Obama's Inheritence from Bush Has Been Spent So Please Stop Your Withdrawals.

To those of us who work, (actually work - as apposed to gov. job), know when it was good and when it went bad. The company I was with when Obama took office, had just had a record year whith more than doubling the previous year's profit. We were expanding, hiring, planning, upgrading and growing.

By the time Obama had served 6 months as president, my company had let go 1/2 of it's 500 employees. My position was one of the casualties of a steep decline of business that coincided with Obama's inauguration almost to the week.

This company was America. Privately owned and growing, we manufactured stuff and provided services,  We were the source of income for 500 Americans  and actively hiring.

This explains why I am so offended by liberals who continue to  assert and support the notion that today's problems are inherited from Bush: first of all, it is dishonest to blame the worsening economy on Bush - and every person involved in real, private, American business knows it. Secondly, this dishonesty is providing an ongoing excuse for the current idiot-in-chief  to use as an alternative to fixing the problems - removes the necessity for Obama to do better.

The brass tax of it all is this: Democrats are so selfish and disgusting, that even during crisis when the Country doesn't need any bullshit, the Democrats protect their win and their point at the expense of the country's well being. These scoundrel Democrats would sooner lose their country than lose an argument

So to you Democrats, I say: Obama has already, for the time being at least, wrecked business for Americans. We know this, so don't waste your lies and excuses for Obama on us. Honor and good character would suggest that you democrats get honest and face reality - - be mature adults and deal with the fact that Obama is not what your hearts wanted him to be; and, no amount of fantasy is going to morph such an abysmal, feckless president into any sort of solution creator or catalyst of hope. If you democrats joined the side of truth, at least the pressure and responsibility would shift to where it belongs and can do the most good: if Obama was to ever resurrect any hope, it would only happen after the excuses stopped and he was held accountable for his performance. Unfortunately, honor and good character aren't very useful to the Democrat, so I am certain their lies will continue to provide a road of excuses for Obama as he drives America into the ground.

Why such a division of opinion about Obama: here's the answer

I find it curious how one group of Americans have a positive view of President Obama while another regards him to be a horrible president and bad for the country. What could possibly explain how presumably decent and rational people can have such a different perspective?

I think this divide can be explained by a difference in perspective. Going from left to right, what sort of perspective could explain the positive opinions that many on the left seem to have towards Obama. I can only see Obama as a good thing if I think about him and his actions as being in a vacuum and take America out of the scenario. Now I can look at spending money on social reforms as a pretty humanitarian act. Likewise, reforming health care so that everybody can have it, sounds pretty compassionate too. Even the way that Obama bows to foreign leaders almost seems to have a bit of charm in it's humility. This perspective requires that the focus be limited to Obama.

Obama critics are not judging Obama in a vacuum. They are viewing Obama in the context of America. He was elected as the country's leader, so it seems very relevant that Obama's performance is measured in terms of how it effects America.

Say, for example, you own a one of a kind Rolls Royce automobile and it is your prize possession - for which you sacrificed for decades working in order to afford. This car is in perfect mint condition with it's original pearl white paint job. Suppose you hire a driver for this car and on his first day on the job, after dropping you off at an appointment, the driver goes and gets the car painted black - his favorite color. If we just consider the driver in a vacuum, then there isn't much to blame. A driver's favorite color is black and he gets the car he's driving painted black. Obama supporters are looking at you, the irate owner of the car, wondering why the hell you have a problem with the color black - accusing you of of having some sort of problem with the color even. What's being discounted is the car - the focus is on the driver and not the car - which is the whole reason why the driver was hired in the first place - the whole reason that he's even a driver.

We hired Obama to drive and take care of a country with a culture, philosophy, and ideals already colored in. It's not really about what colors Obama is painting - it's that he is painting over the prize possession that we hired him to protect. We don't elect a president to invent us some new country. If we all had just migrated to the moon and needed a country found, then we might hire or elect someone to follow his vision of the perfect country and invent one for us - create a constitution.

Since Obama was elected to be President of America - not Europe, the world, or the moon - it seems reasonable that he be judged in the context of his effect on the country, his driving.

This still leaves the question - why does America not more significantly factor into the liberal's assessment of Obama? If you don't value America then why do you care - and how relevant is your opinion on the matter? If you want America repainted, you basically want your own new country; yet, instead of building, fighting for, and inventing your own - you want to hijack America foundation and paint over qualities that many find to be her most unique and special.

Obama is the bastard driver who has his feet up on your desk while he informs you that your car's being repainted to match his own favorite color.