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Obama has proven to be feckless and ineffective.
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I do not think that President Obama has been that successful.
President Obama has made some tough choices and made some good moves, but just as often he has appeared to slap the American people in the face.
The Iran Nuclear deal, why give so much to a nation that has stabbed us in the back previously and even after announcing that the accord had been reached said that they will continue to do as they please.
Pulling troops from Afghanistan because he made a promise to do so. And now look, we are going back slowly but surely and probably in the next year or two will be back in full scale combat operations.
Trading 5 Taliban for a deserter. I could understand a 1 for 1 trade, you don't give 5 officers for 1 enlisted unless your just not getting proper advice.
Making off hand comments by comparing the Crusades to ISIS.
Making off hand comments at the Easter Breakfast about Christianity and saying that's a discussion for another day. Why start something if you do not intend to finish it?
Taking credit for killing Osama bin Laden, yeah as Commander in Chief he made the final decision but remember it was military members who actually pulled the trigger.
Affordable Care Act, now that's a misnomer if ever there was one. As soon as it was announced almost every health care insurer raised rates and as we know most people ended up switching doctors and not by choice.
President Obama adding fuel to the racial tension by seemingly siding with Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and others, even sending delegates to attend their funerals, but when 2 NYC police officers are assassinated in their car by a black criminal, you heard very little from the White House.
President Obama going to the slain South Carolina Pastors funeral and getting on a soap box about gun control, I mean really could he have been any more disrespectful. A funeral is to honor the deceased by saying all the good things about that person, not using it as an opportunity to push an agenda.
So overall I do not see President Obama as being that successful.
President Obama has made some tough choices and made some good moves, but just as often he has appeared to slap the American people in the face.
The Iran Nuclear deal, why give so much to a nation that has stabbed us in the back previously and even after announcing that the accord had been reached said that they will continue to do as they please.
Pulling troops from Afghanistan because he made a promise to do so. And now look, we are going back slowly but surely and probably in the next year or two will be back in full scale combat operations.
Trading 5 Taliban for a deserter. I could understand a 1 for 1 trade, you don't give 5 officers for 1 enlisted unless your just not getting proper advice.
Making off hand comments by comparing the Crusades to ISIS.
Making off hand comments at the Easter Breakfast about Christianity and saying that's a discussion for another day. Why start something if you do not intend to finish it?
Taking credit for killing Osama bin Laden, yeah as Commander in Chief he made the final decision but remember it was military members who actually pulled the trigger.
Affordable Care Act, now that's a misnomer if ever there was one. As soon as it was announced almost every health care insurer raised rates and as we know most people ended up switching doctors and not by choice.
President Obama adding fuel to the racial tension by seemingly siding with Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and others, even sending delegates to attend their funerals, but when 2 NYC police officers are assassinated in their car by a black criminal, you heard very little from the White House.
President Obama going to the slain South Carolina Pastors funeral and getting on a soap box about gun control, I mean really could he have been any more disrespectful. A funeral is to honor the deceased by saying all the good things about that person, not using it as an opportunity to push an agenda.
So overall I do not see President Obama as being that successful.
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Very good information!! Sometimes we get so blind to facts because of our bias that we ignore them
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SGT(P) Crystal Marie Gray-Wallace
SSG, with all due respect you do realize that this whole article is one sided and biased, right?
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SGT(P) Crystal Marie Gray-Wallace - Any one particular reason that you would be of that opinion, other than the obvious???
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SGT(P) Crystal Marie Gray-Wallace
SCPO (Join to see) - Seems like you have your own opinion already, so what is the obvious?
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Lol, I can't compare him to every president . And he has gotten everything he wanted. If you say anything against his policies then you are called a racist by his toadies. Because of Bill Clinton, North Korea has a nuclear bomb. In ten years so will Iran. If that is what you call success.
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Wait, is this the Duffel Blog? Because it is hilarious, if it were not so sad.....
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MAJ (Join to see)
Take a look at the good Captain's year's of service, SSgt (Join to see), he spent the bulk of his Enlisted career serving under Nixon, Ford, and Carter, but all of his Commissioned time was during the Reagan era. Can you imagine how unhappy he must have been?
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SCPO Carl Wayne Boss
How unhappy he must have been Major Hoiland? I hate to think what the Men and Women working under him may have been subjected to... His rants bring to mind Tyrannical Marine played by Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men"...
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Capt Walter Miller
Among the greatest American liberals are Washington, Lincoln and both Roosevelts.
Walt
Walt
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Typical liberal propaganda. Jobs created, but what about the lost jobs? Check this article
http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/how-good-is-job-growth-the-chart-obama-doesnt-want-you-to-see/
Furthermore, what this nation has lost during this administration cannot be simply measured in dollars. The loss of respect as a nation, to our police force, our military, the moral decay in which we are, the bankrupt state of our economic system, that damage is something that will take more than Trump to repair. Only by turning to God and common sense economic principles can this nation be saved.
http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/how-good-is-job-growth-the-chart-obama-doesnt-want-you-to-see/
Furthermore, what this nation has lost during this administration cannot be simply measured in dollars. The loss of respect as a nation, to our police force, our military, the moral decay in which we are, the bankrupt state of our economic system, that damage is something that will take more than Trump to repair. Only by turning to God and common sense economic principles can this nation be saved.
How Good Is Job Growth? The Chart Obama Doesn't Want You To See
"The longest streak of private-sector job growth on record"! "U.S. businesses have now added 14.4 million jobs over 73 straight months"! "The labor force participation rate rose to 63% in March, the same level as in November 2013"! All those quotes -- minus the excla
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I believe the only things O'Bama has been successful at... is creating greater division, hate and discontent between various factions of the Citizenry and has excelled at using Government against "We The People"... via the Dept. of Justice, the EPA, IRS and by using Bureaucrats in any number of those & other Departments of the Federal Government against the citizenry at large.
The economy is in shambles, job creation is at the lowest ebb its seen in years because of the ACA and other regulatory programs "The Administration" has instituted during his watch... and the Country is slowly spiraling into a economic and socially engineered morass from which it may never recover and if Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Sanders are elected as our next President, the destruction of the Country as we've known it in our life times is assured, as it will self-destruct as did the USSR, for a lot of the same reasons.
"It’s just mental immaturity and the words of someone who shouldn’t be taken seriously". Walt...
Indicating anyone's Opinion is "just mental immaturity and the words of someone who shouldn’t be taken seriously"... is in itself a degree of mental immaturity and should be taken with the proverbial "grain of salt"... and the "Degree" of Mr. O'Bama's success or lack there of... will be a long time in it's being proved or dis-proved!
Unfortunately I fear the "successes" will be more on the 'dis-proved' side of the scale... than the other and "We the People" will be the worse off for it.
The economy is in shambles, job creation is at the lowest ebb its seen in years because of the ACA and other regulatory programs "The Administration" has instituted during his watch... and the Country is slowly spiraling into a economic and socially engineered morass from which it may never recover and if Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Sanders are elected as our next President, the destruction of the Country as we've known it in our life times is assured, as it will self-destruct as did the USSR, for a lot of the same reasons.
"It’s just mental immaturity and the words of someone who shouldn’t be taken seriously". Walt...
Indicating anyone's Opinion is "just mental immaturity and the words of someone who shouldn’t be taken seriously"... is in itself a degree of mental immaturity and should be taken with the proverbial "grain of salt"... and the "Degree" of Mr. O'Bama's success or lack there of... will be a long time in it's being proved or dis-proved!
Unfortunately I fear the "successes" will be more on the 'dis-proved' side of the scale... than the other and "We the People" will be the worse off for it.
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Keep dreaming, Captain....
President Barack Hussein Obama is certainly a President of firsts. Here's a fairly comprehensive list: (Read them and weep for our nation)
1st African-American President (actually 1/2 African-American) in history.
1st President to come out in open support of gay/lesbian marriage, even though 31 US States have amended their State Constitutions defining marriage as only between one man and one woman.
1st President to claim that under his presidentcy the, "rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
1st President to rack up over 5 trillion dollars in debt in less than four years.
1st President to literally bow to foreign heads of state.
1st President to have the national debt exceed 10, 11 , 12 , 13 ,14 and 15 trillion dollars.
1st President to preside over a cut in the credit rating of the United States.
1st president whose Attorney General (or any active member of his cabinet) was citred for contempt of Congress, and in a bi-partisan vote.
1st president to utilize Executive Privelege to cover for his Attorney General about an activity the President claims to have not been involved in, and know nothing about.
1st president whose Attorney General actively lied to Congress and then later had to rescind his testimony regarding his knowledge of a gun running plan to Mexican drug cartels.
1st president whose Attorney General presided over an illegal sale of thousands of illegal weapons to the Mexican drug cartels.
1st President whose Attorney Genral dismissed charges against New Black Panthers who were filmed wearing camo fatigues, wielding billy clubs at voters during the 2008 elections. He dropped the charges.
1st President to have his signature legislation ruled unconstitutional on the grounds it was written on, only to have it ruled constitutional on a tax authority for which it was not written.
1st President to spend a trillion dollars on shovel ready jobs that he later admitted never existed.
1st President to loan hundreds of billions to solar firms going bankrupt, then re-write the loans so the taxpayers were in last place when they went bankrupt and his supporters then walked away rich.
1st President to have coninuous 8% or higher unemployment for over a continuous three year period.
1st President to have millions of Americans give up and leave the searching work force, which made a 10-12% unemployment rate look like it was only 8%.
1st President to preside over a period where over 45% of the American public paid no taxes.
1st President to proclaim at a conference with a foreign leader that the United States is not a Chrsitian Nation.
1st President to appoint a Secretary of Treasury (and five other top posts), an individual who is a tax evader owing the US government tens of thosuands of dollars.
1st President to have over 45% of the American people on Government assistance.
1st President to publically threaten the Supreme Court while it was deciding a case...particular a case regarding his own initiative.
1st President to preside over passing legislation to take over the entire health industry, which proposal and legislation is what the Supreme Court is deciding on.
1st President to deliver a eulogy for a communist activist (Saul Mendelson)
1st President to openly refuse to uphold Federal Law (the Defene of Marriage Act), openly violating his oath of Office to protect and defend the constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to it.
1st President to have 17 vacations in his first four years.
1st President to issue an unlawful recess appointment when the Senate was not in recess (against the advise of his own Justice Department).
1st President to repeatedly and purposely fail to issue Presidential statements at Christmas and Easter.
1st President to call for our ally, Israel to retreat back to the pre-war 1967 borders.
1st President to actively support the overthrow of an allied leader, at peace with Israel, in Egypt and support his replacement by militant Islamics, the Muslim bortherhood.
1st President to cancel the celebration of the National Day of Prayer at the White House but hold a day of Islamic Prayer there during Ramadan.
1st President to sue a State for requiring valid IDs to vote.
1st President to halt deportation of illegal aliens in order to issue them temporary work permits, using his executive powers inappropriately to givve them amnesty.
1st President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
1st President to sign a bill permitting the government to hold anyone suspected of association with terrorism indefinitely, without due process, no indictment, no judge or jury, no evidence or trial.
1st President to appoint 45 czars to issue directives in lieu of legislation
1st President to bypass Congress and implement the DREAM ACT by executive fiat.
1st President to threaten a private Auto Company (Ford) after it publically made light of bailouts to GM and Chrysler.
1st President to threaten insurance companies after they publically complained that the President's health care legislation was why the had to increase rates.
1st President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.
1st President to require private companies to disclose their political contribution records before being able to bid on government contracts
1st President to golf over 90 times in his first four years.
1st President to have 22 personal assistants/servants for the 1st lady.
1st Presidnet to have a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000/year at taxpayer expense.
1st president to defy a Federal Court order to cease implementing his "Health Care Reform" law.
1st President to tell a private manufacturing company which state it could or could not locate a factory in.
1st President to refuse to comply with a Congressional Oversight Committee supoena.
1st President to withdraw an existing coal permit to a private company that had been properly applied for and granted years earlier.
1st President to take over a US Auto Company and determine who its executives would be.
1st President to aborgate US Bankruptcy law so he could turn the company over to his Union supporters.
1st President to issue an Executive Order making his educational, travel, and health history a national security secret.
1st President to fire an inspector General of Ameri-corps for catching a friend of the president in a corruption case.
Yep...this is the list of "1st"s this President, Barack Hussein Obama, has accomplished in his first four years.
And the nation was ignorant enough to give him four more years....
President Barack Hussein Obama is certainly a President of firsts. Here's a fairly comprehensive list: (Read them and weep for our nation)
1st African-American President (actually 1/2 African-American) in history.
1st President to come out in open support of gay/lesbian marriage, even though 31 US States have amended their State Constitutions defining marriage as only between one man and one woman.
1st President to claim that under his presidentcy the, "rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
1st President to rack up over 5 trillion dollars in debt in less than four years.
1st President to literally bow to foreign heads of state.
1st President to have the national debt exceed 10, 11 , 12 , 13 ,14 and 15 trillion dollars.
1st President to preside over a cut in the credit rating of the United States.
1st president whose Attorney General (or any active member of his cabinet) was citred for contempt of Congress, and in a bi-partisan vote.
1st president to utilize Executive Privelege to cover for his Attorney General about an activity the President claims to have not been involved in, and know nothing about.
1st president whose Attorney General actively lied to Congress and then later had to rescind his testimony regarding his knowledge of a gun running plan to Mexican drug cartels.
1st president whose Attorney General presided over an illegal sale of thousands of illegal weapons to the Mexican drug cartels.
1st President whose Attorney Genral dismissed charges against New Black Panthers who were filmed wearing camo fatigues, wielding billy clubs at voters during the 2008 elections. He dropped the charges.
1st President to have his signature legislation ruled unconstitutional on the grounds it was written on, only to have it ruled constitutional on a tax authority for which it was not written.
1st President to spend a trillion dollars on shovel ready jobs that he later admitted never existed.
1st President to loan hundreds of billions to solar firms going bankrupt, then re-write the loans so the taxpayers were in last place when they went bankrupt and his supporters then walked away rich.
1st President to have coninuous 8% or higher unemployment for over a continuous three year period.
1st President to have millions of Americans give up and leave the searching work force, which made a 10-12% unemployment rate look like it was only 8%.
1st President to preside over a period where over 45% of the American public paid no taxes.
1st President to proclaim at a conference with a foreign leader that the United States is not a Chrsitian Nation.
1st President to appoint a Secretary of Treasury (and five other top posts), an individual who is a tax evader owing the US government tens of thosuands of dollars.
1st President to have over 45% of the American people on Government assistance.
1st President to publically threaten the Supreme Court while it was deciding a case...particular a case regarding his own initiative.
1st President to preside over passing legislation to take over the entire health industry, which proposal and legislation is what the Supreme Court is deciding on.
1st President to deliver a eulogy for a communist activist (Saul Mendelson)
1st President to openly refuse to uphold Federal Law (the Defene of Marriage Act), openly violating his oath of Office to protect and defend the constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to it.
1st President to have 17 vacations in his first four years.
1st President to issue an unlawful recess appointment when the Senate was not in recess (against the advise of his own Justice Department).
1st President to repeatedly and purposely fail to issue Presidential statements at Christmas and Easter.
1st President to call for our ally, Israel to retreat back to the pre-war 1967 borders.
1st President to actively support the overthrow of an allied leader, at peace with Israel, in Egypt and support his replacement by militant Islamics, the Muslim bortherhood.
1st President to cancel the celebration of the National Day of Prayer at the White House but hold a day of Islamic Prayer there during Ramadan.
1st President to sue a State for requiring valid IDs to vote.
1st President to halt deportation of illegal aliens in order to issue them temporary work permits, using his executive powers inappropriately to givve them amnesty.
1st President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing Oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
1st President to sign a bill permitting the government to hold anyone suspected of association with terrorism indefinitely, without due process, no indictment, no judge or jury, no evidence or trial.
1st President to appoint 45 czars to issue directives in lieu of legislation
1st President to bypass Congress and implement the DREAM ACT by executive fiat.
1st President to threaten a private Auto Company (Ford) after it publically made light of bailouts to GM and Chrysler.
1st President to threaten insurance companies after they publically complained that the President's health care legislation was why the had to increase rates.
1st President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.
1st President to require private companies to disclose their political contribution records before being able to bid on government contracts
1st President to golf over 90 times in his first four years.
1st President to have 22 personal assistants/servants for the 1st lady.
1st Presidnet to have a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000/year at taxpayer expense.
1st president to defy a Federal Court order to cease implementing his "Health Care Reform" law.
1st President to tell a private manufacturing company which state it could or could not locate a factory in.
1st President to refuse to comply with a Congressional Oversight Committee supoena.
1st President to withdraw an existing coal permit to a private company that had been properly applied for and granted years earlier.
1st President to take over a US Auto Company and determine who its executives would be.
1st President to aborgate US Bankruptcy law so he could turn the company over to his Union supporters.
1st President to issue an Executive Order making his educational, travel, and health history a national security secret.
1st President to fire an inspector General of Ameri-corps for catching a friend of the president in a corruption case.
Yep...this is the list of "1st"s this President, Barack Hussein Obama, has accomplished in his first four years.
And the nation was ignorant enough to give him four more years....
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He learned every aspect of the American political system and used it to his advantage using it against us.
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