On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Matthew Small <[email protected]> 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. > 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. > One problem is that he not a great leader. He is an amazing communicator but > a timid leader. Did you know he uses the teleprompter for as few as six people meetings? That's f'n scary. > Another problem is that the middle class, who is already taken care of by > their work benefits, really don't want this health care bill that he pushed > through with the Democratic Congress. Everyone wants healthcare but nobody > wants to pay for it personally. The middle class is having their healthcare > benefits erode due to the new bill now. We wanted the health care fixed, not retooled by the insurance companies and drug makers. > 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. > He lost a lot of confidence when he was so slow to react to the oil spill. Did he react? Oh yeah, the moratorium. He said he might lift that soon. > There are a lot of good reasons that people don't like him as a President. > Also, there's every reason to give him more time to shape up. But IMO he > doesn't really have the intrinsic qualities to be a great one. Clinton, > for whatever you think of him, had those qualities. So did Reagan. 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:330544 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
