Should conservatives follow lockstep like the liberals and applaud the "accomplishments" of Obama?

No, Grasshopper...the $787 billion Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (a.k.a. , "stimulus") was exactly the OPPOSITE of the always-fail voodoo or "trickle-on-down" supply side economics of the far-right-wingers and Republicans in general since Reagan days. Consider this: Wealthy and powerful corporations that have made RECORD PROFITS thanks to President Obama's wise fiscal policies since January 2009 have decided to HOARD these profits "until demand (for their goods or services) has increased"---exactly BASS-ACKWARDS from what they should be doing to promote growth!

If these greedy-gut corporations decided to spend some of that hoarded capital to HIRE American workers and pay a decent wage, then the newly hired workers would SPEND the paychecks, thus CREATING the corporate-desired DEMAND. Democrats (including Liberals, Moderates, Progressives, and Blue Dog Conservatives) keep on using the DEMAND-SIDE economic policies that REVERSE the failed SUPPLY-SIDE (or trickle-down) to fix Republicans' horrific fiscal MESSES (read Bartlett & Steele, 1999; Krugman, 2008; Picker, 2009). Demand-side works from the ground levels on upwards and outwards in an ever-expanding spiral, generating consumer spending that GROWS the economy, and also generating TAX REVENUES that help BALANCE BUDGETS and pay for social safety net programs or maintenance of our nation's vital infrastructure.

Call President Obama's (and the Democrats') stimulus the "trickle up" version of fiscal sanity. We already know that the wealthiest few do not allow anything they get to "trickle down" upon the American people at all---they just OUTSOURCE to third-world nations and exploit the $300 a year salaries for workers there. I'm more of a moderate than an all-out liberate, but I not only SUPPORT the Recovery Act stimulus, I also think there should be another one to prime the pump of our stalled recovery.

What Barrack Obama is proposing is what I like to call "percolate up" economics. Simply put; Create jobs Raise wages Lower costs The working class (which is the LARGEST block of consumers in the world) will spend Business will thrive America will prosper If you cannot support an idea like that then you are either a member of the VERY wealthy elite, OR, you have been brainwashed by the right wing propaganda machine that was put in place to confuse you into thinking that what is good for that wealthy elite is good for you.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.