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Mazty on 23 September 2012
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Kasz216 said:


That's not true at all... Obama did most of his backpedalling in the first two years of his presidency when he had a democratic majority.  Ever since the Republican party took over congress he's moved back towards the "left" as he knew none of those policies would pass.   If you look at legislative history you'll note that a few hot button issues are only pushed when they know they won't pass.

Gay rights is one of those.

The healthcare law I'd bet would be another.  If the Republicans actually thought they could pass a repeal of healthcare, I doubt they would, because it's too much of a political risk.

 

As for their handling of things... Iraq was more disasterous then Libya, but those were two very different wars.  There wasn't a strong unified arm resistance to support in Iraq.

 

While Bush's handling of Katrina... Obama's handling of the BP oil spill wasn't exactly great either.  Although really neither of those are either of their faults.

In general the problem is that FEMA is a giant mess of an orginzation that ends up getting in local groups way in it's need to overly control everything.

Well that and stupid enviromental laws prevented quicker cleanup of the BP oil because it  banned the use of most cleaning boats because the cleaning boats would be counted as "polluting" the water by putting in water because the water that would run through it's ships wouldn't be "clean enough".  (You know, despite the fact that it'd be cleaner.)

Obama's handling of the BP oil spill was brilliant, if not morally disgusting. 

He managed to divert all the blame onto the British even though all the failings were due to american companies such as Halliburton. If he hadn't, American companies could easily have landed the cost of the clean up, but instead the clean up was left to the infinite wallets of BP. Good way to ensure some of the biggest US companies take as little a stock hit as possible.  

With Katrina Bush was told that the levees could overflow and yet FEMAs acctions were a complete mess.