Obama, Like Bush, Uses Crisis to Expand Presidential Power

No one cares about politics! I'm sick of this scudish buisness! Amen!

Phil Sheffield of OH 9:37AM March 21, 2012

Okay, first of all only like 53% of people voted for him, and besides that doesn't mean you should just rollover and worship him like he is divine or something. But I digress.

The Obama administration IS expanding government power, and if you are okay with that you aren't thinking long-term. Even if you think Obama cares about you (which he doesn't because he is a politician like any other politician in the history of politics), what happens when the almighty isn't in power anymore? Well guess what, whoever succeeds him retains all of the that authority and the ability to screw things up!

Worse yet, government intervention is one of, if not the main factor in causing the housing crisis. If you haven't done your research, guess which administration changed the regulation of Fannie and Freddie and essentially required them to lower their lending standards? The Clinton administration. I'm not a republican, so don't think I like what Bush has done (or rather didn't do to reverse the damage). I especially don't like that he used 9/11 to expand government power. But you have to look at Obama and judge him by the same standards. He is trying to fix what the government has already screwed up, and he is probably going to make it worse (if he hasn't already done that). Where is the TARP money? Where is the bailout money? Gone, and we will have to pay more taxes to make up for the loss. I guess we should have actually thought the process out before throwing trillions of dollars at the problem.

Shane M of MI 11:55AM March 29, 2009

President Obama has displayed, through press conferences and other venues in his public presentations, his personal commitment to accountability, and to transperancy while in office during his first 100 days. He leads the nation by example. One might question his motives, those being polical gain in his popularity in the polls. However, his actions in selecting cabinet members much prior to his inaugeration, and his subsequent choices out of expediency is proving out to be well deliberated ones consistent with his philosophy, "let us get at it while the iron is hot! The American people cannot wait for belated results." Had this administration limit itself to investigating the root causes and effect as to how Wall Street and corporate America's meltdown affected Americans here at Main Street, and delayed its waiting upon results before acting, while Americans seethed in greater numbers of foreclosures and lost jobs, would have been tantamount to civil unrest at least, and led possibly to civil disobedience, such as the Los Angeles riots here in 1962, where homes and businesses went up in flames. The aforesaid single task mentioned by itself, as cumbersome as it would be, could have arrived too little too late, and untimely as a solution for us--even though our financial institutions had self-indulged and have been perpetuating their own demise. However, president Obama's current multi-tasking approach, of attacking "the many-faceted problems", which culminated in America's meltdown requires a followup program started by president Bush's initial bailout. Yes, just this same kind of many-faceted, almost overwhelming-like, timely response as proposed by our president. Pending his adminstration's continued access to the public and its open policy, one of 'transperancy'.

Daniel M Chaparro of CA 8:02AM March 25, 2009

Sounds like a staff meeting of some very key people to me. We used to have them all of the time where I worked and only certain people were invited to attend. They planned strategy and implemented policies which was what they were all hired to do.Thank God our president and his inner circle have the ability to multitask since this nation has been been going in reverse for a very long time. I have to LOL at how freaked out some people are that intellect and competence has replaced the former simplistic mindset of the Bush admin. Gee, imagine reversing the Bush policy on stem cells. That's really SHOCKING only NOT! Even the former first lady, Nancy Reagan applauded that. Oh yeah, how dare Obama do this in the midst of our economic crisis. Like all those people with Alzeimer's, Type 1 Diabetes, Parkinson's, etc. can afford to wait any longer than they have to. And, how dare Obama and his team try to deal with a broken down educational system that doesn't succeed with a huge percentage of our kids? Like education isn't fundamental to a healthy economy but hey, who cares, right? We don't need good schools and trained teachers to help us deal with the 21st century. No siree. We can stay stuck in the 20th century and crumble like some of our schools. I look at what the right is saying along with the attitudes of the Republican congress and I just can't believe how insane they have all gone. Everyone needs to chill out, let the new administration do their jobs and see what happens. In my 60 years on this earth I have never seen such blatant disregard for hard work and intelligence and I have wondered what these folks who are complaining about everything are drinking.

What was the real point of this article? People are working hard to do their jobs. Sounds good to moi!

andie of AZ 5:20AM March 17, 2009