Barack Obama part two - President starts second term with gun control and immigration topping his agenda

I am sure by now even the lefties have noticed their dwindling take home pay. Borrow, tax, borrow more, spend, tax more and don't forget we owe the Chinese trillions and we are borrowing more from them so that we can pay them for the interest on the other loans. Great!

He was reelected by a large majority of the popular vote and an overwhelming majority in the Electoral College. Get over it people!!! It is time to start doing great things again, American things, together, like we used to. Pouting and blaming him for everything has only prolonged the recession for us all and lost the GOP an election.

The housing market is up 12% led by a substantial increase in the million dollar and above price range so I guess the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the uber-rich hasn't crimped their style all that much. The stock market is climbing back toward pre-crash levels so I guess that having Elizabeth Warren on the Senate Finance Committee hasn't got Wall Street all that scared. Since, for the last four years, people kept telling me that government CAN'T create jobs, I guess we can't blame it now for NOT creating them - RIGHT - or are you really closet Keynesians?

I do not know ANYONE who was shocked about the return of the Social Security payroll tax. Even Fox covered it. "We can't keep depleting the Social Security Trust Fund" so said my Republican friends. And, besides, it was an "Obama" tax cut not a REAL one like W.'s. I only wish they had fought as vigorously when W. "borrowed" the two trillion from it to balance his "REAL" tax cuts. Or didn't you know that we were enjoying our tax cuts at the expense of our retirement? Don't worry, the all-knowing Cheney said that deficits never matter and we all know how right he was about everything else that he said.

Obama part 2 will be the same as Obama part 1: more taxes and more borrowing from the Chinese so that we can afford to pay back the Chinese. Nice. Worst president in US history. People across the country are shocked to see their paychecks shrunk when the got paid for the first time in 2013 last week. Taxes. Taxes. Taxes.

Because the socialist agenda comes first. It is the single objective if this "administration".

Of course the Economy will take care of itself Barack. Why can't the Irish see through this joker?

What a fantastic President we have in Barack Obama and a great first lady in Michelle. The fact that Barack is a native of Ireland explains a lot about the way he is able to communicate to us. Two great victories, four years apart. You give it them, son of Moneygall, County Offaly. Is feidir linn.

Eschetic, what a load of BULL you wrote. You need to get your head out of the sand. Obama is the worst President we have ever had. I would like to see had he needs to do something to get people in this country back to work. I know people who have been out of work for over 4 years.

A not entirely unbiased, but ultimately fair account. With the possible exception of Bill Clinton, no U.S. President since Andrew Johnson has ever faced such unreasoning, obstructionist opposition, with the stated intention of preventing ANY constructive action by the government from what was once a constructive opposition party. In the context of the time, it was close to miraculous how hard this president worked to "reach across the aisle" to forge effective compromises and enact the first effective healthcare reform since the institution of Medicare. We can only hope that the majority of Americans who want their government to WORK and turned out a surprising number of extremists from Congress while decisively re-electing the most moderate President since Eisenhower, will keep their eye on the ball and (if the President's programs continue to be as positive as they have so far) demand that the Congress work with him to pass and implement them. It is a lot to ask when we see how many in that congress felt it was preferable to crash the economy rather than let this President seem successful, and how many think possession of assault rifles is a God-given right (a position the Founding Fathers and authors of the Second Amendment to the Constitution would have found ludicrous), but it can be done.

BHO is one "slique" puppy. Every move is woven to increase his socialist agenda.