Your defense of President Obama is admirable, and there is much validity to your point about the previous administration, although I, personally, place much more blame on the congress than the President. I DO blame him for not handling the first TARP payment appropriately for sure..he and Paulson.

Having said that, these first few weeks have completely floored me, even though I totally expected much of what is going on, just not this quickly.

I am struck that he campaigned against what he called "politics of fear"...yet he is practicing the same thing now.

I am struck that a man who more than anyone in recent memory campaigned on ethics.....yet he publicly defended folks who had not paid taxes and he knew it at the time he was defending them...of course he said "my screwup" AFTER it was too late. He says he did not push them to drop out and I ask WHY DIDNT HE ?

I am struck that a man who preached over and over that there would be NO PORK, is allowing and pushing for a bill totally loaded with a ton of it, EVEN TO THE DISGUST OF fellow Democrats.

I spoke against his election....gave many many reasons during the campaign. I knew I would be shown to be correct (for once in my stupid life, this was a no brainer_, but actually held hope that perhaps I was wrong and he was actually different than I thought and different than what we have had but it sure appears that President Obama is not only the same but much much more scarier because he has the likes of Rep Pelosi and Sen Reid