Democrats in Disarray

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Originally Posted by Riot

No, I'm not kidding, 'Zig. Your opinion is certainly not shared by all. You want specifics? Here's a sampling - you can just dismiss what you disagree with as "left wing" propaganda (you might like The Economist stuff):

http://www.slate.com/id/2236708/ how is 'prevented a depression' provable? and at the time it was passed, it was to keep unemployment from rising above ten percent. whoops as for fixiing health care, that whole bit was prefaced with 'if it passes'-that's not a done deal yet. based on an unprovable thing, and an unfinished one, they're saying he could have a good year-not that he has had one.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31098.html i'll have to re-read this, since the first two times i went through it, i didn't see anything obama actually accomplished...but i did see
'To be sure, Obama’s first year accomplishments are more in the realm of creating good inputs to policy rather than achieving good outputs. Results to date have been relatively few..'




http://www.economist.com/opinion/dis...=hptextfeature yeah, this starts out well. i'd cringe if i read this in my eval:
One year on, how well has he done?

Not too badly, by our reckoning

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/rich...imeline-110309 er, gitmo is still open....

http://themoderatevoice.com/57560/obamas-first-year/ yes, those are accomplishments, but is that list really something to crow about? reset relations? really? iran still developing a nuclear program, we're no closer to getting out of iraq or afganistan, pakistan still a huge issue, and here's a newsflash-we're still hated by most of them. yeah, that's a reset. what about our dealings with russia last year, we're a laughingstock with them too. they got us to back out of the missile shiled for our allies, what'd we get in return? nada. oh, and yippie-he nominated a supreme court justice. certainly no other president could have managed that-that certainly was beyond his predecessor.

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opin...f8472a67a.html

much good among disappointments...madison dot com is right. he did some good. but one of the best first years ever?



at any rate, none of the above showed where any new ground was broken-as i said, it just seems a continuation of the previous admin, and none of what you linked to showed otherwise. wars aren't over, gitmo still running apace, as is unemployment, the credit crunch, a depressed housing market, etc.

but here's to 2010- may it be better than '09.