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alyscat · 03-16-2009, 01:03 AM

It's hard to say what he has done "good" or not, since there's no consensus on what "good" is.

If you come from a conservative background, his spending more money on trying to fix the economy (which the conservatives did, too, we can thank them for the banker bailouts) gets slammed. His focus on people over things gets slammed. If you come from a liberal background, his obvious alliance with the Brezinsky/Clinton/etc. CFR group gets slammed.

He's a fast learner, and very intelligent, but he inherited a nightmare from previous administrations' spending/ economic policy / and he's trying to work from a position of inclusion in a country where the two political parties are so far apart that there doesn't seem to be any way to bring them together. Where it's politics over people, and big business trumps all.

He's also a lawyer, not an economics/finance wonk, and he will have to take advice from people he thinks might be able to fix things. One thing I've noticed, though, is that he tends to make some questionable choices of people to advise him. Once it's pointed out, he moves on it, but up front he doesn't seem to have that discrimination.

60 days is not enough time for him to turn this fast moving trainwreck-to-be around, and he may never be able to do so.

We will probably eat him (Obama), as a country, (heck, we'd probably kill JC again, if he showed up, because he was all for helping the widows and children - you know, that love your fellow man, start a revolution, kind of thing) although I'd love to see some of Obama's ideals come to fruition.

alys

03-16-2009, 01:03 AM	#15
alyscat Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Washington state Posts: 743	Re: Obama Signs Spending Bill, Breaks Yet Another Promise It's hard to say what he has done "good" or not, since there's no consensus on what "good" is. If you come from a conservative background, his spending more money on trying to fix the economy (which the conservatives did, too, we can thank them for the banker bailouts) gets slammed. His focus on people over things gets slammed. If you come from a liberal background, his obvious alliance with the Brezinsky/Clinton/etc. CFR group gets slammed. He's a fast learner, and very intelligent, but he inherited a nightmare from previous administrations' spending/ economic policy / and he's trying to work from a position of inclusion in a country where the two political parties are so far apart that there doesn't seem to be any way to bring them together. Where it's politics over people, and big business trumps all. He's also a lawyer, not an economics/finance wonk, and he will have to take advice from people he thinks might be able to fix things. One thing I've noticed, though, is that he tends to make some questionable choices of people to advise him. Once it's pointed out, he moves on it, but up front he doesn't seem to have that discrimination. 60 days is not enough time for him to turn this fast moving trainwreck-to-be around, and he may never be able to do so. We will probably eat him (Obama), as a country, (heck, we'd probably kill JC again, if he showed up, because he was all for helping the widows and children - you know, that love your fellow man, start a revolution, kind of thing) although I'd love to see some of Obama's ideals come to fruition. alys