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It is up to history to make that decision. After all Bush acts as if he did a good job in office. He clearly isn't qualified to make this determination and neither is Obama. Let history decide.
Most people acknowledge GW was not the best prez, in fact here are some that daily have criticized GW .. during his 8 years of office and 3 years after he has left office .. he never claimed to be in the top 5. Obama loves to toot his horn though .. however lackeys at 60 minutes chose not to put it in the original story, to protect him from his own arrogance.
Obama has trampled more of the constitution than GW could only dream of doing.
If you loved the illegal Libyan kinetic military action, killing of American citizens without due process, signing the patriot Act by electronic pen from Europe, are a big fan of Fast and Furious, Take Drone bombing to the next level, Gitmo laws stays the same .. even more drastic ... Obama to sign indefinite detention bill, Continue the War on Drugs on US citizens, President who had more debt than the 43 presidents/administrations before his - the largest debt in WORLD HISTORY ... you'll say that Obama was a swell president - compared to GW Bush .. he out did that neocon .. and then some. Obama .. the neolib has outshone the GW the neocon.
Don't blame me .. I voted for Ron Paul .. and will again .. who you going to vote for ... again?
Some of those who criticize Bush now stood up for him but this is all pointless... It sounds like "My dads bigger then youre dad!!"
Guess what, alot of people complained about Obama, Bush and will complain about Ron Paul also if he wins!!! So goes life in politics..
The pissing contests and avoiding what makes the world a better place though... Meh.
Many may disagree but electing Obama as president was a transformational event in America history. And as much as many may dislike him intensely he will be in the History book, maybe not in Texas where they make up their own stuff.
Obama will be remembered for being the first black president ... transformational ... well .. these 50 things are not about what color your skin is .. though some think that is a big deal. Whether you're from Texas or not .. whether you get most of your news from Huffpo .. MSNBC .. CNN or Fox news
50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
#1 A staggering 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be "low income" or are living in poverty.
#2 Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be "low income" or impoverished.
#3 If the number of Americans that "wanted jobs" was the same today as it was back in 2007, the "official" unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to 11 percent.
#4 The average amount of time that a worker stays unemployed in the United States is now over 40 weeks.
#5 One recent survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers.
#6 There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.
#7 Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation.
#8 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.
#9 A Gallup poll from earlier this year found that approximately one out of every five Americans that do have a job consider themselves to be underemployed.
#10 According to author Paul Osterman, about 20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.
#11 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.
#12 Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job. In July, only 81.2 percent of men in that age group had a job.
#13 One recent survey found that one out of every three Americans would not be able to make a mortgage or rent payment next month if they suddenly lost their current job.
#14 The Federal Reserve recently announced that the total net worth of U.S. households declined by 4.1 percent in the 3rd quarter of 2011 alone.
#15 According to a recent study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent.
#16 As the economy has slowed down, so has the number of marriages. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, only 51 percent of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all U.S. adults were married.
#17 The U.S. Postal Service has lost more than 5 billion dollars over the past year.
#18 In Stockton, California home prices have declined 64 percent from where they were at when the housing market peaked.
#19 Nevada has had the highest foreclosure rate in the nation for 59 months in a row.
#20 If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000.
#21 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18 percent of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant. That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago.
#22 New home construction in the United States is on pace to set a brand new all-time record low in 2011.
#23 As I have written about previously, 19 percent of all American men between the ages of 25 and 34 are now living with their parents.
#24 Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.
#25 According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980. Today they account for approximately 16.3%.
#26 One study found that approximately 41 percent of all working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.
#27 If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.
#28 The United States spends about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.
#29 It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will be 558.2 billion dollars.
#30 The retirement crisis in the United States just continues to get worse. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.
#31 Today, one out of every six elderly Americans lives below the federal poverty line.
#32 According to a study that was just released, CEO pay at America's biggest companies rose by 36.5% in just one recent 12 month period.
#33 Today, the "too big to fail" banks are larger than ever. The total assets of the six largest U.S. banks increased by 39 percent between September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2011.
#34 The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans combined.
#35 According to an analysis of Census Bureau data done by the Pew Research Center, the median net worth for households led by someone 65 years of age or older is 47 times greater than the median net worth for households led by someone under the age of 35.
#36 If you can believe it, 37 percent of all U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 35 have a net worth of zero or less than zero.
#37 A higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty (6.7%) than has ever been measured before.
#38 Child homelessness in the United States is now 33 percent higher than it was back in 2007.
#39 Since 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent.
#40 Sadly, child poverty is absolutely exploding all over America. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4% of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1% of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6% of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6% of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty.
#41 Today, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps.
#42 In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7% of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for more than 18 percent of all income.
#43 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.
#44 Right now, spending by the federal government accounts for about 24 percent of GDP. Back in 2001, it accounted for just 18 percent.
#45 For fiscal year 2011, the U.S. federal government had a budget deficit of nearly 1.3 trillion dollars. That was the third year in a row that our budget deficit has topped one trillion dollars.
#46 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days.
#47 Amazingly, the U.S. government has now accumulated a total debt of 15 trillion dollars. When Barack Obama first took office the national debt was just 10.6 trillion dollars.
#48 If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to pay off the national debt.
#49 The U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than 4 billion dollars per day since the beginning of the Obama administration.
#50 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.
Don't give a rat's ass about his skin color, but he is unqualified to be dog catcher let alone president as he failed hiring good advisers that were not communists.
One of the great things about America is that no one is required to like the president. Conservatives forgot about that after 9/11 and began to equate a particular sitting president with patriotism and loyalty to the country. The attitude was that you damn well DO have to like the president.
Back then, I often wondered what would happen when the next president you guys didn't like came into office. Turned out, I didn't have to wait long. You guys don't like this president, not one little bit.
Well, fair enough, because as I said, no one is required to like the president.
What troubles me is the lack of cognitive dissonance on the part of those who went from an attitude that EVERYONE had to love your guy because he was president, to the attitude you have now toward the next one in line.
The amnesia is complete, to the point where you don't remember that it even happened.
So it seems the real attitude is that everyone has to agree with you guys, even when you are inconsistent noe, compared with what you used to say.
I find that disturbing.
You who espoused hate for GW Bush every day .. do you have amnesia about that'?? Obama is worse than GW Bush on so many levels .. you can't even see that, talk about it or even admit that .. you ignore reality .. I find that most disturbing how Americans can miss the obvious things that are taking place in this country .. you seemed to make so many astute observations when GW was prez .. for some reason you can't see the GIANT elephant in the room with you now.
Obama Signs NDAA Martial Law
I don't care if you like the guy or not, but at least Bush had a backbone and could actually keep his word. Obama don't have a spine or kept very few of his promises....
Here is the difference that you seemed to have missed; no one is saying that you must love Obama or you are not a patriotic American.
My disagreements over policy with Bush were most certainly taken that way, and much of the time I was right and the Bushies were wrong.
We are still waiting for an accounting of all those errors and failures.
Obama will be judged by history just like anyone else. Bush put the country into the toilet and Obama has yet to pull it all the way out, so I guess in your world that makes him worse. Oh well.
That is your opinion.
You seemed to have missed the many points on how Obama has lead this country .. just in his 3 long years of being prez. Just the facts mam.
I didn't vote for GW Bush is second term .. you will vote for Obama for his second term.
2000 election - GW Bush or Al Gore the first election ... many .. that is not much of a choice at all ... another 4 years of thievery and shenanigans of Bill Clinton politics .. OR .. try an new administration .. you still get the lies and cheating - just a different bunch of crooks.
Yes it is.
I don't have to be in lock step with a politician to vote for them. I don't like a lot of what Obama has been doing, but if he is the better option next Fall I will consider voting for him again.
This with the knowledge that most presidents do whatever they are going to do in their first term while second termers just wait out the clock looking for something to call a legacy.
On the other hand, Romney is a plastic politician but there is a substantial person inside that might have potential as a president. I would take a hard look to decide who I thought could do the best job in the next four years.
DO tell .. I surely don't remember your posts blasting Obama for anything .. what things don't you like about what Obama has done?
I said a year and a half ago that Romney would win the republican candidacy for the repubs .. big money will put him through ... just like you man Obomba .. big money is putting him through .. he's with the OWS and the little guy .. yeah right .. and elephants fly.
Vote for Ron Paul - if you want real positive change for the country .. shoot vote some other 3rd party - to vote for Obama is just another vote for the same as it always is .. Goldman Sucks, AIG, War on Drugs, political cronyism .. he's shown it his first term .. by golly he won't change his colors .. but of course .. you can't see that elephant in the room. Of course you won't do that .. you'll vote straight party lines - just as you hallways have .. just as you blindly will. You want to know things the way they are in DC .. the voters allow it to happen - look in a mirror.
Again .. in what way has Obama let the country down, remind you - he had a democrat congress - house and senate for a couple of years and still has a democrat senate. I seem to have miss those posts from you .. I surely didn't miss your daily rants against GW, Cheney .. Haliburton .. the 'legal' voted by congress war in Iraq .. not too much about the illegal kinetic action in Libya, Goldman Sachs in the WH ..$35K dinners and lunches to get specail favors .. Solyndra cronyism .. Fast and Furious .. how about those waiting 5 days for the bills to sign them .. open debate .. working with both sides of the aisle. I like those GM jobs that Obama saved .. they are in China though. The Iraq war ending .. just a few years later than he said .. with about 4 thousand troops still there to protect the embassy .. and tens of thousands of contractors .. who's paying for them? I thought he was going to work with the Iranians .. not have more of an embargo with them. Please give me back my Drone plane.
Actually Bill Clinton was the first black president. Also all those fifty things are Bush's fault.
Its an assumption you have almost the same regiser date?
I also learned if you go back far enough you can catch steam out of character and being typical..
http://madville.com/users/steamed/comments/page325
You don't comprehend very well do you ..
Never assume what you're trying to prove unless you're trying to prove your a Bonehead.
In your childish, stalking, and immature way you are trying to link steamed with me ... all you prove is that you are a Bonehead and a douche.
Glancing at two peoples profiles who posted in the same thread hardly stalkerish.. A normal person may have said "Wow, odd!"instead of rage.. Paranoid much?
And from there i will move on..
Only you don't see the dates that people joined by looking at the comments.
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The president appeared on 60 Minutes last week, the best part of the interview, however, remained on the CBS cutting room floor. ....
"I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president -- with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln -- just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history."
Why would 60 minutes leave such a thing like that out of the interview?