President Obama's Press conference today

Sal wrote:

KarlRove wrote:We are going to end up fighting Iran

Wow ....

.... you really are completely clueless.

KarlRove wrote:

Sal wrote:

KarlRove wrote:We are going to end up fighting Iran

Wow ....

.... you really are completely clueless.

Airstrikes, cruise missiles et al and we will be running shotgun with Israel

KarlRove wrote:Iran poses a theeat to our best ally in the Middle East

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:Boy, the haters won't give President Obama an inch of slack, will they?

2seaoat wrote:Obama hasn't been a total failure but he has been a very weak President, particularly in foreign affairs and in certain domestic issues. He has no coherent foreign policy

I think of Jackie Robinson.  The first four years of his career he had to restrain every natural reaction to situations because of the bigger goal.  Well, President Obama no longer has to defer and keep his head down.  He proudly and may I say confidently said this is the fourth quarter of the game and things will get interesting.   He simply owned the room, and everybody is commenting on his confidence.

In regard to him being weak, like Jackie Robinson, his deferred action is seen as weakness.  Jackie Robinson was incredibly strong and focused.  The President's  foreign policy has been brilliant.  I listened to these threads telling us the terrorist Mr. K will not be beat.......no, he crawled out of sewer pipe and gave satisfaction to thousands of American family members who lost people at the hand of Mr. K on the TWA flight.  We got Bin Laden without spending another five trillion.   Israel has no credible nation state threat from Egypt, Syria, and Iraq as these nations are in turmoil.  I listened how weak President Obama was with Putin......who is weak now.    I listened how we needed to bomb the Syrian government, and that the President was weak for not doing the same..........No, we have an incredibly strong and intelligent President who has destroyed his enemies..........and he has absolutely destroyed the Republican congress and their sabre rattling after the mid term........as to who is in charge.......Any objective analysis of this President is Hall of fame performances.    Now the chamber of Commerce and Cat are all in for normalization of relations with Cuba.....he is doing things where failure over fifty years never got done.   If you do not see how extraordinary this man is, at least your grandchildren will............

boards of FL wrote:

gatorfan wrote:

2seaoat wrote: He made it clear that he is going to be working for the American people non stop over the last two years.  

Um, didn't he PROMISE that during his first campaign? The very least he could is something more constructive on the down hill run.

Obama hasn't been a total failure but he has been a very weak President, particularly in foreign affairs and in certain domestic issues. He has no coherent foreign policy and lets things happen hoping the problem will go away or at least fall under the public radar enough to be forgotten.

No, Obama isn't a great President or even a decent one; he is weak and overwhelmed as evidenced by the U.S. absence as a strong world leader, the long and pitifully slow economic recovery, and the disappearance of a strong middle class in this country.

He'll be remembered but not as nicely as you think.

I disagree with you on this.  Here is my case for starters:

Obama inherited the worst nominal budget situation in the history of this country.  Since then, we have seen the fastest deficit reduction since WWII.

Obama inherited the worst economy since the great depression.  As of Q3 2014, our economy is growing at a rate of 3.9% annualized.

Obama inherited a labor market that was shedding over 600,000 jobs per month.  Today, the economy has seen almost 7 million jobs added to the economy and the longest stretch of month-to-month private sector jobs growth in all of US history.

Obama inherited a healthcare system that saw exploding prices and that left 40-50 million Americans uninsured.  Today, healthcare costs are growing at historically low rates and the % of uninsured Americans has plummeted from 18% to 13.4% since the passage of the ACA.

Obama inherited two wars and an at-large bin Laden.  Today, those wars have wound down and bin Laden is no more.

Can you elaborate on your case citing specifically what it is that you take issue with and that leads you to broadly deem this presidency as a failure?

Please proceed, governor...

Markle wrote:

boards of FL wrote:

gatorfan wrote:

2seaoat wrote: He made it clear that he is going to be working for the American people non stop over the last two years.  

Um, didn't he PROMISE that during his first campaign? The very least he could is something more constructive on the down hill run.

Obama hasn't been a total failure but he has been a very weak President, particularly in foreign affairs and in certain domestic issues. He has no coherent foreign policy and lets things happen hoping the problem will go away or at least fall under the public radar enough to be forgotten.

No, Obama isn't a great President or even a decent one; he is weak and overwhelmed as evidenced by the U.S. absence as a strong world leader, the long and pitifully slow economic recovery, and the disappearance of a strong middle class in this country.

He'll be remembered but not as nicely as you think.

I disagree with you on this.  Here is my case for starters:

Obama inherited the worst nominal budget situation in the history of this country.  Since then, we have seen the fastest deficit reduction since WWII.

Obama inherited the worst economy since the great depression.  As of Q3 2014, our economy is growing at a rate of 3.9% annualized.

Obama inherited a labor market that was shedding over 600,000 jobs per month.  Today, the economy has seen almost 7 million jobs added to the economy and the longest stretch of month-to-month private sector jobs growth in all of US history.

Obama inherited a healthcare system that saw exploding prices and that left 40-50 million Americans uninsured.  Today, healthcare costs are growing at historically low rates and the % of uninsured Americans has plummeted from 18% to 13.4% since the passage of the ACA.

Obama inherited two wars and an at-large bin Laden.  Today, those wars have wound down and bin Laden is no more.

Can you elaborate on your case citing specifically what it is that you take issue with and that leads you to broadly deem this presidency as a failure?

Please proceed, governor...

You are a joke.  You learned your lessons well for deception from your bible the DailyKOS.  Instead of a deception and saying that the GDP is growing at an annualized rate of 3.9%, because it was 3.9% for one quarter.

Here we have the quarterly rate from the date semi-retired President Obama took office.  For the last 4 quarter's, the average is 2.475% is a LONG way from 3.9% and trying to make it look far better than it is

http://www.statista.com/statistics/188185/percent-chance-from-preceding-period-in-real-gdp-in-the-us/

FOOTNOTE.  Quarterly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise
specified.  Quarter-to-quarter dollar changes are differences between these published estimates. Percent
changes are calculated from unrounded data and are annualized. "Real" estimates are in chained (2009)
dollars.  Price indexes are chain-type measures.

gatorfan wrote:

2seaoat wrote: He made it clear that he is going to be working for the American people non stop over the last two years.  

Um, didn't he PROMISE that during his first campaign? The very least he could is something more constructive on the down hill run.

Obama hasn't been a total failure but he has been a very weak President, particularly in foreign affairs and in certain domestic issues. He has no coherent foreign policy and lets things happen hoping the problem will go away or at least fall under the public radar enough to be forgotten.

No, Obama isn't a great President or even a decent one; he is weak and overwhelmed as evidenced by the U.S. absence as a strong world leader, the long and pitifully slow economic recovery, and the disappearance of a strong middle class in this country.

He'll be remembered but not as nicely as you think.

Wordslinger wrote:

gatorfan wrote:

2seaoat wrote: He made it clear that he is going to be working for the American people non stop over the last two years.  

Um, didn't he PROMISE that during his first campaign? The very least he could is something more constructive on the down hill run.

Obama hasn't been a total failure but he has been a very weak President, particularly in foreign affairs and in certain domestic issues. He has no coherent foreign policy and lets things happen hoping the problem will go away or at least fall under the public radar enough to be forgotten.

No, Obama isn't a great President or even a decent one; he is weak and overwhelmed as evidenced by the U.S. absence as a strong world leader, the long and pitifully slow economic recovery, and the disappearance of a strong middle class in this country.

He'll be remembered but not as nicely as you think.

That may be true.  But he'll be remembered much more fondly then that guy who lied us into a war and who's guilty of international war crimes.  

When Dubya looks into a mirror, he sees Dick Cheney ...

TEOTWAWKI wrote:

KarlRove wrote:Iran poses a theeat to our best ally in the Middle East

Oh you mean the ally with the massive nuclear arsenal and vastly superior military hardware? Iran would be suicidal to attack Israel.

Joanimaroni wrote:Boards of Florida Look, everyone! The republican doesn't even understand the very basic fundamentals of GDP numbers! Point and laugh at the republican, everyone! Point and laugh at Markle, the village idiot!







Boards just once again showed that Mr. Markle is a shallow intellectually challenged person who can only cut and paste. Mr. Markle took the time to make fun about an accurate post Boards made.....he did not use his pink panther, because he thought he could actually respond in real time and show that boards was ignorant.......what he did was prove that Boards was neither ignorant or arrogant.......just simply correct one more time, and that Mr. Markle is severely challenged in understanding concepts.








Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
– Benjamin Franklin, American inventor and politician

2seaoat wrote:So let's point and laugh.......learned behaviour.


Is there a better way to protect stop ignorance?

Sal wrote:If you don't want to be ridiculed, don't say ridiculous shit.