Originally Posted by FDXLAG

Please don't fool yourself that we have suddenly changed directions. We have been headed in the same direction for the last eight years that we will be headed tomorrow. We have simply shifted from 1st to 3rd gear. You can say alot about W but what you can't say is he put a restraint on the growth of government. He spent like a drunken Kennedy.

Originally Posted by cgtpilot

I don't know a thing about your contract but the Obama was speaking of workers working fewer hours to keep your junior brothers from a furlough. Kind of a novel concept in America, the "group" taking a hit instead of the normal "me, me, me" attitude. He said nothing of wage concessions.

Originally Posted by Jetjok

I've done a good deal of reflecting about where we've been, where we are now, and where, I hope we as a people are going, and I'm very hopeful that President Obama will be the man to, if not take us there, at least get us pointed in the right direction. Above all, I very happy that we finally have someone in the White House who is smarter than the vast majority of us.

Originally Posted by Rock

I don't know too many FedEx pilots who graduated from Yale and have an MBA from Harvard. I do know a lot of FedEx pilots who flew fighters, most of whom will tell you that takes a certain degree of intelligence and motor skills.
Since Obama never flew anything and won't release any of his college transcripts, and really has no record to speak of other than getting elected to public office I'll withhold judgment on whether he is smarter than a majority of the people I've flown with at FedEx. But I guess I can hope.

Originally Posted by newKnow

I think we all reserve judgment on what this new Presidency will accomplish and I think that we all know there are many levels of "smartness," of which most can't be measured against the the others. I hope Obama can run the country as well as we fly airplanes. The thing is that we won't know until he get's a chance to takeoff.

New K Now

For the record: Bush attended Yale and got his MBA from Harvard. Obama attended Occidental (sp) & Columbia and got his J.D. from Harvard.

Originally Posted by newKnow

I'm not fooled, I'm just waiting to see what will happen. Even if the only thing Obama does is talk, at least he says the right things and because of that we can hold him and ourselves accountable. If you are like me and don't like the way things are going, let's do something to change it.

New K Now

Originally Posted by jungle

Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation. In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it. Even the victim of the Russian purges could carry rebellion locked up in his skull as he walked down the passage waiting for the bullet. But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out. The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou art". No one whom we bring to this place ever stands out against us. Everyone is washed clean. Even those three miserable traitors in whose innocence you once believed -- Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford -- in the end we broke them down. I took part in their interrogation myself. I saw them gradually worn down, whimpering, grovelling, weeping -- and in the end it was not with pain or fear, only with penitence. By the time we had finished with them they were only the shells of men. There was nothing left in them except sorrow for what they had done, and love of Big Brother. It was touching to see how they loved him. They begged to be shot quickly, so that they could die while their minds were still clean.' [George Orwell, 1984 Part Three, 2]