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| Obama Won |
| 2018-09-28 |
| By traditional metrics, Barack Obama’s presidency was mostly a failure. The economy, in a new first, never hit annualized growth of 3 percent. His signature domestic policy‐Obamacare‐caused chaos. Millions lost their coverage and doctors, and paid far more in deductibles and premiums. The stagnant recovery after the 2008 recession was the worst in 50 years. Myriads of new regulations, higher taxes, and socialist jawboning vegetated the economy. Scandals at the IRS, Department of Veterans Affairs, FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, Justice Department, General Services Administration, and National Security Council abounded. Obama weaponized the federal government by punishing opponents through the IRS, monitoring suspect reporters, scapegoating and jailing a video maker, and using the deep state to exonerate Hillary Clinton from serial wrongdoing and to sabotage the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. Abroad, a diplomatic "reset" empowered Vladimir Putin’s Russia from the Crimea to the Middle East. The Iran deal legitimized Iran’s ascendant Middle East hegemony. Chinese trade cheating was of no concern. ISIS was but a "JV" terrorist clique. North Korea freely pointed nuclear missiles at the West Coast. Israel and the Gulf monarchies and Egypt were no longer close allies. Outreach and deference instead were shown to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. "Lead from behind" bombing of Libya led to a disaster. Nonexistent "red lines" in Syria, flexible nonproliferation "deadlines" issued to Iran, and rhetorical "step-over" lines given Vladimir Putin all eroded U.S. credibility. And on and on. |
| Posted by:746 |
| #8 #6 - "Unexpectedly!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-09-28 19:28 |
| #7 "Unfortunately the MSM is part of his clique." Do YOU follow the opinions of the press? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-09-28 17:05 |
| #6 I liked how every jobs report came out and the media hailed it, and then a month later it was all downgraded to reality and the media was silent. Happened every single time. Even the media is not dumb enough to fall for the same trick again and again, they were complicit and I hope a lot of them are losing sleep (and hair) during the current administration. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-09-28 16:40 |
| #5 Don't forget about all the part time jobs that were made out of many full time jobs so employers could avoid having to pay anything towards their insurance. Who could have foreseen that! Except, of course, for the folks who kept track of unemployment, who considered anyone with a part time job as being employed, of course. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-09-28 15:53 |
| #4 Dems lost the senate, the house, the governs mansions. After two years of fighting Trump yesterday we may have seen the GOP finally ready to side with Trump against the excesses of the left. No, I don't think Obama won at all. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-09-28 12:23 |
| #3 Unfortunately the MSM is part of his clique. |
| Posted by: Alan C 2018-09-28 11:30 |
| #2 Bullshit. That the delusions of his clique ARE SHARED BY THE OTHERS IN HIS CLIQUE doesn't make them dominant in the country. Yes, they're loud and get too much attention, but outside the radical left self-proclaimed "elite", nobody buys their bullshit. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-09-28 07:59 |
| #1 0bama hyphenised Americans and Trump is the result. He lost bigly. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-09-28 04:06 |