First thing he needs to do now is deal with the natural disaster happening now. The amount of damages is surreal.

Joke thread?

Okay, *when* Obama is reelected he should impale himself with a samurai sword having dishonored our nation with his atrocious handling of it leaving Joe Biden as President until he's assassinated by Paul Ryan with a bow staff, upon which time Jim Boehner will assume the position as our nation collapses into the Dark Ages and the illuminati rise to power.

If he made no progress on those issues in his first year what makes you think he will care to his next four years? He isn't being reelected on his ability to fix those things so why expect him to? Its like trying and failing at something, and than doing the exact same thing you did but expect a different result. If you want progress made on those items (clearly things Obama did not care about) than dont vote him back in as he does not care to fix those items. Vote for someone else.

While he can't do it by himself, pushing Congress to pass the Jobs bill he proposed last year would be nice. He's already pulled us out of Iraq and is pulling us out of Afganistan, so there's not much else he can do that I'd want him to do without a Congress he can work with.

No, it means that Republicans can't hold the debt ceiling hostage again next year. It wasn't spending that caused our lower bond rating. We've been big spenders and deficit makers since the 1980s, after all, and much of the current deficit was caused by policies of the previous administration (two unpaid wars, two rounds of unpaid taxes, increased spending and reduced taxes caused by the recession, higher interest caused by higher debt, and of course the debt left over from the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton) that Obama has been blamed for for the last few years.

Cutting spending and raising taxes is the last thing you do in a weak economy. Our primary goal for the moment needs to be reduced taxes and increased spending. Government can use a lot of services and create a lot of jobs, which is exactly what you want to do in a weak jobs market. It's what we typically have done during recessions in the past. And if you want to keep our bond rating from going lower, DON'T take the debt ceiling hostage.

Dick Cheney isn't anti-gay, though. He actually endorsed gay marriage back in 2009. Obama isn't anti-gay either. He campaigned in 2008 on repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He went out of his way to make sure it he got to repeal it in 2010, taking unneeded political risk when he didn't really need to due to the Supreme Court decision. He signed a hate crimes bill that defined anti-gay acts as hate crimes. He expanded the Family and Medical Leave Act to cover gay parents who adopt children, and later extended health coverage to those children.

Obama was never anti-gay. He was just, like every politician, measured in his support of gay rights in order to ensure he doesn't alienate a large swath of the voting block which, until a few years ago, WAS pretty anti-gay. He hasn't been a perfect candidate on this issue, but he certainly isn't "anti-gay", and he is certainly no more cowardly then ANY other politician who's ever successfully run for a presidential nomination. If anything he's shown more balls then most, given that Republicans have been able to use it as a political cudgal to energize their base, a cudgial he didn't need to give them. There is little, if any electoral upside to this position for him.

Anybody who keeps seeing the destruction from Sandy should probably say continued support for the reconstruction of Jersey Shore and NY State and others facing destruction.

That said this is not really a far fetched statement considering all the recent Ohio polls that at least according to NYC's Nate Silver 50% likely to create the winner of the election. The odds of this state winning it in his model are so high the greater favorable polls of late have pushed up his odds of winning up by about 5% to ab0ut a 76% chance a long with the almost assured chance the Senate will be blue.

He repealed don't as don't tell... which voided the court decision which set back gay rights because it removed the precedents the case set... as was specifically mentioned by the panel who voided the court case.

The reason he did this wasn't to take uneeded political risk, it was to prevent the credit from DADT's removal to be given to the group who filed the lawsuit.  AKA the Log Cabin Republicans.

Now that he's done so, the court decision has been voided, and legislation like DADT can be enacted whenever the political climates align.

Unlike if he would of let the court decision handle it... then DADT would of been defeated forever... and it would of set legal precedent to allow a claim for transgendered people who aren't allowed in the military... since the ruling stated that the military had to show extreme proof for any exclusionary policy... and having surgery on your gentials i don't really see effecting combat.

Though no... it's only a cowardly decision for those who believe gay marriage is a right.   For Obama it's an easy and cowardly way to say "Hey i support you guys, but not enough to piss anybody off, because while the polls have finally swung so that more people want gay marriage then don't... it's still close."

I remember back in the day when progressive politcians stood up and advocated for equal rights back when it was unpopular... not the hedging they do today.

Hell, Theodore Roosevelt was outspoken about Women's suffarage!

Assassinated with a bow staff?

The awful PS Vita sales

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you can disagree all you want.  it's not really my opinion, i'm just stating what NPR reported this morning which is that obama's recent poll numbers over the last few days show him dropping.   maybe they were wrong about it being sandy's fault but i'm just saying what i heard.