What if in 2012 people look back at nearly four years of the Obama administration and think:
“Well, he didn’t get everything I’d hoped for but he got health care for 30 million people, he got unemployment benefits extended for the jobless, a substantial tax cut for middle class Americans and financial reform. He gave up huge tax cuts for wealthy people and the health care and financial reform bills weren’t perfect, but I blame the Republicans for that. And I blame the Republicans for road-blocking an agreement with Russia on nuclear arms and a bunch of other things too.”
What if all the TARP money is repaid with interest and GM is profitable and adding to their workforce? What if unemployment drops to under 7% and seems likely to continue a steady if slow recovery?
What if he and his team regain their communications mojo and tell their story with simplicity and passion?
What if people stop thinking Obama is afraid to fight for what is right, and begin to see him as the one sane person in national politics; the one person willing to step away from the partisan bickering that has accomplished nothing? What if people start accepting that politics is the art of the possible?
I don’t know if I even think this way and there are a lot of “ifs” in the above. I’m just wondering.
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DB, I think there are way too many ifs in your post. People were hoping for the Messiah, and I hate to be the one to say there is no God, but hey that's what I think. Obama has done what he was able to do and much of it has been good...Detroit isn't in flames (I was there on Wednesday) and you identified all of the things that he actually did accomplish. Sarah killed an elk with a high powered rifle and a camera crew.
DB, I don’t think it’s that hard to believe when you consider that “Desperate Housewives”, “David Letterman” & “Friends”
“is winning over ordinary Saudis in a way that al-Hurra and other U.S. propaganda never could.”
God bless BO, but what if the unemployment rate doesn't get below 7% until 2017? That may be what we're dealing with here.
We are all waiting for the next big thing to pump up the economy which had been wrung out by greed.
It may take a long time to recover to the point where it is modest. As this week's educational evaluation intimates, even at that level the number of unemployable people in the US might be unsustainable.
History might prove that the President did the best of what he could do given what he had to work with.
Everything - and I mean everything - depends on the unemployment rate in 2012. I think it needs to be 8.6 or so with a downward trajectory for Obama to have a chance. Everything else you postulate is true. The problem Obama has is that he has no structure surrounding him. Democrats are just whiny little pussies who took what was an insurmountable majority in both houses of congress and completely squandered it. They won't take back the house in at least a decade and will lose the senate for the forseeable future.
What also matters is who the republicans nominate. The current crop looks pretty weak to me.
I had no idea you had such a great sense of humour. I'm sure I'll get a chuckle all day now.
Whenever the rest of us want a chuckle we just tune into Glenn Beck or the Sarah Palin Show. Nothing funnier on TV since the Three Stooges were supreme.
Or Ghoulardi. I particularly like the episode where Sarah Palin takes two film crews and 5 handlers just so she can be filmed snuffing out an unsuspecting caribou. And then says she needed it for her freezer.
Fortunately, I think her star is starting to fall.
I do think Beck is much the larger douche bag however. At least Sarah seems like a real person at some level. Beck -- the recovering-alcoholic who says he smoked pot every day for more than 10 years and did not go to college, has recast himself into this great thinker -- the intellectual of the wing nut right. He recently estimated that roughly 10% of all Muslims are terrorists; approx. 150 million people. What a total phony.
Ghoulardi's career was snuffed out when he tied firecrackers to a mouse and it blew into pieces on camera. Hopefully Sarah Palin's career will suffer the same fate for dropping the caribou. If she had done a Dick Cheney and shot Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich she might get away with it.
The GOP got him and he caved on tax cuts for the high rollers. The GOP took care of their base and then turned around and blocked medical care for the responders and victims of 9/11 in New York.
Now that the tax will not go up 39% on the wealthy it is estimated we will have $60 billion less in the coffers. So now that has been taken care of we need to get serious about fiscal restraint so lets stop any health care for those New Yorkers.
We all know that New Yorkers hate America anyway so who cares, it will play in the red states.
I agree that Beck is certainly the bigger douchebag. However, Palin has political aspirations and that makes her more dangerous because she has some appeal on the far right.
I thought Gouhlardi simply went to California to do voice over work. I didn't know he got fired.
Ah yes, the 9/11 workers. Something for everyone in stupidity, obfuscation, chauvinism, and a touch of greed. Who regulated the work? Federal: President GW Bush. Local: Mayor Rudy G. EPA: Christie Whitman. What do they all have in common: Republicans. And what was common knowledge about the site: it was toxic. The same demographic group which backs the President in war, sending their children to die under the flag, but managed by politicians, are cut from the same cloth as the 9/11 workers. And just as the vets get shafted by those same politicians who trundled them off to war, so too do those who should have known better than sift through debris, in haste for no apparent purpose. Except perhaps to feed at the trough and wrap themselves in the flag.
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