Matt Damon Blasts Obama: “One-Term President With Balls” Would Be Better

[JDPriestly]

232. I wish that Obama had acted more like a Democrat during his presidency.

I just hope we don't have a Republican as our next president.

Best thing would have been for Obama to fire a lot of his advisers -- especially in economics -- in 2010 when the Republicans took the House. Obama should have seen that as a vote of no confidence by the American people and changed course.

The Obama administration has done some wonderful things, but his approach to the foreclosure crisis has been to just sit back and flail his arms a bit. Although a number of the government's policies contributed to the economic disaster on both Wall Street and Main Street, his economic advisers acted like stunned bystanders with regard to the wreckage on Main Street. Although in a position to do so, they did not administer first aid but rather called 911 and then sat and waited.

Meanwhile across America the for sale signs which we all know are too often due to foreclosures remind every American of the misery awaiting us all.

In short, Obama had a few months in which to tackle the number one problem in our country: the extreme disparity in wealth, living standards and social awareness between the rich and poor, and he did not do it.

He still hasn't done nearly enough about jobs.

The Republican House is not an excuse. It is the effect of Obama's failure to deal immediately with those economic problems in the right way. Blaming things on the Republican House is like getting drunk on Saturday night and then blaming the headache you have on Sunday morning on the fact that you worked too hard during the week. It's dishonest. If you drink too much, you are likely to get a headache. If you pour enormous amounts of money into the banks managed by the rich, and expect it to trickle down on the folks on Main Street, you will increase the already unhealthy disparity in wealth.

Obama should have governed differently.

It's not too late for him to change his economic team and in so doing show Americans that he will go in a new, more aggressive, more positive direction if re-elected. I hope he does that.

I do not think that it is fair to criticize Matt Damon for expressing himself honestly and openly. The American people, and especially Democratic voters expressed themselves far more clearly at the polls in 2010. Has Obama paid any attention? Not so far.

Occupy Wall Street expressed discontent with Obama's administration in distinct terms from Anchorage, Alaska to Southern Florida. I recommend listening to some Dr. Cornell West's statements on these issues. Obama acknowledged the protests, but has done absolutely nothing to change his economic policies.

Matt Damon is just expressing feelings that a lot of Americans have.

And, yes, I will vote for Obama, and I will work to elect Democrats to Congress. Will other Americans vote for Obama? It looks that way now, but we should not be so sure.

In the end, in my view, it will depend on whether Obama signals that he will change his course on the economy if elected, and just how he will do it.

We voted for change. Where is it? That's the question that will dominate the discussion in the 2012 election.