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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

I grow weary of people talking about race and it's play in this last election. Let's get down to nuts and bolts.

I saw Obama's "first" news conference or whatever you call it, and I was not impressed. He sounded more like a politician and less like,,,,,, Obama. I am not making snap judgements here, just reporting my observation. I really hope he does not fall into the same hole as the rest of them. It wasn't as bad as Bush, who I actually refused to listen to toward the end, but it still wasn't the same as when Obama was running and hadn't won yet.

Perhaps it was the tone of his voice, which makes me wonder just what he's been told now that he is PE. I surely hope it's not complacency and I am not making that charge in any way. Perhaps it was the questions that were asked, maybe some of those points are something he did not yet focus upon. I don't know.

He seemed more calm, but not more self assured. Perhaps it is merely my perception, but it seems pretty real. Perhaps it is just that he has relized the enourmity of the tasks before him. It almost seems like he was not as confident. That's not so bad because I'm sure he has been told things he did not know until AFTER winning the election. Like reality is upon him. Perhaps he just found out that there are a bunch of things he just can't do.

At least that's how it seems to me.

I wll do the usual, prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Maybe I am more perceptive than most, maybe not, but I was wondering if anyone else noticed this. I am one of those people it is very hard to lie to, I can almost smell it in a face to face conversation, but this was not a face to face conversation. I downloaded a book called How To Get The Truth Out Of Anyone and when I read it I realized I already knew what it said. The problem is I was not alone in a room with the Man. It's a one way thing. Getting the truth is not difficult when you ask the questions. Getting the truth on a TV screen is quite another matter.

I will remain optimistic until I have reason not to be. Perhaps he is trying to say, via attitude, inflection and even body language that we simply can't expect the land of milk and honey overnight. I'll buy that. He could shake the tree by it's roots and I would not expect any significant positive results for at least a year.

One thing that doesn't please me is that he intends to go ahead with the missile plan in Europe, which is pretty much asking for another Cuban missile crisis. Hopefully it is just a bargaining chip for upcoming meetings with the Medvev/Putin administration. Even if he does it, just don't spend billions a month and don't push that button. However I say if you're never going to push the button, why have the missiles ? Perhaps Russia is thinking the same thing.

I hope Obama realizes that the other big kids on the block have been putting up with our antics and even supporting us during these times when we seemed hell bent on pissing everyone in the world off. In other words, I hope he knows how to use the word NO.

NO more. Get out of Iraq, Afghanistan can happen later, you remember what happened to Hitler when the Nazis fought a multi-fronted war. Their reach overextended their grasp. We are on the brink of something like this. Any warrior needs a rest period, and if you think of the US as an entity, we are due. We need to recoup, to rebuild the machine, to actually rest. To heal. Perhaps that's my tribal instinct talking, but it makes sense to me.

Yes I recognize what that is, like a mental throwback, but see it worked. My tribal instincts are that of a Polak hillbilly. Yup, like the Clampetts on Beverly Hillbillies, sans the money and we don't shoot quite as well. No way I could shoot flies off the wall at thirty feet, but we ain't bad.

So did anyone see what I saw ?

T

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ORIGINAL: mc1234

I think he's got to be pretty much exhausted, physically and mentally.  He'd just won the presidency and had meetings and is building his team.  He'd just had briefings from the intelligence departments clueing him in on some brutal truths about what's going on in the world and what he has to deal with.  I think taking a week with the family and hiding away somewhere, quietly studying and discussing things, but being out of the public eye, would serve him very well.

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

I saw Obama's "first" news conference or whatever you call it, and I was not impressed. He sounded more like a politician and less like,,,,,, Obama. I am not making snap judgements here, just reporting my observation. I really hope he does not fall into the same hole as the rest of them. It wasn't as bad as Bush, who I actually refused to listen to toward the end, but it still wasn't the same as when Obama was running and hadn't won yet.

Perhaps it was the tone of his voice, which makes me wonder just what he's been told now that he is PE. I surely hope it's not complacency and I am not making that charge in any way. Perhaps it was the questions that were asked, maybe some of those points are something he did not yet focus upon. I don't know.

He seemed more calm, but not more self assured. Perhaps it is merely my perception, but it seems pretty real. Perhaps it is just that he has relized the enourmity of the tasks before him. It almost seems like he was not as confident. That's not so bad because I'm sure he has been told things he did not know until AFTER winning the election. Like reality is upon him. Perhaps he just found out that there are a bunch of things he just can't do.

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So did anyone see what I saw ?

T

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ORIGINAL: Naga

I don't know, you will have to find out from him. But his body language has suggested it more than once. Even during his acceptance speech, it was in his body language. The only time he honestly smiled was when Michelle came out on stage to join him.