Yes, Obama is still convinced that he is our savior. See the arrogance for yourself in this article from AP.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hz13IY28A6Jx1XbBR7Cp1WIiCQGgD9H040H80
His policies got us out of this mess? This President really does think Americans are stupid!
First of all a lot of our problems have actually become worse. Our deficit is bigger under Barack Obama. Our unemployment is worse under Barack Obama. Partisanship is worse under Barack Obama. Lack of accountability and transparency is worse under Barack Obama. Spending is worse under Barack Obama. Barack Obama has accomplished a lot since taking office, but what has actually improved under him? The deficit and the spending are out of control. That was bad enough under Bush, but when Obama took office spending sped up and hasn’t seemed to slow down much since. We didn’t suddenly get a bunch of extra money to spend once Obama took office. He just started spending money we didn’t have. Or since he’s referring to the previous administration when he talks about the mess, maybe I should say that he has “continued” spending money we don’t have. And now he wants to take credit for solving all of our problems. What mess did Obama clean up? I must have missed something.
Second, how many of Obama’s policies are different from Bush’s? Hm, let’s see… Bush passes a stimulus, Obama passes a stimulus. Bush sends troops to war, Obama sends troops to war. Bush uses tactics like rendition and prolonged detention, Obama uses tactics like rendition and prolonged detention. Well, I guess there are a few differences. Bush decides to give up playing golf during his presidency, Obama decides to continue golfing whenever the hell he feels like it no matter how many catastrophes the nation is facing. Bush respects different opinions, Obama whines. Bush takes responsibility for his actions, Obama blames some retired guy on some ranch somewhere for all his problems.
The fact is that we still have a big mess and Obama has not turned it around. His stimulus bill was passed over a year and a half ago and we’re still waiting for that 8% unemployment we were promised. We never even got that and he is bragging about fixing the mess and solving our problems. Our problems are not solved and many policies are still the same. President Obama is not our savior.
~Eliza
This is the biggest bullshit I have ever read.
Do you think that things have gotten better under Obama? That he’s cleaned up the mess? That he’s more experienced than Bush?
~Eliza
I know you’re only 20, so maybe one day you will grow up and see the light. Conservativism and republican politicians are behind all our problems in this country. Try looking at history before spouting off.
here’s a good place to start:
Recessions:
June ’53 to June ’54 Eisenhower (Republican January ’53 to December ’60)
July ’57 to March ’58 Eisenhower (Republican January ’53 to December ’60)
March ’60 to January ’61 Eisenhower (Republican January ’53 to December ’60)
December ’69 to January ’71 Nixon (Republican January ’69 to August ’74)
November ’73 to January ’75 Nixon (Republican January ’69 to August ’74) / Ford (Republican August ’74 to December ’76)
January ’80 to July ’80 Carter (Democratic January ’77 to December ’80)
June ’81 to December ’82 Regan (Republican January ‘81 to December ’88)
June ’90 to February ’91 Bush G.H. (Republican January ’89 to December ‘92)
February ’01 to November ’01 Bush G.W. (Republican January ’89 to December ‘92)
Note that the shortest recession happened during Jimmy Carter administration, and it’s the only time that a Democratic President was in office.
All this and other useful historical from 1950 to 2008 on the ANDEX chart at:
http://www.andexcharts.com/c_ewall.htm
Reagan increased the deficit 159% even though he said people are taxed too much because the govt spends too much. He was the worse president ever behind GWBush.
Bush never gave up golf during his presidency. Did you not see the legendary video of him saying something like: “We need to get them, now watch this swing?”
You are SUCH a freakin LIAR!!!
Nope, you’ve got “freakin liar” covered. You are either accustomed to using straw man arguments, which are false and intellectually dishonest arguments, or you are accustomed to leaving comments on posts that you have not read. Unemployment and spending are higher under Barack Obama, yet he is claiming that his policies have gotten us out of the mess. I think it’s wrong for him to claim that he has cleaned up the mess when things have actually gotten worse.
~Eliza
2 wars at $3 trillion, 2 tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% at $1 trillion, medicare part d at $600 billion. Obama is spending because we need to stimulate the economy. Bush took a massive surplus left by Clinton and turned it into a deficit. What don’t you understand?
Where the straw man in the figures I showed you along with a link to document them? I think you have straw for brains. Grow up.
Maybe you shouldn’t talk about things you know nothing about. Do you research or quite blogging lies.
Obama is clearly not stimulating the economy. We don’t even have the eight percent unemployment we were promised. And like it or not, that stimulating spending is still being added to the deficit.