i thought cutting was the goal?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

No new President can do everything all at once by snapping one's fingers. He's certainly not the first president to have campaign promises come up against reality. Especially when the opposition party leader stated publicly that their legislative goal is to prevent this president's re-election. And their actions are proving it.

He tried to close Guantanamo, but he had to do something with the prisoners, and states refused to take them. Turning them loose wasn't an option. What is he supposed to do there?

Iraq - he drew down 100,000 troops this past year. We should be out end of year (consider that we are still in Japan, Germany, etc) Yes, Iraq may ask for 10,000 to stay, we don't know what will happen with that yet. Afghanistan - he promised to put the focus of troops in there, increase them, and he did. And he got Osama bin Laden. Now he's drawing down there, too.

Obama has kept far more promises than he's broken (see PolitFact) and has quite a noteable bit of accomplishment to his name. Obama's nowhere near close to "failure". That's absurd. He has one of the most accomplished (as far as legislative successes) modern Presidencies. Against one of the most dedicated political obstructionist opposition parties.



I agree with that part completely.

EAT YOUR DAMN PEAS!

i would say that the big ones all seemed to slip thru his fingers. afganistan became our longest war, what, a year or so ago? no progress in sight. the mil. appropriations bill the house passed-9 billion CHEAPER than what obama asked for. doesn't sound to me that our govt is gearing stuff down-not when the proposed spending is over 2.5% higher than '11.
obama is doing what he's doing based on wanting re-elected-which is what he said he wasn't worried about. i'd imagine the dem party straightened him out on that score.
it's all politics, and we're at their mercy.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i would say that the big ones all seemed to slip thru his fingers. afganistan became our longest war, what, a year or so ago? no progress in sight. the mil. appropriations bill the house passed-9 billion CHEAPER than what obama asked for. doesn't sound to me that our govt is gearing stuff down-not when the proposed spending is over 2.5% higher than '11.
obama is doing what he's doing based on wanting re-elected-which is what he said he wasn't worried about. i'd imagine the dem party straightened him out on that score.
it's all politics, and we're at their mercy.

I call "the big ones" healthcare insurance reform, stopping the waste of lives in Iraq, stopping threats from al Quaeda, and keeping us out of depression. Pretty damn good score there.

I would imagine the Dem party, judging by what they've said this past week or two, would like much more "control" than they have over Obama now.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

I call "the big ones" healthcare insurance reform, stopping the waste of lives in Iraq, stopping threats from al Quaeda, and keeping us out of depression. Pretty damn good score there.

I would imagine the Dem party, judging by what they've said this past week or two, would like much more "control" than they have over Obama now.

that's the thing, other than healthcare (which didn't mean a thing to me) we're still facing all that other stuff. 3 wars, if you count libya, higher spending, bad unemployment, etc, etc.
are we better off since obama took office? i don't think so. are we worse? i don't think so.
treading water is no success story.