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Message Replied To ========== Perceptions are incredible. I "regularly carry Obama's water here"? Really? Not sure where you got that from, but my take on Obama, while far different than what you just described as your own ultra extreme perception of him, is this...I think he's been a decent president. Not great, certainly not as horrible as the far righties make him out to be. I'm disappointed in some ways, but I still find him to tbe the thoughtful, decent guy I believed he was. Of course many hardcore conservatives would have disdain for anyone short of their revisionist version of Reagan himself. Again, he's shown some weaknesses in foreign policy, he allowed himself to get too frustrated with a stonewalling congress, he's disappointed in how he's handled some race issues, but barring the unforeseen, he will be leaving the country in better shape than when he took office. Fire away. ==============================The highest grade I would give Obama at this point is below average. History may be kinder. Or not. The ACA was poorly thought out and a product of Big Hospitals, Big Pharma, and Big Insurance, and I thought the Democrats held themselves out as being "anti-big". But the POTUS and Democratic "leadership" wanted it passed regardless. I will never forget Pelosi's "we have to pass it to find out what's in it." Unintentionally truer words have never been spoken. We've found out. We're still finding out more. There is SOME good. There is a lot awful. One of the major reasons I voted for him first time around was that I thought he had the chance to be a transformative President in terms of being a healer of divides. That has not proven to be the case (he's not to blame for all of that, but certainly some of it). Part of that failure is a result of his tendency to be reactive instead of proactive. Another part of that is that he's a great campaigner who never fully got out of campaign mode. And unfortunately, that's where the lack of executive experience comes in, and why it would take a LOT for me to vote for a candidate who hasn't been a Governor. That's no guarantee the POTUS will be good either with a gubernatorial background - e.g. GWB and Jimmy Carter in relatively recent history. OTOH, there's Reagan (not the revisionist Reagan that R candidates embrace but do the opposite of what Reagan would do) and yes, even Bill Clinton. |
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