You can win them over if you keep trying.

President Obama is still chasing down democrats to get on board with his 3.6 trillion dollar budget. He is still trying to win over certain states key democrats and republicans as well by advertising on television to certain states. Which if you think about it is a very good ideal, if you win over the people then you win over that states senator. In the end you know the peoples voice will be heard and I don't think to many senators are going to oppose the people that elected them into office. Still, several Democrats said they could not commit to voting for the budget until they studied the final number, the tax cut provisions and how the spending plan would ultimately affect the deficit projections. As the Budget Committees in the House and the Senate worked into the night on the details, different strains of ideologies began to assert themselves again.(Zeleny 18) I like Obama persistence, he is still pushing things but making things friendly. Obama is not trying to step on any ones toes and it is a wise choice on his part.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/politics/26memo.html?_r=1&ref=politics

Outreach to the Taliban

President Obama was asked a very wide variety of questions on Air Force One the other day. He touched on the war in Afghanistan. He told us the people the only way we could begin to win the war in Afghanistan is reach to the people that have been alienated by Al-Qaeda. This is very similar to the sunny militias in Iraq. When president Obama was asked if we were winning the war in Afghanistan he replied "No". So, I think that any thing that the U.S. can do to help get our soldiers back here in one piece I am for it. Obama also talked about rounding up know terrorist in third world countries. Which I think it is a great idea but he needs to be more focused on our country and help get things moving here for our economy, before he goes chasing terrorist in hills or caves. He could be using that money to help our economy.












http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/us/politics/08obama.html?_r=1&hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/us/politics/08obama.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

Partial Peace

President Obama has surprised everyone. In his latest address to the people, he mentions Partial peace. This means his promise of peace is going to be slightly broken. Obama hopes to pull troops out of Iraq by 2011. He also mentioned his is going to leave 25,000 special troops in Iraq. So this means that we could possibly have troops in Iraq for decades. This just angers me about Obama. He promised the people that he would bring our troops back home. He never mentioned anything about pulling half of our troops out of Iraq and relocateing them in afghanistan. I am just as shocked as everyone else about our presidents decision to relocate our troops. He made a promise to us americans for peace in Iraq not partial peace.










http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090316/hayden?rel=hp_picks