Matt Damon Down on President Obama in Elle Interview

perhaps matt damon would like to run for presidency and do a better job? while president has all the power of executive branch, the executive branch is there to carry out bills made in congress, if you expect the president to do something like making a bill then carry it out himself that would be one overreaching president that violates the balance of power.
as for leadership, president obama was acting too rational and too well mannered. instead of using his advantage of popularity from day one, he actually waited for the republicans to work cooperatively. if he was stoic and uncompromising like bush, congress would be scared of his veto power; but he was too pragmatic and was willing to “work with others”, so the congress try to get away with doing w/e they want. congress is behaving like kids, if the parent is strict to point of dictatorial, they know there is no way around him, if the parent is lenient, kids will whine and try to wiggle out of any bad situation – including garnering sympathy and support from onlookers.

Mr. Damon and other liberals forget that their complaints about President Obama echo the very same warnings conservatives (and a few liberals) gave back during the campaign. ANYONE who stopped to think and review President Obama’s history already knew back then that he was a senator, not an executive or manager. They knew he was a great speaker with no record of accomplishment that qualified him for the White House, an entirely different position from anything he had held before. To be fair, John McCain had the very same weaknesses, and so both the Republican and Democratic establishments failed us by putting-forth candidates who were entirely unprepared to run the country.

Maybe this time around, we’ll pay attention to the mistakes of the past. The dissatisfaction in President Obama isn’t HIS fault. It’s the voters’. It’s time we started voting on character, record and qualifications, instead of image and popularity.

@silverwindcx, I have no doubt that Barack Obama has a severe lack in leadership abilities. Of course, the nation should have known this when electing a guy who has never held any real leadership roles in his lifetime. As a president, he has been ineffective. Every president in the history of our nation has had to deal with uncompromising Congresses. Our “leader” simply chooses to blame Congress and hide behind the fact that there is a severe divide in the nation…none of which has Obama helped unite. He simply is an ineffective leader. This is why he needs to step aside and let another Democrat run for president. I have no doubt that with another president, even if he/she is stern and stand his ground, that he would be able to get Congress to work for him.

This is a free country and Matt Damon is entitled to his piece of free speech, just like I am. This country has gotten harder to govern, and that is a fact. This is a historic president, guys he is the first African American president in the history of this country. He has many odds against him, and being black is just one of them. There are some, who would want him to fail just because he is black – all over – Republicans, Liberals, Conservatives, Evangelicals, and even from his own backyard – Democrats and even fellow colored men and women.
This does not erase some values he has brought back to this country that were since forgotten. But He cannot do it alone, he is not superman. We the American people need to reduce the polarity of our beliefs, and once again believe in ourselves and not in the government, once again get down to creating jobs and bringing back those jobs that were shipped overseas, and once fold our cuffs and get down to ploughing our fields, for only then will we have a yield.

I agree, Obama sucks!!! If you keep defending him you are dishonest and a fool!!! Obama is just another politician…

Young people got fooled by Obama because they do not yet know the importance of experience and thought brilliant speeches and lectures could easily be translated into deeds. The lesson here to young people is to look for a leader who is both idealistic and pragmatic. You need a president who knows what is right and can get it done. Otherwise it’s just words, beautiful as they may be.

Finally someone in hollywood give a true “picture” of Obama.

I applaud Matt’s right to speak out. But in the long run we as Americans have to put a huge part of the most recent problems on our current Congress and Senate and the pissing contest that they seem to be having with each other. I am tired of this and if the Occupy movement were to put their energy in getting Congressmen and Senators out of office and electing ones that are not PROFESSIONAL politicians. Also including a term limits on these folks we could see work getting done. But last time President Clinton put term limits on Congress they went to the Supreme Court and had it overturned.

Matt Damon for President! He has my vote! Enough is enough, he is right. Occupy needs a decent leader to rally behind….

Like most Americans, Matt Damon simply wants Obama to jump into action, rather than sitting on the sidelines watching the world pass by. Everyone wants change, don’t care much about if it’s the right change or not, but with congress tying their own hands to prevent progress, with the court system dragging its feet running on fewer cylinders, and with Obama seemingly powerless to do anything, people get angry.

And when is Obama going to call Eric Holder on the carpet for encouraging, even forcing, gun shops to break the law so Holder could illegally provide firearms to the Mexican drug gangs, resulting in at least one federal agent killed? RE: Operation Fast and Furious

Wow…nice to see that people are finally starting to wake up and see Obama for what he is! He’s really not different than any other politician. The problems is he made everyone believe he was not the same old same old. I still hear people trying to play the race card but the fact of the matter is no matter what color he may be, white, black, green or purple- he has failed the American people. He is so busy playing politics and trying to keep his job he never DID his job. Its time for the change we were all promised. Hopefully the next president will actually deliver on his promises

I feel as many do… We are without any real leadership. Just another President that gets us splitting hairs and fighting about how to do it. As I have said before just pass the one year house bill and get it done. I wish you could hear us. Start getting it done…. no more b.s.

Obama is not good for this country and if he gets voted in for another 4 years than the majority of American’s are bigger fools than I thought. We have got to read about what decisions he is making and make informed decisions. Obama is not good for America!

Seriously, Americans are fools. They voted Bush in for a second term — case closed. I disagree with you regarding your opinion of Obama. Take off your blinders and look at what the man has accomplished in just a few short years. He’s not good for America? No one could have cleaned up the mess Georgie Boy made in such a short time. He did a number on this country that is going to take years to undo, if it’s even possible. All Republicans do is create messes for the Dems to clean up — typical.
Obama needs to be voted in for a second term so he can finish cleaning up Georgie Boy’s mess. Where is that phantom hiding these days? Hmmmm

Matt has earned some respect here… as for Carole, the age old George did it cry, please get real. I am sick to death of those talking points splattered over and over. B.O. is a B.S. artist. The President must take a lot more responsibility period. I am not buying it any more… I think congress is keeping anything the house does down for political reasons. Enough is enough….

I think the sad part of this story is that during the campaign season, while Obama was preaching “hope and change” so many people – his supporters, volunteers and celebrity admirers, etc. – all believed that Obama was somehow different from the standard career politician – they believed he was somehow a cut above the rest, that he was one of us. It didn’t take long for that myth to unravel and for people to see Obama for what he was: someone who spent most of his adult life working as a career politician, and sadly, no different from the rest.

As an older gay man, I will still be voting for Obama. No one, not even that hunk, Matt Damon, will dissuade me.

WHY DON’T YOU RUN …WHY DON’T YOU RUN…IT JUST BEARS REPEATING……..

Booo, I agree with your comment
The motto was ‘Yes We Can’ no yes, I can. We let the tea party muck up town hall meetings, we didn’t get out and vote in 2010 which totally stopped good legislation from getting through the House. I am happy with all the good things Obama did accomplish despite the Republican roadblock.

As someone Tweeted recently, being against Obama because he hasn’t achieved EVERYTHING we wanted is a bit like saying “This guy hasn’t cured cancer. I’m voting for cancer.”

It’s funny – I dont remember people telling Matt to stick to acting, callig him stupid, etc when he was in Obama’s corner. Now that he has seen what “yes we can” acutally means all the sudden Matt is the bad guy. Typical politics – love ya when you are with me, but cross me and you are a teabagger.

The President can only do as much as a Republican Congress and Senate will allow him to….no matter what he tries to do to better our country he meets a block in the form of those Republican ####…

Right, Donna. Thank God those “Republican ####” are trying to keep him from driving us further into the abyss of debt with next to nothing to show for all those billions wasted. And Obama, yeah: he evades responsibility for his own failures just like a mouse evades cats and snakes. The spin ain’t workin’.

Donna, Npoone stopped this goon when he spend 500 MILLION DOLLARS of OUR money on a solar com[pany, he was advised was not good! IT FAILED DONNA.Then there is us paying for abortions in Africa!. He signed a bill for that, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, right after he was sworn in. Morally EVIL.

““You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.”——-How naive! If Obama is re-elected, it will be like re-electing Jimmy Carter.

The President gets yelled at by his base because he is too nice to the republicans! The President is doing what he can within the environment he has to work within. The republicans caused the current situation and they will only make it worse if they lie their way back into power. Just look at the House. The House and the country was recovering slowly until the republicans lied their way back into the House. What have the republican House accomplished since they have taken over? Nothing! They pander to the rich and attack everybody else! I do not know who these people are that support the republicans,however, they are not bright!

Some guy with money talks trash, of course he gets air time.

Obama and Matt Damon two giant clowns. Both deserve each other.

Okay, by liberal standards any white man who criticizes Obama for ANYTHING is a racist and bigot. Is Matt Damon a racist like all those white republicans and independents?

President Obama, nor any president for that matter, can fix the problem we have in America if the system itself creates unfair advantages to the ultra rich at the expense of everyone else. Obama did not create the problem, but he benefits from it by way of campaign contributions. Much of the money he gets in contributions are from employees of the very companies that caused our problems in the first place. It’s natural that they would expect some kind of return on their investment. Vote your conscience in 2012. Vote for Ron Paul. He is honest, straight forward and principled. When was the last time you actually felt good about voting for a President because of what they stood for?