Obama - What is your opinion so far on his Presidency
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And really, if that's the biggest criticism of him, he's doing a pretty good job.
As disappointing as Obama has been, IMO, he's the best president the U.S. has had in decades.
I see a darker, taller, slimmer version of the Bush sock puppet. His puppet masters are the same. That is why he is escalating the war in Afghanistan.
Believe it or not, that doesn't require him to be a puppet or servant of the some higher interests. He's just pandering to get that vote. You can see this in the way he continues to fuel the fire about Bin Laden. If he wanted to do better he would try and show how ironic it is to celebrate - but that would be bad for the polls.
He needs to fleece the happy trigger right in order to maintain the rest of his agenda.
When he's sent in for his second and final term (and believe me that won't be a problem) - he needs to swing as far left as possible to get the most bang for our buck. For now, he's playing it safe and pandering until that last term.
Don't know much about the "puppet" criticism, but I myself have compared Obama to Bush. So that's legit. Of course, Obama has said for years that he wanted the Afghanistan war to escalate, so it's be fully advertised.
You credit him to much.
"Thanking Obama for killing Bin Laden is like going into McDonalds and thanking Ronald McDonald for the hamburger. It's the guy cooking the burger that should get the credit, not the Clown."
"Thanking Obama for killing Bin Laden is like going into McDonalds and thanking Ronald McDonald for the hamburger. It's the guy cooking the burger that should get the credit, not the Clown."
Exactly. ANY US President would act on the intelligence of Bin Laden's whereabouts.
Military intelligence is an oxymoron. Remember WMDs? This story is so full of holes, it is astounding how people are so eager to eat it up. Have we been fed BS so long we are acquiring a taste for it?
The only time the buck doesn't stop at the President's desk? When one's a critic of the President and the President does something really praiseworthy.
But that seems more like a problem that a politician wants to have. Doing something so good, that people who dislike him have to say, "Nah, he really doesn't deserve credit for that."
This will open the topic a bit, just what has Obama done that is praise worthy? As for bin Laden he just allowed the hunt to continue when he came into office. Seal Team 6 and the CIA deserve the credit.
Usually, the President of the United States has a lot of power and a lot of responsibility. True, whenever something bad happens on his watch, he rightly gets blamed for it. So, it's pretty easy to see that whenever something good happens on his watch, he likewise deserves credit for it.
It's pretty hard to argue that the most powerful person in the U.S. government didn't do anything (at least nothing that truly deserves credit from his critics) about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
It's pretty hard to argue that the most powerful person in the U.S. government didn't do anything (at least nothing that truly deserves credit from his critics) about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
If you complain about high fuel rices and want the gov to do something about it, you may very well be a communist.
"Gas Price Hypocrisy"
False advertising, at least when it was trying to say Obama is hypocritical. The problem with showing two videos of a person speaking and suggesting that person is contradicting themselves is that you have to make sure that you're not comparing apples to oranges. Obama feeling people's pain over gas prices in one video and then criticizing gas consumption in the other video? Doesn't sound like they contradict.
False advertising, at least when it was trying to say Obama is hypocritical. The problem with showing two videos of a person speaking and suggesting that person is contradicting themselves is that you have to make sure that you're not comparing apples to oranges. Obama feeling people's pain over gas prices in one video and then criticizing gas consumption in the other video? Doesn't sound like they contradict.
That is, they don't contradict because a person can do both: feel people's pain over high gas prices and criticize gas consumption.