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ORIGINAL: MzMia
Slow down President Obama, if you keep this pace up, your hair will be snow white
this time next year!
Anyone else thinking, slow down President Obama, tackle the major issues WELL, and don't spread
yourself so thin?

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

He's trying to push thru as much of his agenda as possible before the midterm election in 2010.

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He's doing exactly as told.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda

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ORIGINAL: MzMia
Slow down President Obama, if you keep this pace up, your hair will be snow white
this time next year!
Anyone else thinking, slow down President Obama, tackle the major issues WELL, and don't spread
yourself so thin?

Hell yes, and every time i do someone comes swinging down out of the trees to accuse me of being a Rush Limbaugh-guzzlin' republican dingbat. I don't give a shit what color his hair is, all I care about right now is what color the Dow average is displayed in at the top of my MSNBC homepage - and it's been red almost every damned day since he took office, largely because he is not keeping his eye on the damned ball. I hired him to fix the damned economy, and in a month and a half he has done exactly nothing to stabilize the shattered foundation of that economy, the financials sector. And every day the traders on the Street point out what they think of his inaction.

I disagree with Rob's speculation that Obama is trying to get his agenda through before the 2010 midterms - I think it's even worse than that. I think he's trying to jam as much through as he can while he's still got 60%+ approval ratings, because he knows that this economy is heading straight for the crapper no matter what and once people figure that out, he'll lose a lot of political capital and won't be able to force this legislation past an emboldened republican congressional delegation. I've become very cynical about him the last few weeks. Either he's too dumb to see what the real problem is with the economy, or he's smart enough to clearly see that it can't be fixed quickly. Since he's clearly not dumb, the more logical possibility is that he's just trying to get in as much hay as possible before the rain starts.

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ORIGINAL: corysub

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Obama is racing to legislate his agenda by using the economic crisis to create fear and confusion, particularly fear. He is just following the game plan of his Chief of Staff Rahmbo Emanuel,"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." That quote seems to have replaced "Give me liberty or give me death" in terms of usage these days. ]ORIGINAL: corysub

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ORIGINAL: VanessaChaland

Curious here corysub, based on your sig, are your posts about Obama really relevant to any of the true issues or just sour grapes that "carpet baggin Hag Hillary" got her old cranky flabby ass kicked? :) :) :) :)

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ORIGINAL: corysub

I'm curious about your post and what you are trying to say VanessaChaland??

               ahhh.. I know.. "A wet duck never flies at night".
I happen to be one of those neocons you read about on these threads.  I also happen to have done a 180 on Hillary in 2008.  I think she was the best guy for the job.  In the final months of the campaign she showed "true grit"  she found her voice and impressed the hell out of me.  Do I disagree with her liberal agenda, particularly on healthcare, absolutely!
However,  I do believe she is better prepared to be President, is nowhere near the radical extremist we have in the Oval Office, and would be honest and upfront with American citizens, instead of the charismatic "tight ass" lying, radical leftist we have in the "peoples house"  today.

The way Barack is throwing around trillions of "borrowed" money, he is turning the White House into a "sub-prime" property!  I can see the "For Sale" sign on the front lawn, and planeloads of Chinese businessmen examining the plant specimens in the "Rose Garden!"

(in reply to VanessaChaland)

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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

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Obama is racing to legislate his agenda by using the economic crisis to create fear and confusion, particularly fear. He is just following the game plan of his Chief of Staff Rahmbo Emanuel,"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." That quote seems to have replaced "Give me liberty or give me death" in terms of usage these days. ]ORIGINAL: corysub

Once again, Cory, you act as if the idea of using a crisis to make changes as a new thing. It certainly is not. For example, we've just found out in written documents that the Bush administration, within days of the 9-11 attacks, decided to use that crisis as a means to vastly increase the powers of the executive branch. It also figured out a way to make these changes permanent by declaring a war that could be extended forever. Obvoiously that's change neo-cons can believe in.

Oh...and I'm not at all disturbed that Obama was a community activist. Maybe it isn't such a bad thing to have a leader who has seen what happens with people who aren't in the ruling elite and actually has some knowledge of what Americans outside of the top 2% of the wealth curve live with.

Personally...I'm glad to see a president with ambition, drive and goals. It beats hell out of one who's idea of doing the job is running off to his ranch to play cowboy.

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ORIGINAL: corysub

The number one crisis facing the country is the financial system.  If that is not addressed the country will indeed witness a deep and prolonged depression not seen since the 1930's. He has the wrong guy in his Secretary of the Treasury, a man who has done nothing to bolster confidence that the administration has any sort of plan.  All we get are ideas thrown up against the wall hoping something will stick.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Th executive branch is more than one man and this president has assembled a very capable staff. He inherited a once a century economic crisis with additional long ignored crisises that exacerbate the economic turmoil. To get the economy back on track he needs to resolve the credit problems, the real estate crisis, the energy crisis, the un and under insured problem and the investment failures of big business that has been creeping up on us ever since the early 80's.

Tackling one at a time simply won't work. We need solutions to all or at least most of them before the economy can begin expanding again.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda
I hired him to fix the damned economy, and in a month and a half he has done exactly nothing to stabilize the shattered foundation of that economy, the financials sector. And every day the traders on the Street point out what they think of his inaction.

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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales

For example, we've just found out in written documents that the Bush administration, within days of the 9-11 attacks, decided to use that crisis as a means to vastly increase the powers of the executive branch.

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Score one for the good guys!
Earlier this month, new U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder promised a clean break from the policies of the Bush administration. Yesterday, during a live interview on C-Span, he affirmed that this change includes ending the DEA raids of state-authorized medical marijuana providers!
Responding to a reporter’s question regarding the DEA’s recent actions against several California medical cannabis providers, Holder stated: “What the President said during the campaign . . . will be consistent with what we will be doing here in law enforcement. . . What [President Obama] said during the campaign . . . is now American policy.”...

...Holder’s statement marks a dramatic shift in U.S. drug policy, and is a major victory for the 72 million Americans who reside in states where the use of medical cannabis is legal! It also lends support to the ongoing efforts in Minnesota, New Jersey, and Rhode Island — each of which are debating legislative proposals to make the production and distribution of medical cannabis legal under state law.