Just about every action Obama has taken the past 18 months has shown me his judgement is sound...

[scheming daemons]

He's hired the right people for the right jobs at the right time.


Because he has proven that his judgement is worthy of being trusted, I'm going to do just that.



He knows Elena Kagan very well. If her interpretations of the Constitution match his, then she'll be an excellent justice.



Too many people complain just for the sake of complaining.

If Obama nominated Sarah Palin, Republicans would still fight the appointment.

If Obama nominated Dennis Kucinich, the 10%-ers here at DU would still find a reason to moan about it.



When a person's track record shows that their judgement is sound... that we made a good decision in "hiring" him to be our President... then trust that judgement.

[jpak]

1. blasphemer!

:D

[maxanne]

2. yep

Judd Gregg was an excellent choice for Secretary of Commerce!

[scheming daemons]

3. I said "just about every".... not "every"

[DJ13]

4. Geithner, Summers too!

[Ernesto]

7. You guys got it right!

I just wish McCain-Palin were in charge.


NOT!

[ultracase24]

15. Why is it a choice between right wing ideas supported

by this administration and a ultra right wing McCain/Palin administration? Why are our choices between right and ultra right/fascism? Where is the left choice?

[pnwmom]

24. Because what you call "right wing ideas" are considered left wing by others.

Because there aren't enough voters espousing views well to the left of Obama's to make a working majority.

[ultracase24]

36. I would call them trojan horses

I call them what they are. Right wing people and their ideas masquerading and pretending to be liberal. Its a classic propaganda tactic thats pretty obvious. An example is mandating people buy a for-profit private defective product. That is about as right wing as it comes. There is nothing liberal about that and those selling that, for example, are engaging in pushing a trojan horse. Everyone knows what a trojan horse is.

In Troy, the Trojan army bore a gift to its enemies in the form of a giant wooden horse. Inside was the vile and viscious enemy waiting to spring out. People need to start calling it what it is.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

34. Because those are what most Americans support.

There are all sorts of push-polls purporting to show that the American people are liberal on specific issues, but if you look at how they actually vote when it comes down to it, it's fairly clear that the American electorate is a long, long way to the right of that in almost every other Western nation.

One of the things that most bothers me about how DU is how many of the posters here attempt to blame everything that is wrong with America on shadowy "them" who manipulate and distort the democratic process, rather than facing up to the fact that the biggest problem is that the electorate is largely right-wing.

[ultracase24]

37. The electorate is not mostly right wing.

Thats a lie perpertrated by the paid off media to calm people down and confuse them when they vote for one thing and get the same old right wing garbage. Considering we have electronic voting in many critical states, I suppose they can sell the most vile conservative garbage there is and pretend thats is what people "voted" on.

The problem is, less and less people are buying that lie, and catching on, albeit slowly.

[Sheepshank]

35. Because that was the choice presented to the general public. n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

21. LOL How long did it take you to dust off this overused canard?

Ever have an original thought?

[Solomon]

5. I posted a statement where I was made aware from a response that Obama

through his appointee, Salazar, is responsible for the oil drilling disaster. I hadn't seen that argued before, but there you have it.

[maxanne]

6. Kenny

is doing a heckuva job!

[pnwmom]

25. Brownie botched the easy job of trucking in water and other supplies

to the Katrina victims in a timely manner, and getting busses in to take them out.

No one -- literally on earth -- is prepared now for the job that they're trying to do in the ocean. It's never been done before, so it's all trial and error. Ken's task is immeasurably harder than Brownie's.

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[maxanne]

10. sorry

you missed the "heckuva job Brownie" sarcasm I was going for.

[pnwmom]

26. You view another Democrat as a "complete and total adversary" simply because

he or she thinks Obama has shown good judgement overall?

With that attitude, you must not have many friends and allies.

[dionysus]

31. with "dems" like you, we really don't need republicans, now do we?

:eyes:

[depakid]

9. Wow- either that's denialism at its finest

or someone's not been paying much attention.

His track record isn't terrible, but it could be a whole lot better.

[ultracase24]

11. His track record

is one of supporting and continuing Republican ideas and policies for the most part. I dont understand why we should trust President Obama when he continues to support right wing ideas, people and policies. Am I missing something?:shrug:

[bigwillq]

12. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[ultracase24]

13. Hey, thanks for the welcome.

[bigwillq]

16. No prob

Enjoy. :hi:

[pnwmom]

27. You're missing a great deal if you can't tell the difference between

people like Scalia and Thomas vs. Sotomayor and Kagan.

[FrenchieCat]

14. I won't say that......

I see some things that if I were President,
I'd do differently. That being said,
naw, he ain't perfect, not even close.

[AtomicKitten]

17. The country was upside down in a ditch on fire.

Although I disagree on some specific issues, all in all I think President Obama has towed the car out of the ditch and put out the fire.

[Usrename]

18. I don't understand his failure to close Gitmo.

It's sort of like Bush's policies.

His first act as president was to say he was closing Gitmo, and that to accomplish this goal he was going to keep it open.

I don't see the sound judgment here.

[FrenchieCat]

19. He was denied funding.......

How would you solve that dilemna?


US Senate denies Obama funds for closing Gitmo
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/05/20/73369.html


House Democrats won't give Obama funds to close Gitmo
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/05/04/67493/house-democrats-wont-give-obama.html#ixzz0nbABeTPJ

[Usrename]

20. As CIC he could ORDER the prisoners moved.

We do have a system here.

Of course, following the laws doesn't seem to be too much of a priority under this administration any more than it was under the previous one.



On edit> You know, this exactly the kind of reasoning that really pisses me off. You KNOW for a fact that he has announced that he has the power and authority to order the murder of American citizens and yet you don't think he can possibly have any say over where we keep detainees?

How do you come up with this stuff?

[cherokeeprogressive]

22. It's the latest religion...

Contortionism

[Name removed]

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[Sebastian Doyle]

28. Well, in all fairness to the OP

He does come from a state where Ed Rendell, Bob Casey, and Arlen Specter are considered "Democrats".

So with examples like that, it's hard to know any better.

[niceypoo]

29. "If Obama nominated Sarah Palin, Republicans would still fight the appointment"

And If Obama nominated Sarah Palin, the blind shills would be shouting her praises from the rooftops. Funny, that.

[dionysus]

30. i agree, but you better have your asbestos suit ready!

:hide:

[IndianaGreen]

32. Obama administration approves 27 New Offshore Drilling Permits

Never mind Obama dragging this country deeper into the quagmire that is Afghanistan, or his continued pursuit of Bush's infringement of civil liberties, or the deals he made with Big Pharma and Big Insurance to preserve the for-profit health care system, or the insane decision to expand offshore oil drilling and build more nuclear plans, or even his advocacy of the phony "Clean Coal," consider this latest example of Obama's judgment:

Obama administration approves 27 New Offshore Drilling Permits

Edited by John Stokes

The Center for Biological Diversity reports the Obama administration is continuing to exempt new offshore drilling operations from environmental review despite the Gulf disaster. Since the April 20th explosion at the BP rig, the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service has approved twenty-seven new offshore drilling permits. All but one of the projects were granted the same environmental review exemption used to approve the BP drilling site. On Saturday the Sierra Club held a rally for volunteers in New Orleans to help organize the clean-up from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Allison Chin: “Today we’re all here, standing together, to ensure that there’s justice for Gulf communities and to ensure that this never, ever happens again. This is America’s wake-up call. It’s a shame that it takes a tragedy, a travesty like this, to wake up America, but this is America’s wake-up call.”
George Barisich, the president of the Louisiana Commercial Fishermen’s Association, also spoke at the Sierra Club rally.

George Barisich: “That’s up to God. If God keeps the currents and the waves to keep it away from us, so that they can corral it, disperse it, do whatever they can, then we’ve got a chance. But once again, that’s if they stop it, ‘cause if they don’t stop it, as the duration runs out, Mother Nature is going to stick it to you. You got three months, you’re in hurricane season. You get a depression, you don’t need a hurricane. You get a depression, give me four-foot storm tides, that stuff is going over, the oil is going further in. It’s going to kill trees and everything else. Oil kills everything.”

http://lecanadian.com/2010/05/10/obama-administration-approves-27-new-offshore-drilling-permits/

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/10/headlines#6

[paulk]

33. that's a completely subjective analysis

of his judgment...

"Too many people complain just for the sake of complaining."

That's really a shallow argument - many people "complain" because they've reached an entirely different conclusion concerning Obama's judgment than you have. It's a fine thing to have an opinion, and I'm happy for you that you can trust trust in someone else's judgement so completely - but denigrating other people's concerns as "complaining" just because they hold a different opinion isn't cool...