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Optimism: 50 Percent of Americans Say Best Years Are Behind Us

paddy o'furniture Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 6:47 PM
Barack Obama will NOT be president in 2050
mlew Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 7:25 PM
You know. I agree but I dont see how we find that leader when we create an environment in which anyone telling the truth gets "primaried" or that any one who stands up for s/he believes gets attacked by a group of millionaire lobbyists and special interests. At some point, we have to respect someone for being independent and non partisan. We are at fault ourselves for creating this situation where the only persons that can aspire to leadership are afraid to death of being "swift boated" or made out to be corporate stoodges.
mlew Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 7:22 PM
So leave and go somewhere more to your ideological liking. The country that comes to mind right now is China.
paddy o'furniture Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 7:02 PM
In the 1950's, "Made in Japan" was just three words that meant ccrap. They turned it around. America was all big cars and unions and didn't see it coming.

We know what to do, we just keep tripping over ourselves trying to get there. We need leadership, like Reagan was a leader. Love him or hate him, this nation coalesced behind him and got itself turned in the right direction.

The result was the prosperity of the 90's that Clinton likes to take credit for.

Pray for another leader, not some phony orator who got where he is on lies and coverups....a real leader. When we get that, we can turn it around.....
Surtr Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 6:50 PM
**Barack Obama will NOT be president in 2050**

Witty. That is one reason. However, out demographics guarantee a president of a similar ideological view.

In 1965 our rulers decided to import a new electorate.

Once again, Gallup has asked voters perhaps every pollster’s favorite question: Do you think America’s best years are behind us, or yet to come? As it happens, the results are rather predictable:

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If anything, Gallup’s findings underscore one self-evident truth -- that is, the American public is deeply divided on this question along partisan and ideological lines. And it’s no mystery why. For their part, conservatives are still grappling with the fact that President Obama won re-election, Obamacare will soon be the law of the land, and the latest so-called “fiscal cliff” compromise...

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