Obama worries liberals

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Ragtime, Im looking at YOU!

Aw boo hoo hoo! You lost conservatives! You had you fun screwing up our economy, it was time for some real change!

Obama seems to be closing the gulf between the left and right, which is a good thing. What's up with all this verbal armageddon between liberals and conservatives? It's like all that crap in Ireland all over again, only now it's politics instead of religion.

Though I am a liberal myself, I feel that only sharing the opinions of one party is ridiculous. For example, it's supposedly liberals who advocate political-correctness (I'm not sure of the correct grammar for the term), but I'm really in the middle on that issue. I support racial equality and all that, but I think trying so hard not to offend people hinders progress, and as people can be offended by pretty much anything, it's pointless.

Like the whole debate over "Merry Christmas" being offensive to non-Christians. It's a futile argument, because people are free to believe what they want to believe. If the Christians want to celebrate Christmas, that's fine. If the Hindus, Muslims, Atheists, etc want to celebrate their own holidays or none at all, that's also fine. Nobody really gets offended by other people following their beliefs, do they? The people who get offended are people speaking on the behalf of non-Christians, as a result of post-9/11 paranoia (don't get me started on that, I could go on for hours). Get with the programme, people: nobody's going to bomb you for wishing your friend a merry Christmas.

That above was simply my opinion. I have no idea if it counts as liberal, conservative, or a mixture of the two. I'm just me.

I often wonder if partisan politics is about upholding your principles or playing a team sport.

Why do ideologies have to come in 'packages' anyways?

What I'm reading here is that left wing whack jobs are upset that despite voting for a guy to kick the right wing whack jobs out of office, the whack jobs that he's appointing aren't quite wacky enough for them. Sound about right?

Hmm, methinks that a certain political bloc is going to be very red faced once they realize that they fell for the same Karl Rove style bait and switch that the religious right has been suckered into for years. Who did they think he was going to put in his cabinet, Noam Chomsky and Dennis Kucinich? I'll hold off on any real gloating till after he actually takes office, I don't think I'm going to be wrong on this one, but I think that the far left has seriously overestimated their influence on their presidential pick.

Really ...? Obama campaigned on promises to include moderate Republicans and to govern from the center left. While the campaigning Republicans were hysterical about Obama being an extreme leftist, I never bought into that notion. I'm not expecting any thing extreme - after so many years of arrogant ideology and incompetence, having a decent pragmatic/moderate government will be a fresh of breath air.

I thought the tree was derived from some pagan tradition/ritual.

How many conifer trees could be found at the site of the Nativity in the middle of the Mid-Eastern desert anyways?

Obama's plan for health care reform was not so different from McCain's. I would not even describe it as a universal coverage - no mandates for the individual, exemptions for some small businesses. The Obama health plan is designed to make things better, but is not utopian. It does not create a single payer government 'national' insurance plan that many leftists would like. All of this was established before the elections.