The Death of a Presidency

[Cecilie1200]

Obama saved us from a second Great Depression with the Stimulus, saved the auto industry from collapse, brought unemployment down to 7.3%, passed healthcare reform and Wall Street banking reforms, saw the stock market soar and housing rebound, saved the Gulf Coast economy after oil spill, got bin Laden, got Ghaddafi, secured WMDs from Syria, passed START, ended the Iraq war, accelerated the end of the war in Afghanistan, created over 11 million private sector jobs, 49 months of economic growth . . . ALL without any help from the Republican Party.

Obama has done a very good job

The delusional idiot is back.

Delusional idiots are harder to get rid of than herpes, and recur more often.

 

[Tresha91203]

Oh, I wouldn't get your jockey straps hiked up too high, after all GHW Bush survived "Read my lips, no new taxes".

False. It sank him. Were you around then? Able to vote then? I suspect you are getting your information from propaganda sites.

 

[TemplarKormac]

I am surprised at how prophetic this thread turned out to be. Obama's presidency did truly die, and the hope and change with it.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Nope. He's still POTUS. Not dead.

Wanna bet he finishes with a higher approval rating than he has now?

I'll bet twenty years of your earnings against a month of mine. You game?

 

[Oldstyle]

Nope. He's still POTUS. Not dead.

Wanna bet he finishes with a higher approval rating than he has now?

I'll bet twenty years of your earnings against a month of mine. You game?

You actually work, Laugher?

 

[Vigilante]

 

[LoneLaugher]

By Templar Kormac

I remember the night when Obama got elected 5 years ago. I was a hard right Republican just two years out of high school. My knowledge of politics was limited. I couldn't help but hope with the rest of those Americans that there would be a positive change in this country. I wanted so badly to be swept along with the rest of them, join in the euphoria of the election of the first black man to the White House. But I held myself back. As the first 100 days went by, I knew Obama would be no ordinary president. I never thought that one day, this self proclaimed savior of America would be the instrument of his own destruction.

In those 100 days, Democrats had garnered majorities in both houses of Congress, and finally after the electoral euphoria wore off, the discussion turned to healthcare insurance and economic recovery. Obama proposed a plan that he purported would provide the millions of uninsured Americans access to affordable healthcare. I thought to myself, 'hey this is cool, maybe he won't be such a bad president after all. Maybe I can get insurance!' But as I began to learn how to investigate and do research, I found out how little of this law was going to work.

Republicans repeatedly and without fail warned that millions of Americans would lose their insurance and that premiums would skyrocket, while the newly elected president continued to assert that if they liked their plans and doctors they could keep them. Despite the objections of millions upon millions of Americans against this new proposal, on Christmas Eve that same year, Democrats passed what would be now known as Obamacare. Republicans could do little else to stop it's passage, other than to unanimously vote no. Little did I know just how loud those objections would become.

In 2010, the backlash was tremendous. Throughout the year, millions of Americans assailed their Representatives and Senators during the congressional recess, the question most asked was "Why? Why would you ignore the will of we the people to pass a law we didn't consent to?" On election night that year, the Democrats paid dearly for their unwillingness to heed to the will of their constituents. They were swiftly rendered a minority in the house, and though miraculously, kept control of the Senate.

The next year and a half didn't see much debate on the law, since the inevitability of the ACA's implementation was almost certain. In 2011 and 2012 we saw Obama campaign on his promises, amidst the Arab Spring, the Benghazi Scandal and Superstorm Sandy. The previous four years saw him do little to fix a broken economy, but yet he was put back in the White House for a second term. Republicans would try in futility to repeal Obamacare, only to be vilified successfully by their opponents.

This year, all hell broke out for Obama, as it was made known that people under him had been targeting Tea Party organizations unfairly during the previous election. Then it got even worse, it was discovered that the NSA had been spying on millions of Americans. Scandal after scandal broke out in Washington, damaging a once proud presidency.

Still, Obama remained undeterred, unblemished. He had the entire media behind him, he could do no wrong. There was so much momentum from the passage of the law that it seemed as if Obama would be the proverbial Democratic version of Ronald Reagan. Obama appeared to be invincible. Nobody could stop him. But after all those years of broken promises and scandals, it would be the signature law that supposedly defined Obama's presidency which would be responsible for undoing it. Millions of people began losing their healthcare, and premiums began rising exponentially.

The death blow came as Obama admitted that he lied to America about keeping their insurance plans and paying lower premiums. He tried to make it right by issuing an executive order allowing those millions adversely affected to keep their insurance, to no avail. In five years, I have watched myself metamorphose into someone who departed from the two party world, as I watched the presidency of a self anointed savior evaporate into the thinness of the air. The death of a presidency has come swiftly and the aura of hope and change has faded.

It's not prophetic at all. The ACA is working better than ever. It won't be repealed and it isn't even responsible for the election results from Tuesday night.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Nope. He's still POTUS. Not dead.

Wanna bet he finishes with a higher approval rating than he has now?

I'll bet twenty years of your earnings against a month of mine. You game?

You actually work, Laugher?

I work hard. I do well. Thanks for asking.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Nope. He's still POTUS. Not dead.

Wanna bet he finishes with a higher approval rating than he has now?

I'll bet twenty years of your earnings against a month of mine. You game?

If I do have any cash, you'll need it to practice your reading comprehension skills.

He might be POTUS, but I never said he was dead. His agenda is dead, his hopes of "fundamentally transforming America" are dead.

He has no more power, all but waving that bent scepter of his. His crown is broken and his throne of gold is tarnished beyond any recognition.

 

[Kondor3]

By Templar Kormac

I remember the night when Obama got elected 5 years ago. I was a hard right Republican just two years out of high school. My knowledge of politics was limited. I couldn't help but hope with the rest of those Americans that there would be a positive change in this country. I wanted so badly to be swept along with the rest of them, join in the euphoria of the election of the first black man to the White House. But I held myself back. As the first 100 days went by, I knew Obama would be no ordinary president. I never thought that one day, this self proclaimed savior of America would be the instrument of his own destruction.

In those 100 days, Democrats had garnered majorities in both houses of Congress, and finally after the electoral euphoria wore off, the discussion turned to healthcare insurance and economic recovery. Obama proposed a plan that he purported would provide the millions of uninsured Americans access to affordable healthcare. I thought to myself, 'hey this is cool, maybe he won't be such a bad president after all. Maybe I can get insurance!' But as I began to learn how to investigate and do research, I found out how little of this law was going to work.

Republicans repeatedly and without fail warned that millions of Americans would lose their insurance and that premiums would skyrocket, while the newly elected president continued to assert that if they liked their plans and doctors they could keep them. Despite the objections of millions upon millions of Americans against this new proposal, on Christmas Eve that same year, Democrats passed what would be now known as Obamacare. Republicans could do little else to stop it's passage, other than to unanimously vote no. Little did I know just how loud those objections would become.

In 2010, the backlash was tremendous. Throughout the year, millions of Americans assailed their Representatives and Senators during the congressional recess, the question most asked was "Why? Why would you ignore the will of we the people to pass a law we didn't consent to?" On election night that year, the Democrats paid dearly for their unwillingness to heed to the will of their constituents. They were swiftly rendered a minority in the house, and though miraculously, kept control of the Senate.

The next year and a half didn't see much debate on the law, since the inevitability of the ACA's implementation was almost certain. In 2011 and 2012 we saw Obama campaign on his promises, amidst the Arab Spring, the Benghazi Scandal and Superstorm Sandy. The previous four years saw him do little to fix a broken economy, but yet he was put back in the White House for a second term. Republicans would try in futility to repeal Obamacare, only to be vilified successfully by their opponents.

This year, all hell broke out for Obama, as it was made known that people under him had been targeting Tea Party organizations unfairly during the previous election. Then it got even worse, it was discovered that the NSA had been spying on millions of Americans. Scandal after scandal broke out in Washington, damaging a once proud presidency.

Still, Obama remained undeterred, unblemished. He had the entire media behind him, he could do no wrong. There was so much momentum from the passage of the law that it seemed as if Obama would be the proverbial Democratic version of Ronald Reagan. Obama appeared to be invincible. Nobody could stop him. But after all those years of broken promises and scandals, it would be the signature law that supposedly defined Obama's presidency which would be responsible for undoing it. Millions of people began losing their healthcare, and premiums began rising exponentially.

The death blow came as Obama admitted that he lied to America about keeping their insurance plans and paying lower premiums. He tried to make it right by issuing an executive order allowing those millions adversely affected to keep their insurance, to no avail. In five years, I have watched myself metamorphose into someone who departed from the two party world, as I watched the presidency of a self anointed savior evaporate into the thinness of the air. The death of a presidency has come swiftly and the aura of hope and change has faded.

It's not prophetic at all. The ACA is working better than ever. It won't be repealed and it isn't even responsible for the election results from Tuesday night.

You're quite possibly right.

ObamaCare may not, indeed, be repealed.

But, if the Pubs want, they can always de-fund it.

The death-spiral will start-off slow, then accelerate by orders of magnitude as its pillars collapse without the funding to prop it up.

I'd say there's at least Even Money riding on ObamaCare being de-funded and left to wither on the vine.

The same as repeal - just more gradual, with the responsibility spread-out a little more.

 

[LoneLaugher]

By Templar Kormac

I remember the night when Obama got elected 5 years ago. I was a hard right Republican just two years out of high school. My knowledge of politics was limited. I couldn't help but hope with the rest of those Americans that there would be a positive change in this country. I wanted so badly to be swept along with the rest of them, join in the euphoria of the election of the first black man to the White House. But I held myself back. As the first 100 days went by, I knew Obama would be no ordinary president. I never thought that one day, this self proclaimed savior of America would be the instrument of his own destruction.

In those 100 days, Democrats had garnered majorities in both houses of Congress, and finally after the electoral euphoria wore off, the discussion turned to healthcare insurance and economic recovery. Obama proposed a plan that he purported would provide the millions of uninsured Americans access to affordable healthcare. I thought to myself, 'hey this is cool, maybe he won't be such a bad president after all. Maybe I can get insurance!' But as I began to learn how to investigate and do research, I found out how little of this law was going to work.

Republicans repeatedly and without fail warned that millions of Americans would lose their insurance and that premiums would skyrocket, while the newly elected president continued to assert that if they liked their plans and doctors they could keep them. Despite the objections of millions upon millions of Americans against this new proposal, on Christmas Eve that same year, Democrats passed what would be now known as Obamacare. Republicans could do little else to stop it's passage, other than to unanimously vote no. Little did I know just how loud those objections would become.

In 2010, the backlash was tremendous. Throughout the year, millions of Americans assailed their Representatives and Senators during the congressional recess, the question most asked was "Why? Why would you ignore the will of we the people to pass a law we didn't consent to?" On election night that year, the Democrats paid dearly for their unwillingness to heed to the will of their constituents. They were swiftly rendered a minority in the house, and though miraculously, kept control of the Senate.

The next year and a half didn't see much debate on the law, since the inevitability of the ACA's implementation was almost certain. In 2011 and 2012 we saw Obama campaign on his promises, amidst the Arab Spring, the Benghazi Scandal and Superstorm Sandy. The previous four years saw him do little to fix a broken economy, but yet he was put back in the White House for a second term. Republicans would try in futility to repeal Obamacare, only to be vilified successfully by their opponents.

This year, all hell broke out for Obama, as it was made known that people under him had been targeting Tea Party organizations unfairly during the previous election. Then it got even worse, it was discovered that the NSA had been spying on millions of Americans. Scandal after scandal broke out in Washington, damaging a once proud presidency.

Still, Obama remained undeterred, unblemished. He had the entire media behind him, he could do no wrong. There was so much momentum from the passage of the law that it seemed as if Obama would be the proverbial Democratic version of Ronald Reagan. Obama appeared to be invincible. Nobody could stop him. But after all those years of broken promises and scandals, it would be the signature law that supposedly defined Obama's presidency which would be responsible for undoing it. Millions of people began losing their healthcare, and premiums began rising exponentially.

The death blow came as Obama admitted that he lied to America about keeping their insurance plans and paying lower premiums. He tried to make it right by issuing an executive order allowing those millions adversely affected to keep their insurance, to no avail. In five years, I have watched myself metamorphose into someone who departed from the two party world, as I watched the presidency of a self anointed savior evaporate into the thinness of the air. The death of a presidency has come swiftly and the aura of hope and change has faded.

It's not prophetic at all. The ACA is working better than ever. It won't be repealed and it isn't even responsible for the election results from Tuesday night.

You're quite possibly right.

ObamaCare may not, indeed, be repealed.

But, if the Pubs want, they can always de-fund it.

The death-spiral will start-off slow, then accelerate by orders of magnitude as its pillars collapse without the funding to prop it up.

I'd say there's at least Even Money riding on ObamaCare being de-funded and left to wither on the vine.

The same as repeal - just more gradual, with the responsibility spread-out a little more.

Nope. It's too popular. Just call it something else and it has wide approval. People like it. It stays. Until Vermont shows us how single payer is even better, that is.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Nope. He's still POTUS. Not dead.

Wanna bet he finishes with a higher approval rating than he has now?

I'll bet twenty years of your earnings against a month of mine. You game?

If I do have any cash, you'll need it to practice your reading comprehension skills.

He might be POTUS, but I never said he was dead. His agenda is dead, his hopes of "fundamentally transforming America" are dead.

He has no more power, all but waving that bent scepter of his. His crown is broken and his throne of gold is tarnished beyond any recognition.

Do you think I said he was dead?

He's going to finish his second term by getting immigration reform and possibly raising the federal minimum wage. There will be large investments in infrastructure. Idiots will get a pipeline and some bullshit cuts to social security.....probably chained CPI.....and a stupid free trade bill.

Obamacare will be strengthened by GOP governors deciding to expand Medicare.

Dead? Nope. Alive and well.

 

[TemplarKormac]

I must be going insane... I thought I heard someone whining. Maybe my ignore function is malfunctioning. But I do smell burnt bread, perhaps someone forgot to check the toaster....

 

[Katzndogz]

obola is going to China. Why? In a magnificent expression of contempt the Chinese have dismissed him as insipid and banal.

China mocks insipid Obama in wake of Midterms drubbing State newspaper says America has grown tired of President s banality just days before he is due to visit country Daily Mail Online

Which may be better than the Russian cartoon depicting President Putin giving obola an over the knee spanking.

obola has destroyed America internationally. With China having declared the insipid and banal presidunce where will he be able to borrow the money to support his welfare state?

obola will spend his last two years thrashing around until some kindly person puts him in a well deserved strait jacket.

 

[Zander]

By Templar Kormac

I remember the night when Obama got elected 5 years ago. I was a hard right Republican just two years out of high school. My knowledge of politics was limited. I couldn't help but hope with the rest of those Americans that there would be a positive change in this country. I wanted so badly to be swept along with the rest of them, join in the euphoria of the election of the first black man to the White House. But I held myself back. As the first 100 days went by, I knew Obama would be no ordinary president. I never thought that one day, this self proclaimed savior of America would be the instrument of his own destruction.

In those 100 days, Democrats had garnered majorities in both houses of Congress, and finally after the electoral euphoria wore off, the discussion turned to healthcare insurance and economic recovery. Obama proposed a plan that he purported would provide the millions of uninsured Americans access to affordable healthcare. I thought to myself, 'hey this is cool, maybe he won't be such a bad president after all. Maybe I can get insurance!' But as I began to learn how to investigate and do research, I found out how little of this law was going to work.

Republicans repeatedly and without fail warned that millions of Americans would lose their insurance and that premiums would skyrocket, while the newly elected president continued to assert that if they liked their plans and doctors they could keep them. Despite the objections of millions upon millions of Americans against this new proposal, on Christmas Eve that same year, Democrats passed what would be now known as Obamacare. Republicans could do little else to stop it's passage, other than to unanimously vote no. Little did I know just how loud those objections would become.

In 2010, the backlash was tremendous. Throughout the year, millions of Americans assailed their Representatives and Senators during the congressional recess, the question most asked was "Why? Why would you ignore the will of we the people to pass a law we didn't consent to?" On election night that year, the Democrats paid dearly for their unwillingness to heed to the will of their constituents. They were swiftly rendered a minority in the house, and though miraculously, kept control of the Senate.

The next year and a half didn't see much debate on the law, since the inevitability of the ACA's implementation was almost certain. In 2011 and 2012 we saw Obama campaign on his promises, amidst the Arab Spring, the Benghazi Scandal and Superstorm Sandy. The previous four years saw him do little to fix a broken economy, but yet he was put back in the White House for a second term. Republicans would try in futility to repeal Obamacare, only to be vilified successfully by their opponents.

This year, all hell broke out for Obama, as it was made known that people under him had been targeting Tea Party organizations unfairly during the previous election. Then it got even worse, it was discovered that the NSA had been spying on millions of Americans. Scandal after scandal broke out in Washington, damaging a once proud presidency.

Still, Obama remained undeterred, unblemished. He had the entire media behind him, he could do no wrong. There was so much momentum from the passage of the law that it seemed as if Obama would be the proverbial Democratic version of Ronald Reagan. Obama appeared to be invincible. Nobody could stop him. But after all those years of broken promises and scandals, it would be the signature law that supposedly defined Obama's presidency which would be responsible for undoing it. Millions of people began losing their healthcare, and premiums began rising exponentially.

The death blow came as Obama admitted that he lied to America about keeping their insurance plans and paying lower premiums. He tried to make it right by issuing an executive order allowing those millions adversely affected to keep their insurance, to no avail. In five years, I have watched myself metamorphose into someone who departed from the two party world, as I watched the presidency of a self anointed savior evaporate into the thinness of the air. The death of a presidency has come swiftly and the aura of hope and change has faded.

It's not prophetic at all. The ACA is working better than ever. It won't be repealed and it isn't even responsible for the election results from Tuesday night.

You're quite possibly right.

ObamaCare may not, indeed, be repealed.

But, if the Pubs want, they can always de-fund it.

The death-spiral will start-off slow, then accelerate by orders of magnitude as its pillars collapse without the funding to prop it up.

I'd say there's at least Even Money riding on ObamaCare being de-funded and left to wither on the vine.

The same as repeal - just more gradual, with the responsibility spread-out a little more.

Nope. It's too popular. Just call it something else and it has wide approval. People like it. It stays. Until Vermont shows us how single payer is even better, that is.

Every poll shows the opposite. Do you smoke pot everyday? or just or just on days that end in a Y?

ObamaCare Poll ObamaCare Approval Rating Popularity
RealClearPolitics - Election Other - Public Approval of Health Care Law
Health Care Law - Rasmussen Reports trade
Obamacare Is More Unpopular Than Ever Poll Shows

 

[JoeB131]

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If I do have any cash, you'll need it to practice your reading comprehension skills.

He might be POTUS, but I never said he was dead. His agenda is dead, his hopes of "fundamentally transforming America" are dead.

He has no more power, all but waving that bent scepter of his. His crown is broken and his throne of gold is tarnished beyond any recognition.

I heard the same shit said in '86 about Reagan, I heard the same shit said about Clinton in '99 after he was impeached, I heard the same shit said about Bush when he lost both houses of Congress in one throw in '06.

Besides proving that I'm really fucking old, it also shows these sorts of claims can't really be taken seriously.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oh you're gonna' make me cry......Did you think to write a eulogy like this on the day Bear Stearns failed in 2008 setting off the worst financial calamity since 1929?

On September 12, 2001 when it came to light that Condie Rice and Bush just didn't happen to read the August Presidential Daily Briefs about OBL?

Did you think to write something like this when the war in Afghanistan hit its 10th anniversary?

Nah, I didn't think so.

If it wasn't for short-sightedness, you wouldn't be able to see anything at all.

yeah that Daily Brief, so actionable

 

[TemplarKormac]

If it wasn't for short-sightedness, you wouldn't be able to see anything at all.

Is that why you post everything in bold?

 

[TemplarKormac]

It's not prophetic at all. The ACA is working better than ever. It won't be repealed and it isn't even responsible for the election results from Tuesday night.

What part of "you're fired" did you not hear Tuesday night? When Democrats lost the Senate, Obamacare went with it.

 

[JoeB131]

What part of "you're fired" did you not hear Tuesday night? When Democrats lost the Senate, Obamacare went with it.

Not really.

The seven seats that switched required less than 6 million votes.

65 million people voted to give Obama a second term.

So, no, just because you won some backwater states full of inbred morons does not mean you won.