Like Past Presidents, Obama Says He Must Handle the Juggling Act

This country is just used to the Dubya the one-trick-pony.
Re-train your minds America
We now have a president that can multi-task.
take a deep breath and have a nice day!!!!

Seems like he is doing a pretty poor job of everything he is juggling. There is not a victory in the bunch.

..but it’s nice to see him so dismissive of Warren Buffet.
Whatever you do, President Obama, don’t listen to your supporters when they give you constructive criticism!

If you voted for
C H A N G E
you would expect change…..
If you voted for business as usual
sorry…… you are part of the minority.

Obama meant to say “dribbling act”, not “juggling act”, being that he spends way too many hours dribbling basketballs for someone who is supposed to be the savior of the world.

What has Obama done that impresses you Angie? Is it all the new jobs or something else?

Does the CEO of a large company that has multiple business lines focus so much attention on a failing product line?…or does he relook at the whole business and see what things he can do to the other lines of business that will help the failing business. Obama is a good leader who see the vision, and has smart people around him that can carry out the job.

Plumber
What Disasters did Bush do to Impress you for 8 years?

Bush
Spent More time In foreign Countries,Camp David and his Texas Ranch,And Being Drunk, Bush Was a Lame Do Nothing Duck The only Thing he cared about was IRAQ AND OIL!

Of course they think he’s doing too much. They’re used to George Bush.

What Disasters did Bush do to Impress you for 8 years?
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I recall no “disasters” under President Bush, except 911. I don’t even think you would blame him for that. The economy was pretty good and he won the war in Iraq, creating the very first democracy in that region which is a spectacular accomplishment.

Ok, leave Pres. Obama alone. He has not done anything yet. He turned the budget over to Pelosi and Reid had the same done with the bailout. All he does read speeches of the telepromter that someone else has written and travels the country to campaign.

Whatever you folks think of Bush, and clearly there are strong disagreements, it is not a free pass for anything Obama does. Screaming Bush, insulting Bush, is irrelevant, he is gone.
This is about the one in the office now who has the power and seems to have no clue how to focus on one thing that matters most right now and that is the economy.
I no longer care what you think of Bush. That roller coaster ride is over.
It no longer matters who we blame for the economy , and there are strong disagreements there too, what matters now is what is done now.
Obama is the one with the control and in only 50 days I too agree with the author of the article. F for performance.

Gracious, can no one dare say the first thing that could be construed as even slightly critical of President Obama without triggering a chorus of criticism of former President Bush? This is ridiculous.
For openers, Bush was not the source of all evil in the world, nor was he a defective cowboy who spent all his time in Texas clearing brush. He took vacations, to be sure. He made mistakes, granted. He was far from perfect. However, there are those among us who appreciated his steady leadership in troubled times and who acknowledge the things he did right. I’ve outlined them plenty of times on this site and will not do so again in this post.
The point of this post is my frustration with this “oh, yeah, well, Bush was worse” nonsense. Whatever you thought of Bush, that is not germane to this particular discussion of whether or not Obama is overreaching and spreading his administration too thin at this particular moment in time. He is, in my opinion. He refuses to focus on the crisis at hand, which is the economy, arguing, unpersuasively to me, that we need immediately to fix all sorts of problems, both large and small, instead.
We need to get the basic answers to the basic economic problems FIRST. Then we can argue about health care, education, etc.
This is not a matter of walking and chewing gum. No one is saying a president should only do one thing at a time. Obviously, Obama can not ignore Chinese muscle-flexing of its coast, for example, because he is dealing with the economy. However, some matters can wait for major moves until the issues related to the economy that need immediate attention (those proposals from Treasury we are waiting to have detailed) are given the attention they desperately need.
Using FDR fighting a depression and war simultaneously is not the best example the president could have chosen. The depression had been going on for quite some time when WWII came along, and circumstances dictated our entrance into that war (Pearl Harbor, I think they called it *G*). FDR did not say, while we’re putting the New Deal into place, let’s lay into the Nazis as well.
Sometimes you have no choice but to fight a two-front war. But if you are making the decisions, only a fool would chose to open up too many fronts simultaneously if it can be avoided. Why not deal with health care in the second half of 2009 and education reform in early 2010? I am not saying they should never be addressed; I am saying wait until we have a handle on crisis #1 and know what financial and human resources we can bring to bear in dealing with those issues.
In the meantime, let’s get our team in place at Treasury and elsewhere; let’s give the Congress, the business community, and most importantly the American public an opportunity to catch their breathe; let’s stop insisting that every issue is of equal urgency. Learn to prioritize, please.