While I don’t care for Obama as president. I don’t think we have had anyone that can turn around the mess that our country is faced with.

The big disgrace is two political partys fighting between themselves like a bunch of squabbling three year olds fighting over a toy .It’s more about party that people.

No one has the right to threaten the president, or anyone else for that matter. But the idea that Joe Biden would be president, or worse than that Nancy Pelosi if something happened to Obama & Biden. I would just as soon have mickey mouse.

David leaving no doubt

Do you really think the previous President spent all his time making things worse? He DID take vacations, you know. I always wondered why people who opposed his work got mad when he stopped working for a while.

And I am reminded of a baseball team and how folks will claim one person lost the game when the team has several players. All contributed to the win or the loss. If Congress passed bad legislation, blame Congress, not the President. If the Judiciary handed down poor rulings, blame the Judiciary, not the President. (other than the obvious fact that some President appointed them and some Senate approved them)

If some of the problems were caused by actions in China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Greece, Zimbabwe, Somalia, surely not all of them were working under the direct command of George W. He just wasn’t that powerful.

And why would it take four years for our President to do any good at all? He strikes me as a smart man. Surely he can undo all the evil and idiocy you lay solely at the feet of his predecessor.

” And as for the spending, do you really think that this country will ever be debt-free, seriously? If I hear another person talking about the debt our children will have to pay. Have you paid any of the debt that all the Presidents beforehand has accumalated? No, I don’t think so.”

Actually, yep. My payments are partly in the form of interest on the debt but I have paid plenty over the years. I’m not sure when interest payments will exceed defense expenses (one of the few legitimate expenses of the federal government) but it’s coming if it hasn’t already happened.

I also pay on the debt by loss of value of money. The numbers of the debt are bigger than they used to be but the debt is lower than it would have been by the devaluation of the dollar. A silver dime was worth ten cents but is now worth something like $1.17, not because silver is any more valuable but because our dollar has been devalued by our deficit spending and inflation.

It’s an invisible tax.

REGARDING:
“So neither will your children. So stop repeating what you hear the news reporters commenting on.”

Surely he can comment? Should they be silenced to make our President look even better than he is? Would that be just for him but for all future Presidents?

REGARDING:
“And besides, everytime we elect a Democrat and they get the country in some kind of working order, the people go and put a Republican in office and mess it up again. ”

The country’s always in some sort of working order, it just doesn’t always work the way we wish it did.

Kennedy was the last president to submit a balanced budget other than Clinton and a Republican Congress. Kennedy did it they say be cutting taxes; I suspect it had more to do with growth of the economy but that is what he said cutting taxes would cause.

President Clinton did it because Congress forced him to keep some of the pormises he had ignored for two years and because he was distracted by his legal problems and not able to spend money as quickly as he and Congress usually did.

Admittedly, George W did an especially good job of wasting money but it looks like he is going to lose the race for best spender. It isn’t about party, even though that gets into the picture. It’s about personal integrity and understanding. Some would argue that has been lacking in the halls of fcongress and in the White House for a while.

David thinking Barack will improve things quicker than four years

It is so hard to believe that people are so simple minded, it really makes me wonder. Did you really expect the mess that it took BUSH eight years to make, would be straigtened out in a year’s time. Show a little intelligence. It will take at least four years before you will even begin to see improvement. This country was in a serious state!! And as for the spending, do you really think that this country will ever be debt-free, seriously? If I hear another person talking about the debt our children will have to pay. Have you paid any of the debt that all the Presidents beforehand has accumalated? No, I don’t think so. So neither will your children. So stop repeating what you hear the news reporters commenting on.
And besides, everytime we elect a Democrat and they get the country in some kind of working order, the people go and put a Republican in office and mess it up again. You would think that they would know the pattern by now.

I’m glad he did, write it down, I mean. I don’t want our President threatened or harmed.

David for accepting votes and not threatening the fathers of little children

David wondering who he actually DID kill