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Posted on 27th Nov 2008 at 16:03

I thought of a way of generating some press for 4N.

I'm running a poll on www.LaunchLab.co.uk asking wether small businesses over here think Barack Obama is the right man for the job over there.

The poll is copied above, so answer away.

I'm going to turn it into a press release so I want some opinions from 4Ners to flesh it out.

Use this thread to discuss (in light of the pre-Budget report etc) whether you'd rather be a small business here or over there and why.

Is Obama gonna do a better job on the US economy than Labour have done in the UK over the last 10 years?

Are his tax policies similar or completely different to Alistair Darling's/Gordon Brown's?

etc etc

I'll aim to distribute the release during the silly season (the second half of December) for maximum coverage.

Your views please!

Q: Is Barack Obama the right man for the US presidency?

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Posted on 27th Nov 2008 at 16:36
This is perhaps a foolhardy comment given that Obama has limited experience but he seems to be pushing all the right buttons and in retrospect could be seen as the most enlightened US president since JFK.

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Posted on 27th Nov 2008 at 16:36
This is perhaps a foolhardy comment given that Obama has limited experience but he seems to be pushing all the right buttons and in retrospect could be seen as the most enlightened US president since JFK.

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Posted on 28th Nov 2008 at 11:55

Well exactly. He beats any of our politicians hands-down on the charisma front.

The way I see it:

Obama - increasing income tax for people earning more than $250,000 a year.

Darling/Brown - NICs increased twice in six years, income tax increase, plus a host of stealth taxes.

Now Obama might well find himself in a stickier-than-expected situation come January when he clocks in for the first time - but I don't his first term will see the sort of tax/red tape increases we've received in the last four years?

Anyone else got a view?

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Posted on 28th Nov 2008 at 12:07

I think he's the best thing to happen to America in decades and hope he is lucky with it.

I'll be amazed if he survives his first year though. Too many narrow minded rednecks with access to small arms.

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Posted on 28th Nov 2008 at 12:25

I can't see how leaders can't be just viewed as motivational beacons for the people.  Their projected characters are always the main factor that get them into office.  If you take the ease at which Obama can connect with people it's hard to imagine that he spends any of his time thinking about any actions he'll make for the country.   People aren't supermen and if you concentrate on one area of your life others invariably degrade.  Technies tend to be anti-social and socalites tend not to be technical.

With any change of president there is such a large quantity of remaining governement members that new policies tend to be diluted into old.  Add to the effects of such high-demsionality multi-variate impact of most political decisions it's difficult to tell one parties stance from another. In my view I doubt that the actual stance of government changes at all apart from a superficial level used for representation and that's probably the way that it should be.  Otherwise you would be relying on a general public to make a mass decision about a complex problem that not even the greatest minds can guarantee within the 10 minutes that they sit and watch an infomercial.
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Posted on 28th Nov 2008 at 14:41

my head hurts.

It's true that presidents, like prime ministers, are partly at the mercy of their advisers, but broad policy changes will take place and that's the important bit.

Will the Tories be better for small business than Labour? They are the traditional party of small business after all...

 

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Posted on 29th Nov 2008 at 02:26

they made such a fuss that he was the first black American to be president if they want brownie points why have they not got a native American as there president then i would be impressed

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