7/31/2013 10:07 AM
Sandy,
Has he done a great job? I would say no. Has he done a poor job? I would say no.
One can list a great deal of accomplishments, pulling us from the brink of a depression, saving the auto companies, look at the stock market how high it is. Heathcare as been passed, it is still a wait and see deal how it shakes out, but I know just our situation alone, I don't have to worry about family being denied for pre-exsisting conditions, there are a bunch of states where premiums have gone down, the only ones complaining are those that are having to pay more for better coverage as I understand it.
I can agree with you wages and jobs for the middle class and below has stagnated, growth is still slow, despite some stimulus and those tax breaks that went with it, the job market didn't come roaring back, as companies sit on trillions of dollars. Could the president have looked at more infrastructure spending to create more jobs with better pay, creating more demand for other products which would have stimulated more business and more jobs? I think so.
Could the president have been better as meeting with congress and leading them? I think because (and this is just my opinion) democrats did have control for a short time, (not the two years that the right claims, for various reasons) the president didn't seem to maybe reach out like he could have, in a way didn't need to. With the big change in 2010 and the republicans shouting from the mountian tops to oppose everything this president proposed, shouted to make him a one term president, I think (and I would have probably reacted the same way) the president failed to reach out, in one way saying if that's how you guys are going to act, screw you. Of course that was not good leadership. He has started out this last term much better at reaching out to the legislatures, and I think some republicans are realizing, (not all) that their jobs are in as much trouble because most of the american people want both sides to work together. Now due to jerrymandering, some such as our congressmen, because most of his constituites believe everything Fox news says about President Obama, he isn't going to try and work together because it might not be in his best interest come this midterm.
Before I keep going on (which I could and then would miss lunch) just let me say, in my opinion, I think the president has done a fair job, would certainly have liked to see him have done better, but he can't take all the blame. Hoping that all those in Washington would work together just like the rest of us all do.
Mel
Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO