I KNEW I could be president between 2001 and 2009, but not now...

[AnArmyVeteran]

The entire time Bush was in the presidency I had no doubt I could have done a great job as president of the United States. I knew my pets could have done a million times better than Bush. I thought even a national lottery where a person was picked at random could do better than the dunce Bush.

But I know I don't have Obama's patience and I would react to the idiotic right wingers in an entirely different way. Obama has the patience of Job when dealing with his opponents in the US, patience I know I wouldn't have with them.

But if I was the president for the past year I would have really jammed down every liberal/progressive idea on the table. I would have forced a public option into the health care bill. Hell, I would have tried to outlaw insurance companies, since they serve no productive purpose and they only take away from health care like parasites feeding off of a living host.

[pnwmom]

1. How would you have overcome the filibuster? n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Speaking of Job

Have you ever wondered why it is always pronounced in English as 'Jobe' rather than as 'Jawb', which is how all other consonant-O-consonant spellings are pronounced - job, top, hop, pop, tot...

Regardless, I also hoped he would use his very real mandate more aggressively, make some pushback against the worst the criminals have done over the last two terms. I don't think that subverting the constitution, waging illegal wars on false pretenses, election fraud, corruption, cronyism, should be considered mere 'policy differences' to be forgotten about when the new administration comes in.

I want SOMEONE to go to jail.

He's showing far more restraint than I could ever have.

[obxhead]

3. Yes Obama does have great patience. He knows that he will

eventually get every program the republicans want and demand before his first term is over.