Yes its tough - butobama is DRASTICALLY worse than your verage incumbent and we have a disastrous year ahead ofus as a result of his policies.
I don't know.... repubs said the dollar would end, the market would crash in 2009 as soon as obama took over. it didn't.
we're probably not in that much different shape now than we'd be with mccain as president. Obama used a 1-time 780 billion dollar stimulus... Bush issued what, almost 3 trillion in bailouts? They were just small and numberous - true adonis showed how massive they were when you added them up - 100 billion here, 30 billion there.
Methinks mccain would have kept bailing out companies too - no president will let GM falter, not gonna happen.
So the repubs say over and over 'obamacare is dead'. Then when it passes, it's "obama will sink 10 points in poll now!" Then when the polls are the same a year later, they just point to the next thing.
if obama was beatable in 2012, given this weak field, you'd have better candidates emerge. Look at history. Why did weak candidates come out from opposition parties in 84, 92, and 04? You know why. Incumbents control things that help them, and smart candidates wait it out. They're doing it again now.
33, you hate obama, but his reign ain't that diff from a mccain presidency, and the 2012 election will be pretty much what we saw in 2004 - close but (given the Ohio outcome), the a-hole in charge has quite an advantage
