The GOP line is that Barack Obama is a "failed president" (when all else fails they drag this line out to cover their failures). This argument holds special appeal for Repubs because it relies on very short memories--ours, not theirs. Obama inherited an economy that was shedding 750,000 jobs a month, a banking system in ruins, a mortgage crisis caused by qustionable practices involving both the ...Banks and Wall Street Speculators---not to mention an auto industry down and almost out!
His predecessor, by contrast inherited a budget surplus (that was predicted to last 25 years) and a healthy economy. He immediately set about squandering them both, then embroiled us in two wars (one of which was totally unnecessary and supported by an incredible series of lies). The legacy of Mr. Bush was to leave the country on the precipice of another Great Depression with no safety net and no clear explanation of how we got there!
In Obama' three years in office, more jobs have been created than in the entire eight years of George W. Bush. We're out of Iraq, bin Laden is dead, we headed out of Afghanistan, the auto industry is profitable again and Obama signed health care legislation that eluded his predecessors for nearly a century.
The real failure happened during the Bush Administration but Republicans cannot admit that they had any part of the fiasco that left the country and Mr. Obama hanging. Personally, I believe he has made incredible headway considering the mess that was handed to him on a platter. I hope that the recovery will steadily continue in the next four years. And I believe it can happen as long as we keep ourselves informed and understand we cannot go back to the Republican way of doing things...I'll say this correctly: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me."
His predecessor, by contrast inherited a budget surplus (that was predicted to last 25 years) and a healthy economy. He immediately set about squandering them both, then embroiled us in two wars (one of which was totally unnecessary and supported by an incredible series of lies). The legacy of Mr. Bush was to leave the country on the precipice of another Great Depression with no safety net and no clear explanation of how we got there!
In Obama' three years in office, more jobs have been created than in the entire eight years of George W. Bush. We're out of Iraq, bin Laden is dead, we headed out of Afghanistan, the auto industry is profitable again and Obama signed health care legislation that eluded his predecessors for nearly a century.
The real failure happened during the Bush Administration but Republicans cannot admit that they had any part of the fiasco that left the country and Mr. Obama hanging. Personally, I believe he has made incredible headway considering the mess that was handed to him on a platter. I hope that the recovery will steadily continue in the next four years. And I believe it can happen as long as we keep ourselves informed and understand we cannot go back to the Republican way of doing things...I'll say this correctly: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me."
I WILL be voting for Mr. Obama again!
Are you still with me?
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