Originally Posted by Rochard

The reason we have "Obama Cheerleaders" is simple - We hit rock bottom and we needed a hero, no matter who it was. It's not that Obama was / is great, it's more that the US population needed and wanted to believe in someone or something. Obama was a rather unimpressive senator who had accomplished very little in office but in the eyes of many he is a savior - Obama saved the masses from loosing their homes. If McCain won, most likely McCain would have been our hero.

It's not that Obama is great. It's just that Obama was the one who fixed it. It's not because Obama was special or better or smart; The key fix here was time and so long as the person in the Oval Office didn't fuck things up worse we would have had the same result.

You cannot deny that things are better with the economy. When Obama took office half the houses on my street were empty - exactly half. Now every last one is occupied again. Again, it's not that Obama was smart or a great leader, it was more that he was in the Oval Office when things got fixed. Anyone could have fixed them.

Is Obama accountable for anything? Frankly, no. We had hit rock bottom while a Republican was running the country. Vendzilla is bitching about unemployment again, but keeping mind that unemployment hit all time highs because of the recession which happened while Bush was in office. You can bitch about the deficit but the truth is the only reason it has increased is because the US Government had to spend it's way out of the recession... Which happened under President Bush.