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Robin Buckson / AP
The president's first four years at the White House in pictures.
Just 11 weeks removed from a sweeping re-election victory, President Barack Obama has hit the ground running with an ambitious second-term agenda that includes tackling the mounting national debt, immigration and gun control.
But the window in which the president has any hopes of meeting his aggressive goals has already begun to close.
Confronting the fading effectiveness of a second-term presidency, dogged opposition from Republicans in Congress and unexpected hurdles that will inevitably arise over the next four years, Obama must act with a sense of urgency on his plans, particularly amid the fiscal cliff negotiations.
“Second-term presidents generally get eight months or so ... where there's a honeymoon to push an agenda,” said James Thurber, the director of Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. “He doesn't even have a month.”
Newly armed with “Organizing for Action” – the remnants of the president’s campaign structure, converted to a nonprofit for advocacy purposes – Obama has suggested he will indeed act quickly on his top priorities.
NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss points out that the US needs a president who is also going to suggest things that are not raised by an event of national magnitude, and that was something we saw a lot of in Obama's speech Monday.
But the next few months might well test the limits of the political capital that the president won in November, which saw Obama score a decisive victory over Republican opponent Mitt Romney and Democrats add seats in the House and the Senate.
If this past December’s lame duck Congress – in which Obama won higher tax rates for the wealthy, but only after a bitter fight with Republicans – offers any lessons, it’s that the GOP is equally committed to pursuing its own priorities, making compromise just as elusive as before.
The fiscal cliff fight will extend into this spring, when the government hits a series of major deadlines to keep the government funded and prevent a default on the national debt. That bare-knuckled fight could make or break Obama’s hopes of accomplishing much else on his agenda.
“I don't believe that he can wait until the last minute to deal with the debt ceiling and sequestration,” said Martin Frost, a former Democratic congressman from Texas. “That's got to be worked out during February.”
That fight would threaten to consume much of the political oxygen in Washington in any normal year. And Obama’s ability to pivot toward his other major priorities, gun violence and immigration, may well hinge upon how quickly and cleanly he can dispense with this spring’s spending fight.
TODAY's Lester Holt reports from Washington D.C. on how the struggles and victories of President Obama's first term have set the stage for opportunities of the second.
History suggests that many presidents cannot hope to accomplish much in the last two years of their term, when the jockeying for the next presidential campaign begins. And with midterm elections looming in 2014, lawmakers will inevitably turn at some point from governing to politicking.
"There's kind of an arc of achievement in presidential administrations. Usually the first few months of a new administration is where most of the accomplishment takes place," said Ross Baker, a presidential historian at Rutgers University. "It's hard to imagine getting another piece of legislation of the magnitude of the Affordable Care Act in the second term."
And Obama’s hopes of significant reforms to immigration and gun laws might well depend upon how well (or how poorly) the spending fight with Congress proceeds.
The president last week laid out a series of measures intended to curb gun violence, most significantly proposals to limit the size of ammunition magazines, ban assault weapons and require universal background checks on firearm purchases. That plan won little praise from Republicans, and Obama might have to lean upon any reservoir of goodwill he has left after the spending fight to reach his goals.
Obama is practically obligated to attempt immigration reform after soothing the Latino community during last year’s election about his inability to follow through with a pledge to accomplish immigration reform in his first term. If re-elected, Obama told Hispanic voters, he would make immigration reform a priority in this second term.
Both proposals could engender significant Republican resistance, a phenomenon familiar to any observers of Obama’s first four years in office.
Another significant – and unpredictable – variable that could ruin even the best-laid plans involves the unknown crises that will inevitably arise during Obama’s second term.
The "Meet the Press" moderator looks ahead to Monday's inaugural address, predicting President Obama will discuss economic relief and how he'll tackle America's toughest issues in a divided political atmosphere that's still "toxic" for the White House.
A foreign policy crisis could always erupt and consume the president’s attention. Uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Syria, for instance, proved to major developments during Obama’s first four years in office.
If anything, the president’s first term offered a cautionary tale of how difficult it can be to navigate the obstacles to success that can arise.
The president nearly saw his signature health reform law go down to defeat after the advent of the Tea Party movement, for instance.
And external events – a near-meltdown of the economy, mass shootings, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and other crises – consumed as much of the president’s first term as anything else.
Just as foreign policy could prove to be a diversion from policy making, it’s one of the few policy areas where a lame-duck president can leave a legacy.
For instance, Bill Clinton, in the waning days of his presidency, concentrated on achieving an elusive peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians.
“He's got a whole range of things on his plate right now,” Frost said of Obama, “it just really depends on how he prioritizes things.”
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Strafford County payroll is one of the highest in the nation. This county is one of the tiniest in the nation as well.
Take a look at the County Administrator's salary - he is also the nursing home administrator at Riverside Nursing Home. I have met this man and discussed this problem with him - he is a disgusting pig - a rude, obnoxious individual that I hope I never have to speak to again.
This complex is set off in a pastoral country setting, isolated from the rest of the City of Dover, NH.
Most of the employees at this complex are filthy-mouthed, arrogant, discriminate against others, and feel above the law.
Most of the employees at the courthouse across the street have 2013 model vehicles. The sheriff drives a brand new Mercedes Benz. This sheriff has blotted out my great-grandfather's name from the history of the facility, although he was a former sheriff/jailer.
Few of these families, if any had any ancestors that settled the community of Dover or any nearby communities like mine has. In fact, my ancestors settled most of New England.
Drive across the way to the local grocery store and you'll see the beat up older model vehicles of the local residents of the City of Dover, NH.
Quite a stark contrast.
In such a little area.
Mr. Obama's presidential administration has caused excessive bloat in government salaries at the expense of civilians that cannot afford to pay it and are starving.
They are starving and being treated by these pigs as though they are undeserving of basic necessities.
But, like Rome, one day they will fall, too.
We cannot devour the national budget which trickles down to the local county and one by one, the highest devours the next and the next and the next until only one is left.
But - I wish you all lots of luck.
Are you serious?? You are blaming Obama for the salaries in a tiny county somewhere in the U.S.??
Gee...and I thought you were being unreasonable......(sigh)
Wow......so the best argument people have for keeping assault weapons is that smoking does NOT cause cancer?!?!
I'll let that little gem of a thought simply stand on its own.
Hey goober, you may want to update your cut and paste machine......this was already looked at by the Supreme Court...guess who won?
What a compelling argument.....not sure what for; but I'm sure it means something.
ledbysheep,
I don't mean to be unkind, but honestly, man, no one is reading all that mess that you posted.
Please, if you want anyone to take your opinions seriously, don't post epic commentary. Your volumes could have been easily condensed by just saying "I hate the government and I need to get out in society more and get involved with fixing things instead of just grousing."
Looks a little like Brutus Bear is back in town.
he will fart, and call it a day.
Debt, guns, and immigration. I wish he was capable of handling it in that order.
Question: are we schmucks supposed to pick up the tab when you go without health insurance and get sick and hurt then?
Taken a drive though West Virginia lately? The countryside is laden with the most disgusting mining eyesores on the face of the planet. Nah, coal is becoming passe.
And what would have been the scenairo had Mc Cain been president? OH WAIT - BOMBING, OCCUPYING AND INVADING. My bad!!!!!
And again.........what have McCain, Graham, et al been after the President to do about the Syria Situation? OH WAIT - TO ARM THE FREE SYRIAN TERRORISTS!! Boots on the GROUND!! My BAD again!
*eyes roll*
Pwned!!! This was tooooooooo easy!!!
Nothing serious will be done about the debt. The only way the debt can significantly reduces is by significant cuts in spending. Regarding this, Obama and the Democrats have clearly demonstrated that fully intend to kick the can down the road.
Illegal aliens will be bowed down to because they provide desperately needed funds to the SS trust fund by fraudulent use of SS cards.
Nationally, nothing of significance will be done on gun control. And for good reason. The Second Amendment is restriction on government, prohibiting it from denying Americans their human right to self defense.
Sadly it's politics as usual in DC and that will continue for the next four years. Hope for change all you want. Or, to put it another way, keep dreaming.
It's Inauguration Day. Waaaaah! This was supposed to be Mitt's day! (Though he never really wanted to be president anyway.)
DoctorLogic - You are right...the Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare as a TAX. Obama was successful in raising the taxes on all of the middle class after proclaiming our taxes would not go up 1 dime.
I assume you are an Obama supporter. Therefore, I ask you and all Obama supporters.......Are you happy that Obama raised taxes on the middle class?
So, Obama raised taxes on $400K and higher, but he also STUCK IT TO THE MIDDLE CLASS....just like those righties said he would. What's the difference between Obama raising taxes on the middle class or Romney raising taxes on the middle class? Potato-Puhtahto.
Obama's Agenda:
Debt - Increase it at least another 6 trillion before leaving office thereby stealing what little remains of our children's and grandchildren's future
Guns - Get policies in place that will allow the government to eventually take away all our ability to fight the Progressive dictators trying to enslave us all.
Immigration - Allow unlimited access to our country, schools, health care, welfare, and resources by illegal aliens including the ability to vote in an attempt to maintain dictatorial control over the country.
@Thimas the Tank and Gin
Absolutely correct. Obama's sweeping victory was a sweep of all the deadbeats, nipplesuckers, welfare puppies, gang thugs, drug dealers, criminals, degenerates, scum, and illegal aliens. All the 'upstanding and hardworking' citizens that populate our cities.
Just 4 more years of same old song and dance, only thing new is micheles(the bulldog) bangs.
"Congressman Stockman has pledged to move for impeachment against Obama."
I noticed "Growing the economy" isn't one of his priorities. Guess I shouldn't be surprised - it never has been.
Four more years of low growth and high unemployment. Obama's legacy.
Thank You President Obama for the past 4 years. 4 More for 44!
@DoctorLogic: I like your comments but fear you will be on call 24 X 7 since the right wing of the hospital is full with standing room only in admitting. It's a challenge to treat patients who are the victims of self-inflicted group lobotomies at the hands of talk-radio charlatans and Faux Noise.
Obviously you haven't check out the national figures since Bush II pulled the plug on a sinking ship and abandoned it before any of the passengers. Just for starters look at housing starts, the stock market and unemployment. Do you really think the economy is where Bush II left it. It has grown, a lot.
Yes the large cities, that is where the schools are, industry and money. People have been moving there for generations to get away from a rural life style. Life is easier and more efficient in cities. Bush II lives in a large city if you are looking for relevance.
Oh look, 2 of the top 3 agenda items for Obama's second term are the same things he promised to do in his first four years. Apparently the old is forever new. Ambitious might not fit the Obama agenda since he delayed doing these items in his first term, apathetic might better describe it. No matter what Obama says he is going to do, he will leave office with our national debt well over 20 trillion. More will have been added to the national debt under Obama's watch, then all previous presidents combined. Although liberals are prone to blame anything and everything on someone else, even the excuses cannot ignore the fact that the massive debt will be the Obama legacy.
@Dick
Then, I suggest you move to Detroit. You will just love living in that sh*thole with the rest of the scum that is still there. Your life will most likely be very short but at least it will be efficient. ROTFLMAO!!
Dick,
Of all the scapegoating the left does - blaming the financial collapse on the Bush administration is one of the worst. The Bush administration was trying to rein in Freddy, Fanny and the mortgage factories like Countrywide but were blocked by Chris Dodd in the Senate and Barney Frank in the House. Do you really want me to post the Barney Frank speech where he praises the virtues of sub-prime loans (as a means for people to buy houses they could otherwise not afford!) or his floor speech in the summer of 2008 - just months before the collapse - saying that there could never be a housing bubble like there was an Internet bubble because "houses are tangible things" not paper assets like stocks?
History is not going to be too kind to Frank and Dodd. They were in the pockets of the failed mortgage lenders and did their bidding to the detriment of the country.
Dr Logic said: "Wow......so the best argument people have for keeping assault weapons is that smoking does NOT cause cancer?!?!"
Obviously, you're name is an oxymoron....assault rifles are ALREADY banned. AR-15s ARE NOT ASSAULT WEAPONS!!!!!! Pls educate yourself before regurgitating liberal talking points.
Led By Sheep-
The video link is here
Eric Holder 1995 "Brainwashing" against guns
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/03/18/Holder-Outlines-How-To-Change-Public-Opinion-On-Guns
I picture all these nuts sharing a computer in the nut hospital.
Congratulations President Obama on your second term, may it be as successful as your first as you move this country forward.
Yikes!!! Any more "success" like that and we will be worse than Greece.
Obama the "King" will swear to defend this country and the Constitution , he will put his hand over the Bible of Martin Luther King who wish us to be color blind , Obama is not color blind , he use the color card more than any other president in history, Obama is coming with a 55 % saying that he is more confrontational than bipartisan. Obama the King will use his pen to sign more Executive Orders because he is can't lead our nation in Democracy. To justify his trany he transform his political campaign apparatus in another big media machine. Every tyrant need the media in his hand
to lieget support this is what Obama is doing in a most subtle , refined way.Paws,
@1.23 [Obama was successful in raising the taxes on all of the middle class after proclaiming our taxes would not go up 1 dime]
Actually he promised that our INCOME taxes would not go up. That is not an income tax.
Our President did not increase income taxes on the middle class
All of you need to read this and it was signed by GWB, Technicly I'd say Stockton could and should be arressted and tried.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006
Just another example of the Republicans don't pay attention to what their party is doing.
HEY! What about JOBS? Remember those? Focused like a LASER?
It is the number one issue whe all Americans are polled. But NO we gotta focus or other things don't we.
That is unless you believe the likes of Nancy Pelosi and say that unemployment is the biggest help to the economy.
JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS. That's what we want. Now get to it and stop F'in around.
If it so offends you Democrats why didn't you repeal it when you had the chance? Probably the same reason that Guantanamo is still open. Cowards. You complain a lot but when the rubber hits the road you bail.
Looks like ledbysheep has learned how to copy and paste...
He wins on a technicality! It all depends on what "is" is. You guys are priceless!
Wow! That has to be a record setting fly by of a thread. Post after post of pure gabage................
Good job President Obama.
Unemployment peaked at 10% in 2009 and is now at 7.8% and dropping.
The Dow was under 8,000 and is now well over 13,000.
Housing prices are going up.
Housing starts are going up.
The deficit has been going down for 3 years.
The total US debt is now down to the level it was in 2006.
We are out of the Iraq Abortion and geting out of Afghanistan.
OBL is dead. Mission Accomplished.
What have the republicons done? Almost 400 filibusters in the last 2 years.
Dennis - Nice spin!
It would be nice if the left would admit just one failure of BHO, calling it as it is - A FAILURE. Spin, spin, spin... Blame, blame, blame... Even when BHO said the responsibility fell upon him, the matters have been dropped and swept under the rug without repercussions...
ABC and NBC a couple night ago had (on the WORLD NEWS) stories of Michelle Obama's new hair style for the inauguration... Really??? They couldn't find a newsworthy story anywhere in the world more important than Michelle's hair??? This is what the left and their mouthpiece (national news outlets) have become? Really???
Q22,
[You guys are priceless!]
And factual … you forgot factual !
OSU Denseness, you are so wrong. My first pay check in January was 7% less from increased taxes. Not income taxes, but payroll taxes. That is taxes, nevertheless.
1945,
But as even you said the payroll tax is not an income tax
Also it [payroll tax] is no higher today than it was when he made that promise
Dropping only because more people are leaving the job market - we have the lowest worker participation since Carter. Real unemployment has been around 16% and unchanged for the last 4 years.
Companies shed jobs to become profitable. Not a win for the country.
They couldn't go down much more. But yes - after 4 years and record low interest rates (thanks Bernanke) yes housing has stopped declining.
Seriously? going from $1.3 trillion annual deficit to $1.1 trillion is nothing to crow about.
In 2006 the debt was 36% of GDP. in 2010 it was 62%. What are you smoking?
Most Americans across the political spectrum reject rewards and special treatment for immigration lawbreakers!
A GOVERNMENT WHICH REFUSES TO ENFORCE ITS OWN LAWS (the most generous immigration laws in the world through which 1 Million people immigrate LEGALLY every year) IS INTOLERABLE!
Patriot - Yep, I received my first raise in 3 years. 97.5% of that raise was wiped out by higher taxes coming out of my check (yes, literally 97.5%). And I am NOWHERE NEAR those high income earners we hear so much about. My family is VERY middle class...
Flat income with ever rising prices... I'm spinning my wheels!
I love these clowns who think they will impeach President Obama. The Dems have the Senate. You will not be able to impeach President Obama.
You impeachment radicals are a bunch of treasonous idiots. Your rightful place is at the end of a rope, swaying in the breeze.
When our fine President was first elected in 2008 and the republicans/teabags said their number one priority was not to work for America but to make him a one term President, America knew he was the right man for the job. Anyone the gop hates that much had to be good for our country and especially the middle class. Repairing the economy that bush/cheney ransacked, putting Americans back to work, ending meaningless wars republicans started, ending welfare entitlements for the uber wealthy, gun control and environmental protection are just a few of the reasons why the rational majority of Americans re-elected our fine President. Yes that's right, the majority of Americans overwhelmingly re-elected our fine President and that is exactly how democracy and freedom are supposed to work in our fine country. For those of you who don't like how our democracy work, you can find the door and let yourselves out at any time! And trust me nobody will miss you........peace!!
*taps my fingers as I begin wonder... * Debt, guns, immigration... What happened to the pledge that they are going to keep Mental Health in the spot as it went hand in hand with the Newtown tragedy and the past incidents? or was that simply blowing smoke up our ass? *smiles*
Yeah. That worked after Bush was re-elected. I don't know what you guys suffer from more. Hypocrisy or just a serious lack of self-awareness.
Guns are top on the list... lol.... just like it was healthcare the first term and now guns for the second... it should have been the economy.
its not just obama, he cant do nothing if all congress wants to do is block him, Jesus im so freaking tired of the people in congress
Help me stop this BS, sign my petition on the whitehouses website, its to set up term limits for congress.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/create-term-limits-members-congress/hD8b8j6z
That's funny, I didn't see jobs listed anywhere among Obama's priorities.
VincentBlackShadow...(#1.55)..."You impeachment radicals are a bunch of treasonous idiots. Your rightful place is at the end of a rope, swaying in the breeze."
That's great....You belong to the "Purge the Opposition Society"......
Some famous members were:
All the Caesars, The Czars, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Polpot, Kim Jung mentalyILL, Chavez, Saddam, Mussolini, Idi Amin.....just to name a few
And you want us to give up our guns ???....We have to protect ourselves from thinkers like you....
Are you suggesting that P.0bama should join, that he is capable ???
DoctorLogic You are the most ignorant POS i have read a post from you lose. My argument for keeping my assault weapons is it is my right under the 2nd amendment of th constitution. I hope you get shot by some gangbanger that you feel the need to protect by taking weaprond from law abiding citizens.
These arguments are getting so tired.
The biggest thing Obama had to do in the last 4 years was to fix the economy. Something that he said he could do, and that if he couldn't, he didn't deserve a second term.
Any improvements in the economy are in spite of government interference. Not because of it.
Obama has been the king of impotent presidents. What a useless tool.
That being said. If Romney was the one in front of all the cameras today, the next 4 years wouldn't really look any brighter. All presidential candidates now days are the same. They tell different lies. But they all DO the same things.
Hopefully one day the people will get informed, and vote on reality instead of lies. If the people knew anything about who they were voting for, neither Obama or Romney would have even made it to the ballot.
If you believe anything positive about either of them, you're a sad delude fool.
... I know there's really know point in mentioning Romney. But I was heading off the idiots who assume anything negative about a democrat means you're speaking well of the republicans.
Dennis - You may be technically right on the "NAME" of the tax increase not being an "income" tax...But, if your taxes go up anyway, does it really matter what name is put on it? How many taxes on the middle class can be raised, as long as he doesn't call it an "income" tax, is acceptable?
The bottom line is that your taxes went up and your take home pay went down.
As Shakespeare said, "poop by any other name would smell as sweet."..or was that a rose?
Considering the absolute crash of the housing market and there was nearly zero growth in housing when he took office is seeing some growth really an accomplishment he can take credit for?
The stock market is not necessarily an indicator of economic health.
Unemployment, really? He's finally back to the unemployment numbers he started with. He didn't "create" jobs. He's just been able to recoup the ones lost during his administration. Let's look at it this way, if I employed 100 people in 2009 but had to lay off 20, that's a net loss. If I hire them back today, I am back to the original number of employees. That is NOT growth. That is not job creation.
If Obama can get his numbers back to where Bush was for 6 years, at less than 5-1/2% unemployment, before the Democrats took control of the House, that would be REAL job growth. To date, he's back to where he started in first term. But let's be clear, health care was the most important item for him and the Democratic led Congress NOT jobs.
What exactly has Obama done that has created jobs?
The vast majority of these replies I am seeing are from right wing extremists grabbing at straws still angerred that the totalitarian mentality espoused by the republican party was not accepted by the AMERICAN people. So now we hit on the gun laws debate. First off let me point out that para-military weapons are useless for hunting/sporting purposes. They have one use and one use only...to kill people. There is no need for a high capacity magazine to hunt deer or elk or pheasant or whatever you are hunting. For home defense these weapons stand a higher chance of incidentally injuring loved ones accidentally. I have shot guns. I am intimately familiar with thier workings, thier mechanisms, and the uses they were designed for. When hunting or target shooting the name of the game is accuracy. You stand a much better chance of being accurate with an old school bolt action rifle than with an AR-15. This is one reason bolt actions are still the preferred weapon of those who wish to attain accuracy. For home protection you are better off with a good old school revolver or a shotgun than with an UZI. There is NO NEED for these high capacity rapid fire weapons to be in the hands of a law abiding citizen with the exception of those who collect them. Yes, I know guns, and I know people. Sure I agree that if we outlaw guns the outlaws will still have guns or use knives. Yes I agree we need stricter penalties tied to gun violence or any other kind of violence and we need a prison system that will not release offenders of same after a few months served. However I also FIRMLY believe we need to register ALL guns. We need universal background checks on all gun sales whether private or non private. If you as a private citizen sell your AR-15 to a local gang member not knowing thier criminal associations, good chance it will get used in a criminal act. You do not bear fault in this. The fault is in a system that makes it more easy for such to aquire firearms and a lack of penalties that will be strictly enforced for comitting such acts. I as a gun enthusiast must say...I AGREE with the President's ideas on what must be done. Anyone who does not is jsut panderring to a bloated firearms industry that would love nothing better than deregulation and a total lack of any penalties. Do you think the firearm's makers care about wht happenned in Newtown? They care about one thing...quarterly profits. It is time for the American people to take back our streets and make them safe for ourselves, our aprents, our children and our children's children by enacting laws that strictly regulate the ability of those who should not have firearms to procure them and monitor the use of same to ensure they will not be used by such people for such atrocities!
OH DAMN, DID I MISS IT? DID I MISS THE INAUGURATION?
Dang, I was watching Star Trek "The Final Frontier". I guess it was more informative by what I've read here.
I see Barrack Hussein is going to focus on the economy, AGAIN!
Do you think he will focus on the economy like a laser", AGAIN"?
Will we have to invest (SPEND) more to create more minimum wage jobs?
Will we have to increase revenues (TAX) more?
Sounds like a plan we've heard before.
It failed then and it will fail again.
http://news.msn.com/politics/obama-kicks-off-second-term-at-public-inauguration
I notice that this is just all propaganda by MSNBC. If you look at the main stories, it doesn't give you anywhere to comment, but at the same time they continue to post this just so it makes it look like they are being fair.
It's too bad that this article (where people are ACTUALLY DISCUSSING Obama's achievements) will be removed come nighttime.
Afterall, it's not like MSNBC wants to hear what real people are saying.
this is the problem with obama. he does absolutley nothing as the president. he doesnt go after any serious issues. he is only voted the president cuz americans have no other choice becuase how corrupt the republican party is. this is why i dont vote. guns immigration are problems? we have serious problem. has obama done anything or even atleast talk and educute about GMO salmon and how monsanto taking over our food system? has he tried to lower our taxes? he may not be able to suceed but what irks me is he does not even try.
The essence of the Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting or sport. It is an individual Right to self defense. I could give a rip about gun manufacturer's bottom line and I, myself, do not own a gun but I do understand and appreciate another's Right, under the Constitution, to bear arms as they seem fit. You have interesting opinions but they are only opinions - not facts or truths. I believe taking weapons out of the hands of the law-abiding is a stupid idea. I would rather this administration do something about the mental health problem and meds that can cause manic behavior (A common thread in every mass killing of the last decade) than disarming non-criminals.
I also believe the gun issue is a diversion from the main problem facing this country that Obama has no answers for and that is economic growth and job creation.
Obama Debt Agenda : See if it can be even tripled this time instead of just doubled last time.
Obama Gun Agenda : Just take 'em away from the law abiding people so only criminals will have them.
Obama Illegal Agenda: Start calling them "unregistered" instead and give them drivers licenses since they're his main voting base.
And he did fix it, although you and your posse will never admit it.
And yet you expect a government leader (Obama) to fix the economy. You can either believe in government intervention to fix the economy or not, but you cannot blame Obama for not fixing the economy and then say that he has no right to interfere in it. The economy did improve BECAUSE of government interference; the stimulus package led us out of a recession that would eventually turn into a depression, and gave the nation, and the world, hope when all else was in short supply. The economies of the world slowly recovered, some faster than others, thanks to the government programs that many nations made. Unfortunately, we drifted away from the economy to deficits, which would have existed and been high even if John McCain had been in office. We turned to trimming our deficits instead of creating jobs, and so the economy (in the United States, and in the world) stagnated as we bickered over bailouts, debt ceiling extensions, credit downgrades, and tax cuts for the rich.
My God, is this what we have devolved into??? A pack of nostalgic conspiracy-theorists and sore losers whose only purpose in life besides raising families and existing is denouncing any person who dares insult their opinion of our nation's existence??? Let me put this in a language that you will easily understand: America is not a land of small government. America is not a land where economic growth derives from the rich, the investors, and the CEOs. America is not a land where the only function of government besides the protection of freedom and the defense of nation is to "step back" and let the "free market" do its work. We are not a naive nation that believes that the only good government is one that can fit in a bathtub and that our Constitution is incapable of evolving with the world. We are a nation that believes in smart government, not too big to intrude on our personal liberties but not too small to let the private sector establish a plutocracy where the fruits of labor go mostly to fat cats at the top. We are not a nation whose wealth is derived from Wall Street brokers, CEOs, corporate directors, or landed aristocrats but small-town innovators, local entrepreneurs, crafty inventors, and (obviously) the common working man and woman. We don't believe in the naivete that boldly proclaims the infallibility of the "free markets;" we know from experience that the only good private sector is one that adheres to the rule of law and the regulatory framework that is it's skeleton. We do not think that the government is an inherent antagonistic and malevolent organization; we think that it is an amoral institution, albeit imperfect, that is designed to protect our liberties, "provide for the common defense," and "promote the general Welfare." We do not believe that our Constitution, the basis of constitutions across the world and yet the imperfect creation of imperfect men, is fixed permanently and constantly in a single time; rather, it is an evolving document, one designed to enable the government to evolve with the world without permitting the outright refutation of our civil and individual liberties. And finally (and most importantly), we reject the divisive attitude and outrageous condemnation that has pervaded these historic four years and has developed over the past forty. We reject the concept that it is okay for an increasing share of our collective income to fall into the hands of a shrinking number of people at the top; we refuse to believe that we must sacrifice economic security and social safety nets for the poor for a free economy; we refuse to think that workers in our nation should be content to accept declining wages and a denial of their rights to collective bargaining as a price of economic modernization; and we refuse to accept declining investments in key areas like education, infrastructure, research and development, and key industries of growth like manufacturing to please deficit hawks in Washington, right-wing economists and academics in our civil institutions, and the falsely-proclaimed "job creators" on Wall Street and K Street. We reject this bastardized notion of American exceptionalism and this radicalized ideology pervasive on the right and in the center. We respect both our free economy AND our welfare state; both our employers AND our employees; both our business leaders AND our unions; and both our love of freedom and acceptance of higher taxes and more regulations as a price for civilization. This is an ultimatum, to conservatives and libertarians here and all around the world: we in the United States will not succumb to your divisive, class warfare-esque rhetoric and shall throw you out of the halls of our government; maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday, and definitely before you convert this great nation to a feudalistic wasteland.
God Bless The President.
Umm...Justis, what does that have to do with this story? I'm just curious because I'm not following the logic of it. Yes, I do agree that salaries of "public servents" are completely out of control, but I'm not understanding what it has to do with the current President's agenda.
And all the "rapid fire" cut and paste posts up there...wtf? You sound like...wow...I'm not even going to go there. Most people have made it clear what they think about your spam posting. And that's just what it is. First off, Hitler did not take away weapons rights. He wanted the people in his party to be armed. Secondly, President Obama has done nothing impeachible (yet). The ACA passed congress, and therefore does not infringe on interstate commerce, as only congress has the ability to regulate that. Since congress passed it, it's law (not a good one, but still)! I can go on and on, but it's just spam...not worth my time.
VincentBlackShadow, if wanting what is best for my country, being a patriot of the Constitution (not a member of a political party), and trying to ensure that the liberties I was brought up on are there for my children makes me someone who is treasonist, then so be it. There have been plenty of people who were guilty of treason in the past...George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjemen Franklin, Patrick Henry...I feel kinda fortunate to be counted in that list. If you think you're man enough to get the rope I should swing from, bring it on. I will not sit quietly just because you feel you are in the "majority" and my rights mean nothing. That's why we have a First Amendment.
I like what Dennis, Columbus, Ohio had to say at #1.49, though. It's always good when I lib uses a joke like that. My friend, I doubt you would get a fact if it jumped up and kicked you in the forehead. Unless Obama said it. Because politicians don't lie...right? Please. You still haven't answered me on why our Founding Fathers would put anything in the part of the Constitution that details your individual rights, about a state's rights. Are any of you libs still working on an answer to that one? No, probably not. It doesn't go along with your party's agenda. Besides, I'm just one voice in the chorus. Doesn't matter.
Still, I like the spin from MSN and NBC news about the "sweeping" victory of our president.
That's pretty funny...
That's not really so sweeping. Those were the final numbers, given by Bloomberg.com. But hey, was the Mitt Romney "47% speech" a self fulfilling prophesy? WOW...
His agenda? Nope, I don't think he'll get much done. With a Democratic Senate who has not worked on a budget because they want the Republicans look bad when making the tough decissions, will simply sit back and do nothing so they are not to blame. And that my friends is the secret. "Make the other guy look bad (even though, people like me think doing something is better then doing nothing) so you don't lose the next election. When we have the Super Majority, then we'll be able to screw this country any which way we want to." That's how you win elections. Do nothing. Congratulations Mr. President.
Just where do you live? Did you read the article? Have you payed attention to anything that has happened in the last 4 years?
If you call this a fixed economy. I'd hate to see a bad one.
... What? If you can't argue with what I said, just pretend I said something I didn't say, and argue against that. Genius really. You really can't lose when you're arguing with a dumber version of yourself.
Let me say this again. Obama said he could fix it, and if he couldn't he didn't deserve a second term. He didn't fix it. I'm not blaming Obama for anything that I ever believed he could do. He is the one that said he could do it. He tried to mess with it, and didn't fix anything other than moving some money from one place to another.
People and this goes to all who post here.
BREVITY!!!!!!
When posting try to limit it to no more than 10 Lines, nobody is going to read hundreds of lines, especially when you post several 100+ line posts in succession.
Led By Sheep if you want to express your personal 2000-3000+ word manifesto, then create a website.
Damn.
Spencer want to see a bad economy?
All you have to do is look at where it was when Bush was in office particularly the last half year (And be honest the first 5-6 months of Obamas Presidency he was most certainly dealing with the Bush economy.
And we are still recovering from that, Economists have said it will take up to 10 years to fully recover from where we were. I don't lay the entire blame for the economy on any president (Only ignorant people do that) but you cannot say anything good about where it was when Bush left.
Frankly True
Frankly T.....FINALLY ONE THING...that I agree with; otherwise, your name betrays you. :(
I agree with you. But democrats will never admit to being duped. Four years from now, they will STILL blame the Bush administration.
Fellas, I haven't really seen much blaming of Bush on here so far. Fact is, The problems were coming long before he stepped into office. He saw it, but did the dumbest things to try and fix it.
Conclusion: Bush was an idiot.
The problems have been coming since before the Carter Administration. These things have just been programmed to be pushed down the road until they came to a critical mass under the Bush Administration. I don't blame either Bush or Obama for the problems. I blame the government outright for thinking it could program the problems away. We need more fiscal responsiblity from the people in office. How is it they can balance their own checkbooks, but can be so irrisposible when it comes to the use of other people's money? When you can get an answer to that, you'll understand why I wrote in my vote for a local cab driver.
Wow. Looks like while the rest of us were watching the Inauguration, the disgruntled were venting here.
What part of "We are ALL Americans" don't you guys get?
You call the President names, you willfully ignore the progress we have made under extreme duress, and you call yourselves patriots? Maybe in a parallel universe... or possibly in the one that met in secret the night of the first inauguration and hatched a plan to obstruct everything in the hope of preventing his reelection. That didn't work, did it? So, what's next? More obstruction or putting on your grownup clothes and working to move us forward?
How is having more families in poverty is a sign that Obama has improved the economy?
@G-Man
Well said. Sadly, I doubt that the haters will do us the favor and leave. My respect for Obama continues to increase even though I disagree with many of his decisions. And the jackasses on the hard right and teabaggers are largely why. The harder that cockroaches like McConnell,Cruz, and Rubio and their wingnuts attack, the better President Obama looks. It's truly a statement on how stupid the right is that they can't see that. If you truly want to take down Obama, you might try using that little organ between your ears. And you might try spell-checking and not sounding like Dogpatch High School drop-outs. You psychos on the right really embarass me as an American. Your day is done. Get off the tracks.
How many times has the Obama administration declared the economy was recovering? Well we heard it again today in his inauguration speech, and yet anemic is certainly the best description. No mention of controlling the debt or deficit, but plenty of government expansion. It was a liberals dream speech, hands off social security because it won't go broke on Obama's watch, hands off Medicare, bring on cap and trade, more gun laws, and more taxes. Funny when Obama mentioned we have to control the cost of healthcare when he just started a massive new entitlement that is already driving up costs. The mention of name calling was a petty jab at Republicans and had no place in the inauguration speech. Besides it was the Obama campaign that called Romney a felon, a murderer, said Republicans are going to y'all back in chains. Well Obama forgets what he said about the debt and deficit as a senator, no surprise he forgets it is liberals that do most of the name calling. Also no talk of compromise or working across the isle, this was a we won we get our way speech. In other words more partisan politics with plenty of blame and excuses.
I guess that means high unemployment, record gas prices, skyrocketing food and utility costs, along with stagnant and declining wages will continue to haunt us as our President focuses on the debt, guns, and immigration. God help us!!
During Bush's last few months of office the economy crashed and burned. Most thought the only place the economy had to go was up. But what Obama, through the threat of raising taxes, placing heavy regulatory burdens on business, strapping them with a horribly written health care law and his view that the Stimulus would get the economy going, managed to do slam was the brakes on the economy.
We're not at 7.8% unemployment like we were when Bush left office. Or as a Democrat would you prefer to continue blaming Bush for the millions who have stopped looking for work and are no longer counted as unemployed? What part of Obama's economic recovery actually worked?
F*ck Obama and all the idiots that are too dumb to actually know what they are voting for.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/first-term-obama-increased-debt-50521-household-more-first-42-presidents-53-terms
Ledbysheep is a paid Republican Troll and a moron.
I see a lot of right wing fanatics like, Ledbysheep and Obamathecoward and others, have spent their morning filling this post with trash. It's a shame that such obscene disgusting mental degenerates get to spew their filth at will and pollute the world with their verbal excrement. But that is the price we pay for a free country with First Amendment rights.
And the price we pay for allowing freedoms such as the Second Amendment rights being perverted by these ignorant disgusting fools is the murder of innocent children and indiscriminate violence and death. It is too bad that these ignorant fools are allowed to procreate and bring more trash into the world, but that is the price we all pay for freedom in this country,
Seems to me that "laser focus" has turned into nothing but backscatter!
NoCommi's ...(#1.66)..."Obama's goal for America in his 2nd term ... The Sinking of America ... Obama is going to overwhelm us with crushing debt."
Right out of "Rules for Radicals".......The End Justifies The Means
AND
The Cloward-Piven Playbook.......Overload the system
Create Chaos and then tell the Panic Stricken Masses that they must give up X,Y and Z in order to get A, B and C. ....Keep telling them it's the only way....
@nunyabiz60
Registering guns is but the first step to making them illegal and taking them away. Please read up on Haynes vs US (1968). This is not just about the second amendment; it is also about the fifth. I do not take the side of the criminal and I believe background checks are good, and when there is a way to include a mental health check without violating HIPAA, that will be good as well. (Yes, I know you can't just punch it up on a computer.) I do not know if a medical release form could be modified for this purpose, but it might be worth investigating. Attorneys use a medical release form in conducting law suits involving medical injury.
Ambitious agenda huh? Obama failed to keep the majority of his campaign pledges from his first term and now we are expected to believe he will keep any from this term? If so, I've got some oceanfront property in Montana I'll sell you real cheap! Any agenda he has as priorities, the American people will not know about them beforehand.
ledbysheep banned, re-reg of sheepled.
It is going to be a great 4 years.....and after all is said and done, President Barack Obama will be one of the most influential Presidents we have ever had in our nation's history. My guess is he'll leave office with numbers that are sky high, as well given his agenda is also very important to the general public. The vast majority of the country backs him on gun control, immigration, how to deal with our debt, AND we cannot forget jobs and the American economy.
The GOP has the option to be part of the solution -or- continue to be bomb throwers from the sidelines and prohibit progress....but if they do, it will be at their own peril. There is a reason the GOP has a 26% approval 49% disapproval rating right now....and those numbers will only get worse with if they take the "oppose everything Obama does" approach that failed them in Obama's first term.
fascist...
It used to bother me that the ignorant would make silly, unsubstantiated statements like yours....but the more you do, the more you help my side. Here are a few numbers:
Last time GOP held the Presidency for 8 years....6 of those were with 100% complete GOP control....started with roughly $300 billion surpluses and left with a $1.2 trillion deficit....left office losing 800,000 jobs per month....left office with GDP shrinking at over 9% per quarter.
Now with Democrats with the Presidency for 4 years....2 of those were with 100% complete Democratic control....started with a $1.2 trillion deficit and is now projected to have a $900 billion deficit in 2013.....has 33 straight months of job growth (6 million in that time)....GDP now growing at 3.1%.
Yep, what an abject "failure"....right?! (sarcasm) Let us not forget that Obama is also responsible for 35 million Americans getting health care, ending the war in Iraq and soon the war in Afghanistan, rescuing the American auto industry, killing Osama Bin Laden etc. etc..
People of your ilk look like fools......which is why you are losing the public debate big time. It takes more than simply saying something..you need to back your assertions up with evidence supporting your claims. You people never do.
The House is still Republican. The Senate is still Democrat. The President is still Incompetent.
You have been bleating for four years that all of Obama's failures are due to lack of cooperation by the Republicans. Nevertheless, you still voted for him knowing full well that he would never be capable of creating consensus among the various political factions within our government.
And you cherry-pick your statistics. The simple fact is that on every single day of Bush's eight-year presidency, there were more Americans going to their jobs than on ANY day of Obama's presidency.
Similarly, unemployment rates under Bush dropped steadily until the Democrats took over congress in 2007. In September 2008, the unemployment rate was only 6.1%. Why do the liberals think that nothing counts but the very last months of a Presidency. It's like going to college for four years, flunking every subject, and then claiming they should get an "A" because that is what they got on their very last homework assignment.
On the last full month of Bush's presidency, December 2008, the unemployment rate was 7.3%. And that was higher than in any other month of his eight year presidency. Today the unemployment rate is 7.8%
HOW RACIST.."You People..?", and really, "Killing Osama Bin Laden..?"..My nephew will be so disappointed when he finds out he didn't kill Bin Laden when he was on this raid..
In FACT, I'm calling him right now and tell him that "YOU SAID" OBAMA killed him..LMAO, I hope he and his fellow SEALS dont get a FIX on where you live, Which rock is it..?
FYI: 35 million getting healthcare is a no brainer when it will send the National debt to an all time high of 25 trillion...like DUH...it will come at a cost to the sheeple.
Kannin...
This is a bizarre argument....so you are saying that the sheer fact that the GOP refused to work with Obama on anything should be the reason for voting....for Republicans?! This is a good insight into the brain of a Republican and their hostage taking techniques. In your world, you'll blow up the economy or social fabric of this country if you don't get your way.
This is why you lost the last election....that's flippin' nuts.
It counts the most because those are the conditions that are being handed over to a new President, for God's sake. This is a ridiculous argument. Do you actually say that the fact we were losing 800,000 jobs per month and people were threatening a run on the banks had no effect on what Obama was/was not able to do as President. That is silly.
fish....
It is unfortunate that your nephew's ignorant uncle doesn't understand the fact that if the President did not say "GO" for the raid, it never would've happened. It could be a good way to explain how the chain of command starts with the Commander-in-Chief, but, obviously that is too difficult for you to understand.
Actually, the ACA is a long term deficit reducer.....which is why repealing it would ADD to the debt.
Explain to me why causing people to wait until the Emergency Room to receive health care is a cost effective way of administering health care to our citizens....I find it funny that the Obama plan is basically modeled after a plan from the Heritage Foundation in the 90's as a counter to the Clinton proposal....but now it is socialism?! Give me a break.
DoctorLogic - Are you suggesting that because all those nasty Republicans were mean to him, little Barry deserves a “do-over?” This is our country we're talking about, not grade school. When Obama blames Republicans for his first-term failures, he is admitting that he will be equally incompetent in his second term: He is not getting any better at creating consensus, Republicans are not going to magically disappear, and his socialist plans for our economy are still going to be unacceptable to conservatives.
Ledbysheep:
I was with you until you started with the Auroroa and Sandy Hook false flag BS. It's that type of conspiracy theory idiocy that completely nullifies your previous, factually based comments. Maybe you should spend a little less time listening to Alex Jones. He's getting richer by spewing this nonsense, and you're just looking stupid.
Which numbers? unemployment? Oh well, just as long as he leaves!
He is going to concentrate on guns, immigration and the debt? I have an idea to solve all three. Use the guns to round up the illegals and then sell them into slavery, using the money to pay down the debt.
"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'" - - - Bill Hicks
And you fools fight over which tyrant is better to rule you for the next 4 years. You naively buy into this BS like it matters. "He's horrible", "he's great"...you sheep...they're all horrible! If you can't see that you're blind as a bat.
And for a guy named "Dr. Logic" to be a statist is so ironic..lol.
Dr Logic we wouldnt have people waiting to go to the emergency rooms if we started holding them accountable for their own actions.. But either way we the tax payer are paying for them. Either buying them insurance or paying their er bills. A far better solution would be to have a ice member sitting in each emergency room and when someone comes in have them provide their legal documents. If they dont have them they go back to their own country for medical services. We cant continue to pay for all the free perks of these criminals. I say offer a $200 bounty on anyone that can turn in a illegal and then have them all shipped home. Would save us a lot of money in free schooling, meals, medical.
Oh and Doc it wouldnt hurt for you to come out of your parents basement and get a real job too.
You are kidding,OR being sarcastic,right?...If your are not,you are uninformed,or live in a dream world.
Led By Sheep-
The video link is here
Eric Holder 1995 "Brainwashing" against guns
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/03/18/Holder-Outlines-How-To-Change-Public-Opinion-On-Guns
Hi Doc,
Always the same statement coming from these right wing low information trolls!
The vast majority of the country backs him on gun control, immigration, how to deal with our debt, AND we cannot forget jobs and the American economy.
Actually the majority of the country does NOT back him with immigration, which is why the liberal amnesty has not been able to get passed previously. Debt? He couldn't balance his own checkbook let alone deal with the mess him and other presidents have gotten us into.
Always the same statement coming from these right wing low information trolls!
So everyone that doesn't agree with you is low information? Maybe it's because some of us think with our own brain instead of believing what ignorant @!$%#s like you say.
It is unfortunate that your nephew's ignorant uncle doesn't understand the fact that if the President did not say "GO" for the raid, it never would've happened. It could be a good way to explain how the chain of command starts with the Commander-in-Chief, but, obviously that is too difficult for you to understand.
Obama has taken all the credit for bin laden when he really did @!$%# except sit on his ass and put off the decision until the window almost closed. This is after he passed up the previous windows. Our men and women in uniform are the ones that tracked and killed bin laden, obama needs to stfu about it.
Actually, the ACA is a long term deficit reducer.....which is why repealing it would ADD to the debt.
You might want to check with the cbo on that you low information troll.
Could not agree more, Obama will leave office with numbers that are sky high. A national debt that is over 20 trillion certainly counts as sky high. Probably if someone took the time to count up every time Obama offered an excuse or blamed someone else for his failing, those numbers would be sky high as well. Supposedly Obama is sky high on the intelligence scale, but apparently not smart enough to figure out how to get Washington to work for the nation. It is almost as if all the blame, all the excuses, and saying Republicans to the back of the bus weren't much help for the nation.
Tell this to all the people who will be loosing their jobs and health care (due to ObamaCare) come 2014. I am sure you will find an approving ear amongst them.....moron.
If Obama realmemnte has an agenda for gun control, in Chicago his home town would not have so many dead . If Obama has an agenda to reduce our debt, he wouldnot demand require an increase in the debt ceiling. If Obama has an agenda of immigration , he would have passed a law on immigration when he had the control of the entire congress instead to pasing executive orders to stop deporting illegals. The only agenda of Obama is to give you more power to the unions, to give citizenship to illegal immigrants to have more votes for Democrats and make the population more dependent of the government without caring about the debt only to use welfare as a political tool to win votes.
Here is a song by Grandfunk about the Gun ISSUE: I blame the voters for alot of problems in this country and that is by electing liars, con artist, hypocrites and letting them get away with it. Obama is so concerned with guns and yet this BS President ships guns across the border to the drug cartels which killed,murdered thousands including children,woman,men of another country and yet Obama has the balls to kiss up to the hispanics here in the USA. Were's the outrage by the Hispanic Community about Obama's cover up on Fast & Furious? There (Hispanics) own People from Mexico are being murdered by this Adminstration's failures and lack of morals and values, integrity,honor.? Hypocricy !!!!!!!!!? Still! the Mexican people here in USA still are stupid to vote for Obama, to me that is a slap in the face. Use your brains will you if you have any?
Ohhh, people why don't you come in here and let me talk to you a while.
That's right, step right up and listen to a concerned citizen speak his piece.
I'll tell you a little something that my daddy told to me.
My basic fundamentals if you want to be free.
'cause son, there's somthing wrong internally.
So, if you want your freedom son.
Don't want your country to be overrun.
You got to keep america number one.
(chorus)
My daddy told me "son, don't let 'em take your gun.
That's what they tryin' to do.
Son, don't let 'em take your gun.
They're takin' your bill of rights away from you."
My daddy said "son, don't let 'em take your gun.
That's what they tryin' to do.
Son, don't let 'em take your gun.
Don't let 'em take your gun away from you."
Ohhh, this year is our anniversary.
Two hundred years, people we've been free.
Won't be nobody takin' over our land.
If everybody's brother's got a gun in his hand.
I'm tellin' you we learned to fight for justice.
We're willing to die for freedom.
Hand in hand.
You got to understand.
We are american men.
Said they want your gun.
Said they want your gun.
Send 'em on the run.
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If they do we're done.
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Hey, where's those jobs we were promised ? Yea I thought so BO.
Ahh, the gun nut argument. Why do you want to live in the Wild West and Dodge City? There was nothing civilized about it at all. You gun nuts are the ones supplying the cartels with guns you know. This is well documented and is the reason the vast najority of Americans want stricter gun controls.
Here is some of the documentation.
Bloomberg Unveils Videos of Arizona Gun Show Sting - WNYC
The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal - Fortune Features
Our only hope for the next 4 years is that the liberal news media will STOP taking sides with the president, regardless of issues, and do their job of reporting the news.
AlQaede is on the rise, the debt in on the rise, price of goods and comodities are on the rise, poverty is on on the rise, welfare recipients are on the rise and Executive order are on the rise. What the hell is doing Obama in 4 years. Obama was reelected for 4 morte years of the same.
DoctarLogic posted several times in this thread. He seems to be a bit of an oxymoron because I seriously doubt he is a doctor and he definately has no logic, And then good old Jobs1 posted in his usual one liner about the low information trolls. What exactly is a troll Jobs1? is he republican or democrat or a figment of your vivid imagination as you lie in your basement bed and dream of all the wonders Obama will do as he rides through the counrtyside on his white charger. Unfortunately you both suffer from a selective type of blindness as well as deafness. I am a democrat but I am a crafty democrat. I registered as a democrat during the Carter administation sso I would have two chances to get that dimwit out of office because then I could vote against him in the primary and the general election. Tjat stategy has served me pretty well ever since because I can still vote against the democratic jarheads twice each election.
So your champion won the last election by 41.6% of registered voters. Big deal! He has done virtualy nothing in his first term except raise taxes on the middle class (wait till Obamacare fully kicks in) and I suspect he will do even less in his second term. So now you can all wait for 2016 so you get get your god awful Hilary to run. But I do wish you all would remember her campign against Obama in 2008 (even though memory is not a democratic strong suit) where she said 1 time in 1 speech that everyone should have the same health care she had. You never heard that again. Probably because her advisors told her that would bankrupt both the government and private employers because nobody has health care as good as a politician has. Oh well, we will try to survive the next 4 years and hopefully America will come out of the "Obama Coma" and elect someone who will actually try to fix this mess.
We should all be grateful to the American electorate that Mitt Romney is not being sworn in today. Returning to policies that almost destroyed the world economy is a horrible thought. Returning to policies where the next war is always looming just around the corner would be tragic. Returning to the darkest days of history where the elderly, ill and impoverished children are left to starve would be barbaric.
We can indeed, look forward to a brighter tomorrow. We can look forward to a better country and a prosperous nation once again devoted to world peace instead of never-ending war.
Sorry, Paul, your numbers are inaccurate.
President Obama won by 53% of the vote and Mitt Romney had 47%.
I guess you weren't paying attention when all the news media (except Fox) was commenting on the irony of the 47% number.
President Obama won by 5 MILLION more votes than Mitt Romney.
That's a lot of people. (Last time I checked, the NRA only has 4.2 million members in its entirety.)
Silverton,
As usual you use democrat math. Obama won by 52% of the vote. However, only 80% of the registered voters actually voted. Now here is where democrats get confused so get out your calculaters. 52% of 60% equals 41.6% of 100%. And that doesn't include any unregistered voters, so he won by even less than 41.6%. What happened to the 20% who didn't vote? Maybe they didn't like either candidate or were just too lazy to vote (I could say they were democrats but I'll let it slide this time). Do you finally get it?
Math is math and it doesn't change regardless of your political affiliation.
Sorry -typo
It should read 52% of 80% equals 41.6% of 100%
silverton-2953905...(#2.31)..."President Obama won by 5 MILLION more votes than Mitt Romney.
That's a lot of people. (Last time I checked, the NRA only has 4.2 million members in its entirety.)"
And 55,772,015 women had abortions since Roe v. Wade (1973).....
What's your point ???
Mike
He has no point. He just wants to cheer for Obama. Statistics give democrats a headache when they have to defend them. It's like "Yeah, but he WON!" I'm not argueing that he won. My point is that less than 41.6% of registered voters is hardly a MANDATE as they would have you believe. I would be using the same arguement if Romney won by 52%. It's a win but not a mandate. Now get off your a** and get to work.
Dude, you might want to look up the word "vast" so you don't say such stupid things in the future.
Paul,
No matter how you try to jiggle the numbers, it really doesn't matter how many registered voters there are if they don't vote, does it?
And it sure doesn't make any difference in the outcome of any election.
Five million more people who did vote said they wanted President Obama for a second-term. And for those who did not exercise their right to vote, whether they were registered or not, do not have a right to complain.
(Just listened to Kelly Clarkson sing at the Inauguration. Awesome!)
Do you see what I mean?
"No matter how you try to jiggle the numbers, it really doesn't matter how many registered voters there are if they don't vote, does it?"
If it doesn't agree with their viewpoint it just doesn't matter. First, I didn't "jiggle" anything the numbers are what they are. And yes it does matter how many people didn't vote. It goes to show voter apathy because maybe we can't put up a candidate from either party the is worth a damn. It is puzzling when you look at many "third world" countries and voter turn out is well above 90%.and many of them risk their lives or well being to just go vote. But a "good" turn out for us is 80%. Ah, and the old no right to complain comes up again. I have personally voted in every election since I turned 21 (40 + years ago) but I still don't try to deny anyone their right of free speech even if they didn't vote. But then you're probably a "progressive" democrat who believes they can tell me what's right and I should just shut up, huh?
The fact of the matter is Obama was voted in to do the same thing He has the last 4 years ! Read the numbers at the bottom of the article, nothing has gotten better, and the welfare, food stamp numbers, and people in poverty, and household income is down. To all that voted for Obama, can You say STUPID ??
Let's be clear, GUNS killed Osama, it's the gun not the person holding it.
Paul,
A lot of men and women have DIED fighting for our freedom to vote. It should not only be our right, but also the moral duty of every American citizen to vote.
Again I say ... if you don't exercise your right to vote, it is same thing as saying you don't care, so you have no right to complain.
Sliverton,
I agree with you. And that's why the GOP is especially egregious in their efforts to warp the electoral system. Their efforts to try and steal Ohio and Pennsylvania- with more states to follow, I'm sure- are intolerable. Only the GOP would decide that rather than try and serve their countrymen better, they will just try and change the system so that they can still win even with a minority of the electorate.
Obviously Barak Obama has forgotten or chosen to ignore the famous maxim of Harry S. Truman, as envisaged by the sign on Truman's desk in the Oval Office that said, "The buck stops here." In Obama's case it seems he should have one that says, "the blame starts here"!
Ambitious agenda indeed:
1) Sweep Benghazi under the rug
2) Disarm law-abiding citizens
3) Create hatred and strife among all demographics
4) Increase the size and power of government
5) Complete his destruction of our economy with massive inflation
1) Benghazi is being investigated and Darryl Issa of all people cleared the Administration of any wrong doing.
2) How is preventing potential maniacs from getting their hands on 100 round magazines, military grade assault weapons, or armor piercing bullets "disarming" citizens? Most people think that is common sense. If you want to own thirty, forty shotguns or handguns you still may. It is ridiculous to say he is "disarming" citizens...
3) HA! Good God....have you been around for the last 4 years? Obama encountered opposition in congress and the conservative media the minute he stepped into the oval office. Obama created hatred? Give me a break.
4) The government has DECREASED in size under Obama.....one of the problems with the economy is that over 700,000 public servants have lost their jobs due to the financial crisis and tight budgets.
5) Inflation?!?! What the **** are you talking about? Econ 101 explains that you do NOT have inflation in a period of contraction which we had. You clowns are simply throwing things up at the wall hoping something will stick....it is embarrassing.
The dreams of his father completed!!!!
Dr. Logic:
1) The "investigation" is a joke. Obama and his administration have stonewalled on even the most simple questions. For example: During a radio interview on Oct 26, Obama said that in the immediate wake of the attack he issued several directives, including one to "make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to."
In response to this, Rep. Howard McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee asked "to whom did you issue this first directive and how was this directive communicated to the military and other agencies — verbally or in writing?"
To that and many other simple questions, Obama refuses to answer.
2) Once you start banning the characteristics of firearms on an arbitrary basis, and claiming there is no infringement on 2nd amendment rights, you open up the door to arbitrary restrictions of any type.
Even a set of restrictions that amount to total disarmament of the people. Additionally, there is no evidence that the measures proposed will accomplish the purposes claimed.
3) Even if you were correct (and you're not) that Obama's inability to keep his promises was due to lack of Republican support; so what! It doesn't matter who is to blame. Obama couldn't make progress in his first term; why would anyone imagine he could do any better during a second term
4) The government has sucked more of the country's resources during Obama's administration than any other time in history.
5) When a government prints fiat money (currency that a government has declared to be legal tender, despite the fact that it has no intrinsic value and is not backed by reserves), as they have been doing to cover Obama's reckless spending, inflation is the inevitable result. $6,000 per household and counting.
Inflation is far worse for the 47% than a flat tax, because it will have a disproportionately large effect on those with fixed incomes.
Dr Logic: "Military-grade assault weapons" are ALREADY banned, you moron! An AR-15 is not a military-grade assault weapon. And, no, Darryl Issa hasn't cleared the admin of anything....we're still waiting for Hillary to testify (she'll probably twist an ankle just before her next scheduled appearance on the Hill). The Media has carried Obama's water for the past 4 yrs!
My guess is that we won't hear too much about gun control, now that Obama is back in office.
Reality bites doesn't it RWNJ wackos? President Obama beat your guy soundly, the first day of his second term falls on MLK Day, while he enjoys a majority approval rating and in 2014 whenever the ACA goes into full effect, you can go to a doctor and get prescribed meds for your mental conditions! You have reason to smile fellow patriots... oh and don't forget to hide your AR-15 very well... he's coming to get them!
We are not using the gun definitions of you gun nuts. You do not control the conversation. I signed a petition asking for more gun control that had over 300,000 signatures. Limit magazine capacity to 10 rounds or less. All of my guns are legal under that definition. They are also all registered. I expect the same from you.
You gun nuts are the ones supplying the drug cartels with their guns. Here is how it is done.
"Customers can legally buy as many weapons as they want in Arizona as long as they're 18 or older and pass a criminal background check. There are no waiting periods and no need for permits, and buyers are allowed to resell the guns. "In Arizona," says Voth, "someone buying three guns is like someone buying a sandwich."
By 2009 the Sinaloa drug cartel had made Phoenix its gun supermarket and recruited young Americans as its designated shoppers or straw purchasers. Voth and his agents began investigating a group of buyers, some not even old enough to buy beer, whose members were plunking down as much as $20,000 in cash to purchase up to 20 semiautomatics at a time, and then delivering the weapons to others.
The agents faced numerous obstacles in what they dubbed the Fast and Furious case. (They named it after the street-racing movie because the suspects drag raced cars together.) Their greatest difficulty by far, however, was convincing prosecutors that they had sufficient grounds to seize guns and arrest straw purchasers. By June 2010 the agents had sent the U.S. Attorney's office a list of 31 suspects they wanted to arrest, with 46 pages outlining their illegal acts. But for the next seven months prosecutors did not indict a single suspect.
On Dec. 14, 2010, a tragic event rewrote the narrative of the investigation. In a remote stretch of Peck Canyon, Ariz., Mexican bandits attacked an elite U.S. Border Patrol unit and killed an agent named Brian Terry. The attackers fled, leaving behind two semiautomatic rifles. A trace of the guns' serial numbers revealed that the weapons had been purchased 11 months earlier at a Phoenix-area gun store by a Fast and Furious suspect."
This is why we need national gun control laws with teeth. Just like that gun nut who was not allowed to by a gun in one state, went to the next state and bought them, then went to Virginia Tech and massacred 32 people.
National gun control laws are coming to stop the enablers from giving criminals guns.
Bloomberg Unveils Videos of Arizona Gun Show Sting - WNYC
The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal - Fortune Features
Nice to see someone remembering Benghazi, our fallen Americans, Our diplomat and our amoral president who, with live feed of the entire event at the white house, misrepresented it until after his election...but I was watching the situation closely,eventhough I had to dig deep to find stories of what happened..Then, I switched from a loyal lifelong Dem and liberal and voted against him...this man is no true Democrat-he does not represent the values and ideals of that party-His words say he does, but his ACTIONS speak otherwise: he has HIS OWN socialist agenda and that is ALL he cares about. He duped us all with his lying, beautiful WORDS..
kannin...........
you really should look into getting an education.
SOooo, He gave up on his first term promises and now he's
going to fail on more things? His defenders will point to anything
but the truth but at least he is the 1st to NEVER pass a budget.
desoto..
it is not his reponsibility to pass a budget. it is the congresses job. he has presented 4 budgets to congress. it is not his fault congress won't do their jobs.
And how many people actually supported his 4 budgets? NONE.....not even his Dem lemmings voted for it!
Hands off our Firearms!
leftisfascist, whom I agree with in some areas , is trying to say it in too many words... It IS the ECONOMY. For the past 6 years it HAS been the economy... all these other issues are a distraction. When the US Congress, and powers that be, can figure out a realistic budget, AND STICK WITH IT, we can address these other AGENDAS. People working for real wages will solve a LOT of the other agenda challenges. We wouldn't even need to raise the tax rate if those capable of working were working at a fair wage for the job done.
Where are the jobs? You said that if taxes were lowered there would be more jobs. Where are the jobs?
"Where Are The Jobs?" The GOP Blocked Them | Political Correction
CHART OF THE DAY: Reminder, The Deficit You're Freaking Out About Is Bush's Fault
Bush On Jobs: The Worst Track Record On Record - Real Time Economics - WSJ
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The good old Bush days when jobs were plenty!
Waht I find the most hilarious.
The Republican Right's Neocon favorite bashing pastimes President Carter produced more Jobs in 4 years than GWB did in 8!!!!!
I think President Obama has enough on his plate just dealing with the economy in this country. If we get the debt and the economy back on track, then lets worry about guns and immigration.
It would be nice if he concentrated on something instead of trying to appeal to his liberal friends. Do what is right for the country. He hasn't done that.
jobs council turns a year old this week. how many times has obama met with them? once a year ago!!!!
How about jobs be your first priority Mr. President??? oh wait you don't need to make we the people happy with jobs, or retirement security or healthcare costs, food costs, gasoline costs. You got the fools to vote for you so now you don't need us!!!
yeah you took that 80 bucks a month back from we the peons. That's 2 tanks full of gas in my family! Where do I find that money now? Take it out of the grocery money? Yeah while you eat like a KING every night? signed away our tax cut like a snake in the middle of the night!!! you're a coward and a fraud sir. just saying!!!
where are the f****ing jobs?????
3rd - Don't see all those House Members working hard on jobs. The BS you spout has been disproven so many times its not worth the effort anymore.
Grandpa,
Obama apparently doesn't think that working on the employment/jobs issue is not worth the effort anymore either.
Au contraire mon ami.
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Hey Grandpa, how about those hard working people in the senate who have rejected EVERY house proposal in the last four years. How about all of the Republican proposals that Harry Reid has tabled over the past four years. The BS that the liberal media has also been disproven, but you left wing trolls constantly ignore. So since it is no longer worth the effort, go sit in your rocking chair and collect your government handout like a good little liberal.
LOL....you should have voted !! We did...and our Prez will be here four more years.!!!! Hail to the Chief !
3rd............
ask your republican/terrorist party. they filibustered every jobs bill in the senate. including the jobs bill for veterans.
as far as gas prices go you should ask mr 'national guard no-show' bush and mr dickless '5 deferment' cheney. gas prices TRIPLED under their watch.
Yes I agree B.O. will be remembered for decades to come. He will be exclusively identified as the pivotal point for taking the United States from a Republic to a Authoritarianism Oligopoly and Harry Reid will also earn a place alongside him as his Hermann Goring.
He is the first President to have no public records of his education or birth. He can't even pass a background check to buy a firearm and for the life of me I can't figure out why people put him in the Whitehouse with his finger on the nuclear button.
Obama phones baby!!!!
Because he promised to do everything for them so they wouldn't have to think. It really is a sad day when people believe the crap he spews, and want to be led like sheep to the slaughter. I don't know about you Jeff, but I love being able to do as I please and make grown up decisions. I do not want the government telling me what I can and cannot do. Which is exactly what Obama, and his little buddies want.
That's right NY NY - "Live Free or die!"
Jeff-3672704 I found Obama real birth certificate. You wanna see it? B E N D over.. ha ha ha
Come out of mommy and daddys basement for just a couple of minutes. Talk is cheap little man. Spoken like a true coward.
This is a sad day for this country to have this dictator & fraud of a man take an oath he does not beleive in & lies about while taking it! God help us the next four years!! This is a path to distruction with him until we get rid of him!
Why does no one talk about arresting Obama and putting him and many in congress on trial for treason/ He and many in congress are just that Traitors. They harm our country not help it and they are trying to not change the constitution but if they had their way throw it out.
The dreams of his father completed!!!!
Buckle in Boys and Girls it is going to be a long four years.
This is the food stamp president who has the biggest debt of any president who wants to control people lives with Obama care and gun control.
Here's some numbers for ya' 156% turnout in voting districts in Philly! 22 districts in Cleveland with 100% turnout and 100% Obama votes (Riiigggghhhhhttt) etc. etc.
What we really need is Voting reform, if we had a fair count he wpould not even be in the office.
You have to give Obama some credit, he had a good plan and he executed it: First, assure yourself of the low-income vote by increasing welfare, free meidcal care, food stamps and other Government relief, and handing out free cell phones, basically buying their votes. Then promise immigration reform, and buy yourself the minority vote - with no intention of following through on your promise. Remain silent about your true intentions regarding the second amendment, making sure not to alienate any gun owners or 2A advocates....at least until AFTER you are elected. Finally, make the same promises about the economy that you couldn't deliver on in your first term, to earn the vote of the disenchanted followers you might be close to losing the support of.
Obama will be remembered as the worst president in US History.
Healthcare insurance costs have almost doubled since the healthcare Bill was passed.
I would not call health insurance affordable and I will have to cancel my health insurance if premiums rise again all because Obozo in the white house mandates we all have insurance.
On firearms all I can say is I am pro 2nd amendment and Molon Labe
He failed in his first term about illegals and fixing the issue, but his quick fix is just to make them legal citizens. That is not a fix thats the problem that is killing each state's budget, they come here and have babie's on our welfare system, thats why our healthcare system is broke and our schools are over crowded. And his fix is to make them all legal. Now armed illegals are comming accross which is an armed invassion. He stopped the Fed's from enforcing a Federal law. But why don't he do the same for the states who voted to legalize pot? He can't stop that Federal law because when he does the Fed's will lose billions of cash for the war on drugs, which is like veit nam a long war we could never win.
King Obama says. let them eat cake.
Guns, immigration, and debt was the story line that I clicked on that brought me to this comment vine.
Guns, Obama and the Democrats would LOVE to remove the 2nd Amendment, however are limited by law and the Constitution on how much they can do. With Republican still in control of Congress(at the moment), Obama and his regime cannot remove it, but if the Democrats ever regain control, God help us all.
Immigration, Obama and Democrats would love to "fast track" millions of would be Democrat voters, a new crop of "dependents", who, as what happened in the recent election, will sell their vote(and their soul) for entitlements.
Debt, does anyone (unlike the uninformed voter), does anyone REALLY believe, Obama and the Democrats care about our Nations debt? Debt and entitlements just BOUGHT Obama another 4 years in the White House.
The TWO ideas to deal with the debt, coming from the left have been a trillion dollar COIN, and more recently Democrats are "floating" an idea, to simply ELIMINATE the "debt ceiling".
So thats what you get to look "forward" to for the next 4 years, TAX AND SPEND, and once Democrats suck dry the wallets of the "rich"..........get ready to "grab your ankles" poor working class, your AZZ is next!
Today will live in infamy....
Our Dark Lord will indeed concern himself with adding as much debt as possible to destroy this nation. He will seek gun control to prevent real patriots from rising up to seize the nation back. And he will seek to make legal the millions of criminals who have stolen their place in America for over two decades.
Yes, America. Our Dark Lord will then put his hand on a Bible, something he has only touched for four or so occasions in his life, and will resume his pursuit for a more perfect payback and that all people were created less equal and should be compelled to pay for those who frankly don't give a damn. And while his words will speak about the nation coming together, make no mistake, his hope is to drive wedges deeper into America to create a rift so wide that the Grand Canyon will look like a crack in a sidewalk.
On the day celebrating Martin Luther King, our President will actually be asking us to suspend our observation of the content of his character and to notice that he is black by happenstance for the purposes of hiding behind Abraham Lincoln. He will seek to raise his nose like he has never done before and to mention himself 1776 times just so that he will seem patriotic. Those assembled before him will not give a flying rat's arse about anything other than the free goodies he has given to bribe them into voting for him. His fans are particularly stupid - some of them intentionally avoid dealing with their poor life decisions and will insist that he make them whole. Still others will have committed genocide invoking Roe v. Wade all while asking someone that legally owns a gun to give it up for fear that gun might walk out of its case, run down the street, and to kill one of their brothers as so often happens in Chicago - the Land of Al Capone and the Dark Lord.
So on this day when the one thing we can be thankful for is that our Dark Lord will now be on the permanent downward slope of his career where unless he destroys everything holy about America, he will have less than four years remaining to take a wrecking ball to portions he can reach. And with each passing day after this one, we can cross off the day on the calendar and seek to seize back our America from the Progressives, Socialists, and Repugnant Leftist pigs who have defiled us like marriage and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
To the anti-Obama crowd:
Isn't it interesting that with all the anti-Obama vitriol, he has some of his highest approval ratings he has had for years?!
This means two things.....first, most rational people both recognize the disaster Obama was handed when he entered office and appreciate much of what he's done (even if they don't agree with everything) and second, you people are as dumb as a stick.
The second point pretty much prohibits you from recognizing the first. If things were SO black and white, why are you all losing the argument? I'm sure you'll say that we 'drank the Obama Kool-Aid'....I hear that alot.......but, it also shows that you people are 100% incapable of formulating a message that people outside your small (and shrinking) circle-**** of buddies will listen to.
The good news is it is obvious the anti-Obama clown show will continue....it will become more vitriolic and angry....and as this is happening, rational people in the middle will see them for who they are: completely ignorant morons. So get used to the social minority dimwits....you're staying there for a while.
You can't fight the paid cut-and-paste posters here. The modern day equivalent of cross burners...
Oh my God, fascist....this might be the single dumbest thing you've ever posted.
Let's try and live in the REAL world here (not the TV show)......if you are so right, why can't you convince the majority of Americans? And if you cannot, given our democracy, is it not YOU who is then incorrect? That is the beauty of our system; there isn't a set of policies (per say) that make us who we are....it is the simple rule of democracy and majority rules that do so.
You folks have failed to convince the majority....plain and simple. Therefore, you can cry and whine all you want....but it ain't gonna get you diddly.
Obama takes my money and gives it to people who will vote for him. So of course he's popular. The 1% richest pay over 40% of ALL taxes payed. So he uses their tax money and gives it to people that don't want to work, people that "expect" something from him. So he loses the 1% vote and gets the majority of "dependents". Makes him look good while killing the country.
Yes, you've drank the Obama Kook-aid.
Hey *******-nozzles (Independant, Kenny, fascist),
If things are SOOOOOOO great for the "free money" crowd....why don't you hitch a ride on that gravy train?!? My guess is you know what you are saying is complete and utter bull****.
But let's say you were right.....you are still in the minority and continually fail to convince other people. The arguments you employ are the EXACT arguments that were used last year.....or four years ago. You goobers try using the game plan that got you defeated.....that's brilliance for you. (sarcasm)
Quite the contrary......I don't need to be angry. Remember, Obama won....and he continues to win the public debate by doing what the majority of people want done in this country. Until he starts working against the will of the people....why be angry?
You see Doc, the only way you can win the argument is to ignore the facts and "suppose". Yes I'm in the minority. The majority WANT while the minority PAY. It's the same road the country we left a couple hundred years ago went. Now the "minority" in that country pay over 80% in taxes while the "majority" live off them. I have family there that are millionaires on paper yet cannot afford a plane ticket to the states. So this is not one of your "lets say you are right", it's fact. The reason we cannot convince the "majority" is because Obama has bought their vote with my money.
Doctor logic, Please wake up the reason he has more approval rate is because more are on food stamps. You and your freeloaders are the only ones that like Obama or even voted for him.
Also when he 1st took office the first time he had a high approval rate but then it went down down down worst than Jimmy Carter now that my friend is a laugh by itself.
If you was to re-vote take out you freeloaders your God Obama would not be in Office and that is plain and simple.
"Isn't it interesting that with all the anti-Obama vitriol, he has some of his highest approval ratings he has had for years?"
That's because most people don't like whiners. And all the right has been doing for the last 4 years is whining.
Charlie approval ratings only up on those they call and they only called Dem loving Obama god worshiping thugs.
We will all be "glued" to our televisions, to watch Obama-claus take the OATH OF OFFICE, swearing AGAIN to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America(liar), transfixed by curiosity, watching with "baited breath", to see what kind of DESIGNER DRESS, our taxes bought for Moochele. Will she go with sleeves, sleeveless, or strapless? Enquiring minds and "uninformed voters" need to know.
Wow. Does anyone have the Cliff notes for some of these posts?
I can sum it up for you: ' Obama is president and we don't like black people.'
OR
Obama is too popular and I just want to post nonsense while I wait for the next klan meeting...
Who can tell what color you are with that sheet over your head?
Or some people simply like to whine, butch, cry, and complain all the time.
Lame Duck Presidency ... oh no.
It is a good time to talk about his goals for his second term. Based on the bad cards he was handed at the beginning of his first term and the obstructionist Congress which he had to persevere throughout his first term, here is a starting list of goals I feel he can and must achieve if he wants to leave a positive legacy.
1. Balance Budget ... Get the fiscal matters under control by working to a balance budget in his 4th year of his term. To achieve this goal his must revisit his healthcare plan and optimize it to remove unforeseen hidden demons ... it must be taken as a living doctrine and not a one shot deal that solves everything ... no such beast exist in politics.
(If he can achieve this the credit rating will be restored, so no need to list it separately)
2. Counter-Terrorism ... Remove all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan ... in the transition he must establish, under the leadership of the US, a robust global counter-terrorism treaty with as many nations as politically possible. Set it up in such a way that defiant nations would see it as a threat and maybe put pressure on them to comply as well.
3. Illegal Immigrants ... He must tackle the illegal (undocumented) immigrants issue ... if they are what most people think they are, cheap labor who are keeping the price of services and food down, then classify them as such ... this can be done by issuing a termed, guest worker visas ... this will enable the government to both tax their earnings and monitor the money flow ... the worst of the threats that illegal immigrants pose is reinforcing an already damaging underground economy.
4. Energy ... This need not be complicated if the government starts working to an agreed priority list ... a list that positions all the available energies according price per watt for end use, oil, gas, coal, solar, wind, geothermal, and nuclear ... there are a lot of improvement that can be done within this list, like smart grid, more domestic oil drilling, carbon dioxide containment technologies, better wind mill technologies, better solar strategy (maybe it is best to collect the radiation in space (GEO) and transmit down in such a way as to not damage the ozone layer), tighten the emission levels of automotive manufacturers even more to sustain the drive for better and widespread use of hybrids and electric cars.
(Nuclear is not the answer, I believe it is Pandora's box that will keep unleashing her demons now again, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima Daiichi, and the hundreds, if not thousands, of unreported incidents in the existing nuclear power plants ... This is one field I think NASA can play an important role, find a method to keep track of the harmful radiations levels, concentrations of the various isotopes produced by human activities, in the atmosphere and the sources that put them there (this real time tracking should be made available to the public much like the daily weather reports)
5. Park Air Force One in the garage for the second term ... roll up your sleeves and redefine a lame duck Presidency from a do nothing term to a maximum output, full steam ahead, strategy.
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Maybe you have a different list and/or better strategies ... rearrange and/or add on to the list.
None of the items here listed will be fixed. Obama will be managing the fire sale of our businesses and land to Bank of America(China) to avoid default. Pay attention to what he does not what he says. There will be plenty of guns and ammo to go around once the collapse begins for us to kill one another. One third of us will fall to pestilence-chaos,civil disorder and food interruptions-Famine. Just watch...