BHO's Honeymoon

[8BR]

I think BHO's presidential honeymoon may be the shortest in memory.

I originally thought his fresh face and general appeal would extend the honeymoon phase of his presidency, but given possible 8% unemployment on the horizon, The Middle East, Afghanistan, etc., a lot of his warm and fuzzy policies (that all presidents pass in the first 100 days) are going to be overlooked in the face of reality...

"I want to be realistic here," Obama said in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "Not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace that we had hoped."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/...ity/index.html

[Jeff Lebowski]

Typical election cycle: spend the entire campaign building expectation then immediately begin downplaying them.

"We know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime -- two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century," he said on the night of his election victory.


"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there," he said.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Why does using Hussein or BHO give right wing people the biggest hard on? Perhaps they were and I was just oblivious to it but were people screaming about the GHWB recession, or the WJC facial?

This is one of the many reasons I can't take politics in this country seriously.

[8BR]

Why does using Hussein or BHO give right wing people the biggest hard on?

I don't have an erection right now (at least not "biggest"). I like using BHO because it's fast and I feel calling him "BO" would be much worse than using BHO.

[Babs]

I don't have an erection right now

Of course not, silly. That was back in November. We're already to the inauguration.

[il Padrino Ute]

People who were fooled by Obama's campaign promises are going to find out really quick that he was just being a typical politician and saying what he needed to say in order to get elected.

I hope they find this woman and get her comments within the next 6 months:

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[8BR]

Of course not, silly. That was back in November. We're already to the inauguration.

Right. If you have an election that long, I think you're supposed to call a doctor.

[venkman]

HOpefully the honeymoon lasts about five seconds. The republicans need to grow a spin and oppose this "stimulus package" insanity. But it won't happen; Barry's throwing in some so-called tax cuts so they're good, regardless of how much Keynesian spending goes on. We're effed.

[TripletDaddy]

HOpefully the honeymoon lasts about five seconds. The republicans need to grow a spin and oppose this "stimulus package" insanity. But it won't happen; Barry's throwing in some so-called tax cuts so they're good, regardless of how much Keynesian spending goes on. We're effed.

I wish repubicans were this opposed to big government spending back when we found out there were no WMD in Iraq. That way, our big government would not have been able to run up this historic deficit to fund this crazy war. That is really where we got "effed."

In fact, has there been a more spend-happy President than W in recent years?

[il Padrino Ute]

I wish repubicans were this opposed to big government spending back when we found out there were no WMD in Iraq. That way, our big government would not have been able to run up this historic deficit to fund this crazy war. That is really where we got "effed."

In fact, has there been a more spend-happy President than W in recent years?

You seem to be hinting that today's GOP politicans are conservatives. They're not.

[TripletDaddy]

You seem to be hinting that today's GOP politicans are conservatives. They're not.

fair. But heck, Reagan was also spend-happy.

[il Padrino Ute]

fair. But heck, Reagan was also spend-happy.

Reagan did spend a lot, especially on defense. But then, his was on building up defense against those commie bastards and not on war. So in Reagan's case, the spending did what it was supposed to do - avoid war.

That's how I see it anyway. And it's because I am a Reagan guy. I'll freely admit that.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

fair. But heck, Reagan was also spend-happy.

Please, RWR.