Wow. If this thread doesn't confirm why Barack Obama managed to fool the country not once, but twice, nothing else will. #LIV
I just want to say, I should have expected Obama to be a liar, but I didn't. But with what he said he was going to do, and what he actually did, still seems better than what McCain said he was going to do or what Romney said he would do. And that's giving them the benefit of the doubt, that they also aren't typical lying politicians.
If the media were neutral, it would be easier for liberals to oppose Obama's conservatism. But we have to spend all our time defending against media lies planted by Republicans, so Obama seems harmless in comparison. For example, here's a refutation of the Republican spin that Social Security will die. http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-abby-huntsman-20140314,0,489874.story#axzz2wWnPWZLZ
I suppose we were destined to get a Liberal Democrat the first time Obama was elected. And that was partly due to very bad decision making by the Republicans to run John McCain for President. He was hard for me to take, not President material. I still voted for him though over Obama who simply appeared to be the pipe piper to me. I strongly objected to his presentation style, all technique and no substance. Hell, I have been to that class. We, as people though, really booted it by not electing Romney, he is a very smart man and we needed him. Now we are in deep do doo.
So I am not entrenched in politics and only follow it on a superficial level, but here are my impressions: Obama is what I thought he would be: -I like him foreign affairs (traveling to different countries I feel a lot more respect and less hatred towards US than when Bush was in office) -I don't like him on economic issues (while the stock market has anything but crashed as some predicted when he took office, I don't think the US is reaching their potential economically) - as I've been saying for 8 yrs, he decided to take on a national problem that is/was going to be a catastrophic problem in the US . . . health care. This is probably going to be Obama's legacy and put him in a category of failure. The health care problem in the US was not going to be solved where everyone is happy, but Obama seems to be trying to fix an almost unfixable problem while trying to keep everyone happy . . . I just don't think that is possible. Grade: C+
Yes, because he (and his wife) have often made fools of themselves introducing themselves in new countries (or at least in the first couple of years as president). I generally agree with your overall assessment, though.
