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 Tonight, President Barack Obama will address Congress at 9pm. He will be talking about the economy. We are all feeling the pinch of the economy. I personally have seen my electricity bill skyrocket, for my one bedroom apartment it costs over five hundred dollars a month for the electric heat. Today, I would like to ask everyone who is reading my blog article to send me a comment about how the economy has affected you and what you would like the government to do to help us.

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Pesident Barack Obama gave his first television interview as President of the United States to an Al-Arabiya. I have to say that after watching the interview I was impressed. I think it was important for people in the Muslim world to know that they should not fear Americans. During the eight years of the Bush administration, Muslims could not relate to us because our president was constantly talking about war and invading countries. President Obama mentioned that he has family members who are Muslims and that he has lived in Muslim countries. He has a world view and I think that some people in the Muslim world will like that about the president. I mean you are more likely to negotiate with someone who knows a little bit about you and your way of life than a person who just does not want to understand you or the people who are from your country. Hopefully, this interview will help the war on terror so that so many people in other countries will not fear us and try to harm us. What did you think of the interview?

Caroline Kennedy decided to take her name out of contention to be the person who replaces Hillary Clinton in the senate. I think that Andrew Cuomo is much more qualified for the senate job. Now, Governor David Paterson has until Saturday to name the new New York senator. I think that Caroline Kennedy did the right thing. Most New Yorkers were not happy about her submitting her name to be in contention for the senate seat. What do you think about this development?

Today was the first full day of work for our new president, Barack Obama. He froze the senior staff’s pay. He also made ethics training mandatory. He had an order drawn up to close Guantanamo Bay.He even retook the oath of office because of the problem that John Roberts had yesterday afternoon with the words. He is taking his new job very seriously. What do you all think of Obama’s first day in office?

Today was the big day! Joe Biden has been sworn in as our vice president. Barack Obama is now our forty fourth president. I watched this historic inauguration at home. I felt so relieved when he finally took office. The inauguration is simply a formality because at noon the president elect becomes president anyway. President Bush is finally gone. He left Andrew’s Air Force base and is headed to Midland,Texas. Many people went to the inauguration. I doubt there will ever be that many people at an inauguration  ever again. Today begins a new chapter in the lives of all Americans. Hopefully, our problems will be solved. I know it will take years to repair the damage that was done during the last eight years. I am hopeful though. Today, we all feel like anything is truly possible. How did you feel about the inauguration? I thought that the new President gave a great speech.

President Elect Barack Obama is inspiring millions of people across the globe. Every day, I read articles about how Obama has inspired people. He just has something about him that makes people think anything is possible. His ground game was quite impressive.Thousands of people took time out of their busy lives to campaign for hm. He was able to raise millions of dollars from donors. He captured the attention of many people. He can give a great speech and speaks passionately about issues and hope. As inauguration day nears, I would like everyone to  leave me a comment as to why they think Barack Obama inspires people. Then,I will compile a blog posting about it next week.

Today, I watched some of the coverage of President Elect Barck Obama, his wife Michelle, Vice President Elect Joe Biden , his wife Jill and their guests go on their train tour. The train tour started in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and ended in Washington, D.C. MSNBC, CNN, and even Fox News covered the train tour. Many people flocked to the stops that the train would make. They wanted to just get a glimpse of Barack Obama. Barack Obama and Joe Biden both made remarks. As we all know, Joe Biden has taken the Amtrak train from Delaware to Washington every day for years. It was a great send off for the man. I really thought that the train tour was a great idea.Many people are so involved in this election and they want to be a part of history. What did you think of the train tour today? Did you like it?

Yes, the economy made the presidential election go in Barack Obama’s favor now we need action to fix the economy. President Elect Obama is doing a good job so far but President George W. Bush is sitting on his hands and is wasting his last few days in political office. He could have done something to fix the economy but all he did was hand out money to Wall Street which was very unfair in my opinion. President Elect Barack Obama cannot do anything until January 20th to fix the problems that we face. It must be hard for him to have to wait to take political office. It is like waiting to go from eight grader to high school student. You want to be in high school and not be considered a kid anymore. President Elect Obama has a great economic team that is supposedly going to put forth great ideas about how to fix the economy and create new jobs. Hopefully, they do a great job.We need some change economically.

Bill Richardson has withdrawn from being nominated as Secretary of Commerce. He is being investigated now. He is being investigated by a federal grand jury. This is because people have said that some of his political donors got contracts from the state. I am really upset by this news. Bill Richardson is such an upstanding guy and he deserves to be Secretary of Commerce. He is well qualified for the job and would really make a difference in the lives of every day Americans. It will probably take months to finish the investigation so this is why he decided to pull his name out of contention. Since this whole Rod Blagojevich scandal started the democrats need to crack down on corruption and suspect behavior. They would not be able to confirm him until the investigation was finished. There is no word about who is going to be the President Elect’s new choice for Secretary of Commerce. Hopefully, he picks someone who is very qualified and wants to be a good public servant.

Reports say that Caroline Kennedy will most likely be Governor Paterson’s pick for replacing Senator Clinton as senator of New York. Is this a good idea? I mean she seems like a nice woman and all but truthfully, couldn’t Bill Clinton be the choice for New York’s next senator? He is a great politician and was President of the United States of America. I would vote for him for sure. He has shown that he can deliver on his promises and he is very intelligent. He is a humanitarian and does charity work. He is a great lawyer. I think that Caroline Kennedy is just using her last name to score points and get a favor from the governor. I think that the people need to elect a person who has qualifications. New York has a huge budget deficit. There needs to be a solution to that so that New York can make its budget deficit disappear. Governor Paterson should have looked at resumes without the last names on them and then he would have seen that New York needs someone who can deliver and is experienced in politics.