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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (70407)	3/8/2010 10:59:24 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay called Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) "brave" on Sunday for launching a one-man filibuster of unemployment benefits, arguing that they dissuaded people from going out and finding work. continued... huffingtonpost.com ----------------------------- With this downturn hitting middleclass and professional people, I don't see how this can be a winning stategy. the 'welfare queen' thing worked as it was about the 'other'. I don't see a college educated professional being amused at being considered a slacker who would rather get unemployment than get a job.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (70407)	3/8/2010 11:30:17 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

How Obama Is Making the Same Mistakes as Bush news.yahoo.com Who would have thought that one of Barack Obama's biggest missteps as president would be repeating some of the bad habits of George W. Bush? No single factor was more instrumental in Obama's 2008 victory than his pledge to completely reverse the nation's course once in the White House. Instead, over the past year, Obama has mimicked some of Bush's most egregious blunders, leading to much of the political predicament in which the present decider finds himself today. This is not to say that Obama has maintained Bush's policies, although his administration's continuity on issues ranging from Afghanistan to Wall Street has alienated the left. And he certainly hasn't done himself any favors by failing to inspire the general public to rally around his agenda. But Obama's stumbles atop the high-wire of running the federal government has created perhaps the greatest danger to his presidency, and they are oddly reminiscent of the misguided practices which tripped up his predecessor. (See pictures of Obama's first year in the White House.)