Did the American people vote for Obama so he could do this?

I agree that our problems can't be blamed on any one administration. Right now, it's important that the democrats keep the focus on Bush, even though he isn't president anymore. They need to keep the focus off what they are doing. This obsession they have is a little bizarre. They won and that should make them happy, but instead they are still wailing about the previous administration as if they are still running against them. They just don't want anyone looking too closely at their recent activities.

Regardless of what the previous administration did or did not do, Obama is now doing things that were not on his list of proposed policies when he ran for office. This administration has taken on the attitude of a giant corporation itself, plotting hostile takeovers of private businesses. I just wonder how many people had this in mind when they voted for him. They can keep the dividend check, just send me my company car.

And people who disagree with him will go on the Department of homeland Security's watchlist for extremists and terrorists. As an American who was brought up to believe that free speech is guaranteed by the Constitution, that's a problem for me.

People keep saying we should give him time. The problem is, we don't have a lot of time. Plus, look at the damage he's done in just a short time. He sure didn't take time to think about the decisions he made or take the time to read most of the bills he signed into laws that affect the American people.

You don't say whether you still live in the Philippines or if you are in America now. I think your opinion on the president has to be formed by your experience, mine is as someone who has grown up in America. This is my country and I don't want to see it destroyed. America has been bringing security to the world for a century, maybe it's time we worried more about our own.

That's very enthusiastic of you and I appreciate the pom-pom waving but it really didn't answer the question.

Oh schools have been teaching their own little agenda for years, even when I was in school. They don't actually require a course in the Constitution and government anymore, so it's no wonder people don't know how it's supposed to work.

I don't know--I got a pretty good idea of the constitution from my last history course. I'm just saying it's better than running the risk of being tossed in Guantanamo for disagreeing with wasting the people's money on Iraq when we could have defended ourselves just fine from the United States own shores if we would have more military stationed for defense purposes. Conquering countries is just going to gain us a bad reputation, especially when our own people pay the price for some war that doesn't do us any good anyhow. If the companies were capable of running themselves, they would have done it right in the first place--the problem with big business is no one actually teaches them how to run it properly and hire qualified and competent candidates instead of "yes men" who sit there and agree with them all the way to bankrupting themselves. However a better alternative for the government would be to require those being hired for a job to pass a basic job competency test and give people a job placement based on the test so we do get more competency in businesses. (In other words bosses of businesses car mostly about power over people and what they want to be right instead of listening to reasonable solutions from people who know what they're doing).