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In reply to the discussion: So is every complaint about Obama wrong? Or some people just don't like to hear them? [View all]quakerboy
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And each time, I will give the president credit where I feel it is due. I will be fair handed about it. If I am asking someone I perceive to admit no fault in the presidents policy to admit a fault, then as someone they may in turn perceive to be an unrelenting critic, I will make sure to credit him for his successes.
Perhaps I am wrong in suspecting I will receive no answers. Its happened before. I hope I am.
In the end, I suspect that many of us feel about President Obama much the same as I do. I started with great hope. A community organizer had to be a step up from the RW leadership we had been experiencing. This is a person who saw the needs of the people of our nation, and would do something about it. He would put himself out to do what was needed.
Unfortunately, I see our nation as a car headed along a narrow road toward the edge of a sheer cliff with a long drop. We've been headed that way a while, with Republican policy. Bush JR was stamping on the gas for all he was worth. Obama is applying the breaks, with only occasional pressing of the gas pedal. But we are, in my perception awfully close to the edge, and once we launch off the edge it wont matter how fast or slow we go, bad bad things will be forthcoming. We need to stop, to reverse. Not just to slow.
Or to put it another way, Obama is better, we just happen to need more than better from him.
Edited to acknowledge that I was wrong. I did receive a response that directly addressed my request. One that I believe was very reasonable, even if I disagree with some of the assertions made in it.