Where have you been for the last eight years?
(Follow-up question)
Where have you been 21 of the last 29 years?
You do not get to knock Obama's leadership skills after voting for George Bush twice. Bush turned a budget surplus into the one of the worst deficits ever - did nothing to assuage our National Debt. He went to War in spite of the overwhelming evidence that it was going to cost us dearly in lives and treasure for God knows what reason. He spent more in a month in said quagmire than he ever did for health care or education. Am I to believe the Decider schtick really worked on an intelligent and saavy citizen like you?! Am I really to believe that you want to use the same playbook?! If Bush personified the kind of leadership you are looking for in a President then I am glad - nay - THRILLED, to have a 'do-nothing neophyte' in the oval office.
I'm with you - toss Pelosi out on the street along with Reid and a half dozen of their closest friends. We have really truly horrendous and ineffectual leadership in Congress right now, but don't, please don't, try to pretend like the actions (or, in your opinion, inactions) of our President in the last month and a half is why we're in this mess or even a significant contributing factor? Was the dow supposed to miraculously rise 2,000 points the second he got sworn in?
Instead, he's put together a highly competent cabinet who, every single day, has had to pander and suck up to the Republicans who helped manufacture this crisis (and the braindead dems - I'm looking at you, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barney Frank). Obama's greatest failing so far is that he still thinks the minority party and the idiots in his own party have any idea how to get us out of this nightmare and/or any sort of right AT ALL to be at the table. They had their shot and they blew it. What's he get for all of his efforts and hardwork? No votes from the House Republicans - zero, zilch - Kenneth The Page -er- Bobby Jindal taking 1.3 Billion of the 1.4 Billion Dollar Stimulus for his state and using every waking breath to stab Obama in the back on National TV and pretend to be above it all (How'd that work out?).
Don't turn this into Obama doesn't know how to lead when it was your former leaders who practically designed the mess we're in right now ending in Bush and his gross incompetence and intellectual laziness. Clinton is not without his blame, but our Stock Market was a good 3,000 points higher eight years ago - could you maybe admit there's a correlation there and that just as it took eight years to get to where we are now, it is not going to fixed in a month and a half by a brand new President and an obstructionist congress. If every man, woman and child can pony up $50,000 to pay off our debt, I say we do it. Who's in? Short of that, there is no quick fix to this debt problem. We've been accumulating it for 200 years (most of it during the last 29 - even accounting for inflation, it's shocking).
Having said that, continue to underestimate Obama at your own Peril. He managed an $800,000,000 Presidential campaign pretty successfully, didn't he? He beat Front runner candidate Clinton. He beat McCain and Palin and the RNC. He got his Stimulus Bill passed. He's got a pretty good record of Wins versus Losses so far, so please keep spreading the word that Obama is incompetent and can't get anything done. I beg you.
I'm all for a fair and respectful debate, and I apologize if I'm getting a little steamed. I don't want this to turn into Dem vs. Rep, but I can't sit by while some people try to sell a funky bag of cabbage. If you want to rewrite history books, move to Kansas.
Below is a chart which is a quick and easy-to-understand explanation as to why, when it comes to fiscal responsibility, Republicans have about as many legs to stand on as a drowning quadriplegic.
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