[functionoid]

Yep second that.

Last election he ran on transparency, change and hope.

And as three years went by there was no transparency in billions of dollars (TARP) given to big corporations. Change? yeah sure, for worse. And he does not talk about hope any more, since millions of Americans does no have job and economy is not even getting better.

In this campaign he is all about class warfare, soak the rich taxes. Do we even count him as leader who divides people of the country every day in his speeches?

Make me fool once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

[cowkingdeluxe]

Come on now, don't misuse facts. TARP was executed in 2008 and most of it was paid off by the end of 2009. Obama became president in jan 2009.

[anonymoushn]

All of this is true, but the implication when we say something like "most of it was paid off" is that the money has actually been returned. In reality, most of it was paid off using new loans that are not under EESA. I could say "I paid off all the credit card debt I accumulated in the last 5 years" after I get two new credit cards and transfer my balances to them, but it would be a bit underhanded to say that.

:)

[functionoid]

You mean to say Bush bailed out GM, Citibank, AIG and other long list of companies??? Please at least know a little about the subject before you jump in to comment.

[funkah]

People don't care, he gets blamed for stuff that happened before he was in office all the time. I've seen Republican members of congress publicly blame him for TARP too. The downturn we're in right now is the "Obama economy" even though it started before he was elected.

[throwaway64]

blame everything on the previous guy, claim all success, rise, repeat

Its amazing how people fall for this tactic over and over again

[forensic]

>Make me fool once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

That's not how you say it. Not in Tennessee, not in Texas.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me can't get fooled again.