[LA Woman3]

Unrealistic expectations

A year ago, if we had read in the paper that employers were hiring again, that health care legislation was proceeding without a bump, that Afghanistan suddenly became a nice place to take your kids, we would’ve known we were being lied to. Back then, we recognized that the problems Barack Obama inherited as president wouldn’t go away overnight.

During his campaign, Obama clearly said that an economy that took eight years to break couldn’t be fixed in a year, that Afghanistan was a graveyard of empires and would not be an easy venture for us. Candidate Obama didn’t feed us happy-talk, which is why we elected him. He never said America could solve our health care, economic and security problems without raising the deficit. Instead, he talked of hard choices, of government taking painful and contentious first steps toward fixing problems that can’t be left for another day.

Right after Obama’s election, we seemed to grasp this. We understood that companies would be happy to squeeze more work out of frightened employees and would be slow to hire more. We understood that the banks that had extorted us of billions of dollars were lying when they said they would share their recovery. We understood that a national consensus on health care would not come easily. Candidate Obama never claimed that his proposed solutions would work flawlessly right out of the box, and we respected him for that.

But today the president is attacked as if he were a salesman who promised us that our problems would wash off come morning. He never made such promises.

It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything.

Ellie Light

Waco

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L E Light=GE?

[OafOfOffice]

wow, I just heard almost the same exact hype from a caller in the radio program that someone posted here last night too. The show is hard to get through because the liberals literally get so worked up they almost have heart attacks but listen if you can stomach it.

Radio’s Diane Rehm:”Republicans have wanted to kill Obama from the time he was elected” http://bit.ly/jZer

These are obama’s organizer’s I betcha. If you say it enough then some will believe it.

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Candidate Obama didn’t feed us happy-talk, which is why we elected him. He never said America could solve our health care, economic and security problems without raising the deficit. Instead, he talked of hard choices, of government taking painful and contentious first steps toward fixing problems that can’t be left for another day.

"Ellie Light", you lie!

[outofsalt]

A bing search for the phrase, “Candidate Obama never claimed that his proposed solutions would work flawlessly right out of the box” got 2960 hits. Busy, busy girl!

[RipSawyer]

“But today the president is attacked as if he were a salesman who promised us that our problems would wash off come morning. He never made such promises.”
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What a crock! I watched his acceptance speech at Denver in which he said that he would defeat poverty, disease and climate change. I sat with my mouth open, it is the first time I remember a candidate promising things that could only be accomplished by a deity.

[RipSawyer]

“But today the president is attacked as if he were a salesman who promised us that our problems would wash off come morning. He never made such promises.”
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What a crock! I watched his acceptance speech at Denver in which he said that he would defeat poverty, disease and climate change. I sat with my mouth open, it is the first time I remember a candidate promising things that could only be accomplished by a diety.