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To go on and on about his failures after only one year in office AND after the monumental shitstorm he had to clean up is soooooo...well it's .....too fucking funny......but go on...continue
your very astute ways.....it's very amusing actually.
(OH CC is soooooo holier then thou..........oooouch.....omg....I hurt my bum falling off my high horse)
it's always scary to me when objectivity goes out the window. i just don't see that he has done anything exceptional in his first year.
on the other hand i can see several things he has done poorly, and i'm not even taking into account the fact that i disagree with most of his policy. i'm sure he thinks he can deal with the economy, health care and cap and trade all at once but the results indicate otherwise.
instead of wasting time and energy on health care and running around the globe doing a victory lap he should have worked to cut the fat and add more beef to the stimulus bill. if he had done that maybe, just maybe, unemployment would have stayed around 8% like he said it would. at least he would not have appeared to be taking his focus off the economy as it got worse.
funny that all of those who were terrified of sarah palin's inexperience can't even admit that obama's inexperience has caused problems. i can't say that i have much if any faith that mccain would have done better, but obama thus far has proved to be pretty ordinary as president.
what matters most in life is honesty. it's never wrong to do the right thing.
ONE YEAR
One year being obstructed by the lameness of 'no'
One year trying to repair the SHITSTORM
One year
He wiped his ass with those obstructionists today.
Hip Hip Hooray!!!!
Loved the line about 'a Bolshevist plot'.......the man is too precious!!!!
He made commitments- things he could/would be able to do in the first year! He knew what he was taking over when he made promises about aid to Africa, Gitmo and various other things. seems people have forgotten the chant. Now it's 'No we can't....but it's not our fault!'
Rating Obama's promises at the 1-year mark
By Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan
Published on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 7:29 p.m.
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One year into his presidency, Barack Obama still has a long to-do list.
President Barack Obama, the candidate who promised change, has made substantial progress in his first year in office, but some of his proposals have stalled as he struggled with the cold reality of Washington.
Of 502 campaign promises, a PolitiFact analysis finds Obama has fulfilled 91 and achieved at least partial success with another 33. More than half of his promises have had enough progress to be rated In the Works.
He's put much of his foreign policy agenda into action, taken steps to reduce the American presence in Iraq and send more troops to Afghanistan, and his sweeping health care reform plan is on the brink of passage. The giant economic stimulus bill that passed in February made good on a host of promises on green energy, education and transportation.
Yet Obama has found change can come slowly, even with his party in control of Congress. Overall, PolitiFact's Obameter has rated 14 promises as Broken and another 87 Stalled.
He's faced virtually unanimous opposition from Republicans on the stimulus and health care, and some of his promises for more transparency in government have gone nowhere.
In many cases, the Stalled or Broken ratings reflect tactical decisions by the White House. Obama said repeatedly during the campaign that he'd open health care negotiations to TV cameras, but those talks have been behind closed doors. He's done nothing on his pledge to allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada since drug companies agreed to support his health care plan. And he appears to have abandoned a promise to end taxes for seniors who make less than $50,000, a proposal that appealed to older voters but had little political support, even within his party.
Still, the ratings show Obama — with the help of a Democratic Congress — has made significant progress on much of his agenda. Political experts give him credit for passing a substantial amount during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
The bad economy may have dimmed public perceptions of his accomplishments, said Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies the federal government. Obama's approval ratings dropped as 2009 came to an end.
"He's been largely faithful to the promises he made in the campaign, especially substantive policy ones," Mann said. "But the public doesn't see what I see in objective terms. There's distrust about the economy, and they're put off by the partisan bickering in Washington. They're scared and skeptical of government, so there's a gulf between what he's accomplished and how it's viewed.
http://www.politi-fact.org/truth-o-m...s-1-year-mark/
not an entirely objective analysis IMO.
for starters the watered down health care bill is not on the brink of passing and "promises" made in the pork laden stimulus bill do not represent actual action.
obama seems to think that if only everyone agreed with him and followed quietly he could be the greatest leader ever. he obviously never anticipated that many would object to his ideas and plans to remake significant portions of the way americans live. so he blames anyone who does not fall in line for his failures and does not even realize that sort of action is sure to create even more resistance.
policy aside, this is his greatest failure - the fact that he can't or won't work with opposition unless they submit to his agenda. the dude acts like he believes he should have absolute power. people see that and their response is even more resistance. it's just starting to get interesting....
what matters most in life is honesty. it's never wrong to do the right thing.
That's a few million people not clappingAs a result of President Obama’s broken promises, GAA estimates that:
♦ One million people around the world will not receive treatment for AIDS.
♦ 2.9 million women will not receive services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
♦ 27 million people will not access sexual disease transmission prevention programs.
♦ 1.9 million orphans and other children affected by HIV/AIDS will not receive care.
2million- no of people affected by Haitian earthquake the UN is trying to feed.
2million- no of people in Haiti the UN estimated didnot have a guaranteed supply of food before earthquake
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