Thoughts & Commentary on the Obama Administration

**PanzerJaeger** · 08-27-2010, 01:06

Didn't that swamp creature he's married to just get back from vacation in Spain?

**al Roumi** · 08-27-2010, 11:37

I saw this on the economist and thought it might be of relevance and interest to this thread: After Iraq, America has had a bruising decade. But do not underestimate either the superpower or its president

**Strike For The South** · 08-30-2010, 01:27

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

Didn't that swamp creature he's married to just get back from vacation in Spain?

RACIST!

**Xiahou** · 08-30-2010, 01:42

What's it mean when people are asking for Bush to speak out and help clean up the mess that Obama has made with his comments? I thought Obama was supposed to be the eloquent one....

From the NY Times:

The war against the terrorists is not a war against Islam. In fact, you can’t have an effective war against the terrorists if it is a war on Islam.

George W. Bush understood this. And it is odd to see Barack Obama less clear about this matter than his predecessor. It’s time for W. to weigh in.

**PanzerJaeger** · 09-02-2010, 05:33

HAH

We'll start rolling out our Ohio poll results tomorrow but there's one finding on the poll that pretty much sums it up: by a 50-42 margin voters there say they'd rather have George W. Bush in the White House right now than Barack Obama.

Independents hold that view by a 44-37 margin and there are more Democrats who would take Bush back (11%) than there are Republicans who think Obama's preferable (3%.)

A couple months ago I thought the Pennsylvanias and Missouris and Ohios of the world were the biggest battlegrounds for 2010 but when you see numbers like this it makes you think it's probably actually the Californias and the Wisconsins and the Washingtons.

There's not much doubt things are getting worse for Democrats...and they were already pretty bad. Somehow the party base needs to get reinvigorated over the next two months or there's going to be a very, very steep price to pay.

**Xiahou** · 09-19-2010, 03:26

Change you can believe in

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut requested a wide range of premium increases, which will take effect Oct. 1, to cover the costs of new benefits required by federal health reform. Higher prices mostly affect new members shopping for a health plan on the individual market rather than people who have group plans through an employer or some other organization.

The Connecticut Department of Insurance approved Anthem's request without changes, including a boost of as much as 22.9 percent just to comply with one provision: eliminating annual spending limits per customer. But it's unclear how much more customers will pay because of the variety of plans and the complexity of other factors, such as a person's age.

Wait, Obamacare is driving up healthcare costs? No one saw that coming, huh?

**Beskar** · 09-19-2010, 03:31

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Nope, but that is the whole intention of the poster. It is basically saying "Think Obama is bad? Remember Bush".

Though it is America, they would want Bush, as the results of dumbing down in education pay-off.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 09-20-2010, 05:26

Bush was a big government spendthrift. Why replaced him with an even bigger government bigger spendthrift is beyond me. Oh yeah, now I remember, the electorate had a choice between McCain and Obama.

Of course, our elections have been rather silly of late. Dole in 1996, Kerry in 2004, McCain in 2008...it's not like any of these folks had a compelling campaign going. Add in the results of 2000, where voters were so numbed that they couldn't really pick between them ("other" did well that year) and it's not as though we've had compelling leadership lately. By that standard, Obama isn't so very bad.

**Xiahou** · 09-21-2010, 17:29

This sound about right?

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The analogy I always liked to use was: Bush was driving us off a cliff..... then Obama took over and stomped on the accelerator.