Monday, January 25, 2010

No Worries

 

Lois Rogan
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11 comments:

Kathleen Rogan said...

In this article, quoting the president, they spelled his name "Berry". LOL!

January 25, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Anonymous said...

Give Obama a break

A year ago, if American citizens like myself had read in the newspaper that US employers were hiring again, that healthcare legislation was proceeding without a bump, that Afghanistan had suddenly become a nice place to take your kids, we would’ve known we were being lied to. Back then, we recognised that the problems Mr Obama inherited as president wouldn’t go away overnight.
During his campaign, Mr Obama clearly said that an economy that took eight years to break couldn’t be fixed in a year, that Afghanistan was a graveyard of empires and would not be an easy venture for us. Candidate Obama didn’t feed us happy talk, which is why we elected him. He never said America could solve our health care, economic and security problems without raising the deficit. Instead, he talked of hard choices, of government taking painful and contentious first steps towards fixing problems that can’t be left for another day.

Right after Mr Obama’s election, we seemed to grasp this. We understood that companies would be happy to squeeze more work out of frightened employees, and would be slow to hire more. We understood that the banks that had extorted us out of billions of dollars were lying when they said they would share their recovery. We understood that a national consensus on health care would not come easily. Candidate Obama never claimed that his proposed solutions would work flawlessly right out of the box, and we respected him for that.
But today, the president is being attacked as if he were a salesman who promised us that our problems would wash off in the morning. He never made such a promise. It’s time for Americans to realise that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything.

Ellie Light

January 26, 2010 at 7:07 AM
Anonymous said...

Kathleen Rogan said...
In this article, quoting the president, they spelled his name "Berry". LOL!

??? That's how his name is spelled. http://www.house.gov/berry/

January 26, 2010 at 8:08 AM
Anonymous said...

Any one with any decency would have ignored the mistake that she made. It was not a huge deal.

January 26, 2010 at 8:11 AM
Kathleen Rogan said...

No , I thought his name is spelled Barry, is it not. Berry , is like a fruit.

January 26, 2010 at 3:56 PM
Steve Sinai said...

"Berry" is referring to Congressman Marion Berry. Not "Berry" Obama.

January 26, 2010 at 4:35 PM
Kathleen Rogan said...

Oh, my bad. That's what I get for not reading the article. My apologies. If I am not entirely interested , I do a quick scan. I spotted "Berry" twice and thought they meant obama.

January 26, 2010 at 4:53 PM
Kathleen Rogan said...

oh, by the way, nice to know that Ellie Light made her way to Pacifica. I felt that Pacifica was being left out when I read the article where her letters were popping up.

January 26, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Ellie B. Light said...

Isn't our president wonderful?

January 27, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Kathy Meeh said...

Ellie, who are you and where are you from? Or, Kathleen do you know?

I did like the President's speech tonight, and do wish the nation and Washington DC were less polarized.

January 27, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Steve Sinai said...

Ellie Light is not a real person's name. The letter pasted above has been circulating all over the internet.

January 27, 2010 at 10:08 PM

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