Four Questions About Barack Obama – The MultiView

Question 4: If nothing else, what do you think he should absolutely accomplish during his first term?

“One thing… one thing that Obama has to do in his first term… You know, it’s time for universal health care. It’s time for health care to stop being a thing that people talk about in their stump speeches and things like that. It’s time for the American government to be serious about health care. It’s time for people with disabilities and preexisting problems to not have a problem getting insurance. To not have a problem getting covered. It’s time for a government to start caring about the people who support it and fund it. Jesus, we’re giving our money to it so why shouldn’t it support us? Why not? Fuck it.” – Jeremy Wheeler

“Probably, the best thing any president can do is set a good precedent for the next person to take that office or do a good enough job that they’re worth re-electing. He can’t guarantee a solution to all the problems that we have, but as long as he works on constructive sorts of solutions to everything that’s going on; the economy problem, the foreign policy problem, even the problem of people being very divided over political parties to the extent of hatred right now it seems, it would definitely be a step forward. I don’t think he needs to unify the parties. Democratic opposition is a good idea, but the fact that he actually sort of got hatred out of some of the opposition rather than just, ‘This guy doesn’t quite stand for what we are interested in’ is not a good thing at all. It’s not a good thing to have a president representing the people, some of whom actually not only don’t agree with him on some things, but actually despise him. That’s just not a good idea at all. That’s definitely something that he can work on.” – Shawn Henry

“Troops out of Iraq. Economy. Crime. In that order, because the economy, or lack of a good economy, causes a higher crime rate. People with no money get desperate, not necessarily criminals, but think of criminal things to do to get money. It’s survival skills. Just being a human being, you have six kids in the house and no one has nothin’ to eat, if you never stole anything, you would probably consider stealing something because your children, your offspring, somebody you gave life to, is hungry. Bottom line, does that make you a criminal? No. That just means that you’re doing criminal things for survival. I think there’s a fine line and people really need to look into that. A lot of people that are actually sittin’ in jail right now for — I know people that have stole meat out [of] the grocery store and have caught, like, misdemeanors, retail fraud and stuff like that. Definitely, a $2.00 piece of steak, you’re not going to go sell it on the street and make a profit. It’s clearly to eat, so I think once he fixes the economy the crime rate will go down and everybody will feel much more relieved. Gas has went down. Some people think it has to do with him being president. I don’t necessarily think so. I just think that Bush was on his way out. That’s just my opinion.” – Laditra Jackson

“His first term… he should accomplish… I’m gonna say health care and I’ll say definitely try foreign relations, cuz that’s the start right there. You can’t– America can’t live safe unless we’re sure that, you know, nobody’s trying to invade the country or bomb the country or anything like that. I think that starts first. Then he can work on America, cuz America can be put together. All you need is some guidance and people. I mean, he gots the people. All he need is guidance. You know, different places to go into. If you havin’ trouble with certain things, you know, you need to make things available people who didn’t know or don’t know where to go to get help. I think that has a lot to do with the problem. People, they want to reach out but they don’t know exactly how and you know, I can tell other black guys or, you know, other people period. I mean, not just other black guys but other people, period, who might be going through the same problems. He can put it some type of way or patch it  up some type of way where, you know, everybody thinks that this is the thing to do cuz he’s in such a head position that people are going to follow the whole way. I think there’s gonna be another somebody thy to be black president or in the Congress or something because they see that they got a chance. They see one person doin’ it and now they know, ‘Oh, ok, well, maybe I can try. If I get rejected, maybe I can try again.’ ” – Ralph Cheatham

“Stabilize the economy and restore the US relationship with our democratic partners in the rest of the world.” – Scott Myers

“Reform of the health care system.” – Forest Casey

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