My complex thoughts on President Obama [View All]

I like the guy - I think he's been our best President since Carter, and I would argue he is a better President than Kennedy. Kennedy came at a time when America was riding high, and just ran with that. Obama came at a time when America was wounded, and is working to get her standing again.

However, there have not been dissapointments. The fact that he even let SS and Medicare go on the table made me very nervous. Perhaps its part of a plan, but I don't like the idea of using it as a card, even if you win the hand.

There has been the increase in war spending, and the sacred cow nature of the DoD in his administration.

And I have a problem with his two Supreme Court picks. Yes, they're OK and certainly better than Bush's picks, but they are Center-Left rather than Left - and to balance out the Cons in the SC one would think you would need the polar opposite.

But there have been successes as well. Putting Elizabeth Warren in a policy-shaping position is one of them. Letting her pick Richard Corday is another. Taking out OBL, of course, was great, and only topped by the Islamic Burial at Sea. I mean, that last one was about the most intelligent way to go. No burial site for martyr worship, but no desecration of the corpse to inflame hatred and an Islamic one at that - done by a Muslim Chaplain in the military. He just killed like 20 birds with one stone...but I digress.

I am alarmed at his overtures to the GOP and Big Business, but I hope that is being made up for by the destruction of FOX (baby, this one is gonna be Rupegeddon!) I mean, there is no other legal alternative. FOX and Murdoch are about as close to SPECTRE and Bloefeld as you can get!

Anyway, what I'm saying is Obama is good, he's a mixed bag, and is neither fully good nor fully bad.

He'll have my vote - but not my money. This is not as some kind of punitive act, but that he's got the cash angle covered, and there are a lot of bigger races that need cash. Alan Grayson's campaign for example.