Goodbye "David Plouffe, BarackObama.com"

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   Real History Lisa on February 13, 2009 at 1:16 pm

   We’re less than two months into the new administration, and you’re giving up already?

   Fortunately, America has many more citizens who are at least educated enough to understand fixing these unprecedented challenges will take many years, not weeks.

   I have patience and fortitude, and will fight by his side unless he goes off the deep end in some way. He hasn’t come anywhere near that yet.

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     catseyenu on February 14, 2009 at 6:15 pm

     @Real History Lisa

     We’re less than two months into the new administration, and you’re giving up already?

     Not at all, simply signaling dissatisfaction with the tempo and some of the choices made.
     I don’t regret my vote, I believe we have done the best we could given the realities of the election and that we are in a far better place than we could have been.

     I could have made a list starting with FISA and ending with Geithner, suffice it to say I agree with those who believe it’s time to hold Obama’s feet to the fire for the campaign rhetoric he fed the progressives.
     The pending economic collapse requires more than half measures if we are going to stem the hemorrhage.
     Catering to Republicans and Wall Street, the same corrupt people who put us into this position, isn’t an answer.

     IMO, it’s past time to pull the gloves off and start taking heads.
     Either he has an A game or he doesn’t, the clock is ticking.

     Fortunately, America has many more citizens who are at least educated enough to understand fixing these unprecedented challenges will take many years, not weeks.

     I suppose the “why do you hate America” is next?
     Fortunately even the uneducated are worn TF out with the excuses of those who refuse to question their own party and demand something more than words.

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   idredit on February 13, 2009 at 7:55 pm

   another one of those who believe everything in life should be like making an instant cup of coffee:

   Rupert Cornwell: Don’t believe the critics – Obama is off to a good start
   …
   the potential of Obama is undiminished. As none of his recent predecessors, he projects a sense of purpose, a focus on the long term.

   For once a US politician is treating his electorate as grown-ups

   He hasn’t waved a magic wand and solved the economic crisis. Since his inauguration barely three weeks ago – an interval that already feels in some ways like three years – Wall Street has tumbled further. The right accuses him of being a socialist, the left complains he’s too centrist. Elements of both say he’s ill-prepared and naïve. “Amateur Hour”, blared a headline in The Washington Post, summing up a widespread first impression of the 44th president at work.

   The truth is rather different. Mercifully, the giddy euphoria of victory is no more. Inevitably, in febrile hyperventilating Washington, DC, the pendulum has now swung towards disappointment. In truth however Barack Obama has got off to a good start. Events may yet derail him, but the promise of his presidency is no less now than it was on that 4 November night in Chicago’s Grant Park, when all things seemed possible.

   Inside his first fortnight, he signed two important pieces of legislation, one establishing equality of pay for men and women, the other expanding health care to 4 million uninsured children. And now the amateur president has secured Congressional approval for an $800bn economic stimulus bill, the largest such measure in American history.

   The process wasn’t pretty. But such things rarely are – least of all when the Republican opposition is out to test him. But Obama got more or less what he wanted, as even the most diehard Republicans realised that the party could only ignore 4 November’s message at its peril.

   Thus far, Obama in government has almost exactly resembled the Obama on display during the general election campaign. His decisions have been those of a pragmatist who rejects the extremes, convinced of the power of reason and common sense to prevail. Thus, to the anger of the left, he has rejected any witchhunt into the transgressions of the Bush administration, believing it is more important to confront the future than to rake over the past.

   More

   please read on

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     catseyenu on February 14, 2009 at 6:28 pm

     @idredit

     another one of those who believe everything in life should be like making an instant cup of coffee

     No ,no, NO!
     All things considered we’re doing well.. but we had better start considering the bigger picture unless we want to live in a world where there is no longer a middle class.
     We’re patting ourselves on the back for a 50 yard run and forgetting that we’re 20 points down on the scoreboard.
     That is a recipe for losers and quite frankly we can’t afford to lose another inch.