I can only hope Obama … As Emily Dickinson wrote “Hope is the thing with feathers.”

… absurdly far from being a Socialist state? Hmmm. A slight edit here might help this make sense “… absurdly close to becoming a socialist state.”

Obama not a socialist? Read up on Saul Alinsky. Obama is an Alinsky follower. How many “community organizers” are not socialists?

No industry has been nationalized? Miles means other than the financial and automobile industries.

Lowest paid corporate tax rate in the world? This is not only not true, it is egregiously not true.

… nothing close to a national health care system? (Miles must mean other than Medicare and Medicaid (which is a state program but in all states.)) It is a blessing to not have a national health care system. That way the people have access to, um, you know, health care. Try moving to, say, Vancouver, and signing up a primary care doctor. Let us know how it works out. Try getting an MRI or CAT scan in Toronto, then drive down to Detroit or Buffalo and get one in half an hour.

… pay a miniscule amount to educate our population. That is true from one angle only: other than every other civilized country in the world, the US does spend the least on education.

… no chance he could all this in four terms, let alone two. He’s only been at it for a week for Christ’s sake and look what he’s done.

And this is bad how, exactly? There are already plenty of terrorists in prisons on American soil. Gitmo is a symbol of the excesses of the “War on Terror,” and closing is an excellent and relatively easy way to improve our political position.

> delay by 120 days the trial of the Sheik of 9/11

Why is this so bad? I mean, the last Republican administration already waited ~7 years, another 120 days won’t change things—and might give them time to put together a better case.

> steal another trillion dollars from Americans as yet unborn

If the economy continues to collapse we’ll be in a worse place. Now, you might disagree that this will cause the economy to rebound … but tax cuts haven’t been doing the trick. Deregulation hasn’t helped the economic situation. Monetary policy isn’t much of an option because our interest rates are already at nearly 0%.

> and guarantee permanent democratic ascendancy by issuing income tax rebates to people who don’t pay income tax (the modern version of panem et circenses)

All governments redistribute wealth to some extent. All. The poorest people are the ones who need it most (and I say this as a member of the top 1% in the US). And it is pretty clear that the poorest Americans usually aren’t poor because they don’t work hard—the current economy puts an enormous strains on a huge portion of our population.

> Not to mention bringing back Federal funding for abortions.

… by supporting a program created by Richard Nixon? This point is complete garbage. He is hardly doing that.

Bush didn’t do much. I can only hope that Obama will do better. And we are so absurdly far from being a Socialist state, I just have to laugh at those who say Obama is socialist. No industry has been nationalized. We have the lowest (paid) corporate tax rate in the world. We have nothing close to a national health care system. We pay a miniscule amount to educate our population. There is no CHANCE Obama could (or, in my opinion, would) implement all those changes in four terms, let alone two.

I believe you know what “not safe” means -or haven’t you noticed that the “Obama Voter” doesn’t take criticism lightly, or quietly.

The Obama Voter believes money is on the way in their HopeNChange envelope.

Wouldn’t want to break their hearts with reality.