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sporks said:

It's not what he inherited, it's his proposed fixes. Nationalizing banks. Nationalizing the auto industry.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Tripling the national debt in a single year.

As opposed to the well-invested money in the Iraq war (still haven't been given a real reason why it was started).

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Obama has earned the scorn he receives from people who understand that liberty and free-enterprise are inextricably linked,

Liberty is for people. Not corporations. When a corporation comes begging for a handout claiming "we're too big to allow to fail" it means they've already failed as a "free-enterprise". When banks have to resort to what is effectively a mortgage ponzi scheme, they've already failed as a "free-enterprise."

It's funny that all the republicans touting liberty and free-enterprise all of a sudden became socialist with respect to the American tax payer bailing out corporate executives whose greedy mistakes came back to bite them in the behind.

[mccaskey]

Guesses on whether it included stolen music or videos? Wouldn't you love to know?

[Inkling]

At first, I also thought this was a silly April Fool's joke. Then I remembered, "Wait, this is the same guy who gave US-region-only DVDs to the British Prime Minister." There are people in the White House who know how to handle protocol with finesse. That's why Clinton and the Bushes did not make these sorts of blunders. Obama doesn't listen to them. He is The One.
To be more specific. Obama fits the classic definition of a narcissist, and one of their traits is an inability to see through any eyes but their own. That's why he can't understand two sorts of people at opposite poles of the spectrum: Queen Elizabeth, with her 1930s English sense of decorum, and the Taliban, which is as obsessed with violence and repression as old school Marxists.
Nothing in Obama's past indicates that he'd even make an adequate city mayor. He has no significant accomplishments as an executive or a legislator. In Chicago, he headed a program that spent $165 million on the city's schools with no discernible impact. In the Illinois legislature, his name was attached to legislation written by others. In the US Senate, he left no one impressed. As President, he can't even control his own party in Congress.
Get ready for a long and embarrassing four years. Those who remember Jimmy Carter know what I mean. Even the liberal, east-coast intelligentsia who pushed him on us are starting to grumble.

[oluf]

KPO said:

What the article doesn't mention is what kind of iPod she got. Was it a Touch, a Classic, or a Nano? All it said is that it has videos and pictures from her trip to the US in 2007.

I would expect it to be an iPod Shuffle, as we are facing a serious Financial Crisis .... :-(

[Dfluxx]

Hatred? Why is criticism of Obama immediately called "hatred"? You liberals seem to think everyone out there is just like you, and if not, they are hated. It was okay for you to criticize Bush at every turn, but can't accept a word of it towards your "messiah".

[Dfluxx]

Obama is neither a good speaker or good communicator.. he is a good READER

[veggiedude]

"Nothing in Obama's past indicates that he'd even make an adequate city mayor."

And yet Newt Gingrich said he was more qualified to be president than Abraham Lincoln.

So far, his first 8 weeks has been better than 8 years of GW Bush.

Get over it.

[OldMacDude]

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{quote:title=macFanDave wrote:}

It is a matter of fact that Barack Obama speaks very well and that improves America's image in the world, especially the English-speaking countries. I believe he leads very well and history will remember him as one of our most effective presidents.

This is a joke, right ? I mean you can't be serious, a "matter of fact"? Um, uh, er, uh, um Oh, Please.

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{quote:title=macFanDave wrote:}

The next four to eight years are not really about whether Barack Obama succeeds or fails, but whether the United States of America succeeds or fails. So what are you: a patriot or a Republican?

Score another one for the left being consistently hypocritical. I want Obama to succeed just as much as you wanted G.W. Bush to succeed and you wanted the Iraq war to succeed. Go ahead, play that one again. I am a patriot and a conservative. They are not mutually exclusive, unlike "patriot" and "liberal".

An iPod filled with your own speeches is the perfect Obama gift.

[cpoff]

The political mudslinging has gone far enough now. The president's encounter with the queen is the article topic, so please don't stray too far.

Thanks.

[dougster]

CNN said she actually asked Obama to bring her an iPod. Things are rocky all over the world...

[Goldarn]

Obama is a great speaker ... as long as he is being fed by his teleprompter/

I'd lay odds that you think that Ronald Reagan was a great speaker. When he was in the UK once, the teleprompter broke, and he stood there, in silence, until it was fixed.

Pres. Obama, on the other hand, not only has great taste in music technology, he also gives unscripted hour-long press conferences.


While no one will accuse Bush of being a great communicator, his words were usually his own.

That is the worst back-handed compliment I've ever seen. ROTFLOL

[Chris Breen]

As Curt suggested, let's keep this on topic. There are loads of other places on the Web to fight over politics.

[Mac007]

It's interesting to note President Obama had his people contact the Queens people and found out before hand what she liked and that is why He gave her an iPod with not only her previous visit to the U.S. but also a collection of songs from her favorite American composer. He then topped that off with a song book with lyrics to those songs signed by the composer himself, Richard Rogers. I think that speaks very well of our new President and I didn't even vote for him. I don't regret that by the way and I stand by my choice. In the meantime I pray for our President and when we agree I will stand by him. When we don't I will try my best to disagree without being disagreeable about it.