Obama faces heady challenges, and they're growing

Sunday 14th December, 06:58 AM JST

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WilliB at 09:28 AM JST - 15th December

USAFdude:

" We successfully elected Barack Obama President of the United States based on the facts presented during the campaign. "

Facts? ROTFL

Take a look here: http://www.howobamagotelected.com/
Taka313 at 10:25 AM JST - 15th December

vor,

Has it ever occurred to you that your inability to find "reasonable dialog" here at JT could be self-inflicted?

When you present revisionist history as fact and demand that everyone see it your way, you don't do yourself any favors.

But I do like your portrayal of being fair and balanced while relying on neo-conservative talking points:

Blame Daily Kos. Blame the main-stream media.

(Pssst....you forgot to blame Bill Clinton)

Taka
USAFdude at 10:57 AM JST - 15th December

WilliB - "www.howobamagotelected.com"? ROTFL! Check out the results of the election, my friend; glad to be of help.
sailwind at 11:52 AM JST - 15th December

Well don't worry according to the article.

Indeed, Obama exudes confidence.

I feel so much better now, thanks A.P
goodDonkey at 12:01 PM JST - 15th December

VOR said:

you keep wanting to go back in history when the issues at hand are in front of us. good luck to you in the real world where facts are facts and the decisions you derive from those set of facts determines your success or failure.

How typical. I commented because he said "Ronald Reagan took over an economy...[yadda, yadda, yadda]" and then attempting to take the high ground he says, "...you keep wanting to go back in history...[.]" What a feeble attempt at trying to rewrite your own history that is clearly contradictory between the two posts.

VOR at 02:17 PM JST - 14th December

hehehe, talking out both sides of your mouth again smith. Ronald Reagan took over an economy even more decimated then the one we are currently in and fixed it

VOR at 07:19 AM JST - 15th December

...you keep wanting to go back in history when the issues at hand are in front of us

I just had to include the part where he said "talking out both sides [of] your mouth again..." since it also shows his propensity to do what he accuses others of doing.

Just to be clear on my part, any debate must include the past to be rational. I am not the one complaining about using the past as a reference. The truth is you will see every poster refer to history at some point; that is a sign of intelligence. Vor got caught distorting the facts and then hilariously tries to once again take the high ground. He does so by saying "good luck to you in the real world where facts are facts and the decisions you derive from those set of facts determines your success or failure." Excellent advice. Please heed it! I do.
GJDailleult at 12:14 PM JST - 15th December

Seems from the posts here that many Obama supporters were unaware he was relatively young and inexperienced. Apparently their handholders in the MSM didn't tell them, and they weren't on the ball enough to notice for themselves. Well I am a bit surprised by all that. I thought the "Americans vote the way they do because they are stupid" argument was a sign of out-of-touch with the common man, left-wing, intellectual elitism, and/or general Euro-wussiness. Now I see Republicans are making the same argument. Did something change????
sailwind at 12:49 PM JST - 15th December

Did something change????

Yes.....I never saw an article about any other President-Elect in my lifetime praised with the words

From the other perspective, he could be on a glide path to Mount Rushmore

Before he has even stepped foot in the oval office.
Nessie at 01:30 PM JST - 15th December

heady: "extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic"

The headline writers need to use their heads and not their headies. A basic grasp of English would be nice.
Loki520 at 09:52 PM JST - 15th December

Sailwind hit it on the head. The dude hasn't done anything significant yet (well, not for at least 5 years anyway). Give him a chance. If he's as bad as we think, it will be obvious fairly soon. If he's as good as we hope, that should also be fairly obvious relatively soon.

USAF, don't worry about job security. As I'm sure anyone with a bit of seniority can tell you, your quite secure in your job. Present day liberals are getting ready to turn us back into the world's largest public works department... again. They learned their lesson from the peanut farmer and they now realize that gutting the military won't work.
rajakumar at 10:10 PM JST - 15th December

Hope next 4 years will be better with Obama. Criticising Obama is better and will be better read than criticising GWB.
ca1ic0cat at 10:41 PM JST - 15th December

I'm not sure that the president really has a lot of control over the economy so I don't expect Obama to be able to fix it. He can do the public works job projects to keep people from going under but what else is there.

He's certainly got a lot on his plate but so far the people he is putting into a lot of the positions seem to have they're heads screwed on straight. Time will tell.

I just hope that the economic crisis isn't used as an excuse to limit civil liberties the way GWB used the 9/11 crisis to do so.
EurajReturns at 02:29 AM JST - 16th December

ca1:

I just hope that the economic crisis isn't used as an excuse to limit civil liberties the way GWB used the 9/11 crisis to do so.

I was thinking policies like that could be for protection. What was I thinking? You have my word that I will automatically criticize Obama if he does anything pre-emptive against terrorism or any other disaster.
Loki520 at 05:19 PM JST - 16th December

Just out of curiosity, Ca1.... exactly which civil liberties of YOURS have been limited since 9/11?
ptolemy at 04:07 PM JST - 17th December

It's time for Obama to stop saying hope and change and tell the American what to hope in from his policies and just what he is going to change. Thus far all we have is an adjective and a verb to characterize his ideas, but nothing to attatch either to. Empty words.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, we got fooled again.
OhioDonna at 02:04 AM JST - 18th December

As for me, I will wait and see what happens. I do hope things get better however he is going to have to carefully watch his every move. I am concerned more about his and his family's personal safety more than anything else. I did not vote for him but I do respect the office that he will hold.