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Yup, and that's what I have always told my kids, if you want to be respected you have to earn it and acting the part of an idiot, thug or badass does NOT get you respect. That they can be respected without being a pushover or a badass.... if you want to be respected and taken seriously you have to act and be the part and then you will EARN it, it isn't just given to you. I put it to them like this: if you want something, you PAY for it, regardless if it is physical, status or whatever, you want it, first you pay for it and then you will get it.
As far as Obama being our Savior or God, nope, I don't even for a minute think that.... however, in comparison with the other end of the voting, he is just about that. To me, with McCain so up Bush's ass, I can't see the next 4 years as having been muich different than our last 8 years which I can almost surely bet that not one person was happy with THAT world.
What people need to get is that we didn't get thrown into this new world mess overnight and we certainly aren't going to get out of it overnight.
I'll be the first to tell you, and I don't care who really knows it, we struggle, we live check to check and hand to mouth, 8 years ago making what I make now had me in a very good position, but today we struggle and we struggle pretty bad. Everything has gone thru the roof and we have 2 less people in my home than we did then, but we struggle more. And I have health issues, as does my husband, but can't get insurance to cover a damn thing because the cost is insane..... so we have to pay for everything to do with meds and expenses out of pocket and it isn't cheap.
So seeing him as a Savior? I can kind of get why some people might think Obama is that savior, I, however, do not see him this way. I see him as a change that very well could mean good for us, and that's the hope I hold out on. Basically though, as it can always get better, it certainly can't get a WHOLE hell of a lot worse in this case. lol
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