Politics Obama - Actually doing a good job?

Source: 75% of Europeans Would Vote for Obama: Report — US Election 2012 - CNBC

 

Sorry, but it is not me who makes leaps in logic outside what is written. When I discuss A and B it is your assumption that I am ignoring other factors, I rarely ignore other factors. If I say I prefer chocolate ice-cream sprinkled with peanuts as a summer evening snack you will come back with some weird line like I have something against Alaskans who do not eat ice-cream in the winter and have an allergy to nuts.
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Perhaps he should go to Europe with his Hope and Change agenda.

 

US wages are down since President Obama took office. This means people are not only losing ground to inflation, but their purchasing power is less in absolute terms. Heath-care insurance premiums are increasing in excess of inflation. The purchasing power for the average consumer for health-care insurance has dropped significantly.

In addition when we look at the numbers of people uninsured, the overall number is down but those insured under government programs is up - to about 32%. Obamacare is an unnecessary and costly step toward single-payer. it won't be long before employers can not afford to offer coverage, employers and employees afford to split coverage, or individuals to afford to pay for their own coverage.

Finally, are you following the trends occurring in the health care market? Are they good in your opinion?

 

Perhaps Americans need to become better educated. Horrible, the crap that goes on over there.

 

Recently I wrote about fathers and mothers having a caring interest in their children - and you went off into something about gay people being able to provide loving homes for children. Of course they can, but what did that have to do with fathers and mothers having a caring interest in their children? Absolutely nothing. So you conclude I ignore your point???
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Horrible crap goes on on my own block. I have horrible problems. America has horrible problems. If there is a class of people who do not have horrible problems, I suppose they are situated to better educated - whatever that means.

I find the liberal view on problems interesting. For example, I would assume that Mayor Bloomberg would solve all crime, drug abuse, child abuse, education, health and safety issues- before worrying about Big Gulp sodas. Similarly I think we in the US need to get our house in order before solving the problems of others.

 

If one is going to compete, why wouldn't one want to be number one? Is this a Canadian thing, something outside of the typical understanding of an American?
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See, you did it again. Being a father or mother has everything to do with functional reproductive organs and nothing to do with a person's sexual preference.

 

Yeah, see, most Europeans (and the large majority of Germans) aren't liberal socialists.

We're moderate centrists, with many falling on the center-right side. Unlike you guys, we actually have proper debates between the left and right, and not ones based solely on emotions and gun-toting.

What you guys in the US call center-right is considered the far-right in Europe. Why? Cause it is the far-right.

Conservatives? Gimme a break. You guys don't even know what conservatism means. It's us German conservatives who completely disregard your "conservatives". Remember how silly we found the Republicans' brinkmanship when they held the US economy hostage just to get some political concessions?

You mislabel your positions on a regular basis. I can't name any country that so clearly lacks a middle-ground in its political landscape as the US does.

It's pathetic how one is constantly confronted with either/or choices. You're anti-abortion but want to mantain legal exceptions for extenuating circumstances (rape, sexual assault, statutory rape, etc.)? Well guess what, the parties in the US don't play that way. It's either pro-life or pro-choice.

No. bloody. middleground.

 

Doing it again.

America is competing, we are simply getting our asses kicked.

Perhaps you can re-read those posts. Two gay men can be married and have a family. That family can be the best family in the world. The children can be loved, happy, well cared for and develop into wonderful adults. And it is possible that the mother of those children would not be a benefit. On a case by case basis this can be true many times over. I simply believe (my personal view) that the human race is better off (generally) if both mothers and fathers are involved in the care and nurturing of their children. My view is not complicated - let's see what you read into it next! Ace, did not mention a dog! He is ignoring the importance of a dog in the upbringing of children?!? What about grandparents? What about the "it takes a village", he is ignoring that too. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
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What is a "moderate centrist"? Here is what I envision - I put my left hand in a bucket of ice and I put my right hand in a bucket of boiling what - does that make me a "moderate centrist"? Or is being a "moderate centrist", really equal to being indifferent? How can a person be moderate or a centrist on the big questions of the day? For example you are either o.k. with Iran having nuclear weapons or you are not? What is the "moderate centrist" position? I think the primary problem in the US today has to do with convoluted thinking.

 

We have some mayors focused on Big Gulp sodas and not education.
We have national Education Secretaries who get their jobs without regard to the results from previous jobs.
We have many who value gold medals more than Nobel Prizes.
We have teachers unions who care more about job security than teaching.
We have classes of people who do not have school choice.
We teach to the lowest common denominator.
We fear discipline.
School year is too short.
Local school districts do not have enough control.
We believe throwing money at the problem will fix it.
Etc.
Etc.
Etc.

I could fix our schools but liberals would never allow me to do what needs to be done in the US.

 

Truly, only an American can describe our position as badly as you did. We understand, you don't have much to back you up so you resort to this.

Being a moderate centrist, one evaluates positions, ideas and arguments from both the left and the right, and goes for a balanced approach in one's policy-making.

Just because US Republicans and Democrats have split up between themselves which positions they take on a range of issues, doesn't mean a leftist position on one agenda can't coexist with a rightist position on another. It's you guys who make balanced political discourse impossible in your own country.

I, and from what I gather so do many Germans, believe the Iran nuclear issue has been blown way out of proportion. We don't tend to get riled up in emotion-based cries of foul.

Iran having nuclear weapons isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be. You know which country really never, ever, ever should have nuclear weapons?

Pakistan. Out of all the nuclear countries in the world, Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is the most likely to fall into the wrong hands by a long shot. But guess who turned a blind eye on those guys getting it? Israel certainly didn't kick up a fuss back then.

So, yes: there aren't many logic-based reasons for denying Iran their goal of nuclear weapons. As always with you guys, it's one side's pursuit to maintain its dominant hand over another country that really pushes the issue.

 

I would have a much better time agreeing with you if you just said that you believed that the human race is better of in a two parent home rather than a single parent home. It's the loaded distinction of mother and father that makes your statement sound like it's a thinly veiled attack on same sex marriage.

I know you believe same sex marriages are acceptable, so I can only assume that you are being sloppy with language and thereby causing confusion to your readers.

 

The overall decline in wages (predominately the wages of lower and middle-class men) has been occurring for 40 years now.
Are we meant to take your statement to mean that you consider this one more "failure" on the part of the Obama Presidency? As if he should have been able to reverse a 40 year trend in 4 years?

Global and marketplace factors be damned! Republican union busting efforts be damned! Wave your magic wand, Mr. Obama and see to it that we get higher wages while still making sure US workers can compete globally in a low-wage driven environment.

Oh wait, I forgot. The answer is simple. Obama need only be more business friendly (more tax incentives, subsidies, etc) and multi-nationals will come flying back to US shores in a hiring frenzy, ready to scoop up all of our unemployed and pay them more, to boot.

Why? Because we're Americans damn it, citizens of the greatest nation on earth. More highly skilled, better educated, healthier, and with a better work ethic. And besides, we just plain deserve a better way of life than anyone else.

And lest we forget - not everyone's wages or income has been in decline the past 4 years and we pretty much know who they are, don't we?