This is a question more geared towards the liberals and independants who voted for Obama back in November of 08, rather than the conservatives.
Alot of my liberal thinking friends who voted for him last year are now losing alot of faith based on his actions in the past 6 months. When I've talked to them about it, they admit they didn't think he would be doing the things he is doing now.
Obama voters, do you still feel the way you did when you voted for him or have your feelings and opinions toward him changed?
As a conservative, I didn't want Obama to win at all. McCain wasn't the best, but I sure as hell wanted him over Obama.
My view on things are as follows: here we are six months later (only 6 months later), unemployment has continued to rise steadily with no end in sight, Americans are losing their jobs but taxes still continue to rise, the death-toll in Afghanistan is still at an alarmingly high rate, the stimulus plan didn’t work, 1 TRILLION DOLLARS was printed a few months ago deflating the value of the dollar and holding the potential to cause massive inflation, terrorists are being released from Guantanamo, North Korea laughs us off, Iran told obama to shut up and mind his own business (so much for talks with rogue regimes), his vice president joe biden wants to spend us out of bankruptcy (is that an oxymoron or just a moron? I say moron.), he advocates cutting defense spending while our enemies are building up theirs, lets leaders from third world countries walk all over him(Chavez with the lame gift/book), and now he wants to give us a socialized system of health care that will not work and end up killing the elderly, stunting job growth because employers will not hire new people due to the extra costs or they wil pay low wages to afford the additional costs which is disenchanting.
You can't tell me to give him time since he is relatively new to the office of POTUS. Normally I would agree with you, but given the amount of legislations and bills he is involved in and trying to pass, I think it is already a clear indication of who he is and what he wants to do with this country.
Also, with the whole issue on health care, I totally agree with the conservative commentators on wondering why Obama is trying to get his health care bill passed by August. With something this big and important, shouldn't we take our time and look things over carefully? It's clear as day that Obama wants to push it through before his political capital tanks and he has no more clout, since his poll numbers are dropping fast.
After talked to my liberal friends, I was shocked when they told me he wasn't what they expected. What else would you have expected?! No one should be surprised, we knew exactly what we were getting. He had no track record as an office holder because he'd barely held office, but his background is filled with shady associations, leftist position papers, and communitarian experience that I think unfit and completely inappropriate in a person given the task of POTUS. You can tell me Bush was an idiot, at least the guy flew jets and earned an MBA. Obama taught law and shoveled coal for ACORN. How could anyone not see that he'd be printing money right from jump street? How could we not know that in every action he'd genuflect to a victim class from which he could expect to count on unflinching political support?
As I said earlier McCain wasn't the best, but I damn sure didn't vote Obama. Nothing so far has surprised me, and I expect much worse to follow.
Congrats America, you got what you voted for.
Alot of my liberal thinking friends who voted for him last year are now losing alot of faith based on his actions in the past 6 months. When I've talked to them about it, they admit they didn't think he would be doing the things he is doing now.
Obama voters, do you still feel the way you did when you voted for him or have your feelings and opinions toward him changed?
As a conservative, I didn't want Obama to win at all. McCain wasn't the best, but I sure as hell wanted him over Obama.
My view on things are as follows: here we are six months later (only 6 months later), unemployment has continued to rise steadily with no end in sight, Americans are losing their jobs but taxes still continue to rise, the death-toll in Afghanistan is still at an alarmingly high rate, the stimulus plan didn’t work, 1 TRILLION DOLLARS was printed a few months ago deflating the value of the dollar and holding the potential to cause massive inflation, terrorists are being released from Guantanamo, North Korea laughs us off, Iran told obama to shut up and mind his own business (so much for talks with rogue regimes), his vice president joe biden wants to spend us out of bankruptcy (is that an oxymoron or just a moron? I say moron.), he advocates cutting defense spending while our enemies are building up theirs, lets leaders from third world countries walk all over him(Chavez with the lame gift/book), and now he wants to give us a socialized system of health care that will not work and end up killing the elderly, stunting job growth because employers will not hire new people due to the extra costs or they wil pay low wages to afford the additional costs which is disenchanting.
You can't tell me to give him time since he is relatively new to the office of POTUS. Normally I would agree with you, but given the amount of legislations and bills he is involved in and trying to pass, I think it is already a clear indication of who he is and what he wants to do with this country.
Also, with the whole issue on health care, I totally agree with the conservative commentators on wondering why Obama is trying to get his health care bill passed by August. With something this big and important, shouldn't we take our time and look things over carefully? It's clear as day that Obama wants to push it through before his political capital tanks and he has no more clout, since his poll numbers are dropping fast.
After talked to my liberal friends, I was shocked when they told me he wasn't what they expected. What else would you have expected?! No one should be surprised, we knew exactly what we were getting. He had no track record as an office holder because he'd barely held office, but his background is filled with shady associations, leftist position papers, and communitarian experience that I think unfit and completely inappropriate in a person given the task of POTUS. You can tell me Bush was an idiot, at least the guy flew jets and earned an MBA. Obama taught law and shoveled coal for ACORN. How could anyone not see that he'd be printing money right from jump street? How could we not know that in every action he'd genuflect to a victim class from which he could expect to count on unflinching political support?
As I said earlier McCain wasn't the best, but I damn sure didn't vote Obama. Nothing so far has surprised me, and I expect much worse to follow.
Congrats America, you got what you voted for.
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