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To: RetiredNow who wrote (125593)	11/25/2009 11:18:03 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542122

<<<What in God's name is the matter with our stupid leaders?>>> I was not initially on the Obama Bandwagen. I am a late comer. IMO it was Ronald Reagan that started this mess. Reagan is the one that put us on this course. George HW Bush and Bill Clinton did not do that much to alter that direction, but it was George W Bush that put us into this nosedive. It took a long time to get us here - where Obama now finds himself. Obama will not be able change things overnight. He has laid down some markers in foreign affairs. He has stopped the financial melt down. The stimulus effort is working but it was too little to have much of an immediate impact. There is still much to do to reverse our financial state of affairs. As far as the war is concerned, he is between a rock and the hard place. He is going to have muddle through somehow. I am still hopeful that things will turn out okay but that Chicago Olympic fiasco has really shaken my confidence in Obama.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (125593)	11/26/2009 8:17:47 AM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542122

My memory is that Obama and the Democrats pounded Bush for years that Afghanistan was were the important war is. There is no way to be energy independent of that area in a globally interdependent world. I expected the One to be able to convince the Euro's to provide more support in Afghanistan. With this he has been a miserable failure.