OBAMA is a failure

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The dude has been in office for years, you can always make a shallow list of accomplishments if you care more about quantity than quality.


03. Passed Wall Street reform

Utterly, utterly laughable. He passed "reform", which was defanged and detoothed at every single level and step a long the way. You wouldn't know it from the financial industry whining about it, of course, but that's what they do.

No significant reform was passed. TBTF still exists, everyone knows it, and nobody is doing anything about it. The financial instruments behind the last collapse are still unregulated, and what parts of the industry that are regulated are hugely captured. Meanwhile, the banks got huge, huge sums of cash, in excess of the GDP of the USA, at almost no interest, so they could "drink themselves sober" after they fucked the entire world.

02. Passed the Stimulus, saving the US Economy

What privileged, rich man job do you have that thinks the economy is saved? The economy is in the shitter. The stimulus was an obvious, needed solution and we really shouldn't be patting anyone on the back for such an obvious tried and true remedy. What we should look at is how we managed to make it entirely too small and with entirely too many tax cuts, rather than direct spending.

Obama has shown no interest in following that stimulus up, and has rather been trumpeting austerity, which is a tremendously dumb solution to a lack of a aggregate demand.

If we had done a much larger stimulus, we might actually be in the middle of decent economy, rather than congratulating ourselves that it didn't completely die.

01. Passed Healthcare Reform (all VERY popular but the Individual Mandate)

Popular because most people don't know what it's in it, what it will cost, and that many of the things they liked have already been pulled out of it, or pushed back many years.

Yay, I'll be able to (barely) afford insurance that only covers catastrophes and has a huge deductible! Yay for reform!

One of my faves, which isn't listed is the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Had that been in place before the housing collapse, the housing collapse either would have been prevented or Real Estate would have already rebounded

hahahaahah

Yet another great example of you reading a headline but not following the story. A CFPB would be great, I agree. The one we got is completely toothless, and won't even fight for the most basic consumer debt protections.

My guess is that any consumer regulatory agency that had existed before the collapse would have been just as captured as the ones that did exist. It's not as if we don't have banking regulators, or people who saw how fucked up things were. They just didn't do anything.
 

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the one thing he is accomplishing is placing muslims in charge of everything, check it out. they are in high positions everywhere, now put that with the muslims swearing that they will destroy this country from within and you idiots still want to vote for him, yes idiots, do some research before you become so sure. So no he isnt an idiot, he is doing just what he has set out to do
 

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Your Queen... can't possibly be equated to our President, since your Queen, can't make decisions, that impact the economy of British rule, or of it's citizenry. Your Queen is a figure head and impacts nothing and is not head of state. Your Prime Minister affects policy, not your Queen. Our President affects policy in our country. And anyone who uses "u" when they mean "you" is a true imbecile. Proper English it the rule even in the computer world. This thread has definitely jumped the shark. Of course what would you know about proper English? :rolleyes:


Since you give a fuck to something?
Someone asked you of which is my nationality? then why should u give a fuck about it? duhhh

You were wanking in defense of YOUR President? well while YOU have YOUR President, all the Commonwealth countries have THEIR Queen Head of State of several countries, a wish that Presidents will never get/have.
 

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Totally agree... those are great sentiments... but people need to vote, and not assume, their vote doesn't need to be counted on election day. There are for more independents and Democrats then there are Republicans. So everyone needs to get out the vote.
:wink::biggrin1:

i love Obama. looking forward to a second term.
 

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Presidental elections should only be by popular vote and NOT electorial votes from States.

nah, elections should be electrical!
-hook the front runners up to a set of electric chairs and let US all push a button to decide who gets electrocuted, and the one left alive gets to lead. :wink:
 
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Your Queen... can't possibly be equated to our President, since your Queen, can't make decisions, that impact the economy of British rule, or of it's citizenry. Your Queen is a figure head and impacts nothing and is not head of state. Your Prime Minister affects policy, not your Queen. Our President affects policy in our country. And anyone who uses "u" when they mean "you" is a true imbecile. Proper English it the rule even in the computer world. This thread has definitely jumped the shark. Of course what would you know about proper English? :rolleyes:
"...your Queen can't make decisions" That statement actually equates to meaning that the Queen is indecisive.Probably what you mean is that she has no power to pass laws,which in hardly news as she is not a politian,she's our Head of State,(although not according to you) I wonder if this makes you an imbecile also??!!