Just wondering
I have heard people say they feel sorry for President Obama because of the situation he inherited. How silly. Inherited means it comes to you whether you want it or not. He wanted to be president and campaigned very hard and well, of course, for it. He is to be congratulated, not pitied, right? He kept his eyes on the prize and won it.
But he keeps saying he inherited the economy, the mess, etc. This serves several purposes: it creates a crisis mode so he can do more than a president should be allowed to do, it keeps pointing at the Bush administration instead of his own responsibilities, and it makes us think things are worse than they could ever be. If I hear this is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression again, I'll puke. The Carter administration was much worse. I would argue that the president should be slow to tinker with the economy anyway.
But it occured to me this morning that maybe Obama simply didn't expect this. Prior to the tanking of Wall Street in October, McCain was ahead. People (most of whom have no principles to guide them) looked at their mutual funds losing 40% of their value and voted for the party not-in-office. Obama won, and yes, he got stuck with something he didn't expect to get stuck with back in 2007 when he started running and the economy was rosey and the only real issue was pre-surge Iraq and people had time to listen to theoretical ideas about fixing health care. Be careful what you wish for, I guess. The economy cannot sustain what he thinks he wants to do.
It's this simple: considering the ingenuity of the American people, if we had wanted a Canadian style health care system, we'd have already gotten one. We don't want it. Only that portion of the population that is moribundly dependent on the government does.
Hopefully, the strength of the AMA, trial lawyers, drug companies, and insurance industries will deter the debacle of state run health care.
Personally, I'm sick of his whining about the "mess" he's gotten. No other president has done this, especially when Bush has been so gracious to him. I'm sick of his self-righteousness and of his equating historical atrocities in other countries to the struggles for equality we have had. The difference is in kind as well as quantity; we have come out with more liberty and equality for everyone; in those other countries the genocides have only continued or extended inequality and oppression. I'm sick of my blood pressure going up everytime I see him on TV.
There will come a time when Americans will be pining for the Bush years. At least then we had a president comedians were free to mock; heaven knows they can't mock Obama, who defies it anyway because his policies are so scary. He's just not funny.
But he keeps saying he inherited the economy, the mess, etc. This serves several purposes: it creates a crisis mode so he can do more than a president should be allowed to do, it keeps pointing at the Bush administration instead of his own responsibilities, and it makes us think things are worse than they could ever be. If I hear this is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression again, I'll puke. The Carter administration was much worse. I would argue that the president should be slow to tinker with the economy anyway.
But it occured to me this morning that maybe Obama simply didn't expect this. Prior to the tanking of Wall Street in October, McCain was ahead. People (most of whom have no principles to guide them) looked at their mutual funds losing 40% of their value and voted for the party not-in-office. Obama won, and yes, he got stuck with something he didn't expect to get stuck with back in 2007 when he started running and the economy was rosey and the only real issue was pre-surge Iraq and people had time to listen to theoretical ideas about fixing health care. Be careful what you wish for, I guess. The economy cannot sustain what he thinks he wants to do.
It's this simple: considering the ingenuity of the American people, if we had wanted a Canadian style health care system, we'd have already gotten one. We don't want it. Only that portion of the population that is moribundly dependent on the government does.
Hopefully, the strength of the AMA, trial lawyers, drug companies, and insurance industries will deter the debacle of state run health care.
Personally, I'm sick of his whining about the "mess" he's gotten. No other president has done this, especially when Bush has been so gracious to him. I'm sick of his self-righteousness and of his equating historical atrocities in other countries to the struggles for equality we have had. The difference is in kind as well as quantity; we have come out with more liberty and equality for everyone; in those other countries the genocides have only continued or extended inequality and oppression. I'm sick of my blood pressure going up everytime I see him on TV.
There will come a time when Americans will be pining for the Bush years. At least then we had a president comedians were free to mock; heaven knows they can't mock Obama, who defies it anyway because his policies are so scary. He's just not funny.
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