Let's cut the President some slack

[FightingIrish]

I’m getting awfully tired of the whiney kids in the back seat asking President Obama, “Are we there yet.” I’m getting tired of the lower life forms who can put everything they know on an offensive bumper sticker, and do. I’m getting tired of political hacks in the declining party trying to save themselves by punching holes in the only lifeboat we have. I'm getting tired of the highly paid oracles of ignorance polluting the air waves with venomous lies and exhortations to assassination.

What I’m not getting tired of is watching a real president do his job. I take the time to watch most of his addresses and never cease to be amazed that we have a president who really understands the many complicated issues he is dealing with. His current poll numbers are lower than the astronomical ones that were based upon unrealistic expectations of what any president can do in very flawed political system. I do not agree with all of his tactical and strategic choices but I still have great faith in his motivation.

By this time in Bush’s first term we had seen way too much nauseating footage of his recreational activities in Crawford. We had seen his predictable response to the attack on our nation that he had enabled. We had seen him launch one war and talk up another war he had already committed us to. As a survivor of eight years of the worst president ever, I’m inclined to have patience with the man we elected who is just getting started and gaining momentum every day.

[theoldman]

1. It takes a while to undo 28 years of mistakes.

[hughee99]

6. I'm sure his Sec. of State feels the same way. n/t

[Hutzpa]

2. Maybe it's time to stop the car

and tell the kids to get out and walk.....:evilgrin:

[John Q. Citizen]

3. I'm getting tired of people who have to always tell me how tired they are getting. Seriously.

If the whole world to you is a red vs blue football game, that's your problem.

I'm not going to judge, grade, or define Obama as compared to George Bush.

You can if you want.


When Obama sells me and my kids and my family my country our world out for bucks and influence that help him, I'm going to object long and hard and loud. when he does things that I think are good for me, my family, my country, our world, I'm going to praise him long and loud.

Get used to it already.

[FightingIrish]

5. Please use the Ignore button. I just did.

[Dawgs]

8. Good idea. I just did too.

Bye-bye John Q. Citizen!! :hi:

On Edit: Sorry Hutzpa!

[John Q. Citizen]

9. If by replying to my post you want to also pretent to be ignoring my post, that tells

me about your passive aggressive personality.

That fits with your need to only hear positive re-enforcemnet for your rigid world view.


I haven't put you on ignore, because you don't make me mad and you don't threaten my sense of self. In fact, I have no one on ignore because I don't believe that putting my fingers in my ears and saying "la la la I can't hear you" is a grown up or productive means of behavior.

But, i guess it does take all kinds.


Again, in response to your OP, As a citizen of this country, it's not my duty to blindly follow. Get used to it.

[bvar22]

17. The problem with "Ignore".

You no longer see a response from an individual, but EVERYBODY else who reads the thread DOES.
It gives the person you "Ignore" a wonderful opportunity to make YOU look like an ass, and everybody but you gets to see it....like what just happened in THIS thread.

LOL.

[Laelth]

11. +1 n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[mkultra]

15. so..your getting tired of people saying they are getting tried of something else?

maybe you should grab a mop.

[timzi]

24. Of Course You Are Correct

And the reply that "I'm going to ignore you....nahhhhh nahhhhh nah nahhhhh nahhhhhh" is pathetic. What kind of website would we have if all ignored ideas they disagree with? Certainly a lesser one. Some seem to want to make DU a circle jerk. Or they want to be the arbiters of what is acceptable or not themselves. I think they must all have histories as hall monitors in grade school and can't come to terms with their diminished roles....LOL.

[trayfoot]

4. WELL SAID!

[uponit7771]

7. Can't do that, there would be no drama...folk would have nothin to complain about if we "get there"

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Major K & R ! n/t

[Captain Hilts]

12. Typed like a straight guy with a job and health insurance. I think the Prez is doing a good job

but I'm going to lean on him for issues important to me. He can't have it both ways on Health Care Reform. Sorry.

[joeycola]

13. I am a pround whiner who will continue to ask the Obama and Democrats

to stand up for the American people-all of them!!

[FightingIrish]

14. I must have posted this on the wrong board

Some people seem really upset that I have compared President Obama favorably to his predecessor, recognized that he is doing a good job and asked for a little patience. This does not bode well for 2012.

[mkultra]

16. some people didnt get a pony during the primary

and it still stings. everyone knows what they are doing but its best to just let them vent.

[butterfly77]

18. I am also sick of these so called pundits..

and media and fake ass Dems telling us what Obama needs to do. A lot of these Bluedogs and some of the so called liberal are still angry that he is the President and they are helping the republiCONS everyday I wait to see which one will jump of his/her trickbag..


They are being seen for who they really are and the more we push certain issues we will really see who is a Dem. Evan Bayh's wife works for the insurance companies and has made 2 million bucks.

What did Michael Jackson say: "They don't really care about us"!

[firedupdem]

19. K&R nice post! n/t

[Cha]

20. Excellent OP..thank you, FightingIrish.

The good news is there's quite a few who do appreciate what we have.:)

[Clio the Leo]

21. The naysayers are in the minority.

Not that recing or unrecing is a scientific method of conducting research, but you'll notice that positive threads (even though they may occur less frequently) often have WAY more recs than the negative ones.

I say it all the time but "loud" doesn't always equal "numerous." ;)

[MadMaddie]

22. He is not perfect and he is flawed like every human being is

However; he is trying to fix the 28 years of bullshit the Republican party has bestowed on this country. He even admitted that we wouldn't like everything that he did and he might make a mistake or two.

This man puts in 12-14 hour days but that is not good enough for the naysayers.....he doesn't brag about the some big changes that he has made, if he did then he is too arrogant, but since he doesn't it must not have happend. There is absolutely no winning in the naysayers eyes.

Oh yea, let's not forget he didn't step physically into LA until last month so nothing must be going on....oh yea he has had 14 government officials in LA throughout the year trying to improve the conditions, Obama didn't brag about that so again it must not have happened....

We have a Repuglican congress that will absolutely not attempt to help everyday citizens but the Dems get the wrap for it.....and it goes on and on.

I am with you, he is working and understanding the complexities of the problems and he is going about fixing those problems in a systematic way.

[impik]

23. Almost every day i'm astound by two things:

1. The way this president handle this massive shitstorm he inherited, working non-stop, taking many decisions that he must hate to take, while at the same time trying to move the country forward, making some real tangible changes, and somehow remain cool, calm, collected and graceful. It's been 9 months from hell for him, yet no one can say that the country is not in a better place than it's been in January, and he's trying to fix damage that took many years to create. By the end of his 8 years - If progressive won't primary him in 2012 of course - people will look back and won't believe how far they came from the horrid Bush years.

2. The way the Left treat this man from his first day in office. So many people on the Left dislike him so much, i almost can't understand how he won anything to begin with.