On Jan 26, 2010, at 2:55 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> Doug: 'he's going to be a shitty one-term president, the way things
> are going'
>
> I am intrigued. It doesn't look so bad from over here. Do you mean
> bad relative to the expectations in him, or bad relative to the
> previous incumbent?
Well, his policies - from health care to Gitmo to Afghanistan - have mostly sucked, his approval ratings are quite low, political discourse is careening toward the right, and it looks like the Dems are going to get creamed in November. What's "not so bad" about all that?
Doug