government out of the way. barack obama became president the end of another era, that was the era of unbridled american expansion. it started after world war ii, when basically all our competitors had wrecked economies and we ve seen we have to figure out a way to grow this economy again. this is part of a much better policy. i disagree with his policies and think he s reckless. i think health care was a reckless thing to do and think his spending is more reckless than george w. bush. but like jimmy carter s iranian hostage problem, these are problems on top of a much larger structural crisis we re facing as americans. you bet. you may not like the health care, bottom line if you re a democrat, you voted for it, you got it, you got to defend it. you ve been in office 21 months. the argument has to be, it took eight years to get us in this