Ask (or tell) President Obama.

[DanMc]

With Barack Obama about to become the President of the USA what would you ask him, tell him or advise him if you could pass a personal message to him?

For me it would be don't turn out like Blair i.e. become just like your conservative predesessors and ship those who worked to get you elected, those who voted for you and those who believed in you down the river.

[DanMc]

Last few hours before he'll be too busy to read them (yes it's a bump )

[Guest]

I would tell him what a tacky inauguration he had. Tacky and classless.

[Nefarious]

I would tell him that he should keep talking about building communities from the bottom up, encourage more and more people to share their ideas via social networking - make sure that the everyday person continues to get a voice and really organize and assess the ideas that are submitted by the public. That is what the people fought for.

I would also urge him and his economic advisers to not just think about how to build 'growth' as in GDP statistics, or how to right the system back to what it was, but for them to think creatively, outside the square of feeling confined about pre-existing models, to see if there is perhaps an economic model we would benefit from transitioning to - that values people, family time and real resources instead of money created on paper. With this also, they should canvass the wider public ('individually' at first - get the raw view without any groupthink influence) for their ideas, categorize the kinds of ideas submitted, do some viability research into them and give them some coherent shape then put feasible suggestions back out to the public again to gauge opinion.

[Nefarious]

Guest - I guess if we want classy inauguration ceremonies we have to elect fly boys who get their position by right of their rich families who preoccupy themselves with issues of class. After all, simply wouldn't do to have ordinary people ruling ordinary people now would it?

Perhaps you could send him an escargot fork and tong set and offer etiquette classes?

Me? As long as he is pragmatic I could care less about class.

[Guest]

You must be a negro.

[Guest]

I can relate to the other guest, I to thought some of his inauguration tacky.
Once again a black Rev. could not help himself and take a poke at
the white population in my country. This is racism at it's best.
I am sick and tired of everything being blamed on the white people
of this nation. People need to move on , grow up and stop whining. Everyone is in this together and everyone better wise up and
be thankful for what we have. Problems in all groups is mostly caused by themselves not someone else. White men elect all people
in this land in a nation election, women , minorities, are only a small
part of the electing power. So if you what to piss off white men then go ahead, but just watch out, cause we can make major changes in the ballot box We better be humble!!!!!!


This is the innapropriate statement that was made.

"We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right," Lowery said

Offended

[Nefarious]

You must be a negro.

No sweetie - a white gettin' it right.

[Nefarious]

I understand your offense at that and I could understand the yellow man getting some offense too. I think the Rev thought he was being clever and funny. I saw Obama's reaction too - he laughed but it was also a kind of 'oh S***, he did not just say that' kind of reaction too.

There was another aspect of the ceremony that was not very classy - and that was from the crowd singing 'nah nah nah goodbye' as Bush walked out to hail to the chief a final time. Bush may have very low popularity but it would have been classier to treat the man with dignity.

[DanMc]

You must be a negro.

You must be a racist and since you do not put a name to your post a gutless coward too.

[Guest]

[quote="DanMc"][quote="Guest"]You must be a negro.[/quote]
You must be a racist and since you do not put a name to your post a gutless coward too.[/quote]


rolling my eyes, why would i put my name? Did you put your real name? I don't want to be your friend. I am commenting on a forum, DUFUS.

[Fred75]

I'd tell him to move to China where he will be more comfortable.
And also to quit F****** up the greatest country in the world!

[The Colonel]

I'd tell him to move to China where he will be more comfortable.
And also to quit F****** up the greatest country in the world!

Dan isn't F****** up Britain . . . Dan is a patriot.

[DanMc]

[jinjin]

There is something wrong with a system permitting the country's leaders to put their country into the crapper for their own personal gain.