Obama Voters, The Real Failures

[jknowgood]

Okay, reality check.

Obama ordered airstrikes because that doesn't get us involved.

Right now, people are all upset that ISIL is executing journalists.

Will they still be upset in a year? Nope.

So why commit to something you'll be defending in a year?

I'm still happy my country wasn't handed over to the Evil Mormon Cult. You should be, too.

Obama ordered airstrikes because that doesn't get us involved.

What?

Did the Koch Brother hack your account to make you look like an idiot?

Doesn't put boots on the ground or rely on a 10 year commitment. He can stop the bombing on a moment's notice. And he probably will when people stop caring.

Oh great another president leads America by polls. That's how Clinton gave BUSH 911. He could've killed bin laden, but the polls said it wasn't popular.

 

[PoliticalChic]

A recession hit and it Oblama fault? I think you may have forgotten the true intent of recessions by the rich, it allows them to take what other people worked to accomplish. The rich hates the middle class and the poor, they laugh at our predicament and the huge settlement amounts that banks/financial inst. are having to pay only showed their true intent..

Let's enjoy a trip down Memory Lane......

1.More than 6.7 million more Americans have been plunged into poverty since Obama became President.


2.Real household income is down 5%


3. Consumer prices are up 10.2%


4. Total federal debt is up 58%


5. Gasoline prices are up 82%


6. Food stamp recipients up 49%


7. Debt held by the public is up 89%


However, the Obama administrationrecently projected an annual deficit of $750 billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, and $626 billion the year after. At that rate, the debt owed to the public will more than double during the Obama presidency.

As of 2012, according to the most recent figures reported by the Census Bureau, median (midpoint) income for all U.S. households was $51,017, which was 4.9 percent lower (in inflation-adjusted dollars) than it was in 2008, the year before Obama took office.

The same story applies to family income, which includes many families with two earners. (The “household” figure includes single persons living alone, as well as families.) Median family income in 2012 was $62,241, or 5.1 percent below the inflation-adjusted 2008 level.

The number of persons living in poverty also worsened again in 2012, according to the most recent Census figures.


8. As of last year, 46,496,000 persons lived in households with income below the official poverty line, an increase of nearly 6.7 million since 2008 and 249,000 since 2011. The total poverty rate remained unchanged in 2012 at 15 percent of the total U.S. population. So for the second straight year, the poverty rate was 1.8 points higher than it was in 2008.

Obama 8217 s Numbers October Update


9...in today’s recovery — the slowest in the modern era going back to 1947 — private capital investment has lagged badly. ... so has the jobs situation, with 92 million dropping out of the workforce altogether. A labor-participation rate of 62.8% and an employment-to-population rate of 58% are historic lows indicative of the anemic jobs recovery.Big Business Swings Behind a Mantra of Growth - The New York Sun


10. Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama

Tavis Smiley Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator Under Obama


11. . ".... the... [dollar] has today a value of barely a 1,250th of an ounce of gold, a staggering plunge from an 853rd of an ounce on the day Mr. Obama took office...." Fiat Wages - The New York Sun



12. "CBO says deficits slated to shrink in coming years, but will soar again if spending or tax changes are not made


Federal deficits have soared between 2009 and 2012, bring the total long-term debt to a level equal to 73 percent of the nation’s GDP. “Between 2009 and 2012, the federal government recorded the largest budget deficits relative to the size of the economy since 1946, causing federal debt to soar.”

CBO says deficits slated to shrink in coming years but will soar again if spending or tax changes are not made Dallas Morning News


13. "Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the 'Recovery' as During the Recession
. ...the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey ....indicate that the real (inflation-adjusted)median annual household income in America has fallen by 4.4 percent during the "recovery," after having fallen by 1.8 during the recession.

Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the Recovery as During the Recession The Weekly Standard

14. "(CNSNews.com) - The real median income of American women dropped a little more than four percent in the first three full years after the end of the last recession,..... Census Bureau income data, the median income of American women was $21,520 in constant 2012 dollars. That was down $914 dollars—or about 4.1 percent—from 2009." Median Income of Women Dropped 4 --In First 3 Years of Recovery CNS News


15. "US economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate in Q1

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy slowed drastically in the first three months of the year...to a barely discernible 0.1 percent annual rate in the January-March quarter, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That was the weakest pace since the end of 2012 and was down from a 2.6 percent rate in the previous quarter.... the anemic growth last quarter is surely a topic for discussion at the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting,..."

My Way News - US economy slowed to 0.1 percent growth rate in Q1


16. "More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force
The unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent in April from 6.7 percent in March, the lowest it has been since September 2008 when it was 6.1 percent. The sharp drop, though, occurred because the number of people working or seeking work fell. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not count people not looking for a job as unemployed.

The bureau noted that the civilian labor force dropped by 806,000 last month, following an increase of 503,000 in March."

Report More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force CBS DC

The amount (not seasonally adjusted) of Americans not in thelabor force in April rose to 92,594,000, almost 1 million more than the previous month.


17. "The U.S. economy contractedat a much steeper pace than previously estimated in the firstquarter, but there are indications that growth has sincerebounded strongly.

The Commerce Department said on Wednesday gross domesticproduct fell at a 2.9 percent annual rate, the economy's worstperformance in five years, instead of the 1.0 percent pace ithad reported last month." Final US first quarter GDP contracts

18. (CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans 16 and older who did not participate in the labor force climbed to a record high of 92,120,000 in June, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)..... the labor force participation rate for Americans was 62.8 percent, matching a 36-year low. Record Number of Americans Not in Labor Force in June CNS News

19. (CNSNews.com)– The unemployment rate for black Americans is more than double that of white Americans, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).... In the numbers released today, covering the month of June, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for black Americans age 16 and over was 10.7%, reported the BLS. The unemployment rate for white Americans in the same age group and time-frame was 5.3%, said the BLS. Black Unemployment 10.7 More Than Double White Unemployment 5.3 CNS News

20. (CNSNews.com) - 11.4 million Americans age 16 and over have left the workforce since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
In July 2014, there were 92,001,000 Americans, 16 and over, who were classified as “not in the labor force,” meaning they not only did not have a job, but they didn’t actively seek one in the last four weeks

11 472 000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office CNS News

21. "The 35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare
109,631,000 Americans lived in households that received benefits from one or more federally funded "means-tested programs" — also known as welfare — as of the fourth quarter of 2012,according to data released Tuesdayby the Census Bureau. When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs — such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits — were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.

Subtract the 3,297,000 who were receiving veterans' benefits from the total, and that leaves 150,026,000 people receiving non-veterans' benefits."

The 35.4 Percent 109 631 000 on Welfare CNS News





Excellent link showing the economy US Household Income Department of Numbers

 

[Moonglow]

Which the loss is not Oblama's fault since the recession started during Boosh! Live with it...the GOP dropped the ball twice during W's turn at bat...

 

[jknowgood]

Which the loss is not Oblama's fault since the recession started during Boosh! Live with it...the GOP dropped the ball twice during W's turn at bat...

By your logic and timeline, clinton handed Bush 911 and the great recession.

 

[J.E.D]

Still better now than in 2008...

Nope.
This country was literally better off the day Bush left office than today or any time since.

The day Bush left office....we were losing 750k jobs per month, UE rate was 7.8% and steadily climbing, DOW was 8,000

Now...54 straight months of private sector job growth, UE rate is 6.1%, DOW is 17,000

Yeah we were so much better off in 2009

ODS much?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Obama Voters, The Real Failures

Actually not.

This partisan idiocy is as ridiculous and as much of a failure as the moronic notion that the president is 'responsible' for ISIS.

In this case the blame clearly belongs to republican voters and the GOP overall, for their failure to nominate a viable candidate for president who could have defeated Obama.

One cannot 'blame' those forced to decide between the lesser of two evils, where both McCain and Romney were poor candidates, and would likewise make poor presidents – a fact confirmed by the wisdom of the voters who rejected both.

 

[J.E.D]

The prescient Michael Goodwin writes that Obama's ship is sinking....but with every nail he hammers into this coffin....remember that voters had a choice, and judged this ship seaworthy.




1."...rising clamor over the beheading of two Americans, and rapidly sinking polls, forced President Obama to reassure the nation last week he had a plan... [but] most military analysts believe the expanded airstrikes will not be a sufficient match for the size and weaponry of the terrorist army.

2. They miss the point. The disjointed speech wasn’t really about terrorism and launching a new war. It was about saving Obama’s presidency.... it may already be too late to save the SS Obama.




3. The whole second term has been a string of disasters, with the toxic brew of his Obamacare lies, middling economic growth and violent global breakdown casting doubt on the president’s stewardship. Six years into his tenure, nothing is going as promised.

4. ...the magic of his rhetoric is long gone, and not just because the public has tuned him out.
They’ve tuned him out because they’ve made up their minds about him. They no longer trust him and don’t think he’s a good leader.

5. ...findings turned up in a tsunami of recent polls that amount to a public vote of no confidence. They shook up the White House so much that the plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants was put on hold to try to protect Democratic candidates from voter wrath in November.




6. ...but it doesn’t change the basic calculation. The president’s problem is that he has been wrong about virtually every major issue.

7. His worldview, his politics, his prejudices, his habits — they’ve been a mismatch for the country and its needs. He has been a dud even in the one area where he seemed a lock to make things better, racial relations. Only 10 percent believe race relations have improved under him, while 35 percent said they are worse.....




8. Barack Obama was not ready to be president, and still isn’t. It is a fantasy to believe he’ll master the art in his final two years.
The lasting image will be his yukking it up on the golf course minutes after giving a perfunctory speech on the beheading of James Foley. It revealed him as hollow, both to America and the world, and there is no way to un-see the emptiness.

9. Obama’s fecklessness is so unique that our adversaries and enemies surely realize they will never face a weaker president.

10. Throw in the fact that Europe largely has scrapped its military might to pay for its welfare states, and the entire West is a diminished, confused opponent, ripe for the taking."
Obama s ship is sinking New York Post





Perhaps the first vote can be chalked up to best hopes....but the second election was a one question IQ test....and everyone who looked at this failure and pulled the Democrat lever....well....those are the real failures, and responsible for what we face today.

Let's hope that the failures who put this windbag back in office haven't doomed all of us!

 

[HenryBHough]

We should all be thankful of Our Kenyan President's having made clear the meaning of the term "damp squib".

 

[PoliticalChic]

Still better now than in 2008...

Nope.
This country was literally better off the day Bush left office than today or any time since.

The day Bush left office....we were losing 750k jobs per month, UE rate was 7.8% and steadily climbing, DOW was 8,000

Now...54 straight months of private sector job growth, UE rate is 6.1%, DOW is 17,000

Yeah we were so much better off in 2009

ODS much?

Post #22- In your face.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The prescient Michael Goodwin writes that Obama's ship is sinking....but with every nail he hammers into this coffin....remember that voters had a choice, and judged this ship seaworthy.




1."...rising clamor over the beheading of two Americans, and rapidly sinking polls, forced President Obama to reassure the nation last week he had a plan... [but] most military analysts believe the expanded airstrikes will not be a sufficient match for the size and weaponry of the terrorist army.

2. They miss the point. The disjointed speech wasn’t really about terrorism and launching a new war. It was about saving Obama’s presidency.... it may already be too late to save the SS Obama.




3. The whole second term has been a string of disasters, with the toxic brew of his Obamacare lies, middling economic growth and violent global breakdown casting doubt on the president’s stewardship. Six years into his tenure, nothing is going as promised.

4. ...the magic of his rhetoric is long gone, and not just because the public has tuned him out.
They’ve tuned him out because they’ve made up their minds about him. They no longer trust him and don’t think he’s a good leader.

5. ...findings turned up in a tsunami of recent polls that amount to a public vote of no confidence. They shook up the White House so much that the plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants was put on hold to try to protect Democratic candidates from voter wrath in November.




6. ...but it doesn’t change the basic calculation. The president’s problem is that he has been wrong about virtually every major issue.

7. His worldview, his politics, his prejudices, his habits — they’ve been a mismatch for the country and its needs. He has been a dud even in the one area where he seemed a lock to make things better, racial relations. Only 10 percent believe race relations have improved under him, while 35 percent said they are worse.....




8. Barack Obama was not ready to be president, and still isn’t. It is a fantasy to believe he’ll master the art in his final two years.
The lasting image will be his yukking it up on the golf course minutes after giving a perfunctory speech on the beheading of James Foley. It revealed him as hollow, both to America and the world, and there is no way to un-see the emptiness.

9. Obama’s fecklessness is so unique that our adversaries and enemies surely realize they will never face a weaker president.

10. Throw in the fact that Europe largely has scrapped its military might to pay for its welfare states, and the entire West is a diminished, confused opponent, ripe for the taking."
Obama s ship is sinking New York Post





Perhaps the first vote can be chalked up to best hopes....but the second election was a one question IQ test....and everyone who looked at this failure and pulled the Democrat lever....well....those are the real failures, and responsible for what we face today.

Let's hope that the failures who put this windbag back in office haven't doomed all of us!

This will be over your head, but John Donne explained how that sad violent applies...


"....therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."

 

[PoliticalChic]

Obama Voters, The Real Failures

Actually not.

This partisan idiocy is as ridiculous and as much of a failure as the moronic notion that the president is 'responsible' for ISIS.

In this case the blame clearly belongs to republican voters and the GOP overall, for their failure to nominate a viable candidate for president who could have defeated Obama.

One cannot 'blame' those forced to decide between the lesser of two evils, where both McCain and Romney were poor candidates, and would likewise make poor presidents – a fact confirmed by the wisdom of the voters who rejected both.

"In this case the blame clearly belongs to republican voters and the GOP overall, for their failure to nominate a viable candidate for president who could have defeated Obama."

Do you realize that you're admitting that Obama was never equipped to do the job?????


Nah....you're a dope....you don't.

 

[Toronado3800]

Ok....lets end the name calling and childish "everything he does is wrong" claims and talk issues.

With ISIS what woukd you do?

Perhaps the greater questions is what would you have done in Iraq? Remember, no name calling.

If I took over in 08 I would have looked sad about it but would have said since we needed at least one all purpose base there for the next 40 years just like Germany and the Western Pacific. Would have been a hard sell but I would have said the war is over, we are coming out if you misbehave. And damnit if it doesnt look lime we are coming out again.

If I became President tomorrowow I would be probably doing almost the exact same thing but hopefully sounding better about it. Guess saying I'm opening up a base now to help Iraq might even go over better with the ISIS threat.

Damn that base would be a missile and artillery magnet.

Oh well. Thats what I would do. What is your idea?

I am up for more ideas. Even an "i dunno, that's a tough one" is fair.

 

[LoneLaugher]

One of the greatest things about the USMB is that most of the nutters here look up to PC as some sort of intellectual heavyweight.

 

[JoeB131]

[
Oh great another president leads America by polls. That's how Clinton gave BUSH 911. He could've killed bin laden, but the polls said it wasn't popular.

Uh, no, the reason he didn't kill Bin Laden was the one time he tried, Republicans accused him of launching a "Wag The Dog" attack to distract attention from the all important Lewinsky Investigation.

 

[Geaux4it]

Still better now than in 2008...

Good for you, you got yours

-Geaux

 

[Meathead]

[
Oh great another president leads America by polls. That's how Clinton gave BUSH 911. He could've killed bin laden, but the polls said it wasn't popular.

Uh, no, the reason he didn't kill Bin Laden was the one time he tried, Republicans accused him of launching a "Wag The Dog" attack to distract attention from the all important Lewinsky Investigation.

Uh, no. From the horses mouth:

“I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him."
“And so I didn’t do it,” the former commander in chief says.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-bill-clinton-osama-bin-laden-20140801-story.html

 

[Geaux4it]

Okay, reality check.

Obama ordered airstrikes because that doesn't get us involved.

Right now, people are all upset that ISIL is executing journalists.

Will they still be upset in a year? Nope.

So why commit to something you'll be defending in a year?

I'm still happy my country wasn't handed over to the Evil Mormon Cult. You should be, too.

Obama ordered airstrikes because that doesn't get us involved.

What?

Did the Koch Brother hack your account to make you look like an idiot?

Doesn't put boots on the ground or rely on a 10 year commitment. He can stop the bombing on a moment's notice. And he probably will when people stop caring.

There are boots on the ground. Over 1100 to be exact

-Geaux

 

[Geaux4it]

Ah good ole intervention and Blow-back. Things the right want nothing to hear about because then they would have to accept blame in the current mess we are in. Easier to just Blame the current Potus and wipe their hands of it.

Are you kidding? These threads are still showing catastrophic butt hurt from losing to a black man...

Consider the post RED X

-Geaux

 

[Bfgrn]

The prescient Michael Goodwin writes that Obama's ship is sinking....but with every nail he hammers into this coffin....remember that voters had a choice, and judged this ship seaworthy.




1."...rising clamor over the beheading of two Americans, and rapidly sinking polls, forced President Obama to reassure the nation last week he had a plan... [but] most military analysts believe the expanded airstrikes will not be a sufficient match for the size and weaponry of the terrorist army.

2. They miss the point. The disjointed speech wasn’t really about terrorism and launching a new war. It was about saving Obama’s presidency.... it may already be too late to save the SS Obama.




3. The whole second term has been a string of disasters, with the toxic brew of his Obamacare lies, middling economic growth and violent global breakdown casting doubt on the president’s stewardship. Six years into his tenure, nothing is going as promised.

4. ...the magic of his rhetoric is long gone, and not just because the public has tuned him out.
They’ve tuned him out because they’ve made up their minds about him. They no longer trust him and don’t think he’s a good leader.

5. ...findings turned up in a tsunami of recent polls that amount to a public vote of no confidence. They shook up the White House so much that the plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants was put on hold to try to protect Democratic candidates from voter wrath in November.




6. ...but it doesn’t change the basic calculation. The president’s problem is that he has been wrong about virtually every major issue.

7. His worldview, his politics, his prejudices, his habits — they’ve been a mismatch for the country and its needs. He has been a dud even in the one area where he seemed a lock to make things better, racial relations. Only 10 percent believe race relations have improved under him, while 35 percent said they are worse.....




8. Barack Obama was not ready to be president, and still isn’t. It is a fantasy to believe he’ll master the art in his final two years.
The lasting image will be his yukking it up on the golf course minutes after giving a perfunctory speech on the beheading of James Foley. It revealed him as hollow, both to America and the world, and there is no way to un-see the emptiness.

9. Obama’s fecklessness is so unique that our adversaries and enemies surely realize they will never face a weaker president.

10. Throw in the fact that Europe largely has scrapped its military might to pay for its welfare states, and the entire West is a diminished, confused opponent, ripe for the taking."
Obama s ship is sinking New York Post





Perhaps the first vote can be chalked up to best hopes....but the second election was a one question IQ test....and everyone who looked at this failure and pulled the Democrat lever....well....those are the real failures, and responsible for what we face today.

Let's hope that the failures who put this windbag back in office haven't doomed all of us!

Wake up pea brain, the GOP has an even worse approval rating...

 

[Seawytch]

One of the greatest things about the USMB is that most of the nutters here look up to PC as some sort of intellectual heavyweight.

They'd never seen numbered paragraphs before. They were awestruck.