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Posted by David Sherman on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 03:34:38 :
In Reply to: We the People.... posted by Eric B. on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 01:40:37 :
I hear you, but I'll be proud of him when he earns it, just like any other man. I wouldn't expect anybody to be proud of me just because I got elected to some office.
Frankly, I don't expect him to fix the economy because first of all, the economy isn't all that bad (unless you're a billionaire). There aren't mass layoffs or mass evictions yet. Our stocks have dropped in value, if we were rich enough to have any, but the price of fuel has dropped even more and most other commodities are following. The economy's got some real problems now, but they're global problems and they're not affecting ordinary people much. I'm not sure there's anything a president can do about it other than to refrain from doing the wrong thing (like throwing another trillion to the investment bankers).
I think either he or McCain would make a decent president, but neither has any management experience or private enterprise experience to make me think they'll manage the government particularly well.
Basically, I think what it comes down to is the Republicans screwed up, didn't do what people expected them to do (i.e. reduce federal spending and get the government out of people's private lives. Instead they did the opposite, got us bogged down in a very expensive and unnecessary war, deregulated only the wrong industries and only in the wrong way (finance and media, for example), and wasted time and energy talking about unimportant stuff like school prayer, flag burning, and g.a.y. marriage, which are only going to annoy one group of people or another and should best be left alone.
If neither Obama or McCain can do much about the economy (business cycles just have to run their course), either of them would have gotten us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, simply because they have to. We can't afford to stay there forever.
One thing to keep in mind is that if 3% of the people who voted for Obama had voted for McCain, McCain would have won. 3% is what passes for a landslide these days. This isn't the revolution that all the talking heads want to make it out to be.
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