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Here is my list:
He tried to "fix" everything instead of taking small bites. He did not attack Wall Street when they were down and scared. He put waaay too much political energy into health care reform, should have tried for a watered down program. He asked employers to pay for their employees health insurance, impossible for small employers. Contractors will win. He did not raise taxes when he first went into office. He should have acted more confident (less nervous) about the killing of OBL. Should have taken on more family issues like child support. |
Anonymous
| Nervous about killing OBL? Predator drones hitting in Afghanistan was his day 1 plan. |
Anonymous
| Sorry in Pakistan. |
Anonymous
| His campaign plane smelled horrible. |
Anonymous
Jeff kicked you off before when you started with all of this stinky stuff. |
TheManWithAUsername
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In the spirit of the question, I'm assuming that he wants things at least as far left as Clinton, a very conservative Dem. In fact, I think Obama cares very little about what actually occurs, and just wants to think of himself as important.
The first two swamp everything else, IMO. - Tried to work with Reps. I understand the need for a show of it, but after they were completely unreasonable out of the box, he should have just shut them out. - Caved to turncoat Dems. He needed to ride herd on those pricks right off the bat. Or at least sometime later. Sometime before the end of his administration would be nice - maybe just one instance of getting a Dem in line, instead of getting led around by his nose. And BTW, why does Lieberman STILL have a committee chair? - Bargained against himself. In the long Dem tradition, starts with the position that compromises between moderation and lunacy, and gets edged conservative from there. Seriously - exactly how stupid are Dems? This is why I don't believe he actually cares; no one, but certainly not him, is that stupid. - Left leadership to Congress for too much. This is very closely related to the first two. - Screwed himself with half measures. Foolishly thought that he'd get political credit for compromise while failing to have enough visible impact. Related to the others, obviously. This adds up to our friend's regular criticism: no leadership, no balls. It's pretty hard to argue with that. |
Anonymous
There were too many people in that WH saying (after the fact) "fwew, we were scared that things could have gone wrong" and so on. That might be true, but you should not let anyone KNOW that you felt that way. |
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| Everything he says and everything he does. |
Anonymous
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Based on the wackos that have been posting about politics on DCUM, I expected a list of absurd things including the insinuation that Obama is a socialist/Marxist/Muslim spawn of Satan. But I can go with that list. Not sure I agree with all of it but it seems reasonable to me.
However, it's not clear to me how far Obama could push the Republicans given the widespread hysterical belief out there that he is a secret Muslim not born in this country. For all the visceral hatred of Bill Clinton, he still was a white guy with an Anglo-American name. |
Anonymous
True the haters here have a visceral hatred that will create a laundry list of complaints against anyone fitting POTUS's profile. The goal posts have been pushed so far to the right--extremists seem childishly unaware or unwilling to acknowledge political realities. They dragged down Clinton the same way. No point arguing with them honestly, they just thrive on failure and disarray. |
TheManWithAUsername
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As I ask you every time you spout this drivel, please give one example in which the left has harmed this presidency. Just one, for a start. If you prefer, give one example in which the left harmed Clinton, whom you say we dragged down. (BTW, last time I checked he was a two-term president, so I'm not sure to where he was dragged.) This is the part where you wander away, to come back a while later to call us racists again. Instead of making an argument, all you do is call us "haters." You're no different than Faux calling Obama a socialist. |
takoma
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I may be wrong, but I think the PP was complaining about the right, not the left. |
TheManWithAUsername
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It's a bit hard to follow, but check out the second sentence. Plus, the style is very familiar - "haters," "childish," "political realities" - from a poster who attacked me and others some weeks back, and accused me of being an alias of Jeff's while saying that he/we just don't like black politicians. Hence the "anyone fitting POTUS' profile." |
Anonymous
| The thing Obama does "badly" is there is no consequence when people take a political punches at him. There is no cost to punching at him, so you just throw everything you got and hope something sticks. Other presidents did not allow that to happen, they punched back. |
Anonymous
| Pushing through a healthcare plan no one wants while the economy is in a downward spiral (banks, housing, job loss etc...) Hard to defend. |