Please listen to Pres BO in Chicago:
""It's been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together.
Yes, we have.
But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we're not even halfway there yet.
When I said 'change we can believe in' I didn't say 'change we can believe in tomorrow.'
Not change we can believe in next week.
We knew this was going to take time because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy," President Obama said at a campaign fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday night." (RCP)
Yes, we have.
But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we're not even halfway there yet.
When I said 'change we can believe in' I didn't say 'change we can believe in tomorrow.'
Not change we can believe in next week.
We knew this was going to take time because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy," President Obama said at a campaign fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday night." (RCP)
Of course, let's put a few facts on the table:
a) We are in the 3rd year of the Obama presidency;
b) the 2nd anniversary of the stimulus that was projected to keep unemployment under 8%;
c) the first 15 months of BO-Care and the 1,500 waivers arbitrarily granted to companies and labor unions with connections to the White House;
d) the collapse of Pres BO's approvals, i.e. RCP 44%;
e) the anger from the left that voted for Obama but got Bush's policies in GITMO, Iraq, and the military trials that were once considered synonymous with raping our Constitution; and,
f) the economy just keeps regurgitating more and more bad economic news. (Minus 500 points: Thursday was not a good day in the markets!)
And this guy wants to tell us that he inherited a bad economy?
Let me see:
The federal budget deficit was about 4% of GDP. It was less than 3% for the entire Bush presidency. It is 10% now! (Are these the people who rain against Pres Bush's deficits?)
Unemployment was 7.5% and 9.2% now!
Overseas, our enemies knew that the "cowboy" was not afraid to defend US interests. Can you say the same today? Just ask Iran and their constant meddling in Iraq and Afghanistan!
Yes, BO inherited a recession, largely impacted by the banking crisis in the fall of '08!
However, Pres BO has made things a lot worse by destroying confidence, the most important commodity in any economy.
Let me repeat: We do not have an economic crisis. We have a crisis of confidence, as more people in the private sector react negatively to policies that only make sense in a left wing version of Disneyland!
Go ahead and blame Bush. It didn't work last November. It is not working today. It won't work in 2012!
It won't work because the country is smart enough to know that Pres BO is the one in The White House.
They are also aware of the fact that we are living under Pres BO's policies!
Last, but not least, when is Pres BO going to act like a man, assume responsibility and stop whining about the hand that he was dealt?
Didn't he want this job? When is he going to act like a man who ran for the job? When will he propose ideas beyond just whining about how difficult the job is?
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