It was fun while it lasted.
Times columnist Doyle McManus wrote in an op-ed Sunday that "Obama's era of Big Things is over." The landmark legislation passed under President Obama's watch will come to an end, McManus argues, as support for his administration dwindles and as Democrats are ejected from their Congressional seats.
Readers who expressed opinions in the comments didn't seem dazzled by the gravity of overhauls such as the recent financial reform.
Of course, those responses could have something to do with, as reader Pequenocristo argues, how these types of stories tend to attract staunch right wingers.
Pequenocristo: The LAT forums are insane Right Wing echo chambers. We get it already. You love coming up with what you imagine to be cute nicknames for the President. You love panicking about a false sense of Marxism and Socialism destroying your life. You profess a blind faith akin to a religious zealot in tax cuts for the rich and needing to privatize social security. You are dumbfounded how one man is unable to pull the country entirely out of the worst economic crisis since 1929 in just 19 months. Then you join your representatives in saying no to everything and never negotiating on key national issues. Just continue to complain and let everyone else do the heavy lifting.
TimBowman: Why is the President not succeeding more? Simple - he doesn't lead.
SunMoon: What great things did he achieved? Health care? Financial reform? What a joke. These are not reform but only regulation.
Salmon: And thank God it is over! America can't afford any more of Obama's "big things". What a disaster he has been by his complete rejection of the will of the people.
Thoughts? You know what to do.
-- Mark Milian
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Photo: President Obama speaks to the press on his small-business jobs initiatives in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 11, 2010. Credit: Yuri Gripas / AFP/Getty Images