Obama's Hissy Fit

[Sacred Jellybean]

The people were complete idiots for electing as president the first guy who promised that he would do everything differently from the last guy.

You mean we should have contacted our psychic friends to learn that he'd renege on many of his campaign promises? I fail to see how it's stupid to vote for what could potentially be another steaming bowl of shit oatmeal as opposed to what surely would have been another.

I still don't regret my vote.

And, then, proceeds to pretty much do the same things, such as bailing out failing corporations,

I'm still unsure whether this was the right thing to do. A report I heard on the radio recently indicated that GM seems to be on the right track again, so letting them fail and allowing Detroit to spiral even further down the sink hole looks even more like the wrong decision so far.

pandering to corporate interests by letting health insurance companies dictate the future of American health care,

I don't like this either, though if they had their way there wouldn't have been any reform at all. At least more people will be insured and insurance companies can't reject people for pre-conditions. You have to remember that the health insurance companies have enough influnce over congress that we would have had to work with them in some fashion anyway.

The health reform bill doesn't nearly go far enough, but at least it's something.

continuing both overseas wars,

Removing ourselves from both wars won't be easy or immediate. It's dissatisfying that it's taking longer, but I think you and I could both agree that it'd be a terrible idea to pull out immediately and let them descend into even further chaos.

completely mishandling major disasters in the Gulf of Mexico,

How so?

placating his supporters with just the right amount of insincere kick-ass jingoism.

Which you would think make conservatives warm up to him. He's nowhere near the ultraliberal everyone painted him to be, so what's the beef? Obama's biggest downfall in my eyes, he's too willing to try to please everyone. Certainly you have to work with the opposing side to get things done, but he takes it too far.

And his promise of transparent government apparently doesn't apply to his own birth certificate or college transcripts.

Only the lunatic fringe cares about these things. They're chickenshit compared to legitimate Obama complaints. You're right that he hasn't been anywhere near transparent enough as he should be or promised to be (holding meetings behind closed doors, for instance).

Obama will lose his re-election campaign in 2012 to a Republican

I see you've already contacted your psychic friend!

The Democrats and Republicans are equal-opportunity fuck-ups.

No argument here.