Is Obama a puppet?

Obama, the man for 'Change'. so why has nothing changed and the wealth gap just keeps increasing?

Obama, the man for 'Change'. so why has nothing changed and the wealth gap just keeps increasing?

A lot has changed. The United States has tripled its debt since Obama was inaugurated, and it is much closer to becoming like Greece. It is not a truism that all change is for the better, you know.

Obama, the man for 'Change'. so why has nothing changed and the wealth gap just keeps increasing?

You are doing what has become expected of you ,your ignoring the reasons why the debt has increased , the historic reasons. If it had decreased you would have said it was because of the last administrations policies..Spin is a wonderful invention.

Hmm. I don't think that taking on the new Health-Care bill was due to the Bush administration? Nor was TARP.

Anyway, had it decreased I would have been happy. But it tripled.

I dont think you can blame health care reforms, just yet.

Oh, that's coming up. Don't fret. Greece, move over.

By all accounts the American economy has improved over the last three months. I have this awful feeling you would prefer for the country to fail so you could tell us, you told us so.

Obama, the man for 'Change'. so why has nothing changed and the wealth gap just keeps increasing?

Sure; though not so much of a puppet but perchance the person who, after getting into office and finally *realizing* the forces at work, probably said, "Oh crap!".

Were you under the impression he was going to be the fix for this?

No single person, no single entity can make the changes he promised he'd be the agent for during his election campaigning. There were times during the campaign process where I listened and winced; knowing that the behemoths he'd be up against wouldn't yield to him or any other single entity. Personally, I took it all in the context of "This is what politicians say when they want to get elected", in his case from the liberal perspective. But I fear that most americans - being the insightful, intelligent bunch we are - swallowed it whole hog, as if Merlin had returned to stamp out environmental abuse, wealth disparities, health care inequities and so on.

I do feel like he is (and will remain being) the person who got everyone's hopes up. Many will be dashed but some will be realized. We watch too many movies where a single hero comes to rescue us all. The forces at work that perpetuate these kinds of problems are well entrenched and a ubiquitous and permanent part of the american culture.

Yep, they may change, and he may be an integral part of it. But nothing will come fast, easy, cheap and convenient. It's meet that we not saddle him for being human.

Just my thoughts.

On the one hand, we can't really judge how good a job someone has done until we have some historical perspective. On the other hand, we have to judge them by this November when our vote will decide whether it will be easier or harder for him to pass his proposed laws through congress. It's an interesting contradiction. More annoying than interesting really.

But when someone says one thing and then puts thousands more troops in afghanistan i dont see that as a positive change.

But when someone says one thing and then puts thousands more troops in afghanistan i dont see that as a positive change.

Health reforms are not as good as healthy food, and a lessoned wealth gap. Or maybe he could stop scaring the **** out of everyone with media? Making everyone need guns etc etc etc. Well he probably would change all these things but the fact is they are all beyond his control. Thats why i believe he is just a puppet. A fresh mask for the same old bastards behind it all.