Certifiable Space Case: The Premature Obituary of Obama's Presidency

[babylonsister]

Certifiable Space Case: The Premature Obituary of Obama's Presidency
Saturday, June 11, 2011 | Posted by Deaniac83

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I'll tell you what a certifiable space case is - it's this column by Meyerson. For a moment, let's set aside the fact that Meyerson is attempting to write the history of Barack Obama's presidency when Obama has been in office for less than two and a half years. So historians will focus on the first few months in office of Barack Obama and ask why he didn't do more, will they? Sure, if by "historians" Meyerson means people who are bereft of historical perspective, he might be right. But so long as we are talking about how historians will judge something or what they will ask, it seems logical that one will want to examine the history of the conditions Barack Obama took office and what, from it, he delivered.

Barack Obama, as it has been mentioned, took the helm of this economy not just after the proverbial Titanic hit the ice berg, he became the captain after the ship nearly completely drowned and its occupants started abandoning ship. We had been mired in the worst economic calamity in this country's history since the Great Depression and paralleled by no other part of our history. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month - nearly a million a month - when President Obama took office.

The severity of the job market was of course not the only bad economic indicator. We were experiencing a complete collapse of the financial system, causing everyone's retirement savings to disappear along with their home values. All in all, our economic house was on fire. It is from there that President Obama started. And today, the economy is growing as are jobs, albeit way too slowly, the financial markets are stable, and an entire American industry (the US auto industry) has made a stunning comeback thanks to the insistence of one man: Barack Obama that we not leave the industry and its workers behind. The fire has been put out and the rebuilding started.

So of course, we have the puritanical whining from Mr. Meyerson complains that his fire department put out his fire but did not immediately rebuild the house, saying that President Obama's economic recovery plan (the Recovery Act) "might {have} halt{ed} the economy’s slide but were hardly sufficient to turn it around."

I hate to break it to Mr. Meyerson but when your house is on fire, you put out the fire first. You don't complain that the firefighter got in the way of your new tiles in the kitchen. When you have bleeding that lands you in the emergency room, your health professionals try to first stop the bleeding. I doubt you'd complain to the doctor that she stopped your internal bleeding, but she did not, immediately, make your cancer disappear.

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[Ineeda]

1. Thanks for this post.

Adding to the emergency room analogy, the doctor who has stopped the bleeding has had his hands tied behind his back by half the other 'caregivers' who are willing to let the patient die in order to make the doctor lose his job.

[Pab Sungenis]

2. True, Obama put out the fire

but he's also "negotiating" with the people who set the fire about whether or not to set another one to finish the job.

The President needs to be bold in pushing a real jobs agenda and stop listening to all the "austerity" nonsense that has been proven to cripple economic recovery in the past.

[opihimoimoi]

3. The answers to our probs, large and small, is right around the corner..

Obama will get his 2nd term wyhere he will do the most good for the Nation.

GOPers think if Obama fail, they will get the nod to the Oval once more...

They haven't come up with a viable plan yet...Ryans is not viable...