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CNN Poll: Was Bush better president than Obama?

I dont want anyone spending my money like this. So no, it does not make sense.

The fact that TARP was spent and repaid but Obama didn't use it to pay down the deficit wouldn't garner any support from a Libertarian thus no Libertarian would ever say Obama is a better President than Bush.
 
The thread topic is Was Bush better President than Obama. Obviously the actual results benefit Bush. No Libertarian would ever select Obama over Bush given only those two choices.

Yep, I do still think President Bush was worse. Of course we still have so much time for things to get all messed up.

As I typed that I wondered. Would you actually want things to get better? If that meant it wouldd justify President Obama's plan.
 
Yep, I do still think President Bush was worse. Of course we still have so much time for things to get all messed up.

As I typed that I wondered. Would you actually want things to get better? If that meant it wouldd justify President Obama's plan.

Since you think Obama was better then you need to offer proof of that statement not just your feelings. The results sure aren't better so what do you base your statement on?
 
NO, NO IT'S NOT SO. No way anyone could be worse than Bush. It is amazing that someone could imagine such a thing after all that happened with the Surplus Money, Two Wars, Billions wasted on his so called Desert Storm in Iraq and almost 10 years after Osama Ben is still on the loose, after all he did promise the world that he would smoke him out of the cave. no?
He is also responsible for the current Economic Melt-Down and the Bail-Out Money to the Banks and Wall Street etc. etc. Need I say more, he has a lot of International Debt and Innocent People Blood on his greedy hands!!! This is just a small part of the Mess Bush left behind him in D.C.
All this and more was waiting in the Oval Office for Obama to clean up in Lighting Speed Time... NOW, the People who are blind or refuse to see the facts are trying to shift the blame to the shoulders of President Obama... This is totally unjust and wrong and I believe Obama is truly trying to get the U.S.A. back on track and to a Better Place For All Americans and not just the 2% that Bush and Cheney took care of...
Yes, Obama is a much better President than Bush and has done more for the Country in less than 2 Years than Bush did in 8 Years !!!!
Now, some People will say it ain't so, But Smart People they Know !!!!

Merci Minnie
 
Since you think Obama was better then you need to offer proof of that statement not just your feelings. The results sure aren't better so what do you base your statement on?

I was being considerate of your other blog statment about libertarians wanting to be alone. My feelings have not changed on the matter.
 
Man you sure do throw insults around.

For your information the FY2009 budget was three months in during President Obamas presidency.

Whats funny is your compairing President Bush's last to years in office

Here is a good read on that subject ...but don’t let Conservative see it as it will burst his bubble.:mrgreen:

<Democrats shrank US spending, deficit in last fiscal year, figures show >

The US deficit shrank nine percent last fiscal year but still topped one trillion dollars, the government said Friday in a report seized on by Democrats' rivals weeks ahead of mid-term elections.

For the 2010 fiscal year that ended on September 30, the government had a budget shortfall of 1.294 trillion dollars, down 122 billion dollars from the previous year's record-setting high.

Revenue rose and spending fell amid recovery from recession and as President Barack Obama's Democratic administration wound down some of the emergency measures taken to restore growth.

The final figures "underscored the administration's commitment" to cutting the massive government deficit, Treasury Secretary TimothyGeithner said in a statement.

"By carefully managing the emergency initiatives to stop the financial panic and by accelerating our exit from those investments, we have significantly lowered the cost to taxpayers, bringing the costs of the financial rescue down by more than 240 billion dollars this year."

Democrats shrank US spending, deficit in last fiscal year, figures show | Raw Story
 
LOL... most definitely a case of lies, damn lies and ^^^^^
 
Here is a good read on that subject ...but don’t let Conservative see it as it will burst his bubble.:mrgreen:

<Democrats shrank US spending, deficit in last fiscal year, figures show >

The US deficit shrank nine percent last fiscal year but still topped one trillion dollars, the government said Friday in a report seized on by Democrats' rivals weeks ahead of mid-term elections.

For the 2010 fiscal year that ended on September 30, the government had a budget shortfall of 1.294 trillion dollars, down 122 billion dollars from the previous year's record-setting high.

Revenue rose and spending fell amid recovery from recession and as President Barack Obama's Democratic administration wound down some of the emergency measures taken to restore growth.

The final figures "underscored the administration's commitment" to cutting the massive government deficit, Treasury Secretary TimothyGeithner said in a statement.

"By carefully managing the emergency initiatives to stop the financial panic and by accelerating our exit from those investments, we have significantly lowered the cost to taxpayers, bringing the costs of the financial rescue down by more than 240 billion dollars this year."

Democrats shrank US spending, deficit in last fiscal year, figures show | Raw Story

And I remember when the 490 billion Bush deficit was a disaster. Guess that is much much more than 1.29 trillion. Interesting that you post that number with pride.
 
And I remember when the 490 billion Bush deficit was a disaster. Guess that is much much more than 1.29 trillion. Interesting that you post that number with pride.


down 122 billion dollars from the previous year's record-setting high.:2wave:
 
down 122 billion dollars from the previous year's record-setting high.:2wave:

Great, two years in a row, two record deficits. 2010 is now has the second highest deficit in U.S. history. Two records that I am sure Obama is proud of.

Wonder what the 2009 deficit would have been had Obama applied the TARP repayment to the deficit? No politics there, right?
 
What are you guys, NUTS?

Bush has recklessly squandered our tax money for his political objectives. Those meddling GOP's are making a bad image of President Obama because they're begging for a second chance at ruling the United States!
 
Great, two years in a row, two record deficits. 2010 is now has the second highest deficit in U.S. history. Two records that I am sure Obama is proud of.

Wonder what the 2009 deficit would have been had Obama applied the TARP repayment to the deficit? No politics there, right?


While were building strawmen, why not make a leap and wonder what the deficit would have been if we hadn’t invaded Iraq.:roll:
 
What are you guys, NUTS?

Bush has recklessly squandered our tax money for his political objectives. Those meddling GOP's are making a bad image of President Obama because they're begging for a second chance at ruling the United States!

Right, another liberal who doesn't believe actual facts matter. Where do you get your information? The Obama record speaks for itself, suggest you get that record from non partisan sites like bea.gov, bls.gov, and the U.S. Treasury website. I assure you that it isn't the GOP making Obama look bad, it is the Obama record doing that.
 
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While were building strawmen, why not make a leap and wonder what the deficit would have been if we hadn’t invaded Iraq.:roll:

It would have been about 100 billion a year less. Facts have a funny way of making you look foolish. According to the GAO 9/11 cost over a trillion dollars so we spent 100 billion a year to prevent another one. Looks like a pretty good return on that investment. By the way I had three family members serve in Iraq and all said we did the right thing. So I believe those family members and then of course I believe the Democrat Politicians on record supporting the invasion.
 
It would have been about 100 billion a year less. Facts have a funny way of making you look foolish. According to the GAO 9/11 cost over a trillion dollars so we spent 100 billion a year to prevent another one. Looks like a pretty good return on that investment. By the way I had three family members serve in Iraq and all said we did the right thing. So I believe those family members and then of course I believe the Democrat Politicians on record supporting the invasion.

You say that I look foolish and three sentences later you say this (According to the GAO 9/11 cost over a trillion dollars so we spent 100 billion a year to prevent another one. Looks like a pretty good return on that investment.) Invading a country that had nothing at all to do with 9/11 is a good investment? Bizarre.:shock:
 
Man you sure do throw insults around.

For your information the FY2009 budget was three months in during President Obamas presidency.

Whats funny is your compairing President Bush's last to years in office
i'll save you some time and effort...don't bother with him
 
Not true at all, liberals love to call the TARP funding a stimulus plan but nothing could be further from the truth. Obama wants to take credit for the TARP program while then blaming Bush for an inherited deficit. Can't have it both ways although Obama continues to try.
where have you been the last couple of years the tarp program most certainly DID start under the bush admin. and continued into obama and "hank paulson and co. - hank paulson". wake up.
 
It would have been about 100 billion a year less. Facts have a funny way of making you look foolish. According to the GAO 9/11 cost over a trillion dollars so we spent 100 billion a year to prevent another one. Looks like a pretty good return on that investment. By the way I had three family members serve in Iraq and all said we did the right thing. So I believe those family members and then of course I believe the Democrat Politicians on record supporting the invasion.
all that spent and our borders are sooo porous 16 million illegals can STILL get through "not another 9/11"? by coincidence i say.
 
where have you been the last couple of years the tarp program most certainly DID start under the bush admin. and continued into obama and "hank paulson and co. - hank paulson". wake up.

TARP was passed under Bush and signed under Bush, it wasn't a stimulus it was a bailout. Do you know the difference? TARP has mostly been repaid so where did the money go?
 
i'll save you some time and effort...don't bother with him

Back on ignore for you, you continue to run from actual facts. Wonder what it is about liberals that won't allow them to actually debate the issues and recognize actual facts.
 
You say that I look foolish and three sentences later you say this (According to the GAO 9/11 cost over a trillion dollars so we spent 100 billion a year to prevent another one. Looks like a pretty good return on that investment.) Invading a country that had nothing at all to do with 9/11 is a good investment? Bizarre.:shock:

Actually what is really bizarre is to continue to complain about something that happened over 7 years ago. It does seem that the further we get from the past the more memory loss that occurs especially with the Bush detractors. Why is it that you and others are so biased and out of touch with reality that you cannot be objective when it comes to doing research. The Senate was under the control of the Democrats in October 2002 when they voted 73-26 to authorize the action in Iraq. How did such brilliant Democrats allow Bush to dupe them so badly?
 
Back on ignore for you, you continue to run from actual facts. Wonder what it is about liberals that won't allow them to actually debate the issues and recognize actual facts.
lol...mornin' conservative:coffeepap
 
TARP was passed under Bush and signed under Bush, it wasn't a stimulus it was a bailout. Do you know the difference? TARP has mostly been repaid so where did the money go?
exactly!!! "where did the money go?" we spend more than the rest of the world combined on defence and yet 16 million illegals can JUST walk across our border. (where did the money go?)
 
exactly!!! "where did the money go?" we spend more than the rest of the world combined on defence and yet 16 million illegals can JUST walk across our border. (where did the money go?)

TARP had nothing to do with defense, that is another issue completely although since this thread is a comparison between Bush and Obama, I don't recall Bush suing a sovereign state for defending itself like Obama did. Another reason that Bush was a better President than Obama is.
 
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