Hmm, I believe my iron-o-meter just exploded. Great, now my double standard detector seems to be overheating...

Maybe you should get to the ER.

Well over the last 8 years I've heard nothing but hate from the Bush-bashing left.  Now that the shoe is on the other foot, well, they just can't seem to handle Any. Criticism. Whatsoever.  Hopefully you understand why I found your post so ironic.

Wonderful, now I understand your comment. See how good it is when you explain yourself? Thank you.

Of course, the shoe is on the other foot.  I am all for it, there's nothing like good old ribbing and disagreement.  The thing is there isn't just that going on.   It would be idiotic of me to argue that.  Regardless of how everyone, or make that, those who opposed Bush felt about him, and yes, made it known to everyone, the same should be for Obama, I don't remember seeing or hearing the downfall of our country in the manner it is being predicted right now. 

After reading what I wrote first, I rephrased the beginning of my sentence because it reads better, and less toxic! Yes, even I can be toxic!

Really?  Because it just seems like the same old crap, just another President. I think you just view it differently because this is a President that YOU stand behind.  Perspective makes a difference.

Seems to me like a lot of gloom and doom is coming from the lips of this president mouth. Where is the hope now?

No disagreement there! 

Maybe we can help him find it?  Or refer him for some motivational pick me up since he has probably realised that there will be hell to pay if he doesn't deliver..?

As long as Bo supports the road to socailism... there is no hope. maybe for you because you probually will benifit from it. Though I cant say because I dont know you. The road he is going down is "giving" people stuff that they are not entitled to off the backs of us that bust our behinds daily to make a living. He is rewarding stupidity right now, why should me and many other hard working americans support these people.

Look i have no issues with lending a helping hand ... but for those that deserve it.... and right now there are people who dont deserve my or anyone elses help. they made their beds its time they sleep in it. Is it mean? yes. But this entitlement crap needs to stop now otherwise we will turn into another county like france or even worse... look at the wonderful country Hugo chavez has... this is the road we are going on... so why should I embrase it?

BO had his chance to shine... and instead he let Ms polosi and the other left wing nuts play him like a puppet. This is the same old politcal BS... nothing has changed... but instead of making a better america... its only going to get worse... Hope you enjoy your $5 20 oz soda soon because that whats gonna happen. But yeah... i should be happy and be a mindless drone and praise the almighty BO!

I assume that when people use the word "entitled" or it's more common form "entitlement" that they're essentially speaking about things like welfare, social security and medicare. Basically it's folks that are still pissed off at FDR and have been fighting for the last 64 years trying to overturn everything he accomplished. 64 years, that's 8 squared! And republicans complain that democrats have been pissing and moaning for the last 8 years. I'd say democrats still have quite some catching up to do on the pissing and moaning front. But even 8 years is a fallacy, it’s really closer to the last 4 or 5 years at most that have really upset the democrats, and as evidenced by the last election, pretty much the rest of the country as well.

I personally, and I suspect that many democrats felt pretty much the same way, was supportive of Bush for pretty much the entirety of his first term. I certainly didn't vote for him but he was duly elected even though it did require the intervention of his father’s Supreme Court and I considered him my president just like every other president we’ve had since Ike, whether I voted for them or not.

His handling of 9/11 and Afghanistan was adequate, but his obsession with Iraq and his insistence on believing every scrap of intelligence supportive of invading Iraq while ignoring everything non-supportive, many times within the same reports, was his downfall. Even then at first I was supportive of the Iraq war just like congress and the rest of the American people were supportive, and probably for exactly the same reasons. We were standing behind the president in a time of need and even though we might not have been totally convinced, he was the president and as such deserved the benefit of the doubt.

However once it became clear that he bald faced lied to the American people to get them into an unnecessary war, he no longer was my president. I couldn’t even stand to watch him on TV or listen to him on the radio. The only time I could hear his voice and not immediately turn the channel was if I was watching Jon Stewart.

So I voted for Obama and I do hope he succeeds in bringing us together. I can’t think of a single president that's inherited a more daunting task since FDR. Do I think he can succeed? Definitely not totally, hopefully at least partially.

Oh and I've been "busting my behind" to make a living on a daily basis for the last 38 years with no end in sight.

FDR was not the greatest presedent there was and in fact the opposite. What he did did not in fact help get the US out of the Depression and in fact kept the US in one much much longer than needed.

Did you know there was a depression in the very early 1900's before the great depression...and you never hear about it because it was short lived and the gov did what is unthought of now a days... cut spending. OMG there is a trivial though.

Yes the american people feel that they should get something for free. Have you not seen the town hall meeting where that lady wanted a house with a kitchen ( ermmm cheap jab here but...dont all houses have a kitchen?! ) or the guy working and McD's crying about having to do that too for a number of years.

Heres my take... you want it you WORK for it. WORK. Earn it. You have the right to presue happyness... your not entitled to it.

And yes bush was great his first 4 years... and then something happend... i dont know if it was the dems that got a hold of him and he turned his back and started going left in his second term.

I did not vote BO nor did I vote for mccain. Mccain and BO had the same ideas pretty much.... which to me a Rep should not have, and BO just had the wrong ideas to suit my needs. Union votes should not be open. Just like any other vote... it should be between you and your maker. No one else should know unless you willingly tell them. there are so many other issues that I dont like.

On top of that... I will admit there is some things that I do agree with BO... But those are minor compaired to the other things I oppose.

Like I said BO had his time to shine... but he really messed up BAD and will never recover ( at least in my book... between him and bush pretty much doubling our debt as a nation in a matter of a year makes me sick... ) Sadly the american public has a short term memory.

One more thing...why on earth would you want to work your whole life and have the government decide what do do with YOUR money. Look, I have no issues on you DONATING your monay and as much AS YOU think is fit. If you want to help , it should be your choice and the gov should not decide for you. If you want 50% of your pay going to someone... donate, at least you can chose and have a bit more control over who you are helping. There are people that need help and I am all for it. The problem is the Gov in its current state does not care who it helps... and personally I rather help someone who was productive and/or will get back to being productive and off the gov welfare.

Let me tell you a little story about waste in government. In fact it involves how I get paid so I'm intimately aware of the situation. I work for a government "think tank" designing things that I can't discuss. However, I’m a “subcontractor” which means that I actually work for some other company that then loans me out to my true employer. I liken the arrangement to that of a prostitute and their pimp.

Of course subcontractors exist in the commercial world as well. I’m very familiar with commercial industry since that’s were I’ve spent 90% of my working life. In the commercial world the going overhead for subcontractors is on the order of 10% to 20%. However, in the defense industry this overhead is 100%, that’s why I consider them my “pimp”.

But wait it gets even better than this. The “think tank” is actually owned by a major educational institution. The way that this institution gets its cut of the action is to charge the government an additional 60% overhead on all its expenses of which payments to subcontractors is a significant portion.

So I make X, my pimp gets another X for a total of 2X and then the think tank pays another 60% of 2X or 1.2X as overhead to the parent institution. All told my actual employer pays 3.2X for my services of which I get 1X.

But wait there’s still more. I was recently required to change my pimp due to the potential of organizational conflict of interests which is when my pimp may in fact be bidding on work about which I might have some kind of “inside information”. At that point in time I suggested that I would be perfectly willing to work for them as a direct employee and in that case would even be willing to take a pay cut. But no, they weren’t really interested in cutting their expenses from 3.2X down to something like 0.9X. It was simply easier for them to make me choose a new pimp.

The thing is that this isn’t even considered “corporate welfare” and this goes on year after year with tens of thousands of people, perhaps even hundreds of thousands, in similar situations across the country.

You can’t make this stuff up. So hearing this do you really begrudge the single mom her food stamps? That level of concern is penny wise and pound foolish.

I didn't vote for him either, but he was my President and I felt his first four years was better than the last four that turned into a nightmare. 

You're right, you don't know me!

I think it is every citizen's responsibility to have a say in what their government is doing, by voting not voting is not having a say.