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President Obama has not at all be a failure.
If he were a Republican every Republican would be wildly cheering his success and pushing to name all sorts of buildings and structures after him.
Ronald Reagan was not only one of the worst presidents in the history of America..he was one of the biggest criminals. He really did commit treason. He really did violate the constitution. He really did break the law. He really did do massive damage to the economy. Yet conservatives hold this man up in the same reverence as the founders of the United States.
It's really quite shocking.
Oh please.
Republicans were more than ready willing and able to criticize President Bush (albeit not nearly as vociferously and in as unprincipled a manner as the liberals and the Democratics).
If President Obama were a Republican, he'd be pointed to as EXACTLY why the GOP is in such disarray and why the Tea Party movement was so urgently needed.
I have given the President some props on occasion when I thought he deserved them. But the fact remains, he is a nearly unmitigated failure.
Yes. Fact.
Pick a topic.
Border security:
What has he "accomplished?" In a word, to be succinct yet accurate, NOTHING.
National Security:
Not much, BUT still that has been one of his more pronounced areas of actual leadership. He gets HUGE props for having the gumption to authorize the violation of Pakistan's sovereignty to GET Osama. (The right move still deserves credit when it requires showing some backbone!)
The economy:
Our unemployment numbers are atrocious DESPITE all the CRAP he sought (and largely got) to "stimulate" the economy.
Heath Care:
Disaster. Obamacare (the right name for the program) damaged medicare and medicaid but has done NOTHING AT ALL to improve the delivery of "health care" of the development of new or improved medicines. It wasn't even DESIGNED to DO a damn thing by this time. It's sole objective for the time being is to raise taxes. Oh, yeah. THAT it does.
CLOSING Gitmo:
It was a shitty notion. I'm glad he has been a flop at it. BUT, even so, it was something HE chose to commit to. Gitmo aint closed.
COURT TRIALS for accused Jihadist detainees in the United States of America:
Another of his (and the AG's) idiotic positions. He has had to back-peddle like a son of a bitch on it. Good. He was wrong. His notion was a massive failure and SHOULD be flatly reversed. But it is yet another example of him promising one thing and delivering either something else or nothing at all.
Immigration reform:
Nothing EXCEPT for an EXECUTIVE pronouncement on how NOT to enforce the laws using "prosecutorial discretion" as the paper thin veil by which his real policy is revealed: PANDER to those who ignorantly and stupidly maintain that those here unlawfully should be permitted to stay. Fuck our right as a sovereign nation to determine our immigration policies.
With the exceptions (arguably) of going and fighting in Afghanistan and going after and GETTING Osama bin Laden, the "question" is actually better put the other way around. How has President Obama NOT been a failure? What is the standard? What is the measurement that "tells" ANYBODY that President Obama has not been a fucking flop?
Look if you are going to omit things like the Obama administration has been deporting illegals at a greater number then both previous administrations, he sent the national guard to our southwest border to buttress the border patrol, the stimulus has been used to plug holes in budgets (like in Texas) and save jobs (That and Obama's job creation numbers for 3 years in the private sector are better then Bush's 8 years) then there really isn't much to talk about..because we are living in 2 different realities.
Well fulfilled uh...one promise since in office. That being socialized medicine.
Do you really think he socialized medicine?
He really didn't. What he ended up doing was giving a hell of a big bonus the the Health Insurance Industry and screwed the people of this country, but at least he didn't put our health care under the control of bureaucrats... or did he?
Immie
"how do you know what he did averted a depression ... "
I listen to experts and the educated, not bought off HS grad A-holes like Rush and Beck...TURN OFF THE BS! Hoping for your recovery...
Well fulfilled uh...one promise since in office. That being socialized medicine.
Do you really think he socialized medicine?
He really didn't. What he ended up doing was giving a hell of a big bonus the the Health Insurance Industry and screwed the people of this country, but at least he didn't put our health care under the control of bureaucrats... or did he?
Immie
Like all dupes, I doubt you have ANY understanding of Health Reform. This the FIRST control of ANY KIND of health costs.And there WILL be medicaid for everyone making less than 130% of Poverty Level, up to $28k family of four...will be the most popular legislation EVER 1 minute after being implemented. And subsidies for poor workers up to $88k family of four, AND GUARANTEED. I don't believe you knew that, just Pubcrappe- it's like a state secret on corporate media.. Hopimg for your recovery.
In the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, Medicares actuaries released new estimates of the rate of growth of national health costs. Surprise, surprise theyre projected to increase over the next decade.
ObamaCare wont help contain health costs, as the president so often claimed while lobbying for passage of his reform package. Instead, it will exacerbate them. Remember his oft-repeated statement that his plan would cut the cost of a typical familys premium by up to $2,500 a year. As the CBO rightly explained, premiums will rise by $2,100.
In 2014, when the laws major coverage provisions kick in, total healthcare costs will jump 8.3 percent a rate well above the 5.5% expected for 2013. As the study puts it, the presidents law is anticipated to contribute to a significant acceleration in the national health spending growth rate in 2014.
"how do you know what he did averted a depression ... "
I listen to experts and the educated, not bought off HS grad A-holes like Rush and Beck...TURN OFF THE BS! Hoping for your recovery...
What evidence do those experts you listen to present? Do you think an expert is always right, because I can point out some real experts of my own who disagree with the experts you listen to.
by Peter Wehner
08.26.2011 - 12:41 PM
Commentary
Tell me again why Barack Obama has been such a bad president? Jonathan Alter writes in his column.
Alter tells us hes not talking here about Obama as a tactician and communicator, and hes not interested in hearing ad hominem attacks or about peoples generalized disappointment. (Neither am I.) He wants to know on a substantive basis why Obama should be judged to have failed so far.
In Alters words, Your mission, Jim [or anyone else for that matter], should you decide to accept it, is to be specific and rational, not vague and visceral.
Consider the mission accepted.
In one sense, the answer to the Alter challenge is obvious: Obama has failed by his own standards. Its the Obama administration, not the RNC, that said if his stimulus package was passed unemployment would not exceed 8 percent. Its Obama who joked there werent as many shovel-ready jobs as he thought.
Its Obama who promised to cut the deficit in half. Its Obama who said if we passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care cost curve would go down rather than up. Its Obama who promised us recovery and prosperity, hope and change. What weve gotten instead is the opposite.
. . . And it is on the common ground of facts that we can declarein a calm, specific, reasonable, rational and empirical mannerObama to be an utter failure.
LINK
You Think Obamas Been a Bad President? Prove It: Jonathan Alter
Fuck yourself, you brainwashed MORON LOUDMOUTH. Costs will go up, but care will not be cut off EVER when you get sick, people with preexisting conditions will be covered, and costs will be subsidized - so in effect you a total shyttehead. Read the GD bill and some non RW BS, A-hole. LOL!!
Like all dupes, I doubt you have ANY understanding of Health Reform. This the FIRST control of ANY KIND of health costs.
Costs will go up
"how do you know what he did averted a depression ... "
I listen to experts and the educated, not bought off HS grad A-holes like Rush and Beck...TURN OFF THE BS! Hoping for your recovery...
What evidence do those experts you listen to present? Do you think an expert is always right, because I can point out some real experts of my own who disagree with the experts you listen to.
Don't let hellfromwherever get to you.
Nobody with a brain takes a pontificating putz like him seriously.
Without his platitudes, that schmuck would have nothing at all to say or to post.
Fuck yourself, you brainwashed MORON LOUDMOUTH. Costs will go up, but care will not be cut off EVER when you get sick, people with preexisting conditions will be covered, and costs will be subsidized - so in effect you a total shyttehead. Read the GD bill and some non RW BS, A-hole. LOL!!
the US government can not afford to shoulder the costs of sky rocketing health care for Millions.
the US government can not afford to shoulder the costs of sky rocketing health care for Millions.
Duh, ain't that part of the thrust behind health care reform - to control costs?
Are you kidding? Obama Care doesn't lower costs. It's going to raise them while at the same time it diminishes the quality of service. Obama Care was never about "fixing" health care costs...it was about taking a giant step towards universal health care. If they'd really wanted to lower costs they would have included tort reform but that was off the table right from the start because of all the $ that the trial lawyers sent Obama's way during the '08 election.
The 39% are right. And Pubs have blocked EVERYTHING since 1/2010, which it appears 60% DON"T KNOW!! Great corporate media we have here. Even the "big liberals" are bought off or terrified of loudmouth Pubs- it's ridiculous. This is the Pub Obstruction economy now. That Debt Ceiling thing was a wakeup for the sleeping, but seriously folks...
