Comments on: Change We Should Hope For http://erichoefler.com/2008/11/03/change-we-should-hope-for/ Notes on education, writing, litracy, and culture Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:05:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Shawn http://erichoefler.com/2008/11/03/change-we-should-hope-for/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Shawn Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:18:58 +0000 http://erichoefler.com/2008/11/03/change-we-should-hope-for/#comment-282 Well...it's done. We can only hope for the best. After eight LONG years of Bush, I think that's the least we can ask for... Congrats on your man's victory...hopefully one day I'll say "our victory." Well…it’s done. We can only hope for the best. After eight LONG years of Bush, I think that’s the least we can ask for…

Congrats on your man’s victory…hopefully one day I’ll say “our victory.”

]]> By: Eric Hoefler http://erichoefler.com/2008/11/03/change-we-should-hope-for/comment-page-1/#comment-284 Eric Hoefler Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:32:04 +0000 http://erichoefler.com/2008/11/03/change-we-should-hope-for/#comment-284 I hear your concern, and it troubles me, too. And I agree ... it's one thing to campaign, it's another to fulfill your campaign promises (or even be able to, depending on outside factors). I *hope* Obama does his best to fulfill those promises, but we can never know. At minimum, Obama seems much more capable of bringing unity than McCain does (at least, the 2008 McCain ... where did the 2000 McCain go?). The fear mongering and divisiveness of the campaign alone was enough to lose this election for him. Add a weak economic policy, glorification of military might, overly-conservative approach to environmental problems, xenophobic stubbornness on foreign relations, and Sarah Palin, and it's a recipe for disaster that I just couldn't support. I hear your concern, and it troubles me, too. And I agree … it’s one thing to campaign, it’s another to fulfill your campaign promises (or even be able to, depending on outside factors). I *hope* Obama does his best to fulfill those promises, but we can never know.

At minimum, Obama seems much more capable of bringing unity than McCain does (at least, the 2008 McCain … where did the 2000 McCain go?). The fear mongering and divisiveness of the campaign alone was enough to lose this election for him. Add a weak economic policy, glorification of military might, overly-conservative approach to environmental problems, xenophobic stubbornness on foreign relations, and Sarah Palin, and it’s a recipe for disaster that I just couldn’t support.

]]> By: Shawn http://erichoefler.com/2008/11/03/change-we-should-hope-for/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Shawn Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:03:45 +0000 http://erichoefler.com/2008/11/03/change-we-should-hope-for/#comment-283 Great points, Eric...but, he sat in the pews of Rev. Wright for over 20 years, and listened to that man preach hate against another race...your race...AND our country. Obama will win, but I expect there's sooo much more baggage we'd yet to discover about his past... Hope is just a four-letter word just like so many others. Either way, let's hope for a violence-free Election Day/Eve, and a more peaceful country and world over the next four years. At some point, I agree: We gotta get past this division and reunite as a country. I'm just not seeing Obama as the man who can make that happen (and I'm not saying McCain could either). Great points, Eric…but, he sat in the pews of Rev. Wright for over 20 years, and listened to that man preach hate against another race…your race…AND our country. Obama will win, but I expect there’s sooo much more baggage we’d yet to discover about his past…

Hope is just a four-letter word just like so many others.

Either way, let’s hope for a violence-free Election Day/Eve, and a more peaceful country and world over the next four years. At some point, I agree: We gotta get past this division and reunite as a country. I’m just not seeing Obama as the man who can make that happen (and I’m not saying McCain could either).

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