What do you believe will be Obamas' defining moment this year?

The great depression, engineered by the failed bail out and the corrupt Federal Reserve.

When the space invaders come to enslave humanity, Obama will lead the underground resistance as a super-augmented humanoid robot.

@wildpotato You’re out of your mind. Clearly he’ll lead the underground resistance as a super-augmented robot humanoid. Get your facts straight.~

- The success of the elections in Iraq and how stable the country is as US troops pull out

- The success of Afghanistan with more troops, but this doesn’t seem too optimistic, unfortunately

- Health care reform is a huge issue at home. So how the final bill looks like, and the success of implementing this program, will be big defining moments

Probably signing some kind of a bastardized, pork-laden “health care reform” bill that creates more problems than it solves.Bernie Sanders is right, we should scrap this mess and try again later.

Leaving Iraq with our tail between our legs.

Having to militarily intervene in Pakistan to prevent their nuclear arsenal from falling into Taliban hands.

Presiding over the official change from “recession” to “depression”.

When their dog has had enough and runs away from home.

Presiding over the destruction of an economic recovery.

When he was beheaded at a GWAR concert and they sprayed his blood over the audience. That was pretty damn awesome
Protip: GWAR is a comedy band and their concerts are often bloody and satirical

He will be remembered as the cause of nationwide bankruptcy.

He will have an ordinary presidency, which means he will have been a major disappointment. He will not accomplish much, and the doomsayers will not get their unpatriotic racist wish.

@pdworkin Correct ee mundo.

But the defining moment won’t come until both the right and left in the US realize that no matter who they vote into national office, nothing will change. The democracy has been highjacked by very large corporations that do not necessarily share the same interests as the US citizen. These corporations have multinational interests.

Obama has moved top former Wall Street lobbyists and Wall Street investment Bank executives from the institutions that perpetrated the present economic fiasco, have been moved into key policy and cabinet positions. The new Treasury Secretary is the former head of the NYC branch Federal Reserve Bank. A few weeks ago, Obama decided to let Ben Bernanke continue as head of the Federal Reserve.

The bailouts continue as they did under Bush, the wars continue as they did under Bush, the no-bid contracts that have been draining the war chest continue as they did under Bush. Renditions, although there are motions to have them stopped, have not been stopped. Obama has penned support for the unwarranted surveillance of American citizens under FISA and supports the continuation of the Patriot Act—just like Bush.

We cannot have a democracy by the people and for the people with a mainstream press that spews infotainment in lieu of investigative reporting, a Washington lobbying structure that is weighted thoroughly on the side of the corporatocracy, and election campaign financing that converts perfectly good candidates into whores of the oligarchy.

Add to this an inefficient educational system that no longer teaches critical thinking, guaranteeing somnolent constituencies unequipped to derive fact from fallacy.

Change those things and we may get our democracy back.