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By JBM, August 13, 2010 2:50 pm

I do not care to get political most of the time but I want to address a Time reader taking a potshot at former governor Sarah Palin:  ”Why can’t people cut the President some clack? Do they remember what he was handed? Did they expect the economy to rise out of the ashes in the first year? Obama is obviously committed to health care, the economy and other concerns. He’s not out playing golf, vacationing at Camp David or quitting halfway through his term like certain governors we know”  Randy Pettit, Elyria, Ohio from Time Magazine, August 16, 2010.

To Randy:

1) The people should expect that with the largest corporate and government payouts in all of history, that the economy should improve significantly.  The economy is now tanking again after little improvement, making most of the president’s major financial actions completely ineffective.  If we realize that the these huge payouts could result in deflating the value of the dollar, and that as a result we may be paying ten dollars for a head of lettuce in a few years, these actions may result in absolute catastrophe.

2) Please see CNN’s observation of the unofficial White House statistician.  President Obama, very early in his presidency, has already played more rounds of golf that President George W. Bush played in his eight year presidency.

President Obama plays more than Bush

I do not have explicit feelings about Sarah Palin leaving the governorship and I am sure there are many factors that contributed to this, such as her want of the presidency, and the distraction of the perpetual ethics charges against her by her political opponents.  I can say this:  The presidency overtly affects me, the Alaskan governorship does not.  Randy you appear to be a clear fan of President Obama, and that is fine.  However, I wonder if you are interested in opening your eyes to the realities of today.  Now that you know that during the worst recession in our lifetime, and through the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, that the president has played more golf than an eight year president, do you have any concerns for the country’s short-term future under President Obama’s rule?

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By JBM, June 21, 2010 10:42 am

Several days into the oil spill the president of the United States should have called all private companies and all foreign companies, with no prejudice to relations or oil skimming methods.  The Gulf Of Mexico should have quickly looked like a naval war zone, with so many oil skimming ships that it would appear the U.S. was under attack.  By brute force a significant amount of oil would have been cleaned up every single day, while the oil still leaked into the water.  Instead of this solution, the president refused to waive the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 which prohibits Continue reading 'The Gulf Oil Spill is no priority for President Obama'»