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Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States, as the country chose him as its first African American chief executive.
Share your thoughts on this historic election.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 9:44 AM
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I didn't see a thread addressing the new issue that has creeped up...Why is the Republican party protesting the presidential speech President Obama is going to deliver to the schools and school children of this country? Is it because they are afraid these children might start to think for themselves? Most children you talk to nowadays already have a narrow and one-sided opinion regarding politics anyway from their parents. (meaning either right or left side politics). The Republicans say President Obama will (and I am paraphrasing since I heard it this morning on our local news stations...my head started to smoke and I thought it would fall off from hearing what I was hearing about the "unhappiness" factor the right side was feeling.) will basically take these children to the "dark side" of socialism and we will never see them again. Really? (Like I said I was paraphrasing what the news anchor was saying...but it was along those lines.) Then they went on to say there is a short film called "I pledge" that stars a bunch of famous people stating they will "be a servant" to our president and support him...I do NOT see what the problem is here...How many times in the last 8 years were we NOT asked to "serve" our president and they went ahead and made us anyway...Maybe it is like when you are dating and the guy treats you really really bad, but you stay with him anyway because you can "change" him...is that what happened the last 8 years? I NEVER supported any policy or speech President (I'm sorry..I mean) "Bumpkin Bush" threw at us. I think Bush left a HUGE mess behind and is under some rock somewhere. Getting back to what I was trying to say about this address going out to the school system...I don't see President Obama sitting in a bunker somewhere plotting to take over the minds of our children. Is this really what the Republicans have to do these days? Turning "irrational thinking" into a full time job is getting old. I really wish the Republicans would follow Bush and go hide under a rock somewhere and let the intelligent and rational thinkers take over...really the US would be a better place.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 9:29 AM
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quoted: this is mind bugling and yet nobody cares.
I care. I vastly prefer mind trumpeting.
> "Students in grades pre-K-6, for example, are
> encouraged to "write letters to themselves about what
> they can do to help the president."
> this is called brain washing any way you slice it
> 6 year old kids should not be mixed up in politics.
Tell that to every civics class ever taught in America, coercing essays on patriotism.
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Edited by editor2 at 09/03/2009 6:33 AM PDT
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 9:12 AM
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I don't think congress working on health care bills for a year is rushing it. Obama's got such a big agenda, I imagine he's got to keep the balls rolling pretty quickly.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 9:05 AM
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dawnie,
Wow, that's a lot of spiders. 
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 8:46 AM
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If Obama thinks he can ride on his charisma...he better start rethinking it.
The American public is on to him and his sales pitches and phoniness.
He has lost trust..........not just for himself ...........but for the whole Democratic party.
People are not going to forget all the sneakiness and rushing with the bills. There won't be another Democratic president for a long, long time.
TRUST is GONE!
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 8:39 AM
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Maybe we should just call Barry Hussein Obama "Butt" since all he wants to do is butt into our lives.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 5:48 AM
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s2grand:
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> Now if we can just get rid of those other pests.
The pests on the thread?
Man, they all came crawling out from under their rocks all of a sudden. Must be the ones caught up in the Thinky ban have dusted off their old sockpuppet identies?
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 1:10 AM
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> s2
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> we've only ever had a few spiders, ants in the
> kitchen we finally got rid of by using sugar and
> boric acid soaked cotton balls on their trail and a
> couple of years we had a lot of ladybugs come inside
> for winter because neighbors are using them for
> eco-friendly gardening pest control.
Rainy,
Yeah, you, they can get praying mantises also but they'll eat beneficial insects as well as the baddies. You get the egg cases.
Now if we can just get rid of those other pests.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 12:51 AM
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Rainy and s2, as if you care.
One Spring Equinox
I had to clean a yard.
Under bricks was a LOAD of black widows.
I killed all of them.
A weird start to Spring.
I think that there were 30 or 40 dead when I was done.
Landscaping is just loads of murder
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 12:30 AM
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s2
we've only ever had a few spiders, ants in the kitchen we finally got rid of by using sugar and boric acid soaked cotton balls on their trail and a couple of years we had a lot of ladybugs come inside for winter because neighbors are using them for eco-friendly gardening pest control.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 12:24 AM
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> http://www.e-bug.net/pests/spiders.shtml
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> We've never sprayed our house for pests, 17 years,
> because we've always had indoor dogs and a cat. Maybe
> this year we will if the spiders get any worse.
Rainy,
They do have some "environmentally friendly" pesticides now.
Speaking of pests.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 12:20 AM
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http://www.e-bug.net/pests/spiders.shtml
We've never sprayed our house for pests, 17 years, because we've always had indoor dogs and a cat. Maybe this year we will if the spiders get any worse.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 12:14 AM
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s2grand
We had them in one house in Cali when I was a child and they're wicked looking but they don't usually attack people unless they're provoked. I haven't run across any here in KS. We do have a huge wolf spider making a web on the front porch but my husband thinks he's a 'friendly' and we're leaving him alone.
Recluse spider bites I've seen a few of those, horrific damage to human flesh that takes months to heal and leaves bad scars.
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 12:11 AM
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I think parents and schools and youth groups already encourage kids to do things to help their communities. I think that's great because it raises the kids self-esteem and teaches them that even kids can be empowered to make positive changes.
We have a house on our block that an elderly couple live in that was built by the vo-tech kids, great learning activity for the kids learning construction, etc.
My best friend's daughter is working on the equivalent of Eagle scout in girl scouts and they organized to clean up a whole beach near them.
Especially now during the recession and long recovery ahead when so many state programs and funds have been cut, whatever we can do including kids, to help each other out, clean up, re-build, etc. is all good. 
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
JFK
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Re: President Barack Obama
Sep 3, 2009 12:05 AM
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> I'm only afraid of brown recluse spiders but they're
> not the ones going crazy building webs on the tops of
> my windows right now, they're hiding out in dark
> undisturbed places (I always worry about them when
> I'm cleaning out closets)
Rainy,
You're not skeered of black widows? I've heard White widows can be skeery too.
"More people are killed by black widows than snakes every year."
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