BIG disappointment

shadowcast wrote:

I don't know about you guys but Obama is such a disappointment. Is he a Republican? Seriously, he just keeps caving in on everything. Now he's talking about cutting SS. He can make a ballsy call to go get Bin Laden but doesn't have the balls to stand up to Boehner and the Republican party.

with mounting debt, and a program that has been borrowed from and now is needing to cash in those iou's what more can he do? these programs do need to be changed...they cannot sustain...at least social security cannot remain the same and still be there for people in the future.

We really are in a crisis and people need to compromise to get things done...and not simply to solve this issues present day, but to try to do it so that future issues can be taken care of...I don't know about you, but I don't think there is an easy solution...hard choices and politically unpopular choices need to be made on Both sides of the aisle for this issue to be solved(which probably includes some form of tax reform as well)...and some compromise on one side will hopefully lead to compromise on the other...I probably won't defend his policies very much, but I give him credit here...if he truly is willing to change those programs, it flies in the face of typical political thought. He is taking on two huge entitlements that people feel strongly about and knows it may hurt him politically but that it is the right decision to make. Seems like he has balls, just not the kind you want...

what you would have him do?

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

he is spineless. he has compromised on everything. this is not a time for compromise. where is the fighter that he said he was going to be? people keep saying he is setting things up for his second term but if he cuts s.s. and medicare he is going to lose his ass.

i have never seen a president so controlled by the minority party.

if he is going down he should go down swinging pushing his agenda and calling the republicans' bluff. i could respect him if he did that. but he won't, so i don't respect him as a leader.

I think the biggest disappointment is that so many people gave him the benefit of the doubt in the first place. You'd have thought it was the second coming on election night in this place....any centrist, career politician, 'leading' a disinterested population, is only going to play shell games...

honestly ... my opinion is that he's done well considering the conditions by which he has to work in ...

inmytree wrote:

polaris_x wrote:

honestly ... my opinion is that he's done well considering the conditions by which he has to work in ...

I agree...

and this coming from a guy who would never vote democrat or for obama ...

inmytree wrote:

I know...you tend to call them like you see them...and we may not always agree...but I think you make a good point that many are not willing or able to understand...

thanks ... i'll take that as a compliment! ... haha ...

polaris_x wrote:

honestly ... my opinion is that he's done well considering the conditions by which he has to work in ...

Disagree. He has us in a third war now. At least Bush got Congressional approval.

I love how people are comparing this thing in Libya to what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan - calling it our 3rd war when we really aren't even doing much and never really were when it started. NATO is flying all these missions. I don't remember the US Army and Marines flooding across the Libyan border from Egypt or wherever and wiping out the Libyan army in a matter of two weeks. There are no US troops on the ground.

Um, the United Nations also approved the action, unlike Iraq.

usamamasan1 wrote:

obama is a dick

I am not the biggest fan of Obama, but I'd hardly call him a Cheney.