obama good or bad

With presidentslike George W. Bush, who have practically destroyed every workable thing about America, Thank God there is somebody that can do something to keep the masses from starving long enough to get them back to work. Hopefully things aren't so screwed up that not even Obama can fix them. To some people things like this are a joke. Under the last Republican administration we have gone from a financial surplus to the biggest financial deficit ever. We've seen our country go to war against a country that had already disarmed itself at our demand (no Weapons of Mass Destruction ever found in Iraq). Our former President argued in favor of torturing prisoners of war (would we condone the other side doing the same thing to our guys?). We still haven't gotten Osama Bin Laden (remember 911?). We send billions in financial aid to a country that has a financial surplus (Iraq). The deregulations of the banking & financial service industries have caused millions of people in the middle class (that's where I am middle class, under a million in assets especially now) to have their financial base wiped out. We've seen the greatest numbers in unemployment since the Great Depression. People are losing their homes in record numbers. Finally we get somebody coming in to clean up all the crap that that last administration left behind, and people make jokes about him doing what needs to be done so that people don't starve in the street (since they can't starve in the privacy of their own home anymore). Then we got folks like Rush Limbaugh who are praying that this administration fails and we go the rest of the way down the toilet. It could happen. Then those starving people will be kicking in the doors of the people that they think still have something and nobody's life will be worth a plug nickel. ~ I could laugh at almost anything, but this situation doesn't seem funny to me. I know I will regret posting this because political posts seem to be magnets for negative responses.

It was much ado about nothing.

The reason that his being black matters is that we in the USA have had an awful fight against prejudice. It was only a little over 140 years ago that we fought a civil war over black people being slaves to the whites. It's a historical event that a black man was actually elected as President. All that aside, I don't think Obama is a good president. I've spoken up against him harshly before, but to try to even it out, he doesn't have the experience to lead a nation and he isn't a balanced thinker, which every nation needs. He does have power in the sense that he can appoint cabinet members and so on, that will back his ideas. I agree that there's too much hype surrounding the presidency or leadership of nations. They're all just people. Unfortunately, many of them don't understand that.

I think there nothing big is going to happen with the obama's administration. I watched the inaugural speech of him on the news and it was good but in the end he is just another president of the United States of America and the system will always remain the same. During the campaign, Obama would have been more Lincoln-like had he proclaimed something like "If I can fix (healthcare) by raising everyone's taxes, I will do that, or if I can fix it by raising no one's taxes, I'll do that, or if I can fix it by raising some people's and leaving others' alone I'll do that too." Did anything he say even remotely come close to such a thing?

truthfully i think it's because he is the first black president so that's why a lot of people think a lot of things are gonna change especially for the black people. I am not sure if he would be a good president can't tell just yet until he serves for more than a year. for now he can have good airs since he is still just at the beginning. Some people are good at talking to people using wonderful words but these will pass and what work he can provide and what good he can do to people only time will tell and we'll see if he is as good as he says.

I guess Obama will always be on the hot seat, with all these hypes, and thoughts of him as nothing more than his predecessors. But in my personal opinion, i would say that it is too early to call whether his presidency is bad or good. There are situations which are in poor shape now but are relinquished to him and not based on the policies or decisions he made. Everything is messed up and what he is now preoccupied is to tackle on how to put things in its place so i guess he deserves a little consideration on that. I did have a good look at pre-inauguration and the inauguration itself and i guess he has some real generous friends (lol)

he's in the state between the good and bad.... not involving himself towards developments of others.Others in the mean-struggling people. Really i don't like him.

I think the hype is because he is the first black president. I think thats great. Otherwise, he sucks.

well people think he is the first black president....um his mom was white, so technically he is just as white as he is black, so we'll say is his the first dark skin president.... He is another politician on a powertrip, I think he has a godcomplex...and I think that people blindly follow and worship this MAN, when he obviously is angering a lot of AMericans.... I feel he isnt correctly representing us or doing his best to uphold the constitution. I think it is a lot of hype and I think he is also starting to anger those who helped get him into office...and It is just the beginning! Just a few of my opinions! =)

My issues run pretty deep, it's with the whole dang lot of them, lol. The problem is with his election was yes, hype, heaps of it, and it was a heck of a smoke screen. this man and indeed many of our elected servats, is they are so at odds now with the principals of the founders, it's almost a peversion. I honestly believe an alarming number of people based their vote on pop culture, sound bites, hollywood type sets and award show type speaches, and a great misunderstanding or apreciation for the greater principals at stake and they way things were intended.

Of course you know, Obama is not just another president, he's the first African American Democrat president. This is diffidently something to celebrate.He has made history.I personalty went to the inauguration,there were a lot of people. However, we got there Kinda late,But I was happy just to be there at the monument near the white house to witness history. As for this economic issue. I think Obama has a lot on his hands.I think he is going to do what it takes to change situation but it's going to take time.

well its both infact as he is pretty good outside but in bed he's damn bad with his counterparts, really bagg them hard.

Being the first dark skinned president is the definite reason for all this hype. All the dark skinned people who felt that they have been neglected so far have been feeling quite confident now. This is really good in one way that everyone is feeling happy! Obama, as another politician angle, is a good point to talk about. Until unless the present economic package really creates something substantial as he promised, one cannot say whether he is another politician or a real president in the control of this whole mess we are in.

maybe he will be a good~~~~i have watched some imformation about him on internet~i trust him~~~

First I think it is a great progress for the USA to have a black president now. Because for so many years, the presidents are always white people. And in the other hand, Obama is just another politician in my opinion. Since he was elected as the American president, he does not stand for himself anymore. He begins to speak on behalf of the whole party. Every policy stated by him is made by the party not him. So it is hard to tell obama is good or bad. He is just the speaker of the party. :)

a bloody joke shutting gwontanimo bay now one of the prisinors haed of taliban well done obama well thought through. not!!