In defense of Obama - From a Former Critic

[JimH52]

Page 2 of In Defense of Obama Rolling Stone

"His health reform is imperfect but still a huge step forward – and it's working better than anyone expected. Financial reform fell far short of what should have happened, but it's much more effective than you'd think. Economic management has been half-crippled by Republican obstruction, but has nonetheless been much better than in other advanced countries. And environmental policy is starting to look like it could be a major legacy."

Obama has certainly accomplished more for the average American that this Do Nothing Congress.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Oldest trick in the book....yes there really is one.

 

[mudwhistle]

Yup.

"Hey, we know it sucks, but we're working on it!!!"

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Read that earlier this morning. Excellent article.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

What utter bullshit....

 

[B. Kidd]

Circle the wagons and break out the Kool-Aid........yippee ki yay!!!

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Page 2 of In Defense of Obama Rolling Stone

"His health reform is imperfect but still a huge step forward – and it's working better than anyone expected. Financial reform fell far short of what should have happened, but it's much more effective than you'd think. Economic management has been half-crippled by Republican obstruction, but has nonetheless been much better than in other advanced countries. And environmental policy is starting to look like it could be a major legacy."

Obama has certainly accomplished more for the average American that this Do Nothing Congress.

And this from the first paragraph, I agree with, too:

"""Obama was indeed naive: He faced scorched-earth Republican opposition from Day One, and it took him years to start dealing with that opposition realistically.""

He was in a bubble of sorts after being in Ivy League world for seven years, then going to Chicago to teach law and then to community organizing. I think he was totally unprepared to interact with the sheer stupidity of your average racist, bigoted, uneducated American...those in political office, specifically.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

What utter bullshit....

Did you read the article? R.S. has some of the best political commentary in print because they are NOT owned by large corporate interests, i.e. NBC owned by G.E., the Wall Street Journal owned by media-whore Rupert Murdoch.

 

[Stephanie]

oh boy, just think if a former critic of Bush came out and now appraised him

Obama cult members are desperate people today

 

[B. Kidd]

oh boy, just think if a former critic of Bush came out and now appraised him

Obama cult members are desperate people today

Today? Hell, they're gonna be manufacturing kool-aid right up to the mid-terms.

 

[JimH52]

It makes sense and is a reasonable article. Of course, you actually need to read it......instead of the knee jerk reaction of "Obama is an idiot!"

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Yep. He has accomplished so much but imagine if the R half of congress would actually work FOR the country instead of against it.

 

[JimH52]

oh boy, just think if a former critic of Bush came out and now appraised him

Obama cult members are desperate people today

They couldn't praise Bush at the end of his second term because they were all losing their jobs as a results of the greatest economic downturn in this generation.

 

[Stephanie]

It makes sense and is a reasonable article. Of course, you actually need to read it......instead of the knee jerk reaction of "Obama is an idiot!"

nope, I could care less what someone says about the idiot in chief. especially from another idiot who is now sucking his butt

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

It makes sense and is a reasonable article. Of course, you actually need to read it......instead of the knee jerk reaction of "Obama is an idiot!"

Except Obama is an idiot no matter what the article says.
Killing UBL didn't not make him an idiot. Fucking up my health insurance sure as hell didn't cure him of it either.

 

[g5000]

"Former Critic" does not mean "Right Winger" or even "Republican". The author, Paul Krugman, is a hardcore Keynesian economist who used to rent his clothes and tear his hear out that Obama was not deficit spending enough. He is a far left liberal who wants single payer health care.

 

[Claudette]

The only folks who think the ACA is a winner are those the rest of us are now being forced to subsidize.

The rest of us are paying more for benefits and the deductables are ridiculous.

Yeah. Barry and the Dems should get medals for foisting this 8.6 billion dollar boondoggle around the necks of the America taxpayer.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The only folks who think the ACA is a winner are those the rest of us are now being forced to subsidize.

The rest of us are paying more for benefits and the deductables are ridiculous.

Yeah. Barry and the Dems should get medals for foisting this 8.6 billion dollar boondoggle around the necks of the America taxpayer.

Oh good grief.

WHEN will the RWs educate themselves about ObamaCare?

My guess is - never. Because if they give up their ignorance, they'd have to admit they've been wrong all along.

 

[JimH52]

Obama actually accomplished what seven (7) previous Presidents, Repub and Dem, tried to do. History will note that.

Julian Castro says seven presidents before Barack Obama sought universal health care PolitiFact

The GOP better accept it and move on. The longer they fight it, the more they are going to lose. I talk to people everyday who, for perhaps the first time in their lives, actually have health insurance. They no longer depend solely on trips to the ER, which by the way, you frigin RWers paid for anyway. GET A GRIP!

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Obamacare will be repealed and go on the ash heap of history just like communism.