I'm starting to wonder if Obama is going to go down in history as another Jimmy Carter.  That means a good man, well meaning, smart, highly educated, but who just can't be a chief executive, run things, and get the job done.  Impotent presidencies.

Think of Carter - unquestionably a very good human being with a big heart.  Actually, I view Obama likewise.

Carter - Nuclear engineer, graduate of U.S. Naval Academy.  Engineering officer aboard nuclear submarines in the Navy.  Farmer.

Obama - Ivy League undergrad and lawyer, but who has never practiced law, nor run a business, never had to "make a payroll".

Neither of them came to office with any business experience whatsoever, and it's been shown in their records.  Carter had the first energy crises to face, so he wore his sweater, got on TV, and told us all to turn down the thermostat.

Obama has zero experience not only in business, but in international politics and international relations - the wars go on without any real direction from the guy who is the Commander in Chief.

Obama did get his health care change act (I refuse to refer to it as "reform").  But little else has happened that's positive.

Unfortunately, this is what we see when the voters just react without thinking.  But most voters nowadays aren't thinkers, except with their stomachs.

Carter's election was a reaction to Watergate, and Jerry Ford's pardoning of Nixon.  In comes the outsider to Washington politics who is going to revolutionize Washington.  Not.  Maybe the worst president of the 20th century.

Obama's election was a reaction to negative public opinion of GWB, the financial meltdown, the wars and the bailouts.  In comes another outsider who had only been a part of the Washington scene for 2 years.  He gets elected on "Change you can believe in".  So far, Not.

Aren't these two about the same?

What's your thought?

I think Carter was well intentioned but lacked the skills to do the job.

Obama on the other hand, has totally different intentions.  He actually wants to circumvent the Constitution and then make it irrelavent; and then set up a completely different type of government which is not constrained by the Constitution at all; where he as president can do what ever the heck he wants because he knows better than we do what is good for us.
Oh and by the way, in the process suck out trillions of dollars from us to pay off those who are helping him do this thing ..........
THIS IS THE BIGGEST CON JOB IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD...CHICAGO MOB STYLE.  AND OBAMA IS JUST THE "FRONT MAN" !

Babyhog -

I don't know about historical division as you ask, but for sure we're divided now.

But I think it's for good reason:

1.  Those on the left are becoming more far left.  No doubt that Obama was one of the most liberal Senators when he was in the Senate.  Maybe only Boxer of California is more so.

2.  The right is frustrated with the debt, no apparent intentions on the part of the Dems to stop spending money, but just raise taxes and bash business, illegal immigration, and gov't intrusion into our lives in general, as evidenced by the health care change act.

The Dems of old are gone - JFK instituted the Investment Tax Credit.  Truman was a businessman before entering politics.  Even LBJ's wife and her family were business people.  Clinton moved a lot to the center during his time in office.  Since then the Dems have only run left wingers like Kerry and Obama.

Thomas Jefferson, the first Dem, is famous for many quotes.  I can't repeat them verbatim, but two of them are that democracy ceases when gov't takes from those willing to work to give to those not willing to work; and that the biggest enemy of the people is a large gov't.

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 05/26/10 at 08:50:33:

A few months ago I managed to tally up the size of GWB government,
it totaled up to 17 million people on a government payroll,it hasn't changed it's still the same, that 17 million with great health care benifits,retirement pensions etc etc.
And I bet you will never see a senator lining up at a clinic for medcal help,or treatment.
BTW Jimmy Carter was the only president who could not be baught by big business. That is why he only lasted one term, One of the only honest presidents we ever had, I guess "We the people" never realized it. He was a very smart man,much like Bill Clinton an Oxford grad

Carter was one of the smartest president,That why Iran wouldn't give up the hostages to him they wanted him out of there and it worked,As soon as he was out they gave up the hostages.

Jerry, capitalists generally have no interest in business ... their interest is in profit/theft . . .

earlytimz wrote on 05/26/10 at 14:05:31:

I just googled "the size of government" these numbers are all accounted for, You just willy nilly said Oh don't count the post Office, well you cant just do that. That is what you call cheating, so Count the P/O and all the services Army Navy,air force,Marines, all the reserves.
now start counting local government ,and a sh1t load of people you never see or have heard of. I did not write down 17 million just for a
f*cking joke, it took at least an hour of my time to find all these people
lurking about working for uncle sam. I would have written down one million if it had been the case, but it wasn't.

Well, Bill, let's see:

1.  Ford Motor Co.  Never took Fed money, weathered the storm, now profitable again.

2.  General Motors - Took Fed money under the old regime.  New CEO has turned it around, repaid Fed loans, making some fairly decent cars now, and now profitable.

3.  Boeing - Now leading the pack in large aircraft manufacturers world wide.  Leading exporter of U.S. manufactured goods, mainly responsible for keep our trade deficit from going completely nuts.

4.  Xerox, IBM, Dell, Apple, Yahoo, Gogle, Ebay, etc.  

5.  Citigroup - Repaid all Fed loans, and now profitable.  Same for Bank of America and about 2 dozen other major lenders.

I don't have the rest of the day to make the list go on.

You get the point.