Trina Sonnenberg's MySpace Blog | TLC Promotions

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Why are so many bashing the President these days? I understood the bashing of George W. Bush, because he was doing things that required national bashing (breaking the law), but President Obama is really trying to do what is best for the nation. Considering what the last administration left him to work with, I'd say he is making a valiant effort. Just the fact that he wanted the job says a lot for him. How many other men would want to step into the pile O' shit that was left for him? Not a single other president stepped into the oval office with two wars, a global warming crisis, and a failing economy all happening at once. Much of what President Obama has to clean up was the result of the last president and his affection for personal gain. George W. Bush had a personal agenda that the American people paid for. Americans are bashing the President, but refuse to hold the past President accountable for his crimes against the American people and the rest of the world. It was George W. Bush who sent our young men and women off to fight a war we had no business starting, and cut taxes while he was at it. It was George W. Bush who supported torture of detainees in our prisons (breaking international law). It was George W. Bush who failed to reign in Wall Street bankers before they could collapse our system. It was George W. Bush, among others, who profited directly from these actions, yet it is President Obama who seems to be getting all the flack. There is something fundamentally wrong with that. He is doing the best he can with what he's got. It seems to me that the people who should be getting all of the flack are those in Congress who repeatedly stand in the way of his progress. George Bush's presidency is where all of our troubles started, yet people still support him. He lied to the American people to get us into a war that no one, to this day, believes in, just so he could finish what his daddy started over there. He committed crimes in the name of the American people and we are letting him get away with it. He is free to walk around as a free man in this country, when he should be locked up and water boarded. Never before has there ever been a bigger threat to America than there was in George Bush's reign over this country, but we are bashing the guy trying to clean up the mess? That makes no sense. I haven't agreed with everything that has happened since his election, but at least he's trying to save our nation and rebuild it from the devastation of our last leader. He should be praised for even wanting the job of cleaning up. President Obama stepped in shit when he took office and we should allow him to clean off his shoe. GWB shoved us off a cliff, and Obama is down at the bottom trying his best not to let us hit the ground. I personally think that all of the members of Congress and the Supreme court should be replaced. They are the people impeding the progress of our nation. For example: Corporations are not individuals. They employ individuals. Corporations should not be allowed to buy their way into congress. Corporations do not represent the interests of the people, they represent the interests of profits for themselves. If they were representative of the people, they would not be sending all of our jobs to China, India and Mexico. Let the people who work for corporations have a vote, not the corporation itself. It is a business entity, not an individual. The Supreme Court's decision has been a huge step backward for the American people, and it was paid for by those corporations. America needs to get corporate dollars out of politics. The lobbying of politicians and corporate campaign funding should be banned. Why do candidates need to raise so much money any way? Why can't they campaign like they did in the old days; shaking hands and meeting the people they hope to represent; or do talk shows on the radio, what's up with these million dollar ad campaigns on TV; no one watches them, do they? Money should not be the basis of a campaign and all of those who screamed for campaign finance reform are the same people who supported the politicians who brought us to where we are, the politicians who support big corporations; or more aptly put... those who are supported by big corporations. Capitalism is not a form of government, it is a form of trade. Corporate America is not America, the people are. We need to support our president and his hard work at trying to make this country great again. GWB pissed off the rest of the world, and we are hated by many as a result. President Obama has to deal with that too. Give the guy a break.