Bad as he’s done… the U.S. is better off (but just slightly) with President Obama, than we would have been with President McCain. McCain would’ve bent over backwards to make the Dems “like” him… he may well have allowed a version of the healthcare crap to pass, top be “bipartisan”. To give him his due, he may have vetoed some bad stuff, but he and GOP would be blamed for the continuing recession, and there would be no chance for many GOP gains come November.
The real sadness is every president is given an opportunity to lead and Obama has failed already in his chance, he may get re-elected but it don’t matter. With large majorities in Congress who needs to listen to the people? His campaign promises convinced a lotta folks disillusioned with Bush43,(and voted such in ’04) to give “change” a try. They approved of a small tilt left in 2008. But we got a “damn the torpedoes” full court press of centralized academic socialist theory. An economic plan that works great at Harvard, but never in the real world!
What I am trying to say is, we are in some deep s,er stuff.
I just don't know about that one. Who knows who McCain would have put in as advisors? I guess it is sad that we would even debate whether a 'Republican' would have been as bad or worse than this guy. What a sad, sick state of affairs.
I do think that McCain would not have started his term by apologizing to the world on behalf of the US. Many of us have family that fought for this country - this was demoralizing. Obama does not like the United States.