As the Global Economy Trembles, Our Nation's Capitol Fiddles

You're right. And there's absolutely no reason to expect anything positive from this President in a second term.



Other comments to you presume that things could ONLY be worse under a republican administra­tion. They MAY be - but it's just a prediction­.



When I think back to the dubya years, the only thing he couldn't do was privatize social security, the most sacred of Democratic programs. BUT Obama and a Dem Congress, with the cut in social security taxes that are now offset by General fund revenues, has done far more to set up social security up for privatizat­ion than dubya ever could.



Clinton signed the repeal of Glass-Stea­gle which was the only remaining firewall to prevent a 2007-like crash. dubya started a couple $10 billion-pe­r-month wars - but Obama has done absolutely nothing to definitive­ly end them (Iraq's ethnic cleansing ended their civil war, not Obama or petraeus.)



I'd like to believe that any Dem is better than any repub in the WH. But there's just nothing to really bolster that prediction when you look at the last 14 years. I can't believe a republican president in 2012 would perform well, but 2014 Dem candidates who refuse to be Clinton clones (i.e. sellout to corporate interests and the status quo) will have a great shot at doing the job that needs to be done. We need real fighters, not self-effac­ing statesmen who think that being nice fixes problems. That only works in kindergart­en.
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