Originally posted by Jack Wheatfield and jogiba, technically Bush was still president, but how much influence do you think an outgoing president has?
Since he is the sitting President he would have more influence than the President elect, who technically (and in reality) is NOT the President until he is sworn in.
Originally posted by Jack He's helping people oversees get more work than here in the US. He's giving sweetheart deals to his supporters. It's all politics as usual. It happens on both sides. I didn't support Bush in bailing out AIG. I don't think anybody did.
I suspect that selling your jobs overseas by large corporations has had more of an effect than anything else. You want your government to keep it's hands out of how businesses do things, but then you blame your President to not interfering, but only when he is a Democrat? Why aren't you blaming Bush 1 & 2, and Nixon and Raygun for their open the floodgates policies regarding foreign manufacturing.
As an aside, we run into far more trade protectionism when a Democrat is the sitting President than when a Republican is in the White House. Trade protectionism is when the government puts up barriers to imports to protect American interests (read jobs). In fact, Canada just won against an anti protectionist measure regarding meat labeling requirements in the USA in front of the WTO. We aren't expecting it will change anything, your government will appeal the decision, thereby tying the process up even further, and history has shown that if they lose again, they'll just ignore the ruling anyway.
This is the way things are done, and Democratic governments down there do it far more often than Republican ones.
But none of this gives any weight to the rather stupid assertion that Obama thinks Hawaii is in Asia.