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

To: koan who wrote (103458)	10/25/2011 9:57:57 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

What David Brooks and other's miss is that the right wing is not sane, let alone intellectually competent to run the country. I have problems with Obama, but really, take a good hard look at those Republican presidential nominee's. Exactly koan. I have problems with Obama too. But I have a much bigger problem with the rest. These voters think that a person's religion is very important, that the way to remove tax loopholes is through a 9-9-9 which is taxing the poor more and taxing the rich less, that our women should be treated worse than the Arab women in that our women who has been given the womb and a God given right to choose and decide what to do with it should not have those rights etc. etc. What a screwed up primary this is going to be. And with this screwed up party in power in Congress, it does not require a rocket scientist to figure out why the country is screwed up.

To: koan who wrote (103458)	10/26/2011 8:52:16 AM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 149317

What we liberals have been saying from day one is that Obama would gain nothing by trying to cooperate with them. It is like trying to have a logical conversation with someone who thinks aliens are controlling their thoughts or corporate criminals. I think we were correct. If he gained something by trying to work with the right I missed it. Koan, I actually very much agree with most of this statement. My first disappointment with Obama was that he tried to compromise too much with the GOP. He never should have compromised as long as he had both Houses of Congress in his corner. And yet, at the point of his greatest strength, he did compromise. It showed me that he was weak. Even to this day, he continues to try to compromise. Why? We didn't elect him to kowtow to the GOP. We elected him to achieve very specific things. Beyond that though, my biggest disappointment with him is all his economic policies.

To: koan who wrote (103458)	10/26/2011 10:27:16 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Brooks column today on how the "Fighting " Obama will play right into the big government small government debate that the Republicans want to have is right on the money I think.