Originally Posted by Robbie

I did. And I saw some things I agree with and some things I did not. Just like I do when I listen to Obama.
That's why I voted for Obama in 2008, and why I will probably vote for a Republican in 2012.

That's the difference I'm trying to point out to you. You are completely partisan. It wouldn't matter to you if a Republican came out with everything you believe in. You would call him names and never vote for him or even acknowledge the points he made.

And you won't acknowledge the huge mistake that Obama has made by not focusing on the economy and instead letting Reid & Pelosi pretty much screw the country.
Dude...come on. The Dems gained control of both houses in 2006.
Then they had Obama as President.

That was TOTAL control from 2008 to 2010. They should have passed the CORRECT health care in a week. They should have been able to pass some kind of jobs bill in the first month.

Instead they couldn't even pass a budget. And they took a bad situation and in my mind made it worse.

That's not the Republicans fault. That was pure Democratic Senate & Congress greed and corruption fighting over their pork barrel spending.

And no...I don't think it was ideology. I think it was Obama being a young and very inexperienced guy (not only in politics...but in any position of authority or business, etc.) and he respectfully deferred to the much older and experienced Reid & Pelosi.

They led him the wrong way. And he should have had much better advisors around him to tell him to stand up and LEAD and not follow those two.

Now it's time to pay the piper.

Here is my NON-partisan view: I voted for Obama. I wanted to believe all the things he said. And like the millions of independents who have abandoned him...I was sorely disappointed. And now I'm looking for anybody with STRONG leadership qualities.

I hoped that Obama would pull his shit together in the second two years like Bill Clinton did. But apparently he is no Clinton.
Instead he is out doing what he really loves: Giving speeches and campaigning.
Very disappointing to me.

And the crazy thing is folks like you who are just purely 100% political party oriented refuse to see what happened. Just like in 2010...2012 is going to be a slaughter. It didn't have to be.
As I said, Bill Clinton was super smart. And when he saw what happened in 1994, he turned himself and the country around. Obama sadly did not. He continued to let Reid & Pelosi "guide" him and that led to gridlock.