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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Just Checking
	Date:	10/12/2010 11:07:25 PM

I think I have been very clear as to why I voted for Obama. I felt he was a better choice than John McCain. Nothing has changed my mind about that. We're getting out of Iraq, where we should not have been to start with. Under McCain, we'd still be there.

Having said that, I am disappointed in Obama. I feel that the health care changes are not what was needed -- I thought we needed some reform of healthcare, but what we got as a result of the effort hasn't solved the problem for the majority of people. I feel that his lack of focus on the economy has been a big mistake. I don't blame him for the economic problems, because I think they were the result of bad policies and lack of attention , probably going back to Clinton. I am concerned about the deficet, but no more really than I was under Bush. I think the deficet would have risen under either party.

I'm really disappointed about the lack of leadership in Washington all the way around. I don't approve of what the Republicans have done -- folding their arms and just saying no to everything. And I don't approve of what the Democrats have done (or not done, either). I really expected that Obama would make good on his promise for bipartisan solutions, but that hasn't happened. I'm anxious to see what happens in the mid-terms, and like everyone else, I'm anxious to see who emerges as the candidates for 2012.

The best thing I can say that it appears that as a country, maybe we have awakened from the stupor we've been in for years now. People are thinking, and talking and that is a good thing.