Pres. Obama's administration so far...
To All. I voted for President Obama, believing I was voting as part of a movement to see true change in my government. I held hope that his administration would be a pivotal force into making the America that I know it can be. Lately, I'm not so sure that's where we are going. I hear the same old tired party-line rhetoric and partisan tactics. So I ask this, how do you feel about the job the Obama administration has done so far? Do you feel that it isn't carrying through with campaign promises, or that he simply needs more time?
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Permalink Reply by D.J. Coffman on -
Personally, I don't buy into the Alex Jones conspiracy stuff... the Obama Deception video is chalk full of insinuations and fictions that I don't have time to debate.
BUT... I have lately been getting a little upset about hearing about more troops headed to Afghanistan- My initial reaction is NO!!! I even posted something on my facebook status one day saying if he sends 40,000 more kids over there he's lost my support. It's not what I voted for. It's not what HE told us personally in Greensburg, PA what he would do. He said he'd end the wars and bring our kids home responsibly. That's what I want. If we have to do surgical strikes to take out bad guys when we know they are bad guys... fine... we don't need troops sitting around waiting to be killed or now reports that many are being hooked on heroine on purpose by the Taliban who are giving it away for free. It's going to be similar to Vietnam vets who came home hooked on Heroine. Not cool.
HOWEVER... a voice of reason explained the devil's advocate side to me. That maybe there were some things so sensitive you don't get to know until you ARE president. And it really throws monkey wrenches into flat out campaign promises. This makes sense. I'm sure there ARE things going on we do not know about. So I'm giving the president the benefit of the doubt. These things are pretty complicated to pull off in a year, let alone 9 months, or even 2 years. So I'll need more time to judge him on a full record of time. I'd say if we're not in a good place campaign promise wise within 2 years of him taking office... then it's time to start thinking about voting for someone else in the next election... or REALLY going out and protesting, a sort of OBama supporter backlash on him until he meets the demands of those who put him in office. We can just as easily take him out of there if there's enough anger and frustration.
I know for 8 years we got nothing but bullshit, lies, war, death, fear... so in a way when the tide turns we want everything to go back RIGHT AWAY. When you really sit back to think about all of these things, isn't discussing some of these things in October of the president's first year a bit premature to say he's failed? I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and hoping that he's crafting something magnificent in the shadows.
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Permalink Reply by Neighborhood Lorax on -
I agree that it is indeed too early for full summation of his administration. I think my frustration comes more from seeing virtually nothing of his campaign promises coming to fruition, and hearing the same old partisan rhetoric that we get from all Democrats and Republicans. America needs a third party...a viable one. Everytime I listen to Same Thing by Flobots....I get more angry...because that's what I've seen so far. I pray that things change...but if not...my vote will find someone else...thanks for the responses so far.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Jorge Goulart on -
If I was old enough, I probably would have voted for Obama as well. He looks like a man who wants to get something done. I still have some faith in him and his administration - I just think that there are some obstacles inside the White House blocking their path now.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Schade on -
I think DJ Coffman's point about there being some things so sensitive, you don't know about them until you're president is valid, but I also tend to believe that the "powers that be" don't let someone get to the forefront of the political landscape unless they have something to control them by. Whether it be blackmail, or a credible threat (i.e. you do this, or your wife gets heart attacked). Have you ever noticed the people we would most LIKE to have as President are the people who refuse to run for office? The last president I can think of who was intending to do the "right things" (disband the federal reserve, end the Vietnam War), ended up accomplishing neither. He was too dead to do anything about it.
That being said, I guess my thinking on it is that we can't count on a president to fix everything, especially when that president has two houses of congress to deal with (many of whom are unfathomably corrupt themselves), a near-miss of total economic collapse, two horribly mis-managed major wars of aggression, and a slew of other, more minor problems. This is why a movement toward real change needs to take root within the people and spread. Fear and apathy help keep a large enough portion of the People in check. These are things which need to be minimized as much as possible.
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