Amazing how reality has been bent

[Thornleylv]

It is incredible how badly people perceive reality when they don’t pay any attention basic, findable, researchable, recoded, provable and logical Facts.

Now you may one of them if you believe that President Obama has not accomplished much so far. This President has Passed historic Health Care bill that has eluded administration after administration. He has brought back two U.S. citizens from north Korea. Stopping a second world depression. Some other minor things like expanding student loans to millions, stopped a war. Wall Street Reform, and raising a family. On top of all of this his shoots baskets with cool people.

But I guess your right he just has spent his capital in the wrong places. It’s not like he prevented an epidemic like the Swine flu or maybe the biggest man made ecological disaster ever or won the Nobel Prize.
Yet he did it all while dealing with the worst out lash of hatred I have not seen since nineteen sixty eight. If you think about all the great men who have broken these racial barriers from Robinson to Mohammad Ali or the first kids to integrate the University of Alabama they all suffered great personal sacrifices.

Just like women have told me that they can do what ever I do but with heels on, well President Obama has done everything while being the first Black President of the United States. Talk about Hard.

You might be right though and he might not get eight years, I’ll vote for him, but what a hell of a two years he has had.

[mimitabby]

1. yes. that's exactly right

and that's why it was so exciting to me, anyway, when he became president, a black man, that at least enough of us in this country believed that a black man could do it.
But the horrendous bullshit he has to put up with from the minority of us, the racists and haters and ignorant people is sadly being stirred by some big fat rich dudes who can profit from it.

[AndyA]

2. Take off your rose colored glasses about Obama.

That Health Care Bill he passed offers no cost controls, nor does it provide competition. It just delivered millions more Americans into the clutches of the industry.

Equality in America does not exist. Still. Gay people still have far fewer rights than everyone else. I would expect a black man to have a lower level of tolerance for discrimination, but apparently not.

How many millions of gay people and how many millions of people with health issues that still haven't been helped by this reform have been pushed away by Obama? I guess if you're not gay, and if you have good health care through your employer, Obama looks pretty good to you. But if you happen to be one of the millions of people who have dropped through the cracks, and then allowed to remain there by Obama, it ain't so hot.

Obama and the Dems cannot afford to throw away the support of all these people, but that's what they've done through almost two years of inaction and failure to lead and stand up to corporate America and provide health care for all with a public option.

I guarantee you if the health reform that passed had a public option, and if DADT was history right now, and gay people had legislation under way to give them the same rights everyone else already has, things would look vastly different for Obama and the Dems.

[DonCoquixote]

4. I will agree, but

that he should have used executive orders to kill DADT. I do not know if he could kill DOMA as well. However, after that, he would still have to deal with the Blue Dogs, who are GOP in action. It's not like he can wave his wand and say "Gay marriage is the law of the land!"

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Your historic healthcare bill is neither.

it's a health insurance bill that cements US healthcare to the employers at a time of rising unemployment. The insurance industry stands to make billions while more and more Americans fall into poverty, driven into bankruptcy by healthcare costs. The few actual accomplishments of the bill could easily have been passed as the minor tweaks they really are.

What good is being able to take your health insurance with you after you lose your job when that insurance triples in cost and you have no more income? It's pathetic.

healthcare was NOT a win for this administration - it was a major loss.

[Odin2005]

5. A give-away to the insurance companies is not "Reform"

There is no Recovery except for the Rich.