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« on: July 17, 2009, 12:40:34 AM »

Since elected, President Obama appears to be a polite assistant of the politicos in Washington. He promised a change that all Americans believed was the end of the barbaric unruly anarchy of Cheney-Bush and the return to a regulated, disciplined and civilized democracy. Every day all the members of the Media review every word spoken by the President and he frequently speaks of the changes that he is making through the Stimulus, only initiative to face the financial crisis approved by the politicians in Washington. The Stimulus (costing a trillion) does not change a bit the life of the average American but wastes a lot of taxpayers’ money in bail-outs of incompetent or corrupted executives who have run down their corporations to be in a position to commit extortion to the President and get bail-outs under menace of layoffs of their employees. All the reports define the Stimulus as the change promised by candidate Obama.


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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2009, 03:59:06 AM »

Not very, I would wager. Though his approval ratings would be through the roof (the whole sympathy vote, you see, plus some of the "rally around the flag" phenomena), and assuming he was safely rescued, he could surely turn some of that into political capital.
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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2009, 07:56:16 PM »

Very effective
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