I read an article from The Nation called, 100 Down, 900 to Go. This article was about how Obama is doing pretty well even with all of obstacles his predecessor, "arguably the worst President we ever had, left him. However he still has a long way to go and he knows this because he doesn't want people to look at what he's done in the first 100 days he wants them to see what he does after the 1000 days are up.
Obama has "hit the ground running," he's been going and going on trying to get us out of this crisis. He has, "pledged to close Guantanamo and the CIA black sites. He quickly passed a strong recovery bill -- even if it was smaller than it should have been; that bill and his proposed budget begin to lay out a new blueprint for economic recovery and reconstruction, and a break with ill-conceived dogma about deficit reduction that has defined and limited economic policy for thirty years. He repealed the global gag order, took steps to restore science to its proper place with regard to stem cell research and addressing climate change, and has embarked on a substantive transformation to a clean energy economy"He is also bettering our relationships with others around the world that aren't very good. declared his commitment to nuclear abolition and, in doing so, has opened the door to a renewed and wiser nuclear non-proliferation framework.
Even though Obama seems to be doing well and is coming up with pretty good ideas on getting us out of this mess some are still skeptical about the military escalation in Afghanistan and the bank bailout. The budget plan may not do as good as it's supposed to because of how bad unemployment is and is becoming. The unemployment rates might just cancel out any good the bailout does. Then there's the war, some feel that the resources we are using over there are going to dry us out and make it impossible to get out of this crisis. However if the bailout doesn't work Obama will have to go to plan B. The article goes onto to talk about how health care is another issue we really need to work on as well.
I feel Obama is doing a lot to get us out of this mess. He's not just sitting around letting everyone else do it all he's actually out there working for it. I don't ever remember hearing about George Bush doing much of anything except starting a war. I think in time, if we give him a chance, Obama will do a lot for our Country and make it a better place to live. He can only do so much in such a little time.
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I hope Obama gets us out of this mess soon. Maybe he'll do better than Bush, who knows?
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