Cut Obama some slack

This is a joke right? Happy Halloween!

Forget about Bush. Just leave him out of the argument that you make and you'll find that you're dead wrong. Double standard.

For sure we need to support the office of the President but not poor performance, be that bush or obama.

Agree with your argument that we've avoided a depression but forgive me if I think the cost will be deep and long lasting. We may even be in for a double dip recession.

Bottom line is philosophically he's not in favor of free market economics which has proved to be this country's greatest tool for achievement.

I get the feeling that Obama won't have a majority after the next election and he'll be gone in one term because the public gave him a chance and see through the hypocrisy.

Concerned Citizen:

I agree, Obama is not what so many who troll around in this room yearn for: a free market fundamentalist.

He'll never be good reckless enough or blind enough to suit those who yearn for a return to the market of 2007.

He may well be a one term president. But like FDR, he'll be remembered long after after the election of 2012 as the President who saved American capitalism from itself.

Do you honestly think that a second Hoover term would have done better in 1932-36? or that a President McCain would be doing better now?

I think that if Hoover had won in 1932, we would have had a far-right or far-left takeover within the decade. And we would not have had a free election in 2008, or in any election in-between.

And I would hate to think what we would have today with McCain. Perhaps less debt, but not much because so much of it was inherited from Bush, but unemployment much higher than today, and smoldering ruins standing where our banks once stood.

I haven't seen the evidence that Obama is much better than Bush. He worships Mars, the god of war, and the god of big business as well.

Are you friggin nuts? Obama is already going down as the worst president in the history of this country. He's growing the debt at a pace that's more than all the other president's combined. Unemployment is skyrocketing, and he can't do anything but try to take over more industries. He's showed this week that he doesn't give a rat's anus about the troops. His friend Nidal Hasan killed all those people, and Obama was so shocked and angered that he had to give shout out to a guy that didn't even win the medal Obama said he did.

Larry Hernandez wrote:

Concerned Citizen:
I agree, Obama is not what so many who troll around in this room yearn for: a free market fundamentalist.
He'll never be good reckless enough or blind enough to suit those who yearn for a return to the market of 2007.
He may well be a one term president. But like FDR, he'll be remembered long after after the election of 2012 as the President who saved American capitalism from itself.
Do you honestly think that a second Hoover term would have done better in 1932-36? or that a President McCain would be doing better now?
I think that if Hoover had won in 1932, we would have had a far-right or far-left takeover within the decade. And we would not have had a free election in 2008, or in any election in-between.
And I would hate to think what we would have today with McCain. Perhaps less debt, but not much because so much of it was inherited from Bush, but unemployment much higher than today, and smoldering ruins standing where our banks once stood.