They did just announce that indicators show that a double dip recession isn't going to happen...so I would say we are on the right track.
-----Original Message----- From: denstar [mailto:valliants...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:30 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: That was quick On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Sam wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Matthew Small wrote: >> >> I think that Obama is trying to do exactly what he said he wanted to do. Unfortunately it's not what people really want *or* even the reason he was elected. > > He's doing what I said he was going to do, not what he said. Compared to what? A "normal" politician? I liked how Matt put it. You have to try to go all negative. Where's the Bush-o-meter (and other president-o-meters, hell, politician-o-meters)? What is your baseline, a politician doing everything they said they'd do while campaigning? Good luck with that! (and I mean it). >> He was elected as a reaction to a horrible eight years of GWB. People are hateful to Wall Street, he is the anti-Wall Street. People wanted to get out of the Iraq war, he pulled us out. People wanted a leader to trust, I think they have one. But his agenda is not really what people wanted out of him - they just wanted the anti-Bush. > > I think it was war fatigue, plus we got tired of the Bush bashing, we > figured if they had a turn they would be nice. Not working. The Republicans were such graceful losers, too! Freaking Democrats, single-handedly screwing us over. ... >> The problems with the economy are not his fault but he hasn't really done much with it at all - inaction is worse than none as a President. > > They weren't his fault when he took the job, but now it's his. Bush > didn't need $5 trillion to fix the last one. All that money Obama > spend and jobs are still gone. Funny that you guys are both repeating one of the memes that politifact or whatever mentioned. There is no question that we're better than we would have been. How much better is up for debate, but it isn't "none". It really sounds like you're expecting a long-term problem to be solved in a short amount of time. That's just not realistic. He didn't start with a surplus. =) ... > He can turn around and move to the center, it'll get him another term > easy. I don't think he can. He's too into himself. Everything wrong > with him is because we're not smart enough to understand how good he > is. If he were ever to step off his cloud and try to be a leader I > think he'd do a decent job. He just has to realize he's not the one. > You can't learn if you don't think It's like you put him on that cloud, and then give him shit for being on it. You really wanted him to be the Messiah, neh? More than Obama supporters did, but it seems like you did it just to try to knock him down. I like Obama. Not perfect, there's X and Y I don't agree with, but still, he's had an uphill battle. For sure he's not as terrible as you incessantly claim (in a sort of tit-for-tat kind of way). Eh. *shrug* Whatever is clever. :Den -- If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Blaise P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:330557 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
