REPLIES TO THE CURRENT QUESTION

Our question last week was:

President Obama has been in office six months.  What do you see for him and his policies in the next six months?

Here are your answers.  The name of a writer is included only if he or she actually placed a name at the end of the message.  Otherwise, we assume the writer wished anonymity and "name withheld" is inserted.

I'm sorry to say that we received only one reply.  Most people who usually respond to the Current Question have shifted their allegiance to the Forum at our Angel's Corner.

As we note on our main page today, the Current Question feature is being suspended for the summer.   It's fate will be determined as the seasons change again.

A whole bunch of strawmen would be the short answer.  Somebody has to be blamed as things continue to go downhill.   

Two things have become exceedingly clear in the first six months.  First, in his own mind, every action that he has ever taken has been correct.  He is error free.  Second, the reality is that he is far from perfect.  Cognitive dissonance will start to set in during the next six months and we will see him lose his "cool," if it ever existed.  As his popularity and approval ratings continue to sink, he will press harder and harder to try to get his agenda completed while he still has political capital to spend.  At some point, Congress will start to hear the loud noise coming from their individual constituencies on nearly every point in that agenda.  Self preservation will kick in and the only hardcore support that the president will enjoy will be from those congressmen and senators in districts that are absolutely "safe." 

Hopefully, this will all occur sooner rather than later in the next six months.  If not, we will have finished mortgaging the future for way more than the next generation.  If President Obama's policies were a home mortgage, there would have to be a new category below sub-prime, interest only, to describe them.

Don Newell
Vancouver, WA