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This is getting to easy.

Obama is killing his party. The guy is completely clueless. The American people are starting to listen to people other than him. Every bill has a nice name. "financial reform" or "health care reform" or health care for 9/11 emergency workers. Nice titles, but there's nothing good in the bills. Obama is starting to make George W. Bush look good, and I didn't think he was that great at all. I don't think anyone even takes Obama seriously anymore.........same as when Bush was in his final year or two. People just saw him as a clown. People are seeing Obama as just an entertainer. He's so clueless. Obama needs some lessons from Bill Clinton or someone else from his party who has somewhat of a clue, or else, he'll soon be in the 30s as far as approval goes. He's already there with independents. Right now, Dems are the only ones keeping him from drowning, and as soon as any of them give up hope on him, he's done for.

Walker will win the primary by 20+ points. He's way more popular than Neumann in Southern Wisconsin (translation: where the people are). Then Walker will beat Barret by 6-8%, and be at the capitol the next day.

Obama gets a three-star rating for his performance on "The View" but only a half-star for his performance on "The Economy".

I don't think anyone even takes Obama seriously anymore.

Did they ever? I know i didn't. I could see through the sham from the moment i first heard him speak.

Field Marshall:

Too bad you couldn't see through Bush!

Field Marshall:

Too bad you couldn't see through Bush!

Yes, Field Marshal, such a sham. He's accomplished most of the things he said he would when running for office, and even been more moderate than much of his rhetoric from the campaign (ie: no public option in final HCR), but I'm sure everyone cares that you never took him seriously.

You may not like HCR, or financial reform, or the coming demise of DADT, or saving the auto companies, or any of the myriad things he's done, but that doesn't change the fact that he has been responsible for sweeping, historical changes since coming into office. Hmm...maybe you should have taken him more seriously.

jamesautomatic,

I didn't say he hasn't gotten a significant amount of items passed. Well, congress has passed those things with little or not input from the WH. Perhaps that's why the public is so against the HCR bill; so against the auto bailouts? And that most experts believe that the financial reform bill was a disaster and terrible bill that wouldn't have prevented the last crisis let alone the next one. DADT? Hasn't happened yet but hardly a big legislative accomplishment.

Not sure what is historical about any of it. Clinton did just as much aside from the health care bill. Bush II did just as much as well. Both campaigned and did what they said they would. Were they all "historic?"

Also not sure about being more moderate than much of his rhetoric. There was no public option because his own party was against, not because he didn't support it- he did!

If DADT doesn't happen, I think there will be a gay revolution that will become violent and possibly bloody. Obama has to keep his promise on this or he will be finished in 2012. This is an issue he should have made an executive order on. I was extremely disappointed.

I know that Obama will win in the end on the economy. I think he gets about a b- in my book. I don't think any politician would get a higher rating than that no matter who it was.

Romney stated today that we should have let Detroit go bankrupt? GM was not bailed out, they were loaned money and things are improving. How dare Romney say that all those men and women would be laid off and let them go bankrupt.

He was clearly pandering, because he wants to run for president in 2012, but lets face it, if GM is flourishing and production is up, he'll look like a complete fool.

This is why Obama may deserve a fair grade on the economy, but I can't think of any other politician who would fare any better.

Melvin thanks for reminding me about the KKK meeting. I plan on sharing all of your negro dialect threads with the boys, I'm sure they'll get lots of laughs.

"If DADT doesn't happen, I think there will be a gay revolution that will become violent and possibly bloody. Obama has to keep his promise on this or he will be finished in 2012."

You think that a failure to repeal a law banning openly gay people from serving in the military is likely to read to a violent and possibly bloody revolution?

Say what?

Gay rights haven't moved forward since Obama took office because they remain politically risky, if not politically harmful, in much of the country. Obama's already constrained by the unpopularity of TARP, auto bailouts, HCR, etc. He's not going to touch gay rights before the midterms, and I'd be surprised if he did it before 2012.

It's funny, I was on these boards two years ago when all of the right-wingers were so sure that Obama wouldn't win in the end, and some of us nailed the final numbers pretty close about a month out.

I think Obama is doing a phenomenal job cleaning up Bush' mess, although given the rules of the Senate, it's impossible to really get past the special interest control that corporations have on the Republican party in particular and a handful of Democrats as well.

The biggest thing holding this country back is the Senate rules.

Here's my new prediction.

The Democrats will lose 22 seats in the House in November (net) and hold control. In the Senate, it will be 54-43-3, with Crist, Lieberman, and Bernie being the independents, all three of them "lobbying" with the Democrats, but only Bernie voting with them all of the time. Crist will end up voting with the Dems a lot, and Lieberman will continue to be a tool and general &#&$ who doesn't belong in the Senate of the United States. Without 60 in reach, the Democrats will stop trying to baby along people like Lieberman and Nelson.

This will have gotten Obama past the worst thing he had to worry about (first mid-terms) and set him up for an improving economy and an easy run against whatever idiot the Repugs run in 2012 (please God let it be Palin). Obama wins again and a bunch of you whine more.

I really love the Tea Party. They are going to be what really helps the Dems in November. You'll see.