Obama's America, getting better or worse? He promised change - now we are getting it.

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lordmandeep said:

Well it is true Obama is handicapped by congress but Obama made a huge mistake in 2009.

He passed a stimulus Bill and frankly ignored the economy till after the Midterm election focusing on Health Care. That really soured the public against him and really let the Republicans storm into Congress only after historic Congressional and Senate victories in 2008 and 2012 for the democrats.

One needs to remember how on earth the Democrats went from dominating the house and Senate in 2 years.

If he had the economy as a key issue in 2009-2010, he would have been able to create a stronger economy and would had stooped the Republicans from gaining control. 

I agree Republicans are being bad in what they are doing, but Obama imo has only realized the true nature of politics and spent the first year or two getting his initial executive experience.

 

 

Also Clinton was at with Congress from 1994-1996. It was not tell he got relected that he was able to sort of get what he wanted. There was a lot of compromise and Clinton's vast popularity allowed him to force Republicans to compromise.

With Reagan, the democrats in congress had been in power for decades. They knews how to deal with Republicans and Reagans vast popularity allowed him to force congress.

Even so Both Reagan and Clinton compromised a lot with Republicans and democrats.

Obama needs to win the 2012 election imo he will at most 2 years to get Congress to work with him. When a President wins a election he gets a lot more political power. Great Compromises will have to be struck as they have in the past. After 2 years I expect the Republicans will start counting down to 2016.

 

Also, as bad as the Repblicans are in Congress, I am quite suprised the Democrats have not been able to gain renewed support in Congress.

best statement made in this thread cause it's true.