Comments on: Obama as Poker Player

By: mario

mario — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:57:02 +0000

“His ignorance”?

He’s been president for 6 weeks!

By: Jomama1152

Jomama1152 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:51:14 +0000

$1 trillion from affluent Americans ……. Sorry, it’s ALL of us schmucks who have to pay for his ignorance.

By: trudeau-ite

trudeau-ite — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:10:06 +0000

“I assume none of you people have substantial funds invested in much of anything.”

That’s pretty damned presumptuous of you there cix. How can you make such a statement?

And I think you’ll find the solution to our economic situation will be a consistent application of several methodologies. Will every economist agree one particular course? Off course not but who cares – it’s the end result that matters. I’m hearing and seeing all kinds of wild and outlandish predictions but it doesn’t mean they’ll come to pass.
Stay the course Obama. A major part of the path to economic recovery will be the faith of the consumer. If they believe and have faith in their president, things will (slowly) turn around. Will it be financially difficult (whether you have ” substantial funds invested” or not)? Yes. Can we do it? Yes.

By: cix2012

cix2012 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:49:37 +0000

I find it telling that you can find economists that agree something must be done. You can find economists that say Obama is doing the wrong thing. To my knowledge, not one economist has stepped up to say they are sure he has taken the proper steps. And the only barometers we can gage by so far have pretty much rejected his initiatives.

I assume none of you people have substantial funds invested in much of anything. If so, how can you be complacent about a President who has presided over the loss of around 40% of your investments? And continues to dole out massive amounts of money the US just doesn’t have? Including among other things (actually MANY other things) almost a billion dollars to Palestinians in the Gaza strip that will almost certainly end up in the hands of Hamas.

By: mario

mario — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:38:00 +0000

So your response to the economic crisis is what? To do nothing? You can argue in how to spend the money but economists are pretty much in agreement that the government can’t sit idly and do nothing.

As for the ‘poker’ angle, two things:

A. Poker is less a game of chance than you think or understand.

B. In comparing Obama to a poker player, I was referring more to the aggressive stance he’s shown us in willing to risk his political future when he believes he’s right.

By: cix2012

cix2012 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:31:25 +0000

Disgusting? Perhaps “disgusting” is trivializing the dire economic condition by comparing it to a game of chance.

The only true comparison I could see is that Obama is like the Professional Poker Player up against the Amateur Player in a tournament. He is playing with someone else’s money.

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:17:56 +0000

Disgusting … an excellent description for a political party on the verge of self-destruction intent on taking the entire country with it. Are they crazy? To put themselves before the welfare of their own country? Disgusting.

By: mario

mario — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:10:17 +0000

You’re right, Jill but don’t look for support from the republican party. These guys are playing the obstructionist game and they’ll do it all the way to the elections where I hope they get their butt kicked once again.

The current republican party is a pathetic collection of losers who really do hope that Obama fails. For the most part, republicans have placed their thirst for power above the welfare of the nation.

With each passing day, I find them more disgusting.

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:58:32 +0000

“No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.” — Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924), founder of Success Magazine
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Substitute the word “employer” for President and understand the word “business” to mean the business of running a country —

Indeed, President Obama is a man on a mission … a mission of great worth. But he needs the cooperation of the people to make it a great success. It’s not enough that most people reject the obvious failure of the GOP, they have to fully accept and help bring the President’s plan to fruition. He can’t do it alone.

This is no poker game but this mission does take guts, both the President’s and the peoples’.

By: darkArtist

darkArtist — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:43:59 +0000

Good post Mario. Reps are shaking in their boots right now. Their party is in disarray. They have no leader and their conservative ideology has been rejected by the people. In the meantime the Democrats have a popular president with the fortitude to do what we must to turn this country around.

And all of this is happening in the worst economic times of our lives. Amazing.