Is President Obama one of the best or worst US presidents?
Your son is a lot closer to being right than your mother is. Ask your mother to name the laws he’s broken or the scandals of his administration. Ask her how the economy and unemployment were when he took office and how they are now. Ask her how the budget deficit was then and how it is now. Her views are all sentiment; they can’t be supported by any objective measure.Obama has been hamstrung by a Republican Congress for six of his eight years in office, and if he hadn’t been, he could have done amazing things—like FDR. Unfortunately, he simply never got the opportunity. When he went to the Republicans to ask what they wanted to work together on after he was elected, they said, “You don’t understand. We will never support anything you want to do.” Their explicitly stated goal was to make him a one-term president, not to get the country back on track. He’s had to do that by himself.It’s difficult for a president to get into the “best ever” categories when his whole time in office has been swimming through molasses. He’s certainly one of the smartest, most calm and judicious, and most humane presidents we’ve ever had, and so far as his intelligence and character go I would put him near the very top. But his achievements have depended on Congress and therefore he has not been able to live up to his promise.
Why do so many in US want to help the Muslim Brotherhood our enemies?
They are our enemies right? A terrorist organization like Hamas, Hezbollah. Isn't one of their Egyptian Brotherhood leaders 'Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman' sitting in a US prison for life for being the terrorist that did the 1st WTC bombing in NYC in 1993 (just google his name). Why do people want him and his buddies to win in Egypt? So they can turn all the military weapons we gave to Egypt over the years...against us? So Egypt will be another Iran? I don't get it. Is it because they won an election last year by 2 points (which was probably fake anyway)? An election in a country that's never had an election before put on without preparation in the chaos of the 'Arab Spring' riots/ protest of 2011/12...that's a fair election? Even if the Muslim Brotherhood did win by 2 points does anyone think that once they're in power there will 'ever' be...another election...in Egypt? Their current leader Morsi in his 1 year in power as president in Egypt just this year 2013...fired the Egyptian supreme court, laid off the whole congress and ruled by....himself... with a council of Islamic clerics/ Brotherhood members... Then rewrote the Egyptian constitution that (elected him) and took away rights from everyone and declared Egypt an 'Islamic Republic'. I mean why do you think the Egyptian military came out of barracks to overthrow him? Is that what Americans want for Egypt...where people go on vacation, see the pyramids, the place of king Tut etc., a Muslim Brotherhood Egypt...women forced into Chadors, the pyramids leveled to the ground as 'pagan', king Tut's golden mummy case destroyed as 'idolatry'? Am I wrong on the above....please explain why the US media and public want the seeming 'wrong' side to win...that of the protesters/ rioters put out by the Brotherhood...instead of the Egyptian Army and the other Egyptians that seem to be trying to save Egypt. Is it because people here in the US don't really know what's going on they just see video/ media sound bites?