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Stew-856316

What has Obama accomplished his years in office?

Obama promised to get us out of Iraq ASAP, has he? NO! He has not even tried. Soldiers keep dying almost daily.
Obama promised to get the USA out of Afghanistan, has he? NO! Obama has sent over more troops and we past 2000 American deaths in August 2012.
Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay, has he? NO! Obama has not even tried. (Some say so he’ll have somewhere to live when he is impeached and convicted).
Obama released to the media he has quit smoking! Has he? NO! He has regularly been seen sucking on cigarettes. Quitting takes moral fiber which he lacks entirely. Bottom line, he still SUCKS!
Obama promised hundreds of times 4 years ago to publish pending legislation for a few weeks on C-Span for a “public comment period”. Has he? NO! Nobody at C-Span has heard word one from his administration. Not only that, he has done exactly the opposite! He routinely introduces 1000 page legislation a couple hours before the scheduled vote. He obviously never had a single intention of following through on this promise, the very definition of a bold faced lie.
Obama promised to produce a real birth certificate, has he? No! Only a document not accepted as official identification, never a regular birth certificate, WHY?
Obama promised to “fix” the USA economy within 90 days when Bill Clinton called his financial plan a “fantasy”. Has Obama “fixed” the USA economy? NO! Thanks Obama for cash for clunkers! What a great “fix” for the economy! The “clunkers” were re-sold and are still on the road, the taxpayers got screwed again, but thanks!
Obama promised to “fix” the USA economy, yet we are in more debt by many times than ever before. China is balking at buying out credit now thanks to the mounting Obama debt.
Obama promised to “fix” unemployment, but 1 in 4 Americans in unemployed or underemployed, far worse than 4 years ago.
Obama promised to create jobs, but even with his new calculation including “saved jobs” which economist’s value as “voodoo math” he has lost more jobs during the years he has been in office than before he was in office.
Obama DID take credit for forces which were in place long before he was elected which eventually killed Osama Bin Laden.
Obama promised this election was going to be a dirty, ugly war and immediately set about doing that all by himself. Obama has not only NOT worked on a bi-partisan level, he has done exactly the opposite stirring up class wars, rhetoric, fights and more.
Obama promised to “restore” the middle class in America, which has been nearly cut in half since he was elected years ago. Obama was quoted by a close aide, “The lower income earners are not smart enough to earn more, so we have to do it for them”. He single handedly created a class war knowing those not smart enough were his target audience.
Obama promised the “rich” would pay for the “poor”, so did Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Vladamir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Tse-tung. Obama told to Joe the Plummer, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it is good for everybody”. What about those you steal from? NOT good for them! What about the American Dream? Obama single handedly KILLED the American Dream!
Obama promises healthcare in the form of what he calls, “affordable”, The American taxpayer can’t afford it. Who can? Freedom used to be what the USA was about, now Obama says, “You WILL buy my health insurance or be fined” What kind of freedom is that?
Why has Obama “classified” his college transcripts? What Obama he hiding? Are they in the same place as his Birth Certificate?
Obama promised unemployment during his term would remain under 7%. Unemployment has remained above 8% for 43 consecutive months and is projected to rise to above 10% within a month.
Obama called Bush “unpatriotic” because of the high national debt, yet Obama has more than doubled the debt spending 100 Billion Dollars in his first 50 days in office.
Under Obama, food stamp use has increased 20%.
Under Obama, a third of the USA is on some kind of welfare.
President Bush added 0.61 Trillion per year for 8 years to the deficit. Obama added 1.76 Trillion a year for three years to the deficit, averaging than 2.9 times President Bush. What do we have to show for all the new Obama debt? New roads? Bridges? Anything? NO! “Cash for Clunkers”.
Obama was a “Community Organizer” in Chicago. Thanks for organizing the gangs! Now they are successfully killing each other. Thanks the strictest gun laws in the country! Guns don’t kill people, Obama’s “Organized” Chicago kills people.
At the Democratic National Convention, the Obama team talked a great deal about the (Bush initiated) death of Osama Bin Laden, but barely mentioned the healthcare initiative known as Obamacare. Why is he embarrassed about the healthcare and financial debacle he is leading us into?
Obama lead the fight to get teachers in Chicago more pay. Sounds like a good idea, may parents were both school teachers. I know the need. Yet the average income in Chicago is just over 30k and the average teachers salary in Chicago is 71k yet they are striking right now. Thanks gain Obama!
Senator Obama called Bush “unpatriotic” for voting once in 8 years to raise the debt ceiling. Yet, Obama has not only voted to raise the debt ceiling, he has done it multiple times in much less time spending almost exactly 3 times what Bush did in a much shorter time span. Is Obama calling himself “unpatriotic”now?
Obama almost single handedly started the biggest class war we have ever seen in the USA. Since the “Middle Class” has shrunk by over half during his term so far, it seems this is a ploy to divert attention away from this fact.
“Re-Distribution of Wealth” or “Re-Distribution of Ownership” seems to be a core belief of Obama. If he gets re=elected as a lame duck, his agenda will be even worse. Hold on to what you own! My Cold Dead Hands!

These are simple facts. This is the “CHANGE” the Democrats voted for. We ARE in Iraq, Afghanistan AT war, Guantanamo OPEN, Obama DOES still suck cigarettes, Obama has NOT contacted C-Span, we have NOT seen a real birth certificate, Obama HAS spent more than ALL previous presidents combined, unemployment IS out of control, Simple Facts. Why on heaven, earth or Mars would anybody even remotely begin to think Obama has done anything worth repeating?!

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”. 4 more years of Obama is INSANE!

#1 - Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:33 AM EDT

Adler-273784

Wake up and stop your dreaming Stew. Early on Obama tried to close GITMO but nobody wanted the priseners in their back yard. It is real easy to make promises but when you have a Congress that is hellbent on obstructing everything you try to do you get done what you get done. The President isn't a dictator although, the last one stated that he wanted to be, he has Congress that can get in the way of his plans. He also has world events to make his plans, hopes and dreams go in a different direction. Overall Obama has given us more affordable healthcare if not slowed the exponential rate increases. He has left only a comparitively few troops in Iraq to guard our people and embassy. He said and is on track to do the same in Afghanistan in 2014.

No president has ever done EVERYTHING he promised. If Willard is elected he won't either. I don't want to take the chance, however, on what he will follow through on and what Congress will ram through that might bring us to the edge of a depression as we were when Mr. Obama took office. He reversed that. Sure recovery is slower than anyone would like but it is happening. No sense in changing horses in the middle of the stream. Let it work and see what happens.

Sociopath Romney may bring us more war and thus higher costs. If he is going to cut everything in sight but the Pentagon budget, despite the fact they say they don't want or need what he is offering, how will he pay for any more war? On the Chinese credit card like Dubya did?

2 votes

#1.1 - Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:53 AM EDT

bahrrt

Nice copy and paste of an old repeat rhetoic from you nut jobs on the right. Did RTK put you up to this, trollette?

ROCKNROLL OBAMA/BIDEN2012

1 vote

#1.2 - Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:58 PM EDT

Whos money is it Anyways

The truth hurts. Our President is not trusted by foreign leaders, nor people with any sense.

#1.3 - Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:45 PM EDT

illumination fascination-3070427

Stew,

The truth is that any President can only do so much. The President is not a king who has total rule to change anything and everything they wish for.

You must not forget that the cancerous influence of big money being brought into the equation to radically shift our entire political process. The majority of people are being disenfranchised from this influence alone. We are fast becoming a third world society with the fewest individuals controlling the majority of the wealth since the great depression.

Yet, for some reason, these vermin can rake in record profits in this recession and still demand that the people work much harder for an ever lessening amount.

This isn't the America that the American people through the generations fought and died for throughout our history; this is what they were fighting against.

Be honest with yourself and take your redistribution argument and turn it around properly. The redistribution of wealth and power has been happening since the Reagan regime in the 1980's.

Must we really sacrifice social programs that benefit the many as to keep budgeting huge tax breaks for the most wealthy in our society ?

If you are a lower or middle class person than to support a candidate or party that seeks to further marginalize your life makes as much sense as any Jew supporting Hitler.

#1.4 - Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:01 PM EDT

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bahrrt

These are simple facts. This is the "CHANGE" the Democrats voted for. We ARE in Iraq, Afghanistan AT war, Guantanamo OPEN, Obama DOES still suck cigarettes, Obama has NOT contacted C-Span, we have NOT seen a real birth certificate, Obama HAS spent more than ALL previous presidents combined, unemployment IS out of control, Simple Facts. Why on heaven, earth or Mars would anybody even remotely begin to think Obama has done anything worth repeating?!

These are facts? More like fiction, maybe, or just garbage. I can tell you this, however, if Bush can get away with a true disastrous record it should be a walk in the park for us.

In reality, though, there are just too many pundit Republicon pukes to make it so.

STEW FOR OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

#2 - Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:12 PM EDT

Whos money is it Anyways

So, in your eyes Bush was screwed up and Obama is a little less screwed up so he should be re-elected. I like your militant avatar, Comrade

#2.1 - Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:47 PM EDT