A Turning Tide?

Obama still has the approval of the people, but the establishment is beginning to mumble that the president may not have what it takes.

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  • Posted By: NOT an OBOT @ 04/27/2009 5:40:34 PM

    Barry Soetoro (his self-acclaimed REAL name), is a pathetic joke! This teleprompter in chief has paid MILLIONS to hide all of his personal records, birth certificate, and school records. Don't respond to me....ask HIM why! This usurper got elected by the fraudulent actions of ACORN (voter fraud in HOW many states, now?). and is a moron who is determined to ruin this country with his desire for POWER and MONEY!!

  • Posted By: NOT an OBOT @ 04/27/2009 5:39:45 PM

    Barry Soetoro (his self-acclaimed REAL name), is a pathetic joke! This teleprompter in chief has paid MILLIONS to hide all of his personal records, birth certificate, and school records. Don't respond to me....ask HIM why! This usurper got elected by the fraudulent actions of ACORN (voter fraud in HOW many states, now?). and is a moron who is determined to ruin this country with his desire for POWER and MONEY!!

  • Posted By: coldhardtruth @ 04/06/2009 8:44:20 AM

    When American people wake up and see that government does not want people to be able to see the dishonest acts they commit that way the government can get away with it free,take for example when bush was SO CALLED elected into office 9 years ago and it just so happened that the Florida polls just happened to stop working, and oh by the way it was the Florida count that made him president and DON'T FORGET that jeb bush was the GOV. OF FLORIDA AT THE TIME!!! AND NO ONE DID ANYTHING ABOUT THAT!!! However just let all Americans keep sitting on there lazy behinds letting politicians continue to ruin the American way of life namely republicans and watch what happens,its already started and it will get worse! Do you want to live under a bridge with no means to enjoy life watching your children do without, unable to afford not even the simple things in life the whole time watching hispanics get your jobs or see your job moved to good ole mexico where the wage is .07 cents per hour?Wake up America if the hispanics were such good people there country wouldn't look like a dump and drug traffic would not be the trade of choice its that way because that's the way the hispanics are!!! If the American people rose up today to take back America who do you think would win?and whose side would YOU be on?America has stopped standing up for anything So America is falling for everything,GET RID of the republican party all together!!! Come to Tennessee and look into the double standard work comp policy,look into the 800,000.00 per year pay of the top person of TVA,look into why people of small towns like westmoreland pay 80.00 a month for water when people of the richer neighborhoods like brentwood pay only 12 to 24 dollars,ask a local atty.if businesses in the state are ALLOWED to operate under levels of dishonesty hear it for yourself,ask Diane black the idea she has on getting more money for the state(raise the taxes on the service industry that means construction)ask people what the term means the right to work state let me tell you,it means that business owners have the right to pay you sub standard wages for pay and stuff the rest in there pockets,it means that business owners have the right to give a skilled trade job to a friend or someones cousin or bubbas brother who IS NOT TRAINED TO DO THE JOB RIGHT BUT THEY WILL GO IN AND DO SUB STANDARD WORK SO THE JOB WILL FAIL AFTER 1 YEAR AND THE CUSTOMER HAS TO BY IT AGAIN AND THAT'S WHAT KEEPS THE BUSINESSES HERE IN TENNESSEE IN BUSINESS,SO THE TRAINED WORKER HAS NO CHANCE HERE TO GET A JOB UNLESS YOUR WILLING TO COMPLY WITH THE DISHONEST METHOD OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE!! Here in this state its one dishonest act after another!!! Ashamed to be an American at this point I fully understand how you feel and I to was fro Hillary and was very sad when she did not make it!!! And this is the COLDHARDTRUTH !!!

  • Posted By: smithyj @ 03/28/2009 5:50:53 PM

    Obama has been a pleasant surprise. He claimed he'd rule from the center and be the president of both sides of the isle and, thankfully, completely abandoned that position with the first week in office. I say thankfully because after 8 years of excessive Republican spending, Obama is going to blow them out of the water with Democratic spending to make your head spin. Maybe then, the American people will get mad enough to realize there is something wrong with the washington establishment and get rid of a lot of the other sucker fish that have been bleeding our economy (Frank, Dodd, Rangle). Unfortunately, there may not be much left of our nation by the time we get there.

  • Posted By: GaltLives @ 03/27/2009 4:04:04 PM

    Sacrifice? Most Americans just gave up half their home value and half their retirement funds. Now it's time for the government to sacrifice by cutting out all pork and reducing taxes.

  • Posted By: southern belle @ 03/13/2009 4:20:51 PM

    Mr.Fineman is FINALLY seeing what the rest of us saw-a neophyte with a merry band of robin hooders.This guy is an addict.He admits to marijuana,cocaine,and cannot stop smoking. His drug of choice now is the 5% of americans who supply 80% of jobs-to all of you-FIRE everybody!!!! Take your money and hide it outside the US before it's too late.Addicts have a lot of inner anger and envy-his is just beginning to show.

    • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 03/14/2009 10:08:14 PM

      Southern Not A Belle, do us a favor, stay down south.

      • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 03/14/2009 10:53:13 PM

        Whats wrong...you KNOW she is telling it right...He is a DOPER...always has been...always will be....Even AA acknoledges...once an addict...always an addict.

        NOBAMA!!!

        • Posted By: Phil in Tucson @ 03/26/2009 10:48:05 PM

          You have apparently lost your mind if you ever actually had one; drugs or no. Ms. Belle here thinks she's a latter day Ayn Rand and you're doing the ditto head to her rants... Get a grip.

  • Posted By: Phil in Tucson @ 03/26/2009 7:38:37 PM

    Is this the same establishment that got us in to all this trouble in the first place? So he doesn't have what it takes to please them? Then maybe he's actually on the right track. It's barely been a couple of months Howard, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.... I've already seen this article quoted by the party of NO people to suppor their blather. You can do better.

  • Posted By: BBIinMass @ 03/23/2009 9:47:41 PM

    The pundits need controversy to drum up ratings. No real substance is being discussed that I can tell. It's this one against that one. Enough. Most people can't be bothered anymore with the "news media's tricks". It took a long time to get into this financial mess and it'll take some time to figure it out and turn the thing around. Give Obama and his team credit for heroic efforts in such short time. Reasons for the financial debacle: At the top - Overly paid "executive compensation, greed, short-sightedness, fraud, selfishness, gambling. And for the rest of us? Temptations of over-consumption garnered by advertisements thrown at us at every turn. Enough. How about sustainable living and equitable pay? What concept!

  • Posted By: jncc1701 @ 03/23/2009 6:53:26 PM

    must be a slow news day - Obama cannot fix the worse economy in 30 years in two months?!!!!!!! OMG!!!

  • Posted By: screpea @ 03/23/2009 10:51:35 AM

    I think there are two faces to BO. One, which the public enjoys is the personal. He and his family are so "father knows best" type. Genuine. He comes across as a real person, what you see is what you get. How different than the Bush's backroom secretive methods, neo-cons making policy in the back room, VP the power that was not accountable. Now, the Other OB is the ultra liberal, maybe even European socialist, that has a very strong agenda. You see it in the budget, you see it in his speeches, you see it in his priorities. That makes us very uncomfortable to say the least. And finally, the performance factor. All of what Fineman listed as drops are right on. Yet, at this point, I'm ready to give him a pass for at least 6 months. He was handed quite a basket of issues and problems, and I don't expect everyone hitting the ground running day one.A lot of this is just inside the beltway, and radio talk "take me downs". He got to be able to hit some doubles and triples soon though, or confidence will start melting away.

  • Posted By: Rihan53 @ 03/21/2009 2:49:31 PM

    Bush wasted our time lives and money on a fraudulent war to enrich Haliburton and maybe get some cheap oil, it hasn't worked out and he has made even more Active Enemies for us to deal with from those that just prayed that we died out.
    Obama thou is trying to bail the boat by drilling more holes in it to let the water out. Let AIG and CITI fail they are International problems and that is were the money will disappear to.

    • Posted By: lattina1 @ 03/22/2009 2:36:13 PM

      • Posted By: coldhardtruth @ 03/22/2009 11:04:05 PM

        and the free ride begins all the time her so called man is still around getting the work that AMERICANS should be getting living on easy street and lets not forget the money they make on selling drugs that there people traffic in from good ole MEXICO,AND WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SITTING BACK LETTING IT HAPPEN !!! and this is just a small portion of the COLD HARD TRUTH !!! STAND UP AMERICA WE CAN TURN THIS COUNTRY BACK INTO THE LAND OF THE FREE THE BRAVE AND THE PROUD. REMEMBER UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL,GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

    • Posted By: coldhardtruth @ 03/22/2009 10:54:30 PM

      Enter Your CommentWell well well all I read is Obama this and Obama that but no one mentions the first things we as Americans NEED to do,1st get rid ,send back,force back ALL Hispanic people from this country that means ALL those in our jails also! send back,force back,get rid of ALL people from the middle east that are here as well!! That alone will free up how many jobs? do some simple math !! How much money will that save American tax payers? Think about it! Then Government needs to step in and closely look at how each state is being ran,the wrongs that are being done to the working people,the old,the children that are AMERICANS,I have lived in different states and I can tell you waste,dishonesty,greed,disloyalty and last but not least corruption from government down to business owners are at an all time high.We the people run the government the government DOES NOT RUN THE PEOPLE,it takes the people to stand up,stand together,speak together,act together to get something done,if we the people sit and do nothing but whine on these blog sites then everything WILL GET WORSE !!!! DO YOU UNDER STAND? Why is it that from the Boston tea party to the civil war people stood together and FOUGHT, FOUGHT HARD TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE BUT NOW WHEN THE TIME HAS COME TO FIGHT AGAIN ALL PEOPLE WANT TO DO IS TYPE THERE ANGER ON TO A BLOG SITE? Let the new world order take affect and see what happens next,then you can type your little key board punching fingers TO THE BONE if you still have a key board to type on I'm 49 years old and have raised my two daughters alone for the past 10 years my trade was Tile installation tech.I have a web site, see my work www.freewebs.com/coldhardtruth I filed taxes on 45 to 51,000.00 per year till July 2008 the Hispanics came in like cockroaches taking the work doing it for 1/4 of what it should pay,they don't have the right tools,they don't have the experience,THEY DON'T DO THE JOB RIGHT!!! Does the contractor care?NO! Does the contractor charge less?NO! The contractor just shoves that extra money into his pocket and puts the screws to the customer AND THEN to add insult to injury AMERICANS (SOME) have turned to doing sub standard work for the cut rate pay saying well the Hispanics do it and what the hell !etc....This is going on from flooring to all trades in construction,companies,businesses AND WE THE PEOPLE ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN!!! Well you just keep sitting there in your chair and see where things end up.Oh and by the way I worked alone and still have to find a way to finish raising my two daughters 16 and 18 and get them through collage something we AMERICANS HAVE TO PAY FOR!! Do I have to tell you what it costs the AMERICAN TAX PAYER for OCTO MOM and that litter she squirted out a total of 14 kids NOW there's AMERICAS tax dollars at work!!! and in every state the SAME type of waste is going on!! THAT MAKES ME SICK AND SO SHOULD IT ALL OF AMERICANS!!! The Hispanic women go to welfare and cry my man he left me and the free rid

  • Posted By: meazie @ 03/22/2009 2:21:01 AM

    The baby boomers turned on the "establishment" in the 1960's. And trust me. Some of the baby boomers have the money, power and time to turn on it again! I haven't forgotten about Watergate. Or Kent State. (Remember this? You know: where the government had the National Guard shoot unarmed college students, killing some?) Or Richard Nixon: resigning from the Presidency? Just a few shining examples of Republican leadership from the past. The "establish-ment did nothing to correct America's course during these events. The establishment did nothing to sound the alarm about this economic crisis that threatens to ruin our nation. They had 8 years to discuss it. So the bottom line is this: the "establishment" has no power over President Obama. The establishment's power is a figment of it's own imagination.

  • Posted By: cm4297 @ 03/21/2009 7:59:50 AM

    I'm sorry, but if these people put up with two terms of drunkin, I've destroyed my daddy's oil companies while running Texas into the group Bush for two years, you can definitely put up with Obama. I'll say it again, stop drinking the white and bitter coffee.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 03/20/2009 2:33:43 PM

    i'm wagering that obama will not complete a full term he will resign or be ousted by his own party ! any takers ??

  • Posted By: greatmidwest @ 03/19/2009 8:15:15 PM


    The President and his economic team have the confidence of the American people.

    Agiain, it's the Republican minority group that is trying to stir up trouble where there really is none. Dubya has been bleeding the USA of billions of $$$$ a week in Iraq for 7 years in what has been a War of Mass Deception. Now the GOP congressmen are concerned about 165 million in executive bonuses being paid out? This is what you call Selective Accountability which just won't fly with the millions of Americans who want real change in Washington, not just a political stunt like repeal of the gas tax which McBush tried back in 2008. It's 2009 and it's Obama time!

    God Bless America.

    • Posted By: star3 @ 03/19/2009 9:15:50 PM

      No, he does NOT have the confidence of the AMERICAN people-----he has the confidence of the liberals. Anyway, maybe he will be able to bring us out of this, maybe he won't, but we should at least give him a chance. He is the president, and no matter what our political affilations are, we should respect the office enough to give the person in it a chance to prove themselves worthy of trust, and capable of backing up their promises. Then if he fails, we don't re-elect him. Thats the American way, or should be.

  • Posted By: jh35180 @ 03/18/2009 4:08:48 PM

    It is really no surprise. Obama does not have a clue. Bush didn't either. So with GW Bush and Borax (from the Death Valley Days) Otaxma, we have had two presidents who are getting "on the job training." Entry level positions at McDonald's require more knowledge than the presidency. All I know that is in 2012 maybe we can vote out this clown and vote in somebody who has knowledge rather than "empty warm fuzzy" speeches. Otaxma spends more time going somewhere on Air Force One to campaign, Why? Because he does not know what to do. Let's look at Otaxma the candidate compared to Otaxma the President.

    Candidate Otaxma: We will have no lobbyists in my administration.

    President Otaxma: Has hired numerous lobbyists.

    Candidate Otaxma: We will have no "earmarks" in anything.

    President Otaxma: Signs an Omnibus bill with thousands of earmarks

    Mr. Otaxma does not properly screen cabinet members and staffers during the vetting process. If that were so, then he wouldn't have appointed so many tax cheats (e.g. Tim "the Tool Man" Geithner).

    Otaxma hides behind everything by saying, "we had eight years of Bush." Mr. Otaxma that can work for only so long. You have to accept responsibility. Borax Otaxma is a horrible President who is propped up by idiots for this stupid magazine, MSNBC and their troika of imbeciles (Odormann, Madcow, and Tingly Matthews), the New York Times, and the three older networks. Our country deserves better than to have Otaxma as President.

    • Posted By: star3 @ 03/18/2009 10:09:01 PM

      jh35180: Agreed, but its hopeless to try to show these butt kissing liberals the truth. The slightest criticism of their demigod, and they go off on a tangent. I'll bet even Obama doesn't get that upset over things said about him; to be president, you need a thick skin. Oh well, life is a great teacher, and it has no respect for social status, so given enough time and rope, they will hang themselves---politically speaking.

  • Posted By: it's about the future @ 03/17/2009 7:12:39 PM

    H-Roller~ to whoever wrote your post:
    As you know, we inherited a budget surplus from President Clinton and we were on track to pay down the national debt by 2010 when the last Adminstration came in. Since then, the cost of an illegal war ( backed up by false Intelligence), caused us to drive up defecit figures to unprecedented levels, contributing to a massive recession at home and putting us into the debt of China, Saudi and others. We witnessed financial deregulation and environmental deregulation to beat the band; including reductions in inspections of food and drug.... resulting in more needless deaths of Americans. Attorneys were fired if they did not vote for the Agenda; such as illegal wire-tapping. It is well-known that our last Administration ignored the Constitution and repeatedly put themselves above the law.

    OK. Now we have a new Administration which is working triple time to fix the vast problems left at their table.
    It is true that if we do not act, we do not make any mistakes. This is a long process. When we are not covering up, and we are transparent and accountable, human errors and imperfections will come to light. But we will fix the housing market, the Bank problems, the Dow, the massive unemployment, education reform, our image around the world, etc. etc. etc.
    Is that something you might want?

    • Posted By: star3 @ 03/17/2009 11:56:14 PM

      There is no such thing as an "illegal" war when you are being attacked, or are you one of those who would not defend your own family unless you were sure they were "really" being killed? We were justified in fighting back when terrorist attacked us, but then, you, obviously, have been brainwashed into believing what you had already made up your mind to believe anyway, so why am I bothering to educate someone who has their mind set in concrete. If there is anything I have learned in life, it's not to give advice to anyone, because all they are really looking for, anyway, is confirmation and agreement with what they have already decided to do or believe.

      • Posted By: it's about the future @ 03/18/2009 10:26:11 AM

        Iraq was not behind 9/11. Al Qaeda was not in Iraq. Hussein was himself, keeping Al Qaeda out!
        There were no WMDs. Legally, some will make the case that only Congress can declare war.
        This is not a personal attack on you or anyone else.

        • Posted By: star3 @ 03/18/2009 1:04:43 PM

          If you believe Iraq was not a part of that plot, then i have some beach front property in Arizona that I'd like to sell to you. Now, go ask the Iraqi people if THEY are sorry we went in there, and if they want Saddam back, or another one like him. Ask THEM how THEY feel about our military kicking butt there, then come back and tell me again how "wrong" we were. WMDs were not the only reason we went there, however, when Saddam insinuated he had them , and was prepared to use them, of course we took that as a threat. You don't make remarks like that to a country that has just been hit by terrorist, and is still in shock and angry, unless you are looking for trouble. Saddam wanted in on the action, he strutted about making threats, and he got more than he bargined for. As the Book says: Ask and ye shall receive. He asked, he received.

          • Posted By: it's about the future @ 03/18/2009 2:35:55 PM

            Iraq was not behind the events of 9/11.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 03/18/2009 1:05:15 PM

    OBAMA AND HIS GANG , A LA , DODD, FRANK , SCHUMER , PELOSI , GEITHNER, REID , RANGEL ETC., ARE THE ONES WHO ARE BEHIND THE MASSIVE MISAPPROPRIATION OF TAXPAYERS MONEY FOR THE BANKS , AIG , FANNIE & FREDDIE...THEY'RE USING THE OUTRAGE OF AIG BONUS PAYMENTS AS A SMOKESCREEN.

    OBAMA AND THE GANG ARE ALL CHICAGO PAY N PLAY CROOKS AND LEFT-WING NUTJOBS. THEY ALREADY BROKE LAWS. IMPEACHMENT AND ARRESTS ARE IN ORDER FOR OBAMA AND THE GANG...BUNCH OF LIARS !!

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 03/17/2009 8:24:25 PM

    Why are so many journalist who should be competitors working together on the left? Objective journalism is dead in America.
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20086.html

    • Posted By: star3 @ 03/17/2009 11:45:46 PM

      Nowfor, I wonder if objective journalism ever exsisted.

  • Posted By: Apolitical @ 03/17/2009 8:25:56 PM

    So Morgan, how did you feel being an American during the Bush years of lying, going into confused war, turning $259 billion surplus into $1 trillion deficit, doubling our national debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion, GDP decline by 6.2%, sending us all to the poor house in our 401K/house value/college fund, getting us $1 trillion in debt with the Chinese, etc.?

    • Posted By: star3 @ 03/17/2009 11:40:32 PM

      To Apolitical: In response to your first comment, most of us were not a bit confused about why we went into war with terrorist, or did you so quickly forget 9/11? We knew exactly why we went to war, and completely approved. And don't go into that "Conspiracy" theory; I don't buy into that, so don't waste my time and your's. As for the second part of your comment, were you not aware that the economical problems began long before Bush was ever elected, but, of course, that little fact does not stop some people from trying to ignor it. The economy started to really take a turn for the worse in 1999, Bush was not elected (if you recall) until 2000. It did decline even more eventually, and would have no matter who had been elected, because by that time, the democrats had done so much damage to the economy, that it could not be fixed quickly by any president on either side, and are you going to, honestly, tell me that it is not now in the worse shape our country has seen in many years? No one could find a quick fix, not Bush, and not Obama, it would take longer than eight years to put the economy back together in anything remotely resembling normal. It can be done, but it will need to be a workable plan that we can all live with. Obama is trying, so did Bush, but if it's blame you're looking for, point that finger toward the Democrats who controlled congress for way too many years, and they are now doing it again. Now, I'll step down off my soap box and turn the floor over to you. Thank you.

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