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These anecdotes from your personal lives and observations have no weight. You can't make these broad generalizations without doing a shit ton of empirical research and mass polling and even then there is a ridiculous margain of error. You need to drop the voting shit as the reason that you don't like obama and focus more on the policies. Anecdotes have no place in debates like these.
And for the record I give obama a 7/10 so far. I really like his foreign policy (more diplomatic, leaving Iraq ect.) and I realize afghanistan needs increase engagement but I really hate to see more increases in military. The US is trapped in a military industrial complex and has been since after WWII, greatly excellerated by the cold war. I like that he is tackling health care reform which is a major issue that affects all parts of the economy because it is so ridiculously inefficient now. I wish he would take on decriminalizing/legalizing marijuana because that is a no brainer but I realize that takes valuable political capital that he needs right now.
It seems to me that most of his blunders have been on things that don't matter like giving stupid gifts to other heads of state and using a teleprompter too much? I don't care if he fuckin looks down and reads a speech the whole time as long as he gets the country on a better track... which I think he is doing.
Well, I'm an expert on neither but I do try to keep up. The country does need a lot more revenue and there is a huge wage gap in America that is scary so taxing the rich heavier makes sense there... the cap and trade can be offset by government give backs to the people whose energy bills increase substantially... I think it is necessary because the environment is probably in the top 2 issues that needs to be addressed (worldwide, not just the US). I'm not to well school on health care policy yet but I do know that the current private system is far too inefficient and has so much waste. People claim systems like Canada are terrible but I would venture to say ours is worse... and ones like France's are far superior.
The one thing I do know is that we should be the number 1 country on the planet because of our massive growth and wealth but we are far from it in the rankings on things like infant mortality rate and life expectancy. This irks me because these are measures of the quality of life in a country.
Overall, I'm a little wary of some things like the stimulus and the bailouts but I think they are necessary and I'm just giving him more time. I will also be far more knowledgable as I continue on in life so I'm not going to make any concrete predictions of accusations, although I am far from clueless... sophmore poli sci/econ/environmental studies major for some perspective.
he might not be the greatest president ever, but i like his fresh new vibe.
For ex: I used to live in a small island off the coast of greece called cyprus (weird i know), all my relatives and friends hated the US because of the Bush administration, now i have found that they all like Obama much and dont actually hate the US anymore, and they all actually wanna come visit here and respect our country not
thats my $0.02 and thanks for reading maybe youll like him better now haha
Yeah. No more anecdotes. They are not evidence.
