Are You Waiting for President Barack Obama to Fail?  

I think that Obama is leading the country into socialism and I don't listen to Rush. It's insulting to say that those of us who disagree with Obama's policies are all just being told what to think by Rush Limbaugh.

If you walk like a duck and quack like a duck... lol

While I have tried to listen to the enemy, Rush, I just can't.

We already have Socialism. Any senior already has Universal healthcare. (We have Social Security.) It is called Medicare and for the penniless, Medicaid. What a cash cow for the Medical Industrial Complex.

And these bailouts are almost totally Socialist bailouts for the Rich. Let us not forget that Both parties votes for the "Socialism" for the Rich what Bush was still Pres. The 2-party system smells.

Its interesting that you can make this assessment, before he has been in office for 6 months. This type of rhetoric is exactly what I am talking about.

Are you still going to be saying the same thing after the first 4 years have passed? He could have done something great for the people when he signed that first bailout. He should have refused to sign it until a lot of the fat was trimmed off of it. When he was doing so much lying trying to get elected he promised he wouldn't sign a bill like that and it was the first thing he did. If Obama gave a hoot about the American People he is supposed to be serving he could have done some great things in the first 100 days. There was a couple of moves Obama could have made that would have put most of the people behind him but being dirt stupid we wouldn't do it. Now every day he is loosing more and more supporters. The man blew his chances plain and simple.

Art

What are the chances for Ex-governor Palin whipping Obama?

Can anyone imagine how much trouble we would be in with McCain and Palin?

I still wish that Perot had been elected for Pres.

I was and am still totally against this bailout cr*p. I did not consent to these elected contestants to get me deeper into debt.

I don't think Palin would have a chance against anyone. The best man for the job this election didn't get anywhere and that is Mike Huckabee. He was our Governor for several years and did more for the people that anyone I ever knew. I didn't like some of the things he did as Governor but all totaled up he did a lot more good for us than bad.

Personally I wish we didn't even have a President or a Federal Government for them to rum into the ground. Our State Governments can do anything we need and do it a lot cheaper than the Feds can. Our Federal Government are hurting the people a lot more than they are helping us. They continue to cost us more money every year and keep stripping us of our rights. They no longer serve the needs of the people that pay them.

Art

Is this your actual opinion or are you just afraid of change? There are millions of people, US citizens that work hard every day, pay taxes and do not have any health insurance. HMO's that would rather watch children die than provide them with the treatment that they need because they have assessed their health insurance, before assessing the patient. Health care needs to be reformed for these reasons alone. So called health care providers have been getting away with murder for years with their "selection" processes, choosing who lives, who dies and who receives medical care. It's disgusting. I applaud him for stepping in and doing what Bush refused to do, tackle the problem! Oh...thats right... Bush refused to tackle any problem.....how could I forget.

Yes this government backed health care is great. We already have one of the poorest there is why would we want to ad more. Medicare is government sponsored health care. Mine costs me $100 a month and doesn't pay enough to even pay for the paper work to file for payment. My wife spent 16 days in the hospital before she died 4 years ago. Her bill for just the last 8 days was a little over $175,000. Medicare paid a whopping $19,000 of it and guess who is paying the rest of it. Her total bill for the 16 days was over $200,000 and medicare paid less than $25,000 on it. And the people that have medicare are not the only ones that are paying for it. The next W2 you get look on it and see how much medicare taxes you paid. I don't care if you are 20 years old you still pay it.The government needs to stay out of the health care business, period.

Art

Well, as someone who has worked my whole life and has paid taxes all of that time and paid Medicare taxes but who does not have any health insurance, I think that if I am not desperate enough to grasp at a bad health care plan, no one should be.

That's right. I not only have no medical insurance, but I also have a degenerative neurological disorder for which I receive no treatment because I can't afford it. And I STILL think Obama's health care plan is a bad one and would rather have none. Why? Because I care about my country and the direction it is heading. I love the Constitution and the principles my country was founded on. I don't want to see it turned into a socialist nation.

People need to stop seeing every candidate and every issue in terms of what they personally can get from it. Why is it that we have lost the ability to do what is right, even when it costs us something to do so?

Rollo,

Sorry to hear about your health problems.

I just had a very different experience with Medicare when my Mother was hospitalized twice in December 2008. Medicare paid out over $52,000 on that month alone. Oh, we have paid thousands but the picked up most. Mom died May 4, and by then death was a blessing. If one lives long enough, they get old... The Watch Out!

I think that is the BIG Elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. Thank you for bringing this up. It is a reality. Even I did not want to say it, but it is true, not all caucasian men think this way, but the ones that do are having a hard time dealing with President Barack Obama being a black man. Thank you for your post!

Well, guess we can't disagree with the president anymore, Steve says he's black and if we disagree with his policies, we are all racists. Darn, and I thought that I had ideological differences with Obama. Guess I was just an ignorant racist. Go figure.

Bailey, you are quite welcome.

Ah, Rollo, haven't heard from you for awhile. Honestly, I cannot recall whether you have exposed yourself as a racist or not. But I guess from your comment, you must be white, like me. (Actually I am a splotchy pink and tan, old f*art, with freckles, and a growing number of age spots.)

You do enjoy twisting and distorting, so you are not like me.

There are lots of things that Obama has supported and done that I have openly opposed. I promise you I am neither racist nor bigot, so you "argument" is faulty.

Anyway, my public record shows before the election was over that I opposed Senators Obama and McCain who joined President Bush with the first $700 billion bailout attempt that failed. You can visit by website by clicking my hot link on My Lot homepage. I am a white, male, USA apologist for this racist, bigoted world that is being perpetuated by some rich, White men.

The people pushing the racial devide, are a lot of the same people pushing the false left/right devide. I'm not a racists person either, but it does seem that my oposition to the policies of the current administration and congress have earned me that lable with a couple people who have been successfully brainwashed by this same perpetuated devide.

Bailey,

I am honored that your chose my response as best. I wish that my World-view did not make sense.

X-factor,

In summary, while I worked to get Obama elected, before his election I openly disagreed with his vote for the first $700 Billion bailout. I fear that this incredible spiral of deficit spending shows that Obama is being duped and controlled by the puppet masters behind the USA's 2-party "system."

What to do? Elsewhere I've called for a Con-con & you opposed that:

This is a call for a Second Bill of Rights Constitutional Convention.

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2041748.aspx

I'm an advocate that Pluralism could be and should be applied in towns, cities, states, the United States, and Earth. Of course we'll have to outlaw bullying in all its forms for Pluralism to have a chance.

I think we should legalize it all, plus amnesty for imprisoned users. There is the Legal and incarceration Complex that is a big waste.

Yeah, but if he taxed pot as much as he taxed cigarettes I'm not sure anyone could afford it. Besides he wants everyone healthy so they don't need to use that national health care of his. Pot will get you cancer faster than cigs.

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I hadn't said it before but I have thought the same thing. Either Obama wants to fail or someone he trusts wants him to. It sure seems to me like someone is pulling his strings.

Art