Analysis: Turbulent times and change elections

In this case, the BUTS far outweigh the YES column. What people are calling successes are mostly smoke, mirrors and half truths. In addition, there is no basis for blaming the Republicans. The democrats had control of the whole show. Look what they did with their golden opportunity! In two years, the economy has consistently gotten worse, even with all of obama's bailout. It is interesting that the party 'of the people' couldn't get any of that money in a place that would benefit the people. Another myth that the dems live by is that they care for the people!

I believe the BUTS far outweigh the YESS! Just because you say it, doesnt make it so. He fixed the economy - see? it didnt happen even though he said so. He fixed unemployment - nope, not all better, worse in fact. He fixed health care - LMAO I have nothing to say here. Cash for clunkers stimulation stimulus more bail outs fannie/freddie - why do they even still exist? foreign policy homeland security cap and trade YES WE CAN! pay more

I am a foreigner .... and what I see from the outside this president is following a mission rather than a schedule. Give him another 10 years in power and both US economy as well as US welfare will change to the positive and all the world will benefit. I trust that he is carrying his burden of responisbility better than his predecessors who lead your nation into wars or simply lost the nuclear code for weeks and months.

think the buts ned to be looked into deeply and best thing to do is get obamacare out of there and fast plus they should have gave the people more of the stimulas might of helped economy more than all the bailouts. Lets hope this election comes around the way we would like and get some honest people in there that work FOR THE PEOPLE!

For what its worth the buts far outweigh the yeses since I would not consider these as yeses. The so called stimulus and bailout projects did not stabilize the economy, it actually made it much more fragile. The National Debt has been quadrupled, and the banks that have been "stabilized" are not providing any loans to anyone for anything because they are afraid of going under again. My children, my grandchildren and my great grandchildren will never have the luxury of owning their own home or having a new car because the middle class has been branded unstable economically. Now why is that? because we have had soaring unemployment for several years and the percentages just don't tell you the whole story. The percentages are doctored so as not to panic the public, but even so any percentage over 3% is bad economically. We are having a serious nosebleed economically and everyone is turning their heads and ignoring it, because it can't happen to the USA. Wake up call number one, we keep giving the rich the power to govern the poor and they don't have a clue as to what it takes for poor people to survive, they just think more money will solve the problem. We got ourselves some Obama care, a health plan that is ambiguous at best and about as easy to navigate as smoke. When I get sick, I want to make the decisions about who and what treatment I will take, I certainly don't want to have to seek an act of Congress to take an aspirin. Health care and health insurance was difficult enough to understand without Obama care making it into total quicksand. I don't see Wall Street as the culprit causing the recession, since very few people can afford to invest money, and smart people know you don't invest in the stock market unless you can afford to lose it. The recession, I think, falls squarely on the banks and their faulty and inept lending practices, which caused small business and mortgage failures to be too excessive. Obama is right delivering change isn't east, especially when the changes just make things worse. And there is more change on the way, something which really makes things worse. Check this link out and see if it doesn't make you angry http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-4646