I taped Piers Morgan last night because I heard that Matt Damon would be on, but apparently Damon is on tonight, Thursday. Bret Michaels was on last night, and he was pretty interesting and his health stories are incredible, but he didn’t say much we haven’t heard before. Advance details of Matt Damon’s appearance have him saying that he’s not happy with the way President Obama is running the country. To be fair, it sounds like he was asked a direct question about it and he answered it, explaining that he was particularly dissatisfied with Obama’s education policy.
I’m not going to get into politics here, (apart from covering this story, which I’m sure I’ll get yelled at for anyway) but a lot of people would agree with him on both sides of the aisle for many different reasons. You can’t please everyone, as much as Obama seems to try. Damon is surely going to get a lot of press for this, just as he got a lot of coverage for being one of the first people to criticize Sarah Palin. Here’s more:
When CNN’s Piers Morgan asked actor Matt Damon if he was happy with the way President Barack Obama has been running the country and if Damon was “a fan” of the president, Damon answered “no.”
Damon and the cast of “The Adjustment Bureau” — Emily Blunt, John Slattery and Anthony Mackie — are Thursday evening’s guests on “Piers Morgan Tonight.” During the course of their conversation, Damon and Morgan covered Hollywood, politics, fatherhood and much more.
“He (Obama) misinterpreted his mandate,” said Damon. “He’s doubled down on a lot of things.”
“In his State of the Union he didn’t even say the word ‘poverty,’ ” said Damon. “You’ve got millions of people languishing in it.” Damon, who backed the Obama campaign in 2008, said he appreciates that the president is a “deep thinker.” The actor called Obama brilliant, but said he “definitely wanted more.”
When questioned about what he’d do about Afghanistan, Damon said, “I don’t think the mission there has been very well articulated. And I think it would help to kind of reframe the way we’re thinking about being there and why we’re there.”
Damon also said there has not been a meaningful reform of Wall Street. He said he believes that is “dangerous” and “shameful” and that the financial crisis is “just going to happen again,” because “they don’t make anything. They don’t build anything.”Morgan asked about Damon’s well-known disapproval of Sarah Palin and the fact that he has spoken out against her since she was announced as John McCain’s running mate in 2008. Damon said he still feels it was reckless to have someone who was “a complete mystery to everybody” be “literally a heartbeat away from the presidency.” Damon also said he disagrees with Palin politically. “She’s not somebody who I would vote for.”
Damon said, though, that while he is passionate about politics, he has no political aspirations.
[From CNN]
I’m really looking forward to seeing that tonight. Back in March of last year, Damon said that he was “disappointed” in Obama, but conceded that “politics is compromise.” He said “I’m disappointed in the health care plan and in the troop buildup in Afghanistan. Everyone feels a little let down because, on some level, people expected all their problems to go away. But real change comes from everyday people. You can’t wait for a leader.” What a difference a couple of years makes. Or not.
I am as liberal as they get. I have to say a big ‘I told you so’ to people who jumped on the Obama bandwagon. He is a politician and no better or worse than any other politician. I voted for him and will again but I never thought he was going to change the world by rhetoric alone.
No banker in jail,oil companies still getting tax breaks, rich still getting tax breaks,talk of cutting eveything for the old and have nots, and no real cuts for defence. Can anyone tell me the dif between a “con” man and obama ??
In my humblest of opinions…he’s done absolutely nothing that he said he would do.
But then again…I can’t be disappointed because I didn’t really expect him to.
He is an exceptional orator tho that seems to love giving speeches, probably due to the sound of his own voice.
Once people get elected, the real person is killed and a clone steps in.
@mln76
I agree. I’m not sure if I will vote for him again, though. I will have to see which Dems run.
Our election system is broken. Only those who can afford to run do so. They are not necessarily the best candidates. And I think we should now switch to counting popular votes for the presidential election.
Exactly buck he’s a politician like the rest there are as many rich dems and libs that need favors/breaks/access as tea baggers and righties. Anyway who cares about this guy – why is his opinion newsworthy but beat cops, marines, hair dressers, electricians, etc. not – oh, right he’s an “actor.”
everyone is entitled to their own opinion but just because he is some hack actor why is asked what his are? Why do we care? Next we’ll be asking Charlie Sheen or Gaga
Well, I voted for the guy-and I agree. He’s trying to please everyone-which means he’s going to please NO ONE.
Matt honey, you voted for him now, you are not entitled to complaim about him!
I voted for him and I like him. People who expected a complete turnaround in the government were freaking delusional and now they get to be disappointed. Unfortunately, NOTHING will change regardless of who is sitting in the oval office as long and congress is allowed to continue the constant in fighting and refusal to cooperate with change when legislating. Kicking their asses out of Washington by implementing term limits is the only way to get these old sacred cows who protect their special interests out of the way. Then change will be possible.
Think about it for a minute. Congress has blocked everything he has tried to do. It makes me laugh that people blame Obama for a mess he did not create and is getting NO help in fixing.
Obama may not be the messiah the media made him out to be, but I think he has been doing an ok job. My main criticism is that he is working too hard to appear moderate and he’s wasting a lot of energy trying to meet right-wing conservatives halfway…when those conservatives have made it crystal clear that it’s their way or the highway.
On that note, has everyone already forgotten that the senate Republicans blocked the 9/11 First Responders bill until the tax breaks for the wealthy were extended? There are no words…
I think Obama will be hard to beat in 2012. The GOP is so busy trying to halt progress in an effort to make Obama look bad that they forgot they need to find a candidate who can beat him. It’s almost comical, really.
It’s not easy to unravel 8 years of a vindictive military presence and legislated morality disguised as tax benefits. Still, I’m disappointed. I see Obama working hard to keep the incumbency in 2012. . . and then maybe he’ll get around to some pet projects his second term. I don’t think that’s right, but it’s the reality. It’s a damn dirty shame that politicians in our country are only concerned about their campaign strategy – I think as Americans we need to reevaluate our electoral process.
Speaking of vindictive electoral incompetence, also wanted to give a very special shoutout to Gov Walker – When you see my family marching outside your capitAl building(see what I did there?), make sure to tell them they’ve got an Ian’s pizza waiting courtesy of their favorite MileHigh Badger. Schmuck.
@flotus, really? No one gets to change their mind, ever?
“No banker in jail,oil companies still getting tax breaks, rich still getting tax breaks,talk of cutting eveything for the old and have nots, and no real cuts for defence. Can anyone tell me the dif between a “con” man and obama ??”
Not to be inflamatory, but are you insane, or just listening to Fox? The REPUBLICANS fought for tax breaks for the rich and threatened to kick 2 million people off unemployment just in time for Christmas unless the dems and president agreed to extend breaks for the richest. They ALWAYS fight for the rich and industry and they always will.
The cuts to social programs began in the now republican controlled house and it is nothing new. Bush cut the budget for things like heating oil subsidies for the poor and elderly when he was president. Protecting the richest people in the country and special interests is the mantra of the right, so don’t blame Obama for what Reagan started and the party has continued ever since.
By the next election the US will be more than $15,000,000,000,000 in debt and adding to that debt at a rate of $1,000,000,000,000 per year. For over a decade now the republicans and democrats have been working together to serve their own interests. The repubs got their tax cuts and the dems their spending increases and they were both responsible for destroying the world economy while they lined their pockets.
Our debt and deficit is destroying the value of the our dollar and has wiped out the middle class. The US is the titanic and we have only months left before the ship of state sinks. The laws of economics have not been repealed.
@flotus — Actually, that is EXACTLY what he has the right to do. And so do you, regardless of who you voted for.
Politicians work for us! People don’t see it like that and it’s a shame. Obama is an elected official who we put in office and who makes a salary from our tax money.
We should hold all politicians to a high standard, just as we would any other employee. If they aren’t doing well, let them know. Make your voice (performance review) heard! If they continue screwing up, fire them (vote someone else in).
@flotus-
The beauty of the American political system is that we get to criticize our leaders! It’s what makes us great.
I voted for Obama and I’m quite satisfied.
I don’t think this thread is about Scott Walker, but since you brought it up, @Missaggravation, you are welcome to send a check to cover the state’s budget deficit.
It’s not just that Obama’s a politician. He had no resume. The man was not qualified from day one but charmed everyone. Not Obama’s fault. The voters did not do their due diligence and now he’s way over his head. I almost feel sorry for him but I dislike him too much.
“but….but…but….he gives such good speeches! and he’s friends with JayZ and Beyonce! and he won the Nobel Peace Prize!”. Shrillary Clinton and I are quietly smirking.
CandyKay – You’d be surprised how unoriginal that retort is, but don’t worry, mine is equally uninspired – “Stock up on aspirin and enjoy involuntary homeschooling.” Putting corporations ahead of our children? FOR SHAME, Walker.
Do I care what he thinks? “No”
But it’s true, if you thought one man was going to completely flip our economy you are kinda crazy. But hey, that horndog Clinton did it, so I guess it’s not impossible.
Rita, you laid out facts, but the politicians and most people don’t seem to care about the debt, currency devaluation, etc. Sad.
I also think Obama will be difficult to defeat in 2012.
@aggravation, Speaking of schooling, I saw that the Ethan Allen School for boys near Milwaukee will be closed, as part of the plan to balance Wisconsin’s budget. That means the families of juvenile offenders will have to travel more than four hours to visit them.
But it’s more important that state employees keep their turbocharged health plan, at least to outsiders who are more interested in rhetoric than reality.
Cuts are coming, it’s just a question of where.
Glad I didn’t vote for him (didn’t vote for McCain, either). Our presidents are nothing more than figureheads. The powers behind the scenes pull the strings. To think otherwise is height of silliness & naivete.
I voted for Obama and I still support him. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I get tired of people expecting him to cure every ill and answer every whim. I don’t remember anyone asking so much from bush at the most we just wanted him to string two words together in a sentence properly. Obama got his health care bill passed in his first 2 years in office something Clinton couldn’t do in 8. I feel obamas been handed one of the worst hands in our nations history and if bush and Clinton had 8 years to jack things up we can at least give Obama 8 years to fix or do the same. People need to stop expecting Obama to fix whatever social issue dear to their heart and look at the big picture.
I have to say that Obama has many more qualifications than our last president by a mile. He at least can speak in complete sentences and many of our nations problems were handed to him by an utterly incompetent idiot who bankrupted our nation, let the most irresponsible ideologues handle our foriegn policy and humiliated us internationally. IMO the absolute worst thing we could do is put our future back in the hands of the Republicans Party until the Tea Party is vanquished and the Good Old Boys are gone.
I just think he promised too much to distinguish himself from Hilary and the rest of the Democrats. The problems in this country can’t be solved simply by ‘HOPE’. He is doing the best he can but there are forces and ignorance at work. And he is in effect going to have to run against himself in 2012.
For the most part I think Obama has done well, but agree that people had too high expectations, and the campaign themes dissolve when faced with the reality of accomplishing them – as it happens for EVERY politician, they all talk big, but then it’s hard to get anything done, and even then it’s rarely perfect. Unless the GOP puts up someone brilliant (and more moderate than most of their party leaders), Obama will most likely get my vote again.
From what I’ve seen, the Wisconsin unions agreed to all the financial cuts the governor wanted, the whole issue is the ability to bargain as a union, which I don’t think should be taken away from them. It’s really sad to me that the same politicians and pundits trying to paint ALL teachers and state workers as the enemy are the same ones insisting on tax cuts for the super wealthy and Wall St. It just seems really unfair.
Kay – I don’t know, but as an educated woman I would look to the obscene corporate tax breaks the legislature just recently passed, in order settle the deficit. Seems a reasonable place to start seeing as how the shortfall could have been avoided altogether if big businesses actually paid taxes. But you’re right. We should make sure to deny state workers the right to maintain a standard of living in lieu of holding corporations accountable.
My family is just riddled with Wisconsin Public Workers. Teachers, nurses, corrections officers, librarians, police officers. . . I myself am going into education. And let me tell you a little secret. . . We are all in it for the money.
You sure got our number! So mad when the unions conceded pay cuts – now I hope we can maintain the right to negotiation so we can continue to stick it to those tax paying saps. Bilk ’em, Dano. Absolutely.
I want to add that I still support Obama, just exercising my right in constructive criticism.
My partner recently said that Obama should have tackled the economy and Wall St reform FIRST, then worked on health care after the midterm elections. I have to agree; I think we would have had a better economical standing and stronger restraints on the health care insurance lobby.
Good for Matt for being honest.
As for Obama…Eh I am not impressed.
@Whatever
How can you say congress blocked all of his efforts when he had a democrat run house and a filibuster proof senate for the first two years of his presidency? He should have been able to push anything through
It’s really stupid for people to blame the ills of america on bush, just like it’s stupid for people to blame obama. both men have huge faults. bush did what he needed to do at the time and obama is in a difficult place where there is too much on his plate. right now his primary focus should be our economy, it is the most important thing we have. i know it’s upsetting, but a defunct government cannot give healthcare to anyone. we cannot go down that path, we need to start from the beginning.
k, I agree with you and your partner about the timing of healthcare vs. Wall St reform, but I suspect they knew the GOP would gain ground in the midterms, as the opposing party often seems to do, and they’d never get any healthcare reform through then.
@Flotus: Voting is EXACTLY what gives a constituent the right to complain. It’s the lazy, apathetic non-voters that need to shut up and sit down.
As for the whole Wisconsin thing It was pointed out on a tv show I was watching probably Bill Maher or Jon Stewart (The “real news” is almost never this insightful). The real problem isn’t the Teacher’s Unions it’s that their pensions were mishandled and bankrupted by investments in Goldman Sachs and other investment funds. They are actually doing their best to punish the victims.
I am sorry Matt is living back in reality now. Once Obama was elected it wasnt all skipping thru the fields with unicorns and rainbows.
It is a fight to make change. You want to be upset as someone – CONGRESS -WALL STREET.
No one gets everything they want. But give some credit where it is due.
Institutionalized greed and deep seated racism is not going to go away overnight. They will fight to keep their way of living. Banks have proven that.
I too am chagrined by ALL the politicians. Out with them all. Oh, and you teabaggers? You got played too. They are all one party now for the betterment of themselves only. Wake up America, we are screwed.
I’m always amazed that anyone cares what celebs have to say about politics. And yet, people will actually vote for someone because Will.I.Am or Matt Damon tells them to. Blows my mind.
But I do take issue with people who say we shouldn’t criticize our political leaders. First, we’re not in China. Second, I criticized the heck out of GWB & if I want to criticize Obama I most certainly will. What I will not do, however, is talk about it here on this site — this is a site for celebrity gossip, not politics. I come here to ESCAPE the news on the tv. And, as I alluded to above — celebs & politics shouldn’t mix.
He’s trying to please too many people and succeeding at nothing. He wanted to compromise with the Republicans, they responded with their #1 wish was simply wanting him to fail. He’s tried to make some changes only to have the far left complain he didn’t go far enough. He should consult Bush on how to not give a fuck and ramming things through.
Matt Damon doesn’t think his opinion is better than a fireman, policeman, nurse or KFC fry cook but realistically none of those people get interviewed by CNN and asked these questions. It’s okay for Joe the Plumber to become a national symbol but actors can’t answer a question about politics?
Change will come from the people, only there’s only a small percentage of people honestly motivated to do this, the rest just like to sit on the sidelines and bitch about everything.
Matt, that makes two of us LOL
FeeBee — people don’t listen to Joe the Plumber the way they do to celebs — that’s a false analogy. Furthermore, although I’m not personally a Republican (like Joe the Plumber), I’d rather hear someone’s political opinion who actually works for a living (as opposed to making millions for making a movie for 6 weeks & who is completely out of touch with the reality I live in).
oh yeah, mr hopey changey is a friggin fraud. from the continuation of the black prison sites, torture, death squads roaming the planet looking for oogaboogamooslims to kill, tax breaks for billionaires, not one bankster in jail — they have actually been getting a pass from eric holder’s department of ‘justice’ … and so many more disgraceful policies continued.
hell, mr hopey changey might even surpass bill clinton as the best republican president evah!
I am a moderate. I did vote for Obama, and I continue to like him as a man, but I am concerned he does not understand business or the economy. You cannot spend more than what you have. Period. (Have we learned nothing from the economic crisis caused by banks lending money to people to buy houses they couldn’t afford?) We all want free health care, free this, free that, but it has to be paid for. Nothing in life is free and when you get to be over the age of 20 you should realize this. It might be free to you but someone is paying for it. If you tax the crap out of people to pay for things for other people, you penalize hard work and ingenuity i.e. private business which is the only thing that grows the economy. Everyone on this listserve and everyone who is so “disappointed” in all Obama’s failure needs to run a business for months or even days. Obama has spent enough. Kudos to him for seeming to realize this and hopefully, hopefully he figures out the federal government has to stop acting like a college student with a credit card before our entire economy comes crashing down.
Well I voted for him and I still support him as passionately as the day I “pulled the lever”. Unlike some people, I didn’t expect him to magically transform the country into a Utopian paradise.
However, the false meme that he has not accomplished any of the goals that he articulated is patently false.
I also laugh because there seems to be this idea that if the President does something that YOU are personally opposed to it makes him wrong and you right. It’s also funny because I’m sure that some of the people praising him are the same people who were incensed when he criticized Palin.
No one expected Obama to fix everything, but we did expect him to do what he promised on the campaign trail.
In most cases, not only has he NOT DONE those things (close Guantanamo, protect whistleblowers, phase out the wars, help keep Americans out of poverty by making Social Security and Medicare untouchable, end oil subsidies, end Bush tax cuts), he has ACTIVELY DONE THE OPPOSITE.
I appreciate Matt Damon’s forthright directness and honesty. Obama, on the other hand, is just a liar and an appeaser. I would like to see another Democratic nominee in 2012, but I don’t know that anyone will be able to match the Obama team’s fundraising savvy.
Truly, nothing will change in American politics until there is public financing of elections to the exclusion of private donations. As it is, Americans pay more for elections than they would under public financing, since to get every $10,000 check, the politician once elected gives away about $10 million in public money to the donor (corporate tax breaks, federal contracts, etc.) and fails to enact good policies for the country because s/he is scared of alienating big donors.
Btw, this is an excellent daily political blog:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
Don’t know what the disappointment is about. He didn’t really believe all the stuff advertised at the rallys and by CNNCBSMSNBCABCPBS did he?
I agree with Venus, let’s not bring politics into this site.
When Bush Jr. was President and you criticized his policies, you were labled anti-American. With Obama as President and you criticized his policies, you are labled a racist.
Something that Bush and Obama supporters have in common is that they’re both in denial.
@Bobbie, As a small business owner and moderate I say, Bravo!
We would be so much worse off if McCain and Palin would have won! This is a long recovery process for our country which the previous administration created. I agree with Matt’s comments about the Health Care Plan and Afghanistan.
I know….it’s funny how we allow ourselves to be controlled by the out of touch, could care less, 1%.
But you know why they’ve got us controlled, aside from keeping us doped up on legal meds…..by keeping us divided and bickering over bullsh*t. BS like abortion (which WHy would they ever make it illegal again….more of us to control), guns, WEED, gay sex, etc. And blinded by “free” mortgages (which many are paying for now), unnecessary gadgets, credit cards to buy the ‘unnecessary gadgets” aka sh*t – WE DON’T NEED!
so, I applaud Damon for putting on “his glasses” and saying what he did. I just hope that more will start to put down their faux ideals and just understand eachother and understand most importantly that, We are the ones in this mess together. We are the ones that need to come together, to find compromise (It’s not that difficult to live in a peaceful society).
Well, hopefully, we will and we’ll take away the hold of this 1%. Ahhh, to dream the impossible dream. 😉
One love baby!
p.s. these comments are Great! We’ve come A long way from bashing one another for sharing our views (on things of this nature).
Regarding talk about cuts what annoys me is that there’s not much talk about making cuts to corporate profit. I live in Australia but there’re a lot similarities between us and the USA. Every time the government talks about helping the environment by introducing a carbon tax or the like a company will always come out and say that if that happens we’ll have to lay off workers or pass the burden on to the consumer by raising the price of our product and or service. It doesn’t surprise me that corporations say that because corporations will do what corporations do, but what does surprise me is that the public accepts the corporation’s position and blames the government. There’s a belief among a large section of the community that corporate profit is untouchable, so whenever the government suggests changes and the corporations threaten to pass the burden on to the workers and the consumers the public get angry with the government instead of the corporation, what’s with that? I don’t see why anybody should hold the government accountable when a corporation decides to protect their profit margins by laying off workers and slugging consumers with additional costs. Why not blame the greed of the corporation?
End rant
@jo shmoe
Questioning the president isn’t anti-american but I know you have to realize that *some* of the people questioning Obama are doing so partly because of his race. It’s no shock that a republican would hate a democratic President but some of the comments that are stated have been to the extreme. It’s kind of hard to compare concerned Americans questioning Bush’s policies to people starting “Impeach Obama” groups before he even stepped foot into office.
I’m a small business owner on Main Street. Thank you Rita & Bobbie. Well said. I just wish everybody would quit belly-aching. Mitch Daniels 2012!
I voted for him and would never do so again.NEVER.
As a citizen of a democratic country, registering my disappointement, in how he has conducted his adminstration, is not only sufficent but a necessary part of the democracy.
You think the financial crisis of 2008 was bad, wait until the next one. The US taxpayer bailed out the banks to the tunes of Trillions. The question for the next crisis is who will bail out the US? Every single Bank executive who was complicit in the fraud that was the crisis of 2008, has kept their hundreds of millions in bonuses, and in most cases their jobs. Every single regulator, has kept their job or has been promoted. Tim Geithner was head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He was the head regulator, the ALLOWED the banking crisis to occur, he got a promtion.
If one asks why there has been no persecutions of “banker” associated with the financial crisis, it is because the regulators are at least as culpable as the bankers. And in most cases those regulators are still in place.
New financial regulation isn’t worth the money it is written on. It does NOTHING to address the moral hazard created by Too Big Too Fail Banks (and yes in the last 2 years, those too big too fail banks have grown larger). The moral hazard was created by bailing out, and then rewarding every bad decision, every financial fraud, committed over the last 10 years.
I had great hope that when Obama was elected he had a window of change. There would have been great pain, but at this point we would be on a sustainble economic path. We aren’t. We are blowing another bubble, that when it explodes, will take down the whole country.
I will leave you with this thought. The largest holder of US treasuries is the US federal Reserve. The fed continue to print money, to buy US debt. This will end in June. Who will buy the US debt, when the US federal Reserve doesn’t?
The biggest threat to the US is the debt of the US.
Ask yourself what has obama done?
As a Republican that voted for Obama, I think he’s doing fine and will give him another opportunity in 2012. Unfortunately, extremism is a tumor on our Country! And all of those individuals that express such hate for Obama are included. I have yet to hear one individual provide a sound reason for the hate. When people bashed Bush they could at least point to Katrina, War in Iraq, Economic crash, etc.
@LIZZY – you forgot to add that the Federal Reserve isn’t government owned, but rather “a private financial institution.”
I so have to applaud Matt Damon for admitting Obama is not doing a great job as Prfesident.
Its refreshing when someone who voted for and campaigned for a President doesnt just say “oh yeah hes great” but can admit he has failed on many levels. Everyone who votes for someone should question them when they dont deliver what they promised and it takes an intelligent man to question someone he really likes but thinks isnt coming through on his campaign promises. Kudos to Matt.
Matt Damon should think before he speaks, if you never been a President or a President over a Country in an Economy crisis, than you have no idea what its like. For Damon to criticize President Obama is wrong. Damon is looking at the Country through Hollywood, he is RICH, nothing concern him, his family has a place to sleep, and food to eat. The rest of the World doesn’t fase him. President goes home at night, but his always on the job, because he cares about the American people. Plus there are those in Washington D.C. that will do what ever they can to stop him.
I hope Damon will be happy with what going on today with Charles and David Koch new 85 elected Freshman for which they purchase to influence in Repealing Healthcare, cuts to Social Security,Medicare and Medicaid. I wonder if Damon is concern about what the Governors’, is doing in our Country. Guess who is paying for the Corporative Tax cuts, the middle class and the poor, thanks to the Republicans’. You blogger need to read outside the box.
i like obama. he’s making the right steps. pple dont realize change doesn’t happen over night. he wont be elected again but he should be since he’ll be able to follow up on what he’s started. this nation got f*cked because of “quick fixes” but in reality u cant just slap a bandaid on things and expect everything to be alright. call me naive but i feel a sincerity about him which i do not usually detect from politicians. i get the feeling that hes honestly trying to change things. dont forget the mess he inherited. pple should lay off.
I think that no matter how you view Obama politically, we can we all agree on the fact that Matt is starting to look like a splitting image of young Philip Seymour Hoffman. I mean, seriously. I love them both, but it’s just creepy how similar they look now.
Check out this post on Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/25/afp-union-knees/
“Koch Front Group Americans For Prosperity: ‘Take The Unions Out At The Knees'”
Koch front group want to take the Unions’ out at its knees’.
Privacy Policy – http://www.americanprogressaction.org/aboutus/privacy.html
Yes, that’s why Hillary could have been 100 times better than Mr. Obama. Not anything against our President personally but I think he showed selfishness against his own party when he put his candidacy. The undeniable fact is that at every important decision at current times he asks for the advise of Bill Clinton. However, he wanted so badly to become President even when his political career had just started. My opinion is that he was and is a little bit out of touch with reality otherwise could not have run for President at such critical times for the country and with such a little experience. He could have continued to be a senator and then after some years could have run and I am sure he was going to be seen with more respect by both supporters and opponents.
Politics always cause me great anxiety. I know it may seem irresponsible, but I avoid it like the plague, don’t watch news stories or online updates about important political decisions. I over think things, & it causes me to stress over issues I have absolutely no control over.
I’ve never voted (even though I’m 24)… Because I can never feel ‘great’ getting behind anyone when there’s so much about both options that I find discouraging.
@ Venus, we must have been watching different campaigns in 2008.
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
It’s worth looking at if you want to see how he is doing on the things he said he would do.
@Shirley: “President goes home at night, but his always on the job, because he cares about the American people.”
I don’t even know where to start on this one…
Um yeah sorry Obama hasn’t “impressed” anyone…idk wtf people were expecting. He’s a politician not a magician.
I’m tired of Damon. He peaked too early, which was a fluke.
@ 55 Lizzy: Thank you for the excellent post. As much as I would love the Banksters to fry, I just don’t have a clue on how we are going to turn this economy around. Taxing stocks might be a start.(??)
@Shirley – Damon is an American citizen and that gives him the right to say what he thinks. I think it’s great that he is willing to say, “yes, I voted for this person but I’m not satisfied for this or that reason”. He’s not ripping Obama a new one, he’s just being honest in an answer. And yes, he is rich, but he also does a lot of humanitarian work – he started H20 Africa (now water.org), supports ONE and has even been honored for his work with Save the Children. Do not assume that just because someone is rich that they don’t have concerns for our country or those worse off.
Melanie….legalizing marijuana would be a start. Freeing the plant and taking advantage of all it’s uses. Medicinal, recreational….AND for the plants energy resources. EVERYTHING we get from black oil, WE CAN GET FROM HEMP!!!!!!! Not to mention, our soils which are being destroyed by the Bio-tech seeds (which barry just signed on for more of) WRECKS the soil after one great crop….I feel that the cannabis plant, being as it’s one of the fastest growing plants, from seed to full fruitation with it’s leaves making a natural compost……I just don’t see how logically, that would NOT heal the fractured soil. (just as the human body can heal itself, so can our earth)
This is why I am a libertarian. Keep your mainstream parties. I think he has done a horrible job especially when he forgot about the native americans who he promised he wouldn’t. Reservations are in horrible shape and in his campaign he said he would work to mend that if he had their vote.. So when? Do they have to wait another two years and depend on the kindness of already poor americans who split what they have just so a family doesn’t freeze to death or die from the common cold? When?
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That’s an example of what I’ve been talking about. There are soooo many issues on Obamas plate and yes maybe you’ll have to wait another 2 years or maybe you’d have to wait another 4. Our whole economy is in horrible shape and he’s working to fix that.
Disappointed must mean he was suckered into voting for him, too 🙁