Reply #1: A 5 page article saying that this woman's plight is Barack Obama's fault!

[FrenchieCat]

How fucked up is that?

Life is hard, and Barack Obama never said it would all be solved in 100 days.
But I guess the Washington Post writer doesn't know this.

I wrote the author a letter-

Life is hard, but President Barack Obama never said it would all be solved in 100 days (re-listen to his Grant Park Speech and/or his Inauguration speech). But I guess you aren't willing to truly put all of that in perspective, and would rather give the impression to readers that the predicament of each American, in particular those who are hanging by a thin thread, is due to Barack Obama's priorities. Perhaps you could have focused on what Governor Mark Sanford is doing for the people of South Carolina. Perhaps that would have been more productive to Ms. Childs and others who are currently suffering there.

I tend to believe that if the media wasn't so busy covering lightly attended Tea Parties (heck, you even covered in this article!), handshakes, and worrying about whether Obama is being bi-partisan enough (like it only takes one) and concentrated more on letting folks know that affordable health care, education and clean energy, is worth a temporary deficit, there wouldn't be such resistence to gettin done what needs to be done to better the lives of those standing on the edge.

When Barack Obama has to deal with a media that attempts to make it appear that there are two sides to everything, when in reality, one side is wrong, wrong, wrong, don't scratch your head and try to figure out why Change is coming slower than it might otherwise.

I'm sure that Ms. Child's realizes that unfortunately, Pres. Obama is not a Messiah, and that he has a lot of forces that he has to reckon with, nothwithstanding one of those being the media, who knows all, but not really.

Respectfully,