Not the change we voted for

You should really think about including facts in your next article. Although if this is an April Fools joke, well done.

When he spoke of change, he spoke of changing the way Washington did business, he promised transparency, bipartisanship, balanced budgets, and more help for the middle class.

This article isn't based in reality.

First, bipartisanship takes two people, or in this case two parties working together. If the Republicans don't want to work with him. What is he suppose to do?

Second, he is definitely more transparent than Bush ever was. There is so far, no secret meetings with with big oil in order to craft a energy policy. Name any bill that was posted online for all to see by the Bush administration.

Third, no time for media to review his policies?!?! ARE YOU AWAKE? He's been EVERYWHERE. He's been interviewed by OReilly, Maddow, Leno, and on and on and on. By every news channel out there.This isn't debatable it's FACT. I've seen the stimulus bill before it was signed and the current budget. What other major bill have you missed? Another point what or who defines "enough time" ? Two months, three months, four when is enough enough. Or is that the point? There is never enough time.

Fourth, IT'S BEEN THREE MONTHS !!! You want him to change the world in 3 months, which doesn't make any sense if you look at the previous paragraph where you wanted "more time to review". Which is it? More time to review? Or everything fixed in 3 months? Or is that the point? It doesn't matter what he did or was going to do in the NEXT THREE YEARS. You want to be appeased, but you are unappeasable.

I'm not even going to ask you how you balance a budget in a recession. That's the whole point of a recession. It's not some planned budget item. "Oh there it is.... someone please itemize this recession in the budget."

Well, I was a Mitt Romney fan... until Huckabee sent the religious right into a party splitting frenzy and Mitt the dust he bit. Then I was a McCain fan... until... well... why overstate the obvious. So, I did it. I voted for Obama. It's my fault.

I'm not sure I can go along with everything you're saying here, but I can admit to some significant disappointment on my part. Obama promised to "fix the housing crisis," and instead he's just taken the Bush plan and added a small carrot and the possibility of a stick. He's backing the Employee Free Choice Act, which is a flagrant payback to the unions. He hasn't shown that he has the gumption to take over banks, or commit to a meaningful solution to the problems.

I also agree that he has not done enough to quell the fires between dem and rep. There wasn't enough time to debate provisions of stimulus or spending, and he did allow the 9,000 earmarks to pass like sh#t through a goose. Now, as things continue to melt away down on Main St. he's touring Europe shaking hands and giving speeches. I want to give him a chance and the benefit of the doubt, but not forever, and not for long.

Yes, he's been disappointing on several occasions. I wish he'd tell us the truth, do the right thing and live with the 20% approval rating that might result. That's what I thought he would do... but then again, I'm a dreamer...

If he doesn't take more meaningful steps to fix the economy soon, the only change people are going to believe in is the change in their pockets.

Not the change we voted for

I did not vote for then Mr. Obama

Well, no. It isn't what you voted for.

As far as I'm concerned, the guy gets at least a few months in office, and time to actually do something, before I'll make my decisions. I voted for a human being--not a fairy god-mother with a magic wand.

I'm sorry whizzer, I think you are out behind the barn taking a whiz. You said above that you would add info as needed. Well, why don't you try starting here:

The Obama administration has promised to help the middle class but has taken every opportunity it could to make getting a job more difficult increasing taxes on products known to be used by the lower class, and has offered little relief in any major aspect of the economy including the areas which are known to be most hurt, housing.

Maybe by setting forth exactly how President Obama (and not the previous congress) is making acquiring a job more difficult. Then, after you have adequately shown that, you could show how he has not helped those hurt by housing (oh, and lets keep them separated from the Paulsen attempt to remove 'toxic assetts' from the big banks).

I am not politically inclined to make comments at this time. There are many commentators who just say a words without meaning and substance. Let us wait for the time to come and see what happened.

Zom Zom was right there is no fairy god mother with a magic wand.

Dude! You're right on! I preparing an article that you are going to love. I will be putting it on my blog soon. In the meantime, read my article about more of the same regarding Executive Orders... Nice job. I love seeing original stuff instead of just articles being seeded.

Methinks you need to change your name.... At least whiz part.

;-)

Change? What change? , the whole worlds are falling apart. To change America you have to change the whole world. It is a free market the problems are global.

Wow, I really am amazed at the comments you are receiving.  Like, the UN is an efficient tool!  What? 

I am writing a post write now and doing a trackback to your article.  

I think all these paranoid rantings and bogus conspiracy theories are a waste of time and potentially distracting to the progress of this country as it attempts to get out of the ditch left by the failed Bush/Cheney/Rove administration. Obama won fair and square and we need to move on. You don't have to like it (I feel your pain, the eight years of Bush were miserable) but to put all these half truths and innuendo out there is dishonest and nonproductive. I'm satisfied that he is following his campaign promises better than most and feel confident that in a year's time we will begin to see some daylight. If ya'll expected him to be the Second Coming or above politics than you are more naive than I would have hoped. He is a politician and he believes in making compromises. He never claimed to be some pure breed liberal or progressive. Seems like as long as he's got both the far right "DittoHeads" mad and the far left "MoveOnians" disappointed than he's probably doing about right. Relax, give the guy a fair chance and accept the results of the election. This country will survive and be great again. Peace and prosperity.........

what really is going to mess with your head is that when the smoke clears and things are coming around and chicken little pops his head out you'll realize(though probably not just from what i've read) that the color of a persons skin does not dictate the outcome of events!!!! you'll probably say your not prejudiced but believe me i won't believe you!!!!! all this conjecture about direction of the nation and lies and broken promises is just VEILED PREJUDICE!!!!!!!!!! if it was JOHN MCCAIN everybody(talking about people like you!!!!) would be jumping up and down extolling his VIRTUES AND RIGHTHEADEDNESS!!!! so as yu can see i'm not buying any crap that your selling today!!!!! wait a year and write this crap and if your right i'll agree!!!! but if your not(hopefully!!!) i'm sure i can expect to see the same drivel from someone reflecting the views of their parents.... prejudice is not a human trait(like skin and hair and eye color) it must be LEARNED!!!!... so WHIZ go sell your crap to some fool and fill his/her head with dreams and visions of a utopian world with no bad elements and a coin flip always comes up heads

BOO HOO, I bet Obama feels that everything isn't quite as what he'd been told it was. Like they always say, "wish in one hand and $hit in the other, see which one gets fuller first".

Whiz:

Me thinks people think you are a staunch republican whose ranting against a democrat whom now sits in a chair stunk up by a mental midget.

Correct me if I'm wrong, which I'm sure you will, but I think you're in a rather large group ,who are soooooo tired of rhetoric, lies, deceit, special interest groups and corruption, that "Change" cannot happen honestly, or quickly enough for.

I'm going to give this guy a few months, I don't expect much, he's a politician. To be quite honest, taking into account the state of the economy, airlifting the presidential limo to Canada for a 30 minute meet & greet with Harper,(minor issue), pi$$ed me off. The cost of that alone would have paid my mortgage off and a nice vacation.

This is transparency: I have never vote for any politician that has accepted special interest or corporate money. My Grandfather lost everything in the depression, and my father lived through the immediate post depression era. They both taught me something I didn't really understand until high school, had a GREAT social studies teacher too. This is it, and I have the feeling that MANY think this but HOPE it's not so.

" Anyone who spends millions of dollars, handed to them by corporations or lobbyists, to aquire a job that pays a fraction of what they can make in the private sector, does not, cannot and will not have your best interests in mind." They went on to add: " Politicians study history and know the easiest way to control people, fear. They are masters at prestidigitation and prevarication, just like houdini who diverts your attention away from the mechanics of the trick. They'll throw you a bone, while they eat the steak then tell you the steak was tough."

Sorry this is a little long, but It is relevant. I was very fortunate to have independent, rational role models. Not everyone has had that benefit. Kids are taught in school to trust government. A nice sentiment....Some may call my view narcisistic, that's fine, but through the years, in my eyes, all signs point to reality. So, as for Obama, he's under Bush on the AIG contribution list........a sign, no?

Great seed Whiz! At least this kind of medium gets us all discussing, and that's a good thing!!

Correct me if I'm wrong, which I'm sure you will, but I think you're in a rather large group ,who are soooooo tired of rhetoric, lies, deceit, special interest groups and corruption, that "Change" cannot happen honestly, or quickly enough for.

There is a different way of referring to this group, which is not quite so kind but a bit more accurate.

They judge from the outside, angrily, desiring that their lives attain a greater level of perfection. Knowing they will never be allowed into office, they constantly turn up the volume on their complaints and yell louder and louder, confusing rage for virtue. They have many different opinions on the right way to run a country, and all have a problem with the current candidate. And because of whatever the main real problem is, they find fault with a million little things that he does, ignoring the fact that any of the other candidates would be in pretty much the same position as he is now.

Great seed Whiz! At least this kind of medium gets us all discussing, and that's a good thing!!

Intellectual discourse is good, this sort of thing not so much. Starting with specific issues rather then advertising his anger would have been nice.

It always annoyed me when Barack Obama used the "Change" slogan, because it was so general and meaningless. He used it to suit his purposes, though to his credit if you listened to his speeches he got far more specific about what he planned to do when he was elected. Now people use the ephemeral "Change" slogan for their own purposes to curse. "This isn't the Change we wanted!"

You would have said that no matter what. It's a general meaningless phrase, so people like you get to spin it however you like. Had McCain, or Romney, or anyone else been elected, their response would either been either the same, or much worse. We need the stimulus, and you seem to assume a level of personal control over AIG that doesn't exist.

This is not the Change we voted for, this was not the intention of anyone's vote except those who may be categorized as the extreme left. Nobody said we did not want capitalism, nobody said we wanted a 25% GDP to debt ratio, nobody said we wanted you to spend more, nobody said we wanted you to control executive pay, nobody said we wanted you to own massive amounts of stock in 'private' companies, nobody said we wanted you to force bills through Congress, nobody said we wanted you to expand the executive branches powers, nobody said we wanted this...

I know what socialism is, and this isn't it. Passing a stimulus bill does not mean we are no longer capitalist. Perhaps you should go to a socialist country sometime and see the reality. I have, it takes more then a huge stimulus bill or deficit to make you socialist, whatever the republicans may say.

Everybody forces bills through Congress, because that's how laws are made. If someone else had been elected, someone else would be forcing bills through Congress. The republicans used strongarm tactics far in excess of what the current crew is using, and used the same means of reconciliation that are being proposed now. You don't dislike him because he's "forcing laws through congress," you dislike it for the same reason the republicans.

The republicans want to force their own laws through congress just like they used to, and they just can't take the fact that he's using the same means they used to, to get his stimulus passed. They don't give a damn about the means, they don't like what he is doing period.

Here's the truth of the matter. You may not be an entrenched republican, but what you really wanted above all else is to be able to complain. It's a great goal, because you'll always be able to do it. At the end, someone has to be a realist and try to fix the issues placed before them. He is trying to do that. Hopefully the number of people like you who impotently yell and scream will not be so great as to make that impossible.

When Obama ran his campaign, he indicated stimulus would be necessary. Where is the lying? I've been watching the election, and watching what he is doing now, and viewed without the hysteria I think I'm seeing pretty the same guy I always did. I listened to the speeches, I've watched what's occuring, and I don't see any lying.

He said he'd try to be bipartisan, and he did. Surprise, surprise, there are limits on how often he will go to that well. If he screwed around for a few months later to try and get the republicans to work with him, and waited while the recession gets worse, would that have been better? I think not.

He said he'd negotiate more often and send in troops less, and that is pretty much the picture I have today. He said he'd put science back on top, and he has. And he said he would try to stimulate the economy, and he is.

Perhaps he will ultimately fail. I'm sure you will eagerly work for that to happen, but whether he fails or not, we got what we voted for. As you say, you didn't vote for him, and you hope he goes down in flames. And now that the mess with AIG has occurred, you get to act all enraged. It's a nice excuse, I suppose.

He now seeks to control the wages of workers?

Business, industry, and congress have control workers wages for years, I think a little equal treatment is in order. The fat cats keep getting fatter while we lose.

Not the change we voted for

in the effort of full disclosure I did not vote for then Mr. Obama

huh?

You didn't vote for change, anyhow. You voted for more of the same. You're against change. That said, what's your point?

It is this kind of voter who will take all the credit if things go well and none of it if no. This article is a waste of time and space.

Obama has changed the country...in the wrong direction: We are no longer fighting the war on terror--hope someone told the terrorists, we now pay for abortions all over the world as well as here, the government has granted de facto amnesty to all illegal immigrants--no longer deporting illegals captured by ICE, we have passed legislation to triple the debt in 10 years, Obama has become CEO of GM though he has never run anything before, ACORN was given $5 billion and now will be playing a major part in the census, even though they are investigated in 14 states and numerous convictions for voter fraud...

Yeah, the country is changing...not in a good way for most though.

I agree to an extent with what you've said except that global capitalism is not a problem, it very definitely is....however I agree that there is little change for the GOOD. Just like the last administration he is taxing the poor more than the rich sucking the blood out of people who can LEAST afford it! And one thing the Democratic Party was supposed to be mainly about is the POOR!

Let me help you out, since you've obviously lost your mind. Only a fool, would judge the performance of someone serving a four year term, three months into that four year term! Unless you have psychic friends, how can you say "promises" have been broken?! Seriously explain the logic behind this, because I can't see it. Did Obama say he would have everything fixed in three month's? If it were that simple, it would have been done by now!

Traditionally a president's "promises" and whether or not that president kept his promises, are looked at when they leave or about to leave office. That way you can compare what they promised to do and what they actually did! See simple, not complicated at all. Today we can compare what Bush promised versus what he actually did, since he's not in office. In other words, We don't need psychic friends to know he screwed us, we can see it!!!

Bringing up Bush is a non-sequitar by the way, he's not the President anymore, Obama is.

I picked this one because it proves my point. Bush isn't the president anymore, yet instead of tracking his "promises" you pick the new president, whose not even close to completing his first year?! You actually think that makes sense?

To whiz: you stated that you DID NOT VOTE for President Obama, so what's your beef? You did not believe him anyway - right? So what are you b-xtching about? Your opinions only PROVED you correct- right? Apparently you just like to hear yourself talk or see yourself in print. But I am sick and tired of you attempting to denigrate my President, Barack Obama based upon your selfish motivations. I also find it hard to believe that you work ANYWERE. How do you manage a fulltime job and devote so much time to your pitiful diatribes and dissention against someone you didn't even vote for- and apparently do not like. You're pitiful with a capital P.

to whiz: wrong! And who are you, a person who did not vote for the new President to expect anything? I didn't vote for George W. Bush, didn't expect anything from George W. Bush, and didn't GET anything from George W. Bush! Neither did I complain when things went the other way; I knew that my chance would come to vote him out - and it did and I DID! If you don't vote, don't bxvtch. My President owes you NO ALLEGIANCE whatsoever. Why aren't you harping on all of your Republican cohorts who have no answer to anything -nor alternative plan- except "just say no"? Would that be too easy? Are you afraid that everyone would agree with you? Finally, are you lacking the guts to call the Republicans out on the carpet, or do you just get satisfaction by disparaging our new President who you did not VOTE for?

One thing I dont understand, If you didnt vote Obama then of course you didnt get the change you voted for, because the change you voted for lost. So I think the title of your article is a little misleading.

I think the people who voted for Obama are getting the change they voted for, it just still is not the change you voted for. But that is ok, you are entitled to your opinion.