(If I am wrong in assuming that this was an anti-Obama statement, please ignore my baseless opinion, I was terribly mistaken…
People make mistakes.
In this case, it's like a child begging for a puppy. They say, "Mommy, Daddy, I want it! I want it!" and then they find out, like all puppies, it piddles on the carpet and chews the furniture.
Obama is a smart man and he has his heart in the right place- but as usual people expect instant results, instant fixes. Can he fix America? No. Can he fix the world? No. Can he make things just a little better than they were before? Yes.
People expect too much from the man- he's the president, not God. He's subject to the same slips of tongue as everyone else. It's not as if he becomes president and suddenly shits gold, farts rainbows and subsists purely on good intentions.
If you want to look at "what he is"- the truth is, he's just a man. A man painted however the media wills. I mean, honestly. I can count over a hundred articles off the top of my head about his DOG- do you really think any of the integral news reaches the American people? The world? I'll give it a 5% chance, at best.
As a Canadian, maybe I have no right to judge, but I have been following Obama closely. While no system is perfect, what he proposes to do (In my opinion) marks the start of a functioning system- it might not work well, but right now it's not working at all. Which, if you think on it, affects every country of the world, does it not?
As an economic cornerstone, if any system needs to work, it’s the American system.
But really, how is it fair to expect one person or a group of people to suddenly fix everything? In truth: it's not. It's just another convenient scapegoat to blame when things go wrong, or when things aren't perfect. Any government, regardless of country, is faulty- because people are faulty. A government, no matter how duly elected is subject to the same vices, prejudices, jealousies and self-serving wants as everybody else.
I really am not sounding off on you, persay- but how would YOU fix America? Canada? Europe? The world? I don't see half of Obama's opposition running for office- people bitch and whine and complain... Well, if it's so terrible- run for office your damn self. (Not YOU personally, but the general “you” at-large…
Fix it how you would have it fixed, but don't damn a man who is only trying his best, in his own way, to fix things how he feels they should be fixed.
God knows the last moron America elected (TWICE??! What the hell?!?!) Did nothing but flush the world’s economy down the tube, make a public ass of himself and make the world hate America just a little bit more than it did already.
At least Obama, regardless of how much or little he "fixes the problem" has given the rest of the world a breath of fresh air and a reason to give the good ol' USA another (undeserved) chance.
I have watched your journals closely, and I have always respected your opinion. But in this case I feel you're opinions are at best prejudicial without cause.
(Excuse spelling errors where they may be.)
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What makes me laugh, Paul, is the fact that he sticks his nose into every little thing. Like the current thing going on in Mass with the black professor being arrested for "breaking into" his own home and being a belligerent twat to the police when they were just doing their job to protect society.
It's like, if Obama's not the center of attention, he has a little hissy fit or something. Daddy issues maybe?
I'm watching the polls trend downward with GLEE I'm telling you.
That little snippet of him and "we'll have universal health care by the end of my first term" always makes me snicker. Like he'll have a second term. What an egotistical twit.
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"Constant readiness and devotion to duty will enable us to achieve yet further successes." - Walter Oesau (1913-44)
A point you made above about Obama not being a "god" is part of what I was trying to point out. A great many people were brainwashed into believing his BS, and now that they're starting to see results they realize he isn't perfect and in fact doesn't know what he's doing at all.
My problem with Obama is that the policies he's pushing. I care little for his silly antics, I care entirely about results, issues and corruption.
In the US, despite how the system is supposed to work, the president and his cronies have significant power and with a super-majority in congress that backs him, he can do whatever he pleases and have it made into law. The checks and balances that once were there, aren't now. That is the start of the problem.
Let's look at healthcare for a second, since for some reason unknown to me, everyone seems to think it's a huge issue. It's not. Despite propaganda and public opinion(almost entirely of those outside the US), only 4% of people do not have health insurance. That number includes those who don't by choice. Out of the remaining 96% who DO have coverage, the vast majority is privately paid coverage. Now, let's look at the result of a "socialized" system within the US related to healthcare, the VA medical system, it is extremely inept and corrupt, to the point where unnecessary surgery of low quality s performed simply because the doc needed to meet a quota.
Another good example, out of the US, would be the UK's medical system, or even Canada's. The governments of the respective nations have pointed out several times that their systems are too bloated and overstrained.
The healthcare program pushed by Obama would outlaw private health insurance, forcing people to be under the federal government's "care", which is to say without decent medical care whatsoever. This, of course, isn't what he's saying, but it is what is in the bill. I know, because I've read it(and actually, he's admitted to not having read it).
Another issue to use as an example would be the economy. The US was in serious debt before he came into office, and he has spent more and more, and is pushing for ANOTHER "stimulus" that would spend trillions of dollars our country does not have. The result of such frivolous spending(and trust me, it is frivolous, if you want me to actually start picking some of the stuff from it tell me and I'll quote it here) is an economy that has declined more in the past six months than in the last eight years. More people have been laid off, more people have run out of unemployment pay, more businesses are closing up shop for good, etc.
People who criticize Bush for his actions economically should really be against Obama even moreso, because he's done considerably worse in only 1/16th the time it took Bush to do it.
Obama has also tried and succeeded in bypassing all the checks and balances of the system in place, especially by setting up "czars"(oh how I hate that term!) and such to bypass the normal legislative branch and make policy without any oversight or limitation by the other branches of government.
"he's trying" doesn't count. If you hired somebody to do a job, and they did it in the most asinine wasy possible and showed that they were utterly incapable of doing the job, causing your business to go down the tubes and risk going under, would you fire them or would you say "he's trying" and keep that employee? The same goes for the president.
As for "the world's opinion" of him, that doesn't matter at all. "The world" only ever seems to include socialist nations in Europe, plus our enemies. Even if it did include the entire world, it still wouldn't matter because that's the rest of the world and not here. Just as my opinion of Russia doesn't mean a hill of beans to the Russians, the opinions of people in other countries mean nothing.
What he is is both the media's "golden boy"(due to the rabidly leftist nature of two of the major news stations in the US) as well as a would-be tyrant.
Some great news
Optimism
Devious Comments
Things change though, who knows.
I think people are realizing that he's a politician, not a god amongst man. They're just as mystified by him as ever, though.
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I'm just another bitter white person clinging to my god and my gun.
People make mistakes.
In this case, it's like a child begging for a puppy. They say, "Mommy, Daddy, I want it! I want it!" and then they find out, like all puppies, it piddles on the carpet and chews the furniture.
Obama is a smart man and he has his heart in the right place- but as usual people expect instant results, instant fixes. Can he fix America? No. Can he fix the world? No. Can he make things just a little better than they were before? Yes.
People expect too much from the man- he's the president, not God. He's subject to the same slips of tongue as everyone else. It's not as if he becomes president and suddenly shits gold, farts rainbows and subsists purely on good intentions.
If you want to look at "what he is"- the truth is, he's just a man. A man painted however the media wills. I mean, honestly. I can count over a hundred articles off the top of my head about his DOG- do you really think any of the integral news reaches the American people? The world? I'll give it a 5% chance, at best.
As a Canadian, maybe I have no right to judge, but I have been following Obama closely. While no system is perfect, what he proposes to do (In my opinion) marks the start of a functioning system- it might not work well, but right now it's not working at all. Which, if you think on it, affects every country of the world, does it not?
As an economic cornerstone, if any system needs to work, it’s the American system.
But really, how is it fair to expect one person or a group of people to suddenly fix everything? In truth: it's not. It's just another convenient scapegoat to blame when things go wrong, or when things aren't perfect. Any government, regardless of country, is faulty- because people are faulty. A government, no matter how duly elected is subject to the same vices, prejudices, jealousies and self-serving wants as everybody else.
I really am not sounding off on you, persay- but how would YOU fix America? Canada? Europe? The world? I don't see half of Obama's opposition running for office- people bitch and whine and complain... Well, if it's so terrible- run for office your damn self. (Not YOU personally, but the general “you” at-large…
Fix it how you would have it fixed, but don't damn a man who is only trying his best, in his own way, to fix things how he feels they should be fixed.
God knows the last moron America elected (TWICE??! What the hell?!?!) Did nothing but flush the world’s economy down the tube, make a public ass of himself and make the world hate America just a little bit more than it did already.
At least Obama, regardless of how much or little he "fixes the problem" has given the rest of the world a breath of fresh air and a reason to give the good ol' USA another (undeserved) chance.
I have watched your journals closely, and I have always respected your opinion. But in this case I feel you're opinions are at best prejudicial without cause.
(Excuse spelling errors where they may be.)
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It's like, if Obama's not the center of attention, he has a little hissy fit or something. Daddy issues maybe?
I'm watching the polls trend downward with GLEE I'm telling you.
That little snippet of him and "we'll have universal health care by the end of my first term" always makes me snicker. Like he'll have a second term. What an egotistical twit.
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"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - ~Pandaemonium
"Constant readiness and devotion to duty will enable us to achieve yet further successes." - Walter Oesau (1913-44)
WWII Historian =/= Nazi
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[link] <- Awesome clothes that YOU want to BUY!!
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I speak of the pompitous of love
My problem with Obama is that the policies he's pushing. I care little for his silly antics, I care entirely about results, issues and corruption.
In the US, despite how the system is supposed to work, the president and his cronies have significant power and with a super-majority in congress that backs him, he can do whatever he pleases and have it made into law. The checks and balances that once were there, aren't now. That is the start of the problem.
Let's look at healthcare for a second, since for some reason unknown to me, everyone seems to think it's a huge issue. It's not. Despite propaganda and public opinion(almost entirely of those outside the US), only 4% of people do not have health insurance. That number includes those who don't by choice. Out of the remaining 96% who DO have coverage, the vast majority is privately paid coverage. Now, let's look at the result of a "socialized" system within the US related to healthcare, the VA medical system, it is extremely inept and corrupt, to the point where unnecessary surgery of low quality s performed simply because the doc needed to meet a quota.
Another good example, out of the US, would be the UK's medical system, or even Canada's. The governments of the respective nations have pointed out several times that their systems are too bloated and overstrained.
The healthcare program pushed by Obama would outlaw private health insurance, forcing people to be under the federal government's "care", which is to say without decent medical care whatsoever. This, of course, isn't what he's saying, but it is what is in the bill. I know, because I've read it(and actually, he's admitted to not having read it).
Another issue to use as an example would be the economy. The US was in serious debt before he came into office, and he has spent more and more, and is pushing for ANOTHER "stimulus" that would spend trillions of dollars our country does not have. The result of such frivolous spending(and trust me, it is frivolous, if you want me to actually start picking some of the stuff from it tell me and I'll quote it here) is an economy that has declined more in the past six months than in the last eight years. More people have been laid off, more people have run out of unemployment pay, more businesses are closing up shop for good, etc.
People who criticize Bush for his actions economically should really be against Obama even moreso, because he's done considerably worse in only 1/16th the time it took Bush to do it.
Obama has also tried and succeeded in bypassing all the checks and balances of the system in place, especially by setting up "czars"(oh how I hate that term!) and such to bypass the normal legislative branch and make policy without any oversight or limitation by the other branches of government.
"he's trying" doesn't count. If you hired somebody to do a job, and they did it in the most asinine wasy possible and showed that they were utterly incapable of doing the job, causing your business to go down the tubes and risk going under, would you fire them or would you say "he's trying" and keep that employee? The same goes for the president.
As for "the world's opinion" of him, that doesn't matter at all. "The world" only ever seems to include socialist nations in Europe, plus our enemies. Even if it did include the entire world, it still wouldn't matter because that's the rest of the world and not here. Just as my opinion of Russia doesn't mean a hill of beans to the Russians, the opinions of people in other countries mean nothing.
What he is is both the media's "golden boy"(due to the rabidly leftist nature of two of the major news stations in the US) as well as a would-be tyrant.
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Educate yourself [link]
I'm just another bitter white person clinging to my god and my gun.
Did you know the healthcare he's trying to push would outlaw private health insurance providers?
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Educate yourself [link]
I'm just another bitter white person clinging to my god and my gun.
At this rate, if there's an America left by then, he'll be at "zero"(jus' like his name insignia thing) by the end of the year!
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Educate yourself [link]
I'm just another bitter white person clinging to my god and my gun.
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