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To: TobagoJack who wrote (61960)	3/14/2010 4:25:29 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217550

It's amazing how inefficient Obama looks, but seriously, he did remove a lot of tension from the world, and has totally changed many people's perception of USA, to the better. It can be difficult for Americans to understand how Bush could be guilty of setting USA=evil in the heads of so many, but he did. Even the most respectable European government official had difficulties to explain, how anybody should believe anything from the U.S. government, after seeing Colin Powell lie about Iraq. No European politician could use information from USA to gain votes. I know a Danish guy who worked in an international HQ office of a very large company in Europe, and he was almost frozen out of social contexts after Denmark joined the U.S. invasion in Iraq, because Denmark+UK+U.S. were suddenly labeled "unreliable". During the financial crisis, this definitely made it hard to hard for European politicians to back up the U.S. strategy. This has changed with Obama. However, even though I will benefit from Obama's healthcare plans because of the business that I'm in, I'm not sure that I would vote for it, if I were an American. And Obama says that the healthcare plan is more important than his presidency...

To: TobagoJack who wrote (61960)	3/14/2010 5:18:56 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 217550

Obama has a few recovery options. The best one is to get rid much of his staff and replace them political pros of a different sort. Note that BHO has problems with both the conservative blue dog Democrats and the left wing of his party, and is now seen as week by people who watch which way the wind is blowing. Considering the immense amount of stimulus spending, he should have had the blue dogs eating from his hand. There has been more than enough money spent to turn the blue dogs into lap dogs. I think part of this problem is that Congress was making it's own favors via Pelosi and Reid, and not trained to be dependent on the White House for their goodies. The left wing should have been feed a few more symbolic gestures (there have been some), partially bought off, and fewer weaker troublemakers criticized by the White House early in the game to keep them in line. After BHO gets new staff, he can use some politicization of regulator agencies to re build support and keep congress in line to some degree. He would then need to push some middle of the road proposals to get Republican cooperation. **** The other options would be to bail out of Afghanistan or Iraq, either one. That could be followed by cutting a deal with either Iran or the Russians that would re frame (or at least appear to re frame) the strategic picture. *************** The US president does have a large number of options for action. Interestingly, BHO (and most current staff) does not seem to know where the control buttons are (contrast with Bill Clinton)... all they know is how to get elected.