I mean, it ain’t like folks were not warned well in advance that Obama was a facile user of well-structured but shallow rhetoric, and that the establishment media would not look closely — and indeed would abet — at his history. Sorry. That is a round-about way of saying “Told ya so! Told ya so!” My bad.;-))

Yours in humor,

Issodhos

P.s. Might I also add that sometimes doing nothing is the appropriate response from government — a fact those seeking to use the violence of the state to get what they want seem unable to comprehend.

You’re right in suggesting that perhaps we are impatient. But those of us that know the causes of our problems also see Obama doing nothing of real import in correcting those things. You may call that naive or demented; I call it a reality check.

People tend to forget that government meddling in healthcare some forty years ago is the very reason why we’ve gone from 97% coverage to where we are now. They refuse to go back and correct their mistakes of the past and their only solution to any crisis is more money and more power.

The left’s persistent, unwavering faith in the government’s ability to solve problems of their own creation with more money and more power flies in the face of both history and reality.

The financial meltdown has not been avoided. It will come. It is inevitable if we continue as we are. Obama is intent on staying the course. The further we stray from free market ideals the worse off we’ll be.

I’ll echo a comment made by some one else here not long ago regarding Afghanistan – that’s one promise I wish he had broken.

You speak of oversimplification but use sweet sounding words like “reform.” How nice it sounds that our government is so interested in reform these days. Reform is nothing more than code for more power.

Informed citizens indeed knew better. We just failed to convince the rest. We bought the illusion and are now content to make excuses for our own unwarranted faith in a system built on fraud and perpetuated by propaganda.

Yes Phil, we are screwed. And while it isn’t Obama’s fault for where we are, he will surely take his share of the blame for where we’re going. 

Carl Nemo **==

p.s. I’m shor disappointed to hear ol’ Santa ain’t comin’ this year… : (

Obama gave the illusion of being outside that system while he ran but I cannot believe that informed citizens did not know better.

Excuse me, it’s not my job to read into other people’s actons.  I take people at face value and I execpt them to perform as they tell me they will.

It’s called integrity that one performs at the level that one states one will.

End of story.

I also have gone through more political revolts than most, and what I had to face in growing up was that baby steps are often the best that one can obtain.

I never give up my principles and will not with President Obama and Congress. I just think the feeding frenzy attacking him for not parting the red Sea is naive. I knew going in I would be mostly disappointed. If you ndid not, I am sorry for your new found awareness.

I just think attacking him misses the real problem. It is the system, not the man that is the problem.

Phil Hoskins

I like your writings and thought processes, so don’t take my “bud” comment as an ad hominem attack. It was simply an attempt at wry humor.  Who knows there just might be a strain named after the prez.

Here’s wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and Holiday Season…! : )

Carl Nemo **==

That sounds a bit like guns kill people, not the gun owners.

Probably a poor comparison but Obama certainly did give the punters the impression he was on their side, and was going to create a more transparent and equitable system.

Unfortunately Obama’s pre-election poetry has been conveniently compromised by his post election prose; if he’s not careful his words will become meaningless fairy (candy) floss ignored by the electorate at large.

On second thoughts the “system” is not unlike a gun, for the system does kill, and it is managed by “owners”.