majorspark;1486653 wrote:. Boat if you and Obama sat down over a couple of beers and had an ideological heart to heart you would want to hump his leg before the conversation was over.
I actually disagree...on economics issues at least. When you hear some of the things that his advisers say, you see the people he's appointed (Jeremy "Bubble-Popping" Stein) where he wouldn't face ideological resistance etc., he doesn't seem to be on the same page. I honestly think he was being sincere on the wrongness of national debt and that it kills him inside to have the deficit sky-rocket under his watch....but I think he thinks it was primarily because of the bad economy and if he can just see the economy get better and raise taxes on the rich and cut a "grand bargain" it'll get better and to a more palatable level.
At best he's way more conservative ideologically than he let on or that liberals were willing to believe...at worst he's a passion-free fraud fully on the political expediancy train.
I.E. If I sat down and had a beer with him and said "The deficit is neither bad nor good Barack...it just is what it is...you need to focus on the real economy and either cut taxes low enough or increase spending high enough or some combination thereof until the economy gets to full employment and stop worrying about the number accumulating in Fed Securities accounts."
I think he would disagree and give me some rant about how we need to have a balanced approach to keep liberal priorities while also get debt under control so our businesses are confident, etc.
^^^still doesn't make him the horrificly incompetent manager, pathetic leader, anti-american, constitutional usurper that conservatives make him out to be on a daily basis.
