Obama was elected in Election 2008 as the USA’s 44th president and almost immediately will face hard choices in governing, both on the domestic and foreign fronts.
The media has called Obama’s election “historic”, and on that–unlike most other matters of fact–they are correct.
Obama becomes the country’s first bi-racial candidate, and even those that opposed Obama on policy issues can find much good in the hope that his election will put issues of race into their proper perspective.
The raw statistics surrounding the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the nation’s 44th president indicate that the country gave a Democrat presidential candidate a majority of the popular vote for the first time in 32 years.
Obama’s 52.4% of the popular vote surpasses Jimmy Carter’s 50.1% total in 1976 election. That total could finish up or down, but not by much. Obama’s total was far short of predictions that he would approach Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 total of 61.1%.
The electoral college total had Obama winning 364-174 over challenger John McCain.
Bill Clinton exceeded both totals in the electoral college–in spite of never winning a majority of the popular vote–in both 1992(370) and 1996 (379). Obama did surpass Carter’s 297.
Obama will be tested immediately, it seems on foreign policy.
Russia reacted to the news of Obama’s election within hours. From Russian missiles to counter U.S. defence plan: Medvedev.
Russia will deploy short-range missiles in the Baltic Sea region near the border with Poland in response to plans by the United States to build an anti-missile system in Europe, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
The proposed U.S. anti-missile system, which would include 10 missile silos in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic to help detect and shoot down any ballistic missiles, threatens Russia’s national security, Medvedev said in his state-of-the-nation address on Wednesday.
“To neutralize — if necessary — the [U.S.] anti-missile system, an Iskander missile system will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region,” Medvedev said. “Naturally, we are also considering using for the same purpose the resources of Russia’s navy.”
There will be the traditional ‘honeymoon’ between the new Obama administration and the press. DBKP is no different: we wish the new president well for the sake of the United States.
We’ll reserve comment on the press’ relationship with the Obama campaign before the election for another post.
Obama’s campaign mantra of “hope” affects even us: we hope that what we don’t know about the Senator from Illinois won’t affect his good judgment for the good of the country. We also hope that the Obama we see in White House really the go-slow, tax-cutting Obama we saw in the last weeks of the campaign.
Obama’s campaign mantra of “hope” affects even us: we hope that what we don’t know about the Senator from Illinois won’t affect his good judgment for the good of the country.
Republicans in Congress continued to pay a price for their free-spending, pork-barreling ways when they had control. We hope they learned a lesson, though we are a bit skeptical.
Barack Obama is a smart man. We hope he uses his intelligence to study the effects of what happens–to Democrats and Republicans alike–when they try to buy votes using the hard-earned money of their fellow citizens.
We Barack Obama a hearty “Good luck”.
by Mondo Frazier
I WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE A BIRTH CERT AND THE STUFF THAT WAS LOCKED DOWN IN KENYA UNTIL AFTER NOV 4 TH……JUST CURIOUS
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MIKE,
I agree.
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Mike – I agree. I can’t believe he didn’t have to produce it to run. But anyway, I thought that Obama and his supporter were offended when being called marxists? Check this out, http://crippy.me/2008/11/05/obama-supporters-wave-soviet-flag.aspx. GOD HELP US!
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What would happen if we found out that he ran , was elected and was not a citizen . i read where Kenya was happy for there native son …….just one of many things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmm……..
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you people need to pull your head out of your arses and deal in reality> he is the president now. And now you”ll hear first hand the real stories. Ayers himself said he was only a neighbor of Obama’s and there is NO connection and the stuff the press and McCains team is now confirming about Palin…shame on you all for being such bitter betty’s
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kmp,
Ayers himself said he was only a neighbor of Obama’s and there is NO connection
bitter betty’s
You’re obviously a young person.
and the stuff the press and McCains team is now confirming about Palin
It’s helpful to provide a bit of “confirmation” when you make accusations.
There will be those who “confirm” many things about Palin from the McCain campaign. Some of it will be about CYA for the less-than-stellar job these campaign operatives did themselves. They would like to work again in the future. The story about her wardrobe was leaked by an ex-Romney staffer who worked on McCain’s campaign. Romney will have to overcome an obvious enthusiasm for Palin among conservatives if he hopes to make another run for the presidency.
The fact of the matter is: after sending a small army to dig through Sarah Palin’s past, the Mainstream press were able to come up with nothing except stories about their differences with her on policy–and rumors. Though Palin will return to the Frozen North, you can be sure that anti-Palin pieces will be a staple of MSM “news” coverage over the next four years.
To want to know more about the man who will soon be the president is not “bitter”. We wish BHObama much good luck for the sake of our country. But we will continue to find out about his past, as well as his future. All presidents undergo such scrutiny. Obama, since he hasn’t undergone it before–due to his attractive press narrative–will undergo it after the fact.
Four years from now, you may be a bit more wise in the ways of the world.
Thanks for stopping by, reading and commenting.
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He is the president elect and has not taken office as of yet . I did not question ayers and i am not bitter . i have a curious nature and would like a question i have given a factual answer which up to this point has not been done . Reality is my head wont reach my ass and i keep getting the same answers from the sheeple that dont know the answer either .
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His first big challenge will come with his Kenyan citizenship.
Born at Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, because his mother was underage when she gave birth, Obama is not technically a US citizen.
His second big challenge will come with the issue of black reparations for slavery raised by Sharpton.
Giving 37 million blacks in the US a lump sum payment of $20,000 each would only cost $700B, the same amount Barney Frank spent in a week to repair his screwup of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Isn’t a history of slavery worth $20,000 per person, after all, Sharpton muses?
His third challenge will come with the revelation to Israel and Russia that everyone in his family is a muslim, and Obama is a Christian by convenience and marriage only. Five muslim brothers, four muslim roommates, two muslim dads… do the math.
His fourth challenge will come with the issue of illegal immigration. Not mentioned once during the campaign, Obama has shown himself to be playing possum on his real intentions to permanently loosen our borders to help illegal aliens, including his aunt and uncle living fraudulently on the public welfare dollar in Boston.
So Palin’s responsible for what goes on in her family, but Obama isn’t? Double standard much?
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Looky here boys and girls. The Obama victory has left us with only 2 choices.
Either we go off the cliff together or we go off one at a time.
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Please, please, please follow Barkmor’s advice and jump off a cliff. Seriously.
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I thought you had to be at least 18 to comment here. What a waste of time.
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I am very disappointed with the comments. Very juvenile.
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Yeah PJ, as if you didn’t launch a thousand bullshit stories about Palin, all of them, including Troopergate, disproved.
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Hey Turbine, she was found GUILTY. Or are you like Sen. Ted (I am not a convicted felon) Stevens. All I can say about Palin, glad she’s back in Alaska, she’s their headache now.
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You don’t know what you’re talking about.
It wasn’t a criminal trial, so there was no possibility of being declared innocent or guilty, and she was completely cleared of all wrongdoing:
Palin cleared of wrongdoing in ethics probe
Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was cleared late yesterday of wrongdoing in an abuse-of-power investigation into the firing of the state’s public safety commissioner.
The Alaska Personnel Board report, issued on the eve of the US presidential election, ran contrary to findings from a legislative inquiry that concluded in October that Ms Palin had abused the power of her office by pressuring subordinates to fire a state trooper involved in a feud with her family.
Ms Palin brought the issue to the personnel board herself after complaining the legislative probe was a partisan effort led by Democrats.
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Forget it, Turbine, PJ is as logical as Cindy Sheehan.
Her heart is filled with hate and she has been blinded by her politics.
Just check out her bizarre posts on other websites sometime.
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PJ knows the truth. She just intentionally misrepresents it. She is everthing that is wrong with the Democrazis.
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Just wanted to say that I work at a big Pharmaceutical company in Clayton NC and I support Barack Obama with all my heart. I invite all my friends and colleagues to re-elect Obama in 2012!! I LOVE YOU OBAMA
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