Like all politicians, Barack Obama's actions rather than words define him. Perhaps that's idealism talking, as perceptions are shaped more by rhetoric than reality. But perception isn't reality, even if a catchphrase reminds us that it is. The president told Reuters that skyrocketing deficit spending "keeps me awake at night." Later that day, the Associated Press reported that the president has decided to award benefits to the partners of homosexual federal employees and that estimates of the costs of the president's health-care initiative top $1.5 trillion over ten years. Also on the same day President Obama spoke of losing sleep over federal deficits and debt, The Los Angeles Times reported that the administration will propose vast new powers for the executive branch to assume the operations of various companies should their failures be deemed a threat to the economy. Maybe it's not the deficits but the dishonesty that keeps the president awake at night.

The effort required to destroy our economy and country must be tiring. And between White House cocktail parties, winging off to the coast to do TV, shopping trips in foreign lands, flying around for dates or any country we might need to apologize to, I could see how that would interfere with sleep patterns. Poor guy.

How much sleep do you think GWB lost when bailing out Fannie May or AIG or for that matter the Iraq war or the continuing tax cuts or gutting the regulatory agencies?
I won't ask about Chenny. He slept like a baby.

haha nice one RC. ;)

Yeah, that’s right – a lame duck President, hoping to avoid more of a financial crisis that was caused when bad paper from bad loans pushed by the Dems hit the market bailed out an insolvent Fannie and Freddie that the Dems broke and used as a cash cow and patronage port. And at the hand wringing, sky is falling, life as we know it will end an@lysis and insistence of Paulson, and to a lesser extent Bernanke, he also allocated $700 billion (at an additional cost of $150 billion Democrat finder/passage pork fee) and spent $350 billion, suggesting to the incoming Democrat President that the additional $350 billion need not be spent. But, true to form, O spent it as a down payment of things to come under his very, very expensive administration.

In my perfect world, Bush would have held the line. So I think he gets the initial blame. But, as we’ve seen over and over again in the short tenure of the Marxist in Chief, he has exploded spending and has made a marginal recession a full scale economic crisis.

asdf, the entire economic system of this country is not going to pull a 180 in only 6 months, even if we finally have a president with an IQ over 50. We are still in the Bush Crime Family's economy.

A 180? Yeah, the economy has pulled a "180" - the other way.

Since he's taken up residence in the White House with his feet up on the President’s desk, unemployment and our deficits have gone through the roof and since he’s printed trillions to cover his bets, we’re seeing the expected inflation taking a 180 as well.

I.Q.? Does anybody have any idea of what kind of intellectual prowess our current President possesses? We know he can read his ever present teleprompter, but we have zero record of any documented academic accomplishments. In fact, he guards any interest or inquiry in the details of his life with the ardent application of teams of obstructive lawyers.

There is also some serious question that his skills as an author go beyond having ghost writers doing the heavy lifting as he was constantly at odds with his publisher with regard to due dates and initial quality of the manuscripts.

So let us not compare the brainpans of our current and previous occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

All things being equal though, I’d rather have a cowboy who cares for his country running things than a raging socialist radical who holds us and his country in contempt.

Oh, you of the unwashed and unread masses. GWB tried to crack down on Fannie Mae but was shouted down by the Dhimmi's as well as their rooting section, the media. Please marshal 20 or 30 of your closest underpass roommates and cough up for a subscription to the WSJ. You might learn something. But then again...