Comments on: soon you’ll understand: three reasons why we need to give president obama a break

By: arieswym

arieswym — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:05:49 +0000

@JamDa,

I would like him to steamroll ish but what President steamrolled any domestic policy (non-national security) through Congress? Majority national public support doesn’t translate to the support from individual Senators and Congresspeople. Democratic Senators seem unable/unwilling to vote with what the majority of people want.

How exactly would he steamroll Congress?

By: JamDa

JamDa — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:48:05 +0000

@arieswym, FAIL
He sure can steamroll ish because that’s what the majority VOTED for. think on that. 65% of the country is on board, Obama has all the power at the tip of his fingers and this ninja walks in with compromises from the jump???!? Unacceptable.

By: JamDa

JamDa — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:45:18 +0000

blah blah black shit, have you any wool?
look, yall wanna blow the n-word for being the 1st black pres., have at it… but I’m not falling for it, just like people shouldn’t have fallen for the “compassionate conservative” rhetoric during the Bush administration. The GOP closed their eyes to Bush’s corruption for 8 years based on wanting to have a beer with the good old boy, so I’m not going to be a hypocrite and turn a blind eye to Obama’s shortcomings due to his blackness. He was sitting there watching and waiting all those 8 years while Bush was f’ing up and he thought he could bring us a CHANGE we could believe in, so I say bring it already!

By: atltx

atltx — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:28:05 +0000

@The Champ,

I appreciate that man…keep doing what you doing…good sh8t

By: arieswym

arieswym — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:35:56 +0000

Good post,

While I think it’s great that people are more interested in the news and politics since Obama’s election, that interest doesn’t seem to have transferred to members of Congress. All of the House and 1/3 of the Senate is up for election in 2010 and if more progressive members of Congress are elected, President Obama will be better positioned to get things passed.

The President can’t steamroll broad changes in domestic policy through Congress. He has to have their support to get ish done. And healthcare is a prime example.

I just wish that in addition to following the President’s every move on cnn and cspan, keep tags on what your owm congressional and state legislators are doing, because they will have a huge effect on the success of Obama’s presidency

By: arieswym

arieswym — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:01 +0000

@Me fail english?,

Presidents and prime ministers stumping for their countries in the final round of voting with the IOC didn’t happen until 2005 when Tony Blair went before the committee when London won the 2012 Olympics. Putin did it for the 2014 Olympics and every other head of state was in Copenhagen for the 2016 selection.

So if Obama didn’t go and Chicago loss they’d probably blame it on that. In the Bush era no head of state was expected to go.

By: arieswym

arieswym — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:02:02 +0000

@The Champ,

Then what about The Nine Lives of Marion Barry? HBO showed the documentary recently. Barry is definitely not a lite brite mayor

By: JB

JB — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:13:18 +0000

@ pgh muse
“On some days I wish Barack Obama was a little more radical and guerilla with his.”

my sentiments exactly.

why not be guerilla when you have ideas that will change things for the better…sometimes being diplomatic just ain’t all what it’s cracked up to be.

By: SnijanaFleur

SnijanaFleur — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:56:12 +0000

@The Champ, totally

By: Legendary Dash

Legendary Dash — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:37:00 +0000

@The Champ,
If he was more like Bush, Barack could be a real change agent. He could pull end runs around the corrupt Senate by using Executive orders. Entire industries, wars, and departments have been created by the use of the Executive order. The most change he could do though is by using his post as commander and chief of the armed forces to push new tech. A green military could force the hand of automakers and energy providers to quit patent squatting and roll out the technology they are quashing.