Hmmmmm

I campaigned for Obama and Donated to his campaign and saw him speak in person. He certainly didn't hypnotize me. In fact, What he did do, was tell us what he was going to do in fairly plain language then proceed to do it.

He has kept his promises on Afghanistan, to make it the first front on the war on Bin Laden and his followers; On Iraq, to pull out the combat troops; and now on Health Care, He said he was going to make it more affordable and fairer and he said that he SUPPORTED a public option. He also promised to adversely change the health care of those on private plans.

He has kept his promise on restoring America's standing in the world, and with the astounding (to me) great work of his main rival, has done that.

Obama may have disappointed some of his supporters who, having been given permission to hope, hoped for too much. But he has done his best to keep his word, even on Guantanamo.

On the other hand,

As much as I hated the bailouts of Chrysler and GM, the thought of a quarter million jobs disappearing at once, during a recession, would have been far far worse. I wouldn't expect anyone who supports the Republicans to know basic economics, If they did they couldn't support any Republican since Nixon. But if they put their partisan, condescending hatred for Obama aside, even some of them might see that to let those companies would have caused an economic collapse.

The Bank Bailout was Greenspan's, Bernanke's and Paulson's doing. (Greenspan sewed the seeds) The disaster for the country was that Republican lawmakers and especially George W Bush, through cowardice and ignorance left the whole economy in their hands and they screwed it up.

When they panicked and went to Congress, The President and the President elect, and predicted that the sky would fall without the bailout they made the bailout the only option.

The only good reason to vote Republican is that supposedly they know business and are better for business. After this screw up, there is no good reason to vote Republican at all.