dont know why he should be, with afather abandoning him, a single mother trying to raise him, scholarships and grants getting him through school

lack of the silver spoon experience may have given him more of an ability to care about others who didnt have it

Of course he is........all he cares about is staying in office, making sure his 1.3 million mansion in Hawaii is covered and if the price of gas chokes the nation into submission.....so be it.

I dont think staying in office is the priority others assume it is

he does well enough financially without that office to still have a mansion and he has little to do with the price of gas,,,

strange how many actually believe he does.

Oh man..... you really do believe that Obama cares about the people.

He is a politician..........none of them care about us any more.

He cares about all the folks who use his phones.

well, I will agree to disagree that a career as a politician automatically erases someones character/values

'his' phones? interesting


Q: Has the Obama administration started a program to use "taxpayer money" to give free cell phones to welfare recipients?

A: No. Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it.


http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/

Again, how long has he been in DC?

Career?



Management skills?

Im sorry, was there anything in the previous posts that had ANYTING to do with a skill set?

and are politicians ONLY in DC? cause I thought we also had state governments,,,,,

There in lays a major problem.

Being an elected official was never meant to be a career path.

The founders of this country did things in a timely manner because they all had jobs.


Maybe if we took their massive paycheck, endless benefits, and massive perks away, we would find out who really wants to make the country a better place.

I wouldnt oppose it if we didnt live in such a higly visible/media/ superficial society which would hardly allow a politician to go back to having a 'normal' job with much success,,,,

a paycut though, or pay based upon results, would be a great idea,,,

the "dos xx" is begining to take its toll, race baiting is an obsession that can drive one crazy, irrational, or both. They say therapy is an option.

The reality is that congress has has an approval rating of 8-12% for the last 8 years. And the sad fact is that 80% of them will be re-elected in November. People vote based on the letter in back of their name.

Maybe I will right my own name in the ballot. LMAO

Did I kill this thread?

if there is any mercy,,,

actually it was dead on arrival.

More jobs will certainly move... if left up to most folk who make the decisions about the companies profitability. When profit is the sole motive, there are financial incentives to move jobs and begin companies overseas, and those who make the decisions have no vested interest in American workers' overall well-being because they do not understand nor care about the long-term negative implications that this has on a society, then you can bet that more jobs will be moved and/or begun overseas and be handsomely rewarded for doing so.

Yep.

I was just wondering how many hard-core progressives were going with the jobs.

Unfortunately, Barry fans can't afford to give up their freebies and would be expected to work anywhere else.