Second of all, unemployment is a trailing indicator of the economy.  Employment goes up long after the recovery actually begins.

First of all (yeah this order is purposful), "fix health care".  He has no IDEA how to "fix" health care.  His "fix" for health care will further weaken the dollar, destabilize the country and continue the USA down its WARP SPEED trek in the wrong direction.  The US economy cannot afford his plan.  The US government cannot control everything.  It barely does a passing job at the aspects it already controls.

It is humorous (and sad) that he will destroy the economy while trying to "fix" the element that he says will destroy the economy.  The politics of fear is in full force here. 

Fix everything? Of course not.  Make progress rather than make things worse?  Absolutely.

Note I don't agree/support big_boss' plan to be perfectly clear.

I do have to correct you on this point however, the president doesn't "just give the final say" - Historically he has been heavily involved in the formation and direction of new legislation, this is especially true of signature legislation that he campaigned on and promised to deliver. 

As for Obama knowing what he is talking about...nothing could be so obviously further from the truth.  Obama doesn't have a clue when it comes to the economy, health-care, taxes, or really anything that isn't giving a speach or community organizing.  During the campaign he and his followers admitted as much saying he would have advisers who knew these issues that could advise him.  The man has never run a business, never met a payroll, has no experience with the health-care industry and his only experience is basically 2 years in the senate (strictly speaking 4 but he was gone half the time campaigning), and anyone can tell you a legislative position is starkly different from an executive one.  The only time prior to being elected he had ever held any executive position he spent $100 million dollars on education reform in Chicago and when it was all spent his own assessment concluded they had a negligible impact on the schools....this same story has now repeated itself with the stimulus bill but the stimulus bill is 7,000 times more money - but federal dollars both times.

The fact is he is lying out his ass constantly about the stimulus and health-care to cover.  Examples?

1. On the one hand he says "nobody is talking about cuts to medicare benefits" even though he himself had done so back in june.
2. He constantly talks about a public "option" to provide "competition" and "free market spirit" but anyone who is even partially informed on the issue understands that employers would take the cost savings of dumping their private plans (even with the 8% knock) and push employees onto the public plan thus shoving private insurance out of business probably within the decade.  He knows his free market rhetoric is BS, and so do those on the left who understand that this is a ploy to get Government run health-care by any means necessary.  I can dig up footage of lefties readily admitting this if I need to.
3. When stimulus is being discussed Obama says it is to help "immediately" and it needs to help people "right now"....but then once the thing is passed he says "As I made clear at the time it was passed, the recovery plan was not designed to work in four months" - His own words. Granted the latter half of the latter statement is correct, but the former part of that statement is an outright lie - he and his people did their absolute best to obfuscate just how little the plan was going to do in the short term.  If he hadn't hidden this fact the bill probably would have died in debate...which is why he pushed it.
4. Then you have Biden saying 'the stimulus wasn't supposed to jolt the economy' even though he had previously referred to it in a white house press release as not only a jolt but a "big jolt" - "...we also came forward with what we're going to talk about today, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, an initial big jolt to give the economy a real head start."

Obama's work thus far is abysmal.  The best he has to offer is made up stats of "jobs saved" which nobody can actually verify and much of the jobs the stimulus did create are temporary with several having terminated thus putting those people back into unemployment lines.  Outside of that he and the left has the "just imagine" rhetoric which asks you to 'imagine what it would have been like without his plan!'  We don't have to imagine, as he showed us himself : we would be much better off.  And given that that graph is his assessment it is a safe bet it painted the prettiest picture he could get it to show without outright making things up (this is standard political stuff and I don't fault him for it - just to be clear).  Meaning he gave himself leeway for what he thought would happen under his plan so he could claim "wow it worked even better than we hoped!" in the event it went well and so that in the event it went poorly he would have some breathing room (again I don't fault him for this - in fact it would worry me if he hadn't because not putting forth some effort to manage expectations would be a huge blunder on his part). 

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Gallup is reporting 53% approval, 39% disaproval which is a record low since he took office.

I find it hiliarious that people act like the economy was in perfect condition before it. If ( and this is an if) he does destroy the economy, it wasn't on his terms, it was on a situation that was already in a serious condition...and he flatlined it trying to fix it. I hate that people act like he's gonna destroy the country when the country was pretty fucked up before he came in. And I do hate the government controlling everything thing but look we let companies do what they want and look it got us in the shitty mess we're in. And lastly healthcare has been shitty since day one, so wutever the fuck he does is probably mininal to the fact i gotta pay 25 bucks to cure a fucking headache. We've always has shitty heatlthcare, please don't act like it was perfect when Bush was around...and he did shit about it too.

Face it people it'll probably take most if not all of Obama's term to fix this mess...and it's because our past president screwed up over for 8 years. If you expect a return to 2000...take a time machine cuz it aint happening anytime soon. All i'm saying is give the man the benefit of doubt and lets see what he can do. The man has been in office 7 months...7 fucking months!!! Bush did shit in his 7 months of office and we were to busy looking at that dumbass Lacey Peterson trial and we all know god damn well the husband killed her. I'll give him to the end of next year and if things get worse i'll side with you guys, cuz I'm not expecting complete change by then but I would expect he did something useful...even though the closing of that dumbass unneccessary prison was something.

That's the problem....he has put some effort into  this...obviously there's a situiation taht's going on that he doesnt want say so the country doesnt go into panic mode and is trying fine the solution. but when the media wants a conference every single day what are you gonna do: deny? In this day and age that'll quickly start rumors and bring his rating down worse than it is now. The man has been in office not that long and this plan hasnt even been put in effect fully yet. And without the plan we still probably would have been in a bad position. The only thing i dont like is the turnaround we're getting and even the Republicians don't care cuz they're too busy looking at throwing out Sotomayor....

In the end I rather agree to disagree and let this die...cuz until we see the end result neither one of us is gonna be right.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Gallup is reporting 53% approval, 39% disaproval which is a record low since he took office.