Steering captain Obama

Would some one who brings in the idea to create a Medicare and Social Security system not be a threat for a free country?

“The Blue Dog and moderate Democratic congresspersons and senators representing shaky swing and conservative districts are scared stiff that if they rub shoulders too close to Obama they will be signing their political obituary for re-election.”

Who is forgetting some one brought human values to the forefront.  And did he not bring GOP’s corruption, bungling, blatant cronyism and scandals, and Bush’s fumbles and ineptitude into the floodlight?

“It’s not enough for Obama and Democrats to bank on the GOP to self-destruct in their rancour and division to ease Obama’s path back to the White House. It will take tight-fisted unity by the Democrats behind the man who is their party’s presidential standard-bearer. Anything less than that by Democrats is playing a dangerous game.” says political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson  in New America Media who mentions some Democrats give for their chill toward backing President Obama’s re-election: “He let Wall Street and banks off the hook with a placid, terribly compromised financial reform bill.”

People may bring forward that Obama has no business experience, but I think he made a very good job of it and showed he could run some businesses better than those who did the American people do believe that they could live in dream castles.

I wonder who could have taken out the hot coals which were presented the American president in this difficult economical time? That he did not manage to succeed a lot of things he had promised is just because he got such opposition of people around him and in the Senate. Though always having to face so much counteraction, having the Republicans   thwarted every effort put forth by the President and the Democrats, he stayed calm and dignified.
The Republicans and the Tea Party have further demonized many of people who had similar ideas as Obama. Those “freeloaders and shirkers” who want jobs and progress taking into account the fragile (humans, animals and plants).

President Barack Obama is joined by Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, right, as he gives remarks on the economy Monday April 13, 2009, during a visit to the Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C.

People should see that in these difficult times President Obama has always been prepared to look for the best solution for everybody, though we never can do the best for everybody. Looking at him from far away I get the impression that he is a very honest man trying to save the United States from a much worse situation.  He is willing to steer a barbed wire canoe through the surf. He got a lot of trash to make his boat float. But he seems a man who does not cut one’s losses and he does not take to the boats as so many did the last few months.

Following his unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. After a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party’s nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as presidenton January 20, 2009.

Under difficult circumstances the president has achieved a tremendous amount . Virtually any advance in civil rights or any kind of rights has been carried by the Democratic Party.

• Signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009
• Signed the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act in 2010.
• He took care that there was a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,
• Expanded the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
• Fixed the preexisting conditions travesty [and rescissions] in health insurance.
• and overhauled the food safety system
• Expanded access to medical care and provided subsidies for people who can’t afford it.
• Advanced women’s rights in the work place
• Ended Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) in our military with the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act
• Stopped defending DOMA or the Defense of Marriage Act in court. Because of DOMA, thousands of American families were being treated unfairly by the federal government
• Passed the Hate Crimes bill.
• Appointed two pro-choice women to the Supreme Court.
• He’s done a lot for veterans
• He got help for people whose health was injured during the clean-up after the 9/11 attacks.
• He gradually withdrew combat troops from Iraq
• Signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia
• Invested in clean energy.
• Announced a new round of fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks representing the single largest step America has taken to reduce their dependence on foreign oil, cut pollution, and bring down costs for drivers.
  
• Overhauled the credit card industry, making it much more consumer-friendly.
• Got the the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. While Dodd-Frank bill was weak in many respects, it was still an extremely worthwhile start at re-regulating the financial sector.
• Got the Budget Control Act of 2011
• He created a Elizabeth Warren’s dream agency: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
• President Obama applauded the bipartisan vote and urged members of Congress to do more to help middle-class families. The House of Representatives passed a piece of the American Jobs Act that will give tax credits to companies that hire unemployed veterans. The Senate voted to approve the measure last week.
• The President’s jobs plan would immediately create construction jobs for people like handicapped,veterans and people who are out of work for some days or months.

Obama can only hope that all democrats and intellectual people shall support him who was handed the most difficult situation in the history of the US. After Bush they were on a course headed for collapse. This man has prevented this collapse from happening. He has done this with mini support and absolutely none from republicans!

This week, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment. If passed, the Republican proposal would require deep spending cuts that could jeopardize everything from education and Medicare to nutrition and health programs for at-risk children.

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The problem for Obama now is that many people are going to call him responsible for the Occupy movement because he is the man who is all for it that the people do ave a vocie. Being a supporter of speaking out people he is also accounted to blame, lots of people say, for the present protesters.

Obama had warned the country for the difficulties it was facing and for what it could cause by the population. No wonder that it turned out that people were going to react at the current situation. The similar views both Democrats and the Occupy protesters have can clearly be seen and heard. Both look with disgust at the economic inequality and corporate responsibility.

But while Obama is a man of peace and order the Occupy movement seems at certain place to run out of hand and disorganised. For this reason there’s little benefit to Democrats in opening their arms wide to a scruffy group that has erupted in violence, defied police and shown evidence of drug use while camping in public parks across the country — much as the prospect of such a pairing delights Republicans.

Polling shows the public supports the message of the Occupy Wall Street movement even if people have reservations about the encampments themselves. And political observers say Democrats may be missing a chance to reinvigorate their base. (1) In Democratic ranks this Movement can bring distortion because there is the inward conflict of both working and coming up for the same cause, though having other ideas to come to the same goal.
Occupy protesters have been openly contemptuous of Democrats including President Barack Obama, arguing that both political parties are equally beholden to corporate interests and responsible for enacting policies that have hurt the middle class.

Obama and the Democrats are not only facing the movement lacking leadership and a clear focus, and  many of their illegal behaviour turning off some politicians.  Also certain action of policeforce were not liked by certain politicians either, because some confrontation between the protesters and the law force turned out to become to violent and sometimes with policemen doing things which are not allowed in a civilised country. Mayors, citing concerns over sanitation and public safety, have begun to crack down on the encampments, and police in riot gear have cleared protesters from several cities, including New York, Portland, Ore., and Oakland, Calif. Because of this there has come a double-edged situation with ambivalent feelings for the equivocal reactions.

Steve Rosenthal, a Democratic strategist and longtime labor leader, said about the Occupy movement’s focus on income inequality could help the party reinvigorate its base: “It’s injecting energy and life into progressive ideas and values, and it’s showing some weak-kneed Democrats they should be more aggressive on those issues,”

Many Occupy Wall Street activists contend they have no interest in helping Democrats.

“The Occupy movement is rooted in the idea that the political system is broken to such a degree that we can no longer work through the Republican or Democratic parties,” Tim Franzen, a spokesman for Occupy Atlanta, said.

“This is not about politics. This is about people,” said Marsha Spencer, an Occupy volunteer in New York. “We’ve lost our government. It’s not by the people, for the people anymore. We need to get it back, and we don’t need a political party to do that.”

Such talk has frustrated some Democratic leaders, who say engaging in electoral politics would make the Occupy movement more effective.

There seems to be division in the own ranks. Manu Raju and Marin Cogan are reporting that some Democrats are refusing to support President Barack Obama because they are either “too focused” on their own elections or they want the White House to cater to their agendas before they agree to endorse the president. (2)

Both parties should be careful not to miss the (same) boat.

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  “It’s injecting energy and life into progressive ideas and values, and it’s showing some weak-kneed Democrats they should be more aggressive on those issues,” Steve Rosenthal, a Democratic strategist and longtime labor leader, said. “I don’t think it will translate into boots on the ground or a clear organization for the 2012 election, but it will definitely help shape the debate.”

• (2) Some Democrats Rebuff Supporting Obama (theroot.com)
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