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Originally Posted by realcoray
My question is what has changed that is something the president himself has done?
People forget that 4 years ago at this time, hundreds of thousands of people were losing their jobs, unemployment had gone up 40% in 2008, from 5 to 7.3%. Lots of people lost their jobs, their homes and/or their businesses.
I agree that all sucked, and things aren't all fixed now. We just about back to the same unemployment rate as when Obama took office, and the economy is adding jobs.
It's unrealistic to blame Obama for the economy being terrible, primarily because it was all sorts of messed up before he was even elected.
At the same time, it's not a reasonable assessment to give him much credit for things improving either. Not much has actually happened in washington dc the last four years, and things improving is more about the resilience of americans than it is anything that any one person or all of d.c. has done.
My point is this, let's not be all hyperbolic and dramatic over the election.
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In general, what I am bothered by the most with Obama and the people who support them are their attitudes. I'm honestly not worried about what he can really do as President, though all of his executive orders are very disturbing from a power grab perspective, because he is constrained. It's just like the people who voted against Romney because he is pro-life. They some how seem to think he had the power to overturn Roe v Wade which is nonsense. Yet, people voted against him for that very reason. So realizing Romney doesn't have that power but turning around and thinking Obama has more power to magically snap his fingers to make things happen doesn't add up.
What does add up though, is the attitude Obama preachers and shows regularly. His actions or lack there of in many cases show what type of person he truly is regardless of what he says. It's the reason so many people where duped in 08 like Greg mentioned. He talked a good talk. Filled people with a lot of good ideas that even I agreed with. Nothing he had done up to that point in his political career agreed with the words and ideas he was pushing forth and nothing he did after being elected agreed either. For someone who claims to not be engaging in class warfare, he sure does use a lot of us and them in reference to American citizens in his speeches. He also has no problems laying blame or targeting legislation towards a select group of people whom have done nothing illegal or immoral. Yet, they are some how to blame or should be punished by having their legally earned wealth confiscated in the name of fairness or recovery? He is more like G W Bush than different but no one is crying war criminal or impeachment when he did the exact same things as Bush and then some.
The fact that so many American citizens support his actions and agree with those actions is what bothers me. They treat it like a football game cheering on their team as if there are no real implications as to what is going on in DC.
He is no leader and certainly not interested in bringing people together.