Obama Moves Fast on Economy

That’s what a “Do-er” does!

obama, and teams, have to move faster. america has been burning and everyone, in positions of power to get things done, has been standing around playing their fiddle. only the wealthy and powerful have felt no huge pain like the majority of americans. china has funded 500 billion for infrastructure work to keep the masses working else china would face a massive violent worker revolution. the potential exists for violent revolution here as well. what amerca needs to see is results, action and doing is fine but totally nonsense without positive results. america needs results now.

You sheepies just keep on following your master, while he and his fellow shepards fleece you. I for one will be laughing when his policies fail and you are still in the poor house.

Wow, what a refreshing change from the Bush administration. Bush would have needed a vacation in Crawford by now. Obama hasn’t taken a break yet. Even after he won the election he was working on the transfer the next morning. To all you naysayers, if he did nothing else that alone would be a “Change”.

All I can say is “How Refreshing”, it’s like oping the window for the first time on a Spring day.

NOBAMA….
u would slam him no matter what, that is apparent! the man is trying to get on top of the ENORMOUS problems that george bush and his repug cronies have dumped in his lap yet u give no credit! your lame duck idiot is hangin loose saying farewell to his fat cat corporate buddies he made even more wealthy all the while our nation tailspins and here you are… DOGGING THE MAN WHO IS TRYING TO FIX ALL THE PAST IDIOTS MESS’S! i hear your idiot hero rush is blaming the current financial crisis on obama!!!! HE HAS NOT EVEN TAKEN CONTROL AND YET YOUR FILTHY PARTY STILL ATTACKS! NO WONDER YOU ALL WERE FIRED! nothing like kicking a man in the back of the legs while he is trying to get america back on his feet! repugs disgust me, thank god you all have virtually no power nor credibility left and these kinds of comments and attacks on obama are why !

Anthony—well said. I agree, what makes our situation so hopeful is exactly his willingess to learn. This is exactly why I voted for Obama, I believe he WILL make things better. All you Obama bashers, go ahead and pick apart every move he makes. He is still YOUR president. Get over it and put your energy to better things.

I am not a big fan of “Stimulus Packages” for several reasons, #1 – high administrative costs and waste to benefits, #2 – very short term (band-aid) – not real and long term economic pull. #3 – Politically looks like throwing money at a problem instead of solving the root cause of the problem.
Here are another alternatives. Negotiate with the Energy companies for stable gasoline prices between $1.50 to
$1.85 per gallon for terms of 18 months, and in return the Energy companies get a 15% tax break for the agreed terms of 18 months, then re-negotiate again.
In the Q1, deliver as promised tax cuts for the middle class with 15% tax cut for families and individual with incomes up to 175K. Do not repeal the Bush tax cuts as well.
Cut administrative costs within the Federal government and associate programs. Eliminate redundancy and consolidate cabinet level department with the goal to improve cost, quality and overall effectiveness.
Give the taxpayer and consumer change they can believe in.

NOBAMA and Anthony…the typical “haters” and Bush Sackriders! No wonder this country has sunk so low with mentally challenged individuals criticizing Obama for doing and moving, unlike the retard we have in office now.
I did not vote for Obama, but I am satisfied with the level and speed at which he is moving things, and it has not been a month yet since he got elected! His Cabinet is almost done, his economic adviser team is done, he already described his 2.5 million job creation plan, etc, etc.
In 3 weeks he has shown more leadership and a “can do” attitude than Bush ever did in EIGHT LONG YEARS!
Get your heads out of your behinds, and lets work together in getting back on track, instead of doing what you do best: Criticize like dummies while doing nothing!

NOBAMA, it’s idiots like you that make this world screwed up as much as it is. Sheeez dude, at least give Obama time to put his plans into affect. If then they don’t work, THEN you can gripe and complain.
Right now your buddy Bush is still in control. I don’t see him doing much to improve what he’s screwed up during the last 8 years.

LofromMO
If you knew anything about capitalism and economics you would not need a crystal ball to know what happens when the gov’t tries to give people $$$- it kills the incentive to get an alarm clock and become productive members of society. The messiah has promised everything to his worshippers and they, along with everyone else, will be sadly disappointed.

I agree with CRAIG 100%.
Nobama is sour grapes. President Obama is trying to do something which is much more than can be said of this idiot we have in office. President Bush and his cronies should have been IMPEACHED a long time ago. HE WAS IN CHARGE…HE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON? I don’t want to hear excuses from bloggers like Nobama that the Democrats were at fault. This idiot had a REPUBLICAN congress for over 6 years…..
You really think anyone can undo the horrible damage Bush, et al. did in eight years overnight?
God bless President Obama. He is at least doing something!!!!!

You sheepies just keep on following your master, while he and his fellow shepards fleece you. I for one will be laughing when his policies fail and you are still in the poor house.
Posted by: NOboma | Nov 24, 2008 8:37:23 AM
And what, pray tell, will you do if you’re wrong and Obama starts to slowly turn this country around? Yeah, that’s what I thought. You and others like you who can’t accept that he won will find ANY other reason or explanation for why things are going well, than to actually give him any credit.
And by the way, if his policies do leave me in the poorhouse, there’s a good chance you’ll have a room there too and you WON’T be laughing. If the worst does happen, at least you’ve given me something to smile about.
You people need to get over yourselves. If you actually think McCain would’ve had a clue on the economy, much less cared about it, your head is much farther up your ass than I thought.

So interesting that the person sitting next to Obama and Biden in the picture, is the fine governor from Michigan, Jennifer Granholm. I think it’s pretty alarming that she is advising Obama, when she has ruined Michigan’s economy. The economy in Michigan has been in terrible shape for the last several years, and she has played a large part putting it there. I’m quite concerned that Obama would be listening to her.

nancy miller
when will kool-aid drinkers like you realize that bush had NOTHING to with the financial crisis we are facing. The entire democratic party has transformed from the days of “ask not what your country can do for you………..” into barry’s “spread the wealth around”.
The real robin hoods who have screwed this country up have been
jimmy carter (community reinvestment act)
barney frank
chris dodd
chuck schumer
These people have wiped away lending standards to mortgage companies and even threatened legal action to anyone who discriminated against the “poor” forcing them to make bad loans.
Oh, and the dems would rather pay al gore $300,000 a speech to have him lecture us about keeping our thermostats off after he just flew in on his private jet having just gotten off his private yacht, then keep $500,000,000,000.00 a year here in our borders by drilling here!!

Moving fast when you have competent leadership is good. Moving fast when you’re as clueless about the US economy as Obama is isn’t.

sonny
Have you ever been to london and needed a doctor? i have. they are no where to be found. You wait 8-10 hrs to see a nurse who has no idea what she is doing while the rich use the private healthcare where all the good doctors are.
Also, when you are rich in EU, Asia ect you come HERE for medical treatment. Despite what the ultimate traitor michael moore tells you, we have the best healthcare system in the world.

Great! that’s a good way of fixing everything, right? I mean, just keep dumping more money into the fire, and let future generations get the bill.
the problem is fixable — don’t do anything at all, let the economy collapse until the capitalists (those with billions) move in to fix things with now money, not future money.
If you are in debt, then, you take care of the debt, now! You do not pile debt upon debt to fix the problems. You have to take care of the problem now to save future generations from higher taxes to cover interests on those loans or to save them from hyperinflation.
Obama’s cure for this ailing economy is based on passing on the debt to future generations of Americans without the realization that America is experiencing an economic transformation. this transformation includes the numbers of men and women retiring in the next several years, the high dropout rates among our youths, the loss of manufacturing jobs in this country, and the lack of heavy investment in newer technologies. In all, this country is headed to the brink of destruction if the president and his staff do not wise up to the real problems afflicting America.
In all, for years to come, our states and our federal government will be plagued by entitlement costs, and very little is being done to forward us into the future at an accelerated rate. We even have the technology to save our atmosphere from CO2, but the government is not funding it like it should.
I don’t know, but this fix that Obama is proposing is only for the short term and not the long term.

We each will have to get out there and make things happen, we cannot sit back and depend on any government. Just think as we quiver and moan there are wise individuals who are making a windfall in this bad economy.. JUST GO OUT AND MAKE IT HAPPEN, GOOD LUCK.

“A goverment big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson is rolling over in his grave right now and karl marx is laughing.

Dave, Clinton was tried for impeachment for a silly indescretion which should have been between him and his wife. Instead Ken Start spent millions of dollars.
Bush got us into a war that we shouldn’t be in with lies about WMD when we should have been in Aftganistan.
He also stood by and watch all this mess go on and did nothing….But no impeachment there.
It’s unbelieveable to me that all the money that they spent on some silly affair which should have been personal, not that he was right, but it was personal, and when thousands are killed in a war that shouldn’t have been and our deficit is sky high nothing is done to this idiot president whose ratings are so low he is considered the worst in history!
THAT IS WHY HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED.
AND Obama hasn’t even started yet and you are knocking him!!!

liberalshateAmerica- that’s complete B.S. You also have to wait here if you go to the ER sometimes more than 24 hours. Most of the time in Europe (and Canada) one does not have to wait nearly as long as one does here to see a physician. That is a fact. BTW, have you watched the news lately? The US is the only modern society without universal healthcare. I have healthcare, but many people do not. Healthcare is a right NOT a priviledge.

Funny. The only people I’ve ever heard call Obama “the Messiah” are Republicans. Another thing, I’ve never seen a Republican in a foxhole.

AND I would like to know what YOU people who are critizing President Obama would do….Do you understand what a BIG MESS he has been left? If the government doesn’t do some kind of bailout we will be in a Depression. He is trying to make jobs so people can get back to work and we can pay down this debt. Remember President Clinton was left with a huge deficit by the elder President Bush and we had a surplus when President Clinton left. This is much worse but I have faith in President Obama. If we don’t have faith and hope, what is there left? Stop complaining and try to help.

barb, you are pleading on deaf ears! they’re man lost and they can’t accept it! barack could have the ideal paths to takes us out of the bush abyss and have the perfect plan etc etc and the rush limbaugh and george bush followers would still say it is totally wrong! funny, the GOP’ers NEVER mention that bush was handed a country running in the black with a huge surplus of money and we were in good shape… HOW LONG DID THAT LAST? A FEW MONTHS B4 BUSH GOT HIS HANDS ON IT AND destroyed what clinton had done! and yet they still slam bill clinton every chance they get… DOES EVERYONE SEE WHERE THE PROBLEM IS HERE??? maybe the GOP itself as a whole? is this why they have been BOOTED out by america??? YEEEEEEEEEES!

look, i am not an Obama supporter. I am willing to give the man a shot and some time (all the “experts” on tv say that it will take at least two years to pull out of this mess). But, he can’t use “it’s Bush’s fault.” That is not why he was elected – he was elected to fix this. Blaming Bush might work for the wars, but he wanted the job so now he has to produce results.

Craig you are right. I give up. No matter what you say these Republicans will some up with a sorry excuse. I always look at both sides but the way the Republicans acted esp. in this campaign, calling Obama a terriorist, I will NEVER vote for a Republican or listen to anything they say, because no matter what we say they will come up with a bitter excuse.
You and I know we have a good man becoming President in 2009 and I just know with a little hope and faith our country will be a better one than it has in the past eight years.

Mike C
it’s funny how the media has COMPLETELY ignored clinton’s speech telling the American people that saddam had WMD’s (which is why hillary voted for the war). She knew that if her husband was more worried about protecting America than having party time in the oval office saddam might have been taken out a long time ago..

Barb,
Give me a break. If it had been McCain who had that kind of association with Bill Ayers, you and everyone who voted for Obama would have been all over him. God knows the media would never have let a single day go by without badgering McCain over it.
Obama kept trying to the use the excuse that all happened when I was eight. Very Very weak.
Like I said in the earlier post, you cling to the BS about Bush lying to start a war, but you want to ignore Obama’s association with an unrepentant terrorist.
Sorry honey, but you dont get to have it both ways!

liberalshateAmerica,
I always find it interesting that the media never asked Clinton what he thought about the intel at the time.
Liberal ALWAYS want to ride the idea that “Bush Lied about WMD’s”, all the time IGNORING their own “leader’s” prophecy about Iraq in that speech!

Mike C sweetie, Obama was at a party which Ayers attended along with REPUBLICAN big wigs.
I’m just glad the majority of the people don’t agree with you as you can see by the election results.
Go eat your sour grapes.

Barb,
I hope you never do anything you have to go to court for…LOL
So obviously you have ZERO PROOF, you were not there for the security briefings. Strange, but for years many people were worried about this. So obviously, Bill Clinton LIED in his State of the Union address.
To carry your Warped Logic to the appropriate levels moving forward, When Obama says something & its wrong, THEN HE LIED!!!! —- RIGHT?????

“Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.”
~ George W. Bush, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2002-10-07. These tubes turned out to be nothing more threatening than the tubing used to construct playground equipment.

“We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They’re illegal. They’re against the United Nations resolutions, and we’ve so far discovered two. And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.”
~ George W. Bush, 2005-05-23, Interview of the President by TVP, Poland. If he found them, what happened to them?

“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
~ George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, 2003-01-28. The documents supporting this turned were crudely forged.

Senator Sam Levin released formerly classified documents that undercut top Bush pre-Iraq war claims of a link between Saddam Hussein’s regime and the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
“These documents are additional compelling evidence that the intelligence community did not believe there was a cooperative relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda, despite public comments by the highest ranking officials in our government to the contrary.”
~ Carl Levin, Senator, 2005-04-16

heres is what will make you sick and should shut GOP’rs up quickly but never does….
rumsfeld and Wolfowitz had already decided to invade Iraq long before they claimed to have evidence of the WMDs.
“I expected to go back to a round of meetings [on 2001-09-12], examining what the next attacks could be, what our vulnerabilities were, what we could do about them in the short term. Instead, I walked into a series of discussions about Iraq. At first I was incredulous that we were talking about something other than getting al Qaeda. Then I realised with an almost sharp physical pain that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were trying to take advantage of this national tragedy to promote their agenda about Iraq. Since the beginning of the administration, indeed well before, they had been pressing for a war with Iraq. My friends in the Pentagon had been telling me that the word was we would be invading Iraq sometimes in 2002.”
~ Richard A. Clarke, White House Counter Terrorism Chief, Against All Enemies
CIA analysts who didn’t agree that Iraq posed a threat were removed or reprimanded.
Bush said, “We’ve wanted so many wars, and we didn’t get them. And we’ve wanted this one for years.”
Bush kept changing his supposed justification for the war.
One of the neocons confessed that they kicked around various justifications for the war and picked the one they thought would “sell” best

Super Craig!!!! But like you said these Republicans just will never get it or don’t want to!
And Kent is right…everyone has to band together behind Obama and make this country great again….The election is over and if anyone doesn’t want to stand behind Obama then they can continue to eat their sour grapes.
Me, I think he’s going to be a great President!
Thanks again Craig!!! Good work and research!

God Bless you Craig…someone with common sense. You know that is what is missing and also common decency. If people would all band together we would have as RFK my hero said, A Newer World…and a better one! We come in all sizes, colors, shapes, sexes and religions. We need to respect each other and sit down and really listen. I believe in Obama…he really cares…kind of like Bobby!

Mike C you are so wrong and YOU are the bubble head! No need to resort to name calling but then that is what Republicans do.
Plenty of your friends called him a terriorist and if he associated with Ayers so did all those high end Republicans who were at the same party!
Give it up.
I’m getting off this blog now but I hope you will stand behind OUR President and let him do the job of fixing all the mess left by your President Bush.

Craig,
Nice titbits…but here is what I find so interesting.
You liberals want to believe that Bush concocted this elaborate scheme to start a war, fooled the ENTIRE WORLD with it, but was just a clumsy dope on every other single issue for 8 years ?
LOL…I think you need another hit from Michael Moore’s Medecine cabinet!

Thanks George! Really appreciate your reporting!

BTW… you called barb a bubblehead… NIIIICE! shows your mentality yet, you asked her about the republicans attending a fundraiser for a democrat. what she was refering to was that ayers and obama served on a SCHOOL committee together along with many other democrats AND republicans AND people from the dept of justice AND MANY OTHER GOV OFFICIALS dems and repugs alike…. SO THAT MEANS (according to YOUR bubblehead palin) THAT THEY ALLLLL ARE PALIN AROUND WITH TERRORISTS! your failed party really should give up on the karl rove attack tactics! fool me once shame on you… fool me twice….
NOPE! DIDN’T !

you would rather have put in a hothead and an idiot just because they wear the brand “republican” instead of a competent leader like barack! the man is a harvard law graduate for crissakes!
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LOL…a leader…at what time in his life….I give him immense credit for burying Hillary & mcCain in the election.
But a leader, We wil have to wait to see about that.
Right now, if anyone is “branded”,..its Obama…He is becoming th eultimate Rebrand…”Clinton”

it is the same old thing that got us here in the first place… they want they’re guy runnin the big show… they don’t get what they want so they spit on the whole barrel of apples! btw barb, i did not like you being called a bubblehead for speaking your views… GOOD EXAMPLE of how most repugs are! they don’t like what you say so they brand you a “bubblehead” …. seems that you spoke a lot of truth yourself and they cannot accept it! i butt heads with narrowminded republicans daily so i am more used to listening to nonsense and excuses and slandering of anybody who “doesn’t fit they’re mold” seems to me that they’re mold SUCKS! WE are on the brink of disastor and they want to play games of slander and lie, smoke and mirrors! if we (repugs and dems and indep) don’t start some sort of dialogue of working asa team this country could be taken away from us… china half OWNS this country now… (bush bein a big part in this also) we have to get serious NOW! and NO, palin/mcsame was NOT right for the job… face it!

jeezus…. your laughable candidates went from one end of this country to the other saying barack “palls around with terrorists”… PERIOD! from what i understand that there indeed WAS aparty along with many many other parties that barack attended that same night and ayers was just one of them, ooooffff course your “bulldog” lol or whatever that was you guys threw in there to reek havoc, made this out to be like barack and michelle had an intimate dinner with a guy they KNEW was a terrorist and plotted to get barack elected so he could blow the place up… RIDICULOUS! gop keeny liked using the word “terrorist” to associate barack with the 911 terrorists… karl rove at it again! barack is an honorable, intelligent man and you will find that he will take us to a way better place than we have been in… which is iraq, financial ruin, hated round the world, must i go on?

when bush was notified that a hurricane was heading to new orleans he went about “business as usual”…. when you are the president, to coin a well known phrase “THE BUCK STOPS HERE” HE WAS RESPONSIBLE! HIS own MOTHER, BARABARA BUSH STATED ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN THE SUPER DOME “MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE LIVING BETTER THERE THAN AT HOME ANYWAYS” (there were assaults, rapes, murders etc going on in there)
btw, i am not hostile until i hear moronic attacks on a man that will probably go down in history as a great president.. UNFOUNDED attacks…. slander… B.S.! AFTER havin bush for 8 years i think ya’ll should be happy and not judge unless he really did a terrible job (which ain’t gonna happen)
but, to quote barack “republicans always like to throw rocks and then look around like “who threw that” “

change subject cuz you are losin the other one LOLlol
were we talking ANYTHING about nancy pelosi??? hhmmmmmmmm here comes the smoke and mirrors i was referring to! lol lol
rove taught you well!

Craig,
Guess what Obama does not control the Money….Congress does!
If you want to wallow, so be it…I am trying to take the discussion to how we move forward. I am not one who is convinced that Obama is going to wave his hand and part the economic waters here.
Reid & Pelosi have a lot more to say about this than Obama. Obama can set the policy, but Congress enacts it. And Congress always seems to have a way of warping what ever comes its way.

The bottom line is their is enough blame to go around BUT blame is not going to help the average American citizen. WE need to look forward and work on solutions.

NumbCitizen,
Beleive me, I am all for looking forward, but only a complete fool refuses to look back and discover exactly how we got here and exactly what mistakes were made.
Otherwise, how can anyone really have confidence that any new moves are the right ones?
So many of the liberals here just want to play the Blame Bush game. Then when they get confronted with their own tatcis and get mired down in useless dribble, they whine & complain.
It is obvious that there is blame 7 responsibility on both sides of the aisle on this one. And it IS important to realize this goes back beyond Bush’s 8 years.
since Obama is now recruiting many of the old Clinton team, It is even MORE important to be honest as a country about who is responsible for what actions and the reprecussions of those actions.
Now as an example, Larry Summers, who was Treasury secretary in President Clinton’s regime, will head Obama’s National Economic Council.
In 1999, Summers was one of the key proponents of the BANKING DERRGULATION that led to the rise of ‘mega-banks’ and the current financial crisis. At the time, Senators like Byron Dorgan and policy advocates like Public Campaign were warning the financial deregulation, but Summers did not listen.
Summers also has the whole comewmtn about women which got him fired as President of havard, AND this interesting Memo from the early 1990′s….
http://www.whirledbank.org/ourwords/summers.html

Craig,
I will indeed criticize, if i feel his choices are incorrect or suspect! This is the entire issue we warned people about. He has no experience at forming a government. You liberals demonized Palin, but the FACT is she had already done what Obama is doing now. Yuo dont have to like it, but it is a very simple FACT!
I am not one bit surprised at his choices, but I have asked this question repeatedly. In all these critical areas, the Democratic party has not yet raised up a new face? You got Obama, yet where is the rest of the upcoming talent?
This is like a baseball team with a farm system devoid of quality players.
You can keep throwing the same old lineup on the field, with a NEW manager, but its still the same team!
These people are not all of a sudden going to become version 2.0 of themselves.
Take Summers, He was a big proponent of Deregulation under Clinton. Does he now admit that was not a good idea? What direction will he advise Obama to move in now?
This is not SLAMMING…these are very important questions that all Americans deserve an answer to.

I again come back to Pelosi & Reid. Why is there no outrage at their extreme lack of leadership and perfromance of thier duty when it comes to oversight?
Oh, on the auto bailout, the idea that they just gave an entire industry less than 2 weeks to create a proposal than will give them access to 25 or more billion dollars is disgraceful.
I have worked on government jobs in my lifetime, an the proposal cycle takes months for system that are in the 10′s of miliions of dollars.
There is no way on earth in 2 weeks or less, that a real plan can be created that truely answers the big questions for auto makers.
Im not completely positive, but I think at this point Reai & Pelosi want this plan to include a way for the auto industry to keep its current labor contracts intact. If that is true, this entrie exercise is a complete farse!
I have not heard a single person who beleive they can make this work with the current labor agreement in place.
So again, I ask where is the very fair criticism of the lack of real leadership from Reid\Pelosi?

Beleive me, I am all for looking forward, but only a complete fool refuses to look back and discover exactly how we got here and exactly what mistakes were made.
Otherwise, how can anyone really have confidence that any new moves are the right ones?
OK, to use your words… looking back to analize mistakes so we don’t repeat them…. look back on the bush admin…. if we do just the opposite of that then we will all come out smellin like roses!

craiger,
See, this is why you fools are useless in a real discussion. DUh…Blame it all on Duh Bush..Duh…
wel….to use your own logic, lets toss out Barney frank & Chris Dodd as well as Harry reid & Nancy Pelosi….They have just a big a blame to shoulder!
Better yet, lets just forget everything that has ever happened before 1/20/2009 !
Im sure the messiah can raise his hands off that bible and just make it all go away……
so much for real dialogue

PT wrote :
All I can say is “How Refreshing”, it’s like oping the window for the first time on a Spring day.
Hey PT you’re going to be opening up your wallet and pay higher taxes.

Mac:
Hey PT you’re going to be opening up your wallet and pay higher taxes.
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Yeah! That talking point *never* gets old.
Oh, wait, it just did.

This team was easy to pick, all he took was President Clinton deputies and the Bush administration national security staff.Obama burst alot of bubbles with his picks especially Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Gates.

Barry Obama does not have America’s best interest at heart. Everything that guy does/says between now and when he gets booted out of office should be watched carefully.
Does barry want to see the rev wright vision of America? It’s pretty hard to stay in a racist, anti-American, anti-capitalist church for 20 years, have the pastor baptize your children, marry you, write a book titled after one of the pastor’s speeches, refer to pastor as your mentor, and not share the pastor’s views.

George,
You suggested Obama should get the credit for the 1,000 point surge in the Dow last week. Then I think it’s fair that he get the blame for the Dow’s 680 point drop today, right?