Obama's Uneccesary Fall?

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Obama's Uneccesary Fall?

Postby Stephen Fox » Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:01 pm

I'm not sure he has fallen. I think the country is living less than its promise.

We The People are becoming Undeserving of the Promise of the Founders.

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Re: Obama's Uneccesary Fall?

Postby Sandy » Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:21 pm

There were a lot of comments made after the 2008 presidential election regarding the idiocy of the electorate, and that they didn't know what they were doing, so on and so forth. Essentially, the pendulum is swinging rather rapidly, though this time around I think the circumstances are a lot different than they were the last time the GOP got a part of the congressional mantle to wear.

If, as most conservatives assert, Obama got the presidency and the Democrats won a big chunk of both the house and the senate as a result of the recession, then the electorate would be insane to vote the Republicans back into power after just a couple of years of effort to fix the economy. Unemployment, which is the most personal side of economic collapse, hasn't been resolved, though the engine that runs the economy has more or less recovered in one of the most rapid returns to prosperity in American history. When Dubya left office, the stock market was almost half the size that it is now. The fact that it is gaining at a rapid pace, and has moved almost 6,000 points upward since Obama took office is remarkable. The unfortunate circumstance has been that unemployment hasn't followed suit, and a lot of people are still unable to find a job. Obama and the Democrats were told that they would have to fix unemployment, or the jobless rate would quickly become their problem, characterizing their leadership, even though that is patently unfair and a ludicrous assertion, but memories are short, misery is long, and patience runs thin when personal resources run out. The most prosperous, wealthy country in the world is a cold, uncaring place when you don't have money to burn. Hungry stomachs and bankrupt wallets are voting for the only other alternative to the powers that be, as they did four years ago when the shoe was on the other foot. We have become a country dependent on instant gratification. Hence, the GOP will likely capture control of at least the House tomorrow, though it might be a relatively close run election after all.

And then what?

Some idiotic congressman or senator from down South somewhere, South Carolina I think, has promised to simply stop Obama and stonewall. Never mind that his action will paralyze the government and accomplish nothing, this idiot is determined to put his own political ambitions ahead of the good of either the people he represents or the country at large. What will that accomplish? Well, the apparatus for full economic recovery is in place, the stock market is healthy, gaining value and showing increased gross value on almost a daily basis. The jobs will follow, regardless of what Congress does. The sitting president, who will still be in office, have his face in the news and his name in front of everyone, will benefit from that, his popularity growing like a genie out of a bottle until 2012, and as the result of such a scenario, he will easily win re-election and likely sweep a lot of his party companions back into office with him.

And suppose the Republicans try to take action, from their perspective, to create jobs and stimulate economic growth. If they do what they did when the Bubdub was sitting in the oval office, another recession and crash could result. They'll get blamed for that. Basically, with the election results of tomorrow, President Obama, like President Clinton in 1994, will be presented with the most golden opportunity for re-election of his entire presidency. Either way.
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