[Superman]

It is correct to assume the Republicans have screwed up the nation so completely, and so obviously, that the Dems will be in the drivers' seat for some time. This happens regularly. I wonder why you guys imagine that it will not happen that way some day. We are in greater debt now. America is losing jobs. We have fewer international friends. Et cetera. Just like clockwork. The American people remember, and forget, and then remember again. This Fall, they will remember.

As far as you guys predictions that your guns and your money will all be confiscated, well I'm not going to dignify those remarks with my comment.

But....this thread is supposed to be about change and hope. So here goes. America this Fall faces, and always seems to face, a choice between fear and hope. Republicans want you to be so afraid that you vote for them. Most of you guys are like that. Very afraid. I think it is disgusting that America even has a political party that hopes you will be frightened.

Economists will quickly tell you that the health of an economy simply has to do with consumer confidence. Hope. A hopeful economy is a rubust economy. A fearful economy is a disaster. A self-fulfilling prophesy. Some of you guys, the younger ones, could eventually come to understand this.

And so.....regardless of whether Obama has some secret strategy that will brilliantly address America's challenge, he will at least give people some release from the scaredy-cat-America crap that the Republicans have been feeding them these past eight years for control purposes. And that alone will be a HUGE improvement.

Plus......and of course you guys won't allow for this possibility......Obama just may have some ideas that, objectively, will help. The hope thing, alone, is probably enough to restore America's self-respect, though.