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Originally Posted by Connor
I voted for this guy with a LOT of enthusiasm. But at this stage of the game, other than his Supreme Court picks and some decent changes on health care, and maybe one or two small changes to credit card practices, not seeing a huge difference between him and G.W. in terms of the impact on the lives of most Americans.
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I think that's the way a lot of people see him now. The word that comes to mind is: "disappointment"
He got elected talking a lot about changing stuff. Then he gets in and immediately seemed to bow down to Reid & Pelosi. And instead of jumping right away on the economy...they instead spent a year and a half on "healthcare" and that ended up being not much more than forcing Americans to buy insurance and making billions of more dollars for the insurance companies. They didn't even do one thing to actually make healthcare affordable (they even started the process by making a deal with the big pharmaceutical companies to ensure that Americans pay more than anybody else in the world for drugs)
In my mind...the fact that he wasted that first half of his term on a subject (healthcare) that wasn't the top priority of the American people really was a huge blunder. People are out of work and are losing their homes. With no money and no place to live, the only thing Obama offered them was: Now you HAD to buy insurance! And here's the great news...the insurance companies can't refuse to TAKE YOUR MONEY. Whoopty doo.
He seemed disconnected to the fact that a person with cancer and NO job and underwater on his mortgage can not afford insurance. He was supposed to do National Health Care...but the big insurance companies would be put out of business...so they sat his ass down and got things done in a way that will make them even more money.
And meanwhile the economy went further and further south.
I'm almost positive now that he is a one term president. I'm thinking we are going to have a President Romney in 2012. And I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I'd much rather have a President Ron Paul at this point...but the media is too set against him.
I wish Obama had more of a spine from the moment he walked into office and had done the things he said he was going to do. But I think he still looked up to the people in his party who were in power for so many years like Reid and Pelosi and took their advice instead.