It’s time to face facts: Obama’s presidency was a failure

[teapartysamurai]

It’s time to face facts: Obama’s presidency was a failure
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Moreover, deep recessions (such as the 1981-82 one) that cause people to cut way back are generally followed by booming rebounds. This one wasn’t. Far from turbo-charging the economy, the stimulus was such a dud that five years after the recovery began, 72 percent of Americans said in a poll that they thought we were still in a recession. “The stimulus ultimately failed to do what America expected it to do — bring about a strong, sustainable recovery,” wrote Michael Grabell of ProPublica.

That’s hard to dispute given the sluggishness of the recovery — economic growth has been by far the weakest of any post-recession period since WWII. But Chait has zilch to say about that. Nor does Chait mention that Obama is the first president since Herbert Hoover to fail to preside over a single year of 3 percent growth. But hey, Obama fans, stay in your bubble. It’s cozy there.

Sealing himself off certainly didn’t work for the Bubble President, though. President Obama entered office thinking: “They love me! So they’ll love everything I do!” No. He had no backup plan for what to do if Congress became less than generous with the rubber stamp. Virtually every president has to negotiate with Capitol Hill — Reagan faced hostile Democrats in the House for his entire presidency — but Obama thought horse-trading was beneath him.

So he contented himself giving speeches and signing executive orders that Donald Trump is about to feed into the shredder. It looks like Obama’s chapter in the history books is going to be much like his résumé when he was elected president: thin.

nypost.com/2017/01/14/its-time-to-face-facts-obamas-presidency-was-a-failure/


Obama care is falling into the dust bin of history, race relations haven't been this bad since the 60s, Democrats just suffered a huge defeat and we can't ignore how much Obama contributed to that.

The Obama presidency was a huge failure guys. It's time everyone started to face that.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Undoubtedly, he will go down as the worst in U.S. history.

 

[Weatherman2020]

I didn't even get an Obama phone out of it.

 

[yiostheoy]

It’s time to face facts: Obama’s presidency was a failure
...............

Moreover, deep recessions (such as the 1981-82 one) that cause people to cut way back are generally followed by booming rebounds. This one wasn’t. Far from turbo-charging the economy, the stimulus was such a dud that five years after the recovery began, 72 percent of Americans said in a poll that they thought we were still in a recession. “The stimulus ultimately failed to do what America expected it to do — bring about a strong, sustainable recovery,” wrote Michael Grabell of ProPublica.

That’s hard to dispute given the sluggishness of the recovery — economic growth has been by far the weakest of any post-recession period since WWII. But Chait has zilch to say about that. Nor does Chait mention that Obama is the first president since Herbert Hoover to fail to preside over a single year of 3 percent growth. But hey, Obama fans, stay in your bubble. It’s cozy there.

Sealing himself off certainly didn’t work for the Bubble President, though. President Obama entered office thinking: “They love me! So they’ll love everything I do!” No. He had no backup plan for what to do if Congress became less than generous with the rubber stamp. Virtually every president has to negotiate with Capitol Hill — Reagan faced hostile Democrats in the House for his entire presidency — but Obama thought horse-trading was beneath him.

So he contented himself giving speeches and signing executive orders that Donald Trump is about to feed into the shredder. It looks like Obama’s chapter in the history books is going to be much like his résumé when he was elected president: thin.

nypost.com/2017/01/14/its-time-to-face-facts-obamas-presidency-was-a-failure/


Obama care is falling into the dust bin of history, race relations haven't been this bad since the 60s, Democrats just suffered a huge defeat and we can't ignore how much Obama contributed to that.

The Obama presidency was a huge failure guys. It's time everyone started to face that.

What a dumbazz you are.

Your statement is not a fact it is your opinion.

You would not know a fact if one bit you in the azz.

 

[yiostheoy]

Undoubtedly, he will go down as the worst in U.S. history.

Nope.

Ford, Carter, and Nixon already win that prize.

And before them there was Hoover and Buchanan.

Damm you fools are bad at history.

Obviously you went to public schools.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Undoubtedly, he will go down as the worst in U.S. history.

Nope.

Ford, Carter, and Nixon already win that prize.

And before them there was Hoover and Buchanan.

Damm you fools are bad at history.

Obviously you went to public schools.

You were just bitching about opinions and then spew your own

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Undoubtedly, he will go down as the worst in U.S. history.

Nope.

Ford, Carter, and Nixon already win that prize.

And before them there was Hoover and Buchanan.

Damm you fools are bad at history.

Obviously you went to public schools.

You left out Wilson & FDR.

 

[yiostheoy]

Undoubtedly, he will go down as the worst in U.S. history.

Nope.

Ford, Carter, and Nixon already win that prize.

And before them there was Hoover and Buchanan.

Damm you fools are bad at history.

Obviously you went to public schools.

You left out Wilson & FDR.

Wilson was viewed favorable since he navigated WW1 and the American dough boys "won" that war for him.

FDR is viewed as a god.

Your knowledge of history is still sucking.

 

[teapartysamurai]

It’s time to face facts: Obama’s presidency was a failure
...............

Moreover, deep recessions (such as the 1981-82 one) that cause people to cut way back are generally followed by booming rebounds. This one wasn’t. Far from turbo-charging the economy, the stimulus was such a dud that five years after the recovery began, 72 percent of Americans said in a poll that they thought we were still in a recession. “The stimulus ultimately failed to do what America expected it to do — bring about a strong, sustainable recovery,” wrote Michael Grabell of ProPublica.

That’s hard to dispute given the sluggishness of the recovery — economic growth has been by far the weakest of any post-recession period since WWII. But Chait has zilch to say about that. Nor does Chait mention that Obama is the first president since Herbert Hoover to fail to preside over a single year of 3 percent growth. But hey, Obama fans, stay in your bubble. It’s cozy there.

Sealing himself off certainly didn’t work for the Bubble President, though. President Obama entered office thinking: “They love me! So they’ll love everything I do!” No. He had no backup plan for what to do if Congress became less than generous with the rubber stamp. Virtually every president has to negotiate with Capitol Hill — Reagan faced hostile Democrats in the House for his entire presidency — but Obama thought horse-trading was beneath him.

So he contented himself giving speeches and signing executive orders that Donald Trump is about to feed into the shredder. It looks like Obama’s chapter in the history books is going to be much like his résumé when he was elected president: thin.

nypost.com/2017/01/14/its-time-to-face-facts-obamas-presidency-was-a-failure/


Obama care is falling into the dust bin of history, race relations haven't been this bad since the 60s, Democrats just suffered a huge defeat and we can't ignore how much Obama contributed to that.

The Obama presidency was a huge failure guys. It's time everyone started to face that.

What a dumbazz you are.

Your statement is not a fact it is your opinion.

You would not know a fact if one bit you in the azz.

Fact: Obamacare is failing.

Fact: Race relations are worse then since Obama Office, if NOT since the 60s

FACT: Obama said Al Queda was on the run yet on his watch let ISIS be created.

FACT: More domestic terrorist attacks have happened on this soil including the Pulse Gay Club attack.

Fact your way out of that.

 

[teapartysamurai]

Undoubtedly, he will go down as the worst in U.S. history.

Nope.

Ford, Carter, and Nixon already win that prize.

And before them there was Hoover and Buchanan.

Damm you fools are bad at history.

Obviously you went to public schools.

That's only your opinion and not the opinion of the country.

November 8, proved that.

 

[teapartysamurai]

Undoubtedly, he will go down as the worst in U.S. history.

Nope.

Ford, Carter, and Nixon already win that prize.

And before them there was Hoover and Buchanan.

Damm you fools are bad at history.

Obviously you went to public schools.

You left out Wilson & FDR.

Wilson was viewed favorable since he navigated WW1 and the American dough boys "won" that war for him.

FDR is viewed as a god.

Your knowledge of history is still sucking.

Your "knowledge" is only your opinion.

 

[Dschrute3]

Depends on whether you're a 'Half-Full' or 'Half-Empty' person. We've enjoyed low Unemployment, low gas prices, and a record high Stock Market most of his term. But he committed some blunders like running the Debt up bigtime, more war interventions, and dismantling our Immigration System. Considering what he inherited, he did ok. Not necessarily a failure, but not necessarily a success either.

 

[ClosedCaption]

It's the old Trump attack. Point out only the things you disagree with to determine that everything is 100% bad.

Ghandi was skinny!

 

[teapartysamurai]

Depends on whether you're a 'Half-Full' or 'Half-Empty' person. We've enjoyed low Unemployment, low gas prices, and a record high Stock Market most of his term. But he committed some blunders like running the Debt up bigtime, more war interventions, and dismantling our Immigration System. Considering what he inherited, he did ok. Not necessarily a failure, but not necessarily a success either.

The "low unemployement" is done by leaving out the people who gave up looking for work.

If you count them in unemployment is very high.

Another reason Trump won. You can play with the books to claim Unemployment is low, but you can't fool someone who has been out of work.

 

[teapartysamurai]

It's the old Trump attack. Point out only the things you disagree with to determine that everything is 100% bad.

Ghandi was skinny!

You want me to point out more?

Never closed Gitmo after promising to do so.

Lied about "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor."

Had surrogates go out and lie that Benghazi was caused by a video

His shovel ready jobs was a complete flop.

His Fast and Furious was a complete debacle

And the list goes on

 

[Wyatt earp]

Depends on whether you're a 'Half-Full' or 'Half-Empty' person. We've enjoyed low Unemployment, low gas prices, and a record high Stock Market most of his term. But he committed some blunders like running the Debt up bigtime, more war interventions, and dismantling our Immigration System. Considering what he inherited, he did ok. Not necessarily a failure, but not necessarily a success either.

WTF? Low gas prices most of his term? You obviously never drove a car.

And low unemployment?


What world do you live in?


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[teapartysamurai]

Barack Obama's Legacy of Failure

The economy. Obama took office during a painful recession and (with Congress's help) made it even worse. Historically, the deeper a recession, the more robust the recovery that follows, but the economy's rebound under Obama was the worst in seven decades. Annual GDP growth since the recession ended has averaged a feeble 2.1 percent, by far the puniest economic performance of any president since World War II. Obama spent more public funds on "stimulus" than all previous stimulus programs combined, with wretched, counterproductive results. On his watch, millions of additional Americans fell below the poverty line. The number of food stamp recipients soared. The national debt doubled to an incredible $20 trillion. According to the Pew Research Center, the share of young adults (18- to 34-year-olds) living in their parents' homes is the highest it has been since the Great Depression — particularly young men, whose employment and earning levels are far lower than they were a generation ago.


In 2008, when Obama was first elected president, 63 percent of Americans considered themselves middle class. Seven years later, only 51 percent still felt the same way. Obama argues energetically that his economic policies have delivered prosperity and employment. Countless Americans disagree — including many who aren't Republican. "Millions and millions and millions and millions of people look at that pretty picture of America he painted," said Bill Clinton after Obama extolled the recovery in his last State of the Union speech, "and they cannot find themselves in it to save their lives."

Health care. The Affordable Care Act should never have been enacted. Survey after survey confirmed that it lacked majority support, and only through hard-knuckled, party-line maneuvering was the wrenching health-care overhaul rammed through Congress. But Obama was certain the measure would win public support, because of three promises he made over and over: that the law would extend health insurance to the 47 million uninsured, that it would significantly reduce health-insurance costs, and that Americans who had health plans or doctors they liked could keep them.

But Obamacare has been a fiasco. At least 27 million Americans are still without health insurance, and many of those who are newly insured have simply been added to the Medicaid rolls. Far from reducing costs, Obamacare sent premiums and deductibles skyrocketing. Insurance companies, having suffered billions of dollars in losses on the Obamacare exchanges, have pulled out from many of them, leaving consumers in much of the country with few or no options. And the administration, it transpired, knew all along that millions of Americans would lose their medical plans once the law took effect. The deception was so egregious that in December 2013, PolitiFact dubbed "If you like your health plan, you can keep it" as its "Lie of the Year."

Foreign policy. The 44th president came to office vowing not to repeat the foreign-policy mistakes of his predecessor. His own were exponentially worse.

In his rush to pull US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, he created a power vacuum into which terror networks expanded and the Taliban revived. Islamic State's jihadist savagery not only plunged a stabilized Iraq back into shuddering violence, but also inspired scores of lethal terrorist attacks in the West. For months, Obama and his lieutenants insisted that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad could be induced to "reform," and pointedly refused to intervene as an uprising against him metastasized into genocidal slaughter. At last Obama vowed to take action if Assad crossed a "red line" by deploying chemical weapons — but when those weapons were used, Obama blinked. The death toll in Syria climbed into the hundreds of thousands, triggering a flood of refugees greater than any the world had seen since the 1940s.

Determined to conciliate America's adversaries, the president indulged dictatorial regimes in Iran, Russia, and Cuba. They in turn exploited his passivity with multiple treacheries — seizing Crimea and destroying Aleppo (Russia), abducting American hostages for ransom and illicitly testing long-range missiles (Iran), and cracking down mercilessly on democratic dissidents (Cuba). Meanwhile, American friends and allies — Israel, Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic — Obama undermined or betrayed.

For eight years the nation has been led by a president intent on lowering America's global profile, not projecting military power, and "leading from behind." The consequences have been stark: a Middle East awash in blood and bombs, US troops re-embroiled in Iraq and Afghanistan, aggressive dictators ascendant, human rights and democracy in retreat, rivers of refugees destabilizing nations across three continents, the rise of neo-fascism in Europe, and the erosion of US credibility to its lowest level since the Carter years.

National unity. As a candidate for president, Obama promised to soothe America's bitter and divisive politics, and to replace Red State/Blue State animosity with cooperation and bipartisanship. But the healer-in-chief millions of Americans voted for never showed up.

According to Gallup, Obama became the most polarizing president in modern history. Like all presidents, he faced partisan opposition, but Obama worsened things by regularly taking the low road and disparaging his critics' motives. In his own words, his political strategy was one of ruthless escalation: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." During his 2012 reelection campaign, Politico reported that "Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign." And when a Republican-led Congress wouldn't enact legislation he sought, Obama turned to his "pen and phone" strategy of governing by diktat that polarized politics even more.

Jeff Jacoby - Barack Obama's Legacy of Failure

 

[bodecea]

Undoubtedly, he will go down as the worst in U.S. history.

Nope.

Ford, Carter, and Nixon already win that prize.

And before them there was Hoover and Buchanan.

Damm you fools are bad at history.

Obviously you went to public schools.

That's only your opinion and not the opinion of the country.

November 8, proved that.

Oh? I was not aware that President Obama was on the ballot November 8th. However he was 4 years ago and won...and 8 years ago and won.

 

[teapartysamurai]

Obama foreign policy widely seen as failure

Under Obama, U.S. lost influence on world stage as relations with allies frayed
President Obama foreign policy widely seen as failure

 

[Dschrute3]

Depends on whether you're a 'Half-Full' or 'Half-Empty' person. We've enjoyed low Unemployment, low gas prices, and a record high Stock Market most of his term. But he committed some blunders like running the Debt up bigtime, more war interventions, and dismantling our Immigration System. Considering what he inherited, he did ok. Not necessarily a failure, but not necessarily a success either.

The "low unemployement" is done by leaving out the people who gave up looking for work.

If you count them in unemployment is very high.

Another reason Trump won. You can play with the books to claim Unemployment is low, but you can't fool someone who has been out of work.

Americans like low Unemployment and low gas prices. But he did commit some blunders too. I think for what he inherited, he did ok. Go back and look at how Bush's term ended. It was an awful catastrophe. If you keep it in perspective, you'd have to say he did ok.