Can Obama run on his record?

[Oldstyle]

He can and will run on his record unlike Romney who is now against nearly everything he ever did in office and too vulnerable for everything he did in the private sector.

Yea. He's against Obama's failed policies. What's your point?

His policies are only generally failures to people who have no ability to give him credit for anything, he has successes and set backs like any president but don't forget that his campaigning successes have been spectacular.

"Campaigning successes"? You're joking...right? We're not supposed to judge him by what he's DONE in office...just his success at snowing enough people to get the job? He was "successful" in 2008. He hasn't done anything successful since except get Osama bin Laden...something that wouldn't have happened without information gathered using interrogation techniques that he banned.

Barack Obama's policies are failures because they haven't addressed high unemployment, a stagnant economy or the high cost of either health care or gasoline.

He's utterly clueless about how businesses operate and he's surrounded himself with an administration that is equally clueless how businesses operate. We have a Secretary of the Treasury that couldn't figure out Turbo Tax. We have an Energy Secretary that thinks more expensive gasoline is a good thing. We have an Attorney General that sues American businesses to protect workers rights in India and gives guns to drug cartels in the hopes of getting tougher gun laws.

Barry got "credit" for a Nobel Peace Prize just for sitting his bony ass in a chair in the Oval Office...now you want us to give him "credit" for non-existent policy "successes"? Here's a radical concept...how about he actually DOES SOMETHING first?

 

[bugs]

I'm hearing these Romney attacks. It seems to me that libs are desperate b/c Obama can't run on his record.

Libs, why should we vote for Obama? Tell me what he has done that is so great?

he has continued and escalated the police state with the signing of NDAA on Dec31st 2011..

 

[J.E.D]

Yea. So far I'm seeing nobody tell me what is so special about his record that he would want to run on it.

Are we talking about the police record?

Do they have police records in Kenya?

Oh, I see; at first I thought that you might have been seriously asking, but apparently it doesn't matter what facts people present to you about Obama's obvious successes. You're a worthless troll hack and a possible birfer. Welcome to the board. You'll get along well with the resident nutjobs.

 

[J.E.D]

42+ Democratic Accomplishments You May Not Know About | rescue truth.

25 Tax Cuts Passed By Obama & Democrats[3]

Individuals

“Making Work Pay” tax credit
Earned Income Tax Credit increased
Increased Eligibility for Refundable Portion of Child Credit
“American Opportunity” Education Tax Credit
First-time Home Buyer Credit
Temp. Suspension of Taxation of Unemployment Benefits
Tax Credits for Energy-Efficient Improvements to Existing Homes
Sales Tax Deduction for Vehicle Purchases
Premium Credits for COBRA Continuation Coverage for Unemployed Workers
Economic Recovery Credits to Recipients of Social Security, SSI, RR Retirement, and Veterans Disability Compensation Benefits
Computers as Qualified Education Expenses in 529 Education Plans
Plug-in Electric Drive Vehicle Credit
Tax Parity for Transit Benefits
Health Coverage Tax Credit Expansion

Small Business

Extension of Enhanced Small Business Expensing
5-Year Carryback of Net Operating Losses for Small Businesses
Extension of Bonus Depreciation
Exclusion of 75% of Small Business Capital Gains from Taxes
Temporary Small Business Estimated Tax Payment Relief
Temporary Reduction of S Corporation Built-In Gains Holding Period from 10 Years to 7 Years

Other Business

Advanced Energy Investment Credit
Tax Credits for Alternative Refueling Property
Work Opportunity Tax Credits for Hiring Unemployed Veterans and Disconnected Youth
Delayed Recognition of Certain Cancellation of Debt Income
Election to Accelerate Recognition of Historic AMT/R&D Credits
Fun Fact: 1/3 of the $862 billion stimulus was for tax cuts, something Republicans claim to support … although they still stand against stimulus. I suppose it depends on who gets the tax cuts.

Women’s Rights

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Protection against pay discrimination
Restores interpretation of Title VII of Civil Rights Act that protected women and other workers
Financial Rights
Credit CARD Act
Prevents retroactive rate increases
Requires companies to provide 45 days notice before changing rates and other contract provisions
Additional restrictions placed on fees
Prevents companies from taking advantage of students
Ends unfair double-cycle billing practices
Financial reform bill
Establishes Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which seeks solely to ensure financial institutions are being fair to consumers, and improvement in the simplicity in contracts
Prevents taxpayer bail out of financial institutions
Allows the GAO to audit the Federal Reserve
Various mortgage and derivatives reform, etc.

Education

Student loans[1]
Ends “socialistic” federal subsidies to banks and other financial institutions (Interestingly, Republicans are okay with the kind of socialism that redirects taxpayer money to banks and other financial institutions.)
Eliminates unnecessary “middle-man” in student loan process, which placed financial burden on taxpayers while banks took in profits
Annual student loan payment capped at 10% of income
Saves an estimated $61 billion over 10 years

Health Care

Children’s health insurance bill[2]
CBO said bill will allow states to cover more than four million uninsured children by 2013, in addition to seven million already covered
Requires states to provide dental and mental illness coverage to children
Tobacco regulation
Provides graphic warnings on tobacco use risks
Restricts advertising to prevent marketing to minors
Health care reform
Insurers cannot cancel coverage when a person gets sick
Requires health insurance corporations to cover preexisting conditions
Eliminates lifetime limits
Allows insurance purchase across state lines
Allows young adults to stay on parents’ health insurance policy until 26

Crime & Civil Rights

Hate crime legislation[4]
Provides protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people
Tribal Law and Order Act
Provide additional means to reduce high rates of violent crime, including rape & sexual assualt within Native American reservations
View the rescuetruth.com post on the Tribal Law and Order Act

Other

The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act
Expands service and voluteer opportunites
Benefits education, health care, energy, etc.

Stimulus

Cash for Clunkers successfully contributed to 680,000+ vehicle sales in summer 2009
Largest clean energy investment ever made
Reduced deficit by $122 billion[5]
Reduced federal spending by 2%[5]
What didn’t get passed because of Republican obstructionism?
Health Care for 9/11 Emergency Responders
DISCLOSE Act (transparency in elections, specifically campaign financing)
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal
Removal of $75 million cap on oil spill payouts
Elimination of tax incentives for companies shipping American jobs overseas, and creation of tax incentives to businesses bringing jobs home

 

[Katzndogz]

obama is going to run against more than Romney. He's going to run against the Supreme Court. He's been running against the Supreme Court since he gave that scathing State of the Union address that was itself a total lie.

 

[JoeB131]

I'm hearing these Romney attacks. It seems to me that libs are desperate b/c Obama can't run on his record.

Libs, why should we vote for Obama? Tell me what he has done that is so great?

Not a lot, really.

But he already has the job. He's a known quantity.

Romney has to prove he'd be able to do a better job. And frankly, I'm not convinced he can. His kind of thinking is what got us into this mess to start with.

 

[Mac1958]

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I don't know if I need to point out the painfully obvious, but what the hell, just in case I really do:

Obama's overall premise for the campaign will be this - We're doing the best we can with the steaming bucket of shit that we took over in 2008. Yes, it's taking a while, no doubt about it, but the catastrophe was deep, broad and clearly historical in nature (both domestically and internationally). While I can sure as hell understand your frustrations, we're moving in the right direction, and if we can get vertical again, perhaps I'll be able to actually do something proactively instead of playing fireman. And by the way, do you really want to go back to the policies that brought us here in the first place?

Yes, I know, partisan conservatives will deny all of the above, inferring that the economic disaster was just a little blip on the radar, that the horrific wars in the Middle East were/are just little spats. I get it, I get it.

But Obama knows the partisan conservatives wouldn't vote for him in a million years, and he really doesn't care what they think. He'll be talking to everyone else. Oh yeah, he'll also be pointing at Romney and giggling.

This is where we are, this is where we're going. Deny and divert all you want. The election is a tossup.


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[Katzndogz]

obama got us into this mess, single handedly. We are 15 trillion dollars in debt. obama wants to add another 11 trillion to that. That's the mess.

 

[J.E.D]

obama got us into this mess, single handedly.

hack

 

[Clementine]

I'm hearing these Romney attacks. It seems to me that libs are desperate b/c Obama can't run on his record.

Libs, why should we vote for Obama? Tell me what he has done that is so great?

Obama is running from his record. He can't put what he's done on display because he knows it turns people off. No way will he brag about how many times he's passed something by executive order, talk about the radicals he's appointed or expand on what he said recently when he didn't know the mic was on. He'd rather that not be made an issue.

 

[Mac1958]

obama got us into this mess, single handedly. We are 15 trillion dollars in debt. obama wants to add another 11 trillion to that. That's the mess.

A vivid example of the denial and diversion to which I referred in the previous post.


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[JoeB131]

obama got us into this mess, single handedly. We are 15 trillion dollars in debt. obama wants to add another 11 trillion to that. That's the mess.

I agree, debt is a problem.

But I don't see the GOP really offering solutions to it.

They want more tax cuts for rich people.

They want to privatize social security and Medicare

They want to escalate wars in the middle east.

How is that going to reduce the deficit any again?

I think we need serious spending cuts. I also think we need serious tax increases. We also need to change our positions on trade to make it profitable to make things here again and build up middle class wages.

Neither party is talking about real solutions, but at least with an Obama second term, he's not looking to get re-elected again and can bite the bullet on some of the hard choices.

 

[1_Old_Man]

Of course President Obama will run on his record. What is really funny is that the Republican nominee, no matter who he turns out to be, won't be able to run on their own record. Will Mitt crow about health care in Massachusetts? Will Newt bray about his ethics violations, and what, pray tell, would Ron Paul have to run on - he who has no accomplishments what so ever save having come up with a son who is an even greater threat to society that he himself?

 

[naturegirl]

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I don't know if I need to point out the painfully obvious, but what the hell, just in case I really do:

Obama's overall premise for the campaign will be this - We're doing the best we can with the steaming bucket of shit that we took over in 2008. Yes, it's taking a while, no doubt about it, but the catastrophe was deep, broad and clearly historical in nature (both domestically and internationally). While I can sure as hell understand your frustrations, we're moving in the right direction, and if we can get vertical again, perhaps I'll be able to actually do something proactively instead of playing fireman. And by the way, do you really want to go back to the policies that brought us here in the first place?

Yes, I know, partisan conservatives will deny all of the above, inferring that the economic disaster was just a little blip on the radar, that the horrific wars in the Middle East were/are just little spats. I get it, I get it.

But Obama knows the partisan conservatives wouldn't vote for him in a million years, and he really doesn't care what they think. He'll be talking to everyone else. Oh yeah, he'll also be pointing at Romney and giggling.

This is where we are, this is where we're going. Deny and divert all you want. The election is a tossup.


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Yea, I think you nailed it. This is the Obama 2012 platform, however; he campaigned in 2008 on the promise he could fix things. He was the only one, he was bringing hope and change. He was going to fundamentally change the way America works.

Now he wants to cry it was worse than he knew?? He spent the first two years of his Presidency passing a ridiculous 2700 page law that puts small businesses and the middle class at risk. His Congress passed the law so we "could see what was in it". Yea, now we're finding out what's in it and it's not looking too good.

He didn't give a crap about the economy or jobs, he skated though spending way too much here and there on what he thought might make him shine a little.

How's he going to convince the American People that still have no jobs or have taken a job with 1/2 the pay that they'll have to "suck it up" for 4 more years until he's able to "fix" it. I don't believe he can, most of them aren't buying it this time around.

He can laugh at Mitt and point his finger all he wants, he rarely shows he takes things seriously especially if it can't be about him. He is truly disconnected from most of the American public.

The Republicans can run away with this election, let's just hope the party allows Romney to campaign on his record.

 

[alan1]

2008,
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_tjPLJwVI]Barack Obama 2008 ad on Gas Prices - YouTube[/ame]

yep, $3.50 for gas was something he said he'd fix. Anybody out there paying less than $3.50?

yep, create 5 million jobs is what he said. He's only got 4.8 million to go

But according to one count used, the unadjusted, actual "raw" count of jobs created when not adjusted for seasonal variance, we have pulled into positive territory and there are 198,000 more jobs now than there were when Obama was inaugurated and the economy was in free fall.

 

[bugs]

2008,
Barack Obama 2008 ad on Gas Prices - YouTube

yep, $3.50 for gas was something he said he'd fix. Anybody out there paying less than $3.50?

yep, create 5 million jobs is what he said. He's only got 4.8 million to go

But according to one count used, the unadjusted, actual "raw" count of jobs created when not adjusted for seasonal variance, we have pulled into positive territory and there are 198,000 more jobs now than there were when Obama was inaugurated and the economy was in free fall.

$4.09 here in Michigan today.. Unemployment still WWAaayyyy Higher than "they" are saying it is!!!

 

[Seawytch]

Of course President Obama will run on his record. What is really funny is that the Republican nominee, no matter who he turns out to be, won't be able to run on their own record. Will Mitt crow about health care in Massachusetts? Will Newt bray about his ethics violations, and what, pray tell, would Ron Paul have to run on - he who has no accomplishments what so ever save having come up with a son who is an even greater threat to society that he himself?

No point even mentioning the other three...It's Romney going into the fall.

And what will Willard, Reversible Mittens, Romney run on? Like you said, he's running away from the good things he did in Massachusetts; a popular health care law and gay marriage so what is there left for Mittens? His time at Bain as a vulture capitalist, destroying companies and shipping jobs overseas? Good luck with that.

On the other hand we have the President...who has made some mistakes and, according to his base, has gone too far in trying to appease Republicans. However, to say he doesn't have a record to run on is disingenuous. The Stimulus kept us from a depression, you can ask the economists, they'll tell you the same. He saved GM, an American icon. The auto industry, with Chevrolet at the lead, is helping drive our current recovery AND they are the number one automaker in the WORLD again. (why the RW can't celebrate that, I don't know). When he took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a MONTH but now have had almost two years of straight job gains. He got bin Laden, signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, overturned DADT, allowed Federal Funding of stem cell research, signed a bill that would allow us queers to visit our life partners in the hospital and increased VA funding just to name a few...and don't get me started on Health Care reforms that were badly needed...(and popular)

If George Bush had done a quarter of what President Obama has accomplished, the RW would be creaming it's collective jeans on a daily basis. Hannity would be walking around with a permanent stiffy...and not from Rush Limbaugh's off market Viagra.

 

[Oldstyle]

Of course President Obama will run on his record. What is really funny is that the Republican nominee, no matter who he turns out to be, won't be able to run on their own record. Will Mitt crow about health care in Massachusetts? Will Newt bray about his ethics violations, and what, pray tell, would Ron Paul have to run on - he who has no accomplishments what so ever save having come up with a son who is an even greater threat to society that he himself?

No point even mentioning the other three...It's Romney going into the fall.

And what will Willard, Reversible Mittens, Romney run on? Like you said, he's running away from the good things he did in Massachusetts; a popular health care law and gay marriage so what is there left for Mittens? His time at Bain as a vulture capitalist, destroying companies and shipping jobs overseas? Good luck with that.

On the other hand we have the President...who has made some mistakes and, according to his base, has gone too far in trying to appease Republicans. However, to say he doesn't have a record to run on is disingenuous. The Stimulus kept us from a depression, you can ask the economists, they'll tell you the same. He saved GM, an American icon. The auto industry, with Chevrolet at the lead, is helping drive our current recovery AND they are the number one automaker in the WORLD again. (why the RW can't celebrate that, I don't know). When he took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a MONTH but now have had almost two years of straight job gains. He got bin Laden, signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, overturned DADT, allowed Federal Funding of stem cell research, signed a bill that would allow us queers to visit our life partners in the hospital and increased VA funding just to name a few...and don't get me started on Health Care reforms that were badly needed...(and popular)

If George Bush had done a quarter of what President Obama has accomplished, the RW would be creaming it's collective jeans on a daily basis. Hannity would be walking around with a permanent stiffy...and not from Rush Limbaugh's off market Viagra.

First of all...the Stimulus didn't keep us from a depression...TARP kept us from a depression. The Stimulus just wasted a trillion of our dollars on a really badly conceived plan that didn't do what it was supposed to do. Obama didn't save GM...GM would have been saved by filing bankruptcy. What Obama "saved" were the benefits for UAW workers that supported him with so much money in his Presidential campaign. Our two years of job gains have been miniscule gains that only look good compared to how things were at the height of the recession. Barack Obama's policies have in fact retarded job growth...not enhanced it. As for ObamaCare? If it was so great and so popular, Wytch...then why is Obama running away from it? He mentioned his "signature" piece of legislation one time in his last State of the Union address and that was briefly. The truth is...ObamaCare doesn't lower the average American's health care costs...it raises them! Not to mention puts the country on a direct path to fiscal insolvency by adding another massive entitlement at a time when we can't pay for what we have.

 

[Seawytch]

Of course President Obama will run on his record. What is really funny is that the Republican nominee, no matter who he turns out to be, won't be able to run on their own record. Will Mitt crow about health care in Massachusetts? Will Newt bray about his ethics violations, and what, pray tell, would Ron Paul have to run on - he who has no accomplishments what so ever save having come up with a son who is an even greater threat to society that he himself?

No point even mentioning the other three...It's Romney going into the fall.

And what will Willard, Reversible Mittens, Romney run on? Like you said, he's running away from the good things he did in Massachusetts; a popular health care law and gay marriage so what is there left for Mittens? His time at Bain as a vulture capitalist, destroying companies and shipping jobs overseas? Good luck with that.

On the other hand we have the President...who has made some mistakes and, according to his base, has gone too far in trying to appease Republicans. However, to say he doesn't have a record to run on is disingenuous. The Stimulus kept us from a depression, you can ask the economists, they'll tell you the same. He saved GM, an American icon. The auto industry, with Chevrolet at the lead, is helping drive our current recovery AND they are the number one automaker in the WORLD again. (why the RW can't celebrate that, I don't know). When he took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a MONTH but now have had almost two years of straight job gains. He got bin Laden, signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, overturned DADT, allowed Federal Funding of stem cell research, signed a bill that would allow us queers to visit our life partners in the hospital and increased VA funding just to name a few...and don't get me started on Health Care reforms that were badly needed...(and popular)

If George Bush had done a quarter of what President Obama has accomplished, the RW would be creaming it's collective jeans on a daily basis. Hannity would be walking around with a permanent stiffy...and not from Rush Limbaugh's off market Viagra.

First of all...the Stimulus didn't keep us from a depression...TARP kept us from a depression. The Stimulus just wasted a trillion of our dollars on a really badly conceived plan that didn't do what it was supposed to do. Obama didn't save GM...GM would have been saved by filing bankruptcy. What Obama "saved" were the benefits for UAW workers that supported him with so much money in his Presidential campaign. Our two years of job gains have been miniscule gains that only look good compared to how things were at the height of the recession. Barack Obama's policies have in fact retarded job growth...not enhanced it. As for ObamaCare? If it was so great and so popular, Wytch...then why is Obama running away from it? He mentioned his "signature" piece of legislation one time in his last State of the Union address and that was briefly. The truth is...ObamaCare doesn't lower the average American's health care costs...it raises them! Not to mention puts the country on a direct path to fiscal insolvency by adding another massive entitlement at a time when we can't pay for what we have.

USA Today: Economists agree: Stimulus created nearly 3 million jobs

Economic Stimulus
The latest Chicago Booth poll of economists focuses on the 2009 stimulus. The first question asked whether the stimulus increased employment by the end of 2010. Eighty percent of the polled economists agreed. Four percent disagreed. Two percent were uncertain.

How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End

The U.S. government's response to the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession included some of the most aggressive fiscal and monetary policies in history. The response was multifaceted and bipartisan, involving the Federal Reserve, Congress, and two administrations. Yet almost every one of these policy initiatives remain controversial to this day, with critics calling them misguided, ineffective or both. The debate over these policies is crucial because, with the economy still weak, more government support may be needed, as seen recently in both the extension of unemployment benefits and the Fed's consideration of further easing.

In this paper, we use the Moody's Analytics model of the U.S. economy -- adjusted to accommodate some recent financial-market policies -- to simulate the macroeconomic effects of the government's total policy response. We find that its effects on real GDP, jobs, and inflation are huge, and probably averted what could have been called Great Depression 2.0. For example, we estimate that, without the government's response, GDP in 2010 would be about 11.5% lower, payroll employment would be less by some 8½ million jobs, and the nation would now be experiencing deflation.

[...]

The U.S. economy has made enormous progress since the dark days of early 2009. Eighteen months ago, the global financial system was on the brink of collapse and the U.S. was suffering its worst economic down*turn since the 1930s. Real GDP was falling at about a 6% annual rate, and monthly job losses averaged close to 750,000. Today, the financial system is operating much more normally, real GDP is advancing at a nearly 3% pace, and job growth has resumed, albeit at an insufficient pace.

From the perspective of early 2009, this rapid snap back was a surprise. Maybe the country and the world were just lucky. But we take another view: The Great Recession gave way to recovery as quickly as it did largely because of the unprecedented responses by monetary and fiscal policymakers.

A stunning range of initiatives was un*dertaken by the Federal Reserve, the Bush and Obama administrations, and Congress (see Table 1). While the effectiveness of any individual element certainly can be debated, there is little doubt that in total, the policy response was highly effective. If policymak*ers had not reacted as aggressively or as quickly as they did, the financial system might still be unsettled, the economy might still be shrinking, and the costs to U.S. tax*payers would have been vastly greater.


I'll be waiting for your evidence that President Obama is slowing our recovery. While you're looking, you can read this...

How Congress is killing the recovery

 

[Full-Auto]

3.9M private sector jobs in the past three years, economic growth since four months after he took office, ending the war in Iraq on schedule, removing troops from Afghanistan as scheduled, passing the most sweeping health care reform since LBJ, ending DADT, passing sweeping financial-sector reform etc....

Yes, he can and will run on his record- and on the two-faced record of his opponent, who supported abortion, a mandate etc...before he opposed them.

Comical,all those private sector jobs when you had to drop more then that from the roles.

Another cross dressing cheer leader.

Any cut is extreme. we got it already.