On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:
> I can get you the quotes from interviews from folks on the streets
> back when he first tossed his hat in the ring. In fact, words
> similar to that were used on this list.
>
I've never met an actual person who ever thought Obama was godlike.
Well, there are still guys in orange down in Gitmo...we still have solders in Iraq...gay marriage is still illegal in my state... the Muslim world still hates us...etc. etc.
He's been about what I expected although I'm more than a little
pissed off that he hasn't gotten rid of the Patriot Act. OTOH, it's
always a big temptation of the power of the presidency to grab
everything that the people are willing to cede. Plus, I think that
hiring the villains who brought us the current financial disaster to
continue running the financial show will possibly be the one thing
that brings him down.
The problem with this argument is that President Obama is not going in the right direction. He hasn't even dropped the sails and anchor to slow the boat down. He continues down the same path as his predecessors, even speeding up our country's demise with overspending. Check out the first chart on this page to see what I mean. The projections are through 2012. Interestingly, looking at data on this chart puts Obama in the same class as Reagan and the Bush family when it comes to spending. It actually makes Clinton look good! Clinton seems to have slowed the boat, even after 20 years of Republican spending(not counting Carter, who, as we all know, was ineffective in most things).
OTOH, any idiot could see that the mess that the previous four
presidents left us would take a couple of generations to fix.
Here's a lecture by Rick Perlstein that gives an opinion on why
Obama's presidency has been a disappointment:
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