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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
Considering that Congress is split, I think things are as good as can be expected.
People forget how bad things were when Obama took over. I can only imagine what a disaster it would have been had McCain-Palin taken the White House in 2008 instead.
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Just speaking strictly economically...if McCain had been elected and opened up the energy industry, wouldn't it be very possible that this whole "recovery" would have already happened and we would be in economic good times?
Economists say that just The Keystone pipeline alone would have created one million great paying jobs.
Of course neither you or I can actually say with any certainty what would have happened if McCain had won.
The media kinda tilted our views (I voted Obama).
Just the fact that you just called it "McCain-Palin" and didn't say "Obama-Biden" shows how our votes and ideas were impacted by the media coverage.
One thing is for damn sure. I don't think Obama did a good job. He definitely squandered the first two years (when he had control of both houses) on a fucked up health care bill that turned out to be (as Bill Maher said on is show this week) a "big blowjob for the insurance companies".
I know that people who still support Obama are trying to make excuses and claim he did a lot. But it seems to me that if you need apologists to try and explain that you actually did something...then you probably didn't.
This country needs jobs and a secure energy policy. And those two would go hand in hand right now.
It looks like Obama though was too scared to piss off his liberal base to make that decisive move. Matter of fact, he has appeared to me to lack any kind of leadership move that would piss off his base.
Say what you will about Bush...but he not only did what he wanted, he also passed and funded every liberal bill that got in front of him (the prescription drug bill is a HUGE liberal "non-Republican" kind of thing to do)
Obama on the other hand, shut the Republicans out immediately when he took office. They had no say at all in health care legislation...or anything else. They weren't even allowed at the table.
That was a logistical mistake on the part of Pelosi and Reid. And it's cost Obama ever since in my opinion.