Well said. We have three more years before we can dump our Marxist-Moooslim in Chief. Eleven months until we can de-fang him politically. We won't see any economic recovery until we get the government out of our life - right now they are getting into every aspect of our life. No free enterprise, no recovery.

read history the next one will be a modren rosevelt or one of his less likeable contemparys, unemployment and such drives this nation on a far deeper level then right left

I voted for Obama but I never had the tingle in my leg.

In fact I voted for him despite the fact that I disagreed with most of his agenda.

But I did so because it was my belief that having John McCain in the White House would be an even bigger threat to the future of America than having Barack Obama in.

I hope the idots who voted for this ...individual got the change they wanted. WHERE IS THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE ..??? He is not qualified to be President He WAS Born in KENYA

I HOPE come the next election cycle we get a whole lot of CHANGE.

And it's more than a hope. Change is coming. It will be significant change. It will be revolutionary change. It will be change that makes the Conservative revolution of the 90's look like nothing. That change will occur in November or 2010 when ALL the liberal get booted out of office along with many of the Republicans, too. You wailing moaning Obama liberals still haven't figured it out, neither has the Main Stream Media....the people of America (the overwhelming majority) are sick of all the liars, all the cheats, all the narcissistic so-called leaders in Congress who have completely ignored the voice of the people. Come November they will be voted out. The system will prove itself valid and all the idiots who voted for Obama based on ideology will head for the hills after being slapped silly by the American people.

As for the rest of you who were so foolish as to buy the snake oil Obama was selling and who are now to filled with silly pride to admit it - well - once the sane people regain control then you can tell us all that you knew all along he was a bad guy. Go ahead start re-writing that history now.

I realized then and now what I was voting for. Change hasn't happened as far or as fast as I'd hoped, but on the whole I am satisfied with what Mr. Obama has done so far. He's facing a wall of obstructionist posturing from many Republicans and some opposition from Republicans and Democrats with genuinely differing points of view. Pres. Obama has his priorities and I won't second-guess him at this point. I hope that the necessary change picks up the pace in 2010.

I can't find a single word anywhere in this article that says Christians are praying for Mr. Obama's failure.

I am a Christian and I pray for Mr. Obama's protection and for wisdom for him as a man, a husband, a father and our leader. I also pray for the safety of our nation.

I am constantly shocked that everyone on the left, with almost no exception, feels free to openly bash Republicans, Conservatives and Christians as an entire group of people - which is by definition Bigotry, yet you do so while waving a "tolerance" banner.

You believe that you and those who think like you are entitled to free speech and rights under the constitution - but not anyone who disagrees with you.

I remember once watching the actor Martin Sheen on a talk show and he said, "I hate them. I hate them all" - he was referring to Republicans. Can you imagine if anyone from the right, or anyone who believes in Christ had said something like that toward blacks, or Jews, or heaven forbid liberals?

You're two-faced and you speak out of both sides of your mouth. We either all are expected to be tolerant or none of us are. We either all get freedom speech or none of us do.

I was very happy at Obama's election, and I continue to be reassured that he, rather than McCain, is currently our President. Surely no president for a generation has taken office under more difficult circumstances.

The 2009 one-year federal deficit is $1.42 trillion. 2008's was $482 billion. It should, however, be obvious that Obama has not "tripled the federal deficit" overall, which has risen from $10.7 trillion to $12.1 trillion, or a rise of 13%.

Most economists and the Congressional Budget Office agree that the stimulus package, which was a large part of this deficit spending, has prevented the unemployment rate from rising above 11%.

I feel that the Obama administration could have done more to prevent foreclosures, most notably by empowering judges to renegotiate the terms of deceptive mortgages with usurious rates of interest. However, such "cramdown" provisions were denounced as "socialism" by Republicans and by Democrats bought off by the mortgage industry. Obama has not been able to go far enough to actually help enough people.

Litanies of legislators' pet projects are always amusing, but they represent a pathetically small proportion of the federal budget. I hope, though, as someone who runs a nonprofit focused on Africa, that you're not implying that democracy in Africa is something unworthy of support.

When it comes to healthcare, I think that the current legislation is a mess, and I expected no less from the Senate in particular. But it may, messy as it is, improve on the current hideous system, which results in tens of thousands of unnecessary American deaths every year.

Your characterization of it, however, as an attempted takeover of a sixth of the economy, is factually false. A sixth of our total economic production is currently spent on healthcare. You would only be correct if Obama were proposing to make all healthcare free at the point of delivery, have all healthcare payments handled through general taxation, nationalize all hospitals and make all doctors employees of the federal government (and even then, it would be only around a tenth of the economy that would be taken over, because of the proportion of healthcare spending already in federal hands through Medicare and Tricare). If you have a shred of honesty in you, you will acknowledge that that is not what is being proposed.

As for whether a "large majority" of Americans oppose the proposal, I will refer you to the article on this by the analyst who most accurately predicted the outcome of the 2008 election, Nate Silver:

43 percent of people favor health care reform, whereas 38 percent oppose it (20 percent are undecided). But the actual plan under consideration gets numbers that are more or less the reverse of that -- 34 percent in favor, 46 percent opposed -- because a significant number of people think the plan doesn't go far enough.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/in-polls-much-opposition-to-health-care.html

Black Americans are indeed suffering conspicuously in this recession, particularly through foreclosure - and, absent cramdown, were always going to. Their mortgages reset on a schedule set up when they took out their mortgages. Obama doesn't have a thing to do with it.

Similarly, Obama does not control the tuition fees increases at universities, and you wouldn't support giving him the power to do so. What the man can do, he has done, which is to sharply increase federal support for student grants and loans.

There will be no Cost of Living Adjustments to Social Security because the Cost of Living for seniors, as defined by the federal government, has fallen. Obama still, misguidedly in my view, proposed a $250 giveaway for seniors - but, of course, your article doesn't mention that. The main cuts in the Medicare budget that are proposed would come from areas where Medicare currently overpays: for example, the Republican-instituted ban on the government using its market power to negotiate better prices for its drugs from drug manufacturers would be lifted.

I strongly oppose Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act. We have gay marriage here in Massachusetts, and it doesn't do straight married people like me a whit of harm. But I guess I'm willing to give Obama another couple of years to work on those things: you gotta admit, his plate is kind of full.

The one area where I think your criticism is completely legitimate is over Obama's continuation of Bush-era policies on wiretapping and indefinite detention. I felt he was weak on those issues before he was elected (his vote on the FISA Amendments Act was a clue), and he has proved weak on them in office. It doesn't make him worse than any potential replacement, but it doesn't endear him to me. On the war in Afghanistan, he's done exactly what he said he'd do during the campaign, which I may disagree with, but it's not a core issue for me.

As for whether he has raised the standing of America in the world, the results of that are in, and are indisputable.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/america-is-now-the-most-admired-country-globally---jumping-to-the-top-of-the-2009-anholt-gfk-roper-nation-brands-indexsm-63522002.html

So much for us. Now let's turn to you, and to what conservatives offer.

Do they offer anything to help tame the deficit? No. All they offer is the same tired talk about the importance of tax cuts for the rich.

Do they offer anything to help cure the healthcare crisis? No. All they propose is shovelling further federal money into the pockets of private healthcare insurers, and removing any regulations that require them to provide insurance of adequate quality. The result will be that the only product available in the marketplace will be high-priced insurance that doesn't cover anything that might be expensive for the insurer. I'm not sold.

What do conservatives offer to help solve the housing crisis? End the Community Reinvestment Act, which I have personally seen sustain the prosperity of low-income neighborhoods. The only remedy conservatives seem to be able to offer in stormy seas is shooting holes in everyone else's lifeboats.

On Social Security, I must have missed conservatives' proposal to raise Social Security payments to a level that will not leave most of our seniors indigent and unable to pay for rentals on the private market. Perhaps you can enlighten me.

On wiretapping and detention, I again must have missed conservatives' newfound respect for human rights. When they start actually repudiating the horrific practices started by the Bush administration and continued under Obama, advocating meaningful decreases to our bloated defense budget, or talking about not having military bases in more than ninety foreign countries, then I'll start listening.

Till then, all we get from conservatives is macho posturing about how Obama is just not macho enough to win the fear of our enemies. Enough already! Aren't millions of dead Middle Easterners enough for you guys?

Seriously, did you truly expect to the apocalypse to be resolved and all of our problems to be go away in eleven months? It never ceases to amaze me how educated people can abort their spiritual and rational logic all for the sake of remaining faithful to their polical parties. I've never arbitrarily supported one wave candidates just for the sake of political affirmation. To me, it comes down to what candidate or candidates more closely represents my own personal views on what's best for the city, state or country. Honestly, do you truly feel as though this country was on the right track the eight years before "Satan", I mean Mr. Obama took office? It's easy to skew numbers in order to try to prove a point that is built merely on biassed judgement. How can people consider themselves to be Christians when they wake up everyday hoping and praying for this man and his administration to fail; and the country fall even further into a state of chaos than it already is. All for the ridiculous right to say: "See, I told you my party didn't screw it up that badly." I was not a supporter of Mr. Bush during his days in office. But I sure didn't pray for him to fail miserably. I always wished for him to do the best that he could until a more qualified and intelligent candidate would someday replace him.