Thursday, January 21, 2010
Obama's first year
Well, its been one year since Obama took office. I eagerly await the pundits' scorecards on how he's doing. Seems he had a dream about health care, renewed prosperity, Gitmo's dismantling, downsizing Iraq and collecting the money lent to companies 'to big to fail'. How'd he do in his first year? My thoughts are: as well as can be expected. There is no new job growth, except in the government sector. Unemployment still is around 10%. Health care is stuck in the Senate with too many compromises to make it effective. (Death panel crap, abortion rights, and pork additives seem to be more important than health care for everyone.) Foreclosures are still on the rise - I wonder where the money went to redo mortgages? Iraq is still a killing field and we are still there because of the oil . . . Afganistan is an unwinnable piece of ground growing poppies for heroin and idealistic killers of innocent people. Guantanimo is still operating. Seems the people released back to Yemen, etc. are getting their AK-47's loaded and are happy to kill again. Obama did get the peace prize and in his acceptance speech, promised that the U.S. would adhere to the Geneva convention Rules. In other words we still will get places like Egypt to do the waterboarding . . .
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