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No. Obama is a kook. An Alinskyite. The deficits are unsustainable. Afghanistan is not the only thing that people need to be concerned about. This meme of blaming conservatives stinks. It has a real Lefty smell. And conservatives don't need to take lectures from shills for Obama and Obammunism.

Forget Afghanistan and the globaloney. A bankrupt America stuck in blame-America socialist policies will destabilize civilization.

I agree. As far as I can see, Obama ran much of his campaign on the premise that Bush gave us a whopping $500B deficit. Totally unsustainable. Totally crazy. Obama was gonna fix that. Then, in Sept, the big economic crisis hit and Obama was one of the people who rushed through a $700B fix. So where are we?

Obama is now complaining about the $1.2T deficit he inherited (that's 500 + 700) and he blames it all on Bush and he seems to think that the solution is to triple the deficit.

The guy is a kook. His policies are not inadvisable -- they are ruinous.

Anything unsustainable won't be sustained and will reverse of its own accord. And no, I am not blaming conservatives, for anything other than being a bit foolish and aiming at the wrong things. With plenty of realistic criticisms to level, to instead shriek about tinfoil nutter stuff does us no service, it just makes us look ridiculous and out of arguments. For which there is no need - see e.g. Mark Levin's book (though he too indulges in partisan hyperbole in his title; it is the sickness of the decade).

American isn't bankrupt, it is the richest society in world history, if a bit less rich than a year or two ago. And civilization isn't going away.

I explained several years ago the right tack to take on the unsustainable policies of the left, and it isn't standing on the street corner shouting doom, doom, and betting against the US economy. The US economy has buried everything ever thrown at it with worse policy responses than this, it is a fool's bet. No, the left has no workable foreign policy and no workable sense of security. The right should remind people of that and then wait for the left's feel-good non-policies to fall apart. Notably on Iran.

But short-sighted men think they have to chase yesterday's headlines to be relevant or heard, so they pretend an ephemeral economic circumstance is permanent and all important. It isn't, it too shall pass. After which you'll be left with your partisan hyperbole and the American people won't get what the big deal is anymore. In the meantime, though, with nobody much watching, Obama will have let Iran get nukes while defunding the military etc.