[Hoot Gibson]

So, Hoot I replied to your statements and you quoted me and made an argument that was completley out of context to what I was saying. Not the first time in this thread that you have done that. Understand my beef is not with a partisan group, my problem is with the media deluting the message to the general public people just like you and I. However, the trouble is we have educated ourselves beyond that social norm of catering to the biased media (well for you to an extent). I will agree with you on this the spending has exceeded expectations. However, FDR went on a spending spree as well and guess what the depression ended. FDR also made mistakes with the new deal and was relieved by his second new deal.

"Our policy is succeeding. The figures prove it Secure in the knowledge that steadily decreasing deficits will turn in time into steadily increasing surpluses, and that it is the deficit of today which is making possible the surplus of tomorrow, let us pursue the course we have mapped." FDR 1936.

The end of the Great Depression as Hitler began his conquest of most of Europe and the US ramped up industrial production to meet the demands of our allies and to prepare our own nation for war. The Great Depression did not end in 1936, so your FDR quote reminds me of Obama's constant claims that we "have turned the corner" and are "headed in the right direction." A majority of Americans disagree with Obama's assessment and even Democrats are beginning to question his attacks on our own industrial base.

Why is it that whenever liberal policies fail and the American people catch on, Democrats try to explain the failure away by claiming that their message is not getting out. No president has had more help "getting his message out" than 0bama and no president has spent more time whining and blaming his predecessor than him. To accuse the media of diluting Obama's message is absurd.