The Petulant Pres still will not stop being the Chicago
I remember back in 2008 when Barack Obama was running for
president and people wondered if he had the experience to be commander in
chief.
Our economy was crashing, we were up to our necks in wars on
the other side of the world, people were fearful of losing their jobs, 40 some
million Americans had no health insurance, and 11 million illegal immigrants
were somewhere in this great country.
Obama, the new kid on the block, had an answer for everything
it seemed. During that campaign, he made
promises to the American people, a lot of promises.
There were big ones like fixing the economy, and little ones
like shutting down Guantanamo prison in Cuba . More big ones like promising to end all wars
and bring all our troops home, in his first term no less.
His was a campaign of Hope, Peace, and an end to partisan
politics.
When he won the Democratic nomination, he stood between
giant Roman columns in Colorado
like a conquering Roman emperor. During
the campaign, he even promised thousands of people in Germany , of all places, that peace
was on the horizon.
The media loved him with his progressive agenda to give labor
unions more power, while Wall Street loved him because he promised Goldman Sachs
protection from prosecution.
He railed against too much money in politics while
shattering the spending record for campaigns by spending more than a billion
dollars to win a job that paid $400,000 a year, or $223.84 per hour.
Media hailed him as the conquering hero when he won the
presidency in 2008 with 52.9% of the vote, a margin that slipped to just 51.1%
of the vote in his 2012 "landslide" re-election. Since when did a landslide come from winning
less than 43% of the vote.
In truth, Obama became the first winner in our history to
get about 25% of the eligible vote, a sad commentary on voting in America . In case math is difficult for you, than means
75% of the eligible voters did not vote for Obama, or three out of every four
did not vote for him.
Here are a few other truths.
We still have troops in Iraq
and Afghanistan and now we
are fighting in Syria .
The prison in Guantanamo
remains open seven years later.
We helped overthrow bad guys during the Arab Spring of 2010 that
left Tunisia , Egypt , Libya ,
and Yemen with no leader,
while also destabilizing governments in Bahrain
and Syria .
We pulled most troops out of Iraq
and Afghanistan but both required
us to keep some in place or send them back, while we also initiated one of the
largest and most expensive bombing campaigns in history in Iraq , the
country we liberated just a few years earlier.
Immigration Reform, which he promised the first year, has
gone nowhere.
He did get his national health care which he signed into law
March 23, 2010, and five years later everyone with insurance is paying more while
the number of uninsured Americans today, five years later, is still about 36
million, down from 49.9 million in 2010 but much of it was due to Medicare not
new insurance.
The economy is sputtering along as the unemployed stopped
looking for work and working people had no increase in salary, since he took
office.
There was no action on campaign reform so he spent two
billion dollars for re-election, which means he still makes about $223.84 per
hour, though he delivered on about none of his many promises.
On the positive side, he wants the minimum wage increased
from $7.25 per hour to $9.00 per hour, which is only $214.84 less than he
makes.
Of course, George Bush left office seven years ago but Obama
still blames many of his problems on Bush.
Then, there is the issue of the dastardly Republicans. Conveniently, Obama blames them for
everything he could not do. So much for
bringing to an end partisan politics, finger pointing, and character assassination.
Over the years, he has broadened his assaults as he blames Russia , Putin, or China for every single problem of
the Administration it seems, if he does not blame it on the Republicans.
Unfortunately, his intransient nature regarding his policies,
have alienated Russia , China , and Israel at a time when we need them
the most.
With little over one year left to serve, Obama is alienating
the rest of the world and the American public.
it comes from his refusal to work with Russia and China - especially
when it comes to terrorism, his indifference to Israel, his Red Lines in the
sand and veto threats rather than trying to work with people, and his trashing
of anyone who questions anything he has done.
It is a good thing Russia
and China
understand he is a lame duck, a seriously wounded lame duck, so they have no
expectations of anything from him.
Once upon a time American presidents used to build worldwide
coalitions to advance causes. Now he
will have to eat a mighty amount of humble pie is he is to receive any help
from Russia and China .
Obama and his mouthpieces should just shut up, the world is
not interested in his problems, or in hearing why the United States is so weak. For those who supported Obama, it was a good
try but he really had no experience and really never grew into the role of
commander in chief.
It is far too late to defend him, the record I reviewed of
his broken promises is clear. Just use
your efforts to get him to work with Russia
and China
because right now they are the leaders of the world and have demonstrated the
most maturity when it comes to working with other nations.
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