President Obama’s record on foreign policy and national security is proving to be rather exceptional IMHO. Obama's foreign policy has been impressive. Have we all looked passed the Arab spring, the fall of Gadhafi, withdrawal from Iraq (this generation's Vietnam), and the end of Osama Bin Laden. You cannot deny these achievements.Nothing you've mentioned exceeds the accomplishments of the former Presidents mentioned above, and you are deluded by the Kool-Aid you are drinking.
However, domestic policy doesn’t work this way. Decisions over job creation, aren't made by the president alone; they’re dependent on a ridiculous Congress, dominated by fools and charlatans, some of whom seem to want to hold the economy back on purpose. We all know all too well, Congress is ineffectual, caught in gridlock and extremism, unable to solve problems because of the severe partisanship. Nonetheless, the Obama administration has still strengthened the ability of Americans to challenge discriminatory pay, increased health insurance coverage for children of working-class families, invested more money in the social safety net than in past decades, cut taxes for middle-class America, extended unemployment insurance, and attempted to provide health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans. Originally Posted by iINDULGE
What I'm saying is that as of late, more Americans are either in love or just hate the President and are basing these emotions on nothing more than partisanship.Government preparation and response to Katrina was more an indictment of a governor and mayor than a president. Had there not been a corrupt local government pocketing revenue meant to maintain the levee system, there wouldn't have been a serious problem in New Orleans.
How could anyone, even in jest, state that Obama's the worst President we've ever had? The President before him single-handedly dropped the ball so many times that most Americans forgot he was still playing the game. Hurricane Katrina and in his own words his lackluster effort in locating Osama Bin Laden will forever define the President Bush administration. Originally Posted by iINDULGE
Presidents like James Buchanan (refused to challenge either the spread of slavery or the growth of the Confederacy), Herbert Hoover (poor communicator who fueled trade wars and exacerbated the Depression), Ulysses S. Grant (brave, but ignorant to the political system), Millard Fillmore (he backed the Compromise of 1850 that delayed the Southern secession by allowing slavery to spread), Andrew Johnson (narrowly survived impeachment after opposing Reconstruction initiatives), Warren Harding (not only ineffectual and indecisive but turned his head as his friends plundered the U.S. treasury), et cetera are not even remotely on the same level as Obama. If you think so, then you my friend are going through the initial stages of dementia. Originally Posted by iINDULGERead the first post again - Obama's cronies ARE plundering the U.S. treasury.
