donald, You are a confirmed hypocrite. Obama is still doing strategy sessions and asking the generals for exit plan and you call it dithering when it was Bush and Cheney for 6 years underresourced the war in Afghanistan and did not even act on generals' requests for additional troops and body armor.

donald, Make up your mind. The figures you are showing is debunking your own premise that Obama is "dithering" on McChrystal's recommendation. But to disabuse your mind (and brains that you obviously don't have), listen to your own Republican friends working with Obama like Gates. Gates is saying that unlike the knee-jerk ...

toldyaso, I doubt the teabaggers are paying taxes. They all look like they're low-educated intellectually-challenged angry right-wing nuts and birthers on Medicare. And as you demigods in Fox say, "sucking from the teats of the government and taxpayers".

bighappy, But first explain to me, what country did we declare war on for KSM to be tried in military tribunals as combatants. And why do you insist in giving them martyrdom of having "fought in a war as soldiers" when Obama's is intent is not to elevate them beyond common criminals and terrorists that they are. And why all of ...

donald, Don't you wish Bush and Cheney dithered on the Iraq war instead of their undue haste that eventually caused the country 4,300+ in American lives and $3 trillion in budget-busting deficit-inducing Chinese-debt dependent country.

I'm not sure if Obama wants to have Reagan as an inspiration. Reagan presided on two recessions in his terms and the worst unemployment since the Great Depression. And, of course, the scandal of Iran-Contra that made possible the entry of the worst scrounge to Americans: cheap Latin American drugs.

I'm sorry Mr. Fineman, I still don't see the similarity. Even in speeches, Obama soaring rhetoric is more JFK than Reagan. Obama is professorial, which those in the know, intelligentsia and the well-read middle class understands. Reagan talks to the masses in his folksy (not Palin's faux foxy) ways.

shore bird, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson" As one ex-Marine said here which I take the honor and privilege to repeat: "Go ahead and make my day. It's time that we water the tree of liberty with idiot power-grabbers of the followers of ...

shore bird, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson" As one ex-Marine said here which I take the honor and privilege to repeat: "Go ahead and make my day. It's time that we water the tree of liberty with idiot power-grabbers of the followers of ...

Surprise, surprise Mr Samuelson does not know the concept of Social Security. Well, the biggest surprise will be the readers if Mr. Samuelson did not act as a tool for Republican and right-wing fear mongering.