Reply #433: So how much time are you giving Obama to fix things?

[AngryOldDem]

Dude, my life sucks just about as much -- and possibly more -- than yours does. For example, I just found out this week that I may not be getting any increase in pay in the foreseeable future because my employer (a non-profit) can't afford it. My last pay bump was over two years ago. (I make, by the way, about $3-$4 more than minimum wage.) My retirement has been effectively cut in half from where it was a few years ago. I'm pissed and frustrated too but I'm not holding Obama responsible for the trickle-down mess that has caught most of us in its web. To do so makes one look petulant and scapegoating -- and juvenile.

If you want quick fixes, next time elect someone who has a magic wand and knows how to use it. Otherwise, gut it out like the rest of us and give the man a realistic time frame in which to work.

Reading these posts, you'd think Obama were in his second term already. Now if things are still this bad in 2013, then I might entertain your theory of "wanking." But expecting a complete turnaround in 72 days of the entire Bush administration is just unrealistic, and I'm stunned at just how much traction that argument has gained here.