Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
Doctor? wrote:
Let's record out two positions then for when they are needed.
Me: He'll be under serious attack for doing nothing, as the US continues it's nantucket sleighride down the shitter, within weeks, a few months at the outside. He will change nothing (other than, if the stokeie twat is right, introduce a whole pile of slimy oppressive legislation).
Commie: He'll sort the whole lot out within two years, and the current fireworks and pop concert worship will continue unopposed an unabated until then.
I don't know how long it will take to sort things out. He's anticipating that health care alone will take at least 4 years (which is 4 years too many for me).
What I've been saying is that the polls indicate that the public doesn't expect him to solve our problems overnight-- they're giving him at least two years.
If the public folds within the first few weeks, you will have been proven right.
Commie is proving that the expectations of Obama are too high. With things as they are, chances are slim that any of Obama's promises will be kept, simply because they can't be kept (not because he doesn't desire them not to be kept).
Troops movement isn't going to change much. He'll lessen the troop level to 30,000 (about the amount in Afganistan), and then increase levels in Afganistan to Iraq levels. In the eyes of the troops and thier families, not much difference.
Health care isn't going to get handled or even touched upon in four years, it might get a half-arsed batting around, but no real progress towards anything.
Obama won't do anything for the economy, because it really has no bearing on the president (other than for him to calm the masses). It will return, because that is what the economy would do regardless.
He'll close the Cuban jail, but will transfer the inmates to another country (not our own), so in essence nothing will have changed except location.
Alot of the Amercan population will either be dismayed (but that's not saying much as everyone always thinks "I could do it better") while a few starry-eyed followers (like Commie) will defend everything he does as acceptable.
In a nutshell, not much change will take place.