"White House_Power House of the World",
Starring Young American 44th President,
Born in 1961, Swon in as President in 2009.

A Typical American Story-which Inspired millions
of Young Generation all over the World.

Enjoyed the Show, Rover-nim.  

color barrier를 넘어섰던 역사적인 대통령이었으나
현재까지 '절망'이라고는 할수없으나 '실망'이란
단어가 더 어울리는 그런 대통령이라 할수 있습니다.

앞으로 남은 임기동안 얼마나 만회할런지???  --失望生

My private personal opinion:

I am extremely happy that Obama is our president.
I am not disappointed at all for what he has done so far.
His only problem is having inherited some idiotic republican man's mess.
It will take more than 4 years to overcome George Bush's history-breaking mess-ups.

Bush was only good for feeding the super rich.
We are no super rich. Please remember that we are basically blue-color workers.
Why? We don't sit around to make money. We have to work for every penny one by one.
Contrary to what we think, medical doctors aren't one of his (and Republican party's) clients.
Kissing their xxx will get you nowhere but kicking it will get some respect from them.
It's time for us to wake up from the traditional political view that we used to have.

With our traditional Republican alignment,
medical doctors took the ever lasting downhill course since I came to US.
In another Republican reign, we will finally go down the drain. They will finish us for good.
Please look back how our status has gone down from when we came to US.

Under the circumstance Obama inherited, he has done very well.
I believe he needs to be our president for another four more years.

If his "color" bothers anyone of us, I suggest we should look at ourselves in the mirror.
What do you see? A Caucasian face or a Chinese face?

Any rebuttal or counter-opinion is welcome.

Obviously we have different opinions regarding this and no reason to
argue back and forth to either prove myself or pursuade other side.

I would like to make couple of points though if I may.

Firstly if you are 'extremely happy that Obama is our president',
then I dare say you are a minority regarding this. You could easily
recognize what the majority of American wanted going by the result
of the most recent mid-term election results.Although one can not
blame to one individual either Bush or Obama for current economic
situation, but I could not see any freshness in Obama's vision as our
president other than same old bureaucratic and I don't believe he is the
one leading our country forward especially this kind of economic crisis.

Secondly I am somewhat disturbed to be called as 'blue- collar worker'
(doesn't matter either blue or white), because we have never charged to
our patients strictly by hours we have worked and I feel proud of myself
as a physician,who has dedicated myself over the years helping not only
my patients' diseases,but also preventing from their illnesses.
Certainly our jobs are more than paid-worker's jobs,I believe. KJ

Certainly, I respect your opinion and idea.
Obviously, mine is different from yours. Nothing new, wrong, or strange about it.
One's opinion can frequently and rightly be different from others'.

I used to get paid mostly by hours. For example in office visits, our fee schedule is largely
based on "hours" we spend on patients. It wasn't at my choice. They forced it to me.
In that regard, I was an hourly wage earner. No doubt about it.

I was practicing medicine for a living (to make money) and practiced charities
when there was no choice. For that, I am not ashamed of it at all.
About 20% of my practice was for free.
But I've never said to anyone that my job was more divine than that of paid workers.
Why not divine? To be honest, without that 20%, I wouldn't have the remaining 80% !!
So, a charity given in calculation for more money is not a charity at all.
That's why I never considered my (not yours) occupation to be divine or charitable.
If I say I practiced "at least partially" for charities, I may be blatantly deceiving.

But, I am sure there are some of us who practiced medicine mainly for charitable purpose.
I know a few. Maybe, you are one of them, huh?

For 2009 and 2010, we have only Obama for our president.
We can not have two in the same period to compare each other.
If someone else had taken the job, how could he have done it?
No one can know. It's a total speculation.
Without evidence to compare with, and based on groundless speculation,
to say that Obama didn't do a good job is very unfair.
I am subjectively and personally an Obama supporter. That's why I say all these.

Please always remember that the argument is being done by "writing",
not by "talking with voice tones, smiling facial expressions, and gestures".
Because of that, naturally, it sounds much harshier and combative.
Actually, it isn't. If I could say it verbally in a living room,
my verbal tone would be much milder and friendlier than it was written.
I am very sorry that I do not own a writing skill to make it sound so peaceful.

I appreciate your opinion as well, but I respectfully disagree in certain areas.

For example, We doctors were considered as 'hourly workers' in USA and you
mentioned we get paid by hourly at the office,which is partly true.

However what about our jobs  out of the office and off-hour phone consultations,
from the patient especially after miidnight?
I think these kind of jobs of ours are much more than our jobs at the office.

Speaking about the charity works, most of the doctors in this country have been
doing in some sense taking care of welfare patient as well as medicare patients and
we can not expect every doctors working totally devoted for charity patients like
Dr. Schweitzer,who has had my utmost respect.

I am just a plain physician to take care my patients  rather compassionately and
treat them as my own family members,which I have been proud of.

Lastly I agree with you the argument by 'writing' looks somewhat hashier,but
it will be much better avoiding certain extreme words like 'idiotic','kissing their XXX'
etc. in my humble opipion.

Thanks for your time and have happy new year!  KJ

"I was practicing medicine for a living (to make money) and practiced charities
when there was no choice."

Well, we emphasized so much individual freedom including those who cannot make
rational choices.

So, all the mentally ill people were liberated to the street and ended up in jail and prison now.

In Nothern California alone, there were 4 large mental hospitlas when I came to California. Now there remains only one in Napa and all the clients are comimg from jails.

Califnia prisons have 160,000 inmates and at least 13 % are mentally ill.
many of them we have to give medicate against their wills.

Well, I am doing charity work for the God for his error in making defective
human beings. We are often against the wishes of our patients:
"I don't need your treatment", but we have to say you must accept
 the proposed treatment.

In summary, I do not see much differcen between myself and the one who treat rare aninmals or those who repair  expensive machines.
 Half of our psychiatrsits are hourly workers in prison.
The other half are civil servants, like US army officers.