travis on 25 February 2014
| DevilRising said: Forgive my apparent "ignorance", but how many problems, precisely, has Barack Obama actually created? I'm not talking about whether you personally love or hate the guy. I'm talking about what he's actually done. He inherited the single biggest pile of shit mess that any American President has had to deal with since FDR inherited the Great Depression. That's a fact. He spent his entire first term trying to work with a highly obstructionist Congress to clean UP that mess. He succeeded, to some extent. All economic markers are higher than they were before he took office, things have more or less leveled out, and while the job market still isn't GREAT, unemployment is down. Obamacare certainly isn't perfect, and it certainly has it's flaws (I preferred the Public Option plan he originally championed before Congress slapped it down), but, the fact is, Obamacare HAS also helped many people who couldn't be covered because of pre-existing conditions GET covered, and millions of Americans who didn't have coverage now do. If you've ever had medical issues and zero coverage, you'd know what it's like to finally be able to go see doctors and shit again, without going bankrupt in bills. Obama hasn't been a GREAT president by any means. As a lifelong far-left "Liberal", and damn proud to be one, I personally feel he hasn't been "left" enough, I feel he's tried too hard to stick to his notion of being bi-partisan, being "everyone's president". Which is ironic, because the far-right (especially the Tea Party clowns) love to call him a "Socialist" or "Communist". He couldn't be farther from either unless he was Dick Cheney in the flesh. He's dead center, honestly, in his Presidential actions. And people who label Obamacare as "socialism" honestly have a very ignorant and feeble understanding of what socialism actually is. Obamacare is the most capitalist medical bill to ever be passed, considering the real winners of it's actions are ultimately the private insurance companies who now have even more power and millions more clients. All in all, I don't regret voting for Obama twice. He was certainly a hell of a lot better than the opposition, and their bat-shit crazy vice prez candidates. He hasn't been a GREAT President, but he's been about as decent of one that he could be, considering how hard Congress makes it for him to ever actually get anything done. The system in DC is fairly broken, and honestly, what America needs is a progressive (as in forward thinking) INDEPENDENT candidate. The two party system is old and antiquated. It does us no good. And no, I don't mean "Libertarians". I mean an actual Independent. But even if we got an Indy President worth half a shit, Congress would still shit on him and obstruct any good he'd want to do. Which is why Congress and the system in general really need to change..........the "Old Boys Club" on Capitol Hill needs to go, if America is EVER going to actually progress as a nation. That's my two cents anyway. |
Exactly this. Obama would be considered like a conservative in many countries (where the situation is quite better by the way like Germany, Canada, Sweden etc).
