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To: koan who wrote (181287)	11/29/2009 1:46:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362496

It is more than a temper tantrum. It is honest concern. Remember, the intelligencia in this country is 100% liberals. Like you and everyone on this thread. For some it is a temper tantrum. "If you don't do what I want, then I am not voting!!" They study the issues and they have opinions about what we should be doing and they feel strongly Obama is making many mistakes. 1) Most liberals see a perfect parallel between Viet Nam and Afghanistan. We cannot win, so what is Obama doing? And MCCrystal is dirty, so why is Obama using him? So you want him to ignore the 49% of Americans who want him to finish the job and do what the 39% want him to do. I am part of the 39% but I can understand his reluctance in going with the minority. 2) Liberals feel Obama could pull troops out faster than he is doing and use the money to help the needy in this country. Our citis are disintegrating while Obama uses the money to fight a winless war in a far away country. He's doing it exactly the way he said he would do it during the campaign. Why is that suddenly not good enough? 3) Liberals feel Obama should have run the money through the middle class to the banks and asked for more than he did from the banks in any case. I am not sure what you mean by "running it through the middle class" but what more do liberals think he should have done with the banks? After all, under Obama, the gov't took an equity position in the banks the feds helped and the feds stand to reap billions of dollars if and when those shares improve in value which many have already done so. 4) And obama is not even giving the most basic help to the mortgage holders and small businesses regarding bank loans. In fact his appointee's have made it harder to get loans or refinance. Obama's measures have slowed the foreclosure rate considerably. In fact, inventory is now down to 7 months from a high of 11 months when the foreclosure mess was at its worse. As for lending, for the first time in a year, the banks are starting to lend money but I will admit their requirements are higher than they were before the economic debacle. Most would say that's a good thing. However, it does make for slow going. I am personally refinancing my home loan and so far have encountered little problem. I'll let you know if I get turned down. 5) No prosecutions for either the torturers or the Wall street crowd who committed fraud. I agree...the torturers are getting away with murder and I was disappointed to read that we are still torturing apparently innocent Afghans. That is still a problem and his staff needs to investigate. As for the Wall Street crowd, I don't understand. The Madoffs are getting locked up...slowly but surely. 6) Technologically we are falling behind the rest of the world and especially in green technology. And Rome wasn't built in a day. Its going to take many years for us to catch up to the lost time under Bush. Having said that, things are happening. I was impressed that Tesla is talking about opening up a plant in S. CA. There is progress on other fronts......Ford is going completely green. The largest windmill farm in the world is going up in W. TX. A town in KS that was wiped out in a tornado is rebuilding completely green. So progress is getting made albeit slowly. We liberals do not know what to do? We know the right wing is barbaric, and we had such high hopes for obama. I repeat...Obama is the best president in decades. As a fellow liberal, I say ratchet down your expectations.....they are set way too high IMO.