i did not hire Obama

[DividedWeAre]

i did not hire Obama to make nice with the people that nearly destroyed this country.
i hired him to do what needs to be done and to do it quickly. to end the two republican wars
that cannot be won and a republican economy that nearly brought down the entire world.

and to find and kill bin laden so that we can get some of our self-respect back.

i am sick and tired of this needless quest for bi-partisanship because the republicans
would not have bothered with any bi-partisanship once they had more than 50 senate votes.

and i do not want him to take responsibility for things that he has not done. the current crisis
in the gulf is a result of 8 years of oil men in the white house.

i want him to tell the truth and to kick ass.

[leftstreet]

1. 'and to find and kill bin laden '

:rofl:

[moriah]

13. Yeah, if it wasn't for that line....

... I would have taken the OP's post more seriously.

How many people honestly believe that if we put a cap in bin Laden's ass that it will actually change anything? Self-respect? Bullshit. All it will do is create a martyr. Some people still saw Saddam Hussein as a martyr after he was executed, and he killed his own people. Bin Laden just killed Americans -- is that going to really matter to people who hate us? Revenge, capital punishment, etc, are just perpetuating violence.

Besides, there are people for whom death is too good for them. I'd rather see him locked up and made to spend the rest of his life knowing that he didn't win.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. I've hired baby setters, lawn care specialists, and house cleaners.

I voted for Obama. That is not hiring him. I expect him to do the job outlined in the Constitution and relevant law.

[Political Heretic]

4. Which is to serve the people.

[Ozymanithrax]

6. But we didn't hire him. Hire is the language of bussiness...

Government is not now in theory and never should be a bussiness. Those who associate government and bussiness soon think bussiness leaders make good elected officials and corporations become the ideal citizens where free speach = money.

We elect our leaders.

At least, that is my opinion.

[leftstreet]

7. True. If we 'hired' we'd choose the most qualified based on a job description

Elections are basically about marketing

[Ozymanithrax]

9. According to the constitution and law he is our representative....

woking on our behalf. But the realtionship is not an employee.

Now, to the extent that an election is a popoularity contest, yes, marketing is more relevant. Certianly, it hs been more and more true since the Nixon/Kennedy debate.

[Political Heretic]

16. pure semantics

[BeFree]

3. Agreed

And anyone who thinks the vast majority of DUers wants him to fail is sadly mistaken.

If anything we want him to succeed beyond our wildest dreams. So we push. We push him to tell the truth and kick ass.

[liberalmuse]

5. This is who he is...

That is why he was almost my last choice amongst the Presidential candidates. I hadn't been in the mood to play nice - and while I knew this man would be President one day when I heard his speech in 2004, I saw that he always strove to work with people who didn't agree with him, and that put me off, especially since I really couldn't understand why. I voted for him knowing that he is one who reaches out to the other side, and I don't regret it. The man has integrity and a grace of spirit that all too few human beings posess these days. It's easy to want revenge, or to hate - I know this full well. This is who Obama is, and it is probably the best way to be if you are embodied with a true sense of love and humanity and all those good qualities great men are posessed of.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. Except for the part where he opposes equal basic human rights

for those minorities who do not fit his personally crafted form of faith. He says his kind are 'sanctified by God' and my kind is not. So for me, that is a factor. That sort of language, all that 'grace' and 'who is sanctified' is to me, creepy verbiage. Because of the bigotry.

[spanone]

8. i bet you didn't 'hire' Obama at all.

[DividedWeAre]

10. i did "hire" him

i voted for him and would again considering the options that we have. i think he is a very good man. but, i think he is wasting time working with those that no interest in being worked with. and, though i may not have "hired" him literally, i think that WE did hire him when WE elected him president. i think he reflects my principles and at another time in history, he would have been a perfect president, but in these times, as long as he is not aggressive, he will always be on the defensive. On the other hand, he needs more people to defend him and that is something that we are not doing well (yes, i do defend him to others).

[Echo In Light]

12. Come on, and get down with "Look Ahead!" sickness

[stray cat]

14. You did not hire Obama - you were just one in a great number who voted for him

over McCain Palin.

[ThatPoetGuy]

15. Sounds like you weren't paying attention during his job interview.

You said, "i did not hire Obama to make nice with the people that nearly destroyed this country." But that's exactly what he said he was going to do. He said it in the primaries, while Hillary and Edwards were making it clear that they saw the Republicans and their agenda as something that needed to be FOUGHT. He said it in the general election. When actual liberals like Krugman said Obama's intended bipartisanship was a bad idea, a lot of liberals attacked Krugman.

There is a strange, false, memory at work, when liberals say that Obama ran as a liberal. There was a strange deafness among liberals, when Obama, Hillary, Edwards, Richardson, Kucinich, and the rest stood together; Obama laid out the most Republican-friendly ideas out of our entire field of candidates, and liberals somehow didn't hear it.

I voted for Obama, and I'd vote for him again today. When I voted for him, I'd heard enough of his speeches and read enough of his ideas to know that he was a little to the right of Bill Clinton. I believed what Obama was saying, and I got the president I expected. Not the president I wanted, but the president I expected. He was the better choice of the two major candidates.

Those of us who didn't listen to him during election season are acting surprised.

[ncteechur]

17. why don't you run for office yourself and then you can just do it instead of putting it on another

[Dont TS Me Brah]

18. He's doing all that can be done... he already explained all this.

And most importantly. he will ENSURE that BP PAYS every cent to fix this. I just don't get all the President Obama bashing...

Do you honestly believe that finding and killing bin Laden will "restore self-respect"?

Politically he's making the right decisions to avoid legislative gridlock.

And YES the current crisis can be hung around the necks of Bush and Cheney... so why blame Obama?

tell the truth and kick ass?

Kinda' like "if ya ain't wit us yer aginst us?"