[Livia]

Originally Posted by MTVN

You expect him to make some progress after close to 2 years in office. Two years ago unemployment in the States was 7.7%; now it's 9.6%. If that is not a failure I dont know what is. Ironically, unemployment has been rising the most among those who Obama promised to help, those who voted him into power: young people, black people and the white working class.

I'm not saying that all of America's economic problems should have been solved, they were too large for him to have done that completely. But that was something he didnt acknowledge back during his campaign, he was misleading as to his limitations.

And Livia, I seem to recall you supporting the Tories cuts to the public sector? If that is the case then why are you adamantly defending Obama when his only solution has been to try and stimulate recovery through high state spending which has effectively failed.

The Tea Party are morons, I never denied that, I'm happy to admit it. I'm sure some of them are racially prejudiced against Obama, but they are not the only ones who have criticised his Presidency. He has an approval rating on 37%, and that is not to do with his race. Believe it or not, not all opposition to Obama has been from racist, gun-toting, deep-South Republicans.

Obama's first two years have been a failure, no matter what spin you put on it, or how you try and excuse it.

This debate isn't about my politics, nor is it about the Tory cuts.

Obama was misleading in his election campaign about his limitations? Surely not! I mean, every other politician in the world tells the absolute truth about his limitations when he's rrunning an election campaign, right?

Things move slowly in politics. It's a fact. And while Obama's first couple of years haven't been sparkling, he has had to deal with mopping up the mess from the previous imcumbent who, let's be honest, was a hopless, rich, white. moron. Didn't seen to have to deal with the hatred that Obama's having though... funny that.

And who said anything about "deep-South Republicans?" Sarah Palin is from Alaska, is she not?

I've spent a fair bit of time in the USA and I have to admit that I am not a massive Obama fan. However, I feel a lot of the vitriol aimed at him is racially motivated. We're only a couple of decades away from Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white man. There is a huge section of the public of the USA who are just not ready to hand the running of their country over to a black man.