Obama on His First Year: Americans Have “Every Right” to Feel Deflated

In modern day parlance:
EPIC FAIL.

Blah,blah,blah-economy worse than we thought,not our fault,the progress we’ve made.If the health care bill is so great why did the drug companies and the insurance companies have a fund raiser for Coakley last night-the 60th vote for the bill?I don’t think Obama even knows what is in the health bill-just get a bill,any bill passed!The clock has struck midnight-Cinderfella is done.

I don’t think Obama even knows what is in the health bill
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Nonsense.

Does any body remember that the “great depression” lasted many years? And after the mess the Bush team left us in, you all really expected Obama to fix that mess in under a year? Get real! You’re just still mad that a dark skin man is in the oval office. We libs know how dark skinned people get on you repubs/conservs/christians nerves. And to think the republican party was founded by “anti slavery” groups in the early 1800s. Let me repeat, Anti Slavery groups! Boy, how a party can change. Change we know we can believe in!

Tired of hearing the Dems keep trying to feed off Bush like maggots. If they were as smart as they said they were, they would have known the state of the economy. The reality is their plan sucks, and now stuffing a bad health care plan down our throats isn’t going to make things any better. But, oh, maybe they can blame Bush for that too.

Americans may feel deflated, but not my fault – I give myself a solid B+!
B. Obama
BTW – I hope Dems continue to blame Bush and campaign against him. It’s worked very well in NJ, VA, and perhaps next week in MA! Great strategy for 2010 midterms!

Well, thank you Mr. Obama for letting us know we have a few rights left. Unfortunately for you, Americans don’t get “deflated”…we get angry…and then we vote.

You Bushie supporters are wonderful. I am as messmerized by your support for that idiot as much as you are messmerized by us wanting to make sure the world knows who really screwed it up. Oh and thank you each and every repub/conserv/christian for working with the president to see that this country is corrected. Glad to see how supportive you’ve been. And your answer to everything, oh yes, you guys didn’t create an answer to the problems you’ve decided to make them worse. Now that’s good Godly people if I’ve ever seen it!

-and continue to contribute their energy and ideals.-
Right on! And their $$$…

Change we can NOT believe in. A year later and it’s business as usual in Washington and Obama is one of the people doing business as usual. Bribing senators with anything they want so they will vote in favor of his health care bill. Change we can believe in? What a joke

What do you really expect Americans to feel when Obama has done NOTHING to help the private sector. The Stimulus has been proven to be a slush fund at best, growing government and their salaries as unemployment rose every month last year. From Feb thru November ALL he cared about was Health Care. #1 rule of any president in a recession should be the economy, and this is why Obama has failed us. He waited until November for a “jobs summit.” Forget the fact that he invited only unions, and left the two biggest private sector firms OUT of the discussions. Unfortunately it’s not funny because who knows IF we recover from the failed economic policies of this president and the last.

Excuse me, all you Bush supporters! The idiot dems had control for a few years DURING Bush’s reign and shot down everything Bush asked for….so much for blaming Bush when Bush asked twice for Congress to do something about Fannie and Freddie because they were getting out of control and Barniebutt said there were no problems with those programs….well, the fall of the American empire fell with those famous words! And Barniebutt should go the way of Dodd! Put the blame where the blame belongs! I did not vote for Bush but am glad Gore lost..guess where we would be with Gore in the Whitehouse..what a scary thought!!

The idiot dems had control for a few years DURING Bush’s reign and shot down everything Bush asked for
ross | Jan 13, 2010 4:32:55 PM
Meanwhile, back in reality, the two years that Republicans were in the minority party in the Senate they set records for the number of filibusters they launched to protect the Republican policies Bush had implemented. The Republican minority filibustered almost twice as many times as any Democratic minority in Senate history. But that’s just documented fact.

What do you really expect Americans to feel when Obama has done NOTHING to help the private sector. The Stimulus has been proven to be a slush fund at best, growing government and their salaries as unemployment rose every month last year.
Karl | Jan 13, 2010 4:32:49 PM
When you float something that outrageous, the burden of proof is on you. The stimulus website lists where billions of stimulus money went, warts and all. It was not government bureaucrats who said ‘screw this documentation garbage, I’ll just put in my lucky number 27 for “District” and get this paving project going.’

I bet the repubs have Ronnie on ice. He might be thawd by the 2010 elections. There a trickle down we can believe in.

(to put this in more stark terms, Obama’s debts will equal ALL the debt accumulated by the 43 administrations that preceded him, Republican and Democrat)
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The Bush Republican administration basically already accomplished this after promising ‘small government’ and a ‘business’ approach.

Obama and his cronies based the entire campaign on lies and most Americans bought them. With all the corruption in our US government, hardworking U.S. taxpayers can’t trust Obama, his administration or the liberal members of Congress. They need to concentrate on unemployment, the economy and more important issues that affect us! What happened to transparency and allowing us to review everything on TV? Why have some senators been offered perks for their individual states at the cost of all American taxpayers? I may never vote for another Democrat!

Stop corporatism and government distortion of the free market. That will allow us to inflate once again, albeit at a reasonable pace.

No comparison between Bush deficits and Obama, who has taken pork, his redistribution agenda and lack of focus on jobs to a new level. This guy and his team has never run a business and it shows. As a small business owner, he and Princess Nancy are killing us. Remember all the new jobs under Bush until 2006 when the Dems took over Congress,
Fire the Dems in 2010 and Barry in 2012

If that Stimulus bill was so imperative that we had to pass it without reading it, then why has only 220 billion of 787 billion been spent in 2009?
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Nonsense. The bill was not only read, the Democrats incorporated major changes requested by the Republicans (who then refused to support it anyway out of partisan political motives).
Posted by: tierra | Jan 13, 2010 4:52:29 PM
So what your saying is that they are in incompetent then, thanks for clarifying. Maybe you don’t understand what money disappearing in districts that don’t exist across America. That’s called stealing, and they are stealing from us and generations to come. If the Democrats called it TARP2 or “Government growing bill” then maybe the country wouldn’t have expected, you know jobs or a growing economy?

“The Bush Republican administration basically already accomplished this after promising ‘small government’ and a ‘business’ approach.”
I do not appreciate your partisan smears.

There’s a man from WI who lost his job and his wife can’t afford her cancer treatment. Must suck not to have insurance. I thought everyone did. Anyway he couldn’t find work so he joined the army. And guess what? Now he can get medical treatment for his dieng wife. Be all you can be!

“if I were a Republican I wouldn’t want it pointed out that up until Bush the entire national debt accumulated over all of the previous administrations totalled approx $5 trillion dollars. And the Bush administration added that much again in just one administration.”
But guess what? Obama is set to DOUBLE Bush’s $10 trillion over 10 years (I predict earlier as interest rates are historically low, more borrowing will be required to service higher debt payments).
So when Obama contributes $5 trillion to national debt in four years (same as Bush in 8 years) will we be hearing the outrage from you? (I don’t think so, given it won’t be written for you in the talking points you recieve)
Bush = Bad
Obama = DISASTER

How dare this government regulate everyone. Aren’t we all God fearing christiana who know the right way to be?
NOT!!!!!!!!

In 2005 tighter regulations were proposed to rein in Freddie and Fannie. Barney Frank was downright angered at this suggestion telling the committee that there was no housing bubble and that fanne and fredie were in fact healthy.
In 2006 the senate and house came under Democrat control.
Anyone who thinks this was one mans fault is in la la land, and anyone who thinks one man can get us back to health shares this same mental state.

If that Stimulus bill was so imperative that we had to pass it without reading it, then why has only 220 billion of 787 billion been spent in 2009? Money going to imaginary districts that don’t exist with the intent on saving jobs. Instead raises were given, or people bought lawnmowers, boots, and the pathetic list goes on.
Karl | Jan 13, 2010 4:47:02 PM
Passed without reading it? They had weeks to read it and staffs of dozens of lawyers to research the final (very limited) markups. And I suppose you believe Warren Buffet doesn’t listen to his staff of lawyers but rather personally reads every last word of a merger contract? A shallow urban legend is hardly a compelling argument.
The money isn’t being spent fast enough? Well, of the $787 billion, almost a third were tax breaks (including $70 billion defined by an accepted Republican amendment). When is that spent in your ‘analysis’?
So off the actual spending, about half of the $500 billion in real spending was spent in the first year? That seems right, particularly since job growth is well known to lag economic recovery (has in every recession on record). It would make perfect sense to spend half the money to get the economy stabilized and half to continue the stimulus to avoid a double dip recession and get job growth established.
The jury is still out on whether the stimulus is big enough, period, to get job growth started again (most economists say no, but it was the biggest stimulus Congress could pass), but the timing of spending is pretty close to textbook. A bit slow due to all the anti-waste documentation and supervision going on, and the tax cuts are pretty poor stimulus (but included in a futile attempt to appease Republicans), but nothing unusual.
And arguing that the money was spent too slowly than pivoting to whining about ‘fraud’ that is actually typos is disingenuous. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent and the Republicans have not found a single juicy case of even half a percent of the money being stolen or spent on a bridge to nowhere. That kind of management takes time, but it has left them with nothing more to whine about than money that was spent on legitimate projects that didn’t properly define the congressional district they were performed in.

“Notice right wingers run away from explain what Bush actually did to complain about what might happen under Obama.”
Notice that I stated “Bush = Bad”. Liberals make a mistake in assuming that conservatives all unblinkingly supported Bush. Most of us despised his penchant for spending money (particularly late in his term).
I have yet to hear any of you Obamabots offer any criticism of your Messiah’s performance on spending or anything else.

In 2006 the senate and house came under Democrat control.”
Correction, Democrats assumed Control of Congress in Jan 2007.

“Bushes tax cuts were an unfunded trillion dollar liability AND DID NOT CREATE JOBS AS WELL AS CLINTON’S TAX HIKES.”
So, jhw, if tax hikes can be used to “create jobs” and tax cuts do not, why is it that Obama has proposed tax credits to small businesses to encourage job creation.
Something doesn’t quite mesh here, perhaps you can help out.

Democratic Congress, and White House and it’s STILL the last guys fault. Um, so when do we hold him accountable? After we give him a second term for his accomplishme… er, speeches!?! The idiocy of the personality cultists knows no limts. No wonder they are losing the American people. (But don’t feel bad… Europe still likes you!)

What?? Some people are blaming Bush? Didn’t Obama make the comments? LOL

Several months into his first term, President Bush’s popularity was in the low 40′s, and the economy was heading south. Only 9/11 “rescued” his first term popularity as new wars tend to. After being handed a disaster of two wars and a near-dead economy, Obama had popularity more than ten points above Bush at a similar juncture. He has worked almost to completion a major overhaul of the nation’s health care system,and still has a majority with him. So what does Fox News have to say? Just the usual nonsense.

Why do so many Democrats mention Fox news in an ABC website? If people listen to Fox don’t you think they would be there?
Get a clue!!

“I look at all these negative posts & I suddenly realize that their are so many mentally ill people in our great country. They listen to Fox , they all love Limbaugh. And the hate just keeps spewing from their insides. That is the downfall of this great country. Very sad.”

“I look at all these negative posts & I suddenly realize that their are so many mentally ill people in our great country. They listen to Fox , they all love Limbaugh. And the hate just keeps spewing from their insides. That is the downfall of this great country. Very sad” posted by tierra 7:10
Oh give me a break you hypocrite….LOL your posts are some of the worst written here!

Regardless of what he inherited he has surrounded himself with incompetents.
He is fond of saying “the buck stops here” but he spends Trillions. My grandchildren will be paying mortgages and down payments on cars for people long dead because of this guy. He is pushing a Bill MisLabeled Health Health Care Reform that will Cost TENS OF THOUSANDS of jobs. I am not deflated I am enraged! As I have said before I am an Independent, so I don’t buy “The Other Guy was worse Justification for the Obama incompetence.

I want Scott Brown to win so he may prevent the healthcare catastrophy. So, I went to his website and mad a small donation.

I believe we can start this dialog by starting as follows: In the first year of Obama, Americans are fed up and over-inflated with false promises, and exhausted and deflated financially, mentally, and spiritually over the still
catatonic economy, expanded wars, and anxiety over expected retaliation by terrorists.
I expect Obama public approval ratings to sink further as the Wall Street firms will start passing out the 2009 year-end million bonuses to their employees -at a time that unemployment is still at its highest levels. That will have a profound effect on millions of ordinary Americans who thrive on conspiracy theories among the government and the big corporations to gulp most of the wealth of our country at their expense. And, given the fact that ordinary Americans have spent their extra money on the Christmas season, while the unemployed and financially strapped are still struggling to survive, I don’t see where the spending needed to move the economy -and Obama’s ratings- upward will come from.
That continued uncertainty would probably translate into “an egg in the face of Obama.” Having pumped out trillions from the U.S. Treasury to re-inflate the collapsed Wall Street conglomerates without prohibiting them to take as much as they want in bonuses was bad enough. But now they are getting ready for their second round of millions in bonuses – before they did their part to restore the economy as they were supposed to. And that will be viewed by many suffering Americans like a robbery of public funds, while the Obama administration stands by like a look out co-conspirator!
The current sliding in polls shows that Obama does NOT represent the “change”
he touted so much during his presidential campaign. In fact, he is doing worse in both the economy and the wars than Bush would have done if he were still president. Nikos Retsos, retired professor

isn’t this the same guy who gave himself a B+ for his first year?

Don’t you know that Democrats never “spew hate” as long as it’s to inform the “ignorant” and —what was it tierra—-”foolish” Republicans!
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Because people say ‘foolish’ things is not a grounds for ‘hating’ them, nor is it a hateful thing to say about someone.
On the other hand, you can watch right wingers and Republican on this very blog spew hatred at the President and the Democrats day after day after day, many times a day.
Anyone who frequents this blog has seen it. These people embarrass and disgrace whatever legitimate remnants of the right wing might be left in America.
And they set a very poor moral tone for the country.

Same old excuse…..they did it so I can do it too. What are you — 8 years old? It’s OK if you decide to drop to their level—–but don’t expect to get a free pass when you try to lecture others about posting “negative posts” or “spewing hatred”. That makes you a hypocrite.

Just wondering why Obama was so desperate to please Georgie Soros that he allows these 9/11 twits to be tried in NY civil courts. Then he’s got the stones to tell everybody that we’re ‘at war with Al Qeada’…well duh. But you don’t see him backing off treating terrorist murderers as though they just robbed a liquor store. And then I’ll hear the Dems say Palin is not qualified.

And we’re more and more deflated the longer these Democrats stay in power.

I feel like Obama did not have the back ground to appreciate how important it is for Americans to have a JOB. Perhaps too much affirmative action help for him.
I wish he would have made jobs a priority. Too many people are suffering in this great country and we are going down hill in many ways.

More of the same. We inherited this mess and can’t do a thing about it. It’s like “I’ve fallen and can’t get up”. “Must be Bush’s fault but I’m still great”.
Did it ever dawn on anyone that the job losses in Dec, Jan, Feb and Mar were due to Obama outlining his policies since the early Nov election: raise taxes, healthcare costs uncertain, cap & trade, necessarily higher energy prices (Obama’s words), anti-business rhetoric, more regulations for business and card check. All kill employment and move jobs overseas.
Can’t any of the libs give a strong argument on why Obama is good for the country or the economy without mentioning Bush or blaming someone else. Obama says he is “pretty good”. Defend his economic positions please…..you can’t!

Obama’s ego needs deflating.

Tierra – and I suppose that the poor Dems are totally blameless and spreading nothing but sunshine and lollipops?