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Originally Posted by JP-pornshooter
and i still think Obama has a decent chance for a second term.
everyone hve to be reminded he took over at the worst of times, Bush was so beaten by the enormous problems he even let Obama sit in on financial discussions way before he was in office..
healthcare and social security have been a bull nobody wanted to take by the horns since Reagan I think, this is why we have the deficit problems today, not Obama's doing imho.
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He did take over at a bad, bad time. And he came in preaching that he was going to kick some ass and get this country back on track.
And then...nothing. He proceeded to listen to the wrong people. First thing he did was strike a behind closed doors deal with the big pharmacy companies and then produced a "health care" bill that was written by Reid and Pelosi's cronies.
Remember Pelosi telling us all that we need to "pass the bill, so we can read it" lol
You don't hear the people who are completely partisan to the Democratic party ever address that big pharmacy deal and subsequent Insurance Company Bailout called "health care".
Obama had the highest approval numbers I've ever seen when he came into office. He had both houses of Congress. The Republicans were on life support.
And he totally blew it.
So no, he wasn't President when it started. Bush was (and for 7 of the 8 years Bush was President our economy was roaring...too bad he started those fucking wars and ruined it).
But since Obama HAS been president...he hasn't shown that he can handle it.
When Reagan took office he walked into a bad situation. Many of y'all weren't alive then...but I was 18 years old. The country was in deep recession, Iran had our hostages, their were gas lines and people were only allowed to get gas on odd and even days according to their license plates.
He turned that shit around quickly.
Back when FDR took office...he came in at The Great Depression. MUCH WORSE than what Obama faced. In his first year in office he turned that shit around.
Obama has failed. And now he is out campaigning while people are jobless and losing their homes. There are protests on Wall Street and around the country.
Nothing to be proud of for this President. That's why he isn't campaigning on his ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
He's still campaigning against Republicans like it's 2007 and he's not yet the president...not FOR what he has done.
I think he needs a miracle to get re-elected. And I don't see one coming on the campaign trail.
Partisan folks say that the Republicans are blocking everything. But they leave out the fact that the Democrats are also blocking every Republican plan.
I say...VOTE THEM ALL OUT!
And whoever wins the Presidency in 2012? Vote his ass out in 2016 no matter what he does or doesn't do.
Don't let ANY of them stay in power more than one term if you want to clean up govt.