Capitulation Is Not Compromise - 'Obama legacy will be viewed as one of sheer ineptitude'

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16. Liberals always do this

Trash their own excellent leaders like BO for not being perfect or giving them every little victory they want despite what that leader is up against. This is how we got Dubya!! We weren't enthused enough about Gore, probably the most qualified candidate ever to run for Prez. What is wrong with you people???

Here's what I like to remind others of, please think about it and pass it along:

The big picture, Obama reality, the obstructionist GOP won't admit is quite simply that
the American people are profoundly better off today than they were before President Obama took office.

The economy has recovered from the Bush/GOP disastrous incompetence.

Obama has been at least as good as Reagan for the economy. In fact, U.S. has now had 64 straight months of job expansion, including 58 consecutive weeks of private sector growth.

Obama’s administration has created more jobs in five years than Bush managed in all eight.
The current period has also been notable for the huge cutbacks in public-sector jobs, which the White House argues makes the private-sector job performance more impressive. (New jobs in the public sector, and the resulting paychecks, obviously help generate additional private-sector jobs.) So the White House argues that the continued private-sector growth, in the face of massive public-sector cutbacks, is especially significant.

The ebullient stock market is a reflection of Obama/Dem leadership.

President George W. Bush ,
served from January 20, 2001, to January 20, 2009.

Federal spending increased nearly 60 percent during his time in office.

When President Bush took office in January 2001, unemployment was just 4.2 percent. However, come 2009 the financial crisis was already having its way with the economy and unemployment had surged to 7.8 percent in his last month in office and was rising rapidly.

Equities fell 46 percent during the Bush Administration.

President Barack Obama,
began his term as president on January 20, 2009, and is still in office.

When President Obama took office, unemployment was 7.8 percent. The headline rate peaked at 10.0 percent in October of 2009, and has come down more or less steadily to 5.8 percent as of October 2014.


There have now been 50 straight months of payroll job growth — which has never happened before in the U.S. economy. 2014 will have them most job growth of any year since 1999.

Job growth is coming from full-time employment, not part-time.

Not all jobs are created equal. The good news, over the last few years, is that employment growth is coming from full-time, not part-time work.

Involuntary part-time work is decreasing

The number of people working part-time for economic reasons declined by 177,000 from October to November.

The DOW and S&P have hit all time highs.
Investors in the S&P 500 have to date essentially tripled their money under Obama.

The Federal Budget Deficit has Shrunk by 2/3 since 2009

The price of gas is dropping. Foreign oil imports are down by about 25 percent since President Obama took office. Note the huge increase in US crude oil production under Obama, from approx. 5.5 m bbl/day to 9 million bbl/day.

The Obama administration is the most honest, scandal free in history , not one high administration official indicted for any crime.

The controversial government program that funded failed solar company Solyndra, and became a lighting rod in the 2012 presidential election, is now officially in the black.

The dollar is KING of the world's currencies and there has been no appreciable inflation.

The U.S. under BO is the envy of the world.

Obamacare is working. Approximately 10 million Americans who didn’t have health insurance before have it now. Rates haven’t gone up across the board as predicted by GOP critics mainly because healthcare costs are now rising slower than they have at any point since 1960 and in many cases going down. The success of Obamacare has extended the projected solvency of Medicare out to 2030. Seniors have saved $Billions on prescriptions and millions of Americans have received refunds from their health insurance companies thanks to provisions of ACA.

The Obama Presidency is going to turn out to be very
significant. Yes the historic nature of the first African-American President is noteworthy but the fact that people now understand the gap between rich and poor, the racism that still exists and the exploitation of working class folks in all spheres means the scales are coming off the eyes. People are getting up off their computers and protesting all three - in more and more numbers across the country.

And don't forget he changed everything for LGBT folks.

Specific actions initiated and completed by BO:
-Passed Health Care Reform
-Passed the Stimulus
-Passed Wall Street Reform
-Ended the War in Iraq
-Ended War in Afghanistan
-Eliminated Osama bin laden
-Turned Around U.S. Auto Industry
-Recapitalized Banks: (In the midst of financial crisis)
-Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”:
-Reversed Bush Torture Policies
-Improved America’s Image Abroad
-Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program, Expanded Pell Grant Spending
-Created Race to the Top
-Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards
-Increased Support for Veterans



-Passed Credit Card Reforms
-Eliminated Catch-22 in Pay Equality Laws (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009)
-Improved Food Safety System
-Achieved New START Treaty
-Expanded National Service
-Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection
-Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco
-Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders
-Passed Fair Sentencing Act
-Trimmed and Reoriented Missile Defense
-Began Post-Post-9/11 Military Builddown
-Invested Heavily in Renewable Technology
-Cracked Down on Bad For-Profit Colleges
-Improved School Nutrition
-Expanded Hate Crimes Protections
-Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill
-Expanded Health Coverage for Children
-Recognized the Dangers of Carbon Dioxide
-Expanded Stem Cell Research
-Provided Payment to Wronged Minority Farmers
-Killed the F-22

*Blogger jeff61b , "14 Facts About The Obama Presidency That Most People Don’t Know" at
hub pages , compiled, meticulously documented and published many of these stats which I'm passing along and suggest you pass along too.