Replying to a message of Jeff Snyder to Bob Ackley:

 JS> On 03/28/09, Jeff Snyder quoted Bob Ackley: Obama's Report Card.

 BA>> Insofar as Obama is concerned, I'd give him a 'C-' so far.  He was
 BA>> given a horrible mess - several of them, actually - by his
 BA>> predecessor and frankly Idon't think he's going to be able to
 BA>> improve matters much if at all.  IMO he will be a one term
 BA>> president.

 JS> Bob, I don't know if Obama will be a one-term president or not, but I
 JS> have to agree with the rest of your statements. Anyone who honestly
 JS> expects that everything will be fine and beautiful in four years must
 JS> have their head in the sand. It is fine to be optimistic, but we all
 JS> need to temper that with some realism and pragmatism as well. We
 JS> simply can't expect one president to fix what it took many
 JS> presidents, and corrupt businessmen, to create.

You left out congresscrooks (corrupt congresscrooks is redundant).  Since you've
recently returned to Fido you're probably not aware that I regard politicians - all
of them - as slime and on the social scale somewhere below child molesters
and pimps.  I really don't care which party - Democrook or Republicrook (bottom
line is they;'re crooks) - they belong to.

 JS> Furthermore, as I've
 JS> already said, Obama can't fix anything, because he is just a puppet,

Moreso than Bush minor?

 JS> just like presidents before him...and it was really easy to see that
 JS> Bush was a particularly goofy puppet. The people behind this crisis
 JS> have a specific agenda. Like many, I have my ideas what that agenda
 JS> may possibly be. Time will certainly tell. But no matter how you look
 JS> at it, we are all in for a very rough ride.

We certainly are.  And it isn't going to be pretty.  I suspect the country will -
within my lifetime, unfortunately - become an authoritarian state if not an
outright dictatorship.  Fortunately I never had children and don't have to worry
about their situation in the mess that's coming.

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