Obama at Great Wall: It Gives You a Perspective

Very philosophical…, but it is a fact that I do not think reporters are reporting on that Pres. Obama is overthere in hopes of getting some stability on our economic condition and job formation and especially fair trade deals. This he is not getting credit for. I wonder why?
(Important wake-up video, check it out and forward if you too think that it is important for people to know. The Calling – kewego)

Well let’s hope while he is sightseeing that maybe he can gain a little perspective on fixing HIS country. Maybe he needs to quit the jet setting and stay put and try to come up with at least ONE solution to SOMETHING. Say a prayer for our soldiers who are STILL waiting for some kind of a decision as to their mission.

“day to day things that don’t amount to much”-doesn’t that descibe the Obama Presidency in a nutshell?Doesn’t it also descibe the administration’s job creation fables?

Since then, however, a flurry of new polls makes clear that Democrats are facing deeper problems with independents—the swing voters who swung dramatically toward the party in 2006 and 2008 but who now are registering deep unease with the amount of spending and debt called for under Obama’s agenda in an era of one-party rule in Washington.
A Gallup Poll released last week offered a disturbing glimpse about the state of play: just 14 percent of independents approve of the job Congress is doing, the lowest figure all year. In just the past few days alone, surveys have shown Democratic incumbents trailing Republicans among independent voters by double-digit margins in competitive statewide contests in places as varied as Connecticut, Ohio and Iowa.

At his last stop in China, President Obama braved a bone chilling wind to climb three steep segmnts of the Badaling section of the Great Wall Of China
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Will he get the Medal Of Honor for this?

Say a prayer for our soldiers who are STILL waiting for some kind of a decision as to their mission.
Indie | Nov 18, 2009 8:38:40 AM
In the past 9 months, Obama has DOUBLED the number of US troops in Afghanistan. That’s more support than they’ve seen in seven years. And their mission is very clear and unchanged – the only thing that has changed is now it is clearly a priority to the Commander in Chief to properly support it and find a way to bring it to a close.

Mr. President, I can not tell you the pride I felt when I heard you say “tear down this wall”.

Good news:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.
Obama is a smug, smirking con man. Nothing more.

Obama….
The constant lying.
The childish whining.
The disgraceful bowing.
The staggering arrogance.
The poisonous radicalism.
The dangerous narcissism.
The astounding incompetence.
Obama wants to put as much of the private economy under government control as possible to create his nanny state utopia where he is the boy king.
Let’s continue to stand strong against Obama in every way and get Congress out of the hands of the insane Pelosi and Reid in 2010.

Comrade Obama, I’m glad you enjoyed your little junket to China. BTW, our military men and women in Afghanistan are waiting for a decision. They don’t have time to wait a few weeks so you can “announce” it.
Ed | Nov 18, 2009 9:41:14 AM
Junket to China? Right – because there are no US interests at stake in maintaining relations with China…
The military men and women in Afghanistan have seen their support literally double in the past 9 months, with more troops there to support them than at any time in the last 7 years. And after multiple tours of duty, it is about time the Commander in Chief took the time to fully assess the situation and lay out a real exit strategy.

Apparently you don’t get the point, 539. The point is the inherent inefficiency of government, which is on the verge of intruding mightily in the healthcare arrangements of every American. It will be horribly inefficient and unresponsive in that role under administrations of both parties. It always is,

Sometimes he sounds like such a flake! “It gives you a perspective on a lot of day to day things that don’t amount to much,” the president said. Here’s a perspective, the wall in China doesn’t mean diddly next to being the POTUS. Economic turmoil, 2 wars, etc. Day to day is ALL that matters right now.

That’s so true, that when you see ‘ruins’ or remnants of previous generations that you get this perspective that we are specs, we are here for a blink of an eye. I felt this when we traveled to Greece, and saw the ruins and pottery and places the ancients there lived, and you get this sense of something much bigger than we are. I remember looking at the pottery and the guide telling us that pot may have been the difference between life and death for a family, to travel to the water hole, fill it up, carry it on your head back to your dwelling. How much did some women’s family depend on that simple homemade jug. It meant everything to them, and and now, here it is, sitting in some site like a circus act. It’s humbling. We are only here for a smidge of time. Yes, best to make the best of it.

The point is the inherent inefficiency of government, which is on the verge of intruding mightily in the healthcare arrangements of every American.
Fascist Hyena | Nov 18, 2009 10:02:56 AM
Intruding mightily in healthcare? Talk about exaggeration – the current healthcare reform would have zero impact on the 80% of Americans who would not qualify for the exchanges or public option. It is specifically designed to be a minor change, maintaining the current employer based system with a few important tweaks that will greatly help the unemployed and self employed who are shafted by the current system (pre-existing conditions, rescission, etc).
If you think the current health care reform is a massive intrusion, then you are either grossly exaggerating or very poorly informed.

Double dip recession?
That means Uncle Sam “stimulates” itself at tax payer expense, creates a stock bubble as the dollar crashes and real unemployment is 17.5%.
But a lot of government union workers got raises and that counts as “jobs saved or created”.
This is not a double dip recession. It is a depression that will continue.
Just wait for inflation. It is already starting.

“President Barack Obama is expected to sign an executive order within the next week aimed at cracking down on government waste and fraud, particularly in Medicare and other benefit programs.”
That ought do it. With the stroke of a pen, human nature will be changed.

Sentinel, try living in the now.

It gives one a perspective? Bozo!!!

Worse than Bozo. Fool! Like that 747 Jet? Maybe you can figure out a deal for your friends. Jerk!

jhw539 wrote: “Junket to China? Right – because there are no US interests at stake in maintaining relations with China…”
I think an ongoing war should take precedence but that’s just me. Let us know if his Great Wall photo op does anything to help US interests.
“…it is about time the Commander in Chief took the time to fully assess the situation and lay out a real exit strategy.”
The exit strategy depends on completion of mission objectives. I think Comrade Obama (and all elected officials regardless of party affiliation) knows it’d be political suicide to leave Afghanistan without bin Laden’s head.

Sentinel
Ah yes! The former Bush-Cheney supporters are out in force. The politically demented. The liars and losers. They supported the “Great Corruptors”.
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Actually, most of us thought Bush was impeachable just on the grounds of general incompetence, never mind what the rabid left was carrying on about.
All you bots can do is scream at the top of your lungs, all together now!!!
“YEAH, BUT BUSH!!!”
Deflect and deny.
Next?

Obama warns of a ‘double dip’ recession
Obama warns economy could fall back into recession if US keeps adding to its budget deficits – AP
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So we are out of the recession according to Obama himself.. So anymore bad news on the ecomney.. HE OWNS

Gibberish: But that is what you have been doing! Can’t I play too!?

Gibberish and Zencorship: When the Mafia was robbing banks, etc, we went after the gangsters – right? Why is that inappropriate now? The Republican thugs are still running loose and trying to cause more damage – why not lock’em up!?

Joeray | Nov 18, 2009 10:58:32 AM posted: “look at the damage he has done so far.”
Let’s do a math problem. Under the previous administration’s Supply Side economic policies, the United States created 5 Million new jobs in 8 years.
If America returns to those Republican policies, how many years will it take to create new jobs for the 15 Million people out of work today?
As a comparison, under the Clinton administration the US created 22 Million new jobs.

If you think the current health care reform is a massive intrusion, then you are either grossly exaggerating or very poorly informed.
Posted by: jhw539 | Nov 18, 2009 10:10:23 AM
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If the legislation passed I would lose the policy I have that I am pleased with….I am well informed and find the legislation intrusive.
From the Wall Street Journal
By JEFFREY S. FLIER
As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I’d give it a failing grade.
In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it. Likewise, nearly all agree that the legislation would do little or nothing to improve quality or change health-care’s dysfunctional delivery system. The system we have now promotes fragmented care and makes it more difficult than it should be to assess outcomes and patient satisfaction. The true costs of health care are disguised, competition based on price and quality are almost impossible, and patients lose their ability to be the ultimate judges of value.
Worse, currently proposed federal legislation would undermine any potential for real innovation in insurance and the provision of care. It would do so by overregulating the health-care system in the service of special interests such as insurance companies, hospitals, professional organizations and pharmaceutical companies, rather than the patients who should be our primary concern.

wow | Nov 18, 2009 2:34:01 PM posted: “Clinton had a Republican Congress”.
Correct, but after Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, Clinton fought their proposed tax cuts, believing that they favored the wealthy and would weaken economic growth.
During his 2 terms, unemployment dropped to the lowest level in more than 30 years. He left a surplus in fiscal year 2000 of $237 billion.
Seems as if there just might be some value in compromise. The world is not cut and dry.

Posted by: wow | Nov 18, 2009 4:51:23 PM: “Getting rid of the 60 billion in Medicare fraud would be a good start.” …………right on, wow.
And how about stronger lobby reform? According to opensecrets.org, the “Health” sector spent $2,298,865,053 between 1998 and 2006 – second only to the “Finance, Insurance and Real Estate” lobbying. And, that doesn’t even include campaign contributions.

I like the president’s comment on the sweep of history and how we should make good use of our time here. You can see that type of thinking in the focus of his administration. As an example, spending stimulus money on building wind turbines to give us cleaner energy of years to come, spending stimulus dollars to build clinics, urban and rural, to get medical help closer to people, which will save lives and create permanent local jobs.
We can all make the same kinds of choices in our private lives. Read to your child every night faithfully instead of zoning out in front of the t.v. for that half hour. Exercise on the ad breaks when you do watch t.v. Frequent local farmer’s markets this summer to help our farmers keep their land. Try to pay off your credit cards and then never buy what you can’t pay for that month.
It is the small things we do today that will make for a better tomorrow.