thewindsofchange

Here we are half a year into the Presidency of Barack Obama. I've had a chance to compare the "talk" with the "walk" and already I can say (at least for myself) that President Obama is a fraud and a failure. Hope and Change are great concepts but the words ring hollow when accountability and transparency are absent and it appears that the U.S. is carrying on its grand Imperialistic tradition.
Not that I think that John McCain would be doing better, but I won't be voting for Mr. Obama again. Thoughts anyone?

McCain was my man and I am sorry he did not get elected . I think we are heading in all the wrong directions . Things would of been for the better if McClain was in office .

Well, you made me a wager about Obama and I backed away from you as I had already posted my opinion of him..I do however hold to the fact that "he scares the hell out of me"..that is a quote from our old posting. Change is what he is going to do but not in a good way. We had debt, yes,,but now OMG!! There will never be transparency with his administration and quite frankly I do not believe he has any idea what to do now that he is in the White House..except to spend spend and spend some more! I am horrified with the outcome...where will we be in another year? That is a serious question. I watch the Fox news and leave it on most of the day. I honestly think in another year and certainly by the end of his presidency the United States as we know it will be gone. I cry writing this..I love this country, I just turned 60 years old and coming back to the USA after being in Damascus or Europe was what I looked forward to...now at my age, where do I go when the country I love no longer exists?
Dia

I just blew off an entire post that I had prepared with no way to restore it...so, I shall be more succinct in my current post.

Without dredging up the 8 years preceeding the Obama Administration, I will say that I'm not ready to call this Administration a failure. 6 months is a VERY short time in which to deliver on all that he promised. In fact, it would be impossible to deliver in only 6 months. Have there been missteps? Yep. For sure. Have I given up? NEVER!

I have a running argument going, on the Opinions and Editorials page of our local paper, with a TEA Bagger. His last "response to me" was telling me how much he needed MY help to stop the "Obama Socialist Agenda" while complaining that he didn't get a raise on his SOCIAL Security this year. Does anyone else see the irony of that statement? It's almost identical to the man who shouted at a Town Hall Meeting "Keep the government's hands off my Medicare!" Duh!

Before I close my rant out, I want to point out a few things about the Obama proposed health care reform: Every wild story and negative TV ad about the proposed health care reform includes the phrase “you don’t want government coming between you and your doctor.” That’s true. I don’t. But I also don’t want the insurance companies coming between me and my doctor, yet they do. They decide what treatment they’ll cover and what medications I can take. Not me and not my doctor. And they get richer while we get sicker.

I don’t make a lot of money. I guess I’m considered “Lower Lower-Class” but raise my taxes if necessary, to ensure that fewer children will go to bed sick and untreated. Raise my taxes if it means that the Department for the Blind will have funds to pay for someone without insurance to have surgery to try to save their eyesight. Raise my taxes if it means that a single mother who just needs a little hand up will have help available. Raise my taxes if necessary, to cut emissions so that we can have cleaner air to breathe. Our lifetime is limited. We don’t neglect the upkeep of our homes just because we’re going to die someday. We take care of it as long as we live and can. I believe God would appreciate it if we took care of the world and people He created.

Your right one man can only do so much , and that man is doing all he can. Give it some time . I too would not change my vote either .

I know here in Australia, we actually have a fairly comprehensive Social Security system. And some people do rort it. But I would not want to live in a country that did not care for the most vulnerable members of society at all.

Teresa