Originally Posted by serenityseeker

It's kind of interesting, yet also quite predictable that many are pronouncing every problem every day as "Obama's" and occuring since November. Let's at least keep in perspective the fact that he walked into a mess set in motion by those in office long before him and some of the irresponsible public at large. No president in history has walked into a situation of this magnitude, with no prior "rules for repair" to glean from. It is so easy to pronounce the present administration a failure this early into the process. Most prudent people realize that whatever unfortunate soul walked into this mess would untimately face the rath of the other party, and any candidate would have ample ammunition already in place to castigate him, ammunition put in place by those before him. More useless posturing that gets us no further ahead.
I am puzzled that people on either side of our pitiful partisan arguments can be haughty enough to think they can be completely right or completely wrong with regard to solutions to our present economic catastrophe. Lots of pundits on either side are so concrete in their assessment what what is right and wrong about the present "stimulus package"...where were all these brilliant scholars over the last several years as we sank deeper and deeper into the situation we now find ourselves in?
Again, it really seems quite predictable that any candidiate from any party that "won" this election would be almost immediately be the subject of the blame game from the start with "opponents" lashing out at them from the beginning because it is so easy to do so. I happen to think it is important to remember what/who got us here and keep some fair perspective as we attempt to navigate in unknown waters.
I cannot pretend to know what parts of this will ultimately be successful, and with honesty not many others can either. There are certainly parts of polices that we will all disagree with, but to simply condem every single step of the way is unrealistic at this point. Further, no matter who would have won this election, 4 years down the road we would not be back in the promised land, but it will be so easy to condemn at that point. I am doing my best to learn, voice opposition to things I don't agree with, support the things I do, and avoid blanket condemnations based on personality and tired political ideaolgy that really doesn't fit the present situation any longer.
I hope and pray daily that we achieve a collection of souls with the knowledge,insight,and ability to listen that will help guide us through this. There is no way we will all be satisfied every step of the way but some compromise, support, and willingness to change seem to be absolutely necessary to hope to achieve some success.