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Originally posted by secretagent woooman
No offense but how out of it are some of you people? The man has been in there since JANUARY, how do you expect him to fix everything in that time? Those decisions aren't even his alone, he has a House and a Senate to answer to. This mess (which has been building for 30 some years) will take at least 10-15 years to fully straighten out based on past conditions, we are a hell of a lot better off than many countries are under their best circumstances. Would you rather being living in a cardboard box in Mumbai? Or practically anywhere in Africa?
The orgy days are over, get used to living with less. If McCain was in office we would be in a hell of a lot worse of a mess, we'd certainly have been in both North Korea and Iran by now (if advance troops aren't already in the later) and the market would still be collapsing.
This cycle is nothing new, it happens several times each century. The mortage crisis and resulting bank failures have NOTHING to do with Obama's policies, thank Clinton and Bush for that mess.
Tough times call for drastic actions and he has been pretty lenient so far, you don't see gas rationing like we did in the 1970s, food quotas or even the use of eminent domain for private sector use like we saw during the last Bush tenure. If you think you have some brilliant ideas to fix the world's problems, get off the g------m forum and go email him. I'm sure they'd appreciate a helping hand.
he has a House and a Senate to answer to
Originally posted by genius/idoit
reply to post by greeneyedleo
That's a good point except obama was only a senator for about 160 days before he started running for office (as scary as that is in and of itself)it doesn't leave much to go on.
Originally posted by AllexxisF1
I support him and disagree with him at times. He is a politician doing the best job he can for 6 months in office.
Originally posted by genius/idoit
reply to post by Bearack
He was a state legislator from 1997 - 2004 please provide proof and a definition of a state legislator. I live in ill. and I don't recall that.thanks............ edit;I think your confusing state legislator with community organizer but I could be wrong.
[edit on 29-6-2009 by genius/idoit]
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Originally posted by xmotex
He's done things I like, and some things I don't.
No regrets on my vote, he was the best of the lot.
I didn't expect him to magically fix everything, or govern flawlessly, so no big disappointments here.
I think the handwringing in here is mostly pretty comical - yeah, we're all suddenly living under Stalinism now, sure