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Jan 27, 2010View in Crawl 4
People forget his inauguration speech was 'yes WE can'. I do think he could be doing a lot more to get people - especially young people - involved (like how JFK created the Peace Corps), but too many people expect him to do all the work, and complain when it doesn't go 100% the way he said it would (newsflash: it never does)."We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." He created this groundswell; I think a lot of people were ready to stand up and pitch in (heck I was, and I'm not even American). A year in, people have fallen back into their cynicism, I'm not sure he has the momentum to get people involved any more, which means he has to go it alone with a congress that's barely working (57 is not enough in the Senate these days).
If true, I wonder if this has anything to do with having an entire faux "news" network dedicated to opposing his every move, stirring up hate and sponsoring a movement against him?
One other point... Clinton indeed did have more years with an opposing congress than a favorable one, but Bush had more years with a favorable congress than an opposing one. Plus, the President still presents and signs into law the budget. Your notions that the president is more or less irrelevant to budgets, and/or that Republican-controlled congresses equate to better budgets fall apart rather easily.
The people are being duped, this coming election cycle they will vote out Democrats and put in these Republicans. One is responsible for increasing domestic size of government, as we have recently seen while the other is only a bunch of Neo-Cons who want to expand the war effort. We need to give a new party a try to scale back these wars and scale back the size of government. I also believe that, there are liberty candidates who have put themselves into the Democrat and Republican Parties, but you need to know ALL who are running and will dis-approve the war and the constant government spending.
@willthewayYour the troll. Keep talking about the cookie monster being eternal (I mean God), same difference.Just as much proof for one as the other.HE'S ETERNAL!!! That statement has no basis in fact, no way of being proven and is laughable.LIFE is eternal, because it reproduces and transforms and multiplies and adapts and evolves.
gattacasdJan 27, 2010
People forget his inauguration speech was 'yes WE can'. I do think he could be doing a lot more to get people - especially young people - involved (like how JFK created the Peace Corps), but too many people expect him to do all the work, and complain when it doesn't go 100% the way he said it would (newsflash: it never does)."We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." He created this groundswell; I think a lot of people were ready to stand up and pitch in (heck I was, and I'm not even American). A year in, people have fallen back into their cynicism, I'm not sure he has the momentum to get people involved any more, which means he has to go it alone with a congress that's barely working (57 is not enough in the Senate these days).
orochiyagamiJan 28, 2010
that's right not magic :p
texasslimJan 29, 2010
If true, I wonder if this has anything to do with having an entire faux "news" network dedicated to opposing his every move, stirring up hate and sponsoring a movement against him?
5celeryJan 29, 2010
The irony (assumed to be obvious) is when you categorized something that is by definition *not old* (< one year) as 'getting old'
grantmoore3dJan 29, 2010
I blame Bush for his poor education system /s
strad2Jan 29, 2010
One other point... Clinton indeed did have more years with an opposing congress than a favorable one, but Bush had more years with a favorable congress than an opposing one. Plus, the President still presents and signs into law the budget. Your notions that the president is more or less irrelevant to budgets, and/or that Republican-controlled congresses equate to better budgets fall apart rather easily.
godfather89Jan 30, 2010
The people are being duped, this coming election cycle they will vote out Democrats and put in these Republicans. One is responsible for increasing domestic size of government, as we have recently seen while the other is only a bunch of Neo-Cons who want to expand the war effort. We need to give a new party a try to scale back these wars and scale back the size of government. I also believe that, there are liberty candidates who have put themselves into the Democrat and Republican Parties, but you need to know ALL who are running and will dis-approve the war and the constant government spending.
spicezFeb 2, 2010
@willthewayYour the troll. Keep talking about the cookie monster being eternal (I mean God), same difference.Just as much proof for one as the other.HE'S ETERNAL!!! That statement has no basis in fact, no way of being proven and is laughable.LIFE is eternal, because it reproduces and transforms and multiplies and adapts and evolves.