8 years of suffering under Barack Obama

[reagansghost]

The sentence I hear most from well-meaning, conservative friends since President Trump’s election is this: “We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.”


Fair enough. Let’s take a look.

The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.

General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $8o billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.

While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.

Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans.

He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.

Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.

He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.

His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.

He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.

Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.


~ Tom Yossarian Joad


https://tericarter.wordpress.com/201...g-under-obama/

[anonymoose]

Worst president since Lyndon Johnson got us into Vietnam using a lie, although that didn't affect me personally.
As soon as the Unaffordable Care Act was implemented, it did affect me but I've been able to absorb what it did. Not my employees.

[Getin the ring]

The sentence I hear most from well-meaning, conservative friends since President Trump’s election is this: “We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.”


Fair enough. Let’s take a look.

The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.

General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $8o billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.

While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.

Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans.

He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.

Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.

He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.

His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.

He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.

Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.

a joke thread right? ohh I get it

Obama was a disaster, that we DID survive 8 years is a testament to how strong this country is. Doesn't mean we should test the limits though. Obama sent us backwards, race relations were set back 50 years under his watch.

Standing in the world went from strength to weakness under his appeasement, give -into the enemy policy

but we survived, history will use Obama as a lesson

[anonymoose]

Obama was a disaster, that we DID survive 8 years is a testament to how strong this country is. Doesn't mean we should test the limits though. Obama sent us backwards, race relations were set back 50 years under his watch.

Standing in the world went from strength to weakness under his appeasement, give -into the enemy policy

but we survived, history will use Obama as a lesson

Secretly sending $billions in cash to Iran as blackmail or ransom money. And dims want to impeach trump for... what? What he said on the phone?

[TTQ64]

"well-meaning, conservative friends"

Can't get over the fact that a Black man was in the white house.

They also like dumps racism.

There's not other excuse.

[Getin the ring]

"well-meaning, conservative friends"

Can't get over the fact that a Black man was in the white house.

They also like dumps racism.

There's not other excuse.

he was as white as he was black, first of all.

Obama was a policy failure, both foreign and domestic
and he set race relations back 50 years

History will bare this out, no need to take my word for it, I know what will happen, in time

[MAGA MAN]

The sentence I hear most from well-meaning, conservative friends since President Trump’s election is this: “We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.”


Fair enough. Let’s take a look.

The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.

General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $8o billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.

While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.

Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans.

He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.

Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.

He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.

His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.

He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.

Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.


~ Tom Yossarian Joad


https://tericarter.wordpress.com/201...g-under-obama/

Do you have an Obama shrine in you house?

[MAGA MAN]

"well-meaning, conservative friends"

Can't get over the fact that a Black man was in the white house.

They also like dumps racism.

There's not other excuse.

^ Always plays the race card. Always.

[reagansghost]

at least Obama didn't get booed at ball games and Vet Day parades, holy shit

[christiefan915]

Secretly sending $billions in cash to Iran as blackmail or ransom money. And dims want to impeach trump for... what? What he said on the phone?

I wish you guys would stop repeating that lie about blackmail or ransom. I guess all the RW sites don't care about printing the facts.

[MAGA MAN]

at least Obama didn't get booed at ball games and Vet Day parades, holy shit

Oh yes. The Messiah was cheered and loved by every crowd that he graced with His presence.

[Trumpet]

a joke thread right? ohh I get it

Obama was a disaster, that we DID survive 8 years is a testament to how strong this country is. Doesn't mean we should test the limits though. Obama sent us backwards, race relations were set back 50 years under his watch.

Standing in the world went from strength to weakness under his appeasement, give -into the enemy policy

but we survived, history will use Obama as a lesson

Such a whiner you are

[Loving91390]

Obama bombed 7 Countries and killed innocent people .

[Cypress]

History is going to remember him as the president who saved the nation from a Second Great Republican Depression

[Loving91390]

History is going to remember him as the president who saved the nation from a Second Great Republican Depression

And it only cost us $9+ TRILLION .......