What President Obama WON'T Tell You About his 'Legacy'

[Toddsterpatriot]

Bush/Paulson did not take positive actions until the election was over.

TARP passed in October 2008. Banks received the TARP money before the election.
The Fed was taking emergency actions before the election.

How much "stimulus" money was spent before June 2009?

That sucks doesn't it?

Can you believe they waited until October 2008 before they started taking positive action?

The fun part is looking at all the Republicans who voted in favor of Bush's TARP funds in Oct 2008 yet, unanimously voted against TARP funds for Obama in Jan 2009

They would rather see the economy fail than see Obama get credit for saving it

That sucks doesn't it?

That I pointed out your error? Sure.

Can you believe they waited until October 2008 before they started taking positive action?

Lehman failed in September, how much quicker were they supposed to take action?

How much "stimulus" money was spent before June 2009?

Bush acted like a deer in the headlights as his economy crashed around him

Thank God, he had President Obama to bail him out

And Obama saved us!
You never did explain how he saved us. Why not?

Afraid I did explain in Post #8

Having difficulty with reading comprehension?

Obama put $800 billion into the economy.

The recession ended in June 2009. How much of his $800 billion slush fund...err...stimulus was spent by then?
Having difficulty with the numbers?

 

[rightwinger]

That sucks doesn't it?

Can you believe they waited until October 2008 before they started taking positive action?

The fun part is looking at all the Republicans who voted in favor of Bush's TARP funds in Oct 2008 yet, unanimously voted against TARP funds for Obama in Jan 2009

They would rather see the economy fail than see Obama get credit for saving it

That sucks doesn't it?

That I pointed out your error? Sure.

Can you believe they waited until October 2008 before they started taking positive action?

Lehman failed in September, how much quicker were they supposed to take action?

How much "stimulus" money was spent before June 2009?

Bush acted like a deer in the headlights as his economy crashed around him

Thank God, he had President Obama to bail him out

And Obama saved us!
You never did explain how he saved us. Why not?

Afraid I did explain in Post #8

Having difficulty with reading comprehension?

Obama put $800 billion into the economy.

The recession ended in June 2009. How much of his $800 billion slush fund...err...stimulus was spent by then?
Having difficulty with the numbers?

It didn't exactly end in June 2009
It meant we had finally achieved positive GDP not that we had full recovery

Didn't stop unemployment from being above 10 percent

 

[peabody]

1. It’s (still) the economy, stupid

The expansion that began in June 2009 has been the weakest since World War II, with real gross domestic product growth averaging 2.1%. At 7 1/2 years and counting, it is also among the longest on record. But it hasn’t packed much of a punch. Cumulative growth of 16.5% since the trough is well shy of the 38.4% increase during the 1982-1990 expansion and 42.6% from 1991-2001, according to the Wall Street Journal.


2. A Legacy of Ashes

Obama’s continued popularity hasn’t had much of a trickle-down effect. In the eight years since he was first elected, Democrats have lost more than 1,000 seats at the state and national level. Republicans now control 4,170 state legislative seats compared with 3,129 for the Democrats, an all-time low.

Republicans now hold 33 governorships and will have full control — governorship and both houses of the state legislature — in 25 states compared with five for the Democrats.

Democrats lost 12 governorships, 13 Senate seats and 69 seats in the House of Representatives during Obama’s two terms, highlighting “a devastation up and down the party across the nation,” according to The Hill.


3. Keep your friends close

At his year-end press conference on Dec. 16, which was short on questions, long on answers, Obama spoke about his response to the Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee emails during the election.

He said that when he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China in September, he told him to “cut it out” in terms of the hacking. Sorry, Mr. President, the world isn’t afraid of you and your empty threats. Eight years of leading from behind has left America’s standing in the world diminished, its moral authority compromised and its foreign policy in tatters.

'The wars Obama inherited are still going on. The Taliban has made a comeback in Afghanistan.' Obama started two UN-Authorized wars in Libya and in Syria - 'Syria is in shambles'. And Secretary of State John Kerry has been so ineffective that no one even bothered to invite him to the Syrian cease-fire negotiations among Russia, Turkey and Iran.

While war has escalated, Islamic Extremists made a comeback and spread over the world, the Obama administration turned on it's own allies: It failed to do anything to help the Ukraine stop Russia from annexing Crimea, it helped oust US Ally Mubarak, attempted to oust ally Netanyahu, and just betrayed Israel before the UN. Rather than keep our friends close, the Obama administration alienated / angered quite a few.


4. Divided we stand

Obama may have broken racial barriers when he became the first African-American president of the U.S., but his election did nothing to improve race relations. In fact, a majority of Americans (54%) say that race relations deteriorated under Obama, according to a recent CNN/ORC poll.

Obama’s efforts on behalf of African-Americans often backfired. Before he had the facts in hand, the president accused Cambridge, Mass., police officers of acting “stupidly” when they arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home in 2009. The police were responding to a report of a potential burglary, which turned out to be Gates trying to pry open his front door.

The incident divided the country: blacks supported Obama’s accusations of racial profiling; whites said he had played the race card. Obama’s response was to bring the parties together for a “beer summit” at the White House.

Obama has promoted the idea of a police force biased against blacks. He vehemently denied FBI Director James Comey’s explanation for the surge in violent crime and homicide rates last year as a result of the “Ferguson effect,” with law-enforcement officers pulling back from proactive policing following the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

Chicago, Obama’s hometown, witnessed 762 homicides last year, the most in two decades, and 1,100 more shootings than in 2015. Obama’s protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, the reason is the Ferguson effect, according to the Manhattan Institute’s Heather MacDonald. What’s more, statistics show that police are three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than white ones.

Obama is not entitled to his own facts. If he doesn’t want to talk to those on the front line, he should listen to those who do.


5. That which must not be named

Radical Islamic terrorism. Obama has spent eight years deftly avoiding using those three words to call an act what it is. He has intellectualized his position by claiming the phrase “equates Islam with terrorism,” which is counterproductive to U.S. counterterrorism efforts.

Instead, Obama prefers terms such as “workplace violence,” even if the terrorists in question pay homage to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State. A terrorist act provides an opportunity for the president to lecture the nation on the need for stricter gun-control laws.

Calling something what it is may not solve the problem, but avoiding it makes Obama look silly.


The rest of the story: What Obama won’t tell you about his legacy

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

That sucks doesn't it?

That I pointed out your error? Sure.

Can you believe they waited until October 2008 before they started taking positive action?

Lehman failed in September, how much quicker were they supposed to take action?

How much "stimulus" money was spent before June 2009?

Bush acted like a deer in the headlights as his economy crashed around him

Thank God, he had President Obama to bail him out

And Obama saved us!
You never did explain how he saved us. Why not?

Afraid I did explain in Post #8

Having difficulty with reading comprehension?

Obama put $800 billion into the economy.

The recession ended in June 2009. How much of his $800 billion slush fund...err...stimulus was spent by then?
Having difficulty with the numbers?

It didn't exactly end in June 2009
It meant we had finally achieved positive GDP not that we had full recovery

Didn't stop unemployment from being above 10 percent

It didn't exactly end in June 2009

It did.

http://www.nber.org/cycles.html

It meant we had finally achieved positive GDP not that we had full recovery

Positive GDP means the recession is over. It means no depression.
I never made any claim about "full recovery".
His regulatory and other anti-business actions certainly get some of the credit for his recovery being the weakest since WWII.

Didn't stop unemployment from being above 10 percent

Employment has always been a laggard.

 

[rightwinger]

1. It’s (still) the economy, stupid

The expansion that began in June 2009 has been the weakest since World War II, with real gross domestic product growth averaging 2.1%. At 7 1/2 years and counting, it is also among the longest on record. But it hasn’t packed much of a punch. Cumulative growth of 16.5% since the trough is well shy of the 38.4% increase during the 1982-1990 expansion and 42.6% from 1991-2001, according to the Wall Street Journal.


2. A Legacy of Ashes

Obama’s continued popularity hasn’t had much of a trickle-down effect. In the eight years since he was first elected, Democrats have lost more than 1,000 seats at the state and national level. Republicans now control 4,170 state legislative seats compared with 3,129 for the Democrats, an all-time low.

Republicans now hold 33 governorships and will have full control — governorship and both houses of the state legislature — in 25 states compared with five for the Democrats.

Democrats lost 12 governorships, 13 Senate seats and 69 seats in the House of Representatives during Obama’s two terms, highlighting “a devastation up and down the party across the nation,” according to The Hill.


3. Keep your friends close

At his year-end press conference on Dec. 16, which was short on questions, long on answers, Obama spoke about his response to the Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee emails during the election.

He said that when he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China in September, he told him to “cut it out” in terms of the hacking. Sorry, Mr. President, the world isn’t afraid of you and your empty threats. Eight years of leading from behind has left America’s standing in the world diminished, its moral authority compromised and its foreign policy in tatters.

'The wars Obama inherited are still going on. The Taliban has made a comeback in Afghanistan.' Obama started two UN-Authorized wars in Libya and in Syria - 'Syria is in shambles'. And Secretary of State John Kerry has been so ineffective that no one even bothered to invite him to the Syrian cease-fire negotiations among Russia, Turkey and Iran.

While war has escalated, Islamic Extremists made a comeback and spread over the world, the Obama administration turned on it's own allies: It failed to do anything to help the Ukraine stop Russia from annexing Crimea, it helped oust US Ally Mubarak, attempted to oust ally Netanyahu, and just betrayed Israel before the UN. Rather than keep our friends close, the Obama administration alienated / angered quite a few.


4. Divided we stand

Obama may have broken racial barriers when he became the first African-American president of the U.S., but his election did nothing to improve race relations. In fact, a majority of Americans (54%) say that race relations deteriorated under Obama, according to a recent CNN/ORC poll.

Obama’s efforts on behalf of African-Americans often backfired. Before he had the facts in hand, the president accused Cambridge, Mass., police officers of acting “stupidly” when they arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home in 2009. The police were responding to a report of a potential burglary, which turned out to be Gates trying to pry open his front door.

The incident divided the country: blacks supported Obama’s accusations of racial profiling; whites said he had played the race card. Obama’s response was to bring the parties together for a “beer summit” at the White House.

Obama has promoted the idea of a police force biased against blacks. He vehemently denied FBI Director James Comey’s explanation for the surge in violent crime and homicide rates last year as a result of the “Ferguson effect,” with law-enforcement officers pulling back from proactive policing following the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

Chicago, Obama’s hometown, witnessed 762 homicides last year, the most in two decades, and 1,100 more shootings than in 2015. Obama’s protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, the reason is the Ferguson effect, according to the Manhattan Institute’s Heather MacDonald. What’s more, statistics show that police are three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than white ones.

Obama is not entitled to his own facts. If he doesn’t want to talk to those on the front line, he should listen to those who do.


5. That which must not be named

Radical Islamic terrorism. Obama has spent eight years deftly avoiding using those three words to call an act what it is. He has intellectualized his position by claiming the phrase “equates Islam with terrorism,” which is counterproductive to U.S. counterterrorism efforts.

Instead, Obama prefers terms such as “workplace violence,” even if the terrorists in question pay homage to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State. A terrorist act provides an opportunity for the president to lecture the nation on the need for stricter gun-control laws.

Calling something what it is may not solve the problem, but avoiding it makes Obama look silly.


The rest of the story: What Obama won’t tell you about his legacy

Wow....photoshop

What a compelling argument

 

[peabody]

1. It’s (still) the economy, stupid

The expansion that began in June 2009 has been the weakest since World War II, with real gross domestic product growth averaging 2.1%. At 7 1/2 years and counting, it is also among the longest on record. But it hasn’t packed much of a punch. Cumulative growth of 16.5% since the trough is well shy of the 38.4% increase during the 1982-1990 expansion and 42.6% from 1991-2001, according to the Wall Street Journal.


2. A Legacy of Ashes

Obama’s continued popularity hasn’t had much of a trickle-down effect. In the eight years since he was first elected, Democrats have lost more than 1,000 seats at the state and national level. Republicans now control 4,170 state legislative seats compared with 3,129 for the Democrats, an all-time low.

Republicans now hold 33 governorships and will have full control — governorship and both houses of the state legislature — in 25 states compared with five for the Democrats.

Democrats lost 12 governorships, 13 Senate seats and 69 seats in the House of Representatives during Obama’s two terms, highlighting “a devastation up and down the party across the nation,” according to The Hill.


3. Keep your friends close

At his year-end press conference on Dec. 16, which was short on questions, long on answers, Obama spoke about his response to the Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee emails during the election.

He said that when he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China in September, he told him to “cut it out” in terms of the hacking. Sorry, Mr. President, the world isn’t afraid of you and your empty threats. Eight years of leading from behind has left America’s standing in the world diminished, its moral authority compromised and its foreign policy in tatters.

'The wars Obama inherited are still going on. The Taliban has made a comeback in Afghanistan.' Obama started two UN-Authorized wars in Libya and in Syria - 'Syria is in shambles'. And Secretary of State John Kerry has been so ineffective that no one even bothered to invite him to the Syrian cease-fire negotiations among Russia, Turkey and Iran.

While war has escalated, Islamic Extremists made a comeback and spread over the world, the Obama administration turned on it's own allies: It failed to do anything to help the Ukraine stop Russia from annexing Crimea, it helped oust US Ally Mubarak, attempted to oust ally Netanyahu, and just betrayed Israel before the UN. Rather than keep our friends close, the Obama administration alienated / angered quite a few.


4. Divided we stand

Obama may have broken racial barriers when he became the first African-American president of the U.S., but his election did nothing to improve race relations. In fact, a majority of Americans (54%) say that race relations deteriorated under Obama, according to a recent CNN/ORC poll.

Obama’s efforts on behalf of African-Americans often backfired. Before he had the facts in hand, the president accused Cambridge, Mass., police officers of acting “stupidly” when they arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home in 2009. The police were responding to a report of a potential burglary, which turned out to be Gates trying to pry open his front door.

The incident divided the country: blacks supported Obama’s accusations of racial profiling; whites said he had played the race card. Obama’s response was to bring the parties together for a “beer summit” at the White House.

Obama has promoted the idea of a police force biased against blacks. He vehemently denied FBI Director James Comey’s explanation for the surge in violent crime and homicide rates last year as a result of the “Ferguson effect,” with law-enforcement officers pulling back from proactive policing following the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

Chicago, Obama’s hometown, witnessed 762 homicides last year, the most in two decades, and 1,100 more shootings than in 2015. Obama’s protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, the reason is the Ferguson effect, according to the Manhattan Institute’s Heather MacDonald. What’s more, statistics show that police are three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than white ones.

Obama is not entitled to his own facts. If he doesn’t want to talk to those on the front line, he should listen to those who do.


5. That which must not be named

Radical Islamic terrorism. Obama has spent eight years deftly avoiding using those three words to call an act what it is. He has intellectualized his position by claiming the phrase “equates Islam with terrorism,” which is counterproductive to U.S. counterterrorism efforts.

Instead, Obama prefers terms such as “workplace violence,” even if the terrorists in question pay homage to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State. A terrorist act provides an opportunity for the president to lecture the nation on the need for stricter gun-control laws.

Calling something what it is may not solve the problem, but avoiding it makes Obama look silly.


The rest of the story: What Obama won’t tell you about his legacy

Wow....photoshop

What a compelling argument

I wasn't trying to make an argument. It's just a picture of Obama eating an endangered frog. Don't read too much into it.

 

[BluesLegend]

Poor libs, there may never be another Democrat president so they are clinging to Obama.