rainman2203 said:
"If the President does it, it's not illegal!"
Yeah the guy was an ignorant douche with the lowest approval ratings EVAR, but he was still the President. Ex-presidents can't be expected to be held accountable for their actions in office. If he had been charged while in office, then it would be a completely different story. Besides, we all know he wasn't really calling the shots...
Actually, Obama's congress had lower approval ratings than Bush ever did.
And yet people still voted Obama into office....tells you something about the American people. We want a drug president to make us feel good. Why else are people clamoring for Obama to do more late-night televisions?
See, Obama was elected president of the United States with promises of ?Change.? That was the buzz word for months leading up to the election. ?Change.? Obama has completed his first 100 days in office and intelligent citizens are now evaluating how much ?change? Obama has brought to the White House. As he was inaugurated, before he even stepped foot in the White House as president, commentators and supporters were hailing him as a modern day Kennedy or Roosevelt. Before the man had even taken the oath of office, they were idolizing him.
Now that 100 days have passed, we can look back and reflect on what has transpired. One promise Obama emphatically espoused during his campaign was that he would end the War in Iraq. No sooner had he been elected, however, that he announced that he had a chance to evaluate the situation with further information and decided that instead of a withdrawal of forces, he would simply transfer them to Afghanistan (leaving tens of thousands of troops still stationed in Iraq). Hardly the image he painted during his election. During the election, he promised to stabilize the erratic economy he inherited from Clinton and Bush. Here he really had some tough choices to make. Really, there is no easy or ?happy? solution to the economic crisis. Obama used the crisis and the ?politics of fear? (that he attributed to Bush and promised to eradicate) that the economy would come to a total crisis if his stimulus packages were not passed to push through many programs that otherwise would have been shelved for several years, even until a second term should Obama achieve one. When Republican congressmen pointed out the millions upon millions of pork spending in the stimulus bills, they were accused of playing party politics and holding up important legislation (good propaganda for the Obama administration to shove all the woes of society on the opposing party). In addition, the Obama administration has quietly taken direct control of some of the United State?s largest companies such as GM. The president?s handpicked teams are in control of those companies now. They will do what he says.
Finally, as Obama?s 100 days came to a close, we were faced with swine flu. The US has been through several impending epidemics over the past 5 years?bird flu, SARS, etc. and we should know better than to fall into panic mentality when the latest ?life-threatening pandemic? comes our way. The Obama administration seems to have latched onto this non-issue and blown it into something Americans should fear. Obama has successfully sidetracked the American people from important issues by instilling fear in a disease less fatal than the seasonal influenza. Obama may be hoping that this fear will distract the public long enough that they will forget the first 100 days so that when re-election time comes, Obama can revise events that took place three years prior. There has been change, no doubt, even some positive changes. Indeed, I have highlighted some of the more negative aspects of Obama?s infant presidency. He has, for example, followed through on his promise for increasing accessibility (at least at face value) by broadcasting addresses on YouTube and taking advantage of modern communication technologies. But the positive changes seem to be minor. In 100 days, Obama has seized control of major industries, flooded the economy with millions upon millions of dollars, and continued using the politics of fear to make his policies more palatable to a public that adores him and only wants him to appear on late night television to joke around and ensure them that everything is all right.
Don't believe me? Look at the news' coverage of Obama. They talk about everything from the new dog in the White House to the fact that Obama and Michelle kissed on national television. Clearly these are pressing issues of great important to the United States...
