I’m curious that we’re asking this question now. Shouldn’t we have come to a conclusion on that mystery before casting a ballot?

I made up my mind before casting my ballot.

The future isn’t really a mystery if we use our heads and know a little something about the way governments work.

Don’t ask questions like, “will Obama do…” whatever.

Start asking questions like, “how will I continue to live in the most free and American way I can despite the restrictions on personal freedom that the government, as operated under Obama’s administration, will impose?”

~Adam J.

Horst “wizkid” Weidemann

It took me 14 years to attain a Business Degree from the Penn State University in Professional Accountancy and pass two parts of the CPA exam. Penn State is “land grant” University initiated by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.

Also,in the social climate of “post 1960″, “hippie years,I traveled extensively (hitchiking/car) in the Unites States(slept at Haight/Asbury in San Francisco. I also traveled extensively in Mexico, Canada the European Country’s of England, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Spain and the former “communist” Countries of Hungary and Yugoslavia. I would like to state that 99.9% percent of the people in these countries treated me with decency and respect. I paid for my travels through digging ditches as a construction laborer, warehouse work, truck driving, gas station operator,etc. I also signed up for the Selective Service Draft in 1971.

Sorry for the miscellaneous information but I “voted” for Barack Obama for the simple reasons below:

1.) He is relatively young (47) and is extremely smart as evidenced by his Academic History.
2.) He has absorbed “information about the American people” from state to state for over two years which includes the rich, middle and poor classes.
3.) He is steady and has managed his campaign with great skill against “very determined and qualified” opponnets.
4.) He is a “good and decent family man”.
5.) He understands the global complexities of the world through his own experiences with having a white mother, black father, “home grown” Kansas grandparents, living in Indonesia and the state of Hawaii (multi cultural).
6.) He will bring a quick and honorable end to the war in Iraq. I assume by telling the Iraq leaders that they must reconcile their difference and manage a relatively “rich oil producing” country on their own.
7.) He will continue the “ending” of racial, religous, and ethnic prejudices in the United States.
8.) He will examine the Federal Government’s budget line by line (his mind is capable of this) and make cuts in “waste”, such as inefficent agencies, “lazy federal workers”, eliminate Patronage jobs for those who do not know what they are managing, spend money on jobs to improve a “failing” Nationwide infra-structure”, cut “ineffective military” weapon systems” etc.
9.) Though he “had to make deals/brown nose” with Illinois established politcians, I am assuming based on the “lessons” he learned from a a two party political system that forces you “to give up some of your ideals/soul”, that he will inspire a new poltical system (hopefully) for the upcoming “new generation”, my 17 year old daughter included.
10.) He will initiate the formation of a National Health Care System” for all Americans. This will improve the lives of “the normal middle class”, by eliminating this worry/bankruptcy. Business is tired of managing health care plans and Blue Cross/Blue Shield and other insurance companies just process paper and collect payments and yet decides who can particpate in their Programs(pre-existing conditions”. Medicare and Medicaid already do this “somewhat efficiently”. My elderly mother has her medicare bills promptly processed and paid and it does do not exclude her from coverage because she had a stroke, heart attack, etc.
10.) I voted for President Obama because he is honest, positive and not yet tainted by Washington, and did not run a “negative personal attack campaign and chose a “Joe Biden” as Vice President.

In conclusion, I did not vote for Senator McCain for many of the reasons listed above. The Republican National Committee (Rove and Cheney) twisted and turned a decent, compassionate, Patriotic Senator from Arizona into the personfication of George W. Bush who they also “twisted” in a perverse way.

I always viewed Senator McCain as a wise, non-partisan senator who loved and respected all Americans until the end. I sincerely forgive Senator McCain for being misled by “the idiots” around him (RNC). In fact I looked at him at one time in this long campaign as the embodiment of my deceased father who landed on Omaha Beach, fought through Normandy and into Germany. He received three purple hearts (George Washington on the medals) and worked for the Navy as a civilian, attaining high management status and who was involved in the development of Polaris submarine and its nuclear missiles during the “Cold War”.

God Bless, Senator Mccain for enduring the torture of the “Hanoi Hilton” and his long years of “good” Public Service in the Senate. And I know he will assist President Obama in the future.

That’s all I have to say, America and the World will survive the current recession/financial system why, because an old “hippie” turned accountant, knows it will!

But Obama is a coolheaded man, and I think that is why a lot of people voted for him. McCain was hopping around like Elmar Fudd during the campaign, and that is very unsettling.

About JACK AND SUZY WELCH. Jack Welch is an old reaganite. His approach to business may be good for shareholder value, but his own business values are ancient, dating back to the 19th century. Welch is a nice guy, I even talked to him recently at a press conference, but his idea of corporate responsibility is rhetorical hooey and his idea of leadership is to threaten and bully people — no matter how much he sugarcoats that.

For Welch, the environment is one big garbage can, and the fact that people have to live in that garbage can is irrelevant. GE, in Pittsfield, shut down its factories (after Reagan came to power), left 13.000 people out of work, and the Housatonic River so polluted locals (like myswelf) were not able to use it anymore…. Country First, indeed! Welch epitomizes what is wrong with the laissez-faire form of free marketeering….. it ultimately makes managers and CEOs forget the reality of real people, and those same people forget to take responsibility for their actions, esp. those that caused human suffering.

The Jack Welch school of business negates sustainability. He says that good business brings benefits to all concerned, he praises the India boom, the China boom, forgetting that the gaps between rich and poor are growing and that that could easily have a highly destabilizing effect on those societies. It is the jaw-dropped faith in trickle-down… but what is landing on the people is often a few yellowish and smelly drops, like the PCB-filled waters of the Housatonic River or the rain that once fell on Bhopal.

A magazine in Switzerland rightly nicknamed him “Jurassic Jack”.

I believe his time is up. Our future, economic and political, requires a new generation of broad and compassionate thinkers. Individuals like Obama.

Being from Illinois I know quite well the question of Obama’s accomplishments. Sadly I also know the answer. The truth is that his accomplishments are more fluff than substance.
Since the Democrats have took over the state it is on the brink of bankruptcy.

The city of Chicago is also run by Democrats and also is in dire shape. We have the highest sales tax in the country. The tripling, quadrupling, etc of property taxes from taking old homes or warehouses and making them into condos has still not balanced the budget.

The Democrats have run congress for 4 years and the last two have been horrendous.

I hope hope Obama turns out to me than a person who takes a good picture and tells a good story. Sadly, I think his blind supporters will learn the truth and we will all pay.

God Bless America!