Originally Posted by serenityseeker

I think a look at the other side of the coin here is prudent.. I have no doubt that if the President had less "doom and gloom" it would simply be fodder in this country for the same folks with nothing but the same old rote crticisms. Instead they would be saying he is not honest, he is glossing over things and not coming clean. The above noted article is a perfect example of that. I want a straight opinion, and even so I think we probably still don't get the full depth and breadth of the problem. As usual there will likely be a lag time between the manifestion of how bad things are the the government recognition of it, quite the the 6-12 months or more it takes to publicly pronounce we are in a recession.
Waiting a year to begin making judgments certainly seems prudent to me. It is a little tough to see the validity of blanket condemnations of a man in office for a few weeks. Does anyone trying to take a true objective view of this think for a minute that a new president can come in set set decades cronyism and complacency on its' ear in this scant several weeks? I guess the key word is objective though. Some never will be no matter what, as is plain to see even on this forum.
Accomplishment not words is THE litmus test. I do think realistically significantly more time than has been allowed is in order to justify the overwhelming negative judgment and blanket condemnation this President is facing from those bound and determined to pronounce him a failure this early and waiting with baited breath on his failure. It certainly is in order to make an honest and accurate assessment if indeed that is one's goal.
I can see the complaints of "campaign rhetoric", I can also see someone commited to leadership and willing to make some decisions that may be tough and unpopular, that should have been addressed long ago, and willing to face the fire for it. So far looks like leadership to me.
I actually do hear cautious hope tempered with honest realism, pragmatism if you will, from this President. I can see how others construe this as negativity though. Its a matter of perception and is certainly tempered to a great degree on how one wants to see it. That is human nature is suppose. The intellectual challenge I think is to recognize that and be willing know that the truth of all if it always lies somewhere in the middle, and no amount of anger, shrill emotion or rabid partisinism will change that truth.
Yeah, I think accomplishments and not words are the ways to measure progress and success, I think I may just give him time and some cautious support to actually do just that. Just my opinion, like it or not.