Report Card: Obama, Press Both Do Well in Presidential News Conference

Obama gets an A-.
He was pretty good. I prefer speeches though.

Obamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When this guy speaks he makes ALL the republicans look like 2nd graders.
Jindal
Steele
McCain
Palin
and of course that idiot bush.

A+ for Obama! Not sure about the press just yet. Depends on how bad their analysts screw up. I’m not watching CNN now that the elections are over. Campbell Brown has infected the others with her republican illogical “passion”. ABC new’s Tapper is infecting this news org, too. If Levine, Plante and Hannity stop yapping on the ABC news radio, I might watch ABC news. For now, there’s no need to watch because everyone knows all we’ll get are republican/right-wing talking points non-sense.
Keep the faith, George. ABC news will make a come-back once they realize that Americans aren’t about the drama.
A+ for George and A+ for Obama.

Obama is still a total looser…. I give him an F for tonite!!!

Keep dreaming Georgie, Obama looked stupid tonight
You can spin all you want for your little democrat friend.. but even Jake tapper had him stuttering and the Cnn reporter really put him in his place
You need to keep taking Rahms phone calls for your briefing, cuz obama number fall big time after tonight after all his lies about the middle class

Kudos to President Obama!!!!
Thank you for having a PLAN FOR AMERICA!!!!!!

What? Were you all watching the same press conference I was watching? He answered nothing. Side step the questions. Mumble and stumbled. Rambled on and on.

actually it passes the muster test. when your sink’s flooded and clogged what do you do? don’t you put in more water in a more forceful way? now i agree that if we’re gonna make all these investments in healthcare, energy and education, we need a whole makeover of the budget, not just trimming it. we need to make painful cuts in medicaid and medicare, not for this year but projecting for say 5 years from now.
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didn’t get to watch the primetime newser in it’s entirety. i had friends over who wanted to jam and i could only ask them to tone it down so many times. which is why im here. why the heck do we only have snippets everywhere? i freakin know every website in the dc establishment. none’s got a full take on it? im highly disinclined to take someone else’s word for what he talked about. i wanna see the ed henry smackdown as well in its full capacity. lol

Well, atleast we have Obama not BUSH-ED. I am sure we will see better days pretty soon

How does incurring huge debt and 40+ days of political disaster after political disaster rate a positive spin like this?
This is nuts.

President Obama seemed very knowledgable about the economic crisis and exuded confidence in his plan to rescue it. I am unsure about what the right thing to do is but I am willing to give the POTUS a chance.

Stephanopoulos, you and Matthews need to quit humping Obama’s legs.

Feel free to keep blaming the Dems, but Bush also ran deficits the first 6 years of his presidency when he had a Republican Congress.

The slobering media comes thru for Obama again!

I was totally amazed at some of the questions that were asked of this President. One was about spending the grandchildren’s future. If this persons grand kids had been on that bridge that collapsed in Minnesota they would have been screaming for infrastructure repair. 19 more republican senate seats on the ballot in 2010. Only one worth saving is Arlen Specter’s.

George when it comes to Obama I see you’re still buying lip balm by the gross. Most of the questions were pre planned softball questions. Hats off to Jake Tapper and the reporter from CNN for asking the best questions of the campaign speech, I mean press conference. Obama’s our first president with training wheels and I’m beginning to wonder if they’ll ever come off.

I don’t know how anyone could objectively
give him an A on this press conference.
It was boring and he was his usual evasive
self – prompter and all. Anyone who
cannot see through these budget number
is seriously mentally challenged!!

Obama is in way over his head!!!!!

With all the respect, ABC should not use George Stephanopoulos reporting, he can be a polotical professor at somewhere like Berkeley but come on, this is national media, where is the balance. When I read this report I kind of stop at the very first line, “the president hit his mark tonight”, that pretty much said it all what George was about to say.

more crow for republicans…will it ever end?
lets hope not!

President Obama is really doing an excellent job. Finally a president that understands the situation and plans for it.
Thank you

The President could go a long way towards restoring my confidence by releasing a copy of his original birth certificate instead of the recently generated abstract. Openness? Transparency? Why would he send lawyers into court to block release of this very basic document? It only leads one to wonder what he is hiding.

I was thankful that somebody asked about stem cells. I was getting really bored of every single answer being about the economy and creating jobs even when it wasn’t an economy question. I am an Obama supporter, BTW.

It was a great press conference. Gawd, I’ve missed having a leader to admire.

Obama does a fantastic job of projecting confidence through his demeanor and speaking ability. In regards to his outlook on the economy, however; we are not sure that things are improving. The economic heads are doing their best to manipulate the market. Maybe the best thing we can do / should have done is allow the market to work itself out rather than trying to outsmart it…

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.” and with perseverance our President and the American will be sucessful, the president is leading the american global economy in the right direction, he will hit the mark and sucess will follow.

President Obama is an excellent communicator. Never in such a long time have we had such a leader who can think and speak well on their feet. The two reporters’ questions about race and speaking out earlier about AIG were wasteful opportunities to ask important questions. But the President handled his response very well. I loved the “think before you speak” reply.

George, I think the President handled the issues well. What I found a little disconcerting is the fact that newspaper journalists were underrepresented out of the twelve journalist who were called upon to ask questions. While I applaud the president in diversifying the list of journalist who got to ask questions, I believe that he can show more support to newspapers as they struggle to maintain their place in American folklore.

Had to think about the press conference.
First, are all reporters plants now?
Second, how in the hell can you look at Medicare, Medicaid, the VA Hospital system, the FDA, and any other U.S. Federal Government health agency’s budgetary and performance history and conclude that it knows anything about lowering cost and improving service?
Government’s only incentive by its very nature is to grow and grow and grow. It will not save cost because it has no incentive to save cost. It’s only incentive is self perpetuation and growth. That is its history and all Obama will do is give that tendency crack in the form of more revenue.
The only way you could actually believe an of the prognostications he gave tonight would be if you totally forgot history.

Green Job = a non-cost effective employment title for position established in the name of a perceived environmental benefit, requiring no discernable skills, and which would not exist in the absence of significant taxpayer subsidies.

Fed’s Bernanke and Treasury’s Geithner flatly reject call from Chinese central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan (left) to drop the dollar as the world’s key reserve currency.
• Obama says no need for global currency
• Hong Kong could peg to yuan (WSJ.com)

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures
Recently posted at The Heritage site.
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/
Excellent! Favorited!

The reason ABC won’t publish my opinion on here is because they are terrorist media. Your time is near the end moron traitors.

Mr. Obama, explain how it will work when you are giving billions of dollars to financial institutions, the american peoples credit is ruined and you seem to expect us to believe that these financial institutions are going to give us loans?? Wake up you crooks. It would have been better to let them fail and call it even across the board with their creditors. We the people are the ones who can fix the problem and only us, yet your ignorant thought process or greed….because it’s one or the other, is the problem. Wake up and use your head.

“To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.

Why don’t u dumm axx stop your “Bush really screwed us” stuff you ain’t buying any credit for Bama neither.

Obama gave me change… Change in my pocket instead of Dollars.. I can not wait to see were this Socialism takes us.. I hope we all get to were Red Uniforms. Trash men get the Same wages as Executives.. go Obama. can’t wait to see whats next. take away bonuses give it to welfare…yepee. go to college have ambitious so you can support 5 others that do not want to work.

Yep we never saw this in Bush. 3 trillion in 1 month. Give him more time then we will become United Shang Hai

Those who have nothing better to say about OUR OUTSTANDING PRESIDENT are either simply haters or idiots. And, if you are a die hard republican you should look back at recent history and shut up because it WAS your policies that mainly base on stupid idiology that almost brought this greaty country to its knees.

I thought the president did an a-1 job covered everything he needed to handled all the questions, he has had to deal with more problems in 2 months-than most presidents do in the first 4 years.. he has my confidence,,

Obama’s performance was characteristically solid. As for the press corps, they were unimpressive. I think even the public is getting tired of hearing about AIG by now.

Best example was Barry’s response to that question on whether his spending orgy is hypocritical given his calls to not pass on our problems to future generations. First off, he blamed Republicans for being hypocritical even though his budgets are worse by a factor of 10, then he riffed on why the CBO estimates are worse than his (they are both outrageous) and then he wrapped up with a warning that we won’t get any growth unless we invest in energy, education and healthcare. All the time, the moron journalist who asked the question was bobbing his head like one of ththose bobble-headed doggies you see on dashboards. Investing more in education is the answer? We pour more money into education than any other country on the planet. The press corps is a disgrace.

We have made a grave mistake putting him in office. I regret falling for his BS.
ha. Like we’re supposed to believe you voted for him? Try again.

George. You sound pretty silly. The press were weak. They barely touched on the hottest topic — the connections between Wall Street and Washington. AIG bonuses are important, but nothing compared to the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS being poured on WALL STREET firms.

O and BOB you’re an IDIOT. YES we went to war get over it. If you’re all about connecting dots then how about connecting with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 BOTH signed into law by one WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON. GET A CLUE!

temper: if we are investing so much money in education..from the evidence on these blogs..we are definately not getting the bang for our bucks and need an overhaul..my rating for bloggers a..1

Ok I was just venting…but in all seriosuness Arachnae…I’m honestly curious, exactly what solid facts did you come away from that mess with? What did you learn about Obama and our economy (which is the issue) that you can repeat later in intelligent conversation?

The Ginsu Knife Economic Program: Hard to believe you can get bailouts and mortgage relief and free healthcare and improved education for only three trillion dollars? But wait! There’s more!
There’s the interest payments on the money we borrowed! There’s the hidden cost to increasing taxes on productive businesses! There’s the savaging of the census and apportionment and voting from letting a crooked organization handle census-taking!
Now how much would you pay?
no, how much will you pay.

//www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,6866,00.html#3_0
PICTURE OF THE HIDDEN TELEPROMPTER IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM
why does he need a teleprompter at a press conference? Oh, nevermind.

“why does he need a teleprompter at a press conference? Oh, nevermind.”
T – what’s really impressive is that it’s a TELEPATHIC teleprompter. It would HAVE to be to be able to guess what questions the press were going to ask and have answers prepared in advance. Since it’s a Given (among the Fox News Watchers, at least) that of course Obama can’t speak extemporaneously.
Sheesh.

Seriously – what should the American people be asked to SACRIFICE? You mean other than their retirement and their houses and their college educations??
Yes i agree, and that exact comment was mentioned above by George S. as an obvious softball for Obama to do what he does best: Public speaker for groups in need of help.
My issue is that we need someone with knowledge that doesn’t lend itself to the skill set he has. Everytime he speaks I worry because i think he honestly believes to his core that he’s doing what’s best. But the NUMBERS do not add up. WE HAVE NO MONEY TO SPEND. That’s my issue and it’s bi-partisan and it’s valid for every American tax payer.

So, The Obama wants to cut off the mortgage interest deduction for responsible Americans and bail out the losers?
Money for the needy, not for the greedy. Give us your house….or else we will send protesters to your door

Give Stephanopoulos, who is, by the way, a Democratic apologist, an A- for being totally wrong on the hour of Obamaganda!

The Economic Crisis cause:
Jimmy Carter (democrat) 1977 CRA act
Bill Clinton (Democrat) 1995-1999 exspansion of the CRA act of 1977 eliminating the ability for banks to expand (grow) unless they gave bad loans to Welfare canidates..(socialism)..
Iraq war did not cause mess it was the CRA act. however, when we took Bagdad in 7 days we had the opportunity to seize the countries assets. but the liberals critized Bush..so we called it a Humanitarian mission.. food for Oil started.. then the Liberals critisized that.. so we started paying $4 for Gas…Thanks Liberals..then the llast 2 years the House and Senate had a majority. All the Economic Problems are DEMOCRATS and now we are going to be 3.6 Trillion in Debt to who? China.. Can’t wait to see Chairman Moew Face on the Red Dollar Bill… We all get to were the same Uniform. under nationalized Banks of China.. Thanks Obama. you get an F and we get a tenimun Square.

Ha: “But the NUMBERS do not add up. WE HAVE NO MONEY TO SPEND.”
Have you not been paying attention? We have to spend money we don’t have; it’s called deficit spending. It’s how we’ve gotten out of every recession since the Great Depression, and it never killed us before.
If we DON’T spend money now, we’ll wallow in a trough of low productivity and high unemployment for years if not decades. It’s a negative feedback loop – when the citizens can’t spend, the government HAS to, because they’re the only entity large enough to handle the debt.
People who get in a swivet about deficit spending don’t understand where money comes from. Google “money as debt” and watch the animated video by Paul Grignon – ALL money starts as debt.
And if you’re so concerned about money we don’t have, were you similarly concerned when we were (and are) sending billions a week into the bottomless pit in Iraq?

this is funny…. the reason bush didn’t enforce anything is because he himself with the unknowingly aid of U.S troops in afganistan, used our troops coffins to smuggle massive loads of heroin. they didn’t get inpected and always had a guard on them. BUSH is a huge drug lord and I wish to expose him!!!!!! I have a good idea of how this whole system works and I asure you… BUSH DID USE OUR FLAGGED DRAPPED SOLDIERS COFFINS TO MOVE LOADS OF HEROIN SO THAT MASSIVE PHARMACUTICAL LABS COULD THEN CREATE THE MASSIVE LEVELS OF THESE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AT LITTLE OR NO COST AT ALL….. THATS’ THE REASON PICTURES NOR THE MEDIA WAS EVER ALLOWED TO TAKE PICTURES….
JUST THINK ABOUT IT…. HOW MANY COFFINS CAME EMPTY DUE TO THE FACT THAT IED’S AND VBIED’S WOULD TEAR MY BROTHERS IN ARMS INTO SHREDDS… NOW I’M FROM THE BORDER OF TEXAS AND I’M A WAR VETERAN…. I ASURE YOU… I KNOW A DRUG LORD WHEN I SEE ONE!!!! HE USED OUR SOLDIERS AND ALLOWED PRIVATE MERCENARY COMPANIES AID THE THE KILLINGS OF OUR TROOPS… THEY ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE!!!!

ROFLMAO!!! Good one Arachnae except you didn’t think it through. People dieing is called reality. Logan’s Run was a film based on the results of government run healthcare and the choices they force on their citizens! BRILLIANT! And 13 would be a completely illogical age, more like 26.

Tempest,
You are a borderline psychopath with a penchant for political hallucinations.

People dieing is called reality.
People dying of treatable causes is called third-world poverty, which you seem to want us to emulate.

T,
you don’t get it. The health care system as it is creates enormous drag on our economy because of huge inefficiencies and other problems like forced bankruptcies, tying up people’s disposable incomes, etc.

What you call a “bottomless pit” I call the blossom of democratic freedom bought with the blood and tears of people w/ character you cannot even fathom…But hey, tomatoe tomotoe right?
I dispise debt and pay cash for everything (including car and home) and I only have a highschool diploma. I work for what I have and therefore value my possessions. He has no value for the money he’s spending because it’s not his and he doesn’t have to pay it back. Therefore, he’s spending indiscriminately on w/e his “experts” think might work. BIG MISTAKE

Arachnae,
They ARE from another planet.
Chess,
good point, but the MSM is not going to touch that one. That’s why the real news is happening on the blogs.

this is funny…. the reason bush didn’t enforce anything is because he himself with the unknowingly aid of U.S troops in afganistan, used our troops coffins to smuggle massive loads of heroin. they didn’t get inpected and always had a guard on them. BUSH is a huge drug lord and I wish to expose him!!!!!! I have a good idea of how this whole system works and I asure you… BUSH DID USE OUR FLAGGED DRAPPED SOLDIERS COFFINS TO MOVE LOADS OF HEROIN SO THAT MASSIVE PHARMACUTICAL LABS COULD THEN CREATE THE MASSIVE LEVELS OF THESE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AT LITTLE OR NO COST AT ALL….. THATS’ THE REASON PICTURES NOR THE MEDIA WAS EVER ALLOWED TO TAKE PICTURES….
JUST THINK ABOUT IT…. HOW MANY COFFINS CAME EMPTY DUE TO THE FACT THAT IED’S AND VBIED’S WOULD TEAR MY BROTHERS IN ARMS INTO SHREDDS… NOW I’M FROM THE BORDER OF TEXAS AND I’M A WAR VETERAN…. I ASURE YOU… I KNOW A DRUG LORD WHEN I SEE ONE!!!! HE USED OUR SOLDIERS AND ALLOWED PRIVATE MERCENARY COMPANIES AID THE THE KILLINGS OF OUR TROOPS… THEY ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE!!!!

I take exception to those who say we don’t have the money. Government still has to spend money irregardless of our deficits. Corporations and people are still being subsidized. Defense spending is still being done. NASA is still sending astrounauts to space.
Perhaps you mean that even cutting spending we don’t have the money. Again, I think this is fundamentally incorrect. We subsidize oil companies to reduce the actual costs of gas(which benefits foreign countries instead of us), we subsidize international corps so that they hire folks in the U.S., hey we even pay agribusinesses to lower their costs of our food. We spend lots of money, the question is what should we spend our money on? Look, if you want to know what is important to someone, take a look at what he spends his money on, right?
If you think that major changes in our governments priorities doesn’t include healthcare, green energy, and education reform just say so but, don’t use the deficit as an excuse. It’s simply nonsense.
Just tell me you don’t want to spend money on Obama’s plan but, don’t try and prey on a person’s ignorance.

Mandatory Servitude aka slavery I thought the US fought a civil war against that?
House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill
The House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force” intensify.
The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate.
Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, the legislation states that a commission will be set up to investigate, “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed,
and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”
Section 120 of the bill also discusses the “Youth Engagement Zone Program” and states that “service learning” will be “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency”.
“The legislation, slated to cost $6 billion over five years, would create 175,000 “new service opportunities” under AmeriCorps, bringing the number of participants in the national volunteer program to 250,000. It would also create additional “corps” to expand the reach of volunteerism into new sectors, including a Clean Energy Corps, Education Corps, Healthy Futures Corps and Veterans Service Corps, and it expands the National Civilian Community Corps to focus on additional areas like disaster relief and energy conservation,” reports Fox News.
“The bill’s opponents — and there are only a few in Congress — say it could cram ideology down the throats of young “volunteers,” many of whom could be forced into service since the bill creates a “Congressional Commission on Civic Service,” reports Fox.
“We contribute our time and money under no government coercion on a scale the rest of the world doesn’t emulate and probably can’t imagine,” said Luke Sheahan, contributing editor for the Family Security Foundation. “The idea that government should order its people to perform acts of charity is contrary to the idea of charity and it removes the responsibility for charity from the people to the government, destroying private initiative.”
infowars.com/house-passes-mandatory-national-service-bill/
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“There is even a provision in the bill for uniforms.”Of course.
Let the indoctrination begin.

altlic the public should be free to pay for the health care they want and need Not what the government dictates. My mother should not be denied health care just because some government drone thinks she no longer is of worth to society.

WHY would Obama need a few days to know what he was talking about?? Didn’t he pay attention on a day to day basis to what Geitner and Dodd were doing???

SORRY DIDN’T MEAN TO POST SO MANY TIMES… IT’S JUST THAT I TRIED TO POST IN IN THE DRUG NEWS REPORT, BUT COULDN’T SO I PUT IT HERE INSTEAD…. NO JACK, arachnae, I don’t need treatment retard… it’s just that chumps like you are just so dumb!!!!
if it don’t apply, don’t reply!

D, apology accepted, but you sound like another conspiracy nut.

d,
iraq war? not sure what your point is.

T,
again, the cult of individuality. That’s why our health care is rated behind most other first world nations. It’s the illusion of freedom. The same way, GOP ideology says “we are free to become rich” even while their party leaders grind the common folk into the ground.

altic,
sorry, I misread your post. disregard that note.
I wonder if we are wasting too much time on these idiots that brought the Bush regime to office and kept them there for 8 years.

Ha: “I dispise debt and pay cash for everything (including car and home) and I only have a highschool diploma. I work for what I have and therefore value my possessions. He has no value for the money he’s spending because it’s not his and he doesn’t have to pay it back. ”
You’re making a common mistake in equating the government with a kind of super-household that has to conform to the commonsense rules for an individual. In fact, government evolved because society needed a mechanism to do things that individuals working in their own best interests would not accomplish.
For instance, you might be willing to chip in to build a road from your house to your place of business, or to the market where you could sell your goods. You MIGHT be unwilling to chip in for the road between your town and a town a few miles away, even though such a road would be in your ultimate best interest in increasing trade. Similarly, someone without children might be unwilling to help pay for a school, even though everyone benefits from an educated populace. (You might say you personally would be willing to sacrifice your own money for these future benefits, but you have to agree not everyone would be willing to.)
WRT debt – what if your roof was leaking? The cost to fix it now is $5000, which you don’t currently have, because you just invested in some home improvements. If left unattended, the leak will cause significantly more damage, costing perhaps tens of thousands of dollars to fix. Do you a.) take out a loan and fix the roof now? or b.) let the roof continue leaking while saving up for the repairs, keeping in mind that the ongoing damage may be outstripping your rate of savings?

altlic those stats are false. for example what does obesity have to do with the rating of a health care system? Weight is an individual choice. Also, infant mortality in most other countries are not counted if the newborn dies within five days of birth. The rating system you are talking about is a big lie to make people thing our health care system is inferior.
If you think a health care system like Cuba is so good, go ahead and go there and see how you are treated if you are not in a politically favored group.
Basically, the leftists like Obama all believe in a Master/Slave setup. There should be
a permanent ‘ruling’ class, and everyone else is subject to their
dictates. What many of Obama’s supporters do not realize is that they are absurdly foolish to believe they’ll end up being in
the ruling class once the revolution is over.
Just ask millions of Chinese ‘intellectuals’.
What it all comes down to is freedom versus tyranny. think about it.

Atlic – I was responding to a comment a different idiot made. Now i have a new one…YOU! Do we all need to pull together in these hard and trying times so that the little David can stand up against the big bad Goliath evil business man? YOU SIR ARE THE VERY DEFINITION OF A SUCKER. I have a highschool diploma and I have plenty of money and do realistically plan on achieving independent wealth in the next decade. Work hard, work smart, get rewarded. Now the problem is too many people wanna whine and blame others because they thought they were working smart and hard…well are you? If you have nothing to show for it then clearly one of the two or both are lacking..goodnight.

altlic, Problem with your premise is that you assume that President’s Obama’s concept of universal health care will provide everyone even a poor homeless person with the health care he needs. Quite the contrary, the State will be making the determination on who gets what health care if any based on their worth to the collective as a whole. Thus the State can decide that you or a poor homeless person is worthless to the cohesive whole and deemed unworthy to receive any health care what so ever. Keep in mind that the government that is given the power to provide everything also has the power to take what ever they elect to away.

The United States of Red China…

altlic SUV, Food, control of my thermostat, life and death ETC ETC ETC yes that is important to me and it has nothing to do with “consumerism” it has to do with FREEDOM. Do you really want Obama to control all of that? That is most certainly NOT what the Founders had in mind.

altlic It is all about an autocratic government controlling all aspects of our lives which is what you and your hero Obama appear to be all about.

Sam,
You are taking it to the extreme. Democracy is very hard to define because it is a mix of many things – mixed economy, mixed class structure, mixed ideologies, skepticism and trust. If it’s going to work there has to be balance. It’s ongoing. I just think that Americans are addicted to personal freedoms in a distorted and destructive way.

I am extremely weary of seeing Obama on everything, everywhere. He is an obvious egomaniac who thinks if he appears in the media as often as possible, he’ll fool all of the people all of the time. Mr. Obama, you’ve never fooled me. The only “change” I’ll believe in is when you leave town in disgrace. You’ve been on the job for two months and you’re already an obvious disaster. George W. Bush is somewhere smiling right now!

Sam,
Here’s your freedoms: free speech, free speech and the right of assembly… and free speech. If you think you are free to buy Skippy instead of Jif peanut butter, then you have been sold a lie.

Obama was a DISGRACE tonight. I listened to the entire thing and had to rewind some parts because I couldn’t believe what he had just said. Especially the one about how he “likes to know what he is talking about”
This guy is a joke.

Sam,
Not. Look at your buddy, T, he’s the one who wants to put the peasants in power. I am addicted to the concept of democracy, which is known to thrive as a mixed economy, etc. See above.
YOUR ideology appears to have led to the rape of this country’s middle class by an all-powerful plutocracy. Capitalism should not be a religion.

T,
And there it is. We are back where you started. Whoops – careful you don’t drool on your keyboard there.

This guy is such a bafoon that he can’t even go to press conference without his lucky teleprompter.
And ABC is so in the tank that George is writing about the new telepropmter and saying how great it was.
If Obama was to be impeached or die in office who would replace him? Biden or his teleprompter??

All I want to know is, how did Obama get anything above a C? He was total crap. How many “ugh”s did you guys here. It made W cringe.

GREAT point by JON!!

Don’t bother SAM, ALTLIC is a fool. He won’t actually debate you or answer your question, he’ll just spin things around and try to confuse people into thinking he’s smart. Sound familiar anyone?????

Good job ALTLIC!! Don’t actually answer ANY question or fire off ANY comeback. Just call us all morons and leave. You’re a punk.

Can anybody see my posts??? I think ABC might have censored me. What a shocker.

Anybody see this?

Hey JL! you do know the fairness doctrine was only about Radio right??? If you threw in TV the left would be done!! The MSM is totally the tank for Obama. Fool

So ALTLIC, I’m seeing basically NO posts from you that make any sense at all. I’ll give you an easy question. How would you rate Obama tonight? And if you rate him good, why? I rate him around a D because he failed to answer ANY questions and he stuttered more than W in his drinking days.

Hey Ryan, it’s just you and the boogyman, dude. Kinda spooky, huh?

I’m always amazed at how Obama gets away with stuff that would have the Dems screaming if W did the same.
Chuckling at the problems with the economy?
Constant use of a teleprompter?
Appearing on Leno and making fun of special needs people??
What’s up people!?

Once again, it is not what they say, its all about how they say it. He is an amoral piece of trash without a backbone, like 80% of all Americans.

He gets an A for reading off a teleprompter? OMG, talk about lowering the standards for this moron.

Tom and PresGov,
You need to see the Letterman video about Obama’s teleprompter use. Letterman did a funny piece about it.
That talking point of yers is gettin’ old.

If Obama and his loyal media can keep the American people believing that his turning a $1 trillion deficit into a $9 trillion deficit (over 10 years) is George Bush’s fault, that will be a miracle. Maybe he is the messiah after all.

What I find most refreshing with his news conference is a harkening back to presidents who speak with a significant degree of apparent intelligence. Instead of rushing to change channels I actually enjoy the proper use of syntax. Oh, yeah – I remember – words that actually have meaning and some context – A- – yes.

President Obama was awesome; he was very clear and focused. I give him an A+. I was so glad he smacked down that little weasel Ed Henry and put him in his place. I am sick and tired of every move Obama makes being criticized and questioned. He can’t even get out of bed without some Republican or reporter attacking him for getting out of bed on the wrong side. It is disrespectful and mean spirited. Go Obama! He is doing an excellent job of fixing the economic mess he inherited.

Very boring and I wish he would get off his high horse and taking prime time slots….he doesn’t answer questions, he talks them to death until you forget what was asked…George you really need to get a grip, pretty soon you’ll be feeling tingles going up your leg…practice a little objectivity!

I want my vote back :(

I cannot believe we still have fools running around harping about president Obama’s birth certificate. Only a person with an extremely low IQ would believe our system of checks to weed out fraud and vet eligible candidates for the highest office in the land is open to non-citizens and terrorist. I think we should check Sarah Palin’s birth certificate and her babies to make sure he his really hers and not her daughters.

George, how can you even begin to give him an A-. Several news agencies reporting the press conference was just boring. AP reporting that several facts were just not correct. And Obama totally bypassed Jake Trapper’s question on the budget! What a joke! How do you expect us “little people” to have any respect for your news organization. Do you really think we are all that stupid????

Really Steponallofus, you should quit while you’re ahead. An “A”???
Did Steponallofus catch the part of the speech where Obama said the time of massive debt is over and it is time for financial responsibility. Obama then wants to borrow 3,600,000,000,000.00 and pass the massive debt to our future children.
To that, Steponallofus gives Obama an “A”????
How many questions acutally got real answers? And Steponallofus still gives him an “A”.
One would think that Steponallofus works for the administration or something.

I keep wondering why the press hasn’t noticed that by acting surprised about the bonus money means that 0bama did not read the bill he signed into law. That’s his job. He didn’t do his job, didn’t read the bill, and signed a bill he didn’t read into the force of law. Only a president can do that and a real president actually reads something he’s going to put into law.It’s not a Republican/Democrat thing it is a sure sign of his incompetence and nobody seems to notice.

Hey GL:
Why do you have to accuse people of being racist? Get over it.
The fact is: No matter what color Obama is.. he is an incompetent and unexperienced President. Why do the American people have to have a president who needs training wheels?

George…
Wish I had you for a Prof in grad school. If that was an A- performance than I would have been the valedictorian of my class…and perhaps a biased TV news commentator!
The Professor

The press conference was moderate. President Obama stood his ground although he did mumble and side-step some questions or use the same example for multiple questions. What he couldn’t avoid was his plan of major government take-over of priate firms. A- is too generous, B- is more like it.

“Why didn’t President Obama express outrage about AIG bonuses sooner, CNN’s Ed Henry asked. Obama: “Because I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak.” Okay, then. ”
If he had read the bill he signed into law he would have known what he was talking about long before the press did!
You seem to think it is OK that he didn’t read what he signed. Is that your opinion? He wanted to know what he was talking about so he read the bill after the press broke the story??
Are you serious?

I like the way he talks, but I REALLY like the way he thinks!

George Stephanopoulos
Would you be so competent, and non partisan as to investigate why Obama (Mr Transparency, and Change) has elected to seal his birth certificate,college admissions records, and campaign donor list, at a time when his eligibility has been in question for months?
I mean really, who seals their birth certificate,, and school records,capmpaign donor list unless their is something to hide?

I appreciate the calm assurance and confidence of the President. I am impressed with the depth and range he can speak on an array of subjects. From my life experience, the words persistance, patience and I would add perserverance are vital to creating…without those ingredients, don’t bother….it will not manifest. I urge the press and the critics to calm down…take the charge off and step up to the plate to support what is good, right, necessary and timely for the American people. or at least the majority. Tearing down, feeding frenzies, leader bashing diminish the tone, stature and resposibilty of my country…

“Surprisingly, not a single question tonight about Iraq or Afghanistan. When’s the last time that happened at a full-blown presidential press conference?”
makes perfect sense when you remember that the swell media is like a soccer game for 6 year olds, all chasing the ball, or a bunch of jackdaws intent on the next shiny thing.

Dont Be Jealous Republicans on Board Because Obama Makes the Republicans look like 1st Graders hahah lololol Maybe you guys Can get Jindal! AKA as Mr Rogers. The Guy who cant even use a teleprompter hahahah hahahah Lol

We have wars in Afhganistan and Iraq and other real world problems to think of and I am also surprised the press didn’t ask about it. Then again they have always thrown him softballs.
How long can he whine about all of the problems he inherited without addressing what he did in Congress and what has failed and why he can’t read the bills he signs into law.
That is his job. Maybe he thinks parties every night, flying to Denver to sign a huge spending bill, flying to the West coast to appear on a comedy show are more important than reading what he signed. I think reading the bills you sign into law should be the highest priority of an Executive.

This president is going to sign a lot of things that are going to fix problems and also cause controversy at the same time. He will compromise from time to time. I can accept that.I will not like all his decisions.Overall thusfar I’m convinced he is focused on the greater good of this nation. He is NOT a republican. Therefore those conservatives that want him to come up with legislation they agree with, I feel they are wasting their time and breath.Their time is over and now we are going to have a more democratic backed policy administration. Why would Obama not focus on getting his agenda across?Didn’t Bush do just that the past eight years.Why would Obama need to bend to republican will? That’s just dumb.Bush said when he had a republican majority that he had political capital that he intended to spend.I expect this president to do the same.This is why I and over 60 million Americans volunteered and voted for him to get elected to do.They called democrats obstructionists when they were in the minority so why are they so surprised when fate has been reversed? Like my president says, Why would we continue the same failed polices of the past that put us in this mess.All most republicans do is complain and lie about wanting to work with this president.A republican’s main goal is to cut taxes for the well to do. Obama is a threat to that.Finally the average American has a president that is concerned and working to make their lives a little easier.The greedy and or ignorant fail to understand and appreciate that

“Finally the average American has a president that is concerned and working to make their lives a little easier.The greedy and or ignorant fail to understand and appreciate that”
Our lives did not become easier when he signed billions in spending without reading it and is surprised to learn _from the press_ that bonus money he signed on to will be paid.
I can accept that the best thing you can say about him is he is not a Republican. That is so very assuring.

He is a genuine, honest, intelligent president and we are lucky to have him and not some idiot republican.

Rebecca,
Are you on drugs or something?
Yes, you are definitely doped up.

Gee what did we expect from just
about the only ex-Clinton aide not
yet appointed by the president to
his administration(Bill Richardson was
appointed but dropped out).
Although I guess being the whitewash
man in the press for the Obama
administration is a good gig!
George pretends he’s an unbiased
journalist and spouts the administation’s talking points on a
daily basis while thowing in a few
pats on the back in between.

FoxSux:
I guess you’re drinking a lot of
Obama Kool Aid!
If he’s such a great speaker why does
Obama need the teleprompter all the
time! Does he need a dress rehearsal
too?

He cant answer a question. He skirts around issues and never properly answers a question. He only has one thing on his mind, passing his huge budget and sendign this country into huge debt. And thanks to the person who mentioned the next generation inheriting this debt. If he gave more direct and shorter answers it wouldnt have been nearly as boring. But Obama has always been like that, without his faithful teleprompter he sounds very boring.

so shame on you george for giving him an “a”

“Most people do trust the president, it is the press and talk show hosts who think they know everything who are trying to undermine him.”
LOL !!!!!
Now according to the lefties, “the media” is part of the new vast right wing conspiracy”!!!!
Wow, are these people recently lobotomized ?
Angie, hows that host program for a liberal brain REALLY working out for you?

The “professor” just cant help himself. He sees the presidency as the ultimate teaching job & the entire country is now his classroom.
He reminds me of a math professor I once had who would take the class half way through a problem, the say “from here it is intuitively obvious that the answer is…..”
He wanders all over the place and even when a simple question is given to him, he cant resist go off into lecture mode!
Jake Tapper asked hin “Will you sign a budget if it does not contain a middle-class tax cut, does not contain cap-and- trade?”
now after all his blabbering about that middle class tax cut, THIS ONE WAS THE ULTIMATE SOFTBALL !
BUT….the “professor” just couldn’t restrain himself to a simple answer!
He had make sure he hit on all thoser talking points again!
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I’ve emphasized repeatedly what I expect out of this budget. I expect that there’s serious efforts at health care reform, and that we are driving down costs for families and businesses, and ultimately for the federal and state governments that are going to be broke if we continue on the current path. I’ve said that we’ve got to have a serious energy policy that frees ourselves from dependence on foreign oil and makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy. We’ve got to invest in education, K through 12 and beyond, to upgrade the skills of the American worker so we can compete in — in the international economy. And I’ve said that we’ve got to start driving our deficit numbers down.
Now, we never expected, when we printed out our budget, that they would simply Xerox it and vote on it. We assume that it has to go through the legislative process. I have not yet seen the final product coming out of the Senate or the House, and we’re in constant conversations with them. I am confident that the budget we put forward will have those principles in place.
When it comes to the middle-class tax cut, we already had that in the recovery. We know that that’s going to be in place for at least the next two years. We had identified a specific way to pay for it. If Congress has better ideas in terms of how to pay for it, then we’re happy to listen.
When it comes to cap-and-trade, the broader principle is that we’ve got to move to a new energy era. And that means moving away from polluting energy sources towards cleaner energy sources.
That is a potential engine for economic growth. I think cap-and-trade is the best way, from my perspective, to achieve some of those gains, because what it does is it starts pricing the pollution that’s being sent into the atmosphere. The way it’s structured, it has to take into account regional differences. It has to protect consumers from huge spikes in electricity prices. So there are a — a lot of technical issues that are going to have to be sorted through.
Our point in the budget is, let’s get started now. We can’t wait. And my expectation is that the energy committees, or other relevant committees in both the House and the Senate, are going to be moving forward a strong energy package. It’ll be authorized. We’ll get it done. And I will sign it. Okay?
TAPPER: So is that a yes, sir? You’re willing to sign a budget that doesn’t have those two provisions?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: No; I — what I said was — is I haven’t seen yet what provisions are in there. The bottom line is — is that I want to see health care, energy, education and serious efforts to reduce our budget deficit. And there are going to be a lot of details that are still being worked out. But I have confidence that we’re going to be able to get a budget done that’s reflective of what needs to happen in order to make sure that America grows.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU NEGATIVE PEOPLE!?! You should go directly to a mirror to see exactly what’s wrong with the United States of America…YOU!!! Would you rather have GWB back spying on you illegally, passing “partisan” bills, giving more tax cuts to the wealthy, hiding in the WH while tent cities are created on the WH lawn, etc. You better get a clue and quickly because if the republicans get their way, we will all be living just as they do in Iraq – hell, they want to run the US just as Saddam Hussein ran Iraq. Republicans think they are GOD and they are always right and no one else knows anything. At least PRESIDENT OBAMA is working, he’s doing MAJOR work and he’s only been in office 2 months. That’s a hellofa lot more POSITIVE work than GWB has ever done in his 8 years. You need to contact your repulsive conservative republicans and tell them to stop acting like 2 year olds and to please stop allowing Bobby Jindal on TV, I pray a moderatly strong wind would appear and blow him away from the cameras and televisions.

I agree with you about Campbell Brown – she sucks!!! If you want to hear the truth when it comes to the Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reily, Fox News, etc. watch MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. They call them out on air and it is WONDERFUL, FUNNY, A VERY NICE CHANGE TO NEWS REPORTING.

This was not a news conferance. it was a staged Obama Production that was boooooooring.

“WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU NEGATIVE PEOPLE!?! You should go directly to a mirror to see exactly what’s wrong with the United States of America…YOU!!! Would you rather have GWB back spying on you illegally, passing “partisan” bills, giving more tax cuts to the wealthy, hiding in the WH while tent cities are created on the WH lawn, etc”
0bama signed on and supported wiretapping, and he voted to hold telecom companies who helped “w” harmless.There have been no bipartisan bills passed since “0″ assumed office and instead of tax cuts to rich Americans it is taxpayers giving billions of dollars away to huge corporations, some of them overseas.Look around you and see the tent cities from the thousands of families homeless since “0″ took over.
I am not the problem, “0″ is and he needs to stop partying, stop flying all over the country and start doing his JOB!
Why can’t you see what a crappy job he’s doing? I never was a fan of “w” and the Congress under Democrats ran the show the last two years he was there.
Why don’t you pay attention to what he isn’t doing and start paying attention to the nonstop White House partying? Can you tell me why he was shocked to learn that a bill he signed into law contained millions in bonus money to the very people that brought AIG to its knees?

The President of the European Union said today that Obama’s economic plan is a “Road to Hell” that will most likely plunge the industrial powers of the world into a severe depression. Why isn’t ABC News investigating this and asking the Obamites why they think the plan will succeed when our international trading partners, the Congressional Budget Office, and most economists agree that it is bound to fail?

to Mr.Cash-WHAT IS WRONG WITH OBAMA,I’ll tell you. All American have faced which are now in historical crisis time as follows;
biggest debts ($13,600,000,000,000.00),
biggest budgets($3,600,000,000,000.00),
biggest printing of money($1,000,000,000,000.00),
biggest expensive of Inauguration,
biggest economic crisis,
biggest chaotic Stock Market in Wall St.
highest rate of unemployeds,
highest rate of foreclosure.
Why don’t you await until economic became steadfast. But first things to do is “STOP PRINTING & BEING SPENDTHRIFT MONEY”

I scored Obama’s conference “D” as he didn’t answer for fact of AIG by Jake of ABC, Ed of CNN and NY Times which many American have been awaited for indispensable and clear fact what’s happened.

I think he did a great job. He is not afraid to stand in front and take questions. That’s more than our previous administration would do. He cannot solve these problems in two months but I truly believe he will straighten it out. However, he will never get the credit he deserves nor the respect. The people that dislike him will still dislsike him because they still can’t believe they lost.

To Obamaall theway- which church you go?
I am going to report the activities in your church to IRS. The act is illegal.
Some Democratic craps, Tim G, Charles Rangle, Eliot Spitzer, Chris Dudd, Rod Blago, Tom Dacshel and illegal immigrant, Auntie of Obama really too much enjoy illegal things.
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“My Fellow Democrats, it’s time to unseat these idiot republicans. We can do this in 2010… Please, pick up the phone, call a neighbor, hold some parties, it’s time to start campaigning to unseat as many of them as possible… PLEASE JOIN US… My church has already started, you guys can too.”
Posted by: Obamaall theway | Mar 25, 2009 3:05:02 PMMy Fellow Democrats, it’s time to unseat these idiot republicans. We can do this in 2010… Please, pick up the phone, call a neighbor, hold some parties, it’s time to start campaigning to unseat as many of them as possible… PLEASE JOIN US… My church has already started, you guys can too.
Posted by: Obamaall theway | Mar 25, 2009 3:05:02 PM

Good Things Come To Those Who Wait

Obama and the Press do good and, the tax payers get screwed. Adding nearly a trillion a year for the next ten years is niether responsible nor moral.
An energy policy that does not include nuclear, natural gas, or more of our own oil will be a disaster. Imposing cap and trade for a made up global warming crises will like wise add to the under tow. Throw the budget out and start over. We need fiscal discipline and spending restraint.

George, George, George….PLEASE
Your still the same little Democrat. You are suppose to be unbiased. You and the media continue to toss the softball questions & comments to the President. You do not follow-up and press him when he side-steps the questions. What gives??? Are you all trying to get cabinet positions? Remember, if you paid your taxes you will not qualify or make his short list. How about addressing the following issues:
#1. Since our elected officials were asleep at the switch and allowed this economical debacle which cost many of us that are within a few short years from retiring, we are unemployed, have lost our jobs and health benefits, our retirement funds have been destroyed by the market… WHAT IS HE DOING FOR US???
I suggest if he cannot find us jobs with benefits and we are going to be forced into early retirement than we should receive full Social Security Benefits as if we were 66, with full health coverage and 100% funds. Why should we penalized again and again???

On the drive home this evening I grew tired of listening to KTRH which is our local Houston outlet for the loudest right wing biggot’s, and hit the seek button to try to find some sensible talk. Pretty much impossible in Houston. I ended up on a show I believe called the “The Lynn Wooley Show”. Turned out to be another right winger, only local I think. It was a call in show and they were speaking of the “tea parties” that supposedly are being organized for April 15th. One caller asked the host, “What is the agenda going to be, what are the subjects to be discussed at these parties?” The host answered “I don’t know”. So if there’s any Republican out there that knows the agenda and plan, would you let your mouth piece’s know. As far as President Obama, I’ll go along with that A- for now.

Take all the money from the current recovery plan and give a million dollars to all the adults US citizen of America. This would stimulate the economy for us and other countries and would promote the creation of many businesses as well as cultivate spending. It would cost less than the current plan in place.
Kibibi Monie’

Dear Mr. President:
First, God bless you and your family. I would love to send you the messagesmy students wrote to you on the day of your election.
My question:
Why we, the average class citizens of this country who contribute regularly on a timely bases to the economy by making all payments, do not get help when in need?
I believe that some of the stimulus money should be granted to the citizens. The banks are getting the money and nothing is being solved. A criteria based on need can be developed so people can apply and start to get some relief from the economic pressure.
I am willing to help.
Sincerely
A teacher and a mother.
Mrs. Zambrano

I wish Obama good luck , I can read his mind and astrology-he will win 2nd term election also after that his wife will President election only one term.

With unemployment on the raise, why are there still corporate minority hiring quotas in order to do business with the goverment?

George, I used to respect you and your work. This is a non-objective, sugar coated piece of sappy journalism. Are you getting paid for promotion? Please, get back to doing your job well.

“Take all the money from the current recovery plan and give a million dollars to all the adults US citizen of America. This would stimulate the economy for us and other countries and would promote the creation of many businesses as well as cultivate spending. It would cost less than the current plan in place.”
BZZZZT! Wrong.
There are more than 300 million citizens in the US. If you give every one of them a million dollars, you have spent 300 TRILLION dollars. The entire US economy is only 14 trillion. Even if you assume only half the population is ‘adult’, that’s 150 trillion dollars. More than ten times the total economy.
For some reason, a significant portion of the population seems to believe that a billion is a million millions. It is not – it is a thousand millions. Learn math, people.
1 million = 1,000,000
1 billion = 1,000,000,000
1 trillion = 1,000,000,000,000

LovingPolitics isn’t handling losing very well.

A minus that is a good grade. One more thing that President Obama is healthcare and improving the World’s Economy.

talmag–”Answer to “D” His agenda is to fix the problems which have been ignored for the last several years. The banks and wall street have been allowed to do whatever they please with no sanctions.
Unemployment has been rising for the last year or so. The economy has been on the downslope for the last two years. So, where was the agenda to fix this before the last two months when he took office?”
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Actually unemployment has only been rising for about the last half year (since the mortgage crisis began having an impact). The problems were not “ignored” for the last several years, they were covered up. The president at the time (Bush) made several appearances before the senate committe on commerce and several republican senators called hearings of the same committe in late 2004 to call attention to the mounting problem. Unfortunately the committe which was chaired and membered by democrats (Barney Frank was the chair) refused to do anything to reregulate the industry. In fact Frank, Dodd, and Waters (all democrats) were accepting 100s of thousnads of dollars in lobby money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and pushing other institutions into successivly more and more lax lending rules and letting Fannie and Freddie “bundle” these loans and sell them at profit. Its not that banks and wall street were allowed to “do whatever they please”, rather.. they were pushed by congressional members to do what Fannie and Freddie told them to do. there was an active “agenda” to fix these things on going for the past two years.. but leading democrats in the senate put up the road blocks to stop it..

George, I am winding down a persuasive/propaganda unit for my 7th graders. Your “comments” are more propaganda than fact. the half-truths, exaggerations, and name calling simply shows your poor journalistic skills. The fact that you were a devoted follower of the Clinton years patently rules you out as one who can be objective when it comes to dealing with democrats and their agendas. Fairness? try it sometime; you might like it.

The president at the time (Bush) made several appearances before the senate committe on commerce
Now they’re just making stuff up. Bush never appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee. Get real.

Repost for clarity:
Arkievet posted: “The president at the time (Bush) made several appearances before the senate committe on commerce”
Now they’re just making stuff up. Bush never appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee. Get real.

Obama just wants people to think he a leader. He’s a very bad actor. He has to read everything he says. Even at that he either can’t read well or the teleprompter is a little too slow. Too many aaaah’s and aaaah look’s. Very annoying to watch and even worse listen to.

I do not smoke weed, but Obamas remark about it displayed his ignorance. Of course legalizing it will not only help the economy, but will destroy the mexican cartels and will have a much larger and faster improvment on our country than anything else these dimwits can come up with, for example giving banks and financial institutions money while these same companies ruin our credit for not having money. Obama has the intel of a rock or he is just as corrupt as they are. Make fun of making weed legal, but it’s ok for the medical institutions to put all sorts of chemicals in our bodies that we don’t need and charge hundreds of dollars for it and not to mention tobacco and alcohol…..wake up Obama you idiot.

The President has taken on an unbelievable myriad of complex issues & problems. It is amazing to me … just how hyper-critical some people can be. First of all, it seems a little premature…wanting answers to problems within 100 days. Just how do we resolve complex issues in our own lives ? It takes time to evaluate, discuss, consider options and then there are the challenges of implementing our plans.
We have all had the experience of naysayers who criticize and downgrade our every effort and idea………..
How nice if each of us could solve all of our problems within 100 days… !!!
..We can do a lot more for ourselves, for our country, and for our president if we just settle down, try to think things thru in a common sense manner, and ALSO try to come up with some ideas and activities that would actually help our country and our fellow citizens. Yes, there are serious problems and we ALL need to do what we can to add a positive and helpful influence.
..Think what happens in our own lives, ..if we remain negative, argumentative, ..look for the worst,and believe that ..nothing is working & place blame on ..everyone & everything around us, then ..the results are not good…………
This attitude applies to our country, and world affairs as well. We can either go forward with a chip on our shoulder or we can try to develop enough inner confidence so that we can begin to work with others constructively………….if we decide to sit back and critique the president and try to seek out every “perceived flaw” or what is “wrong”, then this is a step in the wrong direction and will gain nothing, in fact this path leads toward downfall for all of us.
It is just so easy to “second guess” and sometimes to tear down what others are trying to accomplish. It is much more difficult to actually try to resolve issues and try to build…….
this,however,is much more satisfying in the long run AND does benefit everyone.
ACTUALLY, what would be our score for the first 100 days ????????

Tell me why does the President allow BP to continue pumping oil out of its many other offshore wells when it is clear they are unable to stop an oil spill if another one were to break? Better question still. Why dont we kick BP entirely out of US waters and pump Oil out Ourselves for our country instead of having a middleman?