Marlo the answer is no. In their own words no. I am amazed how a culture of fear and ignorance has invaded these people. I was happy when I heard only 21% of people say they are republican. Everything I have seen their party stand for is that of hate and ignorance. We need a country  of diversity and that acknowledges everyones rights. I would now not vote for any republican for fear of the mess I see now. Obama has tried to reach out to them No I do not think he is perfect. He wouldn’t say he was either. I would say he is quite brave to take on such a mess. Facts are facts and I see the republicans try to escape the facts and make their own. Thank goodness they are in the minority. I do agree we need a system with more than one party. We have The Green Party, Independents and etc. The Republicans have made themselves inept and shown their true colors. The party of No is haveing a childish tantrum and have now been seen for the elitist thay are. They are too busy evading facts to try and care about the health of our country.

It’s the 24/7 news media and their pro-Obama push that gave us this Admistration in the first place. Why would there be any reason to complain, unless of course your not for abortion at all cost and being sure 17 years are "blessed" with the mistaken impression that there are NO consequences in this life

Those who continue to bash Bush for deficit spending have no right to tout how "great" Obama is.  His administration has spent more money in the first 100 days that Bush did in both terms of his office.  I’m glad the Republicans are the party of "NO".  I just wish they’d been that sooner.  The democrat congress is passing bills without debate, without reading the bills, and without thought of the long range consequences.  We will be suffering for decades to come.

The problem of people, rather Republican or Democrat,  being able to "care about the right things" is a very large problem.  The last two responses the to the question reveals just how misinformed and uninformed so many people still are about what exactly occured during the Bush administration and why it’s become Obama’s and our problem.  The issue of abortion, a moral issue and not a political issue, should be handled just like the moral issue of slavery and whether or not all men and/or women are created equal.

There is abosolutely no way to change the monds of people that have made up their mind that they know and understand the truth, when in fact, what they purport to know and understand is just not reality.

If CRUX understood that our economy has been under assault because of various types of deregulation and so too have laws the govern exactly how business is transacted led to a worldwide economic collaspe, not Barack Obama. But because  many of us prefer to study our navels rather than to really become informed, we dig our heels into the sand, point fingers and wag our heads and say, "it’s that guys fault."

If we don’t wake-up soon as a nation, if we continue to think that the guys in the suits are our friends as they continue to increase the interest on our credit cards, take our homes and receive funds fromus so that their lives are not affected by the current economic turn-down, the discussion will become moot very, very soon.

 Wake-up! The view isn’t pleasant but we’ve got to start to come together as a nation in order to simply survive. It just looks like we’re not in a depression….but looks  and now are economic stability as a nation are fleeting.

I didn’t vote for Obama, I don’t believe that a capitalistic society needs or wants to go in the direction of socialized medicine or handouts to people that simply don’t want to try.  We are a country of entrepreneurs and if you take away the drive and everyone is on an even playing field, there is no incentive to do better, invent or create and everyone suffers, look at other third world countries that believe in those values.

Having said that, he is my President and he deserves a chance.  I have to hope that the 435 members of congress will help balance out what is necessary to keep this country moving in that capitalist direction. 

 

There’s always going to be critics, about any and everything.

I didn’t vote for Obama and I think he’s doing great. He deserves to be given a chance for at least four years.

I agree with you Marlo, all the way. People who compare Obama’s spending to Bush’s are mixing apples with oranges. II-Bush opted not to go after Osama bin Laden - despite his public vow to - and, instead, focused his narrow attention to attacking Iraq: purportedly, on the pretense of there existing weapons of mass destruction.

It was the first time in American history that we attacked another country without clear-cut provocation. I mean, doesn’t North Korea have WMD’s? You don’t see Obama bombing them. No, it takes a clear indication of imminent attack before such a first-strike action could ever be justified, even in this nuclear age.

So, ‘W’ spent $10 billion-a-month in Iraq, when it was clear the operatives behind the 9/11 attacks were stationed in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And we had every right to go after them, for their act of war upon us on that dreadful day. But II-Bush gave those terrorists short-shift. It wasn’t as sexy as bombing Baghdad.

And none of this even begins to speak to how ‘W’ turned his back on the manufacturing sector in the U.S. up until the very of his presidency. The U.S. steel and automotive industries were reeling, and Bush blew off three scheduled meetings with the Big 3 automakers, and refused to adjust tariffs that were killing the steel industry. http://www.mm2m.org/absolutenm/templates/mm2mtemplate.asp?articleid=2&zoneid=5

On the other hand, Obama’s spending money to try to overhaul the disastrous health system, repair this country’s decrepid infrastructure, create jobs and get the economy going in a positive direction again. Indeed, there already early indications that he is accomplishing just that. Economists say the recession may be bottoming out, auto sales spiked upward, and a pulse was detected in the mortgage industry. It will take a long time to reverse the unemployment trends (13.4% in Michigan) fostered by Bush’s incompentence.

It just cracks me up the way the Obama-bashers are suddenly so concerned about their "children’s future" and "deficit spending", when narry a people was heard when those billions upon billions were being flushed down the toilet by Bush. And to what end? Middle East peace? (The ultimate of oxymorons). No, Bush would’ve gotten my full-fledged support if he’d have focused on the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, and if he’d have filed a grievance with the World Trade Organization over China’s unfair trading practices.