The Case Against Barack Obama

I presented facts already in the axiom. Methinks you're being a little bit of a control freak with your thread.

 

Ha ha like how we constantly hear our conservative friends claim the prior president they put into office twice is not a conservative?

I don't wipe my fingerprints of Obama at all.

When Obama took office, the economy was tanking at a -7% real rate, losing 700,000+ jobs a month, unemployment was skyrocketing, and the stock markets were crashing in the worst recession in 80 years. The housing market was destroyed and will take year to recover.

But now the economy has been growing steadily for a year and a half, the private sector has created jobs every month for more than a year, stock markets are up about 70%, and the unemployment rate has fallen from above 10% to just above 9%, and 5 million private sector jobs have been added since Jan 2010.

Thing haven't rebounded as fast as we'd like, but when you destroy the real estate construction industry, that is a consequence. Plus, Obama has been hampered by the huge debt he inherited, and an obstructionist opposition that has done its very best to undermine the economy, witnessed by the recent debt ceiling extortion fiasco.

It was Bush's conservative policies -- tax cuts and aggressive military actions, that were such failures.

I can't disagree here.

 

Best to go to another thread, huh? Methinks so if you are nothing but a wisp made of puns living in a rainbow in the magic misty mountains.

 

Obama has not led the country out of the morass. He has no plan to revitalize the economy. The crisis did not end on January 20, 2009. He has made things worse by exacerbating the divisions in the country and creating fear among the investor class. There will not be any serious investment in America until Obama leaves office.

Obama's stimulus did not achieve its objectives. Unemployment is higher now than the eight percent ceiling Christina Romer promised and the 7.8% that existed at the time Bush limped out of office. Deficits have soared and the nation's credit rating has declined for the first time in living memory.

Obama's foreign policy has been a disaster. Bush was Obama lite. Obama has escalated the war in Afghanistan and involved the country in a morass in Libya. America's alliance with Saudi Arabia is now over. The country is in retreat everywhere on earth.

Bush wasn't a conservative in any of the preexisting senses. Bush was a Big Govt. Republican. No Child Left Behind educational programs that can't be paid for, Prescription Coverage for Seniors that can't be paid for, etc.

We learn from our mistakes. Bush's type of conservatism has been rejected by conservatives. When Obama took office the conservative movement had been virtually destroyed. Obama revived it and breathed new life into it. Obama is the father of radical conservatism.

 

Thanks for the opportunity, jmpet.

I would say Obama's major shortcoming is that he knows absolutely nothing about the economics and he has no idea how to successfully grow the national economy.

He has tried several stimulus packages, targeted tax reductions, and two quantitative easings and none of these attempts to get the economy moving forward again has worked.

The economic advisors he brought with him to the White House 32 months ago have all departed and now he is like a captain without a crew or a rudder in the water with which to steep his ship of state.

Here are several more important areas in which he has demonstrated he is clearly lacking.

 

Well you certainly hit on many key points. I may disagree with some of them but the overall picture you project makes Obama look sloppy.