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	<title>Comments on: Why I still REALLY like President Obama</title>
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		<title>By: RAGO</title>
		<link>http://dodgeretort.com/healthcare/1144/comment-page-1#comment-643</link>
		<dc:creator>RAGO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John, couldn&#039;t disagree with you more on this President.  (No suprise to you I&#039;m sure.)  Fact is I still don&#039;t know who this guy is--alhough I think I have a good idea.

Is he the candidate who campaigned on change only to succumb to the Pelosi&#039;s and Barny Frank&#039;s of the Party and go far left.  Or, by change, did he mean &quot;fooled ya&quot;  I&#039;m really a left radical who wants to change the social fabric of America.

I think that by &quot;change&quot; most Independents and moderates thought he was going to stop the side deals, closed door meetings and try to put an end to the dealings in Washington that have plagued us the past few decades  (yes Clinton and Bush(s) included. Instead, we&#039;ve got a guy who blows with the wind based upon what he thinks the populist vote wants to hear while he clandestinely pushes a social agenda that most people don&#039;t want.

Case in point, does anyone really believe the content of his State of the Union address would have been the same regardless of the outcome in MA?  No way.  He wrote it to placate the Independent populist vote and give the appearance of moving to the center. All of a sudden he is for jobs and deficit reduction! I think not. 

The blather you are hearing is not a Tea Party. It&#039;s an educated middle class voter who is scared to death of this guy and his cohorts running up a bill we can&#039;t afford to pay.  Yes we do want change.  But it&#039;s not the change Obama is trying to bring.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John, couldn&#8217;t disagree with you more on this President.  (No suprise to you I&#8217;m sure.)  Fact is I still don&#8217;t know who this guy is&#8211;alhough I think I have a good idea.</p>
<p>Is he the candidate who campaigned on change only to succumb to the Pelosi&#8217;s and Barny Frank&#8217;s of the Party and go far left.  Or, by change, did he mean &#8220;fooled ya&#8221;  I&#8217;m really a left radical who wants to change the social fabric of America.</p>
<p>I think that by &#8220;change&#8221; most Independents and moderates thought he was going to stop the side deals, closed door meetings and try to put an end to the dealings in Washington that have plagued us the past few decades  (yes Clinton and Bush(s) included. Instead, we&#8217;ve got a guy who blows with the wind based upon what he thinks the populist vote wants to hear while he clandestinely pushes a social agenda that most people don&#8217;t want.</p>
<p>Case in point, does anyone really believe the content of his State of the Union address would have been the same regardless of the outcome in MA?  No way.  He wrote it to placate the Independent populist vote and give the appearance of moving to the center. All of a sudden he is for jobs and deficit reduction! I think not. </p>
<p>The blather you are hearing is not a Tea Party. It&#8217;s an educated middle class voter who is scared to death of this guy and his cohorts running up a bill we can&#8217;t afford to pay.  Yes we do want change.  But it&#8217;s not the change Obama is trying to bring.</p>
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		<title>By: Taylen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Taylen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A beautiful display of reason and reality! It baffles me that people have such short memories and are quick to take the most recent clamoring they hear from FOX noise as the hard-line truth. I do have to say that I think there is still plenty of room for improvement in the next three (hopefully more) years, but you are right when you say he is on the right track...and we&#039;re better off than we were under the last guy...! Back in June Bill Maher had a good monologue about President Obama saying that he liked where he was going but he wanted him to do more to actually get his nod of approval...well let&#039;s hope 2010 is Obama&#039;s year of action!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A beautiful display of reason and reality! It baffles me that people have such short memories and are quick to take the most recent clamoring they hear from FOX noise as the hard-line truth. I do have to say that I think there is still plenty of room for improvement in the next three (hopefully more) years, but you are right when you say he is on the right track&#8230;and we&#8217;re better off than we were under the last guy&#8230;! Back in June Bill Maher had a good monologue about President Obama saying that he liked where he was going but he wanted him to do more to actually get his nod of approval&#8230;well let&#8217;s hope 2010 is Obama&#8217;s year of action!</p>
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		<title>By: Frank Schroth</title>
		<link>http://dodgeretort.com/healthcare/1144/comment-page-1#comment-632</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank Schroth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Couldn&#039;t agree more re: his drop in popularity. He has only been in office a year. I did come across this pretty smart piece by Gary Wills. Can&#039;t help but note the Presidents recent statements about &quot;fighting&quot; - http://tinyurl.com/yle6r9g. Also worth noting that President Regan&#039;s poll numbers at the end of his first year were no great shakes. I am a long way from losing hope.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Couldn&#8217;t agree more re: his drop in popularity. He has only been in office a year. I did come across this pretty smart piece by Gary Wills. Can&#8217;t help but note the Presidents recent statements about &#8220;fighting&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yle6r9g" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/yle6r9g</a>. Also worth noting that President Regan&#8217;s poll numbers at the end of his first year were no great shakes. I am a long way from losing hope.</p>
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		<title>By: James Brinton</title>
		<link>http://dodgeretort.com/healthcare/1144/comment-page-1#comment-631</link>
		<dc:creator>James Brinton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, if his strategy and insight are so potent, why is he in such a hole? 1) He is naive about Republicans--they wouldn&#039;t give him a Band-aid on his deathbed; 2) Millions of us (including me) voted for a progressive, not a center-right President; 3) Wall Street is still unchained--Teddy Roosevelt would have busted them; 4) Health insurers are spending billions, and winning; 5) He does not lead, he takes meetings; 6) He should have done campaign finance reform before anything else.
I give him three months to pivot on all of these issues, or his administration is road-kill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, if his strategy and insight are so potent, why is he in such a hole? 1) He is naive about Republicans&#8211;they wouldn&#8217;t give him a Band-aid on his deathbed; 2) Millions of us (including me) voted for a progressive, not a center-right President; 3) Wall Street is still unchained&#8211;Teddy Roosevelt would have busted them; 4) Health insurers are spending billions, and winning; 5) He does not lead, he takes meetings; 6) He should have done campaign finance reform before anything else.<br />
I give him three months to pivot on all of these issues, or his administration is road-kill.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good to see the Obama supporters come out....he is good man and a good leader and I pray he doesn&#039;t leave office until 2016 (unless, maybe, it&#039;s Hillary who I supported in the 2008 primary).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good to see the Obama supporters come out&#8230;.he is good man and a good leader and I pray he doesn&#8217;t leave office until 2016 (unless, maybe, it&#8217;s Hillary who I supported in the 2008 primary).</p>
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		<title>By: Nancy Grant</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nancy Grant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am so glad you wrote this - I don&#039;t understand the low ratings for Obama any more than I understand the Tea Party/Sarah Palin fervor. Those people are scaring me!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am so glad you wrote this &#8211; I don&#8217;t understand the low ratings for Obama any more than I understand the Tea Party/Sarah Palin fervor. Those people are scaring me!</p>
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		<title>By: John Frook</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Frook</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John, this is an excellent blog. I am solidly behind the Obama Administration. For one thing, the Rush Limbaugh I hope this administration fails comments and the shout downs at healthcare reform discussions where powerful, detrimental and unprecedented interruptions for this administration in my opinion, and buys him additional time as a result.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John, this is an excellent blog. I am solidly behind the Obama Administration. For one thing, the Rush Limbaugh I hope this administration fails comments and the shout downs at healthcare reform discussions where powerful, detrimental and unprecedented interruptions for this administration in my opinion, and buys him additional time as a result.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://dodgeretort.com/healthcare/1144/comment-page-1#comment-623</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bruce, well put and good line: &quot;A conservative is a person with two perfectly good feet who doesn&#039;t go anywhere.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bruce, well put and good line: &#8220;A conservative is a person with two perfectly good feet who doesn&#8217;t go anywhere.&#8221;</p>
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