Since no one seems to have mentioned it........

[crotchrocket]

Its been a year since Obama's inauguration.

Opinions ????????

Personally, i feel that i haven't heard a thing about Obama in the past year. Don't know why but i was expecting televised miricles performed on a weekly basis. It seams he's a regular presedent after all, mabe the 'black' thing was not such a big deal as everyone thought ????? It seams a majour step for a black presedent to be elected and his rise to power was such a high but since his presedency it turns out he runs the country the same way as any other president and his colour has neither hindered or helped him along the way. Maybe society was more ready than we thought???


Heres the UK's news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8462685.stm

[circmand]

Actually he has been a worse version of Jimmy Carter. He inherited a bad economy he made it the worst sincew the great depression. He inherited 4.8% unemployment spent an additional $700,000,000,000,000 to keep it under 8% and has taken it to 10.2% (10% is you are looking at December temp jobs) The stimulous went to keeping government employees hired at the expense of private workers who actually produce something. Every stimulous dollar that can be tracked went to projects with high union/democrat voters it was a payoff pure and simple. He promised change and open government he brought pain and suffering with secret back door meetings and dictator would be jealous of. He is a dissappointment of the highest order.

I would even rather have George W back even he was much better than BO.

[crotchrocket]

Really? you'd rather Bush! I didn't know about the above, all i heard on the news was an HIV sufferer who was now allowed to enter the US when Bush had banned it.

[tom4bren]

The stimulous went to keeping government employees hired at the expense of private workers who actually produce something.

Waitaminit - I are one of those.



I'm not an Obama fan (not because I'm predjudiced but because he was elected by the media instead of the people).

My program was cut by 50% both last year & this year which cut many Defense Contractor positions as well as a few Government positions.

That's all I got to say 'bout that.

[Marlin]

Obama has set back the chance for a black man to ever be president again for decades. Lots of people voted for him because of his skin color, certainly wasn't his experience or track record. Now everyone will have a bad taste, and all the young people that voted for him will not forget that. Its a shame really, but at least we know that there will be some common sense restored in congress soon, and in 3 more years, the presidency. A solid independent would have an amazing shot in 2012.

[Stephen Biko]

In this country, what politician isn't elected "by" the media? Democrats or republicans all they do is spend hundreds of millions trying to influence media reporting.

As for what I think of Obama - Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Gitmo is still open, he backpedaled on anti-wiretapping even before getting elected, spending continues at rates comparable to Bush. Healthcare is turning into a repeat of the medicare drug fiasco (in which the lobbyists wrote the bill such that medicare is legally prevented from using their buying power to negotiate pricing).

At least he didn't really scew up the continuing marginalization of Al-Qaeda - nobody even cared about the underpants bomber in the arab press, it was backpage news at best. Although failing to tell everyone to stop acting so hysterical over the underpants bomber doesn't help here at home.

[tom4bren]

In this country, what politician isn't elected "by" the media? Democrats or republicans all they do is spend hundreds of millions trying to influence media reporting.

True, but I was referring to all of the free publicity he got from Hollywood.

[handeeman]

I agree with Marlin, a strong Independent could probably pull it off. Can you imagine if a guy name Mitchum ran as an Independent. His slogan could be "With Mitchum you can be rid of the BO."

[Marlin]

I agree with Marlin, a strong Independent could probably pull it off. Can you imagine if a guy name Mitchum ran as an Independent. His slogan could be "With Mitchum you can be rid of the BO."

LMFAO, you just made my day...

[Ldub]

I agree with Marlin, a strong Independent could probably pull it off. Can you imagine if a guy name Mitchum ran as an Independent. His slogan could be "With Mitchum you can be rid of the BO."

Robert Mitchum's corpse for president!...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CM1pqhodMR...g/s400/robert_

[ZEUS]

Eh, he's just another human bean muddying the waters. We'd be screwed in one way or another had we elected the other human bean. I mean, it's not like we have much to choose from in a 2-party system anyway... Some old guy who said word for word, "I know where Osama BinLaden is." brought in a bimbo as his VP to take votes from the black man who promised change... the whole election had a reality show feel to it, complete with scripted twists... how sad. Don't expect much from us on the other side of the pond... afterall, we are the people who put George Bush in office TWICE... and apparently some would do it again if they could... what's that tell ya?

[nfpgasmask]

because he was elected by the media instead of the people

Exactly. And as far as I can see, he hasn't done much so far. I think he did inherit a chit sandwich for sure, so he has an uphill climb, but either way, he's nothing but another figurehead.

On a good note, he can actually speak to an audience without sounding like a redneck idiot. And at very least, I hope he earns back some respect for the United States that was lost (or rather punched in the stomach and then kicked in groin) while Premier Bush was in office.

I don't like Obama much, but Bush was a straight up buffoon. Bottom line, he's a politician. Nothing more. I'm just sick of the way this country is run by one extreme or another. It seems there will never be a middle ground president.

Bart

[samneil2000]

I hate to get involved in this sort of thread because they sometimes get heated. I know I'm very opinionated on this subject, and we all know opinions are like arseholes... we've all got one and they all stink.

So, here's mine:
BHO is a major left wing socialist. He has thrown all of the catch-words out there like "social justice" etc. This sort of person (politician or not) believes that those that are successful in life owe something to those who are less successful. It doesn't matter that I have worked about 70 hours this week already. I make too much money for a white guy, and I owe it to people that aren't so blessed. That's called wealth redistribution. One bad flag for BHO.

Another issue I have is this apologist attitude he and other lefties have towards the rest of the world. They believe that the big mean United States has been a bully all around the world. They think that's why radical Islamists want to blow us up. So he has been playing nice and sucking up and apologizing for all the mean things the US has done, and has not garnered the respect of anyone that didn't respect Mr Bush. He has likely lost respect over Mr. Bush.
The radicals want us dead because we are the devil to them. Nothing BHO can do to change their opinion.
If we are the big bully US, why are we dumping millions into Haiti to help those people suffering over there. We could sit back and let them deal with it. The truth is, any time there is a major conflict or major natural disaster, we are the number one country those suffering look to for help. We always give help when needed. Remember the sunami?


I think Bush the second was a far greater president than what we have today. I did have issues with him as well, but would take him back in a second. He sucked at public speaking, but he carried a big stick. The Iraq war is a big issue for a lot of people, but either way, that one was won under Bush, and the country is working on growing as a democracy.
Bush screwed up big time with bail-out number one. He regrets it too, but all the people he trusted to help make the decision told him it was the right thing to do.

Another big issue with BHO is the spending spree. I know people like to think every president spends like crazy, but BHO's budget is bigger than the budgets of George Washington to George Bush 2, and every president in between combined!! I don't think that's the way to grow the economy. If they were worried about the economy and no so much social justice, they would cut taxes on the middle class and on businesses so they could afford to start creating jobs again. There are countless studies and examples in the past that proof that is how to spurn the economy. Not by blowing through tax-payer money like skittles. The government doesn't do anything to make money. It simply takes it from us. At least businesses take money for providing a good or service, and they spend that money to continue doing business. That's how the economy works, or at least used to.

Ok, I'm done. I hope no one is angered by this, because I hate when these threads turn bitter. This is just one humble conservative's opinion on the current president.

[Gussie2000]

I think that who ever were the president today,either obama or Mccain wouldn't make any difference.

This is not about how barack obama handled the US economy so far,it's about the big mess the country was delivered to him.
Is like trying to stop a 4 tons truck already rolling free from a up hill street heading down to a dead end & trying to get into the driver's seat before it gets there...... go figured out

What happened was unevitable because the former president didn;t do any thing to stop it & barack was not able to tackle in just few months everything,common guys,we all taking about the biggest economy in the world;You can't judge the man by either seating on the republican or democratic bench and if you do then you aren't be doing the right thing as a citizen.
Every body is impacient because they loss their jobs,homes,cars,savings are depleted & problably in deep debt & that is understandable,but every body agreed it would take time.

Asking obama to clean up 8 years of mess in just few months isn't fair at all.

The economy meltdown was already in motion,an momentum that wasn't easy to catch up with by just sitting in the oval office signing few documents & having some meetings with the staff.

Critizism is always the easy path people use againts those in "line of fire" to blame when things doesn;t work as planned.

I thing that all the money that has been spend so far was done so to avoid going deeper in recesion and skip a depresion,not to recover the US economy at once & get things back to "normal" with the blink of an eye.

I know many would not agree with my opinion but that is how i can see all this situation as far as today.

[Stephen Biko]

I'm just sick of the way this country is run by one extreme or another. It seems there will never be a middle ground president

That's funny, other than a few hotbutton issues, McCain and Obama are pretty much identical policy-wise. I don't think its a case of extremes, but rather the convergence of both parties to about the same place resulting in rhetoric full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Its kind of the way really big mutual funds tend to end up mimicing the general stock market. You've got two huge parties that account for roughly 99% of the votes - when they are that broad-based they both end up at the same place. So they have to make a huge deal of the very minor differences between them.

Slightly extreme would be someone like Ron Paul or Ralph Nader. Really extreme I can't even name any politicians that fit the bill on the right, just talking heads like Pat Robertson or Michelle Malkin vs somebody like Brian Moore of the Socialist Party USA (despite his being way more capitalist than someone like Karl Marx).