I personally think that even if Obama was the second coming of Lincoln _and_ Reagan, balanced the budget, solved the financial crisis, brought peace to the Middle East, and scored the winning goal against The Russians in Olympic hockey, 40% of the electorate would still be against him. And regardless, think Bush was better.
And if he was a member of NAMBLA, personally sat on death panels for old ladies, and raised the tax rate to 88%, 35% of the electorate would still be with him. And regardless, think Bush was worse. Because those people pay absolutely no attention to the facts. In fact, they are more likely to "go with their gut" the more unpleasant to their belief system the facts prove. Really, the whole thing comes down to that 25% in the middle. And the truth is - he hasn't hit it out of the park. He has had a tough row to hoe. I think he hasn't booted the ball, or pulled a Buckner, but he also hasn't wowed the crowd. I think he has it in him to wow the crowd, and pull in that whole 25% of reasonable people, but he is going to need to do a much smarter job. The fact that he hasn't just blistered the Republicans for being "No"-men, and the fact that he hasn't been able to take advantage of a super-majority, and the fact that he hasn't been able to turn the populace AGAINST the hated Legislature, and for him, shows that he has failed to capture our imagination. I think that 25% is still hoping for him to drop the partisan bullshit, and people like Rhom, and start using his bully pulpit FOR the American people, in those areas that are important and broken for everyone, where we agree and have common ground. And spend less time on issues that divide us. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Sisk, Kris <ks...@gckschools.com> wrote: > > He got elected by promising the kind of changes that aren't even really > possible for the President to do. I'm surprised more people didn't > realize that before the election. At any rate, near as the American > public can see, he's not even trying to implement those changes. There's > more corruption on Capitol Hill being reported than ever, the national > debt is skyrocketing, the visible signs of economic recovery haven't > surfaced yet....yeah, I can understand why people are upset. > > Then again anyone paying attention would have known by mid 2006 that a > Democrat was going to follow Bush pretty much no matter who was > nominated. There was just too much anger against Bush specifically and > Republicans in general at the time. So we elected the Democratic > nominee, who turned out to be a man who's experience was no where near > enough to prepare him to do the job, and now the nation's upset because > he's not doing it very well. > > <sarcasm>Gotta love the way politics works.</sarcasm> > > -----Original Message----- > From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:30 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: That was quick > > > Are you saying that people are mad because he promised all kinds of > unprecedented sweeping changes.....and then couldn't wrap them all up in > 2 > shorts years, in time for the mid term elections????? > > Really? We're that obtuse? > > Man...we suck. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330479 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
