White House Insiders Compare Obama to Franklin Roosevelt

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Looking down the road to 2012 and beyond,the Republican Party does not have a Man or Woman in their camp that they can confidently present as a Candidate - a winning Candidate for President. The Party is in dire need of a moral re-armorment. And it takes great courage to embark on a program of Moral Re-armorment. Holding back the passage of the Healthcare Bill is a blind fool's strategy that will back-fire on the Party. The Party's image is already tarnished by the fact that they watched the economy go down the tubes over the past two presidential periods and never did they allow their moral courage to come to the surface. They kept protecting the Party,s image and NOT the American people's welfare. They are wasting time playing politics with religion and abortion.(Do they really understand who God is?). Wake up Republicans and smell the coffee.

Conrad Walker of TX 4:48PM February 10, 2010

PRESIDENT OBAMA. DURING YOUR CAMPAIGN YOU VOWED WE WOULD HAVE CHANGE, WE LISTENED TO YOU AND BELIEVED YOU. YOUR LOUD CALL OF "YES WE CAN" GAVE US HOPE. WE FELT YOUR STRENGTH. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, DON'T GIVE IN AND GIVE UP. YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH AND CHANGE CAN COME AND WILL COME IF YOU GO FORWARD WITH ALL YOUR PLANS. I REMEMBER F.D.R.'S FIRESIDE CHATS...I REMEMBER HOW PEOPLE TURNED ON HIM AND SPOKE OF THEIR HATE AND DISILLUSIONS...BUT HE FORGED ON. THEY DIDN'T WANT SOCIAL SECURITY AND THEY PUT W.P.A. DOWN. AGAIN HE FORGED ON. YEARS LATER THEY REALIZED HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO GIVE US A BETTER LIFE AND HIS CHANGES SAVED THIS COUNTRY. WE BELIEVED IN HIM SO MUCH WE VOTED HIM IN FOR 3RD TERM..NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THE WAR BUT BECAUSE WE FELT HIS STRENGTH AND COURAGE AND KNEW HE WOULD ALWAYS BE LOOKING OUT FOR THE GOOD OF ALL MAN KIND. DON'T ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE CAUSOUS AND FEARFUL OF WHAT OTHER POLITICIANS WANT AND WHAT THEY MAY ACCUSE YOU OF. STAND UP TO THEM AND FORGE AHEAD AND MILLIONS OF US ARE WITH YOU ALL THE WAY. PLEASE...YOU ARE OUR LAST HOPE. "YES WE CAN"

)MILDRED AND RICHARD RINKER..(PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR of CA 3:25PM February 06, 2010

The real problem we are faced with as Americans is not President Barack Obama. It's the republican Democrats dressed up in Democrat costums pretending to be for the people by the people and with the people. President Obama need to rewrite the law for Congress they have too much power and fail to stand up
and represent Americans when they need them most. I'm going to start a partition to strip congress of their power and give their misuse of authority to the President. Why? because we
the people stand beside President Obama and the majority of us believe that President Obama has our best interest at hand. Stop this War in IRAQ and bring our soldiers home, and for all those old fogies who want the war to continue remind them it was built on a lie and therefore you will not be victorious.
WE NEED A NEW CONGRESS, NO MORE REPUBLICANS, NO MORE DEMOCRATS
NO MORE INDEPENDENTS, THE USA NEW REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. ONLY ALLOW THEM TO SERVE TERMS OF 1 YEAR AT A TIME THAT WAY WE CAN MONITOR MORE CLOSELY THEIR PROGRESS. IF THEIR NOT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHY SHOULD THEY SERVE A LIFETIME IN OFFICE CORRUPT SELLING OUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR EVERYTHING FROM PIMPING MALE PROSTITUTION ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, TO INDECENT EXPOSURE AND GOD KNOWS WHAT ELSE, OH DON'T FORGET THE DRUNK FROM THE PAST ADMINISTRATION THAT RUIN THIS COUNTRY AND PUT US IN THE CURRRENT POSITION WE'RE FACE WITH RIGHT NOW. Look, the truth is not always pretty and that's the bottom line.
I SUPPORT PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND THAT'S THAT!!!

Sandra Dickens of MD 11:02AM January 26, 2010

We all voted him in, and now the polls have gone down against him. All that he had to "undue" from leftovers of the last administration. This doesn't take one man, it takes all of us to try and pull out of this. I couldn't be more delighted to make the banks pay up. It disgusts me to see how much the lenders loaned to people that could have never afforded these mortgages. We shouldn't feel sorry for their cries for help because of so many short sales and foreclosures. I've talked to a number of lenders who say that they could see the writing on the wall as their customers sign over their lives to them in a mortgage. And now they need the citizens to bail them out. Now they cry because Obama has put limitations on their bonuses, and are making them pay back some of what was used to bail them out, rather than go into someone"s wallet. Not yours I assure you, just another CEO! Wake up America, this is our money that was used for these bailouts.
The days of patting someone on the back for a job they should have been doing in the first place is over. I'm proud of our President and instead of fighting him, why not try and help this country get back on our feet.

Leslie Lawson of MI 11:43AM January 22, 2010

We all know the challenges this country is facing today and the bold step President Obama has taken to fix things. The history is being clearly writen in the books and i think Theodore Roosevelt did same. History is repeating itself , I bet he is headed in the right direction and we all must support him.

Chris Osuoha of TX 7:11PM January 16, 2010

This must have been written by a hard-core Conservative.
I was 8 or 9 years old when FDR came into office and things
were really bad at that time - Didn't we just have Hoover -
a Republican in office? So what are you complaining about?
Also - we can also "stand together" regardless our President
is a different party...
Again.."GIVE THE MAN A BREAK".
ETS in Washington State

Elayne Spangler of WA 4:12PM January 16, 2010

If Bush haden't got us in this mess the president wouldn't have some much clean up. Bush made alot of mistake and know President Obama has to restore this economy. I fell that President Obama is doing a great job.

melvyna of CA 5:18PM January 15, 2010

President Obama is trying to repair this country of its economical depression. It took the previous government 8yrs to put the country in this state. President Obama has only been in office one year and already he's making some positive changes. we need to be patient and have faith in him and just give the man a break. Here we have a president who truly cares about people and is making changes to benefit the country as a whole and all we can do is sit back and criticize his every move..how ungrateful. we needed a change and God put the right man in office to make that happen.
Stop the whining and get use to it and GIVE THE MAN A BREAK

astewart of GA 7:49AM January 15, 2010

The amount of gold in the US would never allow the economy to collapse, but Obama is doing his best to make that happen. What is all of this together we stand when it's a liberal in office? Obama is a press whore, jumping up to the cameras for Haiti was a ploy to make him look like he was doing something that he criticized Bush about, but where the heck was he when the terrorist attack happened and millions of Americans were traveling on Christmas? Vacationing, not a peep from him for three days. This man is a joke. Everything about him is a lie.

Ann Marie of NY 11:20PM January 14, 2010

Critical , negative people can never channge the world.We are struggling to overcome terrosim and economic woes internationally. President Obama has saved us from the worst depression beyond words, and this fight is not over.The ones that critisize obviously are financially secure at the cost of others. How else could they be so critically cold and ugly. A diplomat concerning governing a nation , also includes the well being pychologically of helping the ones that need help. If we reacted in fear of the recent terroist attempt, al queda would accomplish its goals. Only the strong shall remain free . Having faith in our great leaders following now that higher call, is crucial to success in this spiritual revolution against terrosim worldwide. This takes great faith, and pure values to even help ones that cannot get proper medical.

lifeflight 6:14AM January 12, 2010