Re: Beyond Sustaining Failed Obama Policy & Gender Pandering, what does Hillary Offer
And what did Obama really do that is different from Bush? Obamacare is a sham, it just forced everyone to buy insurance. Job growth had to happen eventually, the economy was broken, what did Obama do to speed that along? Nothing, just waited for the problem to fix itself. Meanwhile funneling more money to his corporate friends.
How is spending power tracking? Economic mobility? Wealth disparity? Yeah....thought so.
So a whole lot of nothing plus Infinity wars and big brother tactics. Go go status quo!!!
What did Obama do differently from Bush? Really? Have you truly paid so little attention?
If Obamacare's a sham, WHY is it working? WHY are health insurance companies forced to use at least 80% of their revenue on little things like, you know, paying for actual health care? WHY do they now have to cover preexisting conditions, when they didn't have to before? WHY do they have to accept everyone, when before they could pick and choose who they wanted to cover?
I'll agree that "job growth had to happen eventually"...BUT never before in all American history has it happened for even close to as long as it has happened now. It's disingenuous to ignore that fact, to pretend that the one in charge deserves zero credit for it.
At least you agree that the economy was broken...and we've since had the most robust recovery of any of the first-world nations that were hard-hit by the Great Recession. But again, you are determined to not give credit to the one in charge, who took charge when our economy was melting down and losing 800K jobs per month.
What did Obama do to speed that along? There was this thing called the "stimulus" - you may have heard of it. Look at the "bikini graph" below, and see what happened starting in March 2009, the month that the oh-so-hated stimulus was passed:
The stimulus was passed in March 2009...and what happened beginning about then? Did the job situation get worse, as the Right was warning all of America would happen? Or did it start getting better?
What's more, remember the bailouts of GM and Chrysler? Yes, Chrysler got sold to Fiat...but they're still operating, still providing hundreds of thousands of good American jobs. And GM? The bailout that took place on June 1st, 2009 wound up costing the taxpayers $11B...but it saved 1.2M jobs at GM...AND it saved all the other jobs that depended upon money spent by GM employees, from restaurants to grocery stores to local housing markets. And remember what the Right wanted to do? They wanted to let it all burn down. Obama didn't let them have their way...and now GM's not only been making record profits, but their biggest market is now CHINA...which means we're getting money back from there, too!
And this is all without discussing getting us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. That SEAL that just died - he was the third American servicemember to die in Iraq...
in the past two years. Are you going to claim that's no different from how it was under Bush? And then there's the tectonic social changes when it comes to LGBT rights. And record numbers of illegal immigrants deported. The list goes on and on...but only if you've got guts enough to actually look at information that you personally don't want to believe.
Has everything been perfect under Obama? Of course not. But you really need to learn to be truly objective, to admit that yeah, he DID do a heck of a lot to save this nation's economy. And mark my words that as the decades pass, and as historians look back with the objectivity that the intervening decades will bring, and without the heat of political passion forcing them to decide otherwise, President Obama will be seen as one of our nation's finest presidents. You might not like that...but that will happen.
