The real power behind Washington is the cartell of banks called the Federal Reserve.I don't think that it matters which party is in power.

There is a plan to unite the economies of Mexico,USA and Canada under one currency called the Amero.If Obama has his country's well being at heart,he will scuttle this plan and issue a new currency in the name of the US Govt.Currently their currency is owned by the private cartell of banks called the Fed Res.This is against the American constitution.

Obama has the power to free the US people from the debt trap and that will truely make him a great president.

all the american assasinations were people who dared to stand up to the banking cartells

the civil war was about tax without representation
and the right not to use british bankers money [not to have to lend their money from briton] the RIGHT to issue their own currency

ceasor got killed for issueing his own currency[ie not lending it from the banking marfia [who stole all our gold and silver as well as actually lend govt its own money
[with intrest at the rates set by the banking cartel called the fed reserve[as much federally owned as fed express [ie not at al]

obama cannot do the one change usa really needs [the right to issue its own funds ,that get repayed by tax on income [not wages]but the fools who get wages still think wrongly wage is income [its not]

but obama knows this [he also knows he wont be able to change nothing#
just like rudd cant

yes we could
but we cant be bothered
so we wont

yes we can is spin

yes we can get change we believe in [but we wont because we got no real belief in the way things really are ]

[just like jfk got killed for pres order 11.110 [signed into law the right to issue usa 's own currency [3 days before he got shot]

have we been sold out
yes we have

Today, I saw hope not fear
bringing the American people together.

I saw a man elected as President
who was judged not by the colour
of his skin but by the content
of his character.

A man who promised, "Yes We Can!"

To some that may be spin, but I
believed it, and so did the people
whose faces I observed on television,
in the vast crowds listening to
the President-Elect, Barack Obama,
in Chicago.

Sure, it's not going to be easy.
The man acknowledged that.
Sure, mistakes will be made.
Look at the mess he's inherited
from the previous administration.

But, "Yes We Can!" is a positive step
in the right direction. Americans
need hope, and something to believe in,
to get out of the mess they're in.

This is only the beginning.

"Better to light a candle
Than to curse the darkness."
(Old Chinese Proverb).

Well said Foxy!

Karl Rove swung the elections for Bush and Cheney, by using fear.
We landed up with a pair of bush pigs, as predicted.

Obama has offered Americans the option of change and hope.
Nothing in his campaign or background has suggested that he
does not mean it, nor that he does not have the intellect to
make a difference. I don't admire his job, for America is
a mess.

So I give him credit for his amazing achievement. Beating the
Clintons, beating the American conservative establishment,
as a non white and without turning to religion to win votes,
is an amazing achievement in the US. Congratulations Obama!

The cynics are of course jumping to all sorts of conspiracy
theories, which tells us a bit about their own characters and
frame of mine.

Its time to give Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt, until
he proves otherwise.

Congratulations Barack, on an amazing speech, which in my
opinion, came from your own true beliefs.

There certainly is hope for the world, for the thought of
the moose hunter with her finger on the nuclear button,
was certainly a scary thought for me.

Great stuff

Yabby I admire your positivity.

It is true that Obama has won some momentous and highly improbable victories on his route to the White House.

I hope to goodness that he can translate his victory into very substantial changes in the right direction.

One thing I fear is that he will make changes that are lauded as great steps forward but which will really be far too small in our time of quite desperate need for massive change. Relatively small changes could effectively mean business as usual, but with the majority of those calling for change largely silenced or mitigated.

In fact I think that is the most likely scenario.

Yabby, Foxy, well said what a lot of wet floors mine too.
Conservative old farts indeed and those who just want to complain.
This day is a great one, America has said it is a better country than Bush tried to make it.
It will not be easy.
It may not be every thing we wish for but at least we cryed because we think he can.
And we are not blinded by hate for all things American
Go you good thing Obama.