View From Washington: Universal Stagnation

Bush and Obama are just puppets. Wall Street bankers, the military-industrial complex, corporate conglomerates and the religious right are the real power brokers of this country. And they have been for some time. Only those willing to play ball with these groups get elected, as shown by the fact that seventy of Bush's appointees were graduates of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, and most of Obama's appointees are members of either the Tri-Lateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations or the Bilderberg Group.

Unfortunately Obama is failing across the board, it's like Bush's third term. Sure he got my vote but he will not again. I cannot even watch him speak on TV anymore because I believe nothing he says. Our country needs a leader not a cheerleader! Hillary 2012 !!!

After two years in office Bush had appointed hundreds of fundamentalist "Christian" right wing federal court judges, and pushed laws through Congress to start two unnecessary wars, destroy the economy, destroy the environment, make oil CEOs and other billionaires richer, destroy the middle class, destroy public education, give our tax dollars to fundamentalist "Christian" organizations, removed any positive reference to gay people from every government office's web site, got employers (including major film studios) and the press to label anyone who disagreed with him as unAmerican, and tv networks to censor anything he didn't like and found "objectionable". This pea brain did all this with far fewer Republicans in Congress than there are Democrats now in Congress. What is wrong with Obama and the Democrats in Congress?!!!!! The unconstitutional DADT and DOMA should have been repealed the first week. ENDA established the second. Two hundred fair-minded federal judges the third.

Mr Shoemaker, President Obama is a citizen of the United States, born in Hawaii. He went to school in Indonesia but that is all. His father is African, not Indonesian. You sir, need to be more well versed before making ill placed comments. This country is in one helluva mess and whilst I'm not thrilled with the job he's doing, do you seriously think McCain Palin would be doing any better? Do you seriously think DADT or DOMA would have even been addressed. I'm the first to admit I am all over the President and I write letters, on average, of three times a month as well as to my senators and congressman. Are you?

I hate to write this--I had really high hopes for Obama's optimistic rhetoric--but the evidence of the Obama Administration's failing, and that of the entire Democratic party, is abundant and extends beyond LGBT issues. The most obvious failing is health-care reform, which should have been pushed more aggressively. But another one, which hasn't received much attention, is Obama's "American Graduation Initiative" and other higher education agenda items. As with civil equality and health care, the president promised to deliver a lot, stalled (Hello, Hamlet!), and accomplished nothing. Now the AGI and Pell Grant reform *might* be packaged with the budget reconciliation, but probably will not be. This administration has just been a huge let down from the beginning, and from my point of view, Obama's non-partisan dream is largely to blame. The rest of the blame goes to Democrats. Vote them all out and replace them with people who care. And good luck finding them.

The economy is in the toilet. Millions of Americans are out of work as unemployment reaches record levels. People continue to lose their homes to foreclosure. And Oblahblahblah is focused on healthcare after increasing the national debt by TRILLIONS of dollars. What will he do for the GLBTs? Nothing! He got what HE wanted: your votes! The man is obviously out of touch with the American people.

Fuck off, racist.

I can barley stomach the sound of his voice anymore (I generally turn the channel when he comes on now)............his speeches can best be described as (prettified Bullshit). I trust nothing in his empty promises.

Well, clearly we all should have voted for Hillary! Clearly she has bigger balls than the President.

Obama WASTED his entire first year in office; accomplishing NOTHING! Now as he approaches the mid-term elections; he suddenly realizes that SOMETHING needs to be done or the Democrats could lose, big time, at the polls. Obama is, by nature, a 'concensus builder'; which is fine in the Senate, where you have 99 other people to deal with. But, as PRESIDENT he needs to take the bull by the horns and LEAD which he has yet to do. I think he MAY be waking up to this realization. I only hope it is not too late. Concensus building was Lyndon Johnsons downfall and will prove to be Obamas, as well. He MAY be the next Jimmy Carter; one term and OUT. This lack of leadership has possibly doomed any chance to repeal DADT, this year. But then, LGBT issues never were a big priority for him, now were they?