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Well what do you think of the President?

 Personally, he's been a big disappointment for me. I voted for him and had high hopes, but all in all he's just another politician.
 

Personally I do live in the US - I was just interested to try  and get a balanced opinion on the views of americans.

I rated him 'good , but so far he's been a disappointment for me too. Maybe my expectations were too high?

TehBorken wrote:
all in all he's just another politician.

 Aren't they all? I think he was lesser evil of our options though.

As a Canadian I have no vote in it.. to me they are all one and the same.. politicians = lying backstabbing Neanderthals who would steal candy from children.. but again that is Canadian politicians I am talking about. I don't know if the American ones are the same  as the evil bastards we have up here..

 

^ my vote on that is, yes.

I like Obama better than the last a**hole you had down there........BC was good too

 Natasha wrote:
 Aren't they all? I think he was lesser evil of our options though.
Yes, Obama was the lesser of two evils by far. It'll take 50 years to recover from what the Bush-Cheney Crime Family did to this country, and in the meantime they'll be blaming everyone except those two.
 

I think Obama holds back.

TehBorken wrote:
Yes, Obama was the lesser of two evils by far. It'll take 50 years to recover from what the Bush-Cheney Crime Family did to this country, and in the meantime they'll be blaming everyone except those two.

 Bush.. I was so hoping someone would assasinate him. I know that's terrible of me to share but it's true. His stay in office was horrible and how he manged to survive it is beyond me. The world judges Americans based on the actions of the President. Which I hate. Some of us Americans are putting up with the actions of the President just like the rest of the world is. I think some people forget, just because someone won an election doesn't mean everyone voted for him.

I like him.  Liked him in the beginning and I still like him now.  As for the fickleness of the public who like him one day and hate him the next, I suspect they thought he was going to pull off some magic tricks.  It takes time to fix the mess he came into, but I doubt that he will ever be given the chance.  

Depends on how you want to rate someone, as most of his days in office have been rated by an outside force unable to get over the fact that a black man is President. Jim Crow rhetoric is on the rise, blatant racism is openly expressed and goes unchallenged. The old ruling whites are scared. Obama represents the future of the country demographically, and by god, that just doesn't play in Peoria.

On the other hand, on the American 'left', many were looking for a trans-formative figure and not another Clintonian 'triangulation' type of policy nonsense that defined the 90s. Then others wanted the return to the 90s, for it was a more peaceful and blissful time, where birds sang and no one died and we were all happy. The former never realized that the trans-formative character to which they were sold -- was just him as a person and what he represented. Meanwhile, the latter wants it to be 1998 with good old Bill.

The latter would be the baby boomers and the former would be the younger generation. Each are down and out for different reasons. The younger generation realizes that they have no future; the latter have no jobs and are in debt. So there's not much to be happy about east of the Cascades where America lives.

Meanwhile the Obama administration is rather aloof, and not really understanding of how much their base is being assaulted on a daily basis by racists, fanatics and loons, who seemingly patrol the streets, the airwaves and the national conscious looking for a fight -- while at the same time be out of a job. Any rational human being will after awhile give in to this torture. Then to make matters worse, the Obama administration would rather like you to give them a standing ovation every morning for saving the economy from the next great depression. It's rather arrogant on their part.

To sum up that place east of the Cascades:
Oliver Goldsmith
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay,
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade,
A breath can make them, as a breath has made,
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
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On a side note, I see history repeating itself among my generation in Canada. My age group is rather arrogant and aloof to what is going on in the world around them it seems. Former roommates flying off to Amsterdam for a weekend to watch a soccer game, buying Yaletown condos before they even have a job. Splurging here, splurging there, these are the affluent upper-middle to upper class kids repeating the mistakes of the past and it's going to bite them rather hard in a few years or so. They will want to take back their proclamations of using their student loans to travel the world during their undergraduate exploits.

So it's all relative I suppose.

 

So how would you rate Obama ? (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)  

P.C. wrote:

 I suspect they thought he was going to pull off some magic tricks.  It takes time to fix the mess he came into, but I doubt that he will ever be given the chance.  


 I completely agree. Quick fixes aren't the answer yet it's what most people want. I think he'll run and win another term so he'll have some time to make a difference. Hopefully, it will be a good one but only time will truly tell.

 P.C. wrote:
So how would you rate Obama ? (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)  

He was never going to live up to live up to the hype, especially when he has no real public personality and his leadership style is more managerial than forceful. For example, he doesn't do 'angry' etc. He's passive and so on.  
He's vilified by the right for the most ridiculous things, when he's actually more like the Chess Club President in High School.
Grade: uninspiring to mediocre. His accomplishments are not really noticeable thus far. He can't honestly say we have health care reform, or clean energy etc. Then again most were looking for a revolution.