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Title: What Has Obama Accomplished?
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Canada Free Press
URL Source: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17828
Published: Dec 12, 2009
Author: Nancy Morgan
Post Date: 2009-12-12 01:55:59 by WhiteSands
Keywords: Obama
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Comments: 101
By Nancy Morgan Friday, December 11, 2009
Making the rounds of conservative talk shows lately is the question, “What has Obama accomplished so far?” The question is asked of of Obama supporters and the answers range from ‘abolishing lobbyists’ to ‘securing world peace’ to ‘lowering taxes.’
One thing all answers have in common: They are all grounded in perception as opposed to reality.
Obama has accomplished the amazing feat of convincing millions of Americans that black is white, that cold is hot, that the bad economy is the fault of George W Bush, and the only things standing between America and peace on earth are those darn Republicans and greedy capitalists.
As author Thomas Sowell points out in ‘Is Reality Optional ?’ social history in the last 30 years has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. And no-where is this more evident than in the ‘change’ Obama is foisting on the American people.
The empty rhetoric of ‘social justice’ and ‘compassion’ is convincingly and successfully being used to justify ever more ludicrous social policies, which just happen to come with a huge price tag and more government control.
Ignored by the left and the media, however, is the inconvenient fact that every single policy promoted by Obama and passed by congress has been a dismal failure. From the jobs ‘stimulus’ package that has cost taxpayers a whopping $236,436 per job created - to the the ‘cash for clunkers’ - to the $61 billion bucks taxpayers just lost through the AIG and auto industry bailout.
Add in the $75 billion mortgage relief program to stem the largely government caused ‘foreclosure crisis.’ This program has helped a grand total of 31,000 borrowers to date, a paltry 4% of the 760,000 who have applied.
Despite the dismal failures of these policies, Obama and his cohorts continue advocating more of the same. As Dr. Sowell points out, “The anointed are often wrong but never in doubt.”
Though 80% of Americans are happy with their health insurance, Obama has declared a health care crisis. Obama and congress have devoted most of the year to imposing government run health care on all citizens, despite the fact that 61% of Americans oppose it.
Though evidence has recently surfaced undermining the dire claims of global warming, our elected elites continue to ignore relevant science, insisting that a massive redistribution of our wealth is needed in order to pay an imagined ‘climate debt’ to third world countries. Meanwhile, record unemployment and rising fees and taxes continue to devastate businesses and families across the nation. The exception are federal workers, who just got a 2% pay raise.
As Democrat leaders and their allies take to the airwaves denouncing corporate greed, our public servants are scrambling to enact policies that enable them to extort an ever increasing portion of the wealth created by American workers. In the process, severely undermining the rule of law and ignoring the limitations imposed by our Constitution.
The Obama administration has plunged America into debt to the tune of a record $12 trillion dollars. That’s $39,000 owed by every man woman and child in America. And there is no end in sight.
House Democrats just passed a $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill to fund the federal government. This bill includes $2 billion for ‘climate’ research, major spending boosts for domestic agencies and foreign aid. It also includes more than 5,200 pork barrel projects costing $3.9 billion. On top of that, Democrats are preparing to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion before New Year‚Äôs.
Obama’s policies are destroying the dollar and bankrupting America. Moody’s just issued a warning that our triple A rating is in danger. Our president is also in the process of ceding American sovereignty to world bodies like the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.
What Obama has accomplished is astounding. He has managed in the short space of one year to dramatically alter the historical focus on individual rights and liberties to an ephemeral concept that focuses on government primacy.
Due to Obama’s charisma and his skill in manipulating the system and redefining words to fit transient meanings, many Americans continue to believe Obama’s rhetoric, willfully ignoring the underlying reality. Their belief has taken on a religious fervor based on faith and emotion and any facts to the contrary are summarily dismissed. After all, “Obama won.”
Once again, Thomas Sowell says it best: “We may be entering an era where the greatest dangers to the survival of Western civilization will come from internal social deterioration. Other great civilizations have declined and collapsed. We may be the first, however, to sink slowly into the quagmire, still beaming from ear to ear in self-congratulation at how ‘innovative’ we are in our social policies.”
Obama is a dangerous man. He has convinced millions of Americans that they are entitled to the fruits of another man’s labor. Virtually all of his policies to date have been designed to foster a dependence on government. But what the government gives, the government can take. As millions of enslaved peoples across the globe could attest - if they were allowed.
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I didn;' vote for Obama.
But feel free to list the accomplishments of the last guy for whom you voted and won...
[snicker]
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
#11. To: WhiteSands (#0)
What Has Obama Accomplished?
He's reversed the Bush financial collapse and put be back in the black for the first time in a year and a half.
Always look on the bright side of life.
#12. To: war (#10)
I didn't vote for Obama.But feel free to list the accomplishments of the last guy for whom you voted and won...
George Bush made many many serious mistakes as President, but his was a well-meaning administration
the Obama admin is not
ps who did you vote for? I am curious
I love you
Palo
#13. To: war (#10)
PS I congratulate you on not voting for Obama
you have more sense than all my relatives, and nearly all my friends
I hope that now they are willing to see truth
better late than never
Love, Palo
#14. To: all (#0)
What Has Obama Accomplished?
This is the wrong question
the correct question is how much evil have the Obama admin accomplished now, and how much evil will they accomplish before we get rid of them
Obama is not the author of the evil, merely the puppet or front man
It is those who own the Dem Party now who are behind it
the single plus to having this evil administration in power now
is that those who refused to open their eyes before
may be willing to now
and an aware citizenry is a good thing
Love, Palo
#15. To: sneakypete (#3)
Good post, Pete
Love, Palo
#16. To: Joe Snuffy (#7)
Joe, are you fa,milar with the butter knive theory? If so you will understand this: As long as they have ammo, I have ammo. As long as I am free, if I have a butter knive I can get a knive, 0once I ahve a knive I can get a bow and arrows, once I ahve a bow and arrows, I can get a gun, and so on and so forth till I have the tank I want.
#17. To: Palo Verde (#15)
Thanks,Palo. Good to see you posting again!
#18. To: war (#10)
Got those accomplishments on obama or not? / rhetorical
I did not mention a thing about your voting choices. I voted for boosh.....2 times.
He's an idiot as a standalone entity...........fact is though, compared to this piece of media fabricated stuttering over-his-head cult-of-personality JUNK now stenching up 1600 Penn Ave ..... boosh looks positively Presidential.....(there's some irony for you war.....
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way.
#19. To: e_type_jag, war (#18)
compared to this piece of media fabricated stuttering over-his-head cult-of-personality JUNK now stenching up 1600 Penn Ave ..... boosh looks positively Presidential.....(
Lord, have mercy on the United States of America.
What haappened to the ozone hole? Has it been filled with CO2 and libtard flatulence?
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
#20. To: e_type_jag (#18)
. I voted for boosh.....2 times.
I wouldn't be hootin' and hollerin' and calling attention then.
Boy Blunder is arguably the worst POTUS ever and not by a small margin.
Thanks for helping to create this mess with yer vote tho...
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
#21. To: e_type_jag (#18)
boosh looks positively Presidential
Didn't you hear the announcement? Don't eat the brown acid, man...
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
#22. To: sneakypete (#3)
Well,he managed to grow up with a life of privilege and private schools and have his backers identify with him because he grew up poor and with a single mother,just like them.
I continue to have a hard time swallowing the grew up poor part of his story.
Yes, he lived a life of privilege. Yes, he went to private schools. His mother wasn't single the entire time. They were able to travel to far away lands. They lived in Hawaii. These are not the things poor people can do. There's no way I can believe they were poor....
Oh, wait a minute - There is one way. I know a single gal with kids. She dates, a lot....a whole lot. Which ever guy she is dating at the time is expected to pay her bills and hand his paycheck over to her every week. She doesn't understand why the guy doesn't stick around for more than a month. I don't understand why the guy gives her a second chance a year or so later when she starts her list over. Yep, she starts her list over. She has dated so many men that she has had to start recycling them. But I digress...It's possible they were poor and his momma simply went with guys who had money. Sure. But I doubt it.
Word of the DayMonday, December 14, 2009
numinous NOO-min-us; NYOO- , adjective;
1. Of or pertaining to a numen; supernatural.
2. Filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence.
3. Inspiring awe and reverence; spiritual.
Happy Birthday, Jesus! Merry Christmas everyone!
#23. To: mel (#22)
Yes, he lived a life of privilege. Yes, he went to private schools. His mother wasn't single the entire time. They were able to travel to far away lands. They lived in Hawaii. These are not the things poor people can do. There's no way I can believe they were poor....
His mother's second husband was a Indonesian millionaire who was/is in the oil business,and his grandmother was a bank VP in Hawaii.
#24. To: sneakypete (#23)
His mother's second husband was a Indonesian millionaire who was/is in the oil business,and his grandmother was a bank VP in Hawaii.
I knew the part about the G-ma - but not about Soetero.
He needs to stop saying he grew up poor. He didn't.
Word of the DayMonday, December 14, 2009
numinous NOO-min-us; NYOO- , adjective;
1. Of or pertaining to a numen; supernatural.
2. Filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence.
3. Inspiring awe and reverence; spiritual.
Happy Birthday, Jesus! Merry Christmas everyone!
#25. To: mel (#24)
He needs to stop saying he grew up poor. He didn't.
That's the thing about he. He has never claimed he grew up poor in a single parent home. His supporters make that claim for him,and they seem to believe it themselves.
#26. To: sneakypete (#25)
Well,he managed to grow up with a life of privilege and private schools and have his backers identify with him because he grew up poor and with a single mother,just like them.
I completely mistook this post of yours. I read it too fast. I need to learn to slow down a bit. I thought you were saying he grew up poor. Now that I re- read it, I see that isn't what you said.
Word of the DayMonday, December 14, 2009
numinous NOO-min-us; NYOO- , adjective;
1. Of or pertaining to a numen; supernatural.
2. Filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence.
3. Inspiring awe and reverence; spiritual.
Happy Birthday, Jesus! Merry Christmas everyone!
#27. To: sneakypete (#3)
You forgot the once upon a time part...
I've heard some people claim Obama was poor. And by all appearances, he certainly was when he was first born. But, I've never heard him say it.
And Michele's father was not a political kingmaker.
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
#28. To: Palo Verde (#12)
ps who did you vote for? I am curious
Tim Gannon. He turned 35 last year and I thought that it would make a good birthday present.
Boy Blunder was the worst POTUS ever no matter how well meaning you may have believed him to be. What he really was, though, was a lair and a fool.
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
#29. To: WhiteSands (#0)
What Has Obama Accomplished?
Nothing - but Soros has.
Might as well replace Congress with the Mafia. At least the mob knows how to run a business and make a profit.
#30. To: war (#27)
You forgot the once upon a time part...
I don't need to,since every word was true.
And Michele's father was not a political kingmaker.
Yeah,he was in Chicago. Mr.Community Organizer wouldn't have gotten anywhere without his help.
#31. To: All (#6)
Forced involuntary healthcare ...
all under the promote the general welfare clause ----
of the govt limiting constitution protecting our freedoms - rights - property !
Communism !
#32. To: sneakypete (#30)
I don't need to,since every word was true.
Obama was not born into wealth and Michele's father was a precinct captain for about 3 years to slay but two parts of your multi-part fairy tail...
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
#33. To: sneakypete (#30)
Mr.Community Organizer wouldn't have gotten anywhere without his help.
From the grave? He died in 1991...
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
#34. To: war (#32)
Obama was not born into wealth and Michele's father was a precinct captain for about 3 years to slay but two parts of your multi-part fairy tail...
Ahhhh,the wonderful spinning world of war! I guess that gives you an excuse for being dizzy,huh?
First off,I didn't say he was born into wealth. I said he wasn't born into poverty. Unless of course you are judging it by NYC elitist leftist standards,where the middle class and upper middle class are not rich so they must be poor. If you are,that would put his bank vice-president granny and her white collar employed husband squarely on the Poverty Bus. One problem wid dat,though. There are damn few people holding pity parties for bank VP's. Especially not in the booming 60's.
Secondly,now you are implying the First Wookie's father had no political pull until he became precinct captain. Tell me,how did he get that prize job.
Cereal box prize?
On sale at Sears?
I know! I know! It fell off a truck!
#35. To: war (#33)
Mr.Community Organizer wouldn't have gotten anywhere without his help.From the grave? He died in 1991...
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-1993/Vote-of-Confidence/
" In 1984, after Columbia but before Harvard, Obama moved to Chicago. "I came because of Harold Washington," he says. "I wanted to do community organizing, and I couldn't think of a better city than one as energized and hopeful as Chicago was then." He went to work for a South Side church-affiliated development group and "was heartened by the enthusiasm." "
You were saying?
War,when are you going to come out of the closet and admit you are a Dim shill?
#36. To: sneakypete (#34)
Precinct captain is not a prized job. It's a glorified pol watcher.
I said he wasn't born into poverty.
Both his mother and father were college students. And this is what you "said": Well,he managed to grow up with a life of privilege and private schools and have his backers identify with him because he grew up poor...
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
#37. To: sneakypete (#35)
You were saying?
That it's rare that anything you "say" stands up to minimal sscrutiny.
What year did Obama get into politics? Hell, in 1984 he hadn't even gone to law school - in CAMBRIDGE, MA - yet...
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
#38. To: All (#31)
Forced involuntary healthcare ...
all under the promote the general welfare clause ----
of the govt limiting constitution protecting our freedoms - rights - property !
Communism !
#39. To: BorisY (#38)
Give it a rest, Banjo Boy.
#40. To: sneakypete (#3)
He managed to get his father in law to hand him a state Senate seat on a silver platter
Neat trick considering he married Michelle in 1992 which was a year his father in law HAD DIED.
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
#41. To: sneakypete, war (#35)
admit you are a Dim shill?
A dumb shill.
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
#42. To: Fred Mertz (#39)
Give it a rest, Banjo Boy.
Shut your peephole ... you bush - God - republican hating --- neocom fascist libertarian viagra overdosed weenie !
#43. To: BorisY (#42)
Put down the bong, boris.
#44. To: Fred Mertz (#43)
Bot droid bongs like you ...
never learn a thing !
#45. To: war (#36)
Both his mother and father were college students. And this is what you "said": Well,he managed to grow up with a life of privilege and private schools and have his backers identify with him because he grew up poor...
Yes,and I was correct He grew up going to private schools and living with first his mother and millionaire stepfather,and then his grandparents.
#46. To: war (#37)
What year did Obama get into politics?
I don't know. According to the book "he" wrote (ROFLMAO!) he got interested in racial politics while he was still a high school student going to private school in Hawaii. He was even a Black Panther supporter while at Columbia.
Hell, in 1984 he hadn't even gone to law school - in CAMBRIDGE, MA - yet...
You have to go to law school at Harvard to get into politics?
Who knew?
#47. To: war (#37)
You were saying?That it's rare that anything you "say" stands up to minimal sscrutiny.
BTW,thank you for the tactic admission that I was right and you were full of "independent".
#48. To: war (#40)
He managed to get his father in law to hand him a state Senate seat on a silver platterNeat trick considering he married Michelle in 1992 which was a year his father in law HAD DIED.
It was one of his father in law's friends that handed it to him,and he got is solely because he was married to the Wookie.
#49. To: sneakypete (#17)
Hi Pete
Thanks for bringing me back to posting
I was away for it so long (working on my durned book)
I forgot how much I enjoy being on a forum
I am enjoying being on Liberty's Flame
it's a nice change to be on a new forum
Love, Palo
#50. To: sneakypete (#48)
First it was Bill Ayers who got him the seat...then it was Michels's father...now it's one of her father's friends.
PING me when you get your story straight...
[snicker]
No Stems No Seeds That You Don't Need...
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