SirLogiC wrote:
I am Australian so I don't really know the exact state of politics in the US but this is something I have observed a fair bit- the Barack Obama bashing, hate or w/e you want to call it.
From what I gather a lot of people are unhappy with the progress he has made however it seems like those people are ignorant that he has tried.
He came into office with a stronger position and more support (both among the general public and in the legislature) than probably any president since FDR, and he has done jack squat with that. There have been too many missed opportunities to excuse.
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Things like the Guantanamo Bay facility. I think I read he tried to shut it down but there is enough people wanting it to stay that it is making it really complicated.
Just talk. Things like the Guantanamo Bay detention camp are morally outrageous enough that a strong leader should be able to put an end to them quickly. The political will is there.
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He can't stop the war in Iraq because there are enough people in the US that think it is just and that the US should be there.
Virtually no one wants to be in Iraq anymore.
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He has tried to introduce a national healthcare system but can't because some people just can't see how free healthcare for the poor can benefit anyone, or that they will lose health benefits (when they can keep their private healthcare anyway). Talk of the cost seems moot to me when the Iraq war is sucking in more money than many countries GNP.
He allowed the Fox News coverage to dominate the discussion. FDR or Reagan would have gone to plead their case directly to the people, used the office of the President as a "bully pulpit" and gotten enough pressure put on the legislature to pass a decent reform bill. Obama is certainly a good enough orator to accomplish this, so why hasn't he done it?
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So am I seeing this right or are my details wrong? What are your thoughts on this situation?
The Democratic party has discredited itself with its spineless cowardice and inability to act on its people. The American electorate supported the Democrats in the last two national elections, and in both cases we have been betrayed by the party leadership.
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