I get what you're saying, but as I said, and as others have said, change can't happen overnight. And Obama isn't the end-all, be-all. He has to have everyone else in Congress behind him.
Alpha, he couldn't have had it better with regard to the Democrat vs. Republican split. He still didn't do what he could have and should have. Instead, he left it to Pelosi on healthcare - to take the heat and come up short, and he totally screwed America on the wars. He had excuse after excuse to get out of Afghanistan with dignity, but he didn't do it. He's Bush. He spends; he cares about war; he like homage, in other words: big ego; no substance.
He has advisers and speech-writers. He can't just take the reigns and make all his promises come true. Thanks to Democracy (and I'm not being sarcastic here because I think Democracy, in its truest form, in the form meant to be by our forefathers, is a good thing), he can't just make everything happen the way he said it would.
He's a liar. Please don't get used to lying and think it's O.K. It's not O.K. Clinton told the truth about healthcare; Obama flat out lied, defeated her and got elected and then adopted
her plan. . .
sort of. He made it mandatory to buy healthcare insurance.
She said it wouldn't work unless it was mandatory; again, he flat out denied that during his campaign. He's a liar, and for your own sake, don't trust him.
Besides, all his promises of change happened before even more change happened in the States and in the World. There are a lot of things out of his control that he can't just fix and that effect the other decisions he makes
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Why can't he fix the things that ARE in his control?? Why didn't he??
I wasn't exactly an Obama supporter, but I didn't hate him either
I tried to support him. I was wrong.
I didn't believe he'd be able to make all his promises come true in such a short time. Four years is not long enough to turn all the shit around that has dominated our country. It's not. We still don't know the ultimate effects of the changes he has made, and we won't see them play out for years to come.
Which is on purpose. He likes a lot of lag time, like right after eight years in office, THEN we'll find out if he had anything to offer??
There are a lot of things I don't like about this country. I do feel like the Feds are taking away our freedoms, little by little, and that scares the shit out of me.
Yes, another wonderful Obama legacy. He was supposed to be the guy with transparency, remember?? Now he's got Napolitano doing all his dirty work on the "fuck over Americans" front, and is our government more transparent?? Uh, no.
But I also know that Americans have become more and more lazy. Americans allow themselves to be controlled. In fact, they demand it because they don't take care of themselves. Look at how we've become the most obese - the information they need to be healthy is more than readily available, yet taxpayers are paying for more and more obese children and adults with heart and other weight-related problems. They get lazy and don't care. They bitch and moan about new Federal or State regulations, yet they bitch and moan because they want someone to take care of them. What's a Democratic Federal Government to do?
Don't be so hard on Americans. The overweight business is often due to poverty and stress. And they also feel powerless. That's why it's up to people who can speak out to speak out.
Seriously? I know there's an appropriate line, but where do you draw it when the American people keep pushing it back?
You line up with the people who have courage and conviction. Right now the real "party of change" is taking the heat but walking the walk aka Christie, Walker, Scott, Paul, etc. aka as the Tea Party. . . .