TockTockTock

This a thread for you to share your thoughts on President Barrack Obama.

I wanted to do a poll similar to those like Gallup, etc. I wanted to see the statistics on his approval rating on this site. We'll be able to see if it is at all similar to that of America's population.

Anyways... I think it'll be interesting to see.

Wayfarer

Seems like a nice guy, but I couldn't agree less with what he's doing. He entered office on a mandate of 'change' and what we've ended up with is more or less the black George W. I suspected this, though, when he appointed more of the same old faces as Secretary Of State, Treasury Secretary, etc. etc. Turns out Mike Gravel was right all along.

Mr November

I don't believe it would be possible for anyone to do much better. He might have pulled a few fast ones on the American people, but honestly the States needs to wake up, smell the roses, and catch up with the rest of the world.

I think he's been too focussed on playing it safe and trying to get people to like him, when he should be doing what he said he was going to, making people work hard and letting people fall for the better of the nations future.

This coming from a Canadian though, so feel free to discount my views.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

This is pretty much it. Obama invested pretty much 100% of his steam in campaigning, now that he's in office, he seems to have pretty much tamed.

Cheap Heath Care is cool, and all but seeing as it's his only real focus, and he's not even getting most o that through in a timely fashion. Nothing is really getting done.

Honestly, Obama needs to get some balls. He promised radical change up the ass like as if he'd be a president who would stand up to anything, and is doing the EXACT opposite. I couldn't give a flying **** about unity between the political parties. We need to pull our country out of the ****ter...

Essentially, We NEED an FDR, and we ended up with a William Harrison in FDR's skin.

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TockTockTock

Actually, Obama campaigned as a moderate democrat. I have to say that four months ago, I would've agree with you about him toughening up, but this country won't get anywhere unless we cooperate with one another. Although, I was pretty angry when I saw his tax compromise... Those Bush tax cuts are just idiotic, and they're feeding the beast that is big corporation and greed.

Not to mention, from what I have heard and seen, the healthcare bill is really watered-down and not nearly as strong as it was intended to be (and needs to be).

gunnels

I've heard about ten different descriptions of the healthcare bill ranging from a system similar to Canada's to legally forcing people to purchase from pre-existing insurance companies (which is bs I'm sure), and I'm too much of a lazy sod to read all 400+ pages of the bill, so I really don't know what to think of it anymore.
I wish people wouldn't make up this kind of runoff.

But yeah, I do agree we need a strong healthcare bill. However, I can see him wanting to compromise just so it exists (especially with Republican majority in congress), because it can always be amended by a later administration. That's what happened with FDR's New Deal and the numerous acts produced by it. (Yeah, it's kind of stretch comparing the two but it's my two cents.)

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Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Well, I'm not saying he was intending to be super super left. More so, he gave the impression that he was a very strong, directioned president who intended to see his vision through. What we got is the world's ultimate compromiser, and a guy who pretty much backed down from a the promises he made.

I mean, has he even closed Guantanamo bay yet? I mean, it was supposed to be the very first thing he was doing. if hasn't done that even yet, what has he done?

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TockTockTock

Good points. Both of you.

ThePhanastasio

I really don't see that he could do much better than he is at the moment. Sure, it seems like he's playing it safe, but he's trying to get some manner of unity between the GOP and Dems.

Our previous president all but set him up for failure. There was an unfinished war, another war begging for attention, a piss-poor economy, and one of the strongest divides between the two main parties that there's ever been.

He's been trying to do things, but all of the partisan bull**** is getting in the way.

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I really don't follow politics nearly closely enough to make any kind of qualified statement about Obama's presidency, but honestly, anything is a step up from Bush.