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Cain: Stewart Impression Shows 'Problem' With Black Conservatives, But Not Racist

Dramatically worse? I'm sorry, did the recession turn into a depression last night? Did Osama bin Laden rise from the dead? Did I dream that combat troops left Iraq a year earlier than when Bush wanted to take them out? Did I dream that Obama is pulling back on Afghanistan?

Housing market continues to tumble
Unemployment still rising
Government spending still increasing
Deficit at record levels

Things are rose aren't they? :roll:
 
Did I dream that combat troops left Iraq a year earlier than when Bush wanted to take them out?

that is one of the biggest deceptions Obama has pulled. He freakin played semantics. seeing how "combat" troops only includes the infantry and armor guys, he pulled them out and left all the MPs and logisticians and engineers etc, etc, etc. But he can get in front of a camera and say "I pulled out our combat troops" secure in the knowledge that the vast majority of people are uneducated about military terminology.
 
Housing market continues to tumble
Unemployment still rising
Government spending still increasing
Deficit at record levels

Things are rose aren't they? :roll:

Strawman. I never said they were rosy. I said that it's incredibility inaccurate to say that things are "dramatically worse". The fact that we are better off in several ways than we were in 2008 completely contradicts that ridiculous assertion. Moreover to suggest that the things you listed are exclusively the fault of the president is silly.
 
The fact that we are better off in several ways than we were in 2008 completely contradicts that ridiculous assertion.

name two

Moreover to suggest that the things you listed are exclusively the fault of the president is silly.

didn't stop the libbos from blaming everything on Bush ;)
 

Been there, done that.
Dramatically worse? I'm sorry, did the recession turn into a depression last night? Did Osama bin Laden rise from the dead? Did I dream that combat troops left Iraq a year earlier than when Bush wanted to take them out? Did I dream that Obama is pulling back on Afghanistan?
 
Been there, done that.

1. recession not turning into a depression is not an improvement. we still have a recession FAIL

2. how are we any better off now that OBL is dead instead of hiding in a hole? FAIL

3. see my previous post about the deception behind the withdrawal of "combat" troops from Iraq. FAIL

4. afghanistan, a political ploy. anyone else think the timing of the pull out (just before elections) is a little suspicious? FAIL

like I said, name two.
 
Wow, it's a good thing that very, very, very few people here take you seriously anyways.

Herman Cain is an idiot if he really wants all of our nations business to be done via cliff-notes. 3 or four pages isn't enough room, especially with the way legislation is formatted. He'd know that if he had even the slightest clue as to how our government runs.

He DOES know how it is run. Legislation gets bloated and stuffed with riders and ends up so ****ed up no one bothers to read what they vote on. When they vote on it they dont know whats in it. Yeah...its Herman CAIN thats ****ed up and not the congress and business as usual.
 
1. recession not turning into a depression is not an improvement. we still have a recession FAIL

2. how are we any better off now that OBL is dead instead of hiding in a hole? FAIL

3. see my previous post about the deception behind the withdrawal of "combat" troops. FAIL

4. afghanistan, a political ploy. anyone else think the timing of the pull out (just before elections) is a little suspicious? FAIL

like I said, name two.

I stopped reading at #1. We've been out of the recession since 2009. That was my point.
 
Moderator's Warning:
The topic is Stewart's comment about Cain. NOT Obama's presidency. Remember that.
 
I work 2 jobs and have very little time for TV nowadays and when I do watch, it's typically a movie or a sitcom/drama series that I follow. I don't listen to talk radio. I never said that it all started with Obama. Did I miss anything you said that was so patently false that I laughed when I read it?

I'm about as partisan as a pepperoni pizza and a coke. Bush 43's 2nd term was horrible. I disagreed with just about everything he did. The point that we were trying to make is that Obama was going to change things. If he meant change them for the worse, then he has been very successful. Things have gotten dramatically worse under his Presidency and if you can't see that, then maybe you should put down your book and take a walk in the world we live in.

I walk in this world every single day. I interact with people who have been affected by today's economic issues every single day, myself included! People who are poor, have no health insurance or recently lost theirs because they've lost their job, people who are desperate and just looking for help - I see these people every single day. Yes, many of them discuss with me the political issues in our national politic. Most understand that it's not the President's policies that are the problem. It's what the GOP is doing in an effort not to move this country out of it's current economic downfall, but rather the GOP who would rather remain obstructionist and not seek common ground solutions to our deepening problems. These people understand that we as a nation have to tighten our purse strings, but they also understand that we can't cut off everything to people who are in need. Many of these people worked hard for a living doing honest work. They did what their bosses asked them to do - come to work on time, do the tasks assigned them - but in the end they got pink slips. Some have even been forced to retire because of the initiatives put in force by the GOP at the state level.

I walk in this world among these people every single day...

If you were so upset with the inaction or mistakes made by GW Bush, perhaps you should have spoken up alot sooner and been much louder in your rebuke of him as much as you're being so critical of President Obama. Maybe if enough of you had paid as close attention to him as you are now doing to President Obama, maybe things wouldn't be as bad as they are now.

Yeah, I'm blaming GW Bush still, but as you said it's Obama's mess now. I just don't think folks give him enough credit for keeping things together as they are now. Believe me when I say if you knew what I know - information gleened from the very books you claim I should put down - you'd rethink your position on a great many matters.
 
Housing market continues to tumble
Have you any idea just how deep the housing problem is? How many pieces of home mortgages - these credit default swaps - were sold among damned near every major bank not only across this country but AROUND THE WORLD!?! Imagine a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle as a single family home. Then image all 1,000 pieces being sold to damned near any bank that would buy them, pieces merged with mortgage insurance deals - mortgage backed securities - that were then resold to the very banks that made the mortgage loans. Have you even tried to comprehend just how toxic these MBS and CDOs were to our national economy?

When people started defaulting on their mortgages because they couldn't afford to pay the enormous balloon payments - and they all came due at the same time! - the investment banks started demanding payment on the CDOs. The commercial banks then started demanding payment on the MBSs from insurance companies towhich AIG was the single largest global owner of MBS! Now, imagine millions of MBS type deals held by this one company not just here in the US, but EVERYWHERE in the industrialized world? Try real hard to wrap your mind around that if you can. Not being sarcastic, but this is what happened. So, when the President and leading economist say that these banks were "too big to fail," they meant it!!!

Unemployment still rising
Unemployment has hovered between 8.1% at the low end and 9.3 at the high end. On average, it's been around 9.1% since about March/April 2009. I'd hardly say the unemployment rate is "still rising". I think the highest it's gotten under Obama was 10.3%, but it hasn't gotten any higher than 9.3% since that time - hardly support for you claim that it's "still rising". But nice try.

Government spending still increasing

Nevermind that since March of this year, the Democrats have agreed to over $105 Billion is spending cuts and have stated they are willing to cut still more - as much as +$1.2 trillion over the next 10 years according to the latest negotiations between VP Biden and the GOP...well, that was until Cantor and Co. walked out of negotiations. But don't let the truth cloud your judgment.

Deficit at record levels

End those tax subsidies to big oil and allow the Bush tax cuts on those making over $250K and we can start seeing the deficit get paid down.

Things are rose aren't they? :roll:

I'd say you need to start talking to your obstructionist GOP politicians about that.
 
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tell that to the millions of people still without work
I'm pretty sure those millions of people already know that the recession is over. It's a well known fact.

Edit: I forgot about CC's warning. I won't post about this again.
 
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Alright...

I know I diverged from the thread topic, but I had to respond to the poster in question (who apparently doesn't know just how bad BAD got). But let's bring the thread topic back around, please.

That 3-page bill intruduction Herman Cain proposes as President...I know it's in response to the still false claim pertaining to the size of the PPACA (it's less than 1,800 pages, BTW even if you combine both the PPACA and the Health and Education supplemental bill that was "deemed and passed" out of the Senate), but getting such a tiny bill through Congress just ain't gonna happen. Case and piont: TARP was introduced as only 3-pages by Treasury Secretary Paulson and look at how big it got once Congress got ahold of it?
 
Sigh.

Way too many things are called "racist". Period.

The way Cain called it was about right IMO.
 
Alright...

I know I diverged from the thread topic, but I had to respond to the poster in question (who apparently doesn't know just how bad BAD got). But let's bring the thread topic back around, please.

That 3-page bill intruduction Herman Cain proposes as President...I know it's in response to the still false claim pertaining to the size of the PPACA (it's less than 1,800 pages, BTW even if you combine both the PPACA and the Health and Education supplemental bill that was "deemed and passed" out of the Senate), but getting such a tiny bill through Congress just ain't gonna happen. Case and piont: TARP was introduced as only 3-pages by Treasury Secretary Paulson and look at how big it got once Congress got ahold of it?

You dont suppose that somewhere between 3 and 3000 (or 1800) we can find a happy medium where congressmen can actually be bothered to read and understand what they are voing on do you? Or that legislation that is passed to fund a $340 highway in Bum**** Indiana wont also contain 16 different hidden financial riders costing the taxpayers an additional few billion?
 
Dramatically worse? I'm sorry, did the recession turn into a depression last night? Did Osama bin Laden rise from the dead? Did I dream that combat troops left Iraq a year earlier than when Bush wanted to take them out? Did I dream that Obama is pulling back on Afghanistan?

yup.

44 Percent Of Americans Say Economy Worse Under Obama | News One
44 percent of Americans believe the economy is worse off under President Obama than when George Bush was in office.

only one-third of Americans believe the country is headed in the right economic direction.

Only 10 percent of Americans believe the unemployment rate will go under five percent in the next 2 years.

Unemployment is currently at 9.1 percent, while the African-American unemployment rate is at record highs slightly over 16 percent.

http://pushbacknow.net/2011/06/09/20-ways-the-economy-has-gotten-worse-under-obama/
Here are 20 ways the Economy has gotten worse….

1.The unemployment rate has risen to 9.1% since January 2009 when it was 7.6%

2.The number of “long-term unemployed” in the U.S. is up to 6.2 million. When Obama took office, that number was approximately 2.6 million

3.The average price of a gallon of gas is $3.79, When obama first became president, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States was $1.83.

4.In April 2011, the average U.S. household spent approximately $369 on gasoline compared to $201 in April 2009

5.The cost of a Memorial Day cookout was 29 percent higher this year than last year


6.Today there are more than 44 million Americans on food stamps, When Obama was sworn in, there were nearly 32 million Americans on food stamps.

7.The number of children living in poverty has gone up by about 2 million in just the past 2 years

8.The national debt is is 14.3 trillion dollars. When Obama took office, the U.S. national debt was 10.6 trillion dollars.

9.The federal government has borrowed 29,660 more dollars per household since Obama signed the economic stimulus law 2 years ago

10.During Obama’s first 2 years in office, the U.S. government added more to the U.S. national debt than the first 100 U.S. Congresses combined

11.The combined debt of the major GSEs (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Sallie Mae) has increased to 6.4 trillion in 2011.

12.The trade deficit was about 33 percent larger in 2010 than it was in 2009. The deficit is expected to grow in 2011

13.Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year. That is the lowest level recorded in all of U.S. history

14.Since August, 2 million more Americans have left the labor force

15.In 2010, more than a million U.S. families lost their homes to foreclosure. That number is expected to go even higher in 2011

16.During the first three months of this year, less new homes were sold in the U.S. than in any three month period ever recorded

17.The Chinese are rapidly dumping U.S. government debt. Faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. Treasuries is rapidly declining

18.The U.S. dollar has fallen by 17 percent compared to other major national currencies since 2009

19.Today an ounce of gold costs about $1500. When Barack Obama first took office, an ounce of gold was going for about $850

20.61% of Americans believe that they will not return to their “pre-recession” lifestyles until at least 2014

source:businessinsider
 
Of course, one could easily point out that these things occurring during Obama's presidency doesn't mean that he caused them, made them worse, or even failed to make them better.
Yep, I'm still waiting for some people to get that correlation!= causation.
 
Of course, one could easily point out that these things occurring during Obama's presidency doesn't mean that he caused them, made them worse, or even failed to make them better.

yeah...it's not like he's the President or anything like that. ;)
 
Of course, one could easily point out that these things occurring during Obama's presidency doesn't mean that he caused them, made them worse, or even failed to make them better.

One could also easily deduce that had this all happened under McCain, liberals would be blaming him for it.
 
One could also easily deduce that had this all happened under McCain, liberals would be blaming him for it.

Yeah, and they'd be dumb. It's about as dumb as the "everything is Bush's fault" refrain. Although Bush did **** up pretty badly.
 
Unemployment has hovered between 8.1% at the low end and 9.3 at the high end. On average, it's been around 9.1% since about March/April 2009. I'd hardly say the unemployment rate is "still rising". I think the highest it's gotten under Obama was 10.3%, but it hasn't gotten any higher than 9.3% since that time - hardly support for you claim that it's "still rising". But nice try.I'd say you need to start talking to your obstructionist GOP politicians about that.

Dont believe the hype. The unemployment 'hovers' at 9.3 but thats only because people have been unemployed for so long they drop off the rolls. Those do not reflect anything even CLOSE to accurate unemployment figures.

Good thing no DEMOCRATS where in volved in creating this mess...its ALL the GOP.

Myopia is AWESOME...you get to pretend your **** doesnt stink...
 
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