Why do you support Obama?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clinton caused 911 due to sacrificing defense and intelligence funding for a surplus in government funding.

note the chart and how bush fixed the first recession even with the double wammy of 911 and .com crash. obamas policies or just the perception in the business world of obama had caused the economy to go the wrong way
Everyone hated bush and blames him for everything, when we look back at this in 20 years we will learn obama was the problem and bush was not bad at all

By your reasoning, if Clinton caused 9/11 then Bush caused the "Obama unemployment" you refer to. Bush did the most socialist thing I've ever seen in my lifetime by taking the "surplus" and returning 38 billion to "the people" as a tax rebate. The least fiscally conservative move I've yet to witness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clinton caused 911 due to sacrificing defense and intelligence funding for a surplus in government funding.

note the chart and how bush fixed the first recession even with the double wammy of 911 and .com crash. obamas policies or just the perception in the business world of obama had caused the economy to go the wrong way
Everyone hated bush and blames him for everything, when we look back at this in 20 years we will learn obama was the problem and bush was not bad at all

There is not an economist around who blames Obama for the Great Recession, which started under Bush's watch. Even the Republican candidates do not blame him. Rommey's argument is that, under Rommey, the economy would have turned around quicker. That is a different argument. But your chart fails to note that those jobs losses in the early Obama Admin are attributable to Great Recession. Bush was President from January 2001 to January 2009. As noted at 2152, from February 1, 2001 to January 31, 2009, the US economy had net job growth of only 1.1 Million, and the private sector had a NET JOB LOSS of 500,000. That is one of the worst economic performances in decades. The Bush Adminisration created no private sector jobs; it supported a huge increase in govt jobs, much of which was probably justified based on 911. But to say the Bush Administration had a terrific jobs records is simply false.

[Anonymous]

Even though I don't agree with some of what he has done, he is better then Romney (or any of the other options).

[Anonymous]

1)I know that the average price of gas was around 1.80 when Obama was sworn into office. It is now around 3.80.

2)Food prices have also jumped.

3)Im particularly happy that revised congressional budget office estimates for the cost of ObamaCare nearly doubled from 900 billion to 1.76 trillion.

Thats why I support him.

[Anonymous]

OP I'm with you. However, I tell myself that I will vote for the party, not the person. So, unfortunately that's what I will do this election.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1)I know that the average price of gas was around 1.80 when Obama was sworn into office. It is now around 3.80.

2)Food prices have also jumped.

3)Im particularly happy that revised congressional budget office estimates for the cost of ObamaCare nearly doubled from 900 billion to 1.76 trillion.

Thats why I support him.

Love the way you spin a yarn.

Tge reality is that gas took a nosedive for about a month because the white house was warning about total economic meltdown and that caused world prices to plummet.

If you want to know who to blame look at this graph. Note the steep permanent climb around the time of the Iraq invasion.
http://zfacts.com/p/35.html

[Anonymous]

im a dem and voted for obama the first time and im not a fan of how obama has lead on certain issues and decisions he has made. and im also completely not interested in any of the gop candidates. i was leaning towards not voting for president on my ballot but i may go with obama again just cause i really dont want the canddiates in the gop to be president

[Anonymous]

1210 again

we as dems can spin who to blame on the economy. the bottom line is if the economy gets worse and takes a nose dive, obama will lose. its not worth arguing with conservatives on the blame game cause they just outright dont like him and youll never convince them otherwise.

im not a believer that everything wrong with the economy falls on a presidents lap (no matter what party) but these things are happening under his watch and if his leadership cant reassure us that things will be ok or there is brighter times ahead, voters will vote against him. thats how it works

[Anonymous]

All this is sad. Politics used to be about ideas and progress, now it is about spewing hate and winning. The polarized politicos don't seem to care about the actual issues anymore, they just want to "win".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this is sad. Politics used to be about ideas and progress, now it is about spewing hate and winning. The polarized politicos don't seem to care about the actual issues anymore, they just want to "win".

agree completely.

i hate watching the parties "keep score" on things especially on my side (democrats) cause some of them come off as being above all these games yet do it anyway.

it forces people to pull stuff out their ass to make a point and play these tit for tat games to asign blame on things.

so rather than debate the substance, we all try to one up each other. so its not about limbaugh calling someone a slut, its about why bill maher was "allowed" to get away with callng palin a cunt. it goes on and on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obama's failing has been naivete in thinking he could/should work with the Republicans. If he hadn't taken the compromise route, he would be sailing to victory. As it is, he will win because the GOP is putting forth the most pathetic pool of candidates in the history of history.

I support Obama enthusiastically. No I don't agree with everything he's done, but I trust him to do what is right for this country instead of what is right for the 5 rich guys who bought him the office.

Please tell me what he has done? Unemployment, Food stamps, wellfare, and gas prices are at all time highs. He is turning his back on Israel and ally of ours and not dealing with a soon to be Nuclear armed iran... How on earth could u support such an unqualified presidential failure

I wouldn't say he's done nothing. To name a few things that I appreciate: Got Osama, ended "don't ask, don't tell", getting troops out of Iraq, removed restrictions on stem cell research, balanced the Supreme Court.

Not to say I approve of everything he has done/is doing (nor have I with any president), but I disagree when you say that he has done nothing. I also disagree that he is turning is back on Israel- how is he doing this exactly?

Consumer protection legislation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clinton caused 911 due to sacrificing defense and intelligence funding for a surplus in government funding.

note the chart and how bush fixed the first recession even with the double wammy of 911 and .com crash. obamas policies or just the perception in the business world of obama had caused the economy to go the wrong way
Everyone hated bush and blames him for everything, when we look back at this in 20 years we will learn obama was the problem and bush was not bad at all

There is not an economist around who blames Obama for the Great Recession, which started under Bush's watch. Even the Republican candidates do not blame him. Rommey's argument is that, under Rommey, the economy would have turned around quicker. That is a different argument. But your chart fails to note that those jobs losses in the early Obama Admin are attributable to Great Recession. Bush was President from January 2001 to January 2009. As noted at 2152, from February 1, 2001 to January 31, 2009, the US economy had net job growth of only 1.1 Million, and the private sector had a NET JOB LOSS of 500,000. That is one of the worst economic performances in decades. The Bush Adminisration created no private sector jobs; it supported a huge increase in govt jobs, much of which was probably justified based on 911. But to say the Bush Administration had a terrific jobs records is simply false.

Simply False? More like fucking false. Bush had one of the worst job creation records in modern day presidencies. Where do folks get their info?
By WSJ Staff
President George W. Bush entered office in 2001 just as a recession was starting, and is preparing to leave in the middle of a long one. That’s almost 22 months of recession during his 96 months in office.

His job-creation record won’t look much better. The Bush administration created about three million jobs (net) over its eight years, a fraction of the 23 million jobs created under President Bill Clinton‘s administration and only slightly better than President George H.W. Bush did in his four years in office.

[Anonymous]

that chart just shows that unemployment was increasing as obama was walking into office. how does its continued increase get blamed on him?

and the continued argument that obama has brought us into the worse economy ever is somewhat laughable because the argument implies that we were in some great growth pattern and obama decided to make it worse.

[Anonymous]

the stimulus is the one thing folks can argue about whether that made things "worse". other than that despite all the scare tactics and complete bullshit said by republicans, weve mostly been under nonsense spending cuts and the bush tax cuts since obama took office.

i dont believe weve had a MAJOR tax increase anywhere to my knowledge. all of the bush tax cuts have been in place since obamas been in office. the stimulus, while it did spend money, included tax cuts. the debt ceiling "deal" included a tax cut and at least cut spending. eveyrthing the republicans are afraid of are perceptions and ideas of what obama MIGHT do, not exactly anything he has ACTUALLY done.