The "Overeducated" and Barack Obama

But Obama's watch is still ticking, let us see what our country looks like when his presidency is over :whistling:

Margaret Thatcher ruined the UK economy for ten years, just like the Bush legacy has ruined the US economy. The bankers failed under his watch not Obama's.

Maybe but lets not smell the cookies burning before their even made.

But Obama's watch is still ticking, let us see what our country looks like when his presidency is over :whistling:

I don't have to eat the whole egg to know that it is rotten. A taste and the smell is enough.

I see now we've gotten to the root of the issue: Obama can't make cookies.

I don't know if that's a good analogy. The egg cannot become fresh after being rotten, but can't the state of our country, financially at least, become better even after it's rotten? Can't Obama rectify what he has already done?

I think the more we use metaphor, the more successful Obama will become.

The subtle insults are not hard to spot.

Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual"s life.

That has to be one of the most biased pieces of text that I have ever read. The subtle insults are not hard to spot. Sure, lots of it is true but Obama is without doubt a better president than Bush. So even if he is bad, he is still an improvement.

You mean that Obama's tripling the debt in a little over a year was Bush's fault? And, what about Obama's inability to get even a watered down version of Obama care? Was that also Bush's fault? And, let's see: Olympics in Chicago; Global (whatever it happens to be lately); negotiations with Iran; negotiations with North Korea; so far as I can tell, he is incompetent to do anything he tries to do. It must be Bush.

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The're. Not "their". "Their" is the third person possessive. But "The're" is a contraction of "they are".
Trouble is, Obama is unable even to make the cookies.

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I don't have to eat the whole egg to know that it is rotten. A taste and the smell is enough.

I see you have stopped using the big H is that because its to near you. You are good at smelling something nasty.. When you can give me one good thing Bush succeeded in doing, I might take your criticism with a certain interest. The only problem Obama has is the in built prejudice of republican die hards and their inability to realise Bush took them into a farcical war and allowed city bankers to ruin a reasonable economy. How you can complain about Obama with Bush as your idol is beyond reason.

I don't have to eat the whole egg to know that it is rotten. A taste and the smell is enough.

You will have to eat the egg anyway =)

Bush prevented terrorist attacks on the United States after 9/11. He did it until he left office. It was only by luck that the terrorist attack on Christmas day was averted. No thanks to Obama. And, of course, Bush got rid of a dangerous tyrant in Iraq, was able to reverse throw Al-Quaeda out of Iraq. Of course, Obama is attempting to follow Bush's policies. Only with much less skill. And little success. But, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

His,Bushy baby, incompetent authority created 9/11 and his ill thought out attack on Iraq is still giving you problems. Al-Quaeda,an invention of Bush, are still there in Iraq, did you not know that?:perplexed: Dont put Bushy babies co.. ups on Obamas head , not just yet .

Bush was in office for just 10 months before the 9/11 attack. I was Clinton who was in authority when something could have been done, and Clinton did nothing against the terrorists. He never even heard of Al Quaeda. And as for Obama, he still "extends his hand" to Arab militants who laugh at him.

Clinton suggested better domestic security as he could see the risks but it fell on deaf ears due to the costs, apparently.

President Obama's popularity has slipped among a wide swath of the population. Among the nation's over-educated, however, he continues to do just fine.

... Indeed, while Obama's standing has fallen among each of these four groups since taking office, it is the postgraduate bunch who has stayed most closely committed, even giving the president a slight uptick in approval ratings over the last month.

The findings feed into the stereotypical political narrative that those with an advanced education are decidedly liberal and that those who are decidedly liberal are committed to Democratic politicians.

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I've been following multiple news sources closely and have (thus far, anyway) concluded that most of the poll-slipping is due to US Citizens desire that our problems be fixed now. We don't have much patience - which is certainly our right. In any case, as Obama was touted as the Savior of All (which was neither good for him nor our country), folks want to know "Where's the beef?", and they want everything fixed now! And of course... blame *must* be laid (yes, we are a nation of blame-layers).

My conclusion is somewhat different. It is not that people expect immediate satisfaction. It is that they expect that the problems not be greatly worsened by presidential policies, and that the president attend to what needs fixing and not divert his attention to what people do not think needs fixing (or at least needs fixing as much as the problems that do need fixing).

I hear ya.

I disagree that we don't want immediate satisfaction; we do, and our expectations completely ignore just how much time and effort it WILL take to fix what's broken in our economy.

And I'd again present the idea that the President alone cannot fix all this; especially given the poison partisan- "My Team Only!"-mindset that pervades the halls of congress.

Thanks