Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-1037137-20150313055759/@comment-1037137-20150503044524

They'd better. It's time to start acting like the professionals they're supposed to be, and to start laying out their priorities in a sensible order and make sure they double up on all that has been in the works and to not add anymore fuel to what has been a recurring blaze. Although I do have my doubts, their intentions for TD's future are hazy at best. We'll see if RR can avoid the trends they set for TD. They got a lot to answer for before all of us between them and this fandom are square again. And I'm not too trusting of people who learn as slowly as they do.

It should be up by the time you see this message, once again in very neutral terms for all reasons I'm sure you're aware of.

Maybe so, but his paranoia about China ain't so different than Bush's misperceptions on Iraq. And nobody needs to pick a fight with China, that would get very ugly. Thankfully China doesn't seem too interested in poking anyone's sides too hard, they seem more interested in trade and industry, which is a good thing. We're all on mutual terms with them so no need to be too paranoid about them right now. Yeah, Bush had many powerful allies in the White House, Congress, and the Defense Department. But a lot of them were crooked and guys like Cheney had no qualms about acting on their own if they deemed it necessary. Bush's own clumsy manner of doing business only encouraged it. He did give us the Department of Homeland Security and No Child Left Behind among other things, but overall I would not call him an accomplished President. He made many missteps that only escalated into larger fiascos. Katrina, Iraq, the economy, those are the major failures of his administration, and the nation still reels from all of them. Obama has had to work hard to bring us down from a nearly 10% unemployment rate, which now stands at less than 6% due to improved hiring rates in the last couple of years. He also has excellent working relationships with his cabinet and staff, but it's Congress that now holds all of us back. I think he still genuinely cares for the people despite some questionable decisions and a Congress that tries too hard to discredit him on every count imaginable. Being a now Republican-dominated Congress doesn't help, but so far they're more wasting time than anything else. There is a slow but steady recovery taking place, even as we deal with factors that threaten to hinder it. For all the crap he gets, Obama is so easy to like in person among all sides, and his opponents made so many gaffes in their respective elections that he was the only credible option. McCain had experience, but an attitude and a running mate, as well as a fubar economy that did him in. Romney had his own lack of relatability with the masses as well as that of his fellow Republicans that did him in.

How do you mean?

Jeez, Stryzzar. Your country has a hell of a time with its Prime Ministers. Not unlike Japan which couldn't keep anybody in office for more than a year until Shinzo Abe came back, who seems to have won over his nation this time around. I often lose track of your Prime Ministers but judging by all that, you need a Lincoln to really turn things around. Someone to pull that post out of the dark ages. Abbott is not that man obviously. Let's hope Australia shows him the door next election. Hope you guys find someone who can really pull things together when it's time to give him the boot.