Now who do you wish won the presidency?

If I could choose anyone seeing what's happening now, I'd say Ron Paul. I think it would have been our big chance for a real change and we finally could have cut some wasteful government spending.

I know that I will get hit hard on this, but I think that he is doing as good as can be expected given the economy. I really don't think the country would be any better if McCain was running it, I think it would actually be worse. I think the expectations of what he could do were high, and if he can pull the country out of this great recession in less than 3 years than I don't know how you can be upset by this. The country was in the worse fincial condition in decades when he took over, now you see corporations talking about growth in this quarter, and most are expecting more in the next. If this works out like they are saying, then I wouldn't put any money on Obama drowning anytime soon.

I think he's doing just fine considering what he's dealing with. Are there a few things I'd have preferred he'd done different? Sure. I think there should have been more infrastructure spending in the stimulus bill but he wanted to give the impression of being "bipartisan" which didn't work anyway since the Republicans were just determined not to go along with anything the President wanted. I have no regrets about my vote and I really don't foresee changing my mind. This is one rare time when I must agree with Rose that voting for a third party candidate would be throwing my vote away and there's no scenario I could ever dream of where I could say we'd be better off with McCain/Palin. Annie

Almost ANYONE but Obama or McCain. Obama is what I consider a tragic figure. A great motivator who could do so much, but chose a path so in oposition to what our founders envisioned. Personaly, I voted for Chuck Baldwin. I was torn between him and Bob Barr. I also wished Ron Paul had won the primaries.

This thread is going nowwhere but around in circles!

Anyone but Obama. Other than him, anyone other than McCain. Preferably Fred Thompson or Ron Paul.

I'm so glad I voted for McCain and not Obama. Not that I was thrilled about McCain but looking at the way McCain has voted since the election tells me we would have been better off with him. It would have prevented such massive deficits, although I realize he would not have been able to get much done because the democrats having control of both houses it would have been nothing but veto after veto... but I believe the markets and unemployment rates would have stablized to a certain degree even improved because if washington couldn't pass anything it would allow the free market to fix itself, and the companies that should go bankrupt to go bankrupt and let new companies take shape. Coming from a background of business men and women I know that a big issue the businesses large and small is that all this massive debt is causing businesses to cut make employees and pay raises because they know that they will get hit with the bill. My father is watching right now as a lot of the companies he use to do business with just say the heck with it and retire because they know they won't profit with Obama and the Democrat's policies and with the future health care bill the Democrats are trying to push it will only make it more difficult to provide employee benefits at the level the employees deserve.

I wish now that Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas Governor had gotten it. Personally I believe Obama was about the worst choice we could have made. Not because he is half black because I see him as much white as he is black. That is no different than being half French and Half Irish or any other combination. The biggest problem I have with Obama is he is a do nothing type of man that refuses to stand up at the plate and take a swing. He is not going to put himself in a position where he can be blamed for anything. At least that's what he thinks he is doing. I liked Huckabee's flat rate income tax idea. It would save the tax payers a lot of money. Not only would our taxes be less but the cost of keeping books on our taxes would also be less not to mention the fact there would no longer be a need for IRS and that would save us billions every year. The only problem I saw with Huckabee's flat tax idea is I doubt if the rich members of Government and the rich outside the Government would allow it. Another problem I see with Obama is the fact he is loosing more and more of the support of the people he had when he took office. Even if Obama did try to do something right Congress would block him one way or the other. As long as he goes along with all of Congress's stupid ideas he will be real popular with them. At this time with our economy such as it is we need a man that will stand toe to toe with Congress and anyone else that is trying to control our Government and slug it out with them. Obama will never do that. Art

I am not impressed, but I'm afraid I wouldn't be impressed with McCain either.

I don't agree at all with the actual methods President Obama is using to supposedly "cure" our many sicknesses in America. For my personal beliefs in a free America, I don't think he's doing a great job. He's advancing his agenda and shaping America to fit his particular worldview as quickly as he possibly can. He's spending money like, well, there's nothing in history to compare it to. He's damning the future for the sake of the now, but the now is misleading, because he's not fixing but expanding government's role as a whole. I wish Obama would listen to people outside of his elitist circle and do something good for the country instead of something good for his particular vision of equal suffering at the common level. I think President Obama is a very smart individual, able to precisely articulate whatever it is he wants you to believe, and able to stir up emotion in people, good or bad, no matter what he says. If he were actually working to heal America's economy, strengthen our position in the world, strengthen our defenses, and expanding our liberties while retracting government interference, I would be ready to label him as the best ever! As it stands now, he's to complete opposite of what America is and what America stands for. Those hardcore liberals that can't feel good about themselves unless they're demonizing someone else are head over heels in love with the man. If you're full up with guilt and shame about America, be it for GITMO, suspect man-caused warming, slavery and the JC South, the poor, etc, then progressive liberalism is like therapy and Obama is Freud. But if you're a hard-working American who was brought up to be proud of your country, work hard and enjoy your fruits, and to live free without government rule, Obama's the Lex Luthor in Metropolis.

He is doing everything he was raised on, thats why I didn't vote for him I'm just surprised at how fast he is being a community organizer for america, I knew what he was when he was running and no way was I voting for him. McCain was a lousy choice too, I only voted for him cause of Palin she ain't washingtonized. To answer your question I give him an F- cause I don't see how his spending will get us outta this mess.

Forget about Barack Odrama, I think we should have voted Rage Against The Machine's lead singer Zack de la Rocha. He knows politics better than most ppl these days.