http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8438852.stm
I wondered how long this new image of America would last, I remember when he was elected and me and my dad were talking about him, I've heard from a few people say he'll be lucky to last his term.
Such a shame really that this still goes on but in the southern states there's still a lot of real ****** hating people. Probably the most important person of the last few years and the people he has to be most careful of is a bunch of inbred morons with a hunting rifle.
Well he's done almost smeg all, after very very strongly opposing the "surge" in Iraq saying it wouldn't work for months, it happened, was incredibly successful and now he's done the same thing in Afghan(is planning too).
His whole anti-war campaign, yet he's increasing numbers in an even more pointless war than that IN Iraq. lets be honest, there was money to be made in Iraq and with Iran maybe the worst place in the world for supporting terrorists, while trying to make the bomb, a weak and pathetic Iraq sitting next to them, almost lawless was a problem waiting to happen. There were plenty of reasons to go to Iraq, the biggest reason being Iran. Theres no reason to be in Afghan.
His health care plan, its genius, take one of the better run healthcare systems in the world(medicare/caid was actually very well run on great margins compared to most free healthcare systems) then overload it with an extra hundred million(maybe 200million) people, with no support, in an economy desparate for cuts. I think the healthcare system there accounts for 18% of all government spending, and they're trying to add 2/3rds of the population into the system, without any spare money to speak of. Its ambition, maybe a good idea in theory, free healthcare for all is a great theory, except its not free, and certainly not for all. The problem is, America can't afford it at all. Either way in his first term he pulled out(kind of) of a war Bush had already started pulling out for, got a noble prize for peace for increasing the prescence in a far more pointless war thats impossible to win and started off a ridiculous waste of time in a health care plan that can't possible work and could just flat out bankrupt the government.
There was NOTHING important about Obama's election, he wasn't ever a good politician and he's so incredibly left wing, more than anyone else in the democratic party, that he's more intent on doing what sounds morally right, rather than whats right for the country. He's black, boo hoo, who cares, he's the president and he's done nothing useful for us for the world at large or for americans.
The recent global warming type talks were embarassing, big speech essentially saying its a massive breakthrough, because.......... everyone agreed to TELL EACH OTHER what they were doing about cutting emissions. NO real goals, no nothing, an arbitrary "we won't let the temp rise more than 2C" without a baseline to start from, and no actual plans to combat global warming, just going to talk to other countries about it....... what a guy.
