Obama as Inkheart – except that the OPPOSITE of his stories come true1 min read

Louis says:

Three weeks into his presidency and the conservatives and Republicans and other assholes won't even give him a chance. You "people" are really despicable. I gave Bush much more time. I even voted for him in 2004. I wanted him to succeed. What a fool I was. You "people" don't give a damn if we all go down the drain so long as your ideology is pure and perfect. You aren't worth a flea's fart.

cubedweller says:

It wasn't all sweetness-and-light and bipartisan harmony when Bush took office in 2001 (and post-election recounts in Florida showed that he did win). Bush took shots from the get-go, and no one had a problem with that, and Bush, to his credit, took it in stride. In fact, we were told "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" (falsely attributed to Jefferson, by the way). I'm sure Doonesbury was nailing Bush from the beginning. Comics were saying Bush was a coke-head frat-boy and Gore had "gravitas".
Now, to criticize what Obama has done/is doing is wrong and mean-spirited? We're not giving him a chance? I'm not saying two wrongs make a right, but Obama's policies, past and present, are fair game, just like Bush's policies on the war in Iraq.
I want to give him a chance, but the bailouts (Bush is partially to blame for that) and the "stimulus" which Obama is trying to ram through, will not work. That approach never has.
To Keith: the Community Reinvestment Act did not by itself wreck the economy, but it certainly was a factor. You can't tell banks to issue loans to people without the means to pay them back, and then be shocked when people default. I'm sure banks took advantage of this with predatory lending, but no one forced the mortgages on people.
That being said, I was always mystified on how people were able to buy homes (especially in inflated areas like the Bay Area/Silicon Valley of California and the metro NYC area). Now I know.