Obama’s Dangerous Inexperience Shows In Iran and Dying Healthcare Reform

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Well it didn't seem to trouble the voters in 2008 -- so let them live with it. The capacity for this country to err in judgment is infinite.

Donna of NJ 11:50AM June 29, 2009

I love my country and I'm very concerned the path we have chosen and with these choices there will be consequences.The question is , Are you willing to pay the price and live with it for yourself,your children,grandchilren ? I watched CNN and someone called Barrack Obama God, which confused me a little because most don't want to acknowledge there is a God these days.I watch and listen very carefully to the speeches Obama and his administration give never really answering the hard questions asked ,when and if they are asked. Besides we all know whatever goes wrong " it's the Bush Administrations fault, and people accept that because it has worked throughout Obama's campaigne and contiues to work because people don't want to take the time to listen and search for facts and truth anymore.I've watch the news media change from reporting facts and truth to what serves their purpose and agenda...I hear politicians say " the people have no confidence in spending". Well, I'm sorry to burst their bubble , but most hard working people have no money to spend and if you truely believe the outrageous spending and tremendous debt our Government is doing is the right thing and that he is strong in how he deals with Iran and North Korea , you better be right because our very life depends on it.

susan mitchell of OK 1:59PM June 28, 2009

Has she bothered to give the inexperienced president the answers?

Should he invade Iran like Bush invaded the formerly U.S. backed Iraq?

And then leave the mess to the next president to deal with?

Or maybe re-back the Taliban that the U.S. formerly backed in Afganistan now that they have retreated into Pakistan that Bush was afraid to offend because they have the big bomb?

Maybe inexperience at playing both bully and coward at the same time is not such a bad idea after all?

HillbillyBill of TN 8:57AM June 27, 2009

Duh-bya left an unprecedented legacy of disasters everywhere.

President Obama has to address a lot of them at once because they all need addressing! Now!

We can't wait until one fire is completely tamped out before dealing with the next because any one of them could consume us.

What do you leave undone? Do you let the American auto industry disappear? Do you leave the United States with the most inefficient and cruelly rationed health care system in the industrialized world? Do you let the economy completely collapse? Immigration, energy, and global warming are on a somewhat slower track, but we have to deal with them soon as well. Gay rights activists are clamoring for changes, the Iran election situation popped up unexpectedly, as did North Korea's recent saber (or missile) rattling, and he's had to make his first Supreme Court nomination sooner than many thought he would have to.

Trying to do too much is a "beginner's mistake"?

Not trying is not an option!

Thank God President Obama doesn't listen to the Bonnie Erbes of the world.

jimatmadison of WI 8:44PM June 26, 2009

We expect more from Democrats. We at least expect them to take traditionally liberal positions instead of giving all taxpayer money to bankers who created these problems.

donna darko of IL 7:47PM June 26, 2009

So his inexperience is the problem?? What was George W. Bush's excuse?? In case you didn't realize it, a president HAS TO BE a multi-tasker. Problems have a bad habit of coming at you all at once and that's how they have to be tackled. That's why he has a TEAM OF EXPERTS called a cabinet and cabinet level agencies to come up with answers. Besides that, how do you propose he go about doing one thing at a time and what would be your suggestion on how long he should spend on each task seperately??? One week per each problem? Two weeks per?? One month per problem?? That's not how the presidency works. All the experience the Bush administration had didn't seem to stop them from screwing up the country royally did it?? When you've got to clean up that many messes, you've got to hit the ground running.

M Brown of IL 7:02PM June 26, 2009

The naivety of the country appalls me. I find it hard to watch this next up and coming generation (which i am a part of) fall into his words as if he were God. If you even so much as scratch the surface of what Obama says you will find that he is clueless and really has no validity to the claims he makes. And furthermore i challange any of you who just take him for his word, to research and look at both sides of the argument. I think you will be very surprised. I completely agree with the opinion that he is extremely inexperienced and lost.

Moses of CA 4:07PM June 26, 2009

Obama has a lot on his plate right now and despite his confidence-I doubt he is going to be able to solve it all in the near future. Or even his first term. I think Obama needs to take a deep breath and concentrate on the major three: Healthcare, Alternative Energy, and the Economy.

Parker of RI 4:05PM June 26, 2009

It's hard to tell (because he's such a good con artist) if the PROBLEM with bama is that he's inexperienced or he knows exactly what he's up to by revamping America. Reason for that-he grew up around people who DESPISE America and what we stand for, influenced from his childhood in Indonesia to the Rev Wright circle of cronies. I think it will take a bit more time of the destruction of America before we can find out why he's doing this to us; INEXPERIENCE or HATE???

Tom of NJ 3:00PM June 26, 2009

was a fighter with experience. She was "Ready On Day One."

donna darko of IL 2:47PM June 26, 2009

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Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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