I still like and support Obama.

[skooooo]

I've avoided all discussions lately and just read what people have to write.



Obama is trying to turn around the Titanic before it hits the iceberg. It ain't pretty, but if he fails, we're really screwed.

[gblady]

1. me, too....

the Titanic analogy is very apt, I believe.
So many huge tasks ahead...
And I, for one, think Obama at the helm
is the best hope we've got.

[natrat]

2. i dont because he has not spoken out about the obvious tarp/fed fraud..its an 8trillion dollar deal

[babylonsister]

4. He's working to correct it, according to this...

Obama Works to Overhaul TARP
Team Tries to Meld Some Paulson Ideas With Aid to Borrowers Facing Foreclosure

By DEBORAH SOLOMON


WASHINGTON -- The incoming Obama administration is considering a series of initiatives to combat the financial crisis, including some efforts to help banks that the Bush administration has tried with limited success.

Among the plans being discussed are injecting more capital into banks, creating a market for illiquid assets clogging the books of financial institutions and helping borrowers who are having trouble making their mortgage payments.

On Tuesday, members of President-elect Barack Obama's economic team briefed Mr. Obama on ways to address the financial crisis and also on plans for an economic-stimulus package.

While Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has seized on equity investments in banks as Treasury's primary mechanism to help resolve the financial crisis, the Obama team is developing a broader approach that would likely incorporate multiple remedies.

more...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122947278692012293.html

[CakeGrrl]

3. I'm with him too

I'm not comfortable with some of his cabinet appointments, who have a very real hand in helping try to get us out of this mess, but I'll see if what he has put together works when it has a chance to actually DO something.

It's pretty pitiful that at the first sign of intense disagreement, the "I told you so"/"We tried to warn you" knives came out at lightspeed. People are just waiting for him to fail, and that is really a disappointment.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. i don't like or dislike Obama. I've never met him. But I won't fail to do my duty as a free

human and support what he does that I feel is good for people and oppose what he does that I feel are bad for people.

How long have you known the PE. do you also know his family?


Or when you say that you like him, do you mean you like what you know about him based on what you've read or seen on TV? i like his media persona as well.

However, I don't believe it was in the best interests of the country (or even necessary to his campaign) that he flipped flopped on FISA and voted to violate both the spirit and the letter of the constitution and the rule of law.

Pushing a second class illusion of "separate but equal" might have been politically correct, but it's hardly courageous or ultimately defensible. It's a sham.

Providing the eyes of the world to a repeatedly offensive and ugly bigot so you can score points with the evangelicals is sending the wrong message. It's a message that bigotry is an opinion and not an assault on rights. Because the swami does advocate assaults on human rights.

So my country comes before any candidate from any party ever. In fact, I'm convinced that if people would quit acquiescing and allowing our leaders to denigrate human rights then things would change. We, the people, have to make our leaders do the right thing sometimes. Even leaders we ourselves worked to install.


hey, I like Obamas labor Sect, and his energy guy is refreshing. Salazar sucks, from my point of view.

If you are staking your survival on Obama I hate to tell you you are already dead, but good luck. You are ceeding your personal power and responsibility to Obama because you like him.

Lots of heavy duty corporate big wigs get built in access and if you aren't actively asserting your rights, your issues, your interests then why would those interests get much consideration?

The only way we are going to make it is by utilizing our power. Not by ceeding it to someone "more perfect" than your self. That's what Warren's followers do, and how is it working?

[Blu Dahlia]

6. I did too until I read more on it

I plan to support the green party or a democratic challenger in '12.

[Hellataz]

7. I'm wish ya, I reserve criticism till it's deserved, what is going on now is out of control

We need to give him a chance to get into office and start implementing his promises to us. I fully agree that as American's it is out right to criticize government, but at this point it has gotten so out of control. We should still be in the honeymoon phase, celebrating that we won, instead so many are like vultures, circling around Obama's head, waiting for him to screw up so they can tear him apart. It's not right or fair. It's the Freeper's job not ours. It's one thing to be concerned or confused with his choice, even to disagree but as a whole we all voted for him because he represented the best of the two candidates, the one that would fulfill most of our government needs. The people angry at him right now, i fear believed Obama to be some perfect man who would never mess up or always make the decisions that they agreed with, but he's not and so they lash out. But even if you don't understand his choices right now, it doesn't change the man he is, the one we voted for. We need to have more faith in his plan for our future. We need to voice cautious concern, not flip out every time he say or does something we don't get.

Above all if you don't understand that statement think of it like this:
Stop giving the freeper what they want! I bet they are loving the idea of DUer's turning on Obama. It gives them more satisfaction than they should have.
I'd prefer they remain depressed and fearful that their old socially conservative dehumanizing disproportionate faith driven lifestyle is about to get turned on it's ear.

[stray cat]

8. I am thrilled Obama/Biden are in office instead of McCain/Palin!

[TankLV]

9. I'll support him if and when he doesn't continue to screw up...

Until then, my worst fears about him are being reailzed...

I
DON'T
"like"
obama

he's lost any support that he once had from me...

but voting for anyone else this past november was out of the question...

obama's got to earn any support from me...so far he's not done much...

[WeDidIt]

10. It's hard to steer a ship when you throw 7% of the crew overboard. n/t