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Originally Posted by ateamstupid
Clearly that's what I said. I'm just getting a huge kick out of this thread. Watching the Republicans be the Chicken Littles six weeks into a Democratic presidency when eight years of a disastrous Republican administration caused them no concern is freaking delicious.
I'm reserving my opinion on how well Obama is doing on the economy considering the stimulus just passed last week. I think his closing of Guantanamo and denunciation of torture is a major step in the right direction, and the fact that the unnecessary $2 trillion war that your guy started will end is pretty cool, though I'm not happy with his planned "surge" in Afghanistan. I certainly don't think it's unreasonable or radical to not yet make extreme declarations about his Presidency one way or another.
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yeah,the war in iraq will end-but i don't think obama will end it any sooner than a rep would have-and any troops he moves from there will be heading to afganistan, not home. any savings he's claiming from cutting back on the war is false-he's only moving the troops and materiel.
and, like i read earlier, things contracted more in the fourth quarter last year than they originally gave out, and obamas budget paints a rosier picture of growth than practically every economist out there.
a rush to do something to turn things around is just that-a rush job. you get out what you put in. i think a bit more patience was called for. but the dems took the opportunity to pass a massive spending bill-two actually-based on fear. and they passed. and now we wait and see what happens. considering how pols usually do, i'd say this won't go any better than any thing else that's been tried on capital hill lately.