Best President ever?

Yea but at least his wife's a hottie! 

 

The man without vision, a plan or understanding of fundamental economics (at a time of economic pain). As Strider would say "He's not even a top 10 player in his mode" (But in broken english).

 

The problem with analyzing Lincoln, Washington, etc. is that most of the stories about those two in particular are embelished beyond comprehension. A lot of their accomplishments are byproducts of actions they took or were taken at the time. They were by no means the motive. i.e. Lincoln didn't set out to abolish slavery. Abolishing slavery was never the promary motive.

 

Obama may challenge the exceptional few (i.e., Carter, etc.) as possibly the single worst President in US history. I have seen a lot of Presidents in my life, but this one is unlike any other I have seen or heard of. He's managed to destroy this country more in 1.5 years than it took others decades to accomplish. Special indeed.

Remember George Dubya came into office in highly controversial circumstances. Then he was in a right mess after 9 months of office until 9/11. Up until then the general consensus of his term was that of failure.

 

It's not unfair at all. If you were in debt, let's say $100, would you spend $100,000 to get out of debt? If you do, I'd be first in line to call you an idiot. If your company was going to lay people off and layoffs (unemployment) is a big issue to you, would you not address it? Is healthcare the biggest issue in the country? It's not even on the top 10 things that should be discussed. Try the economy, unemployment, capital gains taxes, income taxes, immigration (which is the wrong term to use, should be illegal aliens), import taxes, funding for schools, reduction of student loans, stabalization of the housing market, a bankrupt social security system, inflation, etc. etc. etc. Healthcare shouldn't even be discussed. Cut Medicare and Medicaid and make people pay for those services, just like everyone else does. An for the few that truly can't, we'll cover them. But that doesn't add up to close to 60 million people (The elderly currently on Medicare/Medicaid + the 40 million Obama estiamtes). Discussions of global warming, green products, and healthcare are absolutely bull$hit at the current time.

 

1. Clinton gave us the internet bubble, and when that burst leading to a recession Bush inherited the recession from Clinton. the recession went deeper after the 9/11 attacks, and bush's tax cuts got us out of that. The roots of the housing bubble go way way back and many presidents/administrations need to take blame as far back as carter but certainly bush 1 and 2 and clinton.

 

2. We had to bail out the ENTIRE Savings and Loan Industry in 1992. Historical FACT.

    Savings and Loans were just like banks back in the day, and we bailed ot the entire industry.

 

3. During Clinton's Term the govt stepped in to bail out a HEDGE FUND called Long Term Capital.

    to say weve never bailed out a financial institution is just plain WRONG!

 

4. In 1982 (approx could be 83) the govt bailed out chrysler so theres even precedent for the auto industry.

 

Bush messed up IRAQ initially I do admit that, but he stood his ground on the surge and was proven right. The economy, as I said before, has its roots DEEP in our political history and, in my opinion, lies w/ Alan Greenspan who was appointed as chairman of the FED decades before BUSH II.