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To: geode00 who wrote (79074)	3/18/2009 4:26:18 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Commentary: Obama a leader who actually leads cnn.com Tue March 17, 2009 What a welcome change to feel like someone is running the country instead of running it into the ground. President Obama has done more in eight weeks than George W. Bush did in eight years -- unless you include starting a couple of wars. While the armchair quarterbacks second guess the new president, he gets up every day and does things, lots of things. Whether it's creating commissions for women and girls, ordering the investigation of President Bush's use of signing statements, or jamming a huge stimulus package through Congress, the man is working his tail off. And he seems to be loving every minute of it. It's almost as though our president was born to do exactly what he's doing. He's leading, and boy, is that refreshing. I remember many times when Bush was in office wondering who the hell was running the country. Then he would appear somewhere in front of a handpicked audience to utter some banalities or say something utterly stupid and I would be reminded. I don't miss him. That's not to say President Obama hasn't stubbed his toe here and there. Signing that omnibus spending bill with all those earmarks in it after campaigning so hard against pork was probably a mistake. The opportunity was right there to send that bill back to Congress with a note that read, "I told you I am against earmarks and I meant it. Now do it over and send me something clean." Nancy Pelosi's head would have probably exploded, but the American people would have been ready to crown him king. There are serious questions about whether Tim Geithner has what it takes to solve the banking crisis. Either nationalize the big ones in trouble or let them fail. It doesn't seem that just continuing to hand them money is working. Better background checks on some of his appointees would have saved him some embarrassment. There's no excuse for asking someone like Tom Daschle with his problems to do anything. But the point, I guess, is this: President Obama is attacking our country's problems on several fronts. He's got ambitious ideas on how to solve them, and he communicates a sense of calm and confidence to the rest of us as he goes about his business. Will all his ideas work? Of course not. But if you throw enough stuff at the wall, some of it will stick. And at least I don't go to bed at night worried that I'll wake up in the morning to find out we're about to invade someone. *The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jack Cafferty.

To: geode00 who wrote (79074)	3/21/2009 6:49:26 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

How to Pay for a Global Climate Deal by Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith commondreams.org

To: geode00 who wrote (79074)	3/21/2009 7:32:46 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Look, Obama cannot say his administration cannot get to the economic problem because we haven't got an undersecretary of treasury confirmed. Or the job is too big. When we decided to fight Germany and JAPAN AND ITALY, WE TURNED ENTIRE CAR FACTORIES INTO TANK FACOTRIES IN LESS THAN A YEAR. We turned out 30,000 airplanes. Now Obama has to take this economic bull by the horns and wrestle it to the ground. He may have let it get away from him foro his fancy chit? I wrote our states emergency medical services plan in 6 weeks and I did not know a damn thing about emerengency medical sercies. I learned it quick like. So, like the Manhatten project go to the univeristies for chrisake; there are plenty of university professors of finace that can do a BETTER job than the clowns in their now!! He is president. Prsidents can do that sort of chit-lol!!